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Parallels in Communication and Navigation Technology and Natural PhenomenonThe premise is more than art imitates life, or technology imitates nature it is a nascent step to see how we might be unwittingly inspired and influenced. An example that might immediately come to mind is a starling murmuration (a phenomenon called scale-free correlation) and Intels recent Coachella music festival drone performance. Superconductivity is a macroscopic manifestation of a quantum phenomenon - choreographed electrons (i.e. an electron murmuration) that enable astonishing devices. There is indeed an intimate connectedness between biology and electromagnetism. Our brains are complex neural circuits generating magnetic fields with a magnitude around 100 femtoTesla (roughly one billion times weaker than a typical magnet used to tack notes to a refrigerator door). Migratory birds navigate by orienteering with respect to the Earth's magnetic field. Electromagnetic field therapy is used in orthopedics to aid in bone repair. The electric eel generates a large electric field for self-defense. Sharks apparently detect extremely weak electric fields for finding prey. And so on. There are similarities between the way a field of wheat responds to a breeze and the natural restoring forces of a semiconductor crystal. And waves in a slowly moving river can lap backwards against a peninsular shoreline mimicking a diffraction effect. Getting back to the introductory sentence and mysterious links over cosmic distances, in August 2016, China launched the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) satellite. The technology is based on a non-linear crystal that produces pairs of entangled photons whose attributes apparently remain entwined regardless of how far apart they are separated. This paper will, no doubt superficially, attempt to enumerate and examine these types of connections and parallelisms.
Document ID
20180001331
Acquisition Source
Glenn Research Center
Document Type
Presentation
Authors
Romanofsky, Robert
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Date Acquired
February 21, 2018
Publication Date
October 4, 2017
Subject Category
Electronics And Electrical Engineering
Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command And Tracking
Report/Patent Number
GRC-E-DAA-TN46412
Meeting Information
Meeting: Summit 2017: Nature-Inspired Exploration for Aerospace (NIEA)
Location: Cleveland, OH
Country: United States
Start Date: October 4, 2017
End Date: October 6, 2017
Sponsors: Ohio Aerospace Inst.
Funding Number(s)
WBS: WBS 405034.04.02.05.01
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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