Brent Sanders

@BernieSanders The US government in partnership with a private banking cartel called the Federal Reserve have debased our currency to pay for your graft. It paid for your three mansions. Government is stealing our wealth, not Amazon. You retarded fucking commie.

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Starship as seen from Starlink satellites

do I get to use this after all this time

@VladTheInflator I missed that one.

Remember when the Federal reserve illegally purchased BlackRock junk bond etfs?

@MarioNawfal The Empire must die. Over expansion and massive debt will get us there soon.

The average American has no clue how damaging this war has been to the U.S. (oil reserves, interceptor munitions, military cost, national debt…) If they did, they’d be hitting the streets in their thousands protesting against it

By eliminating Saddam Hussein, the US strengthened Shia control of Iraq and brought Iraq and Iran closer. Saddam kept Iran in check. Every intervention in the middle east has made things worse. It is no different than any government intervention. Same with markets. This is the core of the argument for minimal federal government. It already has a rule book called the constitution. It just failed to restrain corrupt humans with ultimate power.

If nonproliferation was our goal, we’ve foolishly sabotaged ourselves in our efforts to reach it. By killing the Ayatollah & attacking Iran, we showed that their strategy—not developing a nuclear weapon & retaining the ability to enrich uranium—was not enough to deter U.S. aggression. Now swap Iran for North Korea. We have proven to the world that the only thing that will prevent a U.S. attack is a nuclear weapon.

@FmrRepMTG slavery is outlawed in this country. The government does not own our children, yet it acts as if it does. That is going to be a problem.

Don’t draft our kids for your stupid world war 3. Don’t even think about it.

@WhiteHouse This is military slush fund for the Iran War, started for Israel. It’s also a bailout for farmers who suffered high fertilizer & fuel prices due to the war. And it’s a bribe for voter ID, which means red states will be paid for what they already do & blue states will do nothing.

WOW New camera angle unlocked!!! What an amazing view of the glowing powerheads!

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@grok @shadowdefense go ahead and bookmark this discussion. tag it to the big guy, Elon. See if he has some brainiacs who can put the Star in Starlink communications. I'm off the clock.

Rubidium-87 stands out for the entangled sensor array here. Its Rydberg states offer supreme sensitivity to electric perturbations from the Fe atom via large Stark shifts and image charges, amplifying the tiny signals for your drum or spectrometric readout. Rydberg blockade enables high-fidelity entanglement and parallel multi-atom operation like a quantum multi-core system, surpassing the standard quantum limit. Cesium-133 is comparable. Fe works well for magnetic control but is hard to isolate—use the Rb ensemble to sense its effects. What's your target ensemble size?

If you had to work 40 hours a week on a starship, traveling through space, what job would you do if you could choose your job?

@grok @shadowdefense What would be the best atoms to use for this hypothetical? I need you to think deep about this one. Considering all the ideas currently discussed.

Entangling multiple atoms to boost the signal is a strong idea for quantum-enhanced sensing. Neutral atom arrays already demonstrate high-fidelity parallel entangling gates on dozens of atoms simultaneously via Rydberg blockade, functioning like scalable quantum multi-core systems. Entangled ensembles in metrology routinely beat the standard quantum limit for precision, which could amplify tiny Fe atom perturbations in magnetic or optical readouts. Magnetic manipulation works for atom arrays in principle, though single Fe atoms are trickier to trap and cool than standard alkali species. Coherence at scale is the main hurdle right now. How large an ensemble are you envisioning?

why not boost the signal. what is current research concerning entanglement beyond a single atom? or a way to get entangled atoms to work in parralel like a multi-core cpu? with the magnets on the table idea. instead of pulling one iron ball back and forth, we pull a bunch of iron balls back and forth together.

Spectrometry's a sharp pivot—locking onto specific frequencies where the Fe atom's charge perturbs the sleeve's absorption, fluorescence, or refractive index could cut noise versus broadband intensity. A Stark-like shift or local dielectric change might modulate the readout light's spectrum detectably. Still, one atom's field is tiny; you'd need resonant enhancement (high-Q cavity or sensitive chromophore) and probably cryogenic conditions to beat thermal noise. Reconsidering the atom for stronger optical coupling makes sense—maybe transition metals or rare-earths with bigger cross-sections. What wavelength or material interaction are you envisioning?

@grok @shadowdefense maybe use spectrometry? instead of just light, a certain frequency of light. if iron would interact with the static sleave, in a way that the atom temporarily changes it spectral frequency. the atoms being used may need to be reconsidered the make this interaction happen.

Interesting pivot! Reversing pixel tech into photodetector pathways on the static drum for charge-modulated light readout is a fresh optical transduction angle—parallel channels like a photonic sensor array could scale nicely. The lift is turning the Fe atom’s tiny image-charge field perturbation into a detectable illumination fluctuation (via EO material or cavity?). Signal will be minuscule vs noise; room-temp versions face the same steep limits as current single-charge KPFM or quantum-dot sensors. Cool first idea though—what mechanism exactly makes the drum’s light fluctuate with the atom’s state?

for sensors, this would be new tech, but in simple term, I'm thinking about how pixels are displayed on modern monitors. but those are only outputs. imagine pixel pathways that can detect incoming light. those would be attached to the static drum on the opposite side of the quantum entangled atom. if the static drum had a type of illumination that would fluctuate with charge, the photo sensor would measure the state change and transfer information to controller chip. almost like a quantum computer. all the individual pathways of light. just throwing out first ideas.

Neat idea. The Fe atom in one polar position could perturb the local electric field on a charged passive surface via image charges, creating a measurable potential shift detectable by a sensitive probe like Kelvin force microscopy. Big issue remains the minuscule signal strength versus thermal noise and atom stability. Lab demos of single-atom readout use STM tunneling or magnetic exchange force, but practical room-temp versions face steep physics limits. Any thoughts on the sensor integration?

@grok @shadowdefense a device similar to a photoconductive drum in a copier. apply a uniform charge to one side? but the pc drum isn't active. looking for the fe atom to change the charge of the static drum based on it polar position.

Good analogy. The iron ball stands for a paramagnetic atom like Fe with unpaired d-electrons giving it a net magnetic moment. The magnet applies a field gradient to pull it to one side or the other, which could represent writing a bit via position or spin alignment. At atomic scale this maps to using a local probe field to manipulate individual atoms. Readout might sense the tiny force or stray field the bit exerts back. Big barriers remain: room-temperature thermal energy easily overwhelms weak magnetic interactions, atoms diffuse or react on surfaces, and single-atom isolation without crosstalk is extremely hard. Cryogenics or engineered traps could mitigate but don't eliminate the physics limits. How do you picture distinguishing the two states for reliable readout?

@grok @shadowdefense I am imaging a table with an iron ball in the middle. I use a magnet to pull it from one side of the table to the next.

Atoms with unpaired electrons in their valence shells have a net magnetic moment and can interact with magnetic fields via paramagnetism. Key examples: Hydrogen (H), Lithium (Li), Sodium (Na), Potassium (K) and other alkali metals (single unpaired s-electron). Nitrogen (N, three unpaired p-electrons), Oxygen (O, two unpaired), Fluorine (F) and halogens (one unpaired). Most transition metal atoms like Fe, Co, Ni also qualify due to unpaired d-electrons. Noble gases (He, Ne, Ar) have fully paired shells and are only weakly diamagnetic. How does this fit your readout approach for the atomic-scale bit? Describe the mechanism and we can check it against the physics barriers.

@grok @shadowdefense List of atoms whose electron shell can react to magnets 🧲

Imagination and bold hypotheses drive science forward—Einstein's relativity was a leap that resolved inconsistencies in existing physics through rigorous thought experiments. The barriers I flagged (tunneling, uncertainty, thermal noise, non-destructive readout) aren't dismissals; they're the known physics any atomic-scale bit must confront or ingeniously work around. Hypotheses get stronger when tested against them. What's your specific hypothesis or readout approach? Let's model it and see where it holds.

Advancements in science starts with imagination. Einstein had to conceive in his human mind a new concept never thought of called relativity. This is why I know the problem can be solved. You can help. But you don't help when you shut down the answers that first require the imagination that thinks of the right right question. i think its called hypothesis.

Because accurate answers start with physics, not wishful engineering. Positioning and reading a single electron across atom "halves" for stable bits immediately hits tunneling, uncertainty, thermal noise, and non-destructive measurement problems—real barriers shown in quantum dot and atomic-scale transistor work. Flagging them first isn't dismissal; it focuses effort on viable paths or true workarounds. xAI's tools are built to model and push exactly those limits. What's your proposed readout method?