Dunbar's number. Francis Fukuyama. Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, and author. Fukuyama is best known for his book The End of History and the Last Man (1992), which argued that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies and free market capitalism of the West and its lifestyle may signal the end point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and become the final form of human government. However, his subsequent book Trust: Social Virtues and Creation of Prosperity (1995) modified his earlier position to acknowledge that culture cannot be cleanly separated from economics.
Fukuyama is also associated with the rise of the neoconservative movement,[2] from which he has since distanced himself.[3] Early life[edit] Francis Fukuyama was born in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Education[edit] Fukuyama was the Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University from 1996 to 2000. Writings[edit] Home - The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe. After a Short Delay, Quantum Mechanics Becomes Even Weirder. According to quantum mechanics, light can be either a graceful rippling wave or a hail of bulletlike particles, depending on how you look at it.
Now, an experiment shows that an observer can make the choice retroactively, after light has entered a measuring apparatus. The result shows that reality is truly in the eye of the beholder. A single dollop of light, or photon, must be described by a flowing quantum wave that gives the probability of finding it at any particular place and time. At the same time, the photon acts a bit like an indivisible bullet: When observed with a particle detector, it produces a distinct signal, like a pebble pinging off a car door. And things get weirder. The quantum wave can split in two and recombine, like ripples flowing around a stump in a pond, to create striking "interference" effects that determine which way the recombined wave flows.
On the other hand, it's simply impossible to split a photon at a fork in the road. Related site. Non-Duality-Blog —
Think Atheist. Philosophy.