Quantum Theory Proves That Time Does Not Exist. Quantum Theory and non-locality goes something like this; Take two particles, A and B (photons or electrons for example). Pair them, then separate them, and put them on either side of the planet. Stimulate particle A, and particle B will react without any time delay. In other words both particles act at the same moment in time regardless of distance.
This is remarkable right, how can this be? We need to have a physical connection, we need to observe some kind of interconnecting frequency waveform or something, right? This also means we’ve got an interaction between particles happening way beyond the speed of light, right? No I don’t understand this to be accurate. Quantum Theory shows us that our concept of time, as thought of as a linear passage of events is totally wide of the mark, in fact there is no mark.
In science, a “bit” of information is said to have two possible answers. Mechanics Or Ecology? Quantum Computer Scientific Process is Flawed World Challenges About Larry Maguire. Peak phosphorus will be a shortage we can't stomach. Here’s the good news. We probably don’t have to worry about peak oil just yet, as it isn’t going to run out anytime soon.
The bad news is, as the IPCC has recently reported, we can’t afford the costs of what liberating all that carbon into the Earth’s atmosphere would do to the climate. So we will have to leave it in the ground and come up with alternatives fast. The really bad news is that we may not even have to worry about peak oil or dangerous climate change – instead we can fret over peak phosphorous. Unlike moving from our current dependence on fossil fuels, there is no alternative to phosphorus and if it runs out our global food production system would grind to a halt. Phosphorus is present in all cells in all forms of life because it makes up part of the backbone of DNA – you can’t make DNA without phosphorus. We get our phosphorus by eating plants that have drawn up phosphorus through their roots, or by eating animals that ate the plants (or from expensive tablets).
Noam Chomsky: Ecology, Ethics, Anarchism. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)Also See: Noam Chomsky | The Prospects for Survival There can be little doubt about the centrality and severity of the environmental crisis in the present day. Driven by the mindless "grow-or-die" imperative of capitalism, humanity's destruction of the biosphere has reached and even surpassed various critical thresholds, whether in terms of carbon emissions, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, freshwater depletion, or chemical pollution. Extreme weather events can be seen pummeling the globe, from the Philippines - devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in November of last year - to California, which is presently suffering from the worst drought in centuries.
As Nafeez Ahmed has shown, a recently published study funded in part by NASA warns of impending civilizational collapse without radical changes to address social inequality and overconsumption. NOAM CHOMSKY: Indirectly, but I think it's actually more general. Take mass transportation. Florida Makes Off-Grid Living Illegal.
It’s no secret that an opposition to sustainable living exists. Earlier this year, Texas state brought several SWAT teams to a sustainable community and threatened to shut it down. Each one of the community members were initially handcuffed at gunpoint. It was called “The Garden of Eden Community,” and was totally self sustainable. This time, it’s Robin Speronis that’s come under fire. She lives off the grid in Florida, completely independent of the city’s water and electric system. In the end, she was found not guilty of not having a proper sewer or electrical system; but was guilty of not being hooked up to an approved water supply.
So what exactly is off grid living? “It means living independently, mainly living independently of the utility companies. Our potential as a human race is quite extraordinary, we just don’t realize it. The only problem with off the grid living is that corporations lose their ability to control others. Source | CE. Permaculture Voices Podcast | Permaculture Voices Conference: 4 Day Mega Event. March 13-16, 2014, Temecula, CA. Formally The Permaculture Voices Podcast Honest, hard conversations about farming, business, and life with those trying to make a living doing something that they love and dealing with life in the process. You’ll hear from experts who are far down their respective paths and people just like you who are starting out and making a go of it and learning as they go. I’ll dive deep into each story, looking at the why and the how, leaving you with practical tools, tips, and techniques that you can put into use right away to be part of the change by doing your work.
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The b Reels: Transition Culture’s stream. A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse | David Graeber. David Graeber [from The Baffler No. 22, 2013] What is a revolution? We used to think we knew. Revolutions were seizures of power by popular forces aiming to transform the very nature of the political, social, and economic system in the country in which the revolution took place, usually according to some visionary dream of a just society. Nowadays, we live in an age when, if rebel armies do come sweeping into a city, or mass uprisings overthrow a dictator, it’s unlikely to have any such implications; when profound social transformation does occur—as with, say, the rise of feminism—it’s likely to take an entirely different form.
It’s not that revolutionary dreams aren’t out there. At moments like this, it generally pays to go back to the history one already knows and ask: Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be? A quarter of the American population is now engaged in “guard labor”—defending property, supervising work, or otherwise keeping their fellow Americans in line. Linkfest – Edition 19. Subversive Ideas for Manchester. Downloads. Elusive Entropy. We’ve all heard it. We think we understand it: entropy is a measure of disorder. Combined with the Second Law of Thermodynamics—that the total entropy of a closed system may never decrease—it seems we have a profound statement that the Universe is destined to become less ordered. The consequences are unsettling. Sure, the application of energy can reverse entropy locally, but if our society enters an energy-scarce regime, how can we maintain order? A narrative has developed around this theme that we take in low entropy energy and emit a high entropy wake of waste.
But wait just a minute! The Measure of Entropy From a thermodynamic standpoint, the total entropy of a system has a simple definition. This is very closely related to the heat capacity of a system or object. Most materials have a specific heat capacity dropping to zero at zero temperature, and rising to some nearly constant value at intermediate temperatures. Where is the Disorder? Informational Entropy The fans went wild. Forêts Tropicales Humides Le Film. Reporterre - Le site de l'écologie.
The World According to The Automatic Earth - A 2013 Primer Guide. Dorothea Lange River Food June 1936 Memphis, Tennessee. Original caption: "Coon dawgling. " The Automatic Earth (TAE) is now five years old (as of January 22). That's five years of wide-ranging discussion on a huge range of issues, in the process of developing the biggest possible big picture of our present predicament. We are reaching limits to growth in so many ways at the same time, but it isn't enough to understand which are the limiting factors, but also what time frame each particular subset of reality operates over, and therefore which is the key driver at what time. Our job has been to explore those subsystems, how they fit together, and which will be the key driver in the short, medium and longer term, in order to prioritize action. We are known primarily as a finance site because finance has the shortest time frame of all, hence we focus on it. Dorothea Lange Wayfarers May 1937 Mother and child of Arkansas flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas.
Ponzi Finance: Deflation: Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world. Sustainability in My House. Permaculture Design Review. Mitticool: Indian craftsman creates clay refrigerator that works without electricity. Continuing his family traditional business of molding clay into pots and pans, Mansukhbhai Prajapati has created low-cost, patented clay refrigerators that need no electricity to preserve your drinks and eatables. Working on it for three years (2001-2004), he invested about Rs 1 million to bring his 20 kg (height:18.5’’ and width of 11’’) refrigerator into existence. The refrigerator, which stores water, fruits and vegetables for 8 days, and milk for one day in its bottom unit, usually takes 10 people to make it in one day.
The upper part of the refrigerator stores water. The clay fridges cost somewhere around Rs 2,500 in Gujarat – his home state. Bosch and Siemens Hausger te (BSH), Germany, has also showed interest in Mitticool. Every year he participates in the international trade fair in New Delhi for popularizing his products that also include clay-made water filters that were sold in Nairobi before his fellow Indians could have an idea of his creation. Via: Rediff.