I'm a senior physics lecturer at the university of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Last Notes npub1xvhjy9hv6795yjs9tw7xj2643jgcfg94zkresarfz79uf7m8aeqq5mq0wr Ben Hourahine how so? Railway infrastructure depreciates over multiple decades (UK transport being still heavily reliant on Victorian decisions). GPUs obsolete in a year or two at best (though I suppose applying pressure to get local power reliability improved for data centers might stick a bit longer in places like the US). npub1xvhjy9hv6795yjs9tw7xj2643jgcfg94zkresarfz79uf7m8aeqq5mq0wr Ben Hourahine If the coupling is strong enough, this happens at room temperature (cf the exciton-polariton condensates in some wide-gap semiconductors). In terms of applications, anything where you need a quantum enhancement, so some literature speculations about changing reaction yields and branching ratios. But would probably be useful for quantum batteries and sensors, J-aggregate type antics, plus amping up whatever level of quantum-ish behaviour there is in photosynthesis for artificial analogues.
