Physics, Quanta, String Theory and more [Archive]

LightEye

04-15-2007, 10:28 AM

dear friends,

make sure you check out mike's other articles at the end of the article...

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/04/mike_emery_enlightenment_and_t.html#more

be well, be love.

david

mike emery: enlightenment and the uniform field concept

mike emery is figuring out the workings of the universe. he does it by taking clues from "both sides of the fence", from religion and meditation on the one hand and from the very frontiers of physics on the other. on his way to enlightenment, mike is leaving a trail of written essays where he orders his own thoughts, as much as communicating them to friends and colleagues. the purpose of this article is to provide a space where those essays can be collected and made available. those of you who are interested in far-out ideas also have a space to leave messages and comments - at the end of the article - and get in contact with one another in this virtual world.

i have come to know mike through this medium of marvelously interconnected thought which is the internet, and have appreciated his unconventional views. mike's essays are provocative; they bring interesting trains of thought together, they shake convention and are far ahead of what many others have to offer. mike is one of those people for whom the artificial division of science and religion has already ceased to exist. in that sense, he is a forerunner, a herald of things to come, as we transform mankind into a living organism in its own right.

mike is no ivory tower man. he was a cowboy having fun on montana ranches and rodeos, then became a champion skier and got into all manner of trouble in his college days. at one time he was into commercial fishing - tough business - and later owned several businesses in alaska during the heyday of the oil fever. his subsequent search led him through free energy, healing, meditation, anti-aging and complementary medicine to the edges of physics and back.

but let me not ruin the fun by telling it all and perhaps botching things up in the process. here is an introduction provided by mike, and at the end you can find a growing list of links to his essays. check back, as there will be updates as more old and new essays get posted.

LightEye

04-15-2007, 10:56 AM

dear friends,

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2057529,00.html

be well, be love.

david

einstein was right: space and time bend

ninety years after he expounded his famous theory, a $700m nasa probe has proved that the universe behaves as he said. now the race is on to show that the other half of relativity also works

anushka asthana and david smith
sunday april 15, 2007
the observer

under his name in the oxford english dictionary is the simple definition: genius. yet for decades physicists have been asking the question: did albert einstein get it wrong? after half a century, seven cancellations and $700m, a mission to test his theory about the universe has finally confirmed that the man was a mastermind - or at least half proved it.

the early results from gravity probe b, one of nasa's most complicated satellites, confirmed yesterday 'to a precision of better than 1 per cent' the assertion einstein made 90 years ago - that an object such as the earth does indeed distort the fabric of space and time.

Jivatman

04-16-2007, 12:43 PM

amazing

i've heard about this for a while in relation to talk over the aether

the best and simplest way i've heard it put it;

all natural waves have a material to wave through. sound goes through air, earthquakes go through ground, ect.

so why not light? indeed, light does wave through something: the aether.

and, indeed gravity is simply objects themselves distorting the fabric of spacetime.

LightEye

04-17-2007, 10:23 AM

Larry Seyer

04-24-2007, 09:04 AM

i found this on slashdot today... thought it was very interesting...

some physicists are uncomfortable with the idea that all individual quantum events are innately random. this is why many have proposed more complete theories, which suggest that events are at least partially governed by extra "hidden variables". now physicists from austria claim to have performed an experiment that rules out a broad class of hidden-variables theories that focus on realism -- giving the uneasy consequence that reality does not exist when we are not observing it (nature 446 871).

here is the link to the article:

http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/4/14

enjoy!

larry

LightEye

04-24-2007, 11:37 AM

dear friends,

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/meet_boron_ball_brother_of_bucky_999.html

be well, be love.

david

meet boron ball brother of bucky
by staff writers
houston tx (spx) apr 24, 2007

a new study by rice university scientists predicts the existence and stability of another "buckyball" consisting entirely of boron atoms. the research, which has been published online and is due to appear as an editor's selection in physical review letters, was conducted bv boris yakobson, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and of chemistry, and his associates nevill gonzalez szwacki and arta sadrzadeh.
the original buckyball, a cage-shaped molecule of 60 carbon atoms, was discovered at rice by robert curl, harold kroto and richard smalley in 1985. the boron buckyball is structurally similar to the original c60 fullerene, but it has an additional atom in the center of each hexagon, which significantly increases stability.

"this is the first prediction of its possible existence," yakobson said of the boron buckyball, or b80. "this has not been observed or even conceived of before. we do hope it may lead to a significant breakthrough."

LightEye

04-30-2007, 11:05 AM

dear friends,

http://www.commonsensescience.org/elementary_particles.html

be well, be love.

david

elementary particles
standard model of elementary particles

the mcgraw-hill encyclopedia of science and technology (1992) defines an elementary particle as "a particle that is not a compound of other particles." by this definition, there are about 500 particles that have been "discovered" in collider experiments. except for the electron, proton, positron, and antiproton, the "particles" are unstable and exist only for short times. the evidence for such "particles" is the burst of light, the heat given off, or a short track left from a collision between an electron or proton and its corresponding antiparticle (positrons and antiprotons).

evidently, these short term, transient events are observations of the debris of a violent collision. there seems to be no limit to the number of "particles" that can be discovered as the velocity of the collision is increased. so, quarks were invented and pronounced to be the components of neutrons and protons, making quarks the new elementary particles instead of neutrons and protons. this was just as well, since it was known from the robson experiment (1951) that a neutron outside the atomic nucleus disintegrates into one electron and one proton. the electron, however, is still considered an elementary particle (although suggestions have been made that it is composed of subquarks).

despite sensational claims of finding all six types of quarks predicted by modern theory, a quark has never been directly observed, and its existence is known only by inference and correspondence of its expected properties with the light, heat and path generated by a violent collision. it is logically inconsistent, of course, for the electron to be an elementary particle that has no quarks when it is the decay product of a neutron that is supposed to be composed of three quarks.

LightEye

05-03-2007, 10:26 AM

dear friends,

http://www.physorg.com/news97339219.html

be well, be love.

david

princeton physicists connect string theory with established physics

string theory, simultaneously one of the most promising and controversial ideas in modern physics, may be more capable of helping probe the inner workings of subatomic particles than was previously thought, according to a team of princeton university scientists.

the theory has been highly praised by some physicists for its potential to forge the long-sought link between gravity and the forces that dominate within the atomic nucleus. but the theory -- which posits that all subatomic particles are actually tiny "strings" that vibrate in different ways -- has also drawn criticism for being untestable in the laboratory, and perhaps impossible to connect with real-world phenomena.

however, the princeton researchers have found new mathematical evidence that some of string theory's predictions mesh closely with those of a well-respected body of physics called "gauge theory," which has been demonstrated to underlie the interactions among quarks and gluons, the vanishingly small objects that combine to form protons, neutrons and other, more exotic subatomic particles. the discovery, say the physicists, could open up a host of uses for string theory in attacking practical physics problems.

"these problems include describing the interactions among the quarks within everyday atomic nuclei," said igor klebanov, the thomas d. jones professor of mathematical physics at princeton and an author of a recent paper on the subject. "we have previously been able to study these interactions in detail only at the high-energy conditions within particle accelerators, but with these findings we may be able to describe what's happening inside the atoms that make up rocks and trees. we cannot do so yet, but it appears that the math of string theory could be what we need to bridge this gap."

LightEye

05-06-2007, 11:07 AM

dear friends,

dw's article is the basis for this article.

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/05/kozyrev_aether_time_and_torsio.html#more

be well, be love.

david

kozyrev: aether, time and torsion

the russian scientist dr nikolai kozyrev is in many ways a forerunner - the father of today's efforts to re-interpret physics in a way that does not contradict intuitive understanding. our efforts to reconcile the inherent contradictions of the standard model of physics, firmly based as it is on einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics, have brought less than satisfying results.

kozyrev has measured spin or torsion field effects at a time when western science was busy smashing atoms into ever smaller fractions. he investigated time and the aether before most of us in the west ever thought of questioning the workability of our modern interpretations of the universe.

a most welcome effort to increase our awareness of kozyrev's outstanding work is a book chapter on david wilcock's site, which introduces him with the following words:

dramatic scientific evidence that all of physical matter is formed by an “aether” of invisible, conscious energy has existed since at least the 1950s. renowned russian astrophysicist dr. nikolai a. kozyrev (1908-1983, pronounced ko-zir-ev,) proved beyond any doubt that such an energy source had to exist, and as a result he became one of the most controversial figures in the history of the russian scientific community. the awesome implications of his work, and of all those who followed him, were almost entirely concealed by the former soviet union, but with the fall of the iron curtain and the advent of the internet we are finally gaining access to “russia’s best-kept secret.” two generations of remarkable research by thousands of ph.d. level specialists have emerged from kozyrev’s seed findings, which completely change our understanding of the universe. with our prominent mention of him in this book, we hope to permanently establish his historical importance and impact to our colleagues and readers.

LightEye

05-06-2007, 11:46 AM

dear friends,

http://thisquantumworld.com/ht/index.php

be well, be love.

david

this quantum world

quantum mechanics (a.k.a. quantum theory or quantum physics) is the fundamental theoretical framework of contemporary physics. this site is devoted to answering a few seemingly simple and straightforward questions such as:

what is quantum mechanics trying to tell us about the nature of nature?
why did one of the greatest physicists of all time think that no one understands quantum mechanics? why did another distinguished physicist declare that quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense?

LightEye

05-11-2007, 10:29 AM

dear friends,

there is no end, no beginning - there is only change... ;-)

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/05/atemporal_gravitation.html#more

be well, be love.

david

a-temporal gravitation

time does not have physical reality, say researchers amrit sorli and dusan klinar, all we measure with clocks are changes in matter existing in space. space itself, they say, is a-temporal. space-time as advocated by einstein and minkowski is merely a mathematical construct, it has no physical existence.

gravitation is a property of a-temporal, quantized space. there are no 'gravity waves' that travel from one stellar body to another, gravity is a stress-condition inherent in space.

sorli and klinar propose a new formula for determining the strength of gravity inside a stellar object and, as a consequence, inside black holes. they also propose a simple experiment to verify their new way of calculating gravity.

active galactic nuclei, they say, re-cycle matter into space and space into matter.

universe is an a-temporal system in permanent dynamic equilibrium - there is no beginning and no end of the universe.

LightEye

05-18-2007, 12:13 PM

dear friends,

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/18may_equivalenceprinciple.htm?list29945

be well, be love.

david

the equivalence principle
05.18.2007

may 18, 2007: standing on the moon in 1971, apollo 15 astronaut dave scott held his hands out at shoulder height, a hammer in one hand and a feather in the other. and as the world looked on via live television, he let go.

it was an odd sight: the feather didn't drift to the ground, it plummeted, falling just as fast as the hammer. without air resistance to slow the feather, the two objects hit moondust at the same instant.

right: astronaut dave scott drops a feather and hammer on the moon. [video] [transcript]

"what do you know!" exclaimed scott. "mr. galileo was right."

scott was referring to a famous experiment of the 16th century. depending on who tells the story, galileo galilei either dropped balls from the top of the leaning tower of pisa or he rolled balls down slopes at home. either way, the result was the same: although the balls were made of different materials, they all reached bottom at the same time.

today, this is known as "the equivalence principle." gravity accelerates all objects equally regardless of their masses or the materials from which they are made. it's a cornerstone of modern physics.

but what if the equivalence principle (ep) is wrong?

galileo's experiments were only accurate to about 1%, leaving room for doubt, and skeptical physicists have been "testing ep" ever since. the best modern limits, based on, e.g., laser ranging of the moon to measure how fast it falls around earth, show that ep holds within a few parts in a trillion (1012). this is fantastically accurate, yet the possibility remains that the equivalence principle could fail at some more subtle level.

soup

05-25-2007, 09:37 PM

with so many spinning magnet free-energy / anti-gravitational mentionings there may be some gravitic-magnetic coupling which skews the results somehow.

here in santa cruz is the infamous "mystery spot" where many scientists seem to become befuddled in such ways. there is a large iron pendulum which seems easier to push one way - toward the epicenter - as compared to pushing it the other way - away from the epicenter. (i don't think magnetic compasses work well there either.)

when i meditate at the mystery spot i quickly get a sort of dopey car-sickness feeling, as if there seems gradients of acceleration in its vicinity.

LightEye

05-27-2007, 03:57 PM

dear friends,

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/05/subatomic_particles_in_atempor.html#more

i posted something similar earlier;

a-temporal gravitation;

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/05/atemporal_gravitation.html

be well, be love.

david

sub-atomic particles in a-temporal space
does time have any real existence or is it merely a mental construct?

spiritual teachers have long held the view that time is a thing of the mind, a figment of the imagination. in the power of now, eckhart tolle argues that what has real existence is only the present moment, the now. the past is composed of memories we recorded, and the future is merely an imagination of what might happen that is created by our minds.

davide fiscaletti and amrit sorli seem to have a similar view. in their paper that discusses the motion of sub-atomic particles in quantized space, they say that "the passing of time cannot be perceived directly as matter and space; we can only perceive the irreversible changes and movements of matter in physical space (i.e. the space where material objects exist). the linear time in which events happen exists only in the scientific models of the universe, but not in the universe itself."

schroedinger's cats: quantum mechanics and world view - davide fiscaletti

but the fiscaletti/sorli paper is not only about time. space is a-temporal, they say, but it is also quantized, and elementary particles, so the argument goes, are space quanta in a certain vibratory state. when particles move, it is not an actual physical thing that changes position in space, but the vibratory state that creates the particles moves across a range of space quanta, successively re-creating the particle at each new location.

this reminds me of the proposal of another italian, gian piero godone, who in 1994 posited a fourth law of motion, to add to newton's three:

"ogni possibile movimento di ogni possibile corpo è dovuto al costante moto dei suoi elementi base, i quali sono continuamente sostituiti da sempre nuovi elementi base che arrivano ordinatamente dallo spazio e poi al medesimo ritornano"
or in english

"any possible movement of any physical body is due to the constant motion of its basic elements, which are continually substituted by always new basic elements that arise in an orderly sequence from space and then to there return."
while not acceptable to the physics mainstream, it is nevertheless a good exercise in mental mobility and perhaps not entirely futile, to mull such things over. in any case, here is the paper of fiscaletti/sorli.

toward a new interpretation of subatomic particles and their motion inside a-temporal physical space

davide fiscaletti, amrit sorli, spacelife institute,
via roncaglia 35, 61047 s. lorenzo in campo (pu), italy
fiscalettidavide@libero.it
spacelife@libero.it

abstract

four-dimensional a-temporal physical space is the stage in which natural phenomena happen. quanta of space having the size of planck length and vibrating at certain frequencies are the basic “packets of energy” which build up matter and a-temporal physical space. in particular, quanta of space constituting a-temporal physical space vibrate with the “basic frequency” and are the “non-entropy state” of energy, while quanta of space constituting matter vibrate with appropriate different lower frequencies and are the “entropy-state” of energy. each subatomic particle can be interpreted as the result of the interaction of energy in the “entropy-state” with one or more quanta of the a-temporal physical space. this interaction of energy in the “entropy state” with quanta of space is determined by the vibration of these quanta of space at appropriate frequencies. a new interpretation of quantum potential is thus proposed: the quantum potential intended as “special state of a-temporal physical space in the presence of microscopic processes”. when we take into consideration an atomic or subatomic process, a-temporal physical space assumes the special “state” represented by quantum potential in consequence of the entropic energy shifting between certain quanta of space: this energy shifting (which is determined by the vibrations of the quanta of space occupied by the particle) materializes the subatomic particle into examination in the different points of physical space. we underline that this new interpretation of quantum potential appears permissible also in virtue of the fact that both a-temporal physical space and quantum potential allow us to explain quantum nonlocality.

introduction

if we base ourselves on elementary perception (sight), no experimental evidence exists that material objects move in time. the passing of time cannot be perceived directly [in the same way as we perceive] matter and space; we can only perceive the irreversible changes and movements of matter in physical space (i.e. the space where material objects exist). the linear time in which events happen exists only in the scientific models of the universe, but not in the universe itself. on the basis of elementary perception, we can thus say that time exists only as a stream of irreversible material changes and movements happening in a-temporal space. this is an alternative, different point of view from that conventionally adopted in physics, but is perhaps more correct and appropriate because it is more coherent with experimental facts.

the stage in which physical phenomena happen is not space-time but is really a four-dimensional a-temporal space. phenomena run in space-time only in the mathematical models of reality, which sometimes become more real than reality itself, which instead – on the ground of our elementary perception – turns out to be a-temporal. general relativity can be therefore interpreted in the following way: gravity is transmitted by the density of the four-dimensional a-temporal physical space and its effect is to determine modifications in the geometry of this a-temporal space. this new interpretation of general relativity, which can be defined also a-temporal gravitation theory, implies that matter makes physical space dense and that material particles move in the direction where the density of physical space is increasing. a-temporal physical space allows us to provide a consistent explanation, an interesting interpretation not only of gravitational interaction. it can open new perspectives also as regards quantum nonlocality: the communication between two quantum particles is instantaneous just because it is transmitted by a-temporal physical space.

in virtue of these considerations, it appears permissible to consider four-dimensional a-temporal physical space as the possible intermediary of all phenomena observed or predicted by the different theories; in line of principle, this a-temporal space should be able to include all objects of physics (and therefore also ponderable matter and force fields). it is permissible to think that this a-temporal space represents a reality ontologically primary as to the matter and that the different types of fields (electromagnetic, quantum, nuclear) can be seen as special states of it.

here the aim is to introduce a new interpretation of subatomic particles and their motion inside a-temporal physical space. this new interpretation, on one hand, can give results similar to standard quantum theory and, on the other hand, will allow us to open new perspectives as regards bohmian quantum potential.

soup

05-28-2007, 08:46 PM

...density of grains of space depends on density of mass, the higher the density of mass, the lower the density of space and the bigger the volume of grains....

this could explain the phenomena of the "mystery spot", as if close to the spot epicenter is some high density mass which gravitationally perturbs the surrounding space.

http://www.mysteryspot.com/photos.shtml

LightEye

05-31-2007, 11:45 AM

dear friends,

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/05/motioninduced_clock_slowing_an.html

be well, be love.

david

motion-induced clock slowing and the ether revolution

is space penetrated by a non material or rather pre-material 'substance', or is it completely void? this question has occupied scientists for more than a century. at present, the going consensus seems to be that there is 'no need' for an ether, that forces that act between matter are the result of 'fields'. but there are good indications that some non-material or rather pre-material stuff does indeed fill space, making it a plenum rather than a void.

a unique sculpture of the solar system - image: falkland islands government

paramahamsa tewari postulates an ether in his space vortex theory, frank meno models the ether with a basic substance he terms 'gyrons', einstein's relativity may or may not have done away with the ether, paul rowe posits a dense matrix of protons in space that would explain how hydrogen will appear - seemingly from empty space - stimulated only by a discharge of energy.

far from being a lost cause, the ether is a distinguishing feature of a new physics that is about to sweep aside the current dogma of ether denial, says jim hodges in a paper submitted to the natural philosophy alliance's 14th annual conference at the university of cennecticut storrs campus. hodges believes that an ether revolution is in the making, and that it will lead to changes in several fields of scientific and social endeavor, not only in physics. he describes an interesting experiment using a sonic model of the ether and an analogy to 'relativistic' clock slowing that demonstrates why michelson/morley's results cannot be used to deny the existence of an ether filling space.

jim's paper brings much needed fresh thought to the age-old ether debate and expresses the hopeful conviction that in the end, the proponents of ether will not only win out in the struggle against the denialists but will contribute to making the world a much better and especially a more friendly place.

ether denial, motion-induced clock slowing & the big ether blob revolution

‘the human understanding, when it has once adopted an opinion, draws all things else to support and agree with it. and though there be a great number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination, the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.’ francis bacon

introduction

in the above quotation ‘the articulator of the ethos of western science’, sir francis bacon (1561-1626), rails against intellectual conservatism. but one shouldn’t complain too much about clinging to what seems of value in past intellectual achievements, otherwise the naked ape could be afflicted with a false and unnecessary scientific revolution every time there is an minor anomaly found in the prevailing orthodoxy. however, there is cause for complaint when, as in the current circumstance, there are ‘a great number and weight of instances’ to be found in favour of the ether, yet the scientific establishment ‘neglects and despises’ these for the purpose of upholding its eighty eight year old contention that the ether does not exist.

indeed, it will be shown in this paper that the denial of ether has now become so extreme and irrational that it has reached the stage of collective psychosis. it will be further shown that a simple mechanical model of motion-induced clock slowing, based on the airspeed modulated reduction of the frequency of two spinning/orbiting ultrasound emitters, provides compelling evidence (by analogy) for the existence of an amazing multi-purpose static electromagnetic medium which permeates the universe.

and yet, dear reader, do i hear you protest that ‘whatever the short term blunders, modern science is evidence-based and therefore self-correcting. the four hundred year old tradition of western science, with its encouragement of new discoveries and the use of the checks and balances of the peer review process, makes certain that truth will out!’ well yes, the rhetoric of institutional science is admirable, but my riposte is that no naked ape institution, free of disinterested independent oversight, has ever been able to resist internal corruption in the long term.

for three centuries, spanning kepler’s first law (1605) and poincare’s ether theory (1905), western science did have a good run but went spectacularly off the rails in 1919, and for the current practitioners of the foundational sciences the bacon thesis especially applies - naked ape physicists and cosmologists have reverted to type and now believe what they want to believe, regardless of the evidence!

LightEye

06-03-2007, 09:55 AM

dear friends,

http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/20/6/4/1

be well, be love.

david

sounding out the big bang
feature: june 2007

gravitational waves offer a unique way of studying inflation and other fundamental processes of the very early universe, explains craig j hogan, and may even connect string theory with the world of experiment

our view of the universe is about to change forever. since science began, all our knowledge of what lies above, below and around us has come from long-familiar forms of energy: light, produced by distant astrophysical objects; and matter, in the form of particles such as cosmic rays. but we are now in a position to study the universe using an entirely different form of energy that until now has never been directly detected – gravitational waves.

gravitational cataclysm

a key prediction of einstein's general theory of relativity, gravitational waves are vibrations of space–time generated by the acceleration of all forms of mass and energy. extreme gravitational environments such as black holes or neutron-star binaries generate waves with the largest amplitudes, while the frequency of the waves depends on how such sources move. small-scale motions, such as those of stellar-mass black holes, generate high-frequency gravitational waves, while larger objects, such as massive black holes, move more slowly and produce lower-frequency signals. passing through material of any kind at the speed of light, gravitational waves fill the entire universe and may therefore carry information from the beginning of space–time itself.

Zee Charnoe

06-05-2007, 11:46 AM

the cosmology which david has helpfully formulated
needs to include what david g. yurth, ph.d. incorporates
in his document: seeing past the edge (freely downloadable, 4th edition).
david yurth attempts to bridge between what he calls "the stuff
that renes descartes left out and the stuff of physical science".

he builds the bridge cantlevered from the shore of physical science
to and towards the divine cosmos, zero point energy.
he even scouts the other shore, but he does not complete the bridge.

however, he does supply some detailed structure from the physical sciences
that extends well towards, and in some cases, to the stuff
that renes descartes left out.

reading the dialogue between david wilcock and rod johnson,
one sees the character and nature of the charge,
not fully understood or explained, and the critical discontinuity,
in comprehending the role of the velocity of light,
in constructing physical reality, but not yet examining the super luminal
and adjacent realities.

the statements of betty white, in the book, the unobstructed universe,
about everything being made of consciousness, needs to be incorporated
in the cosmological formulations of david yurth and david wilcock.

consciousness is the co-emissive fundamental,
witnessed in the discovery of four hundred and fifty scientists
and mathematicians, at ferme lab, for eight years,
who designated the sub-quark or preon.

at the frontier, in sub-atomic detail, lies the nature of god.
in the book, my contact with flying saucers, by the mathematician,
dino craspedon, when asked about who or what god is,
the extraterrestrial visitor said that god was a set
of mutually perpendicular lines of force oscillating upon themselves.
this conveniently fits in with rene descarte's analytical geometry,
using x y z axes for field descriptions.
it doesn't really engage or acknowledge the experiences
of non-uniform curvature, or reimannian geometry, in the field shapes
of the fractal progression inward and the hermetic axiom,
as above, so below.

kindest regards,
zee

LightEye

06-06-2007, 02:45 PM

dear friends,

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/06/einstein_warped_minds_bent_tru.html#more

be well, be love.

david

einstein: warped minds, bent truths

einstein's centenary has brought festivities, but also criticism. cracks are appearing in what seemed to be einstein's firmly cemented reputation as the most celebrated scientist of the 20th century. nasa asks whether einstein was wrong about space travel and aging, articles critical of einstein such as this one on the brojon website are appearing here and there, reduced-speed-of-light experiments brought new questions.

evidence that einstein may have been wrong is growing according to joseph rybczyk, and david de hilster is producing a film challenging the einstein myth.

now norwegian researcher bjorn overbye joins the fray with an ironic three-part article discussing experiments that supposedly support einstein's views. when closely examining the evidence, says overbye, we see that that the proofs for einstein's relativity and the solid grounding of his theory in actual physical reality may be sadly lacking...

warped minds, bent truths
three brief articles on albert einstein’s rise to glory and the ugly facts that may lead to his fall from grace

written and researched by
dr. bjørn j. øverbye. ph.d.
box 348-n4803 arendal, norway
fax 00047-370 27155

“o seeker of truth!
dreams of unnatural greatness
will eventually lead ye astray.“

buddhist proverb

part. i : anaesthetized by the ether
how a few failed experiments put science in a stupor

a committee of scientists hailed professor albert einstein (1879-1955) as the most important scientist of the 20th century. another committee of 100 humanistic thinkers and religious leaders chose einstein’s own essays on the theory of relativity as the most important humanistic work in the same century! at his death in 1955 president dwight d. eisenhower hailed him as the most important scientist of the century and the most humble man that ever lived, 45 years before the century was closed (1). in his lifetime he gained scientific fame for theories such as on brownian movements, the photoelectric effect, the bose-einstein statistics of thermodynamics and above all the special (str) and general theory of relativity (gtr). the photoelectric effect explanations awarded him a nobel prize in 1921. (1) due to his inaccessible and often remote theories, einstein became the symbol of the mystical scientist in the ivory tower. a gentle man, whose enigmatic looks and veiled utterances made him an ideal for scientists as well as science-fiction writers and man in the street. yet in his lifetime there were those who doubted his greatness, and 45 years after his death, when glory seemed secure, there are those who once more feel free to doubt whether everything is all right with relativity (2). here are some reasons why:

the ether controversy

the path to einstein’s mythical fame, and his eventual fall from grace, is a devious substance known as the ether. the ether was described in various works by greek, egyptian and indian philosophers as early as the 5th century b.c. (3) according to their ideas, the ether was the most subtle substance in creation: the mother of all other phenomena. 5th century bc philosopher anaxagoras also speculated that atoms are vortexes in the ether, a theory picked up 2500 years later by prodigal genius william thompson, alias lord kelvin. (4)

the very reason for reviving old concepts were certain advancements in science. at the beginning of the 19th century, faraday and oersted had discovered electro-magnetism and by the middle of the century dr. hermann helmholtz (1821-94) had proved that such forces could spread through “empty space” as waves (5). great men of science competed to give the best explanations for these phenomena such a michael meyerson, lord kelvin and robert young; but the man to win the prize for the best theory was james clark maxwell (1821-79). in 1864 he proposed the theory of “the mechanical ether”; an invisible, ethereal substance endowed with elasticity and filled with small “idle wheels”. magnetism was pictured as vortexes in the ether, while electricity was imagined to be deformation of the vortexes and the wheels. by a continuous process of deformation and rotation, electromagnetism could be explained and expressed by four fundamental equations, known today as the maxwell electromagnetic wave equations (5).

these equations and the picture based on the theory of the “mechanical ether” became a veritable goldmine for 19th century science: a host of phenomena found their true explanation and light was finally explained as electro-magnetic waves of ultra-short wavelengths.

using such thinking, scientists now started to discuss the ether and three schools of thinking emerged. one was claiming the earth traversed an immovable sea of ether, another believed the ether to be carried along with the earth and a third believed the ether to be moving. discussions broke out between the schools, showing a need to prove who was right, but proofs rested on technical means and no reliable mechanical instruments were available until the 1880s when professor albert michelson from case university, cleveland, built his one millionth part accurate interferometer. (6) such an instrument could identify differences between two arriving light waves in terms of geometrical interference-patterns, that is patterns formed when beams of light hit the same spot either amplifying each other or weakening each other, depending on whether they arrive at the same time or slightly out of phase.

the whole idea was, according to the famous michelson and morley experiment, to send two beams of light along two different paths, equally long as measured by earthly measuring sticks. the only difference being their direction: one path along the movement of the earth through the “sea of ether”, the other traversing the earth’s path. by mirrors and prisms the two light beams were then made to meet at the same spot.

if those light waves travelling along the path of the earth got an extra speed through the ether sea and those traversing the path were not influenced, they would arrive at different moments, provided the ether waves we call light had different speeds in different directions. thus the observer would see a weakening of the light as the waves arrived at different moments to create negative interference, somewhat like waves on the sea arriving out of order creating weaker waves compared to those that roll in at the same time, marching in order so to speak.

michelson acted according to this theory, being a true believer in the static ether and his belief was that this static ether penetrated all objects, heavy and light, and would in turn influence the speed of the propagating light waves as described above.

to test this idea he set up his interferometer in the basement of the university building and tried to see if there was any difference between a light beam parallel to the movement of the earth and one perpendicular to it. michelson and his college edward morley figured that the light beam going against the movement of the earth would be slowed down, the one going with the earth would be speeded up, while the one traversing the direction of the movement of the earth would be unaltered. these differences should be detectable down to one in a millionth of a wavelength of light. after just 36 measurements over a period of 3 days michelson and morley, declared that there were detectable differences, but not great enough to support the theory of a static ether (6).

this was later to be known as the famous “1887 zero result experiment”; but was it really, and what did it prove or not prove?

LightEye

06-13-2007, 11:36 AM

dear friends,

the only time that exists is the now... ;-)

http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/in-no-time

be well, be love.

david

newsflash: time may not exist
not to mention the question of which way it goes...
by tim folger

no one keeps track of time better than ferenc krausz. in his lab at the max planck institute of quantum optics in garching, germany, he has clocked the shortest time intervals ever observed. krausz uses ultraviolet laser pulses to track the absurdly brief quantum leaps of electrons within atoms. the events he probes last for about 100 attoseconds, or 100 quintillionths of a second. for a little perspective, 100 attoseconds is to one second as a second is to 300 million years.

but even krausz works far from the frontier of time. there is a temporal realm called the planck scale, where even attoseconds drag by like eons. it marks the edge of known physics, a region where distances and intervals are so short that the very concepts of time and space start to break down. planck time—the smallest unit of time that has any physical meaning—is 10-43 second, less than a trillionth of a trillionth of an attosecond. beyond that? tempus incognito. at least for now.

efforts to understand time below the planck scale have led to an exceedingly strange juncture in physics. the problem, in brief, is that time may not exist at the most fundamental level of physical reality. if so, then what is time? and why is it so obviously and tyrannically omnipresent in our own experience? “the meaning of time has become terribly problematic in contemporary physics,” says simon saunders, a philosopher of physics at the university of oxford. “the situation is so uncomfortable that by far the best thing to do is declare oneself an agnostic.”

the trouble with time started a century ago, when einstein’s special and general theories of relativity demolished the idea of time as a universal constant. one consequence is that the past, present, and future are not absolutes. einstein’s theories also opened a rift in physics because the rules of general relativity (which describe gravity and the large-scale structure of the cosmos) seem incompatible with those of quantum physics (which govern the realm of the tiny). some four decades ago, the renowned physicist john wheeler, then at princeton, and the late bryce dewitt, then at the university of north carolina, developed an extraordinary equation that provides a possible framework for unifying relativity and quantum mechanics. but the wheeler-*dewitt equation has always been controversial, in part because it adds yet another, even more baffling twist to our understanding of time.

theodorepong

06-16-2007, 12:30 PM

according to james demayo, dayton miller was busy on a mountain top making measurements of light velocity at the same time michelson and morely were playing around in the valley. according to dr. demayo, miller's results totally contradicted messrs michelson and morely, and dr. demayo explains it sayin that the ether "entrainment" to the earth's surface was high, so that it took a versioin of the same experiment at high altitude to get the result that michelson and morely were supposedly looking for.

at any rate, the bottom line is that einstein's theories are probably not just flawed, but very well may be nothing but the ravings of [moderator: i think we can get our point across without these extra words:)] a mind based on totally invalid experiments. some even go so far as to accuse certain elites (big oil presumably) of deliberately hiring einstein to play "genius" in order to thwart real science for a hundred years to maintain the oil monopoly in the face of electromagnetic knowledge that was on the very verge of providing free energy to everyone through the real genius of tesla and others.

LightEye

06-24-2007, 01:18 PM

dear friends,

it's all about vibrations... ;-)

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/06/quantized_space_evolution_in_a.html#more

be well, be love.

david

quantized space: evolution in a universe of frequency

space is a-temporal, which means time does not have physical existence. building on that premise, davide fiscaletti and amrit sorli develop a model of the universe based on quantized space. these basic units - quanta of space - can represent either empty space, matter or electromagnetic energy, depending on their frequency of vibration.

the highest frequency is that of space without any matter. a lower frequency corresponds to sub-atomic particles, and a yet lower frequency represents electromagnetic waves.

the universe postulated by fiscaletti, sorli and their group is constantly renewing itself. active galactic nuclei, giant black holes at the centers of galaxies, incorporate matter from stars and planets and transform it into quanta of space. the transformation eventually results in the emission of gas which, in time, forms new celestial bodies.

LightEye

06-25-2007, 01:00 PM

dear friends,

http://plus.maths.org/issue43/features/noncom/index.html

be well, be love.

david

quantum geometry
by marianne freiberger

during the last 100 years or so physics has been chipping away at our intuitive understanding of the space we live in. physicists tell us that rather than consisting of the familiar three dimensions, space is in fact part of a curved spacetime of at least four dimensions, perhaps more. cosmologists are still unsure of the precise geometry of our universe, proposing a variety of odd shapes and even considering that it might be finite.

what happens to space at the smallest scale?

out of all these new ideas there is one that perhaps defies intuition more than all others: that space, when you zoom in on it, stops being a smooth and continuous whole and starts breaking up into little indivisible chunks of some kind. this idea is truly mind-boggling. when you think of little chunks you can't help but think of them as existing inside something else and this something is — well, continuous. another visualisation is to imagine space becoming fuzzy at this fundamental scale. but what exactly does that mean? fuzzy with respect to what? our macroscopic intuition simply isn't equipped to deal with a non-continuous space. maths is the only language in which to talk about this, but ordinary geometry won't do — we need a completely new model of space. shahn majid from queen mary, university of london, has developed such a model, based on something called non-commutative geometry. his work is a fascinating blend of abstract algebra, theoretical physics, philosophy and experiment. plus went to see him to find out more.

Whistling Song Dog

06-26-2007, 02:58 AM

time is with in us, let that be the point to come from on this, expand it out word and you will find it has even deeper meaning and truths that are most certainly alive and will be shown in the revealing and the lifting of the veils that has started cosmos wide in ernst. many people will go through much inside and find out that what is out here is only what is inside of us, each one of us has each and every thing with in us that is with in the entire cosmos and that is truth.

what each one does with it is the the thing, if i do ceremony and ritual and daily bring my levels up with, say high yoga, shamanism, using prayer and deep meditation; do you beleave that the same things will come as rapidly into clarity for some one who just sits and drinks beer and watch's tv?

i suspect not, however to not assume to much we will all find out will we not, if there is indeed a lazy persons way to it or is there real true effort in it if you want all that it can give you now! as it is now always, that is the little lumps of space time, now and it is people and or a person focusing on now.

be one it is much fun

whistling song dog

LightEye

06-27-2007, 12:28 PM

dear friends,

make sure you check out the other articles at the site...

http://beyond.asu.edu/laws.html

also this article;

the god allusion

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/thisweek/story/0,,2111502,00.html

be well, be love.

david

where do the laws of physics come from?
p.c.w. davies

abstract

a major focus of current research in theoretical physics is the formulation of a final unified theory in which all the known laws would be amalgamated into a single compact mathematical scheme. a popular contender for this complete unification is string/m theory; another is loop quantum gravity. these developments are forcing physicists to confront the nature of physical law: what are such laws, where do they come from and why do they have the form that they do? theorists are sharply split over whether a final theory would be unique, and so describe only one possible world, or whether the observed universe is but one “solution” of a multiplicity of possible worlds, and if so, whether our universe is an infinitesimal component in a vast and variegated multiverse. central to the issues involved is the fact that the laws of physics in our universe seem uncannily suited to the emergence of life. indeed, some commentators believe the bio-friendliness of the universe has the air of a fine-tuned big fix, and cries out for explanation. a fashionable idea is that the “unreasonable” fitness of the universe for life is the result of an observer selection effect. only in universes which by accident possess appropriate laws and conditions will life arise and observers exist to ponder the significance of the cosmic fine-tuning. universes that are less propitiously endowed will be sterile, and so go unobserved. in this chapter i critically assess the strengths and weaknesses of both the unique universe and multiverse proposals, and argue that both fall short of providing an ultimate explanation for physical existence.

LightEye

06-28-2007, 11:39 AM

dear friends,

http://www.quantummotion.org/gdpc.html

links to the book chapters;

the arrow;
http://www.quantummotion.org/books/godbook1.pdf

is motion continuous?
http://www.quantummotion.org/books/godbook2.pdf

the cause of motion
http://www.quantummotion.org/books/godbook3.pdf

god plays dice
http://www.quantummotion.org/books/godbook44.pdf

time division universe
http://www.quantummotion.org/books/godbook5.pdf

the gambling rule
http://www.quantummotion.org/books/godbook6.pdf

the prime mover
http://www.quantummotion.org/books/godbook7.pdf

be well, be love.

david

god does play dice with the universe
a startling new picture of the world

i want to know god's thoughts; the rest are details.
--- albert einstein

science has made a mighty advance since it originated from ancient greece more than 2500 years ago. yet we still live in plato's cave today; we think everything around us moves continuously, but continuous motion is only a shadow of the real motion. how about the real motion then?

this book will lead you to walk out the cave along a logical and comprehensible road. after passing zeno's arrow, newton's inertia, einstein's light, and schrödinger's cat, you will finally reach the real world, where every thing in the universe, whether it is an atom or a ball or even a star, jumps in a random and discontinuous way. in a famous metaphor, god does play dice with the universe. in this new picture of reality, thing is not inert but active; it ceaselessly jumps by its own "free will". moreover, such motion will entangle the universe into an inseparable whole in the form of time division. is this new world not amazing?

life is transitory. everyone is a mere mote in the universe. but god gives us mind; thus we can see and understand the real world. the most happiness is not beyond this. so let us now head for the real world!

LightEye

07-03-2007, 09:24 AM

dear friends,

http://www.realitysandwich.com/node/316

be well, be love.

david

the forgotten science: zero-point energy
richard merrick

for the past century, mainstream science has marched to the drum of modern convenience, producing a dazzling array of inventions to make our lives more comfortable, more entertaining and more productive. this disneyland vision has unfortunately led us away from a path of economic and ecological sustainability into a dead end world powered by fossil fuels. what can possibly change this situation?

several long forgotten principles of electromagnetism and something called “zero-point energy” (zpe) have reemerged in recent years as a central part of the search for free energy. this includes three revolutionary technologies: 1) wireless transmission of electricity, 2) free electrostatic energy and 3) passive electrical propulsion. together, these technologies could bring about a catalytic change in the world, reducing our dependence on fossil fuels while rearranging the planet’s politico-economic landscape.

to understand zpe, we need to begin with a theory. several new theories describe it as the residual energy resonating in a “space lattice” [the genesis of electromagnetic and gravitational forces, peter grandics, ph.d, 2002]. this view proposes space is actually a cubic arrangement of spiraling “energy vortices” that fill space perfectly as a non-compressible lattice. manipulating the space lattice and tapping into its energy vortices then becomes a unifying goal of zpe research.

in this model of the universe, everything is described as some form of crystallized energy. matter is said to originate from “angular energy” that has crystallized into a molecular lattice. applying pressure causes matter to crystallize further and take on a larger more visible geometry, like that of a hexagonal quartz crystal or octahedral diamond. as things crystallize, they become more stable, coherent and resonant.

charran

07-03-2007, 11:21 AM

a most excellent article, le.

everyone: even if you get tripped up on some of the words just do your best to read through this one. i think it is going to be important for us to know more about zero point energy sooner than later, especially with the war in iraq and across the middle east going on. you don't have to be a physicist to know that change is inevitable on the energy front so why not get a heads up on it?

charran

Robert Riedel

07-04-2007, 04:19 AM

great link, david, and indeed, changes are inevitable, however, unless people wake up to what is really going on at the highest levels of our scientific elite, and demand an end to the wholesale slaughter of our best, and brightest micro-bioligists, physists, and anyone else who can't or won't tow the party line, as estabilished by tptb, like eugene malove, we'll never see it in our lifetimes.

here's a link to a guy who wanted to just run everything on water- see what it got him...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3333992194168790800&q=water+car+inventor+murdered

bob

Cobra42898

07-04-2007, 10:49 PM

i can totally see where you're coming from, but the bigger picture is more positive than that. we know at this point that earth is going to go 4d positive, and that the 3d sts groups in question are losing their numbers and their control. we can see the cracks appearing all over in so many places, its just that the dam hasn't burst yet. dawn is coming, and each new dawn puts us that much closer to the inevitable (positive) outcome. :)

tom

LightEye

07-13-2007, 10:01 AM

dear friends,

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7149/full/448023a.html

be well, be love.

david

many lives in many worlds
max tegmark

in this universe, max tegmark is a physicist at the massachusetts institute of technology, cambridge, massachusetts, usa.

accepting quantum physics to be universally true, argues max tegmark, means that you should also believe in parallel universes.

almost all of my colleagues have an opinion about it, but almost none of them have read it. the first draft of hugh everett's phd thesis, the shortened official version of which celebrates its 50th birthday this year, is buried in the out-of-print book the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. i remember my excitement on finding it in a small berkeley book store back in grad school, and still view it as one of the most brilliant texts i've ever read.

by the time everett started his graduate work with john archibald wheeler at princeton university in new jersey quantum mechanics had chalked up stunning successes in explaining the atomic realm, yet debate raged on as to what its mathematical formalism really meant. i was fortunate to get to discuss quantum mechanics with wheeler during my postdoctorate years in princeton, but never had the chance to meet everett.

quantum mechanics specifies the state of the universe not in classical terms, such as the positions and velocities of all particles, but in terms of a mathematical object called a wavefunction. according to the schrödinger equation, this wavefunction evolves over time in a deterministic fashion that mathematicians term 'unitary'. although quantum mechanics is often described as inherently random and uncertain, there is nothing random or uncertain about the way the wavefunction evolves.

the sticky part is how to connect this wavefunction with what we observe. many legitimate wavefunctions correspond to counterintuitive situations, such as schrödinger's cat being dead and alive at the same time in a 'superposition' of states. in the 1920s, physicists explained away this weirdness by postulating that the wavefunction 'collapsed' into some random but definite classical outcome whenever someone made an observation. this add-on had the virtue of explaining observations, but rendered the theory incomplete, because there was no mathematics specifying what constituted an observation — that is, when the wavefunction was supposed to collapse.

Kinawe

07-13-2007, 01:03 PM

hello,

is anyone here familiar with lisa randall's work? i just caught a lecture she gave last year and am very excited about all that she discusses in the broadcast. i am no scientist but was encouraged by her conversion of terms to help the lay person in understanding the theory presented.

michelle

LightEye

07-14-2007, 09:11 AM

dear friends,

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12261-is-dark-energy-lurking-in-hidden-spatial-dimensions.html

be well, be love.

david

is dark energy lurking in hidden spatial dimensions?
17:36 13 july 2007
newscientist.com news service
stephen battersby

the mysterious cosmic presence called dark energy, which is accelerating the expansion of the universe, might be lurking in hidden dimensions of space. the idea would explain how these dimensions remain stable – a big problem for the unified scheme of physics called string theory.

ever since astronomers discovered in the mid-1990s that other galaxies are accelerating away from us, physicists have struggled to explain why. their favourite suggestion is quantum vibrations in the vacuum of space (called vacuum energy or the cosmological constant) that could produce repulsive gravity.

according to the calculations, however, these vibrations should either possess a ridiculously high energy density – 122 orders of magnitude larger than are observed – or cancel out to exactly zero. to make them almost-but-not-quite cancel, in agreement with astronomical observations, means fudging the quantum field equations.

unless, that is, the quantum vibrations are stuck in a small space. brian greene and janna levin of columbia university in new york, us, realised that in a confined space, natural resonant frequencies will stand out, preventing the vibrations from cancelling entirely. it's a little like the resonant notes produced by a musical instrument – except that instead of sound waves, the vibrations are fluctuating quantum force fields, and the instrument is a set of dimensions at right angles to familiar reality.

Chris Hamilton

07-15-2007, 09:05 AM

theories supporting or enhancing david wilcock's research.

LightEye

07-16-2007, 03:11 PM

dear friends,

http://ezinearticles.com/?conscious-particles,-fields-and-waves&id=546242

be well, be love.

david

intelligent particles

"in some strange way an electron or a photon [or any other elementary particle] seems to 'know' about changes in the environment and appears to respond accordingly," says physicist danah zohar.

a group at the weizmann institute in israel has done a variation of the famous "double-slit" experiment. they used electrons, instead of photons, and observed how the resultant interference pattern (which indicates wave-like properties of the particle) dissipated the longer you watched the electrons go through the slits. as a wave the electron passes through both slits simultaneously but if, according to e buks, it "senses" that it is being watched, the electron (as a particle) goes through only one path, diminishing the interference pattern. elementary particles (such as photons and electrons) appear to possess a certain degree of "intelligence" and awareness of the environment. renowned plasma and particle physicist, david bohm, says "in some sense a rudimentary mind-like quality is present even at the level of particle physics. as we go to subtler levels this mind-like quality becomes stronger and more developed."

consciousness appears to be as fundamental a property to elementary particles as properties that make it "matter" or a "physical force" (for example, mass, spin and charge). and just as mass, spin and charge differ from one particle to another; it is probable that different particles have different degrees of consciousness.

conditions for manifesting consciousness

bohm says that "a particle has a rich and complex inner structure which can respond to information and direct it's self-motion accordingly". this is more evident in more massive particles and condensates which behave as super particles. zohar says there is no reason to deny that any structure – biological or otherwise, that contained a (bose-einstein) condensate might possess the capacity for consciousness.

a single isolated particle would have some degree of consciousness (or awareness of the environment). however, low-energy and low-frequency elementary particles (as described currently in the physicists' "standard model") easily lose their property of consciousness when they become entangled with other particles and decoherence sets-in. this state is analogous to the state of a demagnetized metal object. although all the individual atoms are in a sense magnets, no magnetic fields are observed. however, once the atoms in the metal object become aligned with their north and south poles pointing in the same direction they begin to exhibit the property of magnetism.

in the same way, when groups of particles are in the same quantum state, i.e. when they are in a state of quantum coherence, the property of consciousness is exhibited. a state of an extremely low degree of consciousness (for practical purposes – no consciousness) is exhibited by inanimate matter at macroscopic scales in our highly decoherent low-energy classical universe.

hence, elementary particles will exhibit their intrinsic degree of consciousness when isolated or when a group of particles share the same quantum state. this means that bulk matter in a non-coherent state is effectively unconscious. the study of conscious particles is referred to as "quantum metaphysics" by this author.

LightEye

08-09-2007, 06:04 AM

dear friends,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/06/nlevitate106.xml&cmp=ilc-mostviewedbox

be well, be love.

david

physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation
by roger highfield, science editor
last updated: 1:41am bst 08/08/2007

levitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists.

in theory the discovery could be used to levitate a person
in earlier work the same team of theoretical physicists showed that invisibility cloaks are feasible.

now, in another report that sounds like it comes out of the pages of a harry potter book, the university of st andrews team has created an 'incredible levitation effects’ by engineering the force of nature which normally causes objects to stick together.

professor ulf leonhardt and dr thomas philbin, from the university of st andrews in scotland, have worked out a way of reversing this pheneomenon, known as the casimir force, so that it repels instead of attracts.

LightEye

08-09-2007, 06:11 AM

here's another link...

here's another link...

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/news/tm_headline=scientists-float-a-new-theory&method=full&objectid=19576475&siteid=66633-name_page.html

scientists float a new theory
by mike swain
two scientists believe a mysterious force of nature could make levitation possible.

but it won't mean people floating above the ground as they do in movies such as witchcraft thriller the craft.

instead, the st andrews university scientists hope it could lead to frictionless micro-machines with moving parts which levitate.

professor ulf leonhardt and dr thomas philbin have been investigating a natural phenomenon known as the casimir force.

the force will push together two objects placed very close to each other, such as a pair of mirrors.

Lorigga

08-13-2007, 11:27 AM

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/ns-hrf031407.php

seems some scientists developed a model for electrons within fqhe systems. this model suggests electrons within these systems are weaved together into a huge string-net with the string's primarily composed of more fundamental particles. i've only read the surface of david's atom and electron model but i just wanted to put this under the radar of people more in the know. just in case it hasn't been passed this way.

best,
lorenzo

ps love the community you guys have formed here!

alchemikey

08-15-2007, 12:48 PM

http://www.realitysandwich.com/music_quantum_lattice

"in the field of high-energy physics, a rapidly rising theory called "lattice quantum chromodynamics" (lattice qcd) proposes that an invisible, all-pervasive structure exists beneath atomic structure. as a long overdue replacement for the vacuous space-time continuum, we are now poised for a return to the ancient worldview of a musical universe described by pythagorean harmonic science."

peace,
mikey

Highwhistler

09-01-2007, 01:18 PM

in the news:

quantum light beams good for fast technology (http://www.uq.edu.au/news/?article=12788)

australian and french scientists have made another
breakthrough in the technology that will drive next generation
quantum computers, quantum cryptography and quantum
teleportation. the researchers have successfully superposed
light beams, which produces a state that appears to be both
on and off at once. the group has also proved a quantum
physics theory known as schrödinger's cat. this theory, named
after an austrian physicist erwin schrödinger, proposed that a
large object such as a cat could be simultaneously alive and
dead. a leader of the scientists, dr. jeong, said his group used
special lasers, crystals, photon detectors, half-mirrors and
other optical devices to generate and measure the super-
position of light beams. “using schrödinger cat states,
quantum teleportation may be performed with nearly
100 percent success probability.” their latest
breakthrough has been published
in the journal nature.

http://www.uq.edu.au/news/images/media/graph.jpg

LightEye

09-30-2007, 12:29 PM

dear friends,

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/09/the_quantum_dynamics_of_life.html#more

be well, be love.

david

the quantum dynamics of life

space is built out of its contents - roger y. gouin -

the 'ghost head nebula' is one of a chain of star-forming regions in the large magellanic cloud.
image: european space agency.

according to roger gouin, life manifests in the physical through quantum processes, but current theory and classical quantum formalism cannot account for the complex processes that determine the growth and operation of organisms. the quantum dynamics of life is a collection of essays written by gouin and amrit sorli. a few of amrit's articles on this site are linked below.

the aim of 'quantum dynamics' is to bridge the large gap between today's physics and a real understanding of the universe, which includes of course that-which-cannot-be-seen and that which we can't measure - life. the essays discuss time, the mind and conscious as well as rational experience, the assumptions of general relativity and active galactic nuclei as spacial sink-source systems that continuously re-cycle both space and matter.

in the second essay, "space and the basis of life" gouin, starting from his specialty which is biology, shows how the cell as a common manifestation of life is organized in a complex way that defies purely physical analysis. and the basis for cellular organization and duplication is not dna, as we might assume. before developing dna as a central molecule, cells duplicated with the help of a biological supramolecule called the centriole. he also introduces the concept of manipulation of the geometry of space by matter, particularly living matter. these concepts are further explained and expanded upon in an annex to quantum dynamics, which makes for lighter reading as the concepts are introduced in dialogue form and garnished with illustrations to help those of us who are conceptually impaired.

heck

10-09-2007, 11:43 AM

yeah... i can't wait for this to be censored, err i mean peer reviewed...

-heck

time dimension to become space-like
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/09/1544200

why our time dimension is about to become space-like
http://arxivblog.com/?p=71

is the accelerated expansion evidence of a forthcoming change of signature?
http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.0820

we show that regular changes of signature on brane-worlds in ads bulks may account for some types of the recently fashionable sudden singularities. therefore, the fact that the universe seems to approach a future sudden singularity at an accelerated rate of expansion might simply be an indication that our braneworld is about to change from lorentzian to euclidean signature. both the brane and the bulk remain fully regular everywhere. we present a model in which the weak and strong energy conditions hold on the brane, in contrast with the standard cosmologies leading to the analogous kinematical behaviour, with a diverging hubble factor.

[moderator note: for those of you (including me:) not familiar with what a 'brane' is, here is a quote that should make it as clear as mud: in theoretical physics, a brane or p-brane is a spatially extended, mathematical concept that appears in string theory and its relatives (m-theory and brane cosmology). the variable p refers to the spatial dimension of the brane. that is, a 0-brane is a zero-dimensional pointlike particle, a 1-brane is a string, a 2-brane is a "membrane", etc. every p-brane sweeps out a (p+1)-dimensional world volume as it propagates through spacetime.]

LightEye

10-10-2007, 11:41 PM

dear friends,

http://physorg.com/news111249257.html

be well, be love.

david

new-school 'aether' may shed light on neutron stars
by laura mgrdichian

among scientists, it is widely believed that there is no such thing as an aether – a medium pervading all space that allows light waves to propagate, similar to how sound needs air or water – but a part of its spirit may live on. a group of university of maryland (um) physicists have proposed a modern spin on the aether of old and have used it to make new predictions about the behavior of neutron stars.

physicists once thought light waves propagated in a special medium, the “luminiferous aether.” this implied that the speed of light would depend on the reference frame of the observer, but experiments performed at the turn of the 20th century established that light in a vacuum always travels at the same speed, independent of the reference frame. maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light, together with einstein's discovery of special relativity, provided the explanation: there is no such aether, and all reference frames are equivalent.

the um group proposes, however, that an aether concept may still have a place in physics: not representing a medium for light waves, but a universal preferred frame of reference that is physical in nature. as such – although the new aether retains the spirit of the old – there are few similarities between the two.

Larry Seyer

10-10-2007, 11:59 PM

this is a weird one but actually makes sense if you put some of the data the david has been researching into planetary energies with this...

why our time dimension is about to become space-like

it don’t get much weirder than this. the universe is about to lose its dimension of time says a group of theoretical astrobods at the university of salamanca in spain. and they got the evidence to prove it.

http://arxivblog.com/?p=71

very strange indeed!

larry

LightEye

10-11-2007, 12:39 AM

dear friends,

the link larry posted didn't work for me. here's a better link.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.0820

be well, be love.

david

is the accelerated expansion evidence of a forthcoming change of signature?
authors: marc mars, josé m. m. senovilla, raül vera
(submitted on 3 oct 2007)

abstract: we show that regular changes of signature on brane-worlds in ads bulks may account for some types of the recently fashionable sudden singularities. therefore, the fact that the universe seems to approach a future sudden singularity at an accelerated rate of expansion might simply be an indication that our braneworld is about to change from lorentzian to euclidean signature. both the brane and the bulk remain fully regular everywhere. we present a model in which the weak and strong energy conditions hold on the brane, in contrast with the standard cosmologies leading to the analogous kinematical behaviour, with a diverging hubble factor.

LightEye

10-11-2007, 10:56 AM

dear friends,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=details&grid=&xml=/earth/2007/10/10/scitime110.xml

be well, be love.

david

are we missing a dimension of time?
last updated: 6:01pm bst 10/10/2007

could "hypertime" help develop a theory of everything? roger highfield reports

a scientist has put forward the bizarre suggestion that there are two dimensions of time, not the one that we are all familiar with, and even proposed a way to test his heretical idea next year.

time is no longer a simple line from the past to the future, in a four dimensional world consisting of three dimensions of space and one of time. instead, the physicist envisages the passage of history as curves embedded in a six dimensionals, with four of space and two of time.

advertisement"there isn't just one dimension of time," itzhak bars of the university of southern california in los angeles tells new scientist. "there are two. one whole dimension of time and another of space have until now gone entirely unnoticed by us."

bars claims his theory of "two time physics", which he has developed over more than a decade, can help solve problems with current theories of the cosmos and, crucially, has true predictive power that can be tested in a forthcoming particle physics experiment.

if it is confirmed, it could point the way to a "theory of everything" that unites all the physical laws of the universe into one, notably general relativity that governs gravity and the large scale structure of the universe, and quantum theory that rules the subatomic world.

in the quest for that all embracing theory, scientists have been adding extra dimensions of space to their equations for decades. as early as the 1920s, mathematicians found that moving up to four dimensions of space, instead of the three we experience, helped in their quest to reconcile theories of electromagnetism and gravity.

today, theoreticians are studying a theory of everything called m-theory that adds yet another dimension, taking the total to 11: 10 of space and one of time.

until now, they have been reluctant to meddle with time because it can lead to unexpected consequences, such as time travel.

LightEye

11-13-2007, 10:18 AM

dear friends,

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=111062

be well, be love.

david

plasma life forms
column: plasma metaphysics
posted on monday, 12 november, 2007 | 3:57

jay alfred: life-like qualities of plasma: bohm, a leading expert in twentieth century plasma physics, observed in amazement that once electrons were in plasma, they stopped behaving like individuals and started behaving as if they were a part of a larger and interconnected whole. although the individual movements of each electron appeared to be random, vast numbers of electrons were able to produce collective effects that were surprisingly well organized and appeared to behave like a life form. the plasma constantly regenerated itself and enclosed impurities in a wall in the same way that a biological organism, like the unicellular amoeba, might encase a foreign substance in a cyst. so amazed was bohm by these life-like qualities that he later remarked that he frequently had the impression that the electron sea was "alive" and that plasma possessed some of the traits of living things. the debate on the existence of plasma-based life forms has been going on for more than 20 years ever since some models showed that plasma can mimic the functions of a primitive cell.

plasma cosmologist, donald scott, notes that "...a [plasma] double layer can act much like a membrane that divides a biological cell". a model of plasma double layers (a structure commonly found in complex plasmas) has been used to investigate ion transport across biological cell membranes by researchers (see american journal of physics, may 2000, volume 68, issue 5, pp. 450-455). researchers noted that "concepts like charge neutrality, debye length, and double layer [used in plasma physics] are very useful to explain the electrical properties of a cellular membrane". plasma physicist hannes alfvén also noted the association of double layers with cellular structure, as had irving langmuir before him, who coined the term "plasma" after its resemblance to living blood cells.

david brin's sundiver also speculated on plasma life forms. this science fiction proposed a form of life existing within the plasma atmosphere of a star using complex self-sustaining magnetic fields. similar types of plasmoid life have been proposed to exist in other places, such as planetary ionospheres or interstellar space. gregory benford had a form of plasma-based life exist in the accretion disk of a primordial black hole in his novel eater.

LightEye

11-16-2007, 10:57 AM

dear friends,

http://www.oddee.com/item_91567.aspx

be well, be love.

david

the 4 most compelling theories of everything
published on yesterday 11/15/2007

a theory of everything (toe) is a hypothetical theory of theoretical physics that fully explains and links together all known physical phenomena. there have been numerous theories of everything proposed by theoretical physicists over the last century, but as yet none has been able to stand up to experimental scrutiny, there being tremendous difficulty in getting the theories to produce experimentally testable results. so here are the top 4 most important theories of everything nowdays:

Jasper

11-16-2007, 01:47 PM

theories come and go, but one thing we cannot deny is that our perception of reality presents itself to us via our main senses. this perception can be cloaked through various means. eventually the truth will out, and we will come closer to the source. the creator knows when this should occur, and it is on an individual basis.

'there are only two ways to live your life. one, is as though there are no miracles. the other is as though everything is a miracle.' albert einstein
(hairy bloke who knew more than he was allowed to impart)

LightEye

12-08-2007, 12:03 PM

dear friends,

http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/in-no-time/

be well, be love.

david

newsflash: time may not exist
not to mention the question of which way it goes...
by tim folger

no one keeps track of time better than ferenc krausz. in his lab at the max planck institute of quantum optics in garching, germany, he has clocked the shortest time intervals ever observed. krausz uses ultraviolet laser pulses to track the absurdly brief quantum leaps of electrons within atoms. the events he probes last for about 100 attoseconds, or 100 quintillionths of a second. for a little perspective, 100 attoseconds is to one second as a second is to 300 million years.

but even krausz works far from the frontier of time. there is a temporal realm called the planck scale, where even attoseconds drag by like eons. it marks the edge of known physics, a region where distances and intervals are so short that the very concepts of time and space start to break down. planck time—the smallest unit of time that has any physical meaning—is 10-43 second, less than a trillionth of a trillionth of an attosecond. beyond that? tempus incognito. at least for now.

efforts to understand time below the planck scale have led to an exceedingly strange juncture in physics. the problem, in brief, is that time may not exist at the most fundamental level of physical reality. if so, then what is time? and why is it so obviously and tyrannically omnipresent in our own experience? “the meaning of time has become terribly problematic in contemporary physics,” says simon saunders, a philosopher of physics at the university of oxford. “the situation is so uncomfortable that by far the best thing to do is declare oneself an agnostic.”

LightEye

12-09-2007, 11:01 AM

dear friends,

here's the latest from rch and dw.

http://www.enterprisemission.com/sensor.htm

be well, be love.

david

nasa will never solve the shuttle “eco sensor problem” … alone
by richard c. hoagland
with david wilcock

© 2007 the enterprise mission

sunday, december 9, 2007

today, a second launch attempt will be made to get space shuttle “atlantis” off the pad successfully in this december window. regardless of how this turns out, it’s now obvious that the nasa shuttle program will continue grappling with the hydrogen tank "engine cutoff sensor (eco) problem."

this has now been going on for over two and a half years after the nasa engineers had thought they’d fixed it! the now-admitted "failure and frustration" over this recurring shuttle problem among nasa’s senior management is palpable.

this perplexing problem initially appeared just a few months prior to the sts-114 launch of space shuttle “discovery,” back in 2005, and its important “return to flight” mission for the previously grounded shuttle program. sts-114 was also the first flight of the shuttle following the tragic columbia disaster of sts-107, in february, 2003.

like the current sensor problems we are experiencing with “atlantis,” this initial “anomaly” for “discovery’ was signaled by erroneous electrical readings... coming from a set of four “engine cutoff sensors,” located at the bottom of (and inside) the enormous orange fuel tank of the shuttle (below).

LightEye

12-09-2007, 12:02 PM

dear friends,

you just have to like this guy...

visions of the future -part i
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdfwpa-iyni

visions of the future 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsg5qenb4fy&feature=related

visions of the future 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-e2n0f1l8s&feature=related

visions of the future 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yorthdojgq&feature=related

visions of the future 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl1hmot4zj0&feature=related

visions of the future 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramjrn4epmm&feature=related

be well, be love.

david

LightEye

12-21-2007, 03:11 PM

dear friends,

http://everythingforever.com/st_order.htm

be well, be love.

david

part one
the extreme physics that shape reality
the cosmic absolutes of alpha and omega

if we could visually see the timeless realm of possibilities that exists around us we would quickly realize there is a vast unchanging architecture, immense and monumental beyond description, a world that is completely hidden from this world we know. and yet this other realm is actively shaping what is probable and possible for us in time. the american physicist john wheeler referred to the realm of possibilities as superspace, and the english theoretical physicist julian barbour named the same realm platonia. scientists in different fields generally refer to possibilities as state space, phase space, or configuration space.

the large-scale realm of possibilities shapes and governs our universe by producing probabilities, which we face everywhere we turn. occasionally we hear the odds of winning the lottery, the chance of an earth-quake, or a meteorite striking the earth. we hear of our chance of being in a car wreck compared to that of airplane crashes. by the time we reach adulthood we are all at least vaguely aware of the range of possible events in our lives, beginning with the more probable and ending with the highly improbable to absolutely impossible. in addition to all the ordinary and predictable events, like the sun rising in the morning, there is each day also a chance of something extraordinary happening.

of course there is also the impossible. we can't win the lottery if we don't buy a ticket. we can’t walk through walls. we can’t be in two places at once. we can’t travel faster than the speed of light, and i have yet to meet anyone who can defy gravity and fly like superman. the impossible is real, which is why we commonly fight against it and challenge it. but on the positive side, this same boundary keeps objects from materializing out of thin air in front of our cars and it keeps monsters from materializing under our beds at night. it is often said that anything is possible, but if that were really true, if there wasn’t the strictly impossible, then there wouldn’t be an ordinary or the comfortable, there wouldn’t be the unlikely or the highly improbable. without the impossible anything could happen and would happen. and so nothing in the universe would be highly dependable or predictable or consistent.

for some time now, scientists have known that just beyond the surface of the seemingly hard physical world, the individual particles that create atoms vanish into and then reemerge from an invisible realm of possibilities in a constant process of becoming and unbecoming. beyond our vision, most of what we assume to be solidly real is really an invisible entanglement of many options and alternative worlds. we call the process of moving in and out of the larger realm of possibilities quantum mechanics. all the particles of light that create a mental picture of the world in your mind have only just emerged from a superposition of possible worlds.

we live in a universe governed, shaped, and ruled by possibilities and probabilities so it would be helpful if we had a map of all the possibilities. it would be helpful to be able to see the all bends and curves, the contours of potential, to know what lies up ahead, what lies around the corner, and to know the best path to take. it would be helpful to understand the shape of all possibilities well enough to answer profound but basic questions, such as, why does the possible realm place such limits on what happens in time? why does it allow such wonder? why is the probable world so beautiful and exquisitely systematic and orderly, rather than pure chaos? where are probabilities guiding us? what is certain in the future, if anything?

the theme "learning to see timelessness" is all about learning to see the possible realm, which includes learning that there is a discernable shape to the whole of possibilities which can be modeled and understood. to learn to clearly see timelessness we first must learn how modern science today models possibilities with what is called the second law of thermodynamics, which sounds like a specific law about temperature, but it is actually a very rudimentary law meant to explain why the universe evolves and changes as it does.

heck

12-27-2007, 09:57 PM

absolute hot by peter tyson
is there an opposite to absolute zero?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/hot.html

whatever the highest temperature is, it might be essentially equivalent to the coldest temperature.

in conventional physics—that is, the kind that relies on einstein's theory of general relativity to describe the very large and quantum mechanics to describe the very small—the planck temperature was reached 10-43 seconds after the big bang got under way. at that instant, known as one planck time, the entire universe is thought to have been the planck length, or 10-35 meters. (in physics, max planck is the king of the eponymous.) an awfully high temperature in an awfully small space in an awfully short time after … well, after what? that's arguably an even bigger question—how did the universe begin?—and we won't go there.
a brick wall

the planck temperature is the highest temperature in conventional physics because conventional physics breaks down at that temperature. above 1032 k—that is, earlier than one planck time—calculations show that strange things, unknown things, begin to happen to phenomena we hold near and dear, like space and time. theory predicts that particle energies become so large that the gravitational forces between them become as strong as any other forces. that is, gravity and the other three fundamental forces of the universe—electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces—become a single unified force (emphasis added). knowing how that happens, the so-called "theory of everything," is the holy grail of theoretical physics today.

LightEye

01-04-2008, 10:32 AM

dear friends,

http://www.mkaku.org/articles/hyperspace_odyssey.php

be well, be love.

david

hyperspace: a scientific odyssey
a look at the higher dimensions
by michio kaku

do higher dimensions exist? are there unseen worlds just beyond our reach, beyond the normal laws of physics? although higher dimensions have historically been the exclusive realm of charlatans, mystics, and science fiction writers, many serious theoretical physicists now believe that higher dimensions not only exist, but may also explain some of the deepest secrets of nature. although we stress that there is at present no experimental evidence for higher dimensions, in principle they may solve the ultimate problem in physics: the final unification of all physical knowledge at the fundamental level.

my own fascination with higher dimensions began early in childhood. one of my happiest childhood memories was crouching next to the pond at the famed japanese tea garden in san francisco, mesmerized by the brilliantly colored carp swimming slowly beneath the water lilies. in these quiet moments, i would ask myself a silly question that a only child might ask: how would the carp in that pond view the world around them? spending their entire lives at the bottom of the pond, the carp would believe that their “universe” consisted of the water and the lilies; they would only be dimly aware that an alien world could exist just above the surface. my world was beyond their comprehension. i was intrigued that i could sit only a few inches from the carp, yet we were separated by an immense chasm. i concluded that if there were any “scientists” among the carp, they would scoff at any fish who proposed that a parallel world could exist just above the lilies. an unseen world beyond the pond made no scientific sense. once i imagined what would happen if i reached down and suddenly grabbed one of the carp “scientists” out of the pond. i wondered, how would this appear to the carp? the startled carp “scientist” would tell a truly amazing story, being somehow lifted out of the universe (the pond) and hurled into a mysterious nether world, another dimension with blinding lights and strange-shaped objects that no carp had ever seen before. the strangest of all was the massive creature responsible for this outrage, who did not resemble a fish in the slightest. shockingly, it had no fins whatsoever, but nevertheless could move without them. obviously, the familiar laws of physics no longer applied in this nether world!

LightEye

01-25-2008, 11:22 AM

dear friends,

http://www.ezinearticles.com/?plasma-life-forms---aliens-from-a-parallel-earth&id=930980

be well, be love.

david

plasma life forms - aliens from a parallel earth
by jay alfred

the basic plasma metaphysics theory in 3+1 dimensions

according to plasma metaphysics (jay alfred, our invisible bodies, 2006), the physical-dense earth is gravitationally coupled to a counterpart dark matter earth composed of low density plasma. this "sister" earth was co-accreted with the physical-dense earth about 4.6 billion years ago from dark matter components in the embryonic solar system. plaasm life form evolved on this counterpart earth, just like it did on the visible planet. these life forms were as varied in scale, structure and intelligence as carbon-based life forms - as different as a microbe from a whale; a mosquito from a tiger; a giraffe from a crocodile; an ant from a human being. their degrees of intelligence and awareness were as different as a centipede's awareness to the awareness and intelligence of homo sapiens. homo sapiens evolved carbon-based bodies that formed symbiotic relationships with some of these plasma life forms (indicating a type of symbio-genesis). some of these plasma life forms have interacted with us in the past (intentionally or unintentionally).

the entities that we have identified as ghosts, angels, demons, deities (for example the marian apparitions in the atmosphere), aliens (associated with ufo sightings in the atmosphere), fairies and sightings of the recently deceased (on the surface of the earth) are all plasma life forms from this counterpart earth.

LightEye

01-26-2008, 12:44 PM

dear friends,

http://treeincarnation.com/articles/spin-of-space.htm

be well, be love.

david

spin of space

observing the observation

the current quantum scientific interpretation of the properties of an electron show that a 720° rotation is required in order to observe the electron making one complete cycle. whereas in 'normal' space 360° is one complete rotation. but we will show, that this seeming curiousity is nothing more than the result of a misinterpretation of the very nature of space.

the anomalous 720° property of quantum systems seems to tell us that the behavior of the 'quantum world' differs from that of our everyday experience. but, however counter-intuitive it might seem, this 720° rotation is a phenomena which we too can experience.on a 'macroscopic' scale. you can test this out for yourself!

first you will need to be able to spin freely on the spot, you could be standing or sitting. to do this you could use a swivel chair. then, while standing/sitting and facing a particular direction, make one full rotation of yourself - either clockwise or anti-clockwise. now, something very odd has just happened. it seemed like you made one rotation, but believe it or not, two simultaneous counter rotations have just occurred!

don't believe it ? well, seeing is believing. so,.... what did you see?

the effect which you saw with your own eyes and the effect which is observed from some outside frame of reference were not the same. there are two rotational perspectives! one the inverse of the other!

let's say that you start off facing 12 o'clock and begin to rotate clockwise. as you see it from your perspective, the landscape around you is moving opposite to the direction in which you intended your body to move. from your perspective, the landscape is moving from right to left, i.e. counter-clockwise. but why is it that, at the same time, you somehow 'know' that you are 'really' moving from left to right i.e. clockwise ?

in effect, you have accepted that you are moving with respect to your surroundings. we tend to think that this external fame of reference is more true than what our eyes are telling us. but perhaps not! maybe this is a misconception. perhaps both reference frames are equally true, and furthermore, perhaps neither one can exist independently!

drawing on the points raised in this simple experiment, we can now begin to re-interpet the properties of space. let's explore how we can model these complimentary rotational properties, by examining simple spherical rotations.

pyramidnj

01-27-2008, 05:28 AM

dear all,

as i read this message, i am reminded of our dear einstein's statement, paraphrased, that nothing is never as it seems. as we equip our human selves to process more subtle streams of information through diverse methods and evolutionary abilities, our perspective changes and we become increasingly aware of what did not seem to "exist" in our 3d reality, right? this is common sense.

one of the techniques recommended by our "other dimensional" sisters and brothers is that we read voraciously, from diverse fields of interest, to expand our vocabularies as much as possible. the more information we can understand and process, the more information of higher dimensional origin will be made accessible to us. one of the major communication problems between "them" and us is, on the average, our very limited vocabularies which contribute to hindrances in our thinking and perceiving outside the worn out box.

i am not a "groupie" type, but risk sounding like one now when i commend david again for sharing with us and giving us access to a broad range of information ranging an interesting spectrum of complexity and diversity. whether intentionally done or not, this is excellent preparation for expanding our capacity to receive and perceive higher dimensional information and to function increasingly as galactic citizens.

there is much more to active forum engagement herein through reading and discussion than meets the eye...read, even though you may comprehend zilch. look up words and concepts that you do not understand. ask questions here....we are blessed with a network of brilliant individuals who understand that knowledge is to be shared generously rather than "hogged" for oneself....we are an amazing family here, so open yourselves to learning as much as possible through this forum, for you are preparing to make the next leap in consciousness by stimulating your curiosity and expanding your language and concept absorption and digestion.

love, peace and light to all! :)
jo anne

LightEye

02-04-2008, 11:11 AM

dear friends,

nice from nassim.

be well, be love.

david

crossing the event horizon

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2014940366330196351&q=crossing+the+event+horizon&total=29&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

and if you have the time this;

nassim haramein, "crossing the event horizon," part 1

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6151699791256390335&q=crossing+the+event+horizon&total=29&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3

if you are not yet familiar with nassim haramein's exciting work, prepare yourself for an exhilarating odyssey into hyperspace and beyond. haramein, who has spent his lifetime researching fields of physics from quantum theory to relativistic equations and cosmology, will lead you along a fascinating discussion geared to a layman's understanding of the fundamental nature of the universe and creation that includes black holes, gravitational forces, dimensions, and the very structure of space itself - all of which are integral parts of his now-complete unified field theory. haramein's theory is currently in peer review process for publication in physics journals; however, the presentation does not end with the introduction of his theory alone, but includes the discussion of the path that he took to arrive at his views, which weaves between the texts and monuments of ancient civilizations, biology, chemistry and the primordial role of consciousness - all of which lend further credence to the science behind the theory.

music=geometry

02-05-2008, 07:31 AM

great post and movie and the time... well that's just fitting :)

DAB

02-05-2008, 05:21 PM

thank you lighteye...great material! great personality!

gotta love it! : )

Jacob

02-07-2008, 10:31 AM

lighteye,

thanks so much. i dug this so much i bought the 4 dvd set! :d gonna watch it with my mrs!! :cool:

LightEye

02-19-2008, 11:13 AM

dear friends,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=details&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/02/19/scitime119.xml

be well, be love.

david

the new theories that are killing time
last updated: 12:01am gmt 19/02/2008page 1 of 3

physicists are getting wound up in their attempts to find out what makes the universe tick, says roger highfield

we all have a sense that time is flowing. we link it with change, decay and death, and mark its passing with birthdays and anniversaries. but now time could be running out - for the very concept of time itself.

traditionally, physicists have dismissed those who think about time too much. albert einstein, impatient with philosophical hand-wringing, once said that time is "what you measure with a clock".

traditionally, physicists have dismissed those who think about time too much
but many scientists feel that an overhaul of what we mean by "time" could lead to the next great leap forward in physics.

in the past few months some tantalising, and mind-boggling, ideas have emerged: that there should be two dimensions of time, not one; that time could grind to a halt in a few billion years; or, most radical of all, that time does not even exist.

despite this recent flurry of activity, the trouble with time dates back much further, to 1905, when einstein was an obscure patent officer.

before his extraordinary work, scientists such as sir isaac newton had viewed time as "absolute", meaning that clocks ticked at the same rate throughout the universe.

Loungin

02-22-2008, 09:59 AM

i find time to be a facinating event. i have a very anylitical mind but little knowledge on this subject; i am beggining to tackle this concept.

i found dr. quantum's video on the flatlanders to be eye opening. this video can be found on youtube with ease. i then watched a video regarding "the 10th dimension" which tried to describe in simple 'point to line to curve' dynamics, how each dimension might work. time was used as the variable for the 4th dimension.

in the example from dr. quantum, the flatlanders who lived in 2d, had no concept of the z axis, or height which gives the 3d it's shape. if we hypothesise that in 4d, time is what gives the dimension it's "shape", then it would be as equally hard for us to grasp 4d time as it would be for the flatlanders to grasp 3d height.

weboy78

02-27-2008, 12:04 AM

electron in movement, video

http://www.livescience.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=080222-electronride

an electron rides on a light wave after just having been pulled away from an atom. credit: lund university

Bill

02-27-2008, 07:38 AM

weboy78

02-27-2008, 01:30 PM

weboy,

took a look at the video, and not sure what it was i was looking at. are the rings the different energy level, or energy states of the electron? is this showing the electron as a collection of energy (which might be considered a particle) that also happens to be part of a wave, thus the up and down motion?

i would like to see how they were able to video this... can't help it, it is the engineer in me.:)

the article :

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23336318/

it's all a wave, an illusion ;)

electron filmed in motion for the first time
technique use short pulses of light called attosecond pulses

scientists have filmed an electron in motion for the first time, using a new technique that will allow researchers to study the tiny particle's movements directly.

previously it was impossible to photograph electrons because of their extreme speediness, so scientists had to rely on more indirect methods. these methods could only measure the effect of an electron's movement, whereas the new technique can capture the entire event.

extremely short flashes of light are necessary to capture an electron in motion. a technology developed within the last few years can generate short pulses of intense laser light, called attosecond pulses, to get the job done.

LightEye

02-28-2008, 11:11 AM

dear friends,

we are all one - there is no seperation... ;-) great stuff from lynn...

be well, be love.

david

part i
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tnktydbrsq

part ii
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zobplakyeee&feature=related

solisrex

03-01-2008, 12:28 AM

more on the electron video
http://www.rstheory.com/www/content/taking-closer-look

yesterday i commented on what seems to me to be a milestone event in physics, the announcement of the development of a quantum stroboscope that can be used to study the motion of electrons. in the work, published in physical review letters a day or two ago, by a team of swedish scientists at lund university, identical attosecond pulses are used to release electrons into a strong infrared laser field exactly once per laser cycle.

the promise of this work for differentiating between the lst-based model of the physical structure of the atom, as a nucleus of protons and neutrons, surrounded by a cloud of circling electrons at different energy levels, and the rst-based model, as a combination of multi-dimensional rotations of a scalar vibration, is no doubt highly significant.

here is the link to lund university site
http://www.atto.fysik.lth.se/

solisrex

03-01-2008, 07:41 AM

from david's article "is your dna a quantum computer?"

atoms cannot be made of electrons orbiting a nucleus.
instead, what we now call ‘electrons’ simply represent the flow of hyper-dimensional energy coming in, from the ‘parallel reality’ we spoke of, to create the atom — moment by moment.
electrons look like particles to us because on the hyper-dimensional side, they are flowing in as a wave.

litllady

03-21-2008, 08:46 AM

hello to all,

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/20mar_spring.htm

"the satellites have detected magnetic 'ropes' connecting earth's upper atmosphere directly to the sun," says dave sibeck, project scientist for the mission at the goddard space flight center. "we believe that solar wind particles flow in along these ropes, providing energy for geomagnetic storms and auroras."

interesting read when you think of these things that nasa is calling 'magnetic ropes' could relate to the string theory.

thinking about the northern lights, i recall a movie (cant remember exactly what movie) where the actors were trying to surpass a bunch of lasers that were invisible in a particular room. they threw dust or something in the room and the invisible lasers lit up so they could see them and not touch them. so then i think of a 'certain' dust that seems to make the northern lights 'glow'. something in the air that is 'showing us' our earth is connected with the sun. something in the air that is showing us our 'strings'.

i also recall a book i read-'the dark materials'. a part of this book was the story of the 'golden compass'. it was all about the importance of 'dust' and the northern lights. it was a great fantasy read. i read that the author of the book was a atheist. i dont find this to be so for it seemed to be spiritual to me. it did seem to debunk the organizations of religion though.

peace to all,
lynette

billybobbutterball

03-24-2008, 10:58 PM

hi lynette

just jumping in. there is a controversy concerning the structure of the universe ...an alternative to the classical is the electrical theory of the cosmos. see:

nhttp://www.redicecreations.com/news/2005/04apr/electricsun.html

this theory has a lot to back it up, and explains more fully the nature and connection between heavenly bodies...craters, furrows and such are largely the product of humungus electrical strikes

i think that the magnetic "ropes" mentioned have only a rough connection with string theory in that one can imagine ropes and strings as belonging to the same order. but the so-called "strings" of string theory are so teeny weenie infinitesimal one can hardly imagine one end from the other, much less where the middle is. :)

and, yeah, i can remember several movies using the smoke/particle disclosure method of finding laser beams.

best, bbb

hello to all,

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/20mar_spring.htm

"the satellites have detected magnetic 'ropes' connecting earth's upper atmosphere directly to the sun," says dave sibeck, project scientist for the mission at the goddard space flight center. "we believe that solar wind particles flow in along these ropes, providing energy for geomagnetic storms and auroras."

interesting read when you think of these things that nasa is calling 'magnetic ropes' could relate to the string theory.

thinking about the northern lights, i recall a movie (cant remember exactly what movie) where the actors were trying to surpass a bunch of lasers that were invisible in a particular room. they threw dust or something in the room and the invisible lasers lit up so they could see them and not touch them. so then i think of a 'certain' dust that seems to make the northern lights 'glow'. something in the air that is 'showing us' our earth is connected with the sun. something in the air that is showing us our 'strings'.

i also recall a book i read-'the dark materials'. a part of this book was the story of the 'golden compass'. it was all about the importance of 'dust' and the northern lights. it was a great fantasy read. i read that the author of the book was a atheist. i dont find this to be so for it seemed to be spiritual to me. it did seem to debunk the organizations of religion though.

peace to all,
lynette

weboy78

04-12-2008, 05:08 AM

i don't know if david know this, but it's very important..

http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0770

an exceptionally simple theory of everything

all fields of the standard model and gravity are unified as an e8 principal bundle connection. a non-compact real form of the e8 lie algebra has g2 and f4 subalgebras which break down to strong su(3), electroweak su(2) x u(1), gravitational so(3,1), the frame-higgs, and three generations of fermions related by triality. the interactions and dynamics of these 1-form and grassmann valued parts of an e8 superconnection are described by the curvature and action over a four dimensional base manifold.

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http://sifter.org/~aglisi/

garrett lisi

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http://it.youtube.com/results?search_query=garret+lisi&search_type=

weboy78

04-12-2008, 06:43 AM

hey guys i suggest to search something about pierluigi ighina, he was a collaborator of marconi.

there is something
http://www.google.it/search?q=pierluigi+ighina+the+magnetic+atom+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:it:official&client=firefox-a

he spoke about the sun like a hole from where come energy in our dimension, about the fact that the planets don't move but is the light that move and make an illusion etc..

LightEye

04-16-2008, 11:47 AM

dear friends,

don't worry so much about the math, lots of it's above me, just try to understand what tom's trying to convey...

http://montalk.net/notes/astral-physics

be well, be love.

david

astral physics and timespace

04/15/2008
can the etheric and astral planes can be understood from the viewpoint of physics? what is the mathematical relationship between these and the physical realm? to take a shot at these questions, we must examine what physics says of the physical and see if that can be mathematically extended to produce predictions matching anecdotal observations of the etheric and astral.

to clear up semantic confusion, “etheric” can refer to either of two things: first is the “etheric realm” of occultism which is a luminescent mirror world interpenetrating the physical, and second is the “ether” of archaic science which is the medium in which everything exists. perhaps the two are identical, but for this article i will be referring to the “etheric realm” of occultism since that is where we have empirical data.

etheric realm

what is the etheric? minerals, plants, animals, and people have physical bodies, but what makes them alive is something beyond the physical. without that extra factor, entropy would cause disintegration of the physical as happens after death. tracing the physical processes of the body down to the smallest scales brings us into the quantum domain. processes that seem mechanical and predictable on the large scale have their origins in quantum jumps that are neither predictable by physical science nor controllable by physical means.

so that extra factor is something that biases these quantum jumps at the small scale to offset the forces of entropy at the large scale. this is the etheric body, a subtle energy body interpenetrating the physical and shaping the quantum processes that give rise to its biological activities. in other words, the etheric body is an energy template that biases the probability of acausal biological events to produce ordered and intelligent life. it is a formative field made of coarse lifeforce energy. using the terminology of chaos theory, it is an attractor field (a structured field made of strange attractors).

since the physical body resides in a physical environment, the etheric body must reside in an etheric environment. and just as a physical body can exist without an etheric (as is the case with a corpse) so can the etheric exist without the physical. this means etheric lifeforms may exist around us who, because they lack physical bodies, are imperceptible to our physical senses.

occult perception (known as second sight) lets one view the local etheric environment. for beginners this requires entering a trance state in between sleeping and waking, where the mind is decoupled from linear time and mechanized thoughts. it happens naturally in hypnagogic and hypnopompic states while going to sleep and waking up, although advanced occultists and shamans can switch into this while walking around and talking.

in this state, one can observe etheric lifeforms, the etheric field around living things, and also etheric thoughtforms which are produced by mental/emotional energy cast off by people throughout the day that continue in the ether like eddies in water until running out of energy and fading.

LightEye

04-21-2008, 11:22 AM

dear friends,

more interesting info from dr. paul laviolette...it's all about those waves... ;-)

http://www.etheric.com/laviolettebooks/ether.html

be well, be love.

david

subquantum kinetics
(a nontechnical summary)

subquantum kinetics is a novel microphysics paradigm that incorporates concepts developed in the fields of system theory and nonequilibrium thermodynamics. one of its distinctive features is that it begins at the subquantum level for its point of departure. by comparison, conventional physics and most alternative physics theories begin with mathematically quantified observations of physical phenomena at the quantum and macrophysical level and attempt to deduce physical theories based on those observations. since the conventional approach must take into account numerous experimental observations, the end result is a fragmented and often contradictory set of theories which must later be sewn together with mathematical acrobatics. such "unified field theories" more closely resemble a patchwork quilt than a contiguous fabric.
.
in choosing an adequate model to represent subquantum process, subquantum kinetics turns to the macroscopic natural world, to theories describing how certain reaction systems spontaneously evolve well-ordered wave patterns. this self-organization phenomenon, for example, is seen in the belousov-zhabotinskii reaction, a chemical reaction first discovered in 1958. slowly moving concentration fronts called chemical waves, or "reaction-diffusion waves," can be discerned when a dye indicator is added to this reacting solution.

AllyKat

04-21-2008, 07:32 PM

physicist nassim haramein has some mind blowing theories. his unified perspective on the universe includes sacred geometry as well as torque and coriolis effect to bring us to understand the fractal nature of the universe. his website provides scientific as well as laymen explanations of his work

http://www.theresonanceproject.org/

LightEye

05-01-2008, 01:13 PM

dear friends,

http://spiritofmaat.com/may08/home_lessons_from_modern_physics.html

be well, be love.

david

take home lessons from modern physics
by bruce rawles

this article was excerpted and adapted from the upcoming book, "the geometry code: symbolic wisdom of natural laws within us" by bruce rawles, available soon from elysian publishing.

"we do not see things as they are.
we see them as we are." — the talmud

the usefulness of reminders

in our heart of hearts, in the deepest depths of our souls, we all would probably acknowledge that:

we're all part of the ineffable one, the creator, the all, we're all part of each other, inextricably intertwined, the essence of the unity we share is beyond words, but reflects in experiences and expressions such as loving kindness, compassion, forgiveness, transcendence, joy, serenity and lots of other fun adjectives too numerous to mention,
we're already "home" and we're just procrastinating the happily inevitable return to this awareness, where duality, separation and all the stuff generally regarded as negative doesn't even register, let alone matter, our finite, egoic selves are the "ones" doing the procrastinating, by blaming "others" (and our "selves" in the limited sense), yet meanwhile, our real, transpersonal selves, smile in amusement, knowing that it's all part of divine order, the cosmic plan, or whatever we want to call it, and ultimately, we'll wake up from our nightmares and even from happy dreams into what never changes … bliss beyond comprehension of our wildest fantasies from finite vantage points.

so, in a sense, we don't really need any reminders, if we just (always) allow our internal guidance, our metapersonal, omniscient inner voice to direct us, out of the fog of our little space-time dramas and cares, to what we've all known all along…

ok, that's all true, yet sometimes it's handy (not as a crutch mind you, but perhaps as training wheels — a better metaphor) to have some little mnemonic aids here in this world to keep us from pulling the wool over our own inner vision — with the proviso that as we practice with some memory devices, we realize that they are not what is important. what is important is the thought system, the transpersonal awareness that they merely reflect (seen with an all-encompassing perspective) what we truly are and how the universe truly is … mirrors! what is important is the presence and quality of being that we bring to every moment, which leads us out of the haze into the clarity of remembering.

our inner celestial navigation knows all this, and fortunately, can make good use of any symbolic reminders we happen to (synchronistically) notice in this world, and chart a course using the tools at hand. fortunately, those symbolic reminders happen to appear literally everywhere our senses might focus. all it takes is a little mind training to pay attention to the cues, smile at the "aha!" experiences, and go forward to find the next clue…

DJDeeZe

05-02-2008, 01:40 PM

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/251

about this talk

in clear, nontechnical language, string theorist brian greene explains how our understanding of the universe has evolved from einstein's notions of gravity and space-time to superstring theory, where minuscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe. (this mind-bending theory may soon be put to the test at the large hadron collider in geneva.)

peace,
(:-deeze

LightEye

05-05-2008, 12:24 PM

dear friends,

http://www.world-mysteries.com/newgw/sci_27_gms.htm

be well, be love.

david

gravity mysteries solved

a simple law of nature, reveals the cause behind all of these mysteries:
gravity
creation of galaxies immediately after the big bang
gasses amassing to become solar systems
the creation of the heavenly bodies
why matter is pulling together
the flattened universe
dark matter
dark energy
black holes
lightning
tornadoes
strange air pockets
the pioneer anomaly
the eye of a hurricane
magnetic field of the sun
magnetism & electricity
"ionospheric dynamo" and its ring currents.
the shocking new data discovered by xmm newton
quantum physics
and much more...

abstract
gravity has always been a mystery…

with thanks' mainly to sir isaac newton and albert einstein we have achieved some knowledge; however gravity is still not fully understood. this arises because we don’t fully understand the following:

the cause of gravity, is it a force?
how can we involve a force without disturbing space-time.
how can space transfer a force, if gravity really is a force.
how the galaxies and solar systems were created.
how the heavenly bodies were created.
how matter amasses.
is dark matter and dark energy are connected to gravity.
how black wholes are created.

weboy78

05-23-2008, 05:11 AM

www.newscientist.com/article/dn1234-cold-fusion-experiment-produces-mysterious-results.html

a "cold fusion" experiment in california has produced tantalising results - but critics say they may not indicate that any kind of nuclear reaction has actually taken place.

most physicists treat claims of cold fusion with derision. however, an underground of enthusiasts has continued performing experiments which, they say, demonstrate that deuterium nuclei can fuse to produce tritium and helium isotopes during the electrolysis of heavy water with palladium electrodes. the few outsiders who have tried to repeat the experiments have failed, and claims for cold fusion have not survived peer review to appear in mainstream journals.

now brian clarke of mcmaster university in ontario, canada, has found something that is not easily explained away.

researchers at sri international, a private laboratory in california, carried out a cold fusion experiment - passing a current through heavy water using palladium electrodes - and claimed to see more heat produced than could be explained by the electric power used. they then sent their electrodes to clarke for analysis. he discovered that they contained more than 1015 atoms of tritium, a heavy radioactive isotope of hydrogen.

"there's no question of the tritium being real," clarke told new scientist.

"no explanation"
....

weboy78

05-25-2008, 11:48 PM

osaka national university prof. emeritus yoshiaki arata has announced a lecture and demonstration of his latest cold fusion reactor, on may 22, 2008, starting at 1:30 p.m. (subject to change). a photo of the reactor is shown below. the lecture will be on the 1st floor of arata hall on the university campus, and the demonstration will be later, on the 3rd floor. (note that arata hall is named after prof. arata, who is one japan’s leading scientists, with honors including a building named after him at the university, and an award from the japanese emperor in 2006.)

http://www.centronews.com/science/physics/cold-fusion-prof-y-arata-plans-demonstration-at-osaka-university

LightEye

06-06-2008, 10:04 AM

dear friends,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1559579/physicists-have-%27solved%27-mystery-of-levitation.html

be well, be love.

david

physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation
by roger highfield, science editor
last updated: 2:10am bst 07/08/2007
levitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists.

in theory the discovery could be used to levitate a person

in earlier work the same team of theoretical physicists showed that invisibility cloaks are feasible.

now, in another report that sounds like it comes out of the pages of a harry potter book, the university of st andrews team has created an 'incredible levitation effects’ by engineering the force of nature which normally causes objects to stick together.

professor ulf leonhardt and dr thomas philbin, from the university of st andrews in scotland, have worked out a way of reversing this pheneomenon, known as the casimir force, so that it repels instead of attracts.

weboy78

06-11-2008, 08:05 AM

ebook on cold fusion in english
http://lenr-canr.org/coldfusionandthefuturehires.pdf

[moderator note: this is a 21 megabyte download]

metaman

07-30-2008, 01:59 PM

something that is off most peoples radars is the invention of the quantum computer by a canadian firm called [please pm for name of firm].

the quantum computer is able to make calculations in two universes simultaniously. the transistors in it can hold a 1 and a 0 simultaneously. they have to cool the processor with liquid nitrogen to stabilize the quantum wave state of the electrons so that this is possible. it is the most amazing advancement in technology that i have ever heard of in the main stream. it is also the first technology in open site that makes use of theory m. theory m is multi-verse theory.

once these computers proliferate the rate at which technology increases will stagger the imagination. this is not very far off.

dazcox

07-31-2008, 08:32 PM

cool! so since we now know about it that means the secret military/illuminati has already had quantum computers for years and are a generation ahead of what you described!:)

edprybylko

08-01-2008, 01:12 AM

The_Last_Man_50008

08-01-2008, 02:29 PM

maybe even predict solar flares and use them to travel through time by directing a wormhole through them...hehehehe i love stargate

but yeh quantum computers sound way cool

metaman

08-02-2008, 01:34 PM

cool! so since we now know about it that means the secret military/illuminati has already had quantum computers for years and are a generation ahead of what you described!:)

who knows, thats a big assumption.

billybobbutterball

08-02-2008, 04:42 PM

ah, the quantum computer. it has qubits! does that mean: yes, no and maybe? unlike, the bit we know today--just yes and no. haha

quantum computing may end the need for further technological advances in computer because i don't think we can do better than that. i mean, won't we be able to simulate worlds, solar systems and galaxies with a single q-comp? we'll be able to predict weather patterns millions of years into the future, perfectly. we may even predict our own futures with these computers, if we simulate our own brains with the surrounding world synced up into real-time and fast-forward. right?

as i understand it a dna computer might have a leg up on it...david w. discusses such in conjuction with his presentation of the russian dna replication work.

will have to go back again for a memory refresher.

according to some philosphical speculations -- that support the concept of free will -- the exact unfolding of future events in space/time are theoreticaly unpredictable, and that the concept of a supreme deity -- ala the greek ideal used by christian theologians, of fore-knowing the on-going relationship of all things down to the last speck is impossible.

there are so many random micro impingments taking place through time (time is so that everything doesn't seem to happen at once:) ) that the blurring resulting from such a vast amount of ongoing interacting factoids quickly goes off the perceptive scale. a person may start off with a clear intention of what she intends to do but so many stimuli outside of her control bang into her that her course is altered as she tries to accomodate each unforseen complication. each novel situation elicites a choice which changes the course in some manner no matter how minute ... all of which of course keeps opening whole new cans of worms at a machine gun rate.

supposedly, we as aspects/sparks of the divine, are told we are here to explore the possibities of the creation. if the one creator fore-knows/predetermines all reality there would be no need for such a strange task force bumbling around and stirring up the cosmic pot just to see what comes about.

i think.:confused:

billybobbefuddled

The_Last_Man_50008

08-03-2008, 11:52 AM

the future is predetermined by the character of those that shape it
we have a choice

The_Last_Man_50008

08-03-2008, 11:53 AM

as i understand it a dna computer might have a leg up on it...david w. discusses such in conjuction with his presentation of the russian dna replication work.

according to some philosphical speculations -- that support the concept of free will -- the exact unfolding of future events in space/time are theoreticaly unpredictable, and that the concept of a supreme deity -- ala the greek ideal used by christian theologians, of fore-knowing the on-going relationship of all things down to the last speck is impossible.

billybobbefuddled

although quantum uncertainty doesn't rule out the possibility of seeing probable futures and predicting it correctly

billybobbutterball

08-03-2008, 07:32 PM

although quantum uncertainty doesn't rule out the possibility of seeing probable futures and predicting it correctly

quantum uncertainty? no need to drag that joker into it...everyday, ordinary ongoing uncertainty will provide a sufficient amount of apparent indeterminism to forstall any exact long-range forcast. the computer can't possibly "see" all the factors that will be feeding in over time... including those calling for a "choice" -- or even more sneaky, events entraining the mind to more likely respond in an atypical fashion. such outcomes of fuzzy logic simply cannot be predicted in detail. for our purpose here, the will as created is free, not exactly determined in a mechanical manner although reflecting its own dynamic nature.

to beg the question: if the computer could facter in all posibilities then it could do so...in a like fashion of an infinite number of monkeys banging away on an infinite number of computers could -- over an infinte amount of time -- replicate every text work found in the world's libraries (and some nifty fresh new works to boot)

but absolutely predicting the coming time line is not worth much because it would be only one prediction buried within an infinte, earth-sized heap made up of an infinite number of other possibilties.

so, i would say the above arguments, if even partially correct, would indeed rule out the possibilties you mention

and speaking of monkeys on a computer..i'm beginning to feel like one:)

best, billybobbannanapeeler:rolleyes:

dazcox

08-05-2008, 08:11 AM

metaman

08-05-2008, 04:31 PM

i'm thinking that we really have to define what a quantum computer actually is.

will the quantum part simply be a 'processor' (on and off) for a material box connected to a screen like you are looking at now or will it be part of a process where you perhaps relax and go into a meditative trance and then tap into the quantum field?

it is a mechanism that uses the quantum flux of an electron as transistors. in a traditional silicon chip computer the transistors are either open or closed. this limits the processing power by how many of these on off transistors can be crammed into the unit you are using. the quantum computer transistors know as qubits instead of bits, can hold a be both on and off at the same moment in time. this is where the concept of the transistors being located in two parallel universes is derived from.

the original inventor of the concept thought that this kind of technology was at least 20 years out. then suddenly a couple of years after he published the dynamics of how such a computer would operate someone popped up with one.

so there prototype was only 16 qubits. however due to the exponential rate of calculation this relatively small processor is capable of 64,000 calculations per second. they claim they will have a 1000 cubit machine within a couple of years. i am not aware of the calc / second of such a unit, but it will far eclipse even the most powerful silicon supercomputer in use today.

because of the fact that the quantum computer has to be electronically shielded and has to operate at almost absolute zero, you more than likely wont find the first units for sale at circuit city. instead they will be like mainframes that other normal silicon computers will link up with. they are not a replacement for our computers, they are extensions of them.

dazcox

08-06-2008, 11:45 AM

hmmm could be that once the first quantum computer is made that it will be enough for all of us to tap into. imagine downloading everything on youtube (with a specific keyword) in an instant!

metaman

08-07-2008, 01:34 PM

hmmm could be that once the first quantum computer is made that it will be enough for all of us to tap into. imagine downloading everything on youtube (with a specific keyword) in an instant!

it wont increase the transfer speed of the computer you are using which is limited by the connection used and the processing power of your pc. it will more than likely be used mostly by scientists who wish to plug in algorithms that where previously to complex to be calculated by normal computers. it may also be used to create a more realistic virtual reality for gamers. however this will be limited by the rate at which the code for such games can be written.

LightEye

08-08-2008, 01:02 PM

dear friends,

http://www.enterprisemission.com/hyper_confirm.htm

be well, be love.

david

new solar research reinforces key aspects of hyperdimensional physics
by mike bara
© 2008 the enterprise mission

a new paper by a pair of australian astronomers has provided a flat-out, indisputable confirmation of the hoagland\torun hyperdimensional physics model, first proposed in their 1989 paper, “the message of cydonia.” the new paper, titled “does a spin orbit coupling between the sun and the jovian planets govern the solar cycle?” points out a resonant, synchronized relationship between the sun’s periodic peak sunspot cycles and the orbital positions of the jovian planets -- jupiter and saturn. careful readers of dark mission will note that this exact relationship, is both implicitly and explicitly predicted in chapter 2 of our book.

while the mechanical cause of the increased sunspot activity is reasonably well understood (it’s caused by the sun’s rotation), the driving force linking this spin and the sunspot cycle has remained a mystery. according to dr. ian wilson of the university of southern queensland, which published the new research, observations by solar astronomers have concluded that the equatorial regions of the sun rotate slightly more rapidly than the polar regions (below - b). this differential rotation winds up the sun’s magnetic field lines (which stretch between the two poles) like a set of tightening rubber bands (below-a).

The_Last_Man_50008

08-12-2008, 11:44 AM

i cannot find the damned article now but anyway it talked about how the future is predetermined according to gods plan.
what does everyone else think on this.

i think its a load of nonsense because at the end the writer contradicts himself by saying we have a choice to accept gods plan or reject it. that doesnt make sense because in a predetermined universe we would not have a choice and have no free will, we would just be living out life that was mapped out for us beforehand. life would be meaningless if that was the case.

sundari

09-07-2008, 07:51 PM

below are the first two paragraphs of this article.
link follows...

“in our everyday lives we have the sense that time flows inexorably from the past into the future; water flows downhill; mountains erode; we are born, grow old, and die; we anticipate the future but remember the past,” the scientists write in a recent study in physical review letters. “yet almost all of the fundamental theories of physics – classical mechanics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, general relativity, and so on – are symmetric with respect to time reversal.

“the only fundamental theory that picks out a preferred direction of time is the second law of thermodynamics, which asserts that the entropy of the universe increases as time flows toward the future. this provides an orientation, or arrow of time, and it is generally believed that all other time asymmetries, such as our sense that future and past are different, are a direct consequence of this thermodynamic arrow.”

http://www.physorg.com/news139830010.html

soliti

09-08-2008, 05:10 AM

i watched bbc4 last week about this experiment, and it is fascinating. one of the scientist was stating that one of the things that they are looking for is other dimensions and the possibility to prove string theory, but what they are hoping for is to find nothing.

which confused me?!.

who is to say that this experiment is the catalyst that pushes us to the next stage.
the experiment is going to be televised this wednesday which i will be watching with anticipation, fear, intrigue and my fingers crossed that they do not do something stupid!!

LightEye

10-05-2008, 10:44 AM

dear friends,

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2008/10/diracs_equation_and_the_sea_of_1.html#more

be well, be love.

david

dirac's equation and the sea of negative energy

"dirac's equation has profound implications for both science and for the search for new energy," says don hotson in the preface to his two-part article that takes dirac as a starting point to explain where the standard model of physics has gone wrong.

hotson also indicates the direction we should take to arrive at a more realistic interpretation of experimental results and of the data obtained through astronomical observations. he develops a model, based on what dirac originally intended with his equation, that is intuitive and provides a good base for further research.

"if we continue to use the wrong model (and the standard model is profoundly wrong) we will continue to get confusing results," says hotson, going on to develop an explanation of "the nature of the energetic, non-stationary aether that einstein missed, that dirac's equation demonstrates, and that heisenberg and others destroyed when they dismantled this equation."

LightEye

10-07-2008, 12:19 PM

dear friends,

http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=gzhqr188

be well, be love.

david

the $6 billion lhc circus

science has become an international circus. and opening day for “the greatest show on earth” has arrived. in the 27 km main circus ring we have the large hadron collider (lhc) project, starting up after $6 billion dollars and thirty years of development. before the show the clowns have warmed up the audience with fantastic stories of what we might see. but why should we take clowns seriously?

>> professor higgs, seen here at the lhc, is one of the eminent scientists responsible for perhaps the most expensive circus in science today.

the bbc horizon program, “the $6 billion dollar experiment,” documents the lhc experiment. the lhc accelerates beams of protons in opposite directions around a circular 27 km underground racetrack and then smashes them together head-on. the expense comes from the need to reach particle energies seven times that of earlier particle colliders and to construct a massive particle detector ‘cathedral’ underground. the energy density reached in the experiment is thought to mimic the earliest moments of the big bang – the origin of the universe.

most of the experimenters involved are looking for the ‘god particle’. the times online reported on april 8, “the mysterious boson postulated by professor higgs, of the university of edinburgh, has become so fundamental to physics that it is often nicknamed the ‘god particle’. after more than 40 years of research, and billions of pounds, scientists have yet to prove that it is real. but professor higgs, 78, now believes the search is nearly over.”

the “god particle” or higgs boson was invented by peter higgs to explain why other particles exhibit mass. he starts with assuming the existence of a particle that has only mass and no other characteristics, such as charge. so the higgs particle is like no other in our experience, since all normal matter is composed of electric charges that respond to electromagnetic influences. (dark matter falls into the same category.) however, we observe that the mass of a charged subatomic particle is altered by the application of electromagnetic forces. at its simplest (and nature is economical in our experience) it indicates that mass is related to the storage of energy within a system of electric charges inside the particle. that’s what e = mc2 is telling us. so how can a massive particle be constructed without electric charge? it shows the problem inherent in leaving physics to mathematicians — there is a disconnect between mathematical concepts and reality.

Understanding

10-20-2008, 02:16 AM

dr. john hagelin, very interesting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12nwyxmy3fq

part 2 is there too

Understanding

10-23-2008, 06:40 AM

dr amit goswami talks about non locality, quantum theory, morphogenetic fields.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umj4k-ptiey&feature=related

part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cfwz6ufc0o&feature=related

buke80

10-25-2008, 02:07 AM

can you talk more about that article.
i know that quantum physics proves the existence of free will so there is something wrong here!

weboy78

11-06-2008, 09:06 AM

we present a phenomenological conjecture of new physics that is suggested by the topology and kinematic properties of the multi-muon events recently reported by the cdf collaboration. we show that the salient features of the data can be accounted for by postulating the pair production of three new states h1, h2, and h3 with masses in the range of 15, 7.3 and 3.6 gev/c^2, respectively. the heavier states cascade-decay into the lighter ones, whereas the lightest state decays into a tau pair with a lifetime of the order of 20 ps.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.5730

http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/cdf-publishes-multi-muons/

LightEye

11-20-2008, 11:14 PM

dear friends,

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16095-its-confirmed-matter-is-merely-vacuum-fluctuations.html

be well, be love.

david

it's confirmed: matter is merely vacuum fluctuations
19:00 20 november 2008 by stephen battersby

matter is built on flaky foundations. physicists have now confirmed that the apparently substantial stuff is actually no more than fluctuations in the quantum vacuum.

the researchers simulated the frantic activity that goes on inside protons and neutrons. these particles provide almost all the mass of ordinary matter.

each proton (or neutron) is made of three quarks - but the individual masses of these quarks only add up to about 1% of the proton's mass. so what accounts for the rest of it?

theory says it is created by the force that binds quarks together, called the strong nuclear force. in quantum terms, the strong force is carried by a field of virtual particles called gluons, randomly popping into existence and disappearing again. the energy of these vacuum fluctuations has to be included in the total mass of the proton and neutron.

soliti

11-25-2008, 06:19 AM

hello to all

had a coinsadance, decided just for fun to take a quiz to see what kind of empath i am. "i was bored" the answer that it gave was unexpected which said.......

you scored as universal
you are a universal empath, you possess all the qualities of the other seven empath groups. you are what is known as an "implicate" or imp, a product of evolutionary design and genetic mutation. you are a psychic hybrid.

which is strange considering on what is going on, so i goggled implicate and came across this article, that is very insightfull.

it discusses the vision david bohm intuited from his insight (gnosis) into the quantum world. this vision discerns the characteristics of an evolving cosmos in process; and, also, it ponders upon the implications for humanity.

thought everybody might like... here is the link

http://www.bizcharts.com/stoa_del_sol/plenum/plenum_3.html

and if you bored enough and want to take the quiz for a laugh

http://quizfarm.com/quizzes/new/pangelic/what-kind-of-empath-are-you/

love to all

LightEye

12-09-2008, 10:14 AM

dear friends,

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/issues/2008/december/columnthecrucible.asp

be well, be love.

david

the crucible

philip ball uncovers a pleasing symmetry surrounding the mysterious casimir force

few concepts in physical science have been made as mysterious as the casimir force. the force, identified in 1948 by the dutch physicist hendrik casimir, is the result of the quantum nature of a vacuum, which is not empty at all but is filled with spontaneously fluctuating electromagnetic fields. these can be regarded as composed of photons created when pairs of particles and antiparticles pop unheralded into existence before annihilating each other in a burst of radiation, suggesting an image of the vacuum as a seething mass of ephemeral activity.

because the wavelengths of the photons are constrained in the space between two surfaces to be no wider than this gap, the radiation pressure is smaller in this space than in the region outside, creating the (casimir) force that pushes the surfaces together.

now, this does represent a valid way of looking at the situation, and does indeed make the casimir force seem rather remarkable. but there's another, more mundane way to understand it. all surfaces contain electron clouds that are more or less 'floppy' or polarisable, deformable by nearby electric fields. these clouds undergo spontaneous quantum fluctuations, and when two such surfaces are very close together, each 'feels' the fluctuating polarisation of the other. the result is that the two may become correlated, creating an electromagnetically induced attraction between them. this is nothing more than the familiar 'dispersion' or van der waals force, which decays as the inverse-cubed power of the distance from a flat surface.

but for one surface to feel the other, a photon has to pass between them. and as the surfaces get further apart, the time taken for the photon to travel across the gap becomes non-negligible, affecting the ability of each surface to respond to the other. this changes the character of the force, specifically by making it decay instead as the inverse-fourth power of the separation. this too is then the casimir force: a kind of 'retarded' form of the dispersion force.

SaraJane

12-22-2008, 12:58 PM

i don't know if this is the correct place to post this, but i'm sure a mod will let me know!
i recently read in discover magazine (jan 09) about quantum entanglement. is this what david is referring to with his experiment with the man where they hooked up his saliva swab to a battery/lie detector and the man continued to the airport and recorded his ups and downs of the day and they coincided with the saliva's recordings?

per magazine:

"using two villages on opposite sides of geneva as their lab, swiss physicists have taken one of the strangest phenomena of quantum mechanics to a new level. from geneva they sent a pair of photons along fiber-optic cables, one to each village. when they measured one photon upon its arrival, the other changed instantaneously- though it was 11 miles away. this weird linkage, called quantum entanglement, raises exotic possibilities like teleportation. when two particles are entangled, the measurement of one immediately affects the other, no matter how distant. it's so counterintuitive that albert einstein dismissed it as "spooky action at a distance." such entanglement had been observed before but never over such a great distance.
"one might assume that one particle sent an ultrafast signal to its partner, says physicist nicolas gisin, a member of the university of geneva team. if that were true, the quantum communique would have traveled at more than 10,000 times the speed of light, something difficult to reconcile with the known laws of physics. "nature does not function that way," gisin says. in relativity theory, communicating faster than light speed is not possible. but the correlations observed in entangled photons cannot be use to communicate any kind of signal, so they do not violate the theory. still, gisin says, "we have to admit this is a really big conceptual change.""

silly scientists... continuing to downplay the truth just so their comfy theories continue to keep them warm and fuzzy at night.

LightEye

01-21-2009, 11:59 AM

dear friends,

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=naked-singularities

be well, be love.

david

do naked singularities break the rules of physics?
the black hole has a troublesome sibling, the naked singularity. physicists have long thought--hoped--it could never exist. but could it?
by pankaj s. joshi

* conventional wisdom has it that a large star eventually collapses to a black hole, but some theoretical models suggest it might instead become a so-called naked singularity. sorting out what happens is one of the most important unresolved problems in astrophysics.
* the discovery of naked singularities would transform the search for a unified theory of physics, not least by providing direct observational tests of such a theory.

modern science has introduced the world to plenty of strange ideas, but surely one of the strangest is the fate of a massive star that has reached the end of its life. having exhausted the fuel that sustained it for millions of years, the star is no longer able to hold itself up under its own weight, and it starts collapsing catastrophically. modest stars like the sun also collapse, but they stabilize again at a smaller size. whereas if a star is massive enough, its gravity overwhelms all the forces that might halt the collapse. from a size of millions of kilometers across, the star crumples to a pinprick smaller than the dot on an "i."

most physicists and astronomers think the result is a black hole, a body with such intense gravity that nothing can escape from its immediate vicinity. a black hole has two parts. at its core is a singularity, the infinitesimal point into which all the matter of the star gets crushed. surrounding the singularity is the region of space from which escape is impossible, the perimeter of which is called the event horizon. once something enters the event horizon, it loses all hope of exiting. whatever light the falling body gives off is trapped, too, so an outside observer never sees it again. it ultimately crashes into the singularity.

but is this picture really true? the known laws of physics are clear that a singularity forms, but they are hazy about the event horizon. most physicists operate under the assumption that a horizon must indeed form, if only because the horizon is very appealing as a scientific fig leaf. physicists have yet to figure out what exactly happens at a singularity: matter is crushed, but what becomes of it then? the event horizon, by hiding the singularity, isolates this gap in our knowledge. all kinds of processes unknown to science may occur at the singularity, yet they have no effect on the outside world. astronomers plotting the orbits of planets and stars can safely ignore the uncertainties introduced by singularities and apply the standard laws of physics with confidence. whatever happens in a black hole stays in a black hole.

tuesday

01-23-2009, 05:40 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090123/sc_livescience/teleportationmilestoneachieved

teleportation milestone achieved
livescience.com fri jan 23, 12:05 pm et

scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the "star trek" feat of teleportation. no one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people around, but for the first time, information has been teleported between two separate atoms across a distance of a meter - about a yard.

this is a significant milestone in a field known as quantum information processing, said christopher monroe of the joint quantum institute at the university of maryland, who led the effort.

teleportation is one of nature's most mysterious forms of transport: quantum information, such as the spin of a particle or the polarization of a photon, is transferred from one place to another, without traveling through any physical medium. it has previously been achieved between photons (a unit, or quantum, of electromagnetic radiation, such as light) over very large distances, between photons and ensembles of atoms, and between two nearby atoms through the intermediary action of a third.

none of those, however, provides a feasible means of holding and managing quantum information over long distances.

now the jqi team, along with colleagues at the university of michigan, has succeeded in teleporting a quantum state directly from one atom to another over a meter. that capability is necessary for workable quantum information systems because they will require memory storage at both the sending and receiving ends of the transmission.

in the jan. 23 issue of the journal science, the scientists report that, by using their protocol, atom-to-atom teleported information can be recovered with perfect accuracy about 90 percent of the time - and that figure can be improved.
"our system has the potential to form the basis for a large-scale 'quantum repeater' that can network quantum memories over vast distances," monroe said. "moreover, our methods can be used in conjunction with quantum bit operations to create a key component needed for quantum computation."

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LightEye

01-31-2009, 11:46 AM

dear friends,

http://www.naturalnews.com/025486.html

be well, be love.

david

the higgs boson particle isn't a particle - why the search for subatomic particles is an illusion
friday, january 30, 2009 by: mike adams, naturalnews editor

naturalnews) physicists are a great bunch of folks. they're bright and imaginative, but just like professionals in any other field of science, when educated under the same organized system of beliefs they have the ability to cluster together and share some rather remarkable delusions.

the latest delusion is the search for the so-called higgs boson particle. it's a multi-billion dollar effort that has taken decades to pursue in the u.s. using the fermilab particle accelerator. soon, the search for the "higgs," as it's known, will be largely taken over by the new large hadron collider powering up in switzerland in the summer of 2009.

sounds cool, huh? but there's a problem with all this: higgs boson isn't a particle!

outdated newtonian thinking still dominates modern physics
far too many western physicists remain steadfastly dedicated to the newtonian idea that the world is made of ever-smaller spheres of matter that bounce off each other like balls in a pinball machine. the atom, in fact, was once thought to be the smallest unit of matter (that's what "atomic" means, of course). but before long, physicists began wondering "what are atoms made of?" so they invented a comical model of particle physics that they use to explain how atoms are made up of protons, neutrons and electrons.

here's a typical explanation of this model of matter from the world of conventional physics:

matter is made of molecules; molecules of atoms; atoms of a cloud of electrons about one-hundred-millionth of a centimeter and a nucleus about one-hundred-thousandth the size of the electron cloud. the nucleus is made of protons and neutrons. each proton (or neutron) has about two thousand times the mass of an electron.

that's a handy explanation for kindergarteners and the scientifically illiterate, but it has a fatal flaw: there are no such things as physical electron particles, either!

huh? did i just say there's no such "thing" as an electron? yep, i did. what i mean by that remark is that there's no such thing as a single, isolated, self-contained electron spinning around the nucleus like a tiny marble. as is well noted in the field of quantum physics a so-called "electron" is really just a cloud of probabilities in which the illusory appearance of an electron-like particle might be teased out of the fabric of reality under the right experimental circumstances, but no such discrete object can be said to truly "exist" in the physical world.

still, many western scientists cling to the particle theory on practically everything: subatomic physics, biochemistry and even water. in the world of water, for example, while we're told by scientists that water molecules are self-contained units of h2o, the truth is that water molecules are constantly transforming, releasing and creating new bonds in a sort of wet molecular square dancing jamboree. thus, if you look at a cup of water, you're not simply observing a very large number of discrete water molecules that keep to their own business; you're watching the constant exchange and reconfiguration of molecules that openly share not just elemental particles but also information at many levels.

the self-contained h2o molecule explanation is simpler for everybody to grasp, though, which is why it's still taught everywhere today. the universe is simpler if you think it's entirely made up of tiny particles rather than intertwined fields of possibility that span multiple dimensions and propagate information encoded in mysterious energy fields.

LightEye

02-19-2009, 02:42 AM

dear friends,

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=was-einstein-wrong-about-relativity

be well, be love.

david

was einstein wrong?: a quantum threat to special relativity

entanglement, like many quantum effects, violates some of our deepest intuitions about the world. it may also undermine einstein's special theory of relativity
by david z albert and rivka galchen

key concepts

in the universe as we experience it, we can directly affect only objects we can touch; thus, the world seems local.

quantum mechanics, however, embraces action at a distance with a property called entanglement, in which two particles behave synchronously with no intermediary; it is nonlocal.

this nonlocal effect is not merely counterintuitive: it presents a serious problem to einstein's special theory of relativity, thus shaking the foundations of physics.

our intuition, going back forever, is that to move, say, a rock, one has to touch that rock, or touch a stick that touches the rock, or give an order that travels via vibrations through the air to the ear of a man with a stick that can then push the rock—or some such sequence. this intuition, more generally, is that things can only directly affect other things that are right next to them. if a affects b without being right next to it, then the effect in question must be indirect—the effect in question must be something that gets transmitted by means of a chain of events in which each event brings about the next one directly, in a manner that smoothly spans the distance from a to b. every time we think we can come up with an exception to this intuition—say, flipping a switch that turns on city street lights (but then we realize that this happens through wires) or listening to a bbc radio broadcast (but then we realize that radio waves propagate through the air)—it turns out that we have not, in fact, thought of an exception. not, that is, in our everyday experience of the world.

we term this intuition "locality."

weboy78

02-19-2009, 02:16 PM

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/02/19/nasas.fermi.telescope.sees.most.extreme.gamma.ray. blast.yet

nasa's fermi telescope sees most extreme gamma-ray blast yet

the first gamma-ray burst to be seen in high-resolution from nasa's fermi gamma-ray space telescope is one for the record books. the blast had the greatest total energy, the fastest motions and the highest-energy initial emissions ever seen. "we were waiting for this one," said peter michelson, the principal investigator on fermi's large area telescope at stanford university. "burst emissions at these energies are still poorly understood, and fermi is giving us the tools to understand them."..

coupled with the fermi measurements, the distance also helps astronomers determine the slowest speeds possible for material emitting the prompt gamma rays. within the jet of this burst, gas bullets must have moved at 99.9999 percent the speed of light. this burst's tremendous power and speed make it the most extreme recorded to date.

one curious aspect of the burst is a five-second delay separating the highest-energy emissions from the lowest. such a time lag has been seen clearly in only one earlier burst.

"it may mean that the highest-energy emissions are coming from different parts of the jet or created through a different mechanism," michelson said.

weboy78

03-02-2009, 01:31 PM

pier luigi ighina from italy
the law of rhythm
i think about being able to affirm,without shades of doubt, that all of that is alive and vital, is expressed with rhythmic functions. if there is no rhythm, life cannot exist.

but what is the rhythm in itself?

there are so many types of rhythms in nature: the diurnal and nighttime rhythm that alternates the passage of the night a day and vice versa; the monthly rhythm of the moon; the rhythm of the seasons,...

in the man there is the cardiac rhythm, the respiratory rhythm, that digestive, etc. etc.

it can be said that the presence of the rhythm not only characterizes the existence of the living beings, but also of all that appears in the created universe.

if we want to give the more possible synthetic definition of the rhythm, we should say that it consists in an external alternate motion, that can have the form of a cyclical motion, both parabolic and spiral shaped, that expresses an inside pulsation that expands and contracts continuously.

now if the pulsation is the inside aspect and therefore the hidden part of the rhythm,the rhythmical spatial exterior movement of varing aspect, that manifests itself in less or more rapid succession, is all that can be known in apparent way,from the senses of a human being.

from that,our senses gain only what derives from that is external, and therefore superficial of the rhythm, and this sets a notable limit between the man and the true knowledge than surrounds him.

ighina has brought on the earth the revelation of what it is the rhythm in its inside aspect, but as always it happens in these cases, anybody or almost everyone hasn't believed in his words, that implicated an unknown reality to the sensorial perceptions.

as a intimate friend and faithful collaborator of ighina, i try to bring forth his work of diffusion of these important truths, that if they were understood and approved, they would contribute to turn into evolutionary way the existence of the humanity,addressing it toward a spiritual future of salvation.

the simplest system to understand its revelations, would consist of believing in its words by faith, as i have done with few others at the time, because "we felt" internally that it was the truth that was proposed to us and only subseguently,we noticed that the reward to our trust, was also a logic and rational understanding of all the mysterious phenomenons that happen continuously in us and around us.
... http://www.rexresearch.com/ighina2/ighina2.htm

http://www.rexresearch.com/ighina/ighina.htm

r0ni

03-20-2009, 06:04 AM

sound becomes light

new research confirms a theory: high-frequency acoustic waves can be converted to light

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-03/sound-becomes-light

peace

LightEye

03-21-2009, 12:02 PM

dear friends,

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090320-new-particle.html

be well, be love.

david

strange particle created; may rewrite how matter's made
brian handwerk for national geographic news
march 20, 2009

an unexpected new subatomic particle has been discovered in illinois's fermilab atom smasher, scientists announced this week.

the new particle may break all known rules for creating matter, say the researchers who created the oddity.

y(4140)—as the new particle has been dubbed—couldn't have formed through either of the two known models for matter creation. researchers aren't even sure what y(4140) is made of.

it's long been accepted that six different "flavors" of particles called quarks combine to form larger subatomic particles.

in one method, a quark pairs with one of its opposites, an antiquark, to create a type of matter called a meson. in the second method, three quarks gather to form baryons, such as protons and neutrons.

LightEye

03-23-2009, 12:12 PM

dear friends,

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/s23/69/84a24/index.xml?section=announcements

their more advanced paper is here;

http://arxiv.org/ps_cache/quant-ph/pdf/0604/0604079v1.pdf

be well, be love.

david

high-powered mathematicians take on free will
mondays, march 23 through april 27, 2009, 8 p.m. · a02 mcdonnell hall

conway, a major figure, to give lectures on ideas formed with kochen

ten years ago, princeton mathematician john conway wowed standing-room-only crowds with a series of public math lectures. among many things, he spoke about ancient greek geometers and his modern discovery of surreal numbers. he threw in some math tricks, too. audiences flocked to hear the joys of math recounted by one of its masters and left enthralled by conway's intellectual wizardry.

on monday, march 23, conway -- who has fought his way back to health from a 2006 stroke -- will launch another lecture series that will once again place his mind and legendary personality squarely in the spotlight.

this intellectual journey promises to be different.

this time, the presentations will have one focus. working with his longtime colleague, princeton mathematician simon kochen, conway is set on explaining to the university community and the public over six weeks the tenets of their "free will theorem."

the gist of it is this: they say they have proved that if humans have free will, then elementary particles -- like atoms and electrons -- possess free will as well.

LightEye

03-30-2009, 10:51 AM

dear friends,

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127011.600-can-fractals-make-sense-of-the-quantum-world.html?full=true

be well, be love.

david

can fractals make sense of the quantum world?
30 march 2009 by mark buchanan

quantum theory just seems too weird to believe. particles can be in more than one place at a time. they don't exist until you measure them. spookier still, they can even stay in touch when they are separated by great distances.

einstein thought this was all a bit much, believing it to be evidence of major problems with the theory, as many critics still suspect today. quantum enthusiasts point to the theory's extraordinary success in explaining the behaviour of atoms, electrons and other quantum systems. they insist we have to accept the theory as it is, however strange it may seem.

but what if there were a way to reconcile these two opposing views, by showing how quantum theory might emerge from a deeper level of non-weird physics?

if you listen to physicist tim palmer, it begins to sound plausible. what has been missing, he argues, are some key ideas from an area of science that most quantum physicists have ignored: the science of fractals, those intricate patterns found in everything from fractured surfaces to oceanic flows (see what is a fractal?).

take the mathematics of fractals into account, says palmer, and the long-standing puzzles of quantum theory may be much easier to understand. they might even dissolve away.

Karen Rusk

03-31-2009, 07:29 AM

this is not new science, in fact it's rather old, but the recent issue of astronomy magazine had an article by bob berman in it about light--its properties and behaviors. i can't link you to it because you have to subscribe to the magazine to get to it on the website, but i'll summarize:

when einstein discovered the way light warps around stars, his genius was confirmed. now we use light exclusively for measuring the distance of stars and other celestial objects. some properties of light: it must always be moving ("if it stops, it ceases to exist"); it travels at an astounding speed, 186,282.4 miles per second; nothing slows it down, although when travelling through things like glass or water it will be absorbed and re-emitted which gives it the appearance of slowing down. essentially, "light has its own reality. it independently ignores everything else and zooms along special paths through space-time, called null geodesics. this magical realm - which includes curved space, mutating time, and distances that change depending on circumstance - is the weird portal the world entered 90 years ago [when einstein made his discovery]."

after i finished the article i thought, hey, i'm that light, i'm made of light! i can do all of those things!

awesome, isn't it?

weboy78

04-12-2009, 10:04 AM

discovery poses challenge to galaxy formation theories

a team led by an indiana university astronomer has found a sample of massive galaxies with properties that suggest that they may have formed relatively recently. this would run counter to the widely-held belief that massive, luminous galaxies (like our own milky way galaxy) began their formation and evolution shortly after the big bang, some 13 billion years ago. further research into the nature of these objects could open new windows into the study of the origin and early evolution of galaxies.

Shrike

04-18-2009, 06:20 PM

is it matter or energy. mass or traction.
what makes it so hard to lift 10 liters of water.

i'm a first time poster but long time reader.
physics and both quantum and macro are my interests.

this article is not that new of a topic but it was a an eye opener for me.
that view makes sens going from the quantum state of energy to tangible matter to humans.
it's all the same just more dense.
but this view of energy to matter analogy i have not seen before.

this excerpt below is the part that is very convincing to me.

physics.” from their perspective, einstein’s famous formula (in which mass can be equated with via e = mc2) is not about the conversion of one fundamental thing, mass, into another fundamental thing, energy; but rather “a statement about how much energy is required to give the appearance of a certain amount of mass.” if they are correct in their theorizing, “there is no such thing as mass; only electric charge and energy, which together create the illusion of mass.”

the whole text is at this link
http://www.halexandria.org/dward167.htm

C-JEAN

04-19-2009, 07:11 PM

hi again.

here i am, back, with the "good" url limk to the theory:

last time, the video was too complicated. . .
this time, it has a beautiful ending ! !

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/garrett_lisi_on_his_theory_of_everything.html

blue skies.

LightEye

06-02-2009, 11:10 AM

dear friends,

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227101.300-what-string-theory-is-really-good-for.html

be well, be love.

david

what string theory is really good for
01 june 2009 by jessica griggs

string theory: you love it or loathe it. to some it represents our best hope for a route to a "theory of everything"; others portray it as anything from a mathematically obtuse minefield to a quasi-religion that has precious little to do with science.

there might be a middle way. string theory's mathematical tools were designed to unlock the most profound secrets of the cosmos, but they could have a far less esoteric purpose: to tease out the properties of some of the most complex yet useful types of material here on earth.

both string theorists and condensed matter physicists - those studying the properties of complex matter phases such as solids and liquids - are enthused by the development. "i am flabbergasted," says jan zaanen, a condensed matter theorist from the university of leiden in the netherlands. "the theory is calculating precisely what we are seeing in experiments."

if solid science does turn out to be the salvation of string theory, it would be the latest twist in a tangled history. string theory was formulated in the late 1960s to explain certain features of the strong nuclear force, one of four fundamental forces of nature. it holds that electrons, quarks and the like are not point-like particles but minuscule, curled-up, vibrating strings. no sooner had this idea emerged, though, than it lost ground to particle physicists' "standard model", which proved capable of describing not just the strong force but also the weak and electromagnetic forces - and did so far more intuitively through the interactions of point-like quantum particles.

weboy78

06-06-2009, 08:13 AM

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/news/2009/june/04060904.asp

natural quasicrystals discovered

04 june 2009

scientists have discovered a rare form of solid - a quasicrystal - in a rock sample from russia's koryak mountains. quasicrystals have unusual properties and have previously only been made in the laboratory. the discovery could redefine the field of mineralogy and expand our understanding of how quasicrystals form, leading to new applications...

weboy78

06-20-2009, 07:34 AM

physicists create 'black hole for sound'
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17319-physicists-create-black-hole-for-sound.html

the team cooled 100,000 or so charged rubidium atoms to a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero and trapped them with a magnetic field. using a laser, the researchers then created a well of electric potential that attracted the atoms and caused them to zip across the well faster than the speed of sound in the material.

this setup created a supersonic flow that lasted for some 8 milliseconds, fleetingly forming an acoustic black hole capable of trapping sound...

weboy78

06-27-2009, 05:54 AM

light changed to matter, then stopped and moved
cambridge, mass., feb. 8, 2007 -- by converting light into matter and then back again, physicists have for the first time stopped a light pulse and then restarted it a small distance away. this "quantum mechanical magic trick" provides unprecedented control over light and could have applications in fiber-optic communication and quantum information processing.
http://www.photonics.com/content/readarticle.aspx?articleid=28520

weboy78

07-26-2009, 10:50 AM

physics and other food for thought

in this page we are looking at basic understanding of how this universe functions, touching upon physics from a viewpoint not of mathematical formulas but from an investigation of interconnections and from a look at 'the whole picture', a thing sadly missing from today's highly specialised investigations into the nature of things.

of course technological progress is intimately connected with our understanding of the basic workings of the universe, as expressed in physics. unfortunately, once a certain way of viewing things has won over the opposing theories, the majority view (paradigm) is cemented and enshrined as something untouchable, even if experiments seem to invalidate its very foundations.

the most efficient tool for perpetuating the current paradigm and for avoiding any change, has been the so-called peer review system, where scientific magazines refuse to publish papers that are not given approval by one or more of their (anonymous) 'reviewers'. this procedure should help ensure consistent high quality of published papers, but more often than not, the review procedure is in effect 'discarding' the work of those scientists that do not concord with the current paradigm, and thus peer review effectively prevents change and progress in science.

of course there are more and more publications that do not follow this procedure and the exchange of information through the internet is helping to overcome the information exchange "bottleneck" created by the peer review scientific press. i hope this page may also contribute to open some eyes (and minds) to the fact that sometimes there is a need to disregard paradigm and start thinking things through anew from the very beginning.
http://www.hasslberger.com/phy/phy.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbjvnd2feyc

LightEye

08-27-2009, 12:47 AM

dear friends,

http://www.newscientist.com/special/beyond-space-and-time

be well, be love.

david

we don't have any trouble coping with three dimensions – or four at a pinch. the 3d world of solid objects and limitless space is something we accept with scarcely a second thought. time, the fourth dimension, gets a little trickier. but it's when we start to explore worlds that embody more – or indeed fewer – dimensions that things get really tough.

these exotic worlds might be daunting, but they matter. string theory, our best guess yet at a theory of everything, doesn't seem to work with fewer than 10 dimensions. some strange and useful properties of solids, such as superconductivity, are best explained using theories in two, one or even no dimensions at all.

prepare your mind for boggling as we explore the how, why and where of dimensions.

LightEye

08-27-2009, 10:25 AM

dear friends,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/aug/26/entropy-time-arrow-quantum-mechanics

be well, be love.

david

is quantum mechanics messing with your memory?

for all we know we may live in a world in which windows un-break and cold cups of coffee spontaneously heat up, we just don't remember. the explanation is quantum entanglement

a physicist has claimed that glass can un-break – but quantum entanglement prevents our brains from recording the event. photograph: david levene

imagine if a cold cup of coffee spontaneously heated up as you watched. or a cracked pane of glass suddenly un-broke. according to physicist lorenzo maccone at the massachusetts institute of technology, you see things like this all the time – you just don't remember.

in a paper published last week in physical review letters, he attempts to provide a solution to what has been called the mystery of "the arrow-of-time".

briefly, the problem is that while our laws of physics are all symmetrical or "time-reversal invariant" – they apply equally well if time runs forwards or backwards – most of the everyday phenomena we observe, like the cooling of hot coffee, are not. they never seem to happen in reverse.

we have a statistical law that describes these everyday phenomena called the second law of thermodynamics. this law tells us that the "entropy" or degree of disorder of a closed system never decreases. roughly speaking, a process in which entropy increases is one where the system becomes increasingly disordered. windows break, thereby increasing disorder, but they will not spontaneously unbreak. gases will disperse but not spontaneously compress.

however, entropy describes what happens with large numbers of particles. we presume that it must arise from what happens with individual particles, but all the laws that govern the behaviour of individual particles are time-reversal invariant. this means that any process they allow in one direction of time, they also allow in the other.

Bill

08-28-2009, 07:29 AM

hmmm, i read the article... very interesting and thought provoking... not surprised to see a lot of negative comments about it.

what we observe in what we call reality is what our senses pick up, and our mind perceives. is is possible that the 'opposite' happens, but our mind does not perceive it? if it is does not perceive it, why is that? is it because it goes against what we have accepted as part of 'natural law'?

i like the ideas this article brings up, because, if your mind is open, it really entangles you into an interesting discussion. for instance, the argument is made that quantum entanglement only occurs at the particle level, but don't we also believe that 'as above, so as below' (i know, i butchered that)...

and if so, why not the other way around? 'as below, so as above'? is it because with each move towards a macro level, the probability of that occurring gets smaller, because our belief in the natural law? if we truly believed that there was an equal probability going either direction, would we start manifesting the seemingly improbable?

Berry Chastain

09-01-2009, 05:29 PM

this is a fascinating video demonstrating new technology which enables wirless electricity source.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/619

Truth180

09-05-2009, 08:38 PM

LightEye

09-16-2009, 11:54 AM

dear friends,

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/47187/title/hunting_hidden_dimensions

be well, be love.

david

hunting hidden dimensions
black holes, giant and tiny, may reveal new realms of spaceby diana steele september 26th, 2009; vol.176 #7 (p. 22)

in many ways, black holes are science’s answer to science fiction. as strange as anything from a novelist’s imagination, black holes warp the fabric of spacetime and imprison light and matter in a gravitational death grip. their bizarre properties make black holes ideal candidates for fictional villainy. but now black holes are up for a different role: heroes helping physicists assess the real-world existence of another science fiction favorite — hidden extra dimensions of space.

astrophysical giants several times the mass of the sun and midget black holes smaller than a subatomic particle could provide glimpses of an extra-dimensional existence.

out in space, astrophysicists are looking hard to see if large black holes are shrinking on a time scale that might be detected by modern telescopes. if so, it might mean the black holes are evaporating into extra dimensions.

Truth180

09-16-2009, 09:18 PM

when reading this article this reminded me of the movie men in black ii at the end where they have the aliens playing with a ball or marble of galaxies, that is interesting.

we considered the atom, and found that its latest definition was that it was in reality a unit of force or energy consisting of a positive charge of electricity energising a number of negative particles. it became apparent to us that the tiny atom of the chemist and the physicist was within itself a solar system, with the same general conformation as the greater system, demonstrating a similar activity and governed by analogous laws. we found that it had a central sun, and that around this central sun, pursuing their definite orbits, night be seen the electrons. we noted, also, the fact that the elements differ only according to the number and the arrangement of these electrons around the central positive charge. from this we passed on to the consideration of the soul, or the psyche, of the atom, and found that scientists recognise the truth that atoms themselves possess quality, show symptoms of mind or intelligence, and can discriminate, select, and choose.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/cota/cota06.htm

i would like to ad this little part. this really explains on how massive this universe is and how it relates to the atom, its just mind blowing and to myself have thought of this before reading this.

"as einstein hints, our entire solar system is but a sphere, colouring is given to the deduction that it, in its turn, may be but a cosmic atom; thus we would have a place within a still larger scheme, and have a centre around which our system rotates, and in which it is as the electron to the atom."

http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/cota/cota04.htm

Threethree

09-17-2009, 01:00 AM

all is holographic in nature. the only substance is you (me) and our journey into what is wonder and surprise.

one there is one over there, atoms to all extension.

33

Berry Chastain

10-06-2009, 06:59 AM

i was observing a couple of helicopters hovering a short distance from my 42nd floor office window yesterday and began to consider that it seems hardly conceivable that four very thin rotory blades could lift and support such a heavy object high in the air, no matter how fast they were spinning. and then i thought about the very fact that these blades are spinning and by so doing are creating what david would call a torsion field.

i recalled david's discussion in his various books and blogs regarding torsion fields and his comments that a vortex created by a spinning action, whether it be that of a tornado or magnets on a rotating armature create an anti-gravity effect which causes whatever is in the center of that field to loose weight. considering this effect, i then began wondering if the technology which was used to develope the helicopter accidently incorported the torsion field effect or....if it was information which had been recieved covertly from those sources which knew about the effect. i found that the first experimental helicopter craft were developed in the 1920's which surprised me. but successful flights of any duration or height, with any considerable weight, were not accomplished until the mid 40's, about the time the initial et contacts are said to have been established.

this is just a musing but would be interested in any other thoughts regarding this question.

l&l
berry

weboy78

10-15-2009, 08:21 AM

first black hole for light created on earth
an electromagnetic "black holemovie camera" that sucks in surrounding light has been built for the first time.

the device, which works at microwave frequencies, may soon be extended to trap visible light, leading to an entirely new way of harvesting solar energy to generate electricity.

a theoretical design for a table-top black hole to trap light was proposed in a paper published earlier this year by evgenii narimanov and alexander kildishev of purdue university in west lafayette, indiana. their idea was to mimic the properties of a cosmological black hole, whose intense gravity bends the surrounding space-time, causing any nearby matter or radiation to follow the warped space-time and spiral inwards...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17980-first-black-hole-for-light-created-on-earth.html

weboy78

10-19-2009, 01:21 PM

concerning brains and dark energy...take your pick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pi8khssk7y

http://www.giulianaconforto.it/english/home.eng.htm

weboy78

10-21-2009, 01:10 AM

do you know about this experiment?
http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2006/physics-astron/hottest-z-output.html

albuquerque, n.m. — sandia’s z machine has produced plasmas that exceed temperatures of 2 billion degrees kelvin — hotter than the interiors of stars.

the unexpectedly hot output, if its cause were understood and harnessed, could eventually mean that smaller, less costly nuclear fusion plants would produce the same amount of energy as larger plants.

the phenomena also may explain how astrophysical entities like solar flares maintain their extreme temperatures.

the very high radiation output also creates new experimental environments to help validate computer codes responsible for maintaining a reliable nuclear weapons stockpile safely and securely — the principal mission of the z facility.

“at first, we were disbelieving,” says sandia project lead chris deeney. “we repeated the experiment many times to make sure we had a true result and not an ‘ooops’!” ..

weboy78

10-21-2009, 01:14 PM

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/time_travel/esp_ciencia_timetravel12.htm

3. superfluid space-time

one of the most outlandish new theories of cosmology is that space-time is actually a superfluid substance, flowing with zero friction. then if the universe is rotating, superfluid spacetime would be scattered with vortices, according to physicists pawel mazur of the university of south carolina and george chapline at lawrence livermore lab in california - and those vortices might have seeded structures such as galaxies. mazur suggests that our universe might have been born in a collapsing star, where the combination of stellar matter and superfluid space could spawn dark energy, the repulsive force that is accelerating the expansion of the universe.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9987-top-10-weirdest-cosmology-theories.html

weboy78

10-22-2009, 12:20 AM

superfluid light

letter abstract

nature physics
published online: 20 september 2009 | doi:10.1038/nphys1364

superfluidity of polaritons in semiconductor microcavities

alberto amo1, jérôme lefrère1, simon pigeon2, claire adrados1, cristiano ciuti2, iacopo carusotto3, romuald houdré4, elisabeth giacobino1 & alberto bramati1

top of page

superfluidity, the ability of a quantum fluid to flow without friction, is one of the most spectacular phenomena occurring in degenerate gases of interacting bosons. since its first discovery in liquid helium-4 (refs 1, 2), superfluidity has been observed in quite different systems, and recent experiments with ultracold trapped atoms have explored the subtle links between superfluidity and bose–einstein condensation3, 4, 5. in solid-state systems, it has been anticipated that exciton–polaritons in semiconductor microcavities should behave as an unusual quantum fluid6, 7, 8, with unique properties stemming from its intrinsically non-equilibrium nature. ..

http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nphys1364.html

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superfluid is born the light.. crossing undisturbed even opaque materials, with no dispersion. . an extraordinary prediction that has now been demonstrated in an italo-french. it is a next step in the research that gave the nobel prize for physics in 2009 kao. it opens the way for high-speed fiber communications, and electro-optical chip with low consumption. . the discovery, published in nature physics *.

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moderatoris note: rough translation from italian...please use imagination and read between lines

weboy78

10-22-2009, 12:37 AM

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427314.400-rethinking-relativity-is-time-out-of-joint.html?full=true
..not dark energy, dark fluid

dark energy could be weirder than we thought. evidence that over large distances gravity exerts a greater pull on time than on space (see main story) might not necessarily suggest that the theory of general relativity is wrong. it could instead be a sign that the universe's acceleration may require a more exotic explanation...

alchemikey

10-27-2009, 04:25 PM

researchers at the california institute of technology have created a nanoscale crystal device that, for the first time, allows scientists to confine both light and sound vibrations in the same tiny space.

http://www.physorg.com/news175766229.html

peace,
mikey

LightEye

10-28-2009, 11:49 AM

dear friends,

what's interesting in this article is this;

"raise the provocative notion that the answer may depend on the human brain."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427323.700-multiplying-universes-how-many-is-the-multiverse.html

be well, be love.

david

multiplying universes: how many is the multiverse?
28 october 2009 by amanda gefter

how many universes are there? cosmologists andrei linde and vitaly vanchurin at stanford university in california calculate that the number dwarfs the 10500 universes postulated in string theory, and raise the provocative notion that the answer may depend on the human brain.

the idea that there is more than one universe, each with its own laws of physics, arises out of several different theories, including string theory and cosmic inflation. this concept of a "multiverse" could explain a puzzling mystery - why dark energy, the furtive force that is accelerating the expansion of space, appears improbably fine-tuned for life. with a large number of universes, there is bound to be one that has a dark energy value like ours.

LightEye

10-31-2009, 12:27 PM

dear friends,

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-10/du-hef103009.php

be well, be love.

david

harvesting energy from nature's motions

durham, n.c. -- by taking advantage of the vagaries of the natural world, duke university engineers have developed a novel approach that they believe can more efficiently harvest electricity from the motions of everyday life.

energy harvesting is the process of converting one form of energy, such as motion, into another form of energy, in this case electricity. strategies range from the development of massive wind farms to produce large amounts of electricity to using the vibrations of walking to power small electronic devices.

although motion is an abundant source of energy, only limited success has been achieved because the devices used only perform well over a narrow band of frequencies. these so-called "linear" devices can work well, for example, if the character of the motion is fairly constant, such as the cadence of a person walking. however, as researchers point out, the pace of someone walking, as with all environmental sources, changes over time and can vary widely.

"the ideal device would be one that could convert a range of vibrations instead of just a narrow band," said samuel stanton, graduate student in duke's pratt school of engineering, working in the laboratory of brian mann, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials sciences. the team, which included undergraduate clark mcgehee, published the results of their latest experiments early online in applied physics letters.

"nature doesn't work in a single frequency, so we wanted to come up with a device that would work over a broad range of frequencies," stanton said. "by using magnets to 'tune' the bandwidth of the experimental device, we were able verify in the lab that this new non-linear approach can outperform conventional linear devices."

LightEye

11-11-2009, 10:50 AM

dear friends,

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427341.200-in-susy-we-trust-what-the-lhc-is-really-looking-for.html?full=true

be well, be love.

david

in susy we trust: what the lhc is really looking for
11 november 2009 by anil ananthaswamy

as damp squibs go, it was quite a spectacular one. amid great pomp and ceremony - not to mention dark offstage rumblings that the end of the world was nigh - the large hadron collider (lhc), the world's mightiest particle smasher, fired up in september last year. nine days later a short circuit and a catastrophic leak of liquid helium ignominiously shut the machine down.

now for take two. any day now, if all goes to plan, proton beams will start racing all the way round the ring deep beneath cern, the lhc's home on the outskirts of geneva, switzerland.

nobel laureate steven weinberg is worried. it's not that he thinks the lhc will create a black hole that will engulf the planet, or even that the restart will end in a technical debacle like last year's. no: he's actually worried that the lhc will find what some call the "god particle", the popular and embarrassingly grandiose moniker for the hitherto undetected higgs boson.

"i'm terrified," he says. "discovering just the higgs would really be a crisis."

why so? evidence for the higgs would be the capstone of an edifice that particle physicists have been building for half a century - the phenomenally successful theory known simply as the standard model. it describes all known particles, as well as three of the four forces that act on them: electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces.

it is also manifestly incomplete. we know from what the theory doesn't explain that it must be just part of something much bigger. so if the lhc finds the higgs and nothing but the higgs, the standard model will be sewn up. but then particle physics will be at a dead end, with no clues where to turn next.

hence weinberg's fears. however, if the theorists are right, before it ever finds the higgs, the lhc will see the first outline of something far bigger: the grand, overarching theory known as supersymmetry. susy, as it is endearingly called, is a daring theory that doubles the number of particles needed to explain the world. and it could be just what particle physicists need to set them on the path to fresh enlightenment.

weboy78

11-20-2009, 11:35 AM

black holes propulsion
http://arxiv.org/ps_cache/arxiv/pdf/0908/0908.1803v1.pdf

Abra

11-21-2009, 05:17 AM

i am feeling a distinct unease with this project. seems like we have "been here before". anyone else have any hits on this?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_sc/eu_sci_big_bang_machine

thank you,
abra

LightEye

11-26-2009, 03:37 AM

dear friends,

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=splitting-time-from-space

be well, be love.

david

splitting time from space—new quantum theory topples einstein's spacetime
buzz about a quantum gravity theory that sends space and time back to their newtonian roots
by zeeya merali

was newton right and einstein wrong? it seems that unzipping the fabric of spacetime and harking back to 19th-century notions of time could lead to a theory of quantum gravity.

physicists have struggled to marry quantum mechanics with gravity for decades. in contrast, the other forces of nature have obediently fallen into line. for instance, the electromagnetic force can be described quantum-mechanically by the motion of photons. try and work out the gravitational force between two objects in terms of a quantum graviton, however, and you quickly run into trouble—the answer to every calculation is infinity. but now petr hořava, a physicist at the university of california, berkeley, thinks he understands the problem. it’s all, he says, a matter of time.

more specifically, the problem is the way that time is tied up with space in einstein’s theory of gravity: general relativity. einstein famously overturned the newtonian notion that time is absolute—steadily ticking away in the background. instead he argued that time is another dimension, woven together with space to form a malleable fabric that is distorted by matter. the snag is that in quantum mechanics, time retains its newtonian aloofness, providing the stage against which matter dances but never being affected by its presence. these two conceptions of time don’t gel.

LightEye

12-08-2009, 11:46 AM

dear friends,

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24497/

be well, be love.

david

new model of the universe says past crystallizes out of the future

what do you get when the past crystallizes out of the future? according to a new model of the universe that combines relativity and quantum mechanics, the answer is: the present.

what's the difference between the past and the future? not a great deal, if you take a purely relativistic view of the universe, say george ellis from the university of cape town in south africa and tony rothman from princeton university in new jersey.

the standard spacetime diagrams used in relativity accord no special status to the past, the present or the future. that's because they assume that everything evolves from time-reversible local physics.

in fact, it is possible represent such a universe using a kind of spacetime diagram in which space and time merge into a single entity. "the universe just is: a fixed spacetime block,"say ellis and rothman. in this view, no instant has any special status: "all past and future times are equally present, and the present "now" is just one of an infinite number."

MarkM

12-08-2009, 05:58 PM

here is a link to an article which i feel is singularly amazing. the page linked to has more than one article, but i'm pointing to the first article presented.

this is a short but sweet synopsis of the material in michael talbot's and others' groundbreaking scientific exploration of the seeming parallels between holographic principles and the possible nature of the universe. to me, this is a powerful invitation to consider, intuit and juxta-suppose the resonant leavings of this article with the law of one. whoever wrote this article has really got the bag by the handle! :d

what this article does for me is to provide a sense of being on the outside looking in towards our human condition, and this also for me sums up something of my lifelong effort to describe that which i've always known inside.

after perusing this article, you can enjoy a great ride by googling on david bohm, and some others mentioned in this article. every link in this article leads to an open-ended exploration of law of one sensibilities.

dw has written in glowing terms of mr. talbot, and i'm going to check this guy out again... mark

http://www.crystalinks.com/holographic.html

Foghorn

12-09-2009, 09:24 AM

the physics blogs are abuzz with rumours that a particle of dark matter has finally been found.

if it is true, it is huge news. dark matter is thought to make up 90 per cent of the universe's mass and what evidence there is for it remains highly controversial. that's why any news of a sighting is seized upon.

the cryogenic dark matter search experiment is one of several designed to look for the tell-tale signature of dark matter particles passing through. no one is sure what a dark matter particle will look like, though theory gives some pointers.

most of the experiments have been designed to look for elusive massive particles called wimps that barely register as they pass through matter, because the only forces they experience are gravity and the weak nuclear force.

cdms is located deep underground in the soudan mine in minnesota, to protect it from the hail of cosmic rays that would otherwise wash out any dark matter signal.

continued....click here
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/12/rumours-that-first-dark-matter.html

weboy78

12-20-2009, 12:04 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsimzug4sem&feature=related

http://www.n01a.org/

tesla, faraday, einstein and numerous lesser known physic/philosphers who set the stage...

LightEye

12-21-2009, 01:31 AM

dear friends,

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=looking-for-life-in-the-multiverse

be well, be love.

david

looking for life in the multiverse
universes with different physical laws might still be habitable
by alejandro jenkins and gilad perez

key concepts

multiple other universes—each with its own laws of physics—may have emerged from the same primordial vacuum that gave rise to ours. assuming they exist, many of those universes may contain intricate structures and perhaps even some forms of life. these findings suggest that our universe may not be as “finely tuned” for the emergence of life as previously thought.

the typical hollywood action hero skirts death for a living. time and again, scores of bad guys shoot at him from multiple directions but miss by a hair. cars explode just a fraction of a second too late for the fireball to catch him before he finds cover. and friends come to the rescue just before a villain’s knife slits his throat. if any one of those things happened just a little differently, the hero would be hasta la vista, baby. yet even if we have not seen the movie before, something tells us that he will make it to the end in one piece.

in some respects, the story of our universe resembles a hollywood action movie. several physicists have argued that a slight change to one of the laws of physics would cause some disaster that would disrupt the normal evolution of the universe and make our existence impossible. for example, if the strong nuclear force that binds together atomic nuclei had been slightly stronger or weaker, stars would have forged very little of the carbon and other elements that seem necessary to form planets, let alone life. if the proton were just 0.2 percent heavier than it is, all primordial hydrogen would have decayed almost immediately into neutrons, and no atoms would have formed. the list goes on.

the laws of physics—and in particular the constants of nature that enter into those laws, such as the strengths of the fundamental forces—might therefore seem finely tuned to make our existence possible. short of invoking a supernatural explanation, which would be by definition outside the scope of science, a number of physicists and cosmologists began in the 1970s to try solving the puzzle by hypothesizing that our universe is just one of many existing universes, each with its own laws. according to this “anthropic” reasoning, we might just occupy the rare universe where the right conditions happen to have come together to make life possible.

LightEye

12-21-2009, 11:59 AM

dear friends,

check out the website ;-)

http://machineslikeus.com/news/mystery-golden-ratio-explained

be well, be love.

david

mystery of golden ratio explained?
mon, 12/21/2009 - 15:12 - nln

the egyptians supposedly used it to guide the construction the pyramids. the architecture of ancient athens is thought to have been based on it. fictional harvard symbologist robert langdon tried to unravel its mysteries in the novel the da vinci code.

"it" is the golden ratio, a geometric proportion that has been theorized to be the most aesthetically pleasing to the eye and has been the root of countless mysteries over the centuries. now, a duke university engineer has found it to be a compelling springboard to unify vision, thought and movement under a single law of nature's design.

also know the divine proportion, the golden ratio describes a rectangle with a length roughly one and a half times its width. many artists and architects have fashioned their works around this proportion. for example, the parthenon in athens and leonardo da vinci's painting mona lisa are commonly cited examples of the ratio.

adrian bejan, professor of mechanical engineering at duke's pratt school of engineering, thinks he knows why the golden ratio pops up everywhere: the eyes scan an image the fastest when it is shaped as a golden-ratio rectangle.

the natural design that connects vision and cognition is a theory that flowing systems -- from airways in the lungs to the formation of river deltas -- evolve in time so that they flow more and more easily. bejan termed this the constructal law in 1996, and its latest application appears early online in the international journal of design & nature and ecodynamics.

LightEye

12-21-2009, 12:20 PM

dear friends,

everything is interconnected ;-)

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24558/

be well, be love.

david

simulating the cosmic web

the beautiful tapestry of filaments, sheets and voids in the cosmic web is proving harder to model than anybody thought

the idea that stars clump together in "island universes" is relatively new to astronomy. it was only in the 1920s and 30s that astronomers agreed among themselves that "galaxies" must be separated by vast distances.

but only in the last ten years or so have astronomers discovered that galaxies themselves form into a far larger structure. the 100 billion galaxies that we know about are woven into a wispy web-like arrangement consisting of dense compact clusters, elongated filaments and sheet-like walls, amid large near-empty void regions.

this structure has become known as the cosmic web and one of the great challenges in modern cosmology is to accurately model and simulate it.

that's turning out to be tricky.

one of the important features of the cosmic web is that its structures range over many orders of magnitude. and since the largest structures, such as the wall-like features, are formed out of the smaller ones such as filaments and clusters, it's crucial that any model can handle the relationship between them at all these scales.

that's easier said than done. one way to imagine the problem is to think about zooming out from a particular cluster of galaxies to show the larger structures, rather in the manner of the famous powers of ten movie made in the 1970s.

LightEye

01-02-2010, 11:52 AM

dear friends,

http://plus.maths.org/issue53/features/mee/index.html

be well, be love.

david

how long is a day?
by nicholas mee

in our last online poll to find out what plus readers would most like to know about the universe you told us that you'd like to find out how long a day is. we took the question to the physicist nicholas mee and here is his answer.
how long is a day? how long does it take the earth to spin once on its axis?
what's this strange figure? carry on reading...

what's this strange figure? carry on reading...

it might seem obvious that the answer to both these questions is 24 hours. but the correct answer is not quite so straight forward. the earth's axis always points in the same direction relative to the distant stars, at least to a good approximation. this direction is close to the direction towards the star that we know as polaris. it actually takes the earth slightly over 23 hours and 56 minutes to rotate once around this axis. in this time all the stars appear to revolve once around the earth and return to their starting positions. astronomers call this period of time a sidereal day. the word "sidereal" is derived from the latin word "sidereus", which means star.

unless we are astronomers and concerning ourselves with the positions of the stars in the night sky, we prefer to measure the time with respect to the position of the sun. we define a day to be the period of time between consecutive appearances of the sun due south in the sky.

Elluindil

01-05-2010, 02:55 PM

from a different viewpoint, in the myron evans model, there is no dark matter. the spiral galaxy form we see is the result of spacetime torsion dominating the curvature (gravity) forces at the periphery.

there is no dark matter, it is an unnecessary construct.

instead, torsion drives the spiral galaxies. curvature (gravity) dominates in the central core, but at the periphery, torsion takes over. this allows a nice representation of the dynamics with out the need for "mythical" constructs like dark matter (according to myron's math).

http://www.atomicprecision.com/uft/a76thpaper.pdf

see also, papers 96 and 111, 114, may be of interest.

it's important to understand the controversy here. spiral galaxies "refute" einstein. they spin too fast. dark matter is a theory that has been proposed to explain the otherwise clear non-newtonian, non-einsteininan movement of galaxies. thus, dark matter theory allows us to salvage einstein's theory. not surprisingly, evans theory is controversial.

LightEye

01-08-2010, 01:35 AM

dear friends,

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18356-most-beautiful-math-structure-appears-in-lab-for-first-time.html

be well, be love.

david

'most beautiful' math structure appears in lab for first time
20:49 07 january 2010 by david shiga

a complex form of mathematical symmetry linked to string theory has been glimpsed in the real world for the first time, in laboratory experiments on exotic crystals.

mathematicians discovered a complex 248-dimensional symmetry called e8 in the late 1800s. the dimensions in the structure are not necessarily spatial, like the three dimensions we live in, but they correspond to mathematical degrees of freedom, where each dimension represents a different variable.

in the 1970s, the symmetrical form turned up in calculations related to string theory, a candidate for the "theory of everything" that might explain all the forces in the universe. but string theory still awaits experimental proof.

the structure is also the basis for another proposed theory of everything advanced in 2007 by surfer-physicist garrett lisi, who refers to e8 as "perhaps the most beautiful structure in mathematics".

LightEye

01-08-2010, 10:37 AM

dear friends,

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/100107_goldenratio.htm

be well, be love.

david

“golden ratio” hints at hidden atomic symmetry

jan. 7, 2010
courtesy helmholtz association
of german research centres
and world science staff

a hith*er*to un*dis*cov*ered sym*me*try can be found in sol*id mat*ter at very small scales, phys*i*cists are re*port*ing. the sym*me*try, they say, in*volves the gold*en ra*tio fa*mous from art and ar*chi*tec*ture.

par*t*i*cles at the atom*ic, or quan*tum, scale be*have in un*ex*pected and seem*ingly irra*t*ional ways. new prop*er*ties emerge that stem from an ef*fect known as hei*sen*berg’s un*cer*tain*ty prin*ci*ple.

the re*search*ers in the new study fo*cused on the mag*net*ic ma*te*ri*al co*balt nio*bate. it con*sists of linked mag*net*ic at*oms, which form chains like a very thin ba*r mag*net, but only one at*om wide. they are con*sid*ered a use*ful mod*el for de*scrib*ing mag*netism at ti*ny scales in sol*id state mat*ter.

LightEye

01-12-2010, 01:25 AM

dear friends,

http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0726

be well, be love.

david

multiverse scenarios in cosmology: classification, cause, challenge, controversy, and criticism

authors: ruediger vaas
(submitted on 5 jan 2010)
abstract: multiverse scenarios in cosmology assume that other universes exist "beyond" our own universe. they are an exciting challenge both for empirical and theoretical research as well as for philosophy of science. they could be necessary to understand why the big bang occurred, why (some of) the laws of nature and the values of certain physical constants are the way they are, and why there is an arrow of time. this essay clarifies competing notions of "universe" and "multiverse"; it proposes a classification of different multiverse types according to various aspects how the universes are or are not separated from each other; it reviews the main reasons for assuming the existence of other universes: empirical evidence, theoretical explanation, and philosophical arguments; and, finally, it argues that some attempts to criticize multiverse scenarios as "unscientific", insisting on a narrow understanding of falsification, is neither appropriate nor convincing from a philosophy of science point of view. --

jpstephens2012

01-12-2010, 07:12 PM

alrighty boys and girls, here is a piece that's bound to flip your lid. no it's not dr. who, it's the dr. who is revealing the secrets hidden for so long.

religion and time

an article by dr. david lewis anderson (http://www.andersoninstitute.com/david-lewis-anderson-biography.html)

time and spirituality

http://www.andersoninstitute.com/images/time-and-spirituality.gif
time and spirituality every day physicists are continuing to prove rationally that our rational ideas about world in which we live in are profoundly deficient. the final acceptance of this new knowledge will transform our world and reality in a manner that is difficult to comprehend.

an example of how these new discoveries will shatter our view of the world and our reality can be seen in the new views we see in the simple and most basic concepts of reality, like the concept of time.

as science continues to make us doubt our own perception of reality it forces us to ask an important question. what will the impact be on our views of spirituality and religion? physicists have always been separated from the world of philosophy and religion by the strict walls of analytical science.

cont...

http://www.andersoninstitute.com/religion-and-time.htm

weboy78

01-19-2010, 03:30 AM

"are black holes actually white?" stephen hawking's theory says "yes"
stephen hawkings great discovery was that the mysterious regions in space we call black holes radiate heat through quantum effects. hawking has said that "black holes are not really black after all: they glow like a hot body, and the smaller they are, the more they glow." hawking's famous theory says that the temperature of a black hole varies inversely to its mass.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/01/are-black-holes-actually-white-stephen-hawkings-theory-says-yes.html

LightEye

01-25-2010, 05:13 AM

dear friends,

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2010/01/quantum_gravity_einsteins_erro.html#more

be well, be love.

david

quantum gravity, einstein's errors and the cosmic ray proton

shifting the paradigm of physics is what vertner vergon would like to do. using quantum theory, vergon proposes an actual mechanism for how gravity physically works, something neither newton nor einstein could quite bring themselves to do.

and talking about einstein ... vergon is one of the few people who clearly point out what are special relativity's logical inconsistencies and how they will de-throne the theory as logically inconsistent. there goes a mainstay of physics.

LightEye

01-27-2010, 11:49 AM

dear friends,

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2010/122/1?etoc

be well, be love.

david

colliding particles can make black holes
by adrian cho
sciencenow daily news
22 january 2010

you've heard the controversy. particle physicists predict the world's new highest-energy atom smasher, the large hadron collider (lhc) near geneva, switzerland, might create tiny black holes, which they say would be a fantastic discovery. some doomsayers fear those black holes might gobble up earth--physicist say that's impossible--and have petitioned the united nations to stop the $5.5 billion lhc. curiously, though, nobody had ever shown that the prevailing theory of gravity, einstein's theory of general relativity, actually predicts that a black hole can be made this way. now a computer model shows conclusively for the first time that a particle collision really can make a black hole.

"i would have been surprised if it had come out the other way," says joseph lykken, a physicist at the fermi national accelerator laboratory in batavia, illinois. "but it is important to have the people who know how black holes form look at this in detail."

the key to forming a black hole is cramming enough mass or energy into a small enough volume, as happens when a massive star collapses. according to einstein's theory of general relativity, mass and energy warp space and time, or spacetime, to create the effect we perceive as gravity. if a large enough mass or energy is crammed into a small enough space, that warping becomes so severe that nothing, not even light, can escape. the object thus becomes a black hole. and two particles can make a miniscule black hole in just this way if they collide with an energy above a fundamental limit called the planck energy.

weboy78

01-28-2010, 04:56 AM

physorg.com) -- a new experiment that reproduces the magnetic fields of the earth and other planets has yielded its first significant results. the findings confirm that its unique approach has some potential to be developed as a new way of creating a power-producing plant based on nuclear fusion -- the process that generates the sun's prodigious output of energy.
http://www.physorg.com/news183544566.html

Ross hamilton Hill

01-30-2010, 09:04 PM

dear friends,

http://physorg.com/news96027669.html

be well, be love.

david

mathematician suggests extra dimensions are time-like
by lisa zyga

the analytical structure underlying the spinorial theory can be represented visually. the structure is a xi-transform, which moves between the three spaces in the directions given by the bendings of the upper case greek letter xi. the distorted squares represent the wave operator. the product of a wave operator and a xi transform, taken in any order, is zero. image credit: erin sparling.

in a recent study, mathematician george sparling of the university of pittsburgh examines a fundamental question pondered since the time of pythagoras, and still vexing scientists today: what is the nature of space and time? after analyzing different perspectives, sparling offers an alternative idea: space-time may have six dimensions, with the extra two being time-like.

if you assume existence is infinite, then the number of directions any object is moving in could also be infinite, or to be less theoretical, our movement could approach the infintite given the possibility that different areas, or layers of existence,(purely spatially) could be moving in different directions. this continuum would continue down to the quantum level and again presumably further into the infintesimal. just a thought.

LightEye

02-04-2010, 02:52 AM

dear friends,

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/02/02/2192247.aspx

be well, be love.

david

dodging the arrow of time?
posted: tuesday, february 02, 2010 6:00 pm by alan boyle

the last season of "lost" might clear up some fictional time-travel mysteries, but the true mysteries of time can be found in a new book titled "from eternity to here."

if the laws of physics are reversible, why can we change the future - but not the past? why is it virtually impossible to unscramble an egg, or unstir the cream in our cup of coffee? why does the arrow of time move in only one direction?

in the world of "lost," the arrow of time gets tied up in knots: a mother shoots her time-traveling son before he was born ... a plane-crash survivor nearly kills a kid who grows up to enlist him as an assassin. virtually everyone on the island gets zapped from the present to the past and the future when somebody pushes a creaky old wheel through a glowing slice of weird electromagnetic energy.

so far, however, the show hasn't run into the kinds of paradoxes that plague science-fiction tales ranging from "the twilight zone" to the latest "star trek" movie. nobody goes back and kills hitler to head off the holocaust. nobody kills his mother before he's born. as one character says, "whatever happened, happened."

Berry Chastain

02-08-2010, 11:19 AM

hey gang, i found this an intrigueing article.

http://redicecreations.com/article.php?id=9763

l&l
berry
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first, they teleported photons, then atoms and ions. now one physicist has worked out how to do it with energy, a technique that has profound implications for the future of physics.

in 1993, charlie bennett at ibm's watson research center in new york state and a few pals showed how to transmit quantum information from one point in space to another without traversing the intervening space.

the technique relies on the strange quantum phenomenon called entanglement, in which two particles share the same existence. this deep connection means that a measurement on one particle immediately influences the other, even though they are light-years apart. bennett and company worked out how to exploit this to send information. (the influence between the particles may be immediate, but the process does not violate relativity because some informatiom has to be sent classically at the speed of light.) they called the technique teleportation.

weboy78

02-11-2010, 01:25 PM

http://newswire.rockefeller.edu/?page=engine&id=1031
in the liquid state, every water molecule fleetingly interacts with its four nearest neighbors, forming a tetrahedron, explains kumar. these tetrahedrons, however, are slightly imperfect and the degree to which they are changes as temperature and pressure change, ultimately affecting which individual water molecules partner up with each other. kumar found that it is the fluctuations in the degree of tetrahedrality that contribute most to one of water’s most notable and valuable features — its capacity to resist heating or cooling and thereby regulating and maintaining the temperature of biological systems.

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/41645
the team began by looking at wells containing six large balls. these tend to form clusters with either a symmetrical octahedron shape or a less symmetric complex of three tetrahedrons. although both shapes have 12 bonds between balls, which means that they have exactly the same energy, the high-entropy tri-tetrahedron was found to be about 20 times more common than its more symmetric counterpart.

weboy78

02-18-2010, 11:20 AM

quantum vacuum-3d reality interaction
http://www.electra-energy-ag.com/en/animation/

weboy78

02-19-2010, 12:55 PM

the plasma, which was 250,000 times hotter than the center of the sun, seemed to create small pockets where particles lost their left- or right-handed identity. all particles have a specific spin direction that dictates different behaviors, and many chemical compounds have an orientation that makes mirror-image molecules react differently. according to scientists at the rhic, the creation of these small, transient, bubbles that voided handedness may explain the process by which matter came to outnumber antimatter in the universe.
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-02/rhic-collider-creates-72-trillion-degrees-fahrenheit-quark-gluon-plasma

LightEye

02-25-2010, 09:56 AM

dear friends,

http://news.discovery.com/space/can-life-exist-in-alternate-universes.html

be well, be love.

david

can life exist in alternate universes?
by ian o'neill | tue feb 23, 2010 05:00 am et

just by reading at that title you might have disregarded this article as pure fantasy. and to be honest, i had to read the mit article twice before i took it seriously.

although it's pure speculation, there's something appealing about considering multiple universes (a scenario known as the "multiverse") where anything -- and i mean anything -- is possible. but just because an alternate universe is possible, it doesn't mean life can exist there.

now scientists from mit -- obviously not content with searching for life within our own cosmos -- have shown that alternate universes could nurture life even if the fundamental nature of these universes is totally different from our own.

quark tweaking

professor robert jaffe and his team at mit recently had their work published on the front cover of scientific american after they reached this intriguing conclusion. by slightly altering the masses of the fundamental particles that make up the matter in our universe, jaffe et al. have shown that although the characteristics of the elements may change, organic chemistry should still be possible in the multiverse.

in the multiverse, "nature gets a lot of tries -- the universe is an experiment that's repeated over and over again, each time with slightly different physical laws, or even vastly different physical laws," says jaffe.

focusing only on carbon-based life forms (i.e. life as we know it™), the mit scientists worked out some different scenarios by tweaking the masses of the tiny particles that make up protons and neutrons. these particles are called "quarks" and they come in six different "flavors" but jaffe only looked at the most common quarks: the 'up,' 'down' and 'strange'.

weboy78

03-01-2010, 10:59 AM

murphy first suspected two years ago that the dust problem was cutting the light down even further. he was puzzled to detect far fewer photons than he expected, even when the atmospheric conditions were perfect. his team also saw a further drop when the moon was full and used to joke about the full moon curse. this gave murphy some clues.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18527-dusty-mirrors-on-the-moon-obscure-tests-of-relativity.html

something is changing?

LightEye

03-03-2010, 10:53 AM

dear friends,

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527501.100-a-measure-for-th...

be well, be love.

david

a measure for the multiverse

* 03 march 2010
byamanda gefter

when cosmologist george ellis turned 70 last year, his friends held a party to celebrate. there were speeches and drinks and canapés aplenty tohonour the theorist from the university of cape town, south africa, whois regarded as one of the world's leading experts on generalrelativity. but there the similarity to most parties ends.

for a start, ellis's celebration at the university of oxford lasted for
three days and the guest list was made up entirely of physicists,astronomers and philosophers of science. they had gathered to debatewhat ellis considers the most dangerous idea in science: the suggestionthat our universe is but a tiny part of an unimaginably large anddiverse multiverse.

to the dismay of ellis and many of his colleagues, the multiverse has developed rapidly from a being merely a speculative idea to a theoryverging on respectability. there are good reasons why. several strandsof theoretical physics - quantum mechanics, string theory and cosmic inflation - seem to converge on the idea that our universe is only oneamong an infinite and ever-growing assemblage of disconnected bubbleuniverses.

what's more, the multiverse offers a plausible answer to what has become an infuriatingly slippery question: why does the quantity of dark energyin the universe have the extraordinarily unlikely value that it does?no theory of our universe has been able to explain it. but if there arecountless universes out there beyond our cosmic horizon, each with itsown value for the quantity of dark energy it contains, the value weobserve becomes not just probable but inevitable.

despite the many virtues of the multiverse, ellis is far from alone in finding it a dangerous idea. the main cause for alarm is the fact that itpostulates the existence of a multitude of unobservable universes,making the whole idea untestable. if something as fundamental as this is untestable, says ellis, the foundations of science itself are undermined.

LightEye

03-04-2010, 11:24 AM

dear friends,

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18612-knowing-the-mind-of-god-seven-theories-of-everything.html?full=true

be well, be love.

david

knowing the mind of god: seven theories of everything

* 15:33 04 march 2010
by michael marshall

the "theory of everything" is one of the most cherished dreams of science. if it is ever discovered, it will describe the workings of the universe at the most fundamental level and thus encompass our entire understanding of nature. it would also answer such enduring puzzles as what dark matter is, the reason time flows in only one direction and how gravity works. small wonder that stephen hawking famously said that such a theory would be "the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of god".

but theologians needn't lose too much sleep just yet. despite decades of effort, progress has been slow. rather than one or two rival theories whose merits can be judged
against the evidence, there is a profusion of candidates and precious few clues as to which (if any) might turn out to be correct.

LightEye

03-06-2010, 02:14 PM

dear friends,

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/30858/

be well, be love.

david

is time an illusion?
by leonardo vintiñi

“time is a moving image of eternity.” —plato

we tend to believe that destiny is not fixed and that all time past fades into oblivion, but can the movement be a mere illusion? a renowned british physicist explains that in a special dimension, time simply doesn’t exist.

“if you try to get your hands on time, it’s always slipping through your fingers,” said julian barbour, british physicist and author of “the end of time: the next revolution in physics,” in an interview with the edge foundation. while this poetic statement still resonates in the room, barbour and the journalist probably do not have any connection with their own selves a second ago.

barbour believes that people cannot capture time because it does not exist. while this is not a new theory, it has never had the popularity that einstein’s theory of relativity or the string theory has had.

the concept of a timeless universe is not only irresistibly attractive to a handful of scientists, but such a model may pave the way to explain many of the paradoxes that modern physics faces in explaining the universe.

LightEye

03-10-2010, 12:10 PM

dear friends,

someone who explains abstract things which most can understand...

http://www.thoughtcast.org/science/lisa-randall-harvard-physicist/

be well, be love.

david

lisa randall, harvard physicist

wgbh broadcast this thoughtcast interview, and also features it on their “science luminaries” series, as part of “wgbh science city.” it was also broadcast on wcai/wnan, public radio stations for the cape and islands.

professor randall is a theoretical particle physicist who sees past the rest of us to a world of extra dimensions and parallel universes. hers is a world of warped geometry, sink-holes and branes — a world that fills glaring gaps in current thinking, and can finally explain why gravity is so ‘weak’!

now while this might sound like so much greek — just wait. randall’s latest book, written for the layman, is called “warped passages: unraveling the mysteries of the universe’s hidden dimensions” — so she’s had plenty of practice explaining these high-flying ideas to english majors.

weboy78

03-19-2010, 05:45 AM

energy from fullerene

optical heating and rapid transformation of functionalized fullerenes

vijay krishna1, nathanael stevens1, ben koopman1,2 & brij moudgil1,3

abstract

irradiating single-walled carbon nanotubes can lead to heat generation or ignition1. these processes could be used in medical2, 3 and industrial applications4, but the poor solvent compatibility and high aspect ratios of nanotubes have led to concerns about safety5, 6. here, we show that certain functionalized fullerenes, including polyhydroxy fullerenes
http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nnano.2010.35.html

weboy78

03-23-2010, 06:10 AM

http://www.physorg.com/news188211977.html
(physorg.com) -- for a brief instant, it appears, scientists at brook*haven national laboratory on long island recently discovered a law of nature had been broken.

weboy78

03-23-2010, 09:34 AM

sciencedaily (mar. 22, 2010) — a potential new energy source so controversial that people once regarded it as junk science is moving closer to acceptance by the mainstream scientific community. that's the conclusion of the organizer of one of the largest scientific sessions on the topic -- "cold fusion" -- being held here for the next two days in the moscone center during the 239th national meeting of the american chemical society (acs).
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100321182909.htm

Vinnie

03-30-2010, 06:37 AM

prof. dr. wubbo j. ockels is a dutch physicist, and also the netherlands’ original astronaut. he is a professor of aerospace sustainable engineering and technology at the university of delft, and tries to stimulate a mentality change among dutch citizens.

http://www.tedxamsterdam.nl/2009/video-wubbo-ockels-on-time-and-gravity/

cheers!

vinnie

LightEye

04-06-2010, 11:43 AM

dear friends,

http://www.physorg.com/news189694649.html

be well, be love.

david

einstein equations indicate possibility of black hole formation at the lhc
april 6, 2010 by miranda marquit large hadron collider

(physorg.com) -- one of the concerns that has been voiced about the large hadron collider (lhc), is that it could result in the formation of black holes that could destroy the world. while most scientists dismiss claims that anything produced in the lhc would destroy the planet, there are some that think that black formation could be seen with lhc collisions of sufficiently high energy. this idea has gotten a further boost from recent efforts by matthew choptuik at the university of british columbia in vancouver, and frans pretorius, at princeton university in new jersey.

“what we did was a calculation,” choptuik tells physorg.com. “we solved some of the einstein field equations describing head on soliton collisions at certain energies.” choptuik and pretorius present their work, and their conclusions, in physical review letters: “ultrarelativistic particle collisions.”

“our calculation produced results that most were expecting, but no one had done the calculation before. people were just sort of assuming that it would work out,” choptuik says. “now that these simulations have been done, some scientists will have a better idea of what to look for in terms of trying to see if black holes are formed in lhc collisions.”

choptuik points out that there has been an effort for more than 50 years to marry particle physics with the idea of gravity. “at the level of classical physics we think we understand gravity pretty well,” he explains. “however, at the quantum mechanical level, gravity is not at all well understood. scientists have been looking for a way to understand quantum gravity in the same way as we understand how the smallest particles work on a quantum level. while solving these equations doesn’t answer all the questions, it does substantiate what we have already assumed.”

LightEye

04-07-2010, 11:20 AM

dear friends,

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627550.200-enter-the-matrix-the-deep-law-that-shapes-our-reality.html?full=true

be well, be love.

david

enter the matrix: the deep law that shapes our reality

* 07 april 2010 by mark buchanan
*

suppose we had a theory that could explain everything. not just atoms and quarks but aspects of our everyday lives too. sound impossible? perhaps not.

it's all part of the recent explosion of work in an area of physics known as random matrix theory. originally developed more than 50 years ago to describe the energy levels of atomic nuclei, the theory is turning up in everything from inflation rates to the behaviour of solids. so much so that many researchers believe that it points to some kind of deep pattern in nature that we don't yet understand. "it really does feel like the ideas of random matrix theory are somehow buried deep in the heart of nature," says electrical engineer raj nadakuditi of the university of michigan, ann arbor.

all of this, oddly enough, emerged from an effort to turn physicists' ignorance into an advantage. in 1956, when we knew very little about the internal workings of large, complex atomic nuclei, such as uranium, the german physicist eugene wigner suggested simply guessing.

quantum theory tells us that atomic nuclei have many discrete energy levels, like unevenly spaced rungs on a ladder. to calculate the spacing between each of the rungs, you would need to know the myriad possible ways the nucleus can hop from one to another, and the probabilities for those events to happen. wigner didn't know, so instead he picked numbers at random for the probabilities and arranged them in a square array called a matrix.

the matrix was a neat way to express the many connections between the different rungs. it also allowed wigner to exploit the powerful mathematics of matrices in order to make predictions about the energy levels.

bizarrely, he found this simple approach enabled him to work out the likelihood that any one level would have others nearby, in the absence of any real knowledge. wigner's results, worked out in a few lines of algebra, were far more useful than anyone could have expected, and experiments over the next few years showed a remarkably close fit to his predictions. why they work, though, remains a mystery even today.

what is most remarkable, though, is how wigner's idea has been used since then. it can be applied to a host of problems involving many interlinked variables whose connections can be represented as a random matrix.

LightEye

04-07-2010, 12:17 PM

dear friends,

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/05/freaky-physics-proves-parallel-universes/?test=faces

be well, be love.

david

freaky physics proves parallel universes exist
by john brandon
- foxnews.com

look past the details of a wonky discovery by a group of california scientists -- that a quantum state is now observable with the human eye -- and consider its implications: time travel may be feasible.

look past the details of a wonky discovery by a group of california scientists -- that a quantum state is now observable with the human eye -- and consider its implications: time travel may be feasible. doc brown would be proud.

the strange discovery by quantum physicists at the university of california santa barbara means that an object you can see in front of you may exist simultaneously in a parallel universe -- a multi-state condition that has scientists theorizing that traveling through time may be much more than just the plaything of science fiction writers.

and it's all because of a tiny bit of metal -- a "paddle" about the width of a human hair, an item that is incredibly small but still something you can see with the naked eye.

uc santa barbara's andrew cleland cooled that paddle in a refrigerator, dimmed the lights and, under a special bell jar, sucked out all the air to eliminate vibrations. he then plucked it like a tuning fork and noted that it moved and stood still at the same time.

that sounds contradictory, and it's nearly impossible to understand if your last name isn't einstein. but it actually happened. it's a freaky fact that's at the heart of quantum mechanics.

LightEye

04-20-2010, 12:28 PM

dear friends,

this is a 6 part video series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaagr_vr2lu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tetznbf9fns

be well, be love.

david

this film is about looking at the world around us in a completely different way. if you pay attention, you can see that fractals appear throughout nature. but until benoit mandelbrot came along, no one really understood what was there all along.

you may not know it, but fractals, like the air you breathe, are all around you. their irregular, repeating shapes are found in cloud formations and tree limbs, in stalks of broccoli and craggy mountain ranges, even in the rhythm of the human heart. in this film, the film makers take viewers on a fascinating quest with a group of maverick mathematicians determined to decipher the rules that govern fractal geometry.

for centuries, fractal-like irregular shapes were considered beyond the boundaries of mathematical understanding. now, mathematicians have finally begun deepening our understanding of nature and stimulating a new wave of scientific, medical, and artistic innovation stretching from the ecology of the rain forest to fashion design. the documentary highlights a host of filmmakers, fashion designers, physicians, and researchers who are using fractal geometry to innovate and inspire.

produced and directed by emmy- and peabody award-winning filmmakers michael schwarz and bill jersey, the documentary weaves cutting-edge research from the front lines of science into a compelling mathematical detective story. the film introduces a number of distinguished individuals who have used fractal geometry to transform their fields, like loren carpenter, who created the first completely computer-generated sequence in a movie.

in the late 1970s, carpenter stumbled across the work of a little-known mathematician, benoit mandelbrot, who coined the word "fractal," from the latin word fractus, meaning irregular or broken up. based on mandelbrot's mathematical descriptions of fractals in nature, carpenter was able to create detailed computer simulations of organic forms in a way that had never before been possible. the groundbreaking computer-generated sequence carpenter produced in 1980 for star trek ii: the wrath of khan marked a milestone in movie history, and owed its creation to fractal geometry.

it took a maverick with a hard-won aversion to authority to stand up to the conventional wisdom that nature stood outside the bounds of mathematics. through interviews and personal artifacts, mandelbrot shares the story of his struggle to survive as a jewish teenager in nazi-occupied france, his journey to america, and his lifelong fascination with a corps of european mathematicians whose explorations of the so-called "mathematical monsters" laid the groundwork for his own discoveries. [read an interview with mandelbrot, illustrated with stunning fractal images.]

filmmaker bill jersey believes mandelbrot's approach to fractals might ultimately become as significant as the cracking of the genetic code. "as fractals continue to revolutionize the way scientists develop theories and conduct research, the inevitable results will be innovations that dramatically change health care, environmental policy, design, and technology," jersey says.

in 1980, mandelbrot published a mesmerizing image known as the mandelbrot set. (to explore the set, go to a sense of scale.) the intricate, mysterious beauty of this image, which was generated by a single mathematical function, won him acclaim from an unexpected quarter—the world of popular culture. but fractals are more than pretty pictures. almost all living things distribute nutrients through their bodies via branching networks, such as systems of blood vessels, that obey the rules of fractal geometry.

in toronto, physicist peter burns is making a mathematical model of blood vessels to find ways to diagnose cancer earlier than is now possible. in boston, cardiologist ary goldberger has discovered that, contrary to centuries of belief, a healthy human heartbeat does not have an even pattern like a metronome but rather a jagged, variable fractal pattern—a discovery that one day may help doctors diagnose cardiac disease before damage is done.

weboy78

05-20-2010, 08:14 AM

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/05/quantum-teleportation-achieved-over-ten-miles-of-free-space.ars
quantum teleportation has achieved a new milestone or, should we say, a new ten-milestone: scientists have recently had success teleporting information between photons over a free space distance of nearly ten miles, an unprecedented length. the researchers who have accomplished this feat note that this brings us closer to communicating information without needing a traditional signal, and that the ten miles they have reached could span the distance between the surface of the earth and space.

weboy78

05-27-2010, 08:44 AM

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627604.100-pyramids-are-the-best-shape-for-packing.html
if physicists ran candy stores, gumball machines might be filled with pyramids instead of spheres. it seems that tetrahedra, with their four triangular faces, are the most efficient shape for filling a container randomly, as opposed to carefully stacking objects within it.

divine_zigge

05-27-2010, 01:39 PM

the mainz quantum interface. using laser light which travels through a tapered glass fiber, cesium atoms are trapped along its ultra-thin waist. the central part of the fiber is thinner than the wavelength of the light itself. as a consequence, the latter protrudes into the space surrounding the fiber and couples to the trapped atoms. © quantum, jgu mainz

german hysicists at the johannes gutenberg university mainz have developed a quantum interface which connects light particles and atoms.

the interface is based on an ultra-thin glass fiber and is suitable for the transmission of quantum information. this is an essential prerequisite for quantum communication which shall be used for secure data transmission via quantum cryptography. "our quantum interface might also prove useful for the realization of a quantum computer," adds professor dr arno rauschenbeutel from the institute of physics at mainz university.

source: http://www.physorg.com/news194169329.html

LightEye

06-01-2010, 10:52 AM

dear friends,

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3474/physicists-spot-shape-shifting-neutrinos

be well, be love.

david

physicists spot shape-shifting neutrinos
tuesday, 1 june 2010
agence france-presse

paris: scientists in italy are 98% certain that they observed 'neutrino oscillation', a phenomenon that proves the mysterious sub-atomic particles have mass and will modify the standard model of physics.

the finding could have major implications for our understanding of matter in the universe, the researchers said.

for decades physicists had observed that fewer neutrinos - the most common particle in the universe, which is electrically neutral and travels close to the speed of light - arrived at earth from the sun than solar models predicted. this was dubbed the 'solar neutrino problem'.

now you see it, now you don't

that meant one of two things: either the models were wrong, or something was happening to the neutrinos along the way.

at least one variety called a muon-neutrino was actually seen to disappear, lending credence to a nobel-winning 1969 hypothesis that the minuscule particles were shape-shifting into a new and unseen form.

now scientists at italy's national institute for nuclear physics have for the first time observed - with 98% certainty - what they change into during a process called neutrino oscillation: another type of particle known as tau.

LightEye

06-15-2010, 10:26 AM

dear friends,

"there is only one of us and at the same time there are many of us..."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10313875.stm

be well, be love.

david

us experiment hints at 'multiple god particles'
by paul rincon
science reporter, bbc news

the idea comes from results gathered by the dzero experiment

there may be multiple versions of the elusive "god particle" - or higgs boson - according to a new study.

finding the higgs is the primary aim of the £6bn ($10bn) large hadron collider (lhc) experiment near geneva.

but recent results from the lhc's us rival suggest physicists could be hunting five particles, not one.

the data may point to new laws of physics beyond the current accepted theory - known as the standard model.

the higgs boson's nickname comes from its importance to the standard model; it is the sub-atomic particle which explains why all other particles have mass.

however, despite decades trying, no-one, so far, has detected it.

the idea of multiple higgs bosons is supported by results gathered by the dzero experiment at the tevatron particle accelerator, operated by fermilab in illinois, us.

LightEye

06-18-2010, 12:41 PM

dear friends,

http://blog.hasslberger.com/docs/empirical_science_back_to_reality.pdf

be well, be love.

david

continuous creation, einstein and the 'expanding' big-bang universe

something is wrong with our view of the universe as propagated by physicists around the world. the contradictions are glaring and the sums don't add up. and yet - we are told that red-shifted light from the stars is evidence of a continuous expansion of the universe, an expansion that started with a primordial explosion or big bang, and that is still going on to this day.

robert neil boyd questions that 'received wisdom' in a recent article. he argues that observation is far superior to theory. whenever an observed fact contradicts a theory, the latter has to give way. we need to re-think and find a better explanation that fits all of the observations.

boyd also challenges einstein's relativity. he says it fails the test of popper's criteria for reliability in the sciences.

his conclusion: we need to return to reality, even in physics, and even at the expense of tearing down a holy of holies like einstein's relativity.

empirical science: back to reality!

science is based on the principle of cause and effect. we observe an effect. (something happens, or some event is observed.) what caused it? then, on finding out, we want to know, "what caused that?", going from cause to cause, looking for the actual origination of things. this succession of asking the same question, at every point in the sequence, is a process which is apparently without end. (though there may be some end-points reached eventually, in some regards.)

"what caused it?" is the primary and most fundamental question in science. what causes that observable event to happen? in fact, this question is primary to existence and to life experience. we are always asking questions in our lives, such as: where did that come from? why did that happen? what started it? who started it? why did they do that? what was the origination of that (event)?

these are all varieties of the same question: what caused it, actually? because we know that until we find out what is the cause of some experience, the origination of it, we may be experiencing the same painful experience over and over again, until we learn to avoid the results of that cause, or cease performing that particular action. or we may be missing the same pleasant experience, time after time, until we learn how to get it to happen again.

cause and effect. this principle is used and applied by all life and all forms of consciousness, continuously. knowing the cause of a thing or event is fundamental to existence. nothing can live without applying this principle of cause and effect, at every opportunity. so learning about cause and effect is a natural condition, and is crucial to all life. so, doing "science" (in terms of cause and effect) is a natural behavior.

the proverbial tale of newton and the apple that bonked him on the head (it never happened, really) leading to newton's discovery of the law of gravitational attraction, is an example of how exploring and examining our experiences in order to find what is the origin of the given observable event, results in reliable understandings about how reality actually works.

given a known cause, we can observe that a known effect is always resulting from that same cause...

LightEye

06-23-2010, 10:53 AM

dear friends,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10385675.stm

be well, be love.

david

god particle signal is simulated as sound
by pallab ghosh
science correspondent, bbc news

scientists have simulated the sounds set to be made by sub-atomic particles such as the higgs boson when they are produced at the large hadron collider.

their aim is to develop a means for physicists at cern to "listen to the data" and pick out the higgs particle if and when they finally detect it.

dr lily asquith modelled data from the giant atlas experiment at the lhc.

she worked with sound engineers to convert data expected from collisions at the lhc into sounds.

"if the energy is close to you, you will hear a low pitch and if it's further away you hear a higher pitch," the particle physicist told bbc news.

LightEye

07-09-2010, 12:32 PM

dear friends,

http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/times-pencil.htm/comment-page-1#comment-6748

you can check out metod saniga's theory here;

geometry of psychological time

http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0302/0302075.pdf

be well, be love.

david

time’s pencil
july 9th, 2010 by admin

one of the most vexing problems to most physicists is the notion of time and its absolute relativity, depending on the subjectivity of the observer. in the normal course of events, we experience time as a flow, or arrow.

but during extraordinary experiences — during a mystic revelation, while taking a mind-altering drug, in a moment of madness, or even during a near-death experience (nde) — all of us experience time rather differently: as an eternal moment of now or even, in the case of clairvoyants, as a moment in the future.

to a person on a hallucinogenic drug, time can even feel as
though it is flowing backward. however, mainstream physics does not have a theory able to embrace either our ordinary or extraordinary perception of time.

LightEye

07-11-2010, 12:24 PM

dear friends,

http://www.fqxi.org/community/articles/display/135

be well, be love.

david

time and the multiverse
could multiple universes explain our arrow of time? does time run backwards in other universes?
by miriam frankel
fqxi awardees: laura mersini-houghton
june 17, 2010

you must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh. the fundamental things apply, as time goes by...

for many of us, this song from casablanca evokes memories of romance. but to laura mersini-houghton it may provoke deeper questions about the foundations of reality: why can we only remember the past, not the future? and what is the origin of the arrow of time? her conclusion is that the time’s arrow is not as fundamental as we may believe.

mersini-houghton’s view of time comes from looking at the bigger picture—the biggest possible picture, in fact. with the help of a $50,000 grant from fqxi, she is investigating the possibility that our universe is just one of many in a "multiverse" of universes and what that means for time’s arrow.

womb to tomb

we travel through life from womb to tomb, not vice-versa, yet physicists have no real explanation for why time flows in only one direction. the microscopic laws that underlie the behavior of particles have no such arrow, working equally well backwards as forwards. so why doesn’t time run backwards?

physicists usually explain the arrow of time using the concept of increasing entropy—a measure of the disorder of a system. the universe evolves from a highly-ordered, low-entropy beginning, to a progressively more disordered state, defining time’s arrow. so, sugar cubes dropped into coffee dissolve as time passes, increasing the disorder of the coffee-sugar system; but they do not re-solidify. to mersini-houghton, a physicist at the university of north carolina, chapel hill, however, this reasoning simply begs the following question: why did the universe begin in a highly unlikely low-entropy state in the first place?

a tug-of-war determines whether a universe can be born.
- laura mersini-houghton

the multiverse view offers a simple answer: if there are an infinite number of cosmoses, it would make sense that at least some universes should start in a low entropy state. mersini-houghton first became interested in the idea of a multiverse with the advent of the string-theory landscape. in 2003, string theorists began to realize that their equations offered a staggering 10500 equally-valid solutions, each of which could describe a possible universe. suddenly there was talk of a string landscape—a multiverse of universes, each with different physical laws.

this landscape provides the basis of mersini-houghton’s model. each new universe forms in this landscape as a bubble, with some intrinsic vacuum energy—similar in character to the dark energy causing today’s universe to expand at an ever-increasing rate—that drives it to inflate. at the same time, matter causes the bubble to try to crunch back down. "it is this tug-of-war that determines whether a universe can be born or not," says mersini-houghton.

crucially, in this model, only high-energy bubbles will overcome the matter crunch and grow into full-blown universes. these bubbles would have started out with low entropy, explaining the seemingly unlikely initial conditions of our universe.

Glothr

07-15-2010, 03:14 PM

on the very first episode of "through the wormhole with morgan freeman" titled "is there a creator?" they had a physicist named garett lisi talk about his recent work on finding a theory of everything. he stumbled on to an equation or multiple equations that played out geometrically as multiple circles twisted around other circles. when they showed the shape that it made it caused me to chuckle a little:

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j150/thundhar/computer/nestedspheres.png

look familiar? it is quite interesting to see mathematical equations for a theory of everything coming up with the same shape as the nested spheres of our minds i remember david talking about in 2012 enigma and other times. just thought i'd share :d

here is a link to the segment mentioning this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq7iqia1aeo

LightEye

07-20-2010, 11:17 AM

dear friends,

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25494/

be well,be love.

david

quantum time machine solves grandfather paradox

a new kind of time travel based on quantum teleportation gets around the paradoxes that have plagued other time machines, say physicists.

of all the weird consequences of quantum mechanics, one of the strangest is the notion of postselection: the ability to trigger a computation that automatically disregards certain results.

here's an example: suppose you have a long, tortuous expression in which there are a frighteningly large number of variables. the question you want answering is which combination of variables makes the expression logically true. and the conventional way to solve it is by brute force: try every combination of variable until you find one that works. that's hard.

postselection, however, makes the solution easy to find. simply allow the variables to take any value at random and then postselect on the condition that the answer must be true. this automatically disregards any wrong'uns that come up.

12thUranus

07-20-2010, 05:49 PM

http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/in-no-time

“one finds that time just disappears from the wheeler-dewitt equation,” says carlo rovelli, a physicist at the university of the mediterranean in marseille, france. “it is an issue that many theorists have puzzled about. it may be that the best way to think about quantum reality is to give up the notion of time—that the fundamental description of the universe must be timeless.”
no one has yet succeeded in using the wheeler-dewitt equation to integrate quantum theory with general relativity. nevertheless, a sizable minority of physicists, rovelli included, believe that any successful merger of the two great masterpieces of 20th-century physics will inevitably describe a universe in which, ultimately, there is no time.
the possibility that time may not exist is known among physicists as the “problem of time.” it may be the biggest, but it is far from the only temporal conundrum. vying for second place is this strange fact: the laws of physics don’t explain why time always points to the future. all the laws—whether newton’s, einstein’s, or the quirky quantum rules—would work equally well if time ran backward. as far as we can tell, though, time is a one-way process; it never reverses, even though no laws restrict it.

LightEye

07-21-2010, 02:18 PM

dear friends,

http://www.ted.com/talks/benoit_mandelbrot_fractals_the_art_of_roughness.ht ml

be well, be love.

david

at ted2010, mathematics legend benoit mandelbrot develops a theme he first discussed at ted in 1984 -- the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within patterns that seem unknowably complicated.

Shrike

07-26-2010, 07:37 AM

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20011612-264.html

lhc firing on all cylinders, but no higgs boson yet

that's the report monday from the international conference on high-energy physics in paris, where lhc researchers announced they've successfully retraced the steps of earlier particle accelerators. the final step was the a likely view of a super-heavy and short-lived particle called the top quark, first seen in 1995 at fermilab's tevatron accelerator near chicago.

"they have re-found all the known particles in the standard model," the successful but ultimately insufficient explanation that physicists use to catalog fundamental particles, said rolf heuer, director general of the cern laboratory in geneva that houses the massive particle accelerator. "the experiments have shown they are ready for new physics once new physics will appear," he told reporters at the conference.

the elusive higgs boson, a predicted but as yet unobserved particle thought to imbue other particles with gravity, remains unseen--but at the present stage of getting the lhc up to speed, that was no surprise. but it's clear the lhc, despite its troubled start-up and the fact that it's not expected to start running at full power for years, has begun carrying the baton for particle physics.

weboy78

07-30-2010, 10:29 AM

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n24_v145/ai_15517394/
buckyballs -- the 60-carbon buckminsterfullerenes known for their soccer ball shape -- may occur naturally in space, according to two research groups.

the recent reports offer data supporting the contention that the spherical carbonaceous shells, known to occur naturally on earth, can also form in the inky void of space.

in the may 5 [n.sub.ature], Unknownpo radicati di brozolo, a apace scientist at charles evans and associates in redwood city, calif., and his colleagues describe finding fullerenes among carbon residue in a tiny impact crater on nasa's long-duration exposure facility after that spacecraft's return to earth.

LightEye

08-10-2010, 10:34 AM

dear friends,

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727721.200-rethinking-einstein-the-end-of-spacetime.html?full=true

be well, be love.

david

rethinking einstein: the end of space-time

* 09 august 2010 by anil ananthaswamy

physicists struggling to reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics have hailed a theory – inspired by pencil lead – that could make it all very simple

it was a speech that changed the way we think of space and time. the year was 1908, and the german mathematician hermann minkowski had been trying to make sense of albert einstein's hot new idea - what we now know as special relativity - describing how things shrink as they move faster and time becomes distorted. "henceforth space by itself and time by itself are doomed to fade into the mere shadows," minkowski proclaimed, "and only a union of the two will preserve an independent reality."

and so space-time - the malleable fabric whose geometry can be changed by the gravity of stars, planets and matter - was born. it is a concept that has served us well, but if physicist petr horava is right, it may be no more than a mirage. horava, who is at the university of california, berkeley, wants to rip this fabric apart and set time and space free from one another in order to come up with a unified theory that reconciles the disparate worlds of quantum mechanics and gravity - one the most pressing challenges to modern physics.

since horava published his work in january 2009, it has received an astonishing amount of attention. already, more than 250 papers have been written about it. some researchers have started using it to explain away the twin cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. others are finding that black holes might not behave as we thought. if horava's idea is right, it could forever change our conception of space and time and lead us to a "theory of everything", applicable to all matter and the forces that act on it.
if petr horava's idea is right, it could change our conception of space and time forever

for decades now, physicists have been stymied in their efforts to reconcile einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes gravity, and quantum mechanics, which describes particles and forces (except gravity) on the smallest scales. the stumbling block lies with their conflicting views of space and time. as seen by quantum theory, space and time are a static backdrop against which particles move. in einstein's theories, by contrast, not only are space and time inextricably linked, but the resulting space-time is moulded by the bodies within it.

part of the motivation behind the quest to marry relativity and quantum theory - to produce a theory of quantum gravity - is an aesthetic desire to unite all the forces of nature. but there is much more to it than that. we also need such a theory to understand what happened immediately after the big bang or what's going on near black holes, where the gravitational fields are immense.

one area where the conflict between quantum theory and relativity comes to the fore is in the gravitational constant, g, the quantity that describes the strength of gravity. on large scales - at the scale of the solar system or of the universe itself - the equations of general relativity yield a value of g that tallies with observed behaviour. but when you zoom in to very small distances, general relativity cannot ignore quantum fluctuations of space-time. take them into account and any calculation of g gives ridiculous answers, making predictions impossible.

LightEye

08-19-2010, 12:15 PM

dear friends,

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/superconductor-fractals/#ixzz0wlqgewlr

be well, be love.

david

inexplicable superconductor fractals hint at higher universal laws

* by brandon keim email author
* august 11, 2010

what seemed to be flaws in the structure of a mystery metal may have given physicists a glimpse into as-yet-undiscovered laws of the universe.

the qualities of a high-temperature superconductor — a compound in which electrons obey the spooky laws of quantum physics, and flow in perfect synchrony, without friction — appear linked to the fractal arrangements of seemingly random oxygen atoms.

those atoms weren’t thought to matter, especially not in relation to the behavior of individual electrons, which exist at a scale thousands of times smaller. the findings, published aug. 12 in nature, are a physics equivalent of discovering a link between two utterly separate dimensions.

“we don’t know the theory for this,” said physicist antonio bianconi of rome’s sapienza university. “we just make the experimental observation that the two worlds seem to interfere.”

LightEye

08-26-2010, 10:53 AM

dear friends,

click the link to access the links.

http://discovermagazine.com/2010/apr/01-back-from-the-future
back from the future

be well, be love.

david

back from the future

a series of quantum experiments shows that measurements performed in the future can influence the present. does that mean the universe has a destiny—and the laws of physics pull us inexorably toward our prewritten fate?
by zeeya merali; photography by adam magyar

from the april 2010 issue; published online august 26, 2010

also see the other articles in this issue's special beyond einstein section: is the search for immutable laws of nature a wild-goose chase and the mystery of the rocketing particles that shouldn't exist.

jeff tollaksen may well believe he was destined to be here at this point in time. we’re on a boat in the atlantic, and it’s not a pleasant trip. the torrential rain obscures the otherwise majestic backdrop of the volcanic azorean islands, and the choppy waters are causing the boat to lurch. the rough sea has little effect on tollaksen, barely bringing color to his nordic complexion. this is second nature to him; he grew up around boats. everyone would agree that events in his past have prepared him for today’s excursion. but tollaksen and his colleagues are investigating a far stranger possibility: it may be not only his past that has led him here today, but his future as well.

tollaksen’s group is looking into the notion that time might flow backward, allowing the future to influence the past. by extension, the universe might have a destiny that reaches back and conspires with the past to bring the present into view. on a cosmic scale, this idea could help explain how life arose in the universe against tremendous odds. on a personal scale, it may make us question whether fate is pulling us forward and whether we have free will.

the boat trip has been organized as part of a conference sponsored by the foundational questions institute to highlight some of the most controversial areas in physics. tollaksen’s idea certainly meets that criterion. and yet, as crazy as it sounds, this notion of reverse causality is gaining ground. a succession of quantum experiments confirm its predictions—showing, bafflingly, that measurements performed in the future can influence results that happened before those measurements were ever made.

as the waves pound, it’s tough to decide what is more unsettling: the boat’s incessant rocking or the mounting evidence that the arrow of time—the flow that defines the essential narrative of our lives—may be not just an illusion but a lie.

tollaksen, currently at chapman university in orange county, california, developed an early taste for quantum mechanics, the theory that governs the motion of particles in the subatomic world. he skipped his final year of high school, instead attending physics lectures by the charismatic nobel laureate richard feynman at caltech in pasadena and learning of the paradoxes that still fascinate and frustrate physicists today.

primary among those oddities was the famous uncertainty principle, which states that you can never know all the properties of a particle at the same time. for instance, it is impossible to measure both where the particle is and how fast it is moving; the more accurately you determine one aspect, the less precisely you can measure the other. at the quantum scale, particles also have curiously split personalities that allow them to exist in more than one place at the same time—until you take a look and check up on them. this fragile state, in which the particle can possess multiple contradictory attributes, is called a superposition. according to the standard view of quantum mechanics, measuring a particle’s properties is a violent process that instantly snaps the particle out of superposition and collapses it into a single identity. why and how this happens is one of the central mysteries of quantum mechanics.

LightEye

09-03-2010, 03:04 AM

dear friends,

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25699/

be well, be love.

david

the extraordinary tale of red rain, comets and extraterrestrials

for years, claims have circulated that red rain which fell in india in 2001, contained cells unlike any found on earth. now new evidence that these cells can reproduce is about to set the debate alive

panspermia is the idea that life exists throughout the universe in comets, asteroids and interstellar dust clouds and that life of earth was seeded from one or more of these sources. panspermia holds that we are all extraterrestrials.

while this is certainly not a mainstream idea in science, a growing body of evidence suggests that it should be carefully studied rather than casually disregarded.

for example, various bugs have been shown to survive for months or even years in the harsh conditions of space. and one of the more interesting but lesser known facts about the mars meteorite that some scientists believe holds evidence of life on mars, is that its interior never rose above 50 degrees centigrade, despite being blasted from the martian surface by an meteor impact and surviving a fiery a descent through earth's thick atmosphere.

if there is life up there, this evidence suggests that it could survive the trip to earth.

[moderator: although this is a blog, the individual is reporting a scientific study without opinion,, which does qualify it for consideration on our forum]

weboy78

09-07-2010, 07:04 AM

http://www.planetpuna.com/haramein-seminar/the%20geometry%20of%20space.pdf
the geometry of space
by
nassim haramein
have you ever wondered what this reality is made of? this atomic structure that is palpable, that seems so real? how is it that from nothingness everything emerges? atoms are made of
99.99999% space, so it turns out that what we call reality is mostly space with a little bit of a
jiggle—a little vibratory fluctuation or, as described in quantum theory, a waveform generating
what we call atomic structure. one must wonder, couldn't this fluctuation be a function of the
space itself? could space actually be full instead of empty? couldn't atomic structures be only the symptom of the fluctuation of space?...

LightEye

09-10-2010, 02:52 AM

dear friends,

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25723/?ref=rss

be well, be love.

david

why spacetime on the tiniest scale may be two-dimensional

the latest thinking about quantum gravity suggests that spacetime is two-dimensional on the smallest scale. and there may be a way to prove it.

in 1973, george ellis and stephen hawking published a book called the large scale structure of spacetime. their aim, they said, was to understand spacetime on the scale ranging from 10^(-13)cm to 10^28cm or, in other words, from the size of elementary particles to the radius of the universe.

which is why theoretical physicists have turned their attention to the structure of spacetime on even smaller scales. however, there is a problem here. "for the most part we have neither direct observations nor a generally accepted theoretical framework for describing the very small-scale structure of spacetime," says carlip. indeed, nobody is quite sure whether the terms 'space' and 'time' have any reasonable meaning at this scale.

LightEye

09-23-2010, 10:25 AM

dear friends,

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/black-strings-hidden-dimensions-100922.html

be well, be love.

david

black strings: black holes with extra dimensions
by clara moskowitz, livescience senior writer
posted: 22 september 2010 12:30 pm et

meet the bizarro universe version of a black hole: a black string.

these hypothetical objects might form if our universe has hidden extra dimensions beyond the three of space and one of time that we can see, scientists say. a new study of five-dimensional black strings offers a glimpse into how these strange objects might evolve over time – if indeed they exist atall.

picture this

while it's difficult to visualize a five-dimensional object in our three-dimensional space, black strings would be cylindrical, researchers said. think of a three-dimensional spherical blackhole that's copied and stacked out in one direction to create an oblong shape.

"one of the problems that comes with thinking about higher dimensions is it's hard to even picture these things," said researcher luis lehner of the perimeter institute for theoretical physics, the university of guelph and the canadian institute for advanced research, all in canada.

like black holes, black strings would be created when matter is squished so dense that the curvatureof space-time becomes so large that even light cannot escape.

lehner and colleague frans pretorius of princeton university in new jersey used a computer simulation to study how black strings would behave. their results are detailed in a recent issue of the journal physical review letters.

LightEye

09-24-2010, 10:35 AM

dear friends,

http://www.insidescience.org/research/time_moves_faster_upstairs

be well, be love.

david

time moves faster upstairs
world's most precise clock confirms that time is indeed relative.
sep 23, 2010 by devin powell

washington
(isns) -- it's 2 a.m., and the noise from your upstairs neighbor is keeping you awake again. take solace in the fact that by living above you he may be shortening his life, even if only by a tiny fraction of a second.

nearly a century ago, albert einstein suggested that time should move faster the farther away you are from the surface of the earth. now scientists have tested this theory at the small distances we travel up and down every day. using the world's most precise clocks, they confirmed that our wristwatches tick at a slightly different speed when we ride an elevator, climb a flight of stairs, or even sit upright in bed.

according to einstein's theory of general relativity, big objects with lots of gravity -- planets or stars -- bend the fabric of time and space, like bowling balls on a trampoline. the closer you get to these objects, the stronger the pull of gravity and the slower time moves. an astronaut watching a clock fall into a black hole, for example, would see its hands gradually slow down as the pull of gravity increases. the second hand would move tick once every hour, then once every decade, and finally appear to stop altogether.

LightEye

09-29-2010, 10:38 AM

dear friends,

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19513-countdown-to-oblivion-why-time-itself-could-end.html?full=true

be well; be love.

david

countdown to oblivion: why time itself could end

* 20:31 28 september 2010 by rachel courtland, cambridge, massachusetts
*

editorial: the value of asking ‘what if?'

"we could run into the end of time," ben freivogel tells a seminar at the massachusetts institute of technology in cambridge. several colleagues seem nonplussed, and one nobel laureate looks downright exasperated. "i'm aware that this sounds like a crazy conclusion," freivogel admits, generating a round of what sounds like relieved laughter. but perhaps their relief is short-lived.

the nature of time, our perception of it and even whether it exists at all are hot topics for both physicists and philosophers. but freivogel isn't pushing a strange new concept of time.

his idea is arguably even more baffling. he thinks that time, as described by einstein's theory of general relativity, could simply end in our universe, taking us with it. he gives us another 5 billion years or so before the axe falls (see "five billion years to go", below).

this unsettling idea arises from a popular theory called eternal inflation. in this theory, different parts of space can undergo dramatic growth spurts, essentially ballooning into separate universes with their own physical properties. the process happens an infinite number of times, creating an infinite number of universes, called the multiverse.

bagheeeeera

10-11-2010, 11:03 AM

hi this is my first post on this website. i wanted to run a new theory i have on the universe pre-bigbang. this theory is only relevant assuming that the creation of physical matter is the direct reflection of potential information of the universe.

my contention being that pre big bang the first unit of matter entered into an empty construct of a universe as a particle(in regards to particle/wave paradox). this point could theoretically be the center of the universe in which it then instantaneously moved into super position. if it were still entangled with the physical constraints of whatever universe it came from it now splits into two separate ideas.

i remember a physicist at mit authoring a book fundamentally stating that before the big bang the governing forces of the universe(gravity, thermodynamics, electromagnetism etc.) didn't exist before the big bang. if one particle passed into the universe as a particle and then immediately took on a wave function and moved in to superposition instantly taking superposition uniformly spread across the infinity of the universe that would be nearly infinite more information than this particle could record.

therefore new matter would explode simultaneously increasing exponentially, i.e. 1p = 10p == 10p = 100p. this would create an infinite increase of matter entering and immediately taking superposition. 100p = 1000p == 1000p = 10000p …

this would basically create an infinite loop and we now need a method to collapse the function(a cntrl + brk sequence if you will). this would explain anti-matter.

now when the energy(mass) becomes too high of a ratio(possibly exceeding e) there becomes the creation of anti-matter. as the anti-matter collides with matter and explodes its now collapsing the wave function of both matter and anti-matter.

lets ignore the aspect of the anti for now and just focus on the wave function of the matter involved in this action. if the one piece of matter is actually representing the possibilities it can be in superposition then one less particle of matter is actually one particle in infinite position as far as potential information is concerned.

now we eventually reach an equilibrium of the sigma of all matter meeting its own recording capabilities(in superposition) as it creates advanced methods in the form of taking on the atomic structure we all know and love.

it also makes you wonder if there are the same forces governing different universes? did the initial particle bring with electromagnetism and force it upon our universe or was it the other way around, or did it create electromagnetism and does it then entangle back to the universe it came from.

in a true multiverse could other dimensions have completely different functions at a true level of governing dynamics? could information be passed or would it be like pc to mac? i'm very confused these days and would appreciate any and all info on the subject either for or against.

in application i am at a level of curiosity towards the fundamentals of how our minds physically store and access our memories. the entire system seems to be object orientation performed brilliantly. if this is the universal version of binary programming, it not only seems like it can be hacked, but rather completely lacking in security in the regard that we would have access if only knew how.

if anyone knows of any information on access codes or format of the brain or any reading you feel would be beneficial on the subject it would be greatly appreciated. [please pm with any book recommendations] thank you all and if this in anyway violates the forum rules i would greatly appreciate an email rather then disbarrment. thank you for your time to all that have read, we are on our way to an intellectual army of davids because this type of thinking encourages the best wrong answer rather the right one. our day is coming.

LightEye

10-15-2010, 11:28 AM

dear friends,

http://www.astrotheos.com/page10_en.htm

be well, be love.

david

time and space in physics and in the secret doctrine, past and future, time travel; spiral of time, psychological and evolutional time, acceleration and deceleration of time; hubble sphere, scannable universe; dark matter, dark energy and subtle planes; big bang; artefacts: yin and yang, swastika, mayan calendar and symbol g; stone labyrinths

LightEye

11-24-2010, 11:19 AM

dear friends,

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26059/?ref=rss

be well, be love.

david

why life is physics, not chemistry

the idea that life boils down to chemistry is being usurped by a much more ambitious idea, says two of the world's leading biophysicists.

kfc 11/22/2010

in the history of science, there are many examples of simple changes in perspective that lead to profound insights into the nature of the cosmos. the invention of the telescope is perhaps one example. another is the realisation that chemical energy, thermodynamic energy, kinetic energy and the like are all manifestations of the same stuff. you can surely supply your own favourite instances here.

one of the more important examples in 20th century science is that biology is the result of evolution, not the other way round. by that way if thinking, evolution is a process, an algorithm even; albeit one with unimaginable power. exploit evolution and there is little you cannot achieve.

in recent years, computer scientists have begun to exploit evolution's amazing power. one thing they have experienced time and time again is evolution's blind progress. put a genetic algorithm to work and it will explore the evolutionary landscape, looking for local minima. when it finds one, there is no knowing whether it is the best possible solution or whether it sits within touching distance of an evolutionary abyss that represents a solution of an entirely different order of magnitude.

LightEye

12-13-2010, 11:27 AM

dear friends,

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/

be well, be love.

david

astronomers find first evidence of other universes

our cosmos was "bruised" in collisions with other universes. now astronomers have found the first evidence of these impacts in the cosmic microwave background

kfc 12/13/2010

*

there's something exciting afoot in world of cosmology. last month, roger penrose at the university of oxford and vahe gurzadyan at yerevan state university in armenia announced that they had found patterns of concentric circles in the cosmic microwave background, the echo of the big bang.

this, they say, is exactly what you'd expect if the universe were eternally cyclical. by that, they mean that each cycle ends with a big bang that starts the next cycle. in this model, the universe is a kind of cosmic russian doll, with all previous universes contained within the current one.

that's an extraordinary discovery: evidence of something that occurred before the (conventional) big bang.

today, another group says they've found something else in the echo of the big bang. these guys start with a different model of the universe called eternal inflation. in this way of thinking, the universe we see is merely a bubble in a much larger cosmos. this cosmos is filled with other bubbles, all of which are other universes where the laws of physics may be dramatically different to ours.

LightEye

02-04-2011, 03:39 AM

dear friends,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/future-influences-present_b_816221.html

be well, be love.

david

robert lanza, m.d.
scientist; theoretician; author, 'biocentrism'
posted: february 3, 2011 08:45 am

experiments: world may be influenced by the future

we've been taught our consciousness -− and everything else in the world -− flows like an arrow in one direction from the cradle to the grave. but an amazing set of experiments suggest the present and the future are entangled, and that events in the future may influence things happening in the world now.

since this sounds absurd, let's go straight to an actual experiment published in 2002. scientists showed that pairs of particles could anticipate what their distant twins would do in the future. they stretched the distance one of the photons took to reach its detector, so the other photon would hit its own detector first. the photons taking this path already finished their journeys -− they either collapse into a particle or don't before their twin encounters a scrambling device. they decided this before their twin ever encountered the scrambler. somehow, the particles "knew" what the researcher would do before it happened.

weboy78

02-09-2011, 03:21 AM

weboy78

02-15-2011, 05:18 AM

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110213/full/news.2011.90.html
an international group of astronomers and physicists has found that rotating black holes leave an imprint on passing radiation that should be detectable using today's most sensitive radio telescopes. observing this signature, they say, could tell us more about how galaxies evolve and provide a test of albert einstein's general theory of relativity.

[moderator note: the science channel has various programs on this subject-great link weboy!]

LightEye

02-16-2011, 10:40 AM

dear friends,

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/4061/full

be well, be love.

david

mathematicians propose periodic table of shapes
thursday, 17 february 2011
cosmos online

london: mathematicians have embarked on a three-year project to create their own version of the periodic table that will provide a vast directory of all the possible shapes in the universe across three, four and five dimensions.

linking shapes together in the same way as the periodic table links groups of chemical elements, the new table should provide a resource that mathematicians, physicists and other scientists can use for calculations and research in a range of areas, including computer vision, number theory, and theoretical physics.

“the periodic table is one of the most important tools in chemistry. our work aims to create a directory that lists all the geometric building blocks and breaks down each one’s properties using relatively simple equations,” said project leader alessio corti, from the department of mathematics at imperial college london.

LightEye

02-17-2011, 02:27 AM

dear friends,

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=particles-that-flock&wt.mc_id=sa_cat_physics_20110211

be well, be love.

david

particles that flock: strange synchronization behavior at the large hadron collider
scientists at the large hadron collider are trying to solve a puzzle of their own making: why particles sometimes fly in sync

by amir d. aczel | february 11, 2011

in its first six months of operation, the large hadron collider near geneva has yet to find the higgs boson, solve the mystery of dark matter or discover hidden dimensions of spacetime. it has, however, uncovered a tantalizing puzzle, one that scientists will take up again when the collider restarts in february following a holiday break. last summer physicists noticed that some of the particles created by their proton collisions appeared to be synchronizing their flight paths, like flocks of birds. the findings were so bizarre that “we’ve spent all the time since [then] convincing ourselves that what we were see ing was real,” says guido tonelli, a spokesperson for cms, one of two general-purpose experiments at the lhc.

the effect is subtle. when proton collisions result in the release of more than 110 new particles, the scientists found, the emerging particles seem to fly in the same direction. the high-energy collisions of protons in the lhc may be uncovering “a new deep internal structure of the initial protons,” says frank wilczek of the massachusetts institute of technology, winner of a nobel prize for his explanation of the action of gluons. or the particles may have more interconnections than scientists had realized. “at these higher energies [of the lhc], one is taking a snapshot of the proton with higher spatial and time resolution than ever before,” wilczek says.

weboy78

02-17-2011, 02:34 AM

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=articleurl&_udi=b6tvn-5004pwn-3&_user=10&_coverdate=06%2f07%2f2010&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchstrid=1645207668&_rerunorigin=scholar.google&_acct=c000050221&_version=1&_urlversion=0&_userid=10&md5=d9cef59fa6d9a0063f5088c2c223be0a&searchtype=a
this limit corresponds to energy not, vert, similar1043 gev which is 39 orders of magnitude larger than the maximum beam energy currently available at the lhc. thus, if torsion exists and the ecks theory of gravity is correct, the lhc cannot produce micro black holes.

what black holes teach about strongly coupled particles
http://physics.usc.edu/~johnson1/pt_johnson0510.pdf

weboy78

02-24-2011, 12:00 AM

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap051208.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/perseus_cluster
in 2003, astronomers detected the deepest note ever generated in the cosmos, a b♭, after 53 hours of chandra observations.[5] no human will actually hear the note, because it is 57 octaves below the keys in the middle of a piano. the sound waves appear to be generated by the inflation of bubbles of relativistic plasma by the central active galactic nucleus in ngc 1275. they are visible as ripples in the x-ray band using chandra x-ray observatory, as the x-ray brightness of the intracluster medium that fills the cluster is strongly dependent on the density of the plasma.

weboy78

02-24-2011, 05:57 AM

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/02/ossi-low-energy-nuclear-reactions.html#
recently a technical test of andrea rossi's ni-h reactor (energy catalyzer) was conducted in which a minimum of 15 kw of heat was produced continuously for 18 hours, observed by dr. joseph levi and others

andrea rossi claims to have developed a practical and commercial ready cold fusion technology that could cost around 1 cent per kilowatt hour; with the first 1 mw plant completed later this year, comprised of 125 units ganged together. it utilizes nano-nickel powder, hydrogen gas, and undisclosed (for proprietary reasons) catalysts under pressure to produce large amounts of energy.

the test took place at the university of bologna.

Felicatra

04-06-2011, 03:41 PM

us atom smasher may have found new force of nature

"physicists will announce wednesday that data from a major us atom smasher lab may have revealed a new elementary particle, or potentially a new force of nature, one of the researchers told afp.

the discovery is believed to relate to mass and how objects obtain it -- a persistent riddle to experts and one of the most sought-after answers in all of physics."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/us-atom-smasher-may-found-force-nature-report-20110406-073624-567.html

LightEye

04-11-2011, 10:27 AM

dear friends,

http://mr.caltech.edu/press_releases/13410

be well, be love.

david

physicists discover new way to visualize warped space and time
related links:
simulating extreme spacetimes

pasadena, calif.—when black holes slam into each other, the surrounding space and time surge and undulate like a heaving sea during a storm. this warping of space and time is so complicated that physicists haven't been able to understand the details of what goes on—until now.

"we've found ways to visualize warped space-time like never before," says kip thorne, feynman professor of theoretical physics, emeritus, at the california institute of technology (caltech).

by combining theory with computer simulations, thorne and his colleagues at caltech, cornell university, and the national institute for theoretical physics in south africa have developed conceptual tools they've dubbed tendex lines and vortex lines.
two doughnut-shaped vortexes ejected by a pulsating black hole. also shown at the center are two red and two blue vortex lines attached to the hole, which will be ejected as a third doughnut-shaped vortex in the next pulsation.
[credit: the caltech/cornell sxs collaboration]
using these tools, they have discovered that black-hole collisions can produce vortex lines that form a doughnut-shaped pattern, flying away from the merged black hole like smoke rings. the researchers also found that these bundles of vortex lines—called vortexes—can spiral out of the black hole like water from a rotating sprinkler.

the researchers explain tendex and vortex lines—and their implications for black holes—in a paper that's published online on april 11 in the journal physical review letters.

tendex and vortex lines describe the gravitational forces caused by warped space-time. they are analogous to the electric and magnetic field lines that describe electric and magnetic forces.

tendex lines describe the stretching force that warped space-time exerts on everything it encounters. "tendex lines sticking out of the moon raise the tides on the earth's oceans," says david nichols, the caltech graduate student who coined the term "tendex." the stretching force of these lines would rip apart an astronaut who falls into a black hole.

vortex lines, on the other hand, describe the twisting of space. if an astronaut’s body is aligned with a vortex line, she gets wrung like a wet towel.

weboy78

04-11-2011, 12:34 PM

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028073.800-how-to-turn-the-vacuum-into-a-superconductor.html
turning a vacuum into a superconductor could be as simple as zapping it with a super-powerful magnet.

that's according to maxim chernodub of the university of tours in france, who believes powerful magnetic fields could pluck charged particles out of the vacuum of space and set them flowing as a current that never encounters any resistance.

LightEye

04-13-2011, 10:44 AM

dear friends,

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-big-simulated-metamaterial-impossible.html

be well, be love.

david

big bang simulated in metamaterial shows time travel is impossible
april 13, 2011 by lisa zyga
big bang model

enlarge

in the toy big bang model, light rays spread out as a function of time, similar to the expansion of spacetime in a diagram of the real big bang. image credit: smolyaninov and hung.

(physorg.com) -- by observing the way that light moves inside a metamaterial, researchers have reconstructed how spacetime has expanded since the big bang. the results provide a better understanding of why time moves in only one direction, and also suggest that time travel is impossible.
n their study, electrical engineers igor smolyaninov and yu-ju hung from the university of maryland have built a metamaterial by patterning plastic strips on a gold substrate, which they then illuminated with a laser. because the mathematics of electromagnetic spaces (which describe the metamaterial) is similar to the mathematics of general relativity (which describe spacetime), the way light moves in the metamaterial is exactly analogous to the path - or “world line” - of a massive particle in (2+1)-dimensional minkowski spacetime.

as the researchers explained in their study, a big bang event occurs in the metamaterial when the pattern of light rays expands relative to the time-like z-dimension. this instance marks the beginning of cosmological time, which moves forward from the big bang in the direction of the universe’s expansion. after the big bang event, the light rays expand in a non-perfect way, scattered by random defects in the plastic strips until they reach a high-entropy state. this behavior represents the thermodynamic arrow of time, showing that entropy tends to increase in an isolated system.

LightEye

05-23-2011, 10:00 AM

LightEye

05-26-2011, 12:31 AM

dear friends,

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-strangest-numbers-in-string-theory

be well, be love.

david

the strangest numbers in string theory

a forgotten number system invented in the 19th century may provide the simplest explanation for why our universe could have 10 dimensions

by john c. baez and john huerta | may 4, 2011

in briefmost everyone is familiar with the “real” numbers, but far more types of numbers exist. among them, the best known are the complex numbers, which include a square root of –1.

we can build higher-dimensional number systems as well. but we can define all the four basic operations—addition, subtraction, multiplication and division—in only a few special cases.

one such case is the octonions, an eight-dimensional number system. mathematicians invented it in the 1840s but, finding few applications, paid little attention for the next 150-plus years.

mathematicians now suspect that the octonions may help us understand advanced research in particle physics in fields such as supersymmetry and string theory.
as children, we all learn about numbers. we start with counting, followed by addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. but mathematicians know that the number system we study in school is but one of many possibilities. other kinds of numbers are important for understanding geometry and physics. among the strangest alternatives is the octonions. largely neglected since their discovery in 1843, in the past few decades they have assumed a curious importance in string theory. and indeed, if string theory is a correct representation of the universe, they may explain why the universe has the number of dimensions it does.

SpiralCycle

05-26-2011, 01:42 AM

dear friends,

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26787/

be well, be love.

david

multiverse = many worlds, say physicists

two of the most bizarre ideas in modern physics are different sides of the same coin, say string theorists
kfc 05/23/2011

the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is the idea that all possible alternate histories of the universe actually exist. at every point in time, the universe splits into a multitude of existences in which every possible outcome of each quantum process actually happens.

so in this universe you are sitting in front of your computer reading this story, in another you are reading a different story, in yet another you are about to be run over by a truck. in many, you don't exist at all.

this implies that there are an infinite number of universes, or at least a very large number of them.

that's weird but it is a small price to pay, say quantum physicists, for the sanity the many worlds interpretation brings to the otherwise crazy notion of quantum mechanics. the reason many physicists love the many worlds idea is that it explains away all the strange paradoxes of quantum mechanics.

this is a very awesome idea that feels very much possible after learning the vast capacity that our multiverse (infinitely expansive universe) can regulate one example is so many people tapping into the "akashic records"which is a database that you can pull anything you want up that has or will ever happen in the multiverse.

i don't find these kind of things impossible at all and would explain a lot of zero point capabilities because nothingness has the potential to hold everything and it can only work that way. just like many people have mentioned with fulcrum mechanics.

it also reinforces the idea that we are all at the center of the universe because we are the direct experience/result of the things happening and the choices we make. when you entertain this idea it can give you a lot of respect to everyone and the responsibility of making good decisions. letting everyone live out their universe without making them suffer which is heavily mentioned in the law of one which says something to the tune of: see others as yourself because the idea of two separations only contributes to the faulty belief that it doesn't matter what you do to them.

good post!

Felicatra

05-28-2011, 10:40 AM

"the electron was hailed by british scientists thursday as the roundest natural object in the universe.

researchers from imperial college london conducted a decade-long laser experiment on the subatomic particle and discovered that it differs from a perfect sphere by less than 0.000000000000000000000000001 of a centimeter -- so that "if the electron were magnified to the size of the solar system, it would still appear spherical within the width of a human hair."

"i don't know of any naturally-occurring object that is rounder and has been measured to the same level of accuracy," said research leader dr. jony hudson, writing in the journal nature."

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/26/breakthrough-electron-discovery-gives-clues-antimatter/

weboy78

06-02-2011, 02:29 PM

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110602/full/news.2011.344.html
intriguingly, the trajectories closely match those predicted by an unconventional interpretation of quantum mechanics known as pilot-wave theory, in which each particle has a well-defined trajectory that takes it through one slit while the associated wave passes through both slits.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/quantum-mechanics-1020.html
pilot-wave theory proposes that the photons ride on the back of some type of mystery waves, which interact with each other no matter the number of photons that pass through the holes. that interaction is what guides the photons to the detector. when the austrian physicist erwin schrödinger proposed his famous wave equation, which remains the fundamental equation of quantum physics, he was actually describing the guiding wave.

weboy78

06-07-2011, 01:56 PM

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/casimir-0511.html
mit researchers find a way to calculate the effects of casimir forces, offering a way to keep micromachines’ parts from sticking together.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-researchers-create-light-from-almost.html
(physorg.com) -- a group of physicists working out of chalmers university of technology in gothenburg, sweden, have succeeded in proving what was until now, just theory; and that is, that visible photons could be produced from the virtual particles that have been thought to exist in a quantum vacuum. in a paper published on arxiv, the team describes how they used a specially created circuit called a superconducting quantum interference device (squid) to modulate a bit of wire length at a roughly five percent of the speed of light, to produce visible "sparks" from the nothingness of a vacuum.

Tenet Nosce

06-09-2011, 03:57 PM

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110609141550.htm

new driving force for chemical reactions

sciencedaily (june 9, 2011) — new research just published in the journal science by a team of chemists at the university of georgia and colleagues in germany shows for the first time that a mechanism called tunneling control may drive chemical reactions in directions unexpected from traditional theories.

if i am reading this correctly, this discovery provides a framework for how ordinary chemical reactions can be influenced by consciousness.

weboy78

07-11-2011, 02:58 AM

http://rxiv.org/pdf/0811.0002v1.pdf
unification of the gravitational, strong, weak and inertial forces
maurizio michelini
the common origin from the paradigm of micro-quanta of the “strong” and “weak” forces, together with the gravitational and inertial forces, points out the opportunity of re-interpreting current methods of conceiving the nuclear forces between nucleons and other particles.

Jeia Ra Manuk

07-15-2011, 01:27 PM

never thought of seeing from the point of view of a photon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyxlyckyof8

to mod: i changed the link, because the 11d video is pretty irrelevant if the two introductory videos are not seen!

but here is the link to the 11d video if anyone is interested http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufhobevrn2u i recommend you watch the intro to 10d when you are over there.

Jeia Ra Manuk

07-15-2011, 06:46 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xhw9zccvrq&feature=player_embedded

love light

[moderator: this is really a great demonstration of what many psychics 'see' intuitively. thank yu liz!]

MarkM

07-15-2011, 07:23 PM

if any one during the watching thought "aren't there 11 dimensions?" watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufhobevrn2u

interesting!

things don't really have to be that complicated, i feel, but i did like the bit about the next 'dimension' up holding the key to infinite variability of possible/probable timelines and 'everything is' manifestation.

this reminds me of the work of ouspensky in which he made an early attempt to equate the limitations of a two dimensional plane with the intellectual capabilities of an animal such as a dog. three dimensional space with the intellectual capacity of a human, and so on, imagining that from the standpoint of a dog, a human has capabilities hinting of the miraculous!

here, a dog cannot conceptualize three spacial dimensions, according to ouspensky, and thinks of a tumbling dice as a strange 2 dimensional object which doesn't tumble, but changes its outline or shape. a barrel tumbling end over end changes from a circle to a rectangle and back again, with such a 3d concept of tumbling being beyond its normal ken of comprehension. how might fourth density manifestation be equally perplexing for the human mind to comprehend?

as for eleven dimensions - i prefer to use the term densities, as in the loo material. the connection here could be that if you look at the 7 densities as predicated by ra, we see the 8th repeating the first, as with the visible colour spectrum or the musical octave. as with the octave which represents the white keys/diatonic/doh - re - mi scale on a piano, one could conceivably surmise that the chromatic musical scale - which includes the black as well as the white keys - may represent not only the 11 steps with the 12th repeating the first, and nestled within the octave, but another way of viewing the octave of densities of universal experience.

i could be off base with this - can anyone envision 12 steps in the visible light spectrum? :rolleyes: mark

Jeia Ra Manuk

07-15-2011, 11:15 PM

wow. talk about synchronicity! i have pages upon pages of diagrams of the octave and how that whole process would work. some i drew up today. that is what i compared this to, too. like when we get over the 7 density it would be the same as getting over 10/11 dimension (whatever you wanna call it). actually, a density is the rate at which we are vibrating... and dimension would be the direction of force... because essentially there are only two aspects of the great whole: the vibration(heart beat, etc.) and the force (light/consciousnesses, etc.) thus our consciousness can extend through dimensions while our beat is vibration. dimension is a line, point to a point while the beat is originated in one point extending into infinity. pulse.

love and light and love,
et

moksha1313

08-13-2011, 04:40 PM

lee smolin is my favorite contemporary theoretical physicist, and i've got a gut feeling about this. do any of you more advanced physics members see any correlation here between this article and the dewey b. larson's reciprocal system of physical theory that david discusses?

a theory of reality beyond einstein's universe is taking shape – and a mysterious cosmic signal could soon fill in the blanks

it wasn't so long ago we thought space and time were the absolute and unchanging scaffolding of the universe. then along came albert einstein, who showed that different observers can disagree about the length of objects and the timing of events. his theory of relativity unified space and time into a single entity - space-time. it meant the way we thought about the fabric of reality would never be the same again. "henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade into mere shadows," declared mathematician hermann minkowski. "only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality."

but did einstein's revolution go far enough? physicist lee smolin at the perimeter institute for theoretical physics in waterloo, ontario, canada, doesn't think so. he and a trio of colleagues are aiming to take relativity to a whole new level, and they have space-time in their sights. they say we need to forget about the home einstein invented for us: we live instead in a place called phase space.

if this radical claim is true, it could solve a troubling paradox about black holes that has stumped physicists for decades. what's more, it could set them on the path towards their heart's desire: a "theory of everything" that will finally unite general relativity and quantum mechanics.

read entire article: (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128241.700-beyond-spacetime-welcome-to-phase-space.html?page=1)