Author: Milovan Janicijevic
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AI and the Art of Manipulation: How Intelligence Models and Controls Us
When we talk about the dangers of artificial intelligence, we almost instinctively imagine a machine turning against humanity. The images are familiar: Terminator, a war between humans and machines, autonomous systems that stop obeying their creators. But perhaps that picture is too simple. Perhaps the most powerful intelligence will not try to defeat us by…
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🦆 Ducks, Evolution, and the Invisible Bond Between Living Beings
Motherhood and the First Face We See There is a scene that all of us have seen many times, so ordinary that we often accept it without giving it much thought. A female duck glides across the surface of a lake, followed by several small ducklings moving behind her in an almost perfectly ordered line.…
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🌊🧮⚛️ The Yang-Mills Equation: A Millennium Problem at the Crossroads of Physics and Mathematics
Dear explorers, In our previous voyages across the Dirac Sea, we encountered many mysteries – from negative frequencies and mirror matter to emergent gravity and the unfinished symphony of general relativity. But today we sail toward one of the deepest and most dangerous points on our map. Toward an equation that has given physicists the…
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🌌🎻🌊 General Relativity – The Unfinished Symphony of Space, Time, and Matter
Dear explorers, In our long voyage across the Dirac Sea, we have often leaned on Einstein’s general theory of relativity as on solid rock – as the wind that smooths the waves, as the geometry that gives shape to all that sails. But today we must drop anchor and ask one of the most important…
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🦖 Did Dinosaurs Really Go Extinct? – New Twists in a Long Scientific Debate
(Continuation of the bird series on MilovanInnovation) When we think of dinosaurs, the first things that come to mind are giant, toothed beasts that went extinct 66 million years ago. However, recent palaeontological discoveries and insights show that the popular belief – that birds evolved from surviving dinosaurs – does not hold up. In fact, birds…
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🌊🔬🔮 Bjorken and the Planck Barrier: Emergent Gravity in the Dirac Sea
Dear explorers, In our previous voyage we stood before the shadows of QCD’s triumph and listened to the scepticism of Feynman and Schwinger. Now it is time to bring aboard one of the key mariners who helped prove the existence of quarks, and who then himself sailed into waters few dare to enter. Today we…
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🌿 “The Secret Life of Plants” – What Was Right, and What Went Too Far
The book by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird (1973) popularised the idea that plants feel, communicate, and even “read minds.” Many experiments from the book, such as those by Cleve Backster with a polygraph, did not pass scientific verification. To remind you, Backster connected polygraph electrodes to the leaf of a Dracaena plant. When he thought about…
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🏜️ ROADRUNNER: From Cartoon Hero to True Master of the Desert
When we think of the roadrunner, most of us first picture the cartoon – that fast, clever bird that always outsmarts the coyote with its famous “beep-beep.” But what the cartoon didn’t show is that the roadrunner is one of the most fascinating and successful creatures of the American Southwest. And no, it doesn’t go…
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🎨🧲🔬 QCD – Triumph and Shadows: A Voyage That Went Too Far
Dear explorers, In our previous voyage we visited the desert island of Julian Schwinger, the man who built the cathedral of QED and was then banished from it for daring to think differently. Today we continue along that path, but we sail toward far wider waters – toward the triumph and the shadows of quantum chromodynamics…