Black Whole Dynamics: The Foundation of our Fractal-Holographic Universe. (Before It's News) Sombrero spiral galaxy from NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Brandon West, ContributorWaking Times If I had to explain Nassim Haramein’s work and try to describe his Holofractographic Universe Theory (HFU) to a person who had never heard of it before, or who was questioning it’s validity, I would begin with the scaling law for organized matter. This scaling law to me is as close to irrefutable evidence that you can get in science, confirming Nassim’s proposition of a fractal and holographic universe as a result of fundamental structure and dynamics of the vacuum (the space-time manifold, which we will explore in detail). This is because the data itself – not the theory – clearly demonstrates the relationship between all spheres at all scalar resolutions of the universe. This knowledge is important because it helps us to understand our relationship to all scales of the universe.
Scalar Dimensions of Reality The Scaling Law for Organized Matter. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power. Physics is the mother science. As such, it holds the greatest power for discovering the true nature of the universe and life within it. Physicists these days seem preoccupied with astronomical issues, such as the origin and ultimate fate of the universe. But some physicists venture into the realm of biology, claiming that their unique experimental and mathematical skills give them special insight into matters of life and death. I just hate it when physicists write about biology. They sometimes say uninformed and silly things. To digress briefly, I am reminded of the communication gap between people of science and everybody else, as so powerfully discussed by C. For most of my career, biology was generally considered a “soft” science, unworthy of the same stature as physics and chemistry. It’s hard for biologists to argue with physicists.
The limits of math become more troublesome when physicists try to explain the origin of the universe. Quantum Mechanics (QM). Relativity. Dark matter. The Rise and Fall of Supersymmetry — Starts With A Bang! “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” -Che Guevara Over the past 100 years, our picture of the Universe has changed dramatically, on both the largest scales and the smallest.
On the large-scales, we’ve gone from a Newtonian Universe of unknown age populated only by the stars and nebulae in our own Milky Way to a Universe governed by General Relativity, containing hundreds of billions of galaxies. The age of this Universe is dated at 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang, the observable part of which is some 92 billion light-years in diameter, filled with normal matter (and not antimatter), dark matter, and dark energy. And on the small scales, the revolution has been just as dramatic. We’ve gone from a Universe made up of atomic nuclei, electrons and photons, where the only known forces were gravitational and electromagnetic, to a much more fundamental understanding of the smallest particles and interactions that make up the Universe.
The Daily Galaxy. Quantum Entanglement and the Tech of Tomorrow. This isn’t the post I expected to be writing today. There are two reasons why you’re reading this and not the first of a three-part article about Priests: the first is a documentary (part 3 of The Fabric Of The Cosmos) and the second is the explosion of inspiration that it produced. I wanted to strike while the iron was hot… This article builds on and extends the game physics that I use for the Zenith-3 and Warcry campaigns, which I previously discussed in Fascinating Topological Limits: FTL in Gaming amongst several other articles.
You might also want to check out A Journey Of 1,000 years which is part two of my series on time travel. More to the point, this article (in parts) will assume that you are familiar with that content. Quantum Entanglement So, let’s start with the source of inspiration behind this whole article – Quantum Entanglement. Still here? If you spin the wheels, entanglement means that whatever color comes up on one wheel, the opposite color will come up on the other.
The Daily Galaxy. Five mysteries that (should) keep physicists awake at night | The Curious Wavefunction. Few phenomena challenge the fundamental principles of physics as deeply as consciousness (Image: Costa Rican Times) Scientific American editor Clara Moskowitz has a nice post showcasing some of the big questions asked by participants at a recent particle physics conference. These are the kinds of questions that make scientists worry and keep the midnight oil burning at institutes and labs around the world. As relevant as the questions were they all dealt with particle physics. Here I want to note five other important questions that (should) keep physicists awake during the night. Some of the questions deal with mundane but important issues of science funding, others lie at the intersection of physics and other sciences and yet others probe the very nature of reality.
These are not the only questions I can think of but they are certainly some of my favorites. 1. Richard Feynman famously quipped that “I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics”. 2. 3. 4. 5. Quantum Field Theory, String Theory, and Predictions. One of the important lessons of last Tuesday’s debate about string theory is that if I’m going to talk about theories that do or don’t predict things, I’d better be very clear about what’s a theory? What’s a scientific theory expected to do? What’s a prediction? On Thursday I asked my readers if they felt misled by Tuesday’s article. Most didn’t feel that way (I’m gratified), but if you’re a good scientist you focus attention on the negative feedback you receive, because that’s where you are most likely to learn something.
And you also look for negative signs in the positive feedback. So thank you, especially those who were critical yet reasonable. But today I want to explain why I found my conversation with Dr. I’m a quantum field theorist. And meanwhile, while doing quantum field theory, I use every tool I can. The Scientific Issue So here’s what bothers me about Dr. What is a prediction? Hard to argue with that! “What is the difference between this situation and Quantum Field Theory? String theory may limit space brain threat. Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to physics' biggest problems | Marcus du Sautoy. Two years ago, a mathematician and physicist whom I've known for more than 20 years arranged to meet me in a bar in New York. What he was about to show me, he explained, were ideas that he'd been working on for the past two decades.
As he took me through the equations he had been formulating I began to see emerging before my eyes potential answers for many of the major problems in physics. It was an extremely exciting, daring proposal, but also mathematically so natural that one could not but feel that it smelled right. He has spent the past two years taking me through the ins and outs of his theory and that initial feeling that I was looking at "the answer" has not waned. One of the things that particularly appeals to me about the theory is that symmetry, my own field of research, is a key ingredient. The particles described by the Standard Model – the stuff of nature that is revealed in accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider – fall into three "generations". Why the Higgs Matters, In A Few Sentences. One of the big challenges facing journalists writing about science is to summarize a scientific subject accurately, clearly and succinctly.
Sometimes one of the three requirements is sacrificed, and sadly, it is often the first one. So here is my latest (but surely not last) attempt at an accurate, succinct, and maybe even clear summary of why the Higgs business matters so much. `True’ Statements about the Higgs True means “as true as anything compressed into four sentences can possibly be” — i.e., very close to true. For those who want to know where I’m cutting important corners, a list of caveats will follow at the end of the article. Our very existence depends upon the Higgs field, which pervades the universe and gives elementary particles, including electrons, their masses. Is that so bad? Some False Statements about the Higgs Meanwhile I would like to suggest we avoid the following statements, or anything like them.
Oh, and please let’s stop using “God Particle”. Like this: What is the purpose of the Universe? Here is one possible answer. That's kind of the default point of view I operate from, though I'm always open to people convincing me otherwise. As far as I'm concerned It's all just cause and effect without someone saying "I'm damn well designing this thing called a universe it's supposed to do THIS! " his next book is going to be... "Things Just Are. " Thank you for your comment. I will support what you have said with my own feelings. Living an infinite life without fear, without struggle, without challenge would not being living as we humans can comprehend, and in fact, it may be something we really don't even want . . .
Thats the most likely answer, i think. Accidental physics: Why mass has a split personality. MacGregor Campbell, contributor We interact with the concept of mass every day. Without it, gravity wouldn't keep us firmly planted on Earth. But mass is also a component of inertia, making it hard, for example, to push a stalled car. On the surface, inertia and gravity don't seem to have much in common. But in experiments, these two versions of mass always give the same results. Although we've been aware of the coincidence since Galileo's day, the only explanation, proposed by Einstein, has been much disputed.
In this video, we delve into the split personality of mass, exposing the conundrum that lies at the core of one of the most basic concepts in physics. For more mind-bending animations, check out our previous explainers to find out, for example, how to change the past, or if space is really infinite. Dark energy alternatives to Einstein are running out of room. Research by University of Arizona astronomy professor Rodger Thompson finds that a popular alternative to Albert Einstein's theory for the acceleration of the expansion of the universe does not fit newly obtained data on a fundamental constant, the proton to electron mass ratio. Thompson's findings, reported Jan. 9 at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Long Beach, Calif., impact our understanding of the universe and point to a new direction for the further study of its accelerating expansion.
To explain the acceleration of the expansion of the universe, astrophysicists have invoked dark energy -- a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space. A popular theory of dark energy, however, does not fit new results on the value of the proton mass divided by the electron mass in the early universe. Thompson computed the predicted change in the ratio by the dark energy theory (generally referred to as rolling scalar fields) and found it did not fit the new data. Why The Universe Is Not a Computer After All. One of the driving forces in modern science is the idea that the Universe “computes” the future, taking some initial state as an input and generating future states as an output. This is a powerful approach that has produced much insight. Some scientists go as far as to say that the Universe is a giant computer.
Is this a reasonable assumption? Today, Ken Wharton at San Jose State University in California, makes an important argument that it is not. What’s more, the idea has spread through science without any proper consideration of its validity or any examination of the alternatives. He argues that a close look at the notion of the cosmos as a computer reveals important problems. In quantum mechanics, this can only happen if this final step is probabilistic.
And yet, when the universe is measured, a specific outcome does occur. It’s also an important clue that idea of the universe is a computer is merely an assumption and one that has never been rigorously questioned. The Daily Galaxy. Could both gravity and the Big Bang be an illusion? In January 2010, Erik Verlinde, professor of Theoretical Physics and world-renowned string theorist, caused a worldwide stir with the publication of On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton, in which he challenged commonly held perceptions on gravity, going so far as to state ‘for me gravity doesn’t exist’. If he is proved correct, the consequences for our understanding of the universe and its origins in a Big Bang will be far-reaching. Verlinde, who received the Spinoza prize (the Dutch Nobel Prize) from the Netherlands Organisation for Science, is famous for developing this new theory, or idea, on gravity in which he says that gravity is an illusion.
"Gravity is not an illusion in the sense that we know that things fall," says Verline. " Most people, certainly in physics, think we can describe gravity perfectly adequately using Einstein’s General Relativity. "We have other phenomena in Physics like this," Verlinde continued. Universe, Brain, Internet: Growth Patterns Similar In Large & Small Networks, Computer Study Suggests. By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 11/26/2012 04:13 PM EST on LiveScience The universe may grow like a giant brain, according to a new computer simulation. The results, published Nov.16 in the journal Nature's Scientific Reports, suggest that some undiscovered, fundamental laws may govern the growth of systems large and small, from the electrical firing between brain cells and growth of social networks to the expansion of galaxies.
"Natural growth dynamics are the same for different real networks, like the Internet or the brain or social networks," said study co-author Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist at the University of California San Diego. The new study suggests a single fundamental law of nature may govern these networks, said physicist Kevin Bassler of the University of Houston, who was not involved in the study. [What's That? Your Physics Questions Answered] By raising this question, "their work really makes a pretty important contribution," he said.
Similar Networks. Why The Electron Can’t Have a Mass Without the Higgs Field. After a hiatus for a hurricane and a trip to a conference in Asia, I am adding one more article to my series on How the Higgs Field Works, following my series of articles on Fields and Particles. (These sets of articles require a little math and physics background, the sort you’d get in your first few months of a beginning university or pre-university physics class. I’m still thinking about how to structure a similar set of articles that require no math or physics; that’s much harder, of course!) The first article in the series explained the basic Idea behind how the Higgs field works. Then came an article about why and how the Higgs field becomes non-zero, and a third concerning how the Higgs particle arises as the quantum of waves that oscillate around the non-zero value of the Higgs field. (Note that in these articles I’m mainly concentrating on the simplest type of Higgs, the Standard Model Higgs field and particle.
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