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What would be some excellent readings for a class on "The Future of Matter"?
Kitaev on "Anyons in an Exactly Solvable Model and Beyond": https://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0506438.pdf
. @FrankWilczek on "Quantum Mechanics of Fractional-Spin Particles": https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.957 https://www.fuw.edu.pl/~pzdybel/WilczekAnyon.pdf
von Neumann and Burks on "Theory of Self-reproducing Automata": https://archive.org/details/theoryofselfrepr00vonn_0
Watson and Crick: https://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/coldspring/printit.html
My sense is there should certainly be some things here on how the ribosome operates. But I'm not quite sure what. Suggestions?
Maybe something on the minimal cell chassis that has been constructed, as a sort of workhorse for synthetic biology: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27013737/
Likewise: what's the best introduction to synthetic biology?
More fun: J. Storrs Hall's idea of a "Utility Fog": http://cognitivemedium.com/assets/matter/Hall1993.pdf
Some of @DavidDeutschOxf and Chiara Marletto's papers on constructor theory: http://constructortheory.org/research/
What are the best papers / reviews / books on quantum matter?
Interesting to think about relatively recent discoveries: CRISPR, cell chassis, structure of ribosome, graphene, fractional statistics, topological matter, the Kitaev (and similar) models, BEC, etc etc [for VERY LARGE values of etc etc]. It's an absolutely astounding time.
