What made 2017 memorable? This year, a human gene was edited, SpaceX launched a used Falcon 9 rocket – a very cool breakthrough, Deepmind taught a computer to use the laws of physics to overcome random obstacles, and Boston Dynamics is creating robots that do similar things in reality – I recommend watching a lecture at TED, Water-Gen introduced a device for extracting water from the air, 800 gallons a day, we obtained time crystals – a new “asymmetric” state of matter over time. Biologists discovered that dragonflies have living wings – the veins inside the wings are part of the respiratory system. Physicists created excitonium, a new form of matter whose theoretical existence was predicted in the ’60s, and a new superconductor, metallic hydrogen, predicted in 1935. And the discovery of gravitational waves is also significant (a friend of mine here in the US worked on this project, it was very interesting to talk shortly after the discovery, about LIDO detectors and the complexities involved).
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 