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Fractal Holographic Universe

The universe is just a big hologram, astrophysicists claim. The universe might just be one "vast and complex hologram".

The universe is just a big hologram, astrophysicists claim

And our vision of life as being in 3D may just be an illusion. That's according to astrophysicists who have studied the cosmic microwave background, or the afterglow that is left over from the Big Bang. After doing so, they have found substantial evidence that our universe is holographic, they said. Frank J. Tipler. Frank Jennings Tipler (born February 1, 1947) is a mathematical physicist and cosmologist, holding a joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Physics at Tulane University.[2] Tipler has written books and papers on the Omega Point based on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's religious ideas, which he claims is a mechanism for the resurrection of the dead.

Frank J. Tipler

He is also known for his theories on the Tipler cylinder time machine. People have argued that his theories are largely pseudoscience.[3] Biography[edit] The Omega Point cosmology[edit]

Botany

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962; second edition 1970; third edition 1996; fourth edition 2012) is a book about the history of science by the philosopher Thomas S.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Kuhn. Its publication was a landmark event in the history, philosophy, and sociology of scientific knowledge and triggered an ongoing worldwide assessment and reaction in—and beyond—those scholarly communities. Kuhn challenged the then prevailing view of progress in "normal science". Normal scientific progress was viewed as "development-by-accumulation" of accepted facts and theories. Ionospheric sounding - Wikipedia. In telecommunication and radio science, an ionospheric sounding is a technique that provides real-time data on high-frequency ionospheric-dependent radio propagation, using a basic system consisting of a synchronized transmitter and receiver.

Ionospheric sounding - Wikipedia

See also[edit] References[edit] This article incorporates public domain material from the General Services Administration document "Federal Standard 1037C". Say WHAT? By Keith McDowell As former Vice President Spiro Agnew famously said, “In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Say WHAT?

Philosophy of science. Philosophy of science is a branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science.

Philosophy of science

The central questions concern what counts as science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the purpose of science. Welcome to Science of Science Policy. SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class journal research. Thomas Henry Huxley - Wikipedia. English biologist and comparative anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS HonFRSE FLS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist specialising in comparative anatomy.

Thomas Henry Huxley - Wikipedia

He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.[2] Huxley was slow to accept some of Darwin's ideas, such as gradualism, and was undecided about natural selection, but despite this he was wholehearted in his public support of Darwin. Revolutionary.

Biological/Evolution

Hydrogen sulfide. Poisonous, corrosive and flammable gas Chemical compound Hydrogen sulfide is the chemical compound with the formula H2S.

Hydrogen sulfide

It is a colorless chalcogen hydride gas with the characteristic foul odor of rotten eggs. It is poisonous, corrosive, and flammable.[9] Hydrogen sulfide is often produced from the microbial breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen gas, such as in swamps and sewers; this process is commonly known as anaerobic digestion which is done by sulfate-reducing microorganisms. Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele is credited with having discovered the chemical composition of hydrogen sulfide in 1777.

Philosophers want to know why physicists believe theories they can’t prove — Quartz. It’s often assumed that physics and philosophy are at opposite ends of the academic spectrum.

Philosophers want to know why physicists believe theories they can’t prove — Quartz

In fact, they’re close—so close that they can overlap, with professors sometimes switching between the two fields as they work to advance our understanding of highly abstract subjects in theoretical physics. One such professor is Richard Dawid, a philosophy of science researcher at Ludwig Maximilian Universität Munich, who has a PhD in theoretical physics and began his career researching particle physics.

He transitioned to philosophy, he tells Quartz, to investigate how physicists can come to believe in certain theories without necessarily having the empirical evidence that proves them. The criteria for establishing a theory, he discovered, is not in itself subject to scientific enquiry. The debate about Rupert Sheldrake's talk.

Climate

Octopus genome holds clues to uncanny intelligence. Norbert Wu/Science Faction/Corbis The octopus genome offers clues to how the creatures evolved intelligence to rival the craftiest vertebrates.

Octopus genome holds clues to uncanny intelligence

With its eight prehensile arms lined with suckers, camera-like eyes, elaborate repertoire of camouflage tricks and spooky intelligence, the octopus is like no other creature on Earth. Added to those distinctions is an unusually large genome, described in Nature1 on 12 August, that helps to explain how a mere mollusc evolved into an otherworldly being. Breaking up the indivisible to observe the implausible—particles with a fractional charge. It was 1909 when Robert Millikan and Harvey Fletcher carried out their famous oil drop experiment in which they determined that the smallest unit of charge possible was 1.592x10-19 Coulombs, a value we now refer to as e, the fundamental charge (the modern accepted value is 1.602176565(35)x10-19 C).

It is the magnitude of the negative charge carried by the electron, as well as the positive charge of a proton. It is also the smallest unit of charge that any stable, independent particle can possibly have—no particles can have -3/4e charge, nor can they carry +2.8e of charge—barring technicalities. A paper published in this week's edition of Science examines in detail one of the technical loopholes to the preceding statement. We have spent a large amount of time breaking up hadrons to our heart's content, resulting in a spew of quarks, bosons, and other fundamental particles. But there may be a way to split up something that looks a lot like an electron. Torsion field. Sounds of Space: New 'Chorus' Recording By RBSP's EMFISIS Instrument. Audio (wav or mp3) of the phenomenon known as "chorus" radio waves within Earth’s magnetosphere that are audible to the human ear, as recorded on Sept. 5, 2012, by RBSP’s Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS).

Five six-second "events" are captured in this sample, and they are played end-to-end, one right after the other, without gaps. Credit: University of Iowa Researchers from the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) team at the University of Iowa have released a new recording of an intriguing and well-known phenomenon known as “chorus,” made on Sept. 5, 2012. The Waves tri-axial search coil magnetometer and receiver of EMFISIS captured several notable peak radio wave events in the magnetosphere that surrounds the Earth.

Alarmist?

Insects. THE BIGGEST LITTLE ANTENNA IN THE WORLD - US Navy’s VLF antenna at Cutler Maine. VLF Transmitter Cutler. Closeup of a few of the antenna towers of the Cutler VLF Transmitter. The Cutler VLF transmitter antenna masts as seen from across the Little Machias Bay at a distance of about 2 miles. The VLF Transmitter Cutler is the United States Navy's very low frequency (VLF) shore radio station at Cutler, Maine. The station provides one-way communication to submarines in the Navy's Atlantic Fleet, both on the surface and submerged.

It transmits with call sign NAA, at a frequency of 24 kHz and input power of up to 1.8 megawatts, and is one of the most powerful radio transmitters in the world. It was originally located in Arlington Virginia. Started Arlington Virginia[edit] The station began operations in 1913 as a radio telegraphy station call sign NAA in Arlington, Virginia, at a facility next to Fort Myer.[1] Although its broadcasts occasionally included band concerts and speeches, it was most famous for its nightly time signals. Moved to Cutler Maine[edit] Antenna[edit] Antenna maintenance[edit]

Physics

Autopoiesis. Principles of Quantum field theory. Bi-directionality in the Cognitive Sciences: Avenues, Challenges, and ... Ibis. The ibises (collective plural ibis;[1] classical plurals ibides[2][3] and ibes[3]) are a group of long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae. They all have long, down-curved bills, and usually feed as a group, probing mud for food items, usually crustaceans. Most species nest in trees, often with spoonbills or herons. The word ibis comes from Latin ibis[4] from Greek ἴβις ibis from Egyptian hb, hīb.[5] Species in taxonomic order[edit] There are 28 extant species and 2 extinct species of ibis.

Mystic science

Self-reference. Self-reference is studied and has applications in mathematics, philosophy, computer programming, and linguistics. Richard Feynman. Buckminster Fuller. Science of Sound. Physiological/Human biological. Books to look into.