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Technology. "The Quantum Tamers presents the weirdness and wonder of the quantum world in a strikingly original, accessible and engaging visual style. It graphically conveys why quantum physics is so useful and why it holds the key to futuristic information technologies," says Neil Turok, Director of Perimeter Institute. "I think you will find yourself challenged and amazed, just like the scientists themselves. Sharing in their enthusiasm for research, discovery and innovation is part of the fun. " Shot in High Definition in 16 cities in 6 countries, and using dance and animation to describe quantum physics, this entertaining program brings together over a dozen of the planet’s brightest minds (see below) to show how the weird is becoming wired and why a new era of quantum technologies may rock your world. About the Documentary Over one hundred years ago, scientists began to observe very strange behaviours at the level of mere atoms and subatomic particles.

Seeing The Quantum Tamers. Radio 4 - Science Connections. Nassim Haramein deemed "not a person of note" by wikipedia. Spying roboflies to get minicam eyes - tech - 22 May 2009. A MICROCHIP-sized digital camera patented by the California Institute of Technology could provide vision for the US military's insect-sized aircraft. It is light enough to be carried by these tiny surveillance drones and also uses very little power. In today's minicams, the image sensors and support circuitry are on separate microchips, and most of the power goes on communication between the chips. Now with Pentagon and NASA funding, Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena has squeezed all the components of a camera onto one low-power chip, revealed in a US patent filed last week (www.tinyurl.com/ojwmdq). The gadget can be radio-controlled via a secure frequency-hopping link from up to a kilometre away, say its inventors.

Flat universe may be the new flat Earth - physics-math - 18 May 2009. FOR centuries the ancients believed the Earth was flat. Evidence to the contrary was either ignored or effortlessly integrated into the dominant world view. Today we dismiss flat-Earthers as ignorant, yet we may be making an almost identical mistake – not about our planet, but about the entire universe. When it comes to the universe, "flatness" refers to the fate of light beams travelling large distances parallel to each other.

If the universe is "flat", the beams will always remain parallel. Matter, energy and dark energy all produce curvature in space-time, however. If the universe's space-time is positively curved, like the surface of a sphere, parallel beams would come together. Thanks in part to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite, which revealed the density of matter and dark energy in the early universe, most astronomers are confident that ... The Intelligent Universe. (Fred Hoyle). Travelling salesman problem. The travelling salesman problem (TSP) asks the following question: Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, what is the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the origin city?

It is an NP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization, important in operations research and theoretical computer science. Solution of a travelling salesman problem TSP is a special case of the travelling purchaser problem. In the theory of computational complexity, the decision version of the TSP (where, given a length L, the task is to decide whether the graph has any tour shorter than L) belongs to the class of NP-complete problems. Thus, it is possible that the worst-case running time for any algorithm for the TSP increases superpolynomially (perhaps, specifically, exponentially) with the number of cities.

The problem was first formulated in 1930 and is one of the most intensively studied problems in optimization. History[edit] Richard M. Since For are. US GOVERMENT: There are 38 Levels above TOP SECRET! • videosift.com. Liquid Sculpture - Water Drop photo: OpenHand. Showthread. Even though this info largely fits into Nassim Harameins work and could be posted on the Nassim thread, I wanted to create a thread solely for Marko Rodins "Vortex Based Mathematics". I have been closley studying his work for a good while now and have come to conclude this this stuff is absolutley A MUST to look at and understand if you are going to bother to try to understand any of this stuff.

Of course, knowing of Nassim's work and others like Stan Tenen and Viktor Schauberger etc will GREATLY enhance the connectivity as you start to understand this work. It may look complicated at first but I assure you it is not. You only need to be able to do basic addition, multiplication etc, and having an eye for patterns and symmetry will help. Then you may think that this doesn't equate to anything more than some interesting magic squares or number patterns that are irrelavent to real world applications or the nature of reality. Utube Video Lecture: [B](From RodinAerodynamics.org) Learn about: Radio 4 - The Material World. IQ test of the International High IQ Society.

Chronology of Events in Science, Mathematics, and Technology - StumbleUpon. Origin. Remains of a 1.9-million-year-old human ancestor are so well preserved that they may contain a remnant of the male individual's brain, according to the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, where the remains were recently examined. While DNA is very fragile and deteriorates over time, the discovery opens up the remote possibility that soft tissue with preserved DNA still exists in the prehistoric hominid, which could hold an important place on the human family tree. The examination also turned up what seemed to be fossilized insect eggs, according to scientists.

They said larvae from the eggs could have fed on the flesh of the human ancestor, Australopithecus sediba, right after his death. Berger, a senior research officer and director of the School of Geosciences at the University of Witwatersrand, and his colleagues focused on the teeth and "parts of the body that don't normally fossilize," such as the brain. . © 2012 Discovery Channel. Journey Inside The Cell. The Evolution of Whales -- Jenny Fitch. Alternative theories of quantum evolution. For the theory more commonly associated with this name see: Quantum evolution. Quantum evolution is the hypothesis that quantum effects can bias the process of mutation towards adaptive genetic variation.[1] It should not be confused with quantum evolution, a theory related to the modern evolutionary synthesis. The first publication on this subject, which appeared in a peer review journal, is by Vasily Ogryzko.[2] Biologist Johnjoe McFadden and the physicist Jim Al-Khalili subsequently published their own theory in 1999 [3] in which they proposed a mechanism based on enhanced decoherence of quantum states that interact strongly with the environment.

McFadden published his book Quantum Evolution in 2000.[1] Background[edit] A mechanism proposed by quantum evolution is to imagine that the configuration of DNA in a cell is held in a quantum superposition of states, and that "mutations" occur as a result of a collapse of the superposition into the "best" configuration for the cell. Genetic algorithm. The 2006 NASA ST5 spacecraft antenna. This complicated shape was found by an evolutionary computer design program to create the best radiation pattern. Genetic algorithms find application in bioinformatics, phylogenetics, computational science, engineering, economics, chemistry, manufacturing, mathematics, physics, pharmacometrics and other fields.

Methodology[edit] In a genetic algorithm, a population of candidate solutions (called individuals, creatures, or phenotypes) to an optimization problem is evolved toward better solutions. Each candidate solution has a set of properties (its chromosomes or genotype) which can be mutated and altered; traditionally, solutions are represented in binary as strings of 0s and 1s, but other encodings are also possible. A typical genetic algorithm requires: a genetic representation of the solution domain,a fitness function to evaluate the solution domain. Initialization of genetic algorithm[edit] Selection[edit] Genetic operators[edit] Termination[edit] Camouflage. A soldier applying a disruptive pattern to his face; his helmet and jacket are both disruptively patterned Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see (crypsis), or by disguising them as something else (mimesis).

Examples include the leopard's spotted coat, the battledress of a modern soldier, and the leaf-mimic katydid's wings.[1] A third approach, motion dazzle, confuses the observer with a conspicuous pattern, making the object visible but momentarily harder to locate. The majority of camouflage methods aim for crypsis, often through a general resemblance to the background, high contrast disruptive coloration, eliminating shadow, and countershading. Military camouflage was spurred by the increasing range and accuracy of firearms in the 19th century. In particular the replacement of the inaccurate musket with the rifle made personal concealment in battle a survival skill. The Milwaukee Journal - Google News Archive Search. Swarm intelligence. Swarm intelligence (SI) is the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial.

The concept is employed in work on artificial intelligence. The expression was introduced by Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang in 1989, in the context of cellular robotic systems.[1] The application of swarm principles to robots is called swarm robotics, while 'swarm intelligence' refers to the more general set of algorithms. 'Swarm prediction' has been used in the context of forecasting problems. Example algorithms[edit] Particle swarm optimization[edit] Ant colony optimization[edit] Artificial bee colony algorithm[edit] Artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) is a meta-heuristic algorithm introduced by Karaboga in 2005,[5] and simulates the foraging behaviour of honey bees. Bacterial colony optimization[edit] Differential evolution[edit] Differential evolution is similar to genetic algorithm and pattern search.

The bees algorithm[edit] Artificial immune systems[edit] Bat algorithm[edit] Alien From Earth. Alien From Earth PBS Airdate: November 11, 2008 NARRATOR: It is the dream of every archaeologist who slogs through backbreaking days of excavation, the find that changes everything. ABC NEWS REPORTER (Archival Footage):A team of Australian and Indonesian archeologists has discovered the remains of what's believed to be a new species of human.

HENRY GEE (Nature Magazine): This is a major discovery. CHRIS STRINGER (Natural History Museum, United Kingdom): It implies we are missing a huge amount of the story of human evolution. NARRATOR: Paradoxically, the discovery is huge because its pieces are not: a skeleton of an adult, the size of a three-year old child; a skull one-third the size of a modern human's. Could a race of tiny creatures, soon nicknamed "hobbits," have thrived at the same time as modern humans? To many, the evidence is irrefutable. BILL JUNGERS (Stony Brook University): This is not a little person. NARRATOR: But some scientists just aren't buying it. And David H. The Probability of Evolution.

Introduction to the Mathematics of Evolution Chapter 15 The Probability of Evolution "A statistician is a person who stands in a bucket of ice water, sticks their head in an over and says: 'on average, I feel fine! '" K. Dunnigan Gene Complexes In prior chapters we talked about genes and DNA, among other things. A gene would be useless without the rest of the gene complex. No one really knows what the average number of nucleotide pairs (generally just referred to as "nucleotides") are in the average "gene complex. " "While only a small fraction of the [DNA] directly encodes for proteins, every protein-encoding sequence is embedded within other functional sequences that regulate the expression of such proteins.

Genetic Entropy & The Mystery of the Genome, page 38 The numbers he quotes are for humans. Before getting into human evolution, let us apply the concept of "gene complex" to the "first living cell. " The Probability of the "First Living Cell" What if we randomly modified pure gibberish? Why the Theory of Evolution Exists. Introduction to the Mathematics of Evolution Chapter 1 Why the Theory of Evolution Exists "In the preface to the proceedings of the [Wistar] symposium, Dr. Kaplan commented about the importance of mathematics in such matters as theorizing about origins [of life].

He said that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive efforts is comparable to omitting the part of Ophelia from Shakespeare's play, Hamlet" 's Enigma, Luther D. Introduction Many times students hear that the theory of evolution is a "proven fact of science. " The reality is that the theory of evolution is NOT a proven fact of science. For example, the theory of evolution requires that life be created from simple chemicals. Such a conversion has never been demonstrated and such a conversion has never been proven to be possible. Even the simplest life on earth, which does not require a host, is far too complex to form by a series of accidents. Science Phillip E. "Naturalism" (Mr.

The Origin of Whales and the Power of Independent Evidence. Ow do you convince a creationist that a fossil is a transitional fossil? Give up? It is a trick question. You cannot do it. There is no convincing someone who has his mind made up already. One of the favorite anti-evolutionist challenges to the existence of transitional fossils is the supposed lack of transitional forms in the evolution of the whales. There simply are no transitional forms in the fossil record between the marine mammals and their supposed land mammal ancestors . . . Of course, for many years the fossil record for the whales was quite spotty, but now there are numerous transitional forms that illustrate the pathway of whale evolution.

Recent discoveries of fossil whales provide the evidence that will convince an honest skeptic. To illustrate this approach, I will present the evidence from multiple fields for the origin of the whales from terrestrial mammals. What is a whale? The skull also has a set of features unique among mammals. 1. Adaptive mutation is common in E. coli, say IU researchers. Last modified: Thursday, October 23, 2003 The quickening of genetic mutation rates in bacteria may not only happen when the microorganisms find themselves in strange and stressful circumstances. A new report in Molecular Microbiology by Indiana University Bloomington researchers shows that at least one bacterium, Escherichia coli, ratchets up its "adaptive mutation" machinery when it simply runs out of food. Biologists Patricia Foster and Jill Layton found that as E. coli cells begin to starve, the bacteria quadruple their expression of DNA Polymerase IV (Pol IV), a mutation-causing enzyme that is notoriously bad at copying DNA accurately.

The culprit, the scientists discovered, is sigma-38, a stress protein that appears to activate expression of the Pol IV gene. "We've known that bacteria respond to different kinds of stress by activating 30 genes or so," said Foster, who led the study. DNA mutations are usually bad for bacteria, since altered genes rarely work properly. Cellular automaton. Adaptive Mutation: Has the Unicorn Landed? The Intelligent Universe. (Fred Hoyle). Bees algorithm. Collective intelligence: Ants and brain's neurons.

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