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Thousands of Purple Jelly-Like Spheres Line the Desert Floor : 10 Things Most Americans Don't Know About America. Imagine you have a brother and he’s an alcoholic.

10 Things Most Americans Don't Know About America

He has his moments, but you keep your distance from him. You don’t mind him for the occasional family gathering or holiday. You still love him. But you don’t want to be around him. This is how I lovingly describe my current relationship with the United States. I know that’s harsh, but I really feel my home country is not in a good place these days. I realize it’s going to be impossible to write sentences like the ones above without coming across as a raging prick, so let me try to soften the blow to my American readers with an analogy: You know when you move out of your parents’ house and live on your own, how you start hanging out with your friends’ families and you realize that actually, your family was a little screwed up?

Physicists create world’s first multiverse of universes in the lab. Researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park and Towson University are reporting that they have created multiple universes inside a laboratory-created multiverse — a world first.

Physicists create world’s first multiverse of universes in the lab

To be exact, the researchers created a metamaterial — like those used to fashion invisibility cloaks — that, when light passes through it, multiple universes are formed within it. These universes, called Minkowski spacetimes, are similar to our own, except they more neatly tie up Einstein’s theory of special relativity by including time as a fourth dimension. While this is rather extraordinary, the experimental setup is actually quite simple — though definitely rather unconventional.

The multiverse is created inside a solution of cobalt in kerosene. This fluid isn’t usually considered a metamaterial, but lead researcher Igor Smolyaninov and co found that by applying a magnetic field, the ferromagnetic nanoparticles of cobalt line up in neat columns. The Unemployed Philosophers Guild, Give the thoughtful gift because the unexamined gift is not worth giving. Old West Wisdom - Page 3.

Colonel Colt made all men equal.

Old West Wisdom - Page 3

List of unsolved problems in philosophy. This is a list of some of the major unsolved problems in philosophy.

List of unsolved problems in philosophy

Clearly, unsolved philosophical problems exist in the lay sense (e.g. "What is the meaning of life? ", "Where did we come from? ", "What is reality? ", etc.). Aesthetics[edit] Essentialism[edit] In art, essentialism is the idea that each medium has its own particular strengths and weaknesses, contingent on its mode of communication. Art objects[edit] This problem originally arose from the practice rather than theory of art. Untitled Document. Terence Mckenna - A new kind of time. Particle Decays Point to an Arrow of Time. +Enlarge image Time moves irrevocably in one direction.

Particle Decays Point to an Arrow of Time

Things get old, decay, and fall apart, but they rarely ever reassemble and grow young. But at the particle level, time’s arrow is not so clearly defined. Most collisions and other particle interactions look the same whether run forwards or backwards. Physicists have, however, identified a few reactions that appear to change when time is reversed, but the reasoning has assumed certain relations between fundamental symmetries of particle physics. In trying to understand the nature of particle interactions, observing the behavior of those interactions under different symmetry transformations has proven invaluable in formulating and verifying the fundamental theory.

The Actual Plan for the Matrix: Incommensurability, Harmonic Resonance, and the Religion of Technology. Nonduality The Actual Plan for the Matrix: Incommensurability, Harmonic Resonance, and the Religion of Technology by Drew Hempel, M.A.

The Actual Plan for the Matrix: Incommensurability, Harmonic Resonance, and the Religion of Technology

The below summary of crucial information is thus far almost completely unknown to the public at large. 1) I discovered that my concept of sound-current nondualism (see my Masters Thesis, "Epicenters of Justice") was already developed by the Philosophy of Science Professor Oliver L. Chakras. The Seven Seals Of God ConsciousnessReclaiming wholeness and divine union with our God self requires us to not only embrace the physical body but also our spiritual or energetic bodies.

Chakras

Our energetic body surrounds and penetrates our physical body with our predominant energy centers or chakras running from the top of our head, down our spine, to the bottom of our feet. Chakra literally means “wheel of light.” Chakras are energy vortices that bring energy from the universal life field into our entire human system. Chakras are the regulators of spiritual life force energy, prana or chi. Without properly functioning chakras our health is vulnerable due to a of lack of healthy energy that is able to move through our chakras. Measurement problem. The measurement problem in quantum mechanics is the unresolved problem of how (or if) wavefunction collapse occurs.

Measurement problem

The inability to observe this process directly has given rise to different interpretations of quantum mechanics, and poses a key set of questions that each interpretation must answer. The wavefunction in quantum mechanics evolves deterministically according to the Schrödinger equation as a linear superposition of different states, but actual measurements always find the physical system in a definite state. Any future evolution is based on the state the system was discovered to be in when the measurement was made, meaning that the measurement "did something" to the process under examination.

Whatever that "something" may be does not appear to be explained by the basic theory. To express matters differently (to paraphrase Steven Weinberg[1][2]), the Schrödinger wave equation determines the wavefunction at any later time. Schrödinger's cat[edit] Interpretations[edit]