**WORTH THE WATCH: Where is AI leading the human race?**

AI has revolutionized many areas of research, but the bigger picture is very rapidly not looking as promising. 

Although this develops a very dark, maddening, and scary scenario for the future of humanity, it is the reality of our time that AI, and the quest of a handful of companies to "win the race" of AI dominance, is leading us down a potentially ridiculous pathway that limits human beings in what they will be able to do, and how one will be able to find purpose in life. 

This conversation between Jon Stewart and Tristan Harris is worth the watch - although terrifying, it is something we all should see, think about, debate, and take action by telling our representatives to actually WAKE UP and DO SOMETHING about developing guidelines, policies, regulations, and laws about what we want to happen with AI (and its integration into robotics and quantum computing). This will not be easy because it will fly in the face of what the AI Tech leaders want, who are all Mega-wealthy and powerful and integrated into the political world already, BUT WE HAVE TO TRY to build in something that still allows human beings to have purpose in this world. 

Keep in mind that just a few days prior to this post, Amazon announced it will be reducing its workforce by as much as 600,000 (one-third of its present workforce) by 2033, as they will be replaced by robots; they plan on automating 75% of its operations. This is happening in the present, and is no longer just a 'sci-fi' type possibility. 

New research explores how matter won out over antimatter after the Big Bang

 New research out of the big particle accelerator in Europe (CERN) is the first to show something called CP violation in the class of particles that include the proton and neutron - baryons. Baryons are particles that are made of combinations of 3 quarks; my students should know that protons are up-up-down and neutrons are up-down-down combinations, for example. 

CP violation is a phenomenon in particle physics that gets a little technical, but basically if differences in these 'symmetries' are found between what we call normal matter and antimatter (e.g. an antiproton has all the same properties of protons, only with a negative charge instead of positive), it can be a possible explanation for why matter won out over antimatter right after the Big Bang happened. 

This is also a good example of how science will never end, that there are always new things to explore and both big and small questions to try and answer by looking at Nature! Below is a representation of the Standard Model, and the particles responsible for the observable universe.