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Color and Reality | gmilburn.ca. When I was a kid, I used to wonder if everyone saw the world in the same way. We can all look at the same grass, but maybe the color I called green showed up in my brain as the color my friend called blue. Maybe all of our colors were shifted around to the point where all the colors were accounted for, but how we perceived them was shuffled up.

I thought it would be remarkably exciting, and hoped that I could see the world through someone else’s brain to see if, in fact, this was true. My eight year old self would be bitterly disappointed technology today has not progressed far enough to make that wish a reality. At the time, we had to settle the debate by another manner – asking an adult, a source of concrete and immutable knowledge. The answer I was given was that everyone sees the same colors of course (although why this was so obvious was never really clear) and if they didn’t it wouldn’t matter much since we couldn’t tell. The only problem is that this is wrong. Color as Wavelength. There are many correct ways to answer a test question. From Mycoted R.L. Loeffelbein, a physics teacher at Washington University in St. Louis was about to give a student a zero for the student's answer to an examination problem. The student claimed he should receive a perfect score, if the system were not so set up against the student.

Instructor and student agreed to submit to an impartial arbiter, Dr. Alexander Calandra, who tells the story. The examination problem was: "Show how it is possible to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer. " The student's answer was, "Take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, and lower the barometer to the ground.

I, as arbiter, pointed out that the student really had a strong case for full credit since he had answered the problem completely and correctly. He was given six minutes to answer it, with the warning this time that the answer should indicate some knowledge of physics. At this point, I asked my colleague if he gave up and he conceded. R.L. Carrey, Conan and Max discuss quantum physics.

Channel 4 - Science, Nature and the Environment. 10 Amazing Tricks to Play with your Brain / Mind. Mind is the aspect of intellect and consciousness experienced as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination, including all unconscious cognitive processes. Mind manifests itself subjectively as a stream of consciousness.

Neuroanatomists usually consider the brain to be the pivotal unit of what we refer to as mind. The Human Brain tricks us whenever it can. You don’t actually see what it is in real or you don’t even actually hear or smell the way it should be. 10. At first this might sound like a bad practical joke. 9. In case you experience an injury, then see the injured part with an inverted binoculars, soon your pain will seem to be decreasing in its magnitude.

Recently, a reasearch at Oxford University has lead to the discovery of a new pain killer – the inverted binoculars. Source: ( Link) 8. This requires two chairs and a blind fold. 7. Lift your right foot a few inches from the floor and then begin to move it in a clockwise direction. 6. Pages: 1 2. Space Will Make You Cranky and Euphoric - The Blogs at HowStuffWorks. Can space change your mind? (PNC/PhotoDisc/Getty Images) Think you have what it takes to endure a five-month stay in orbit? Be prepared to go through some psychological changes. According to nearly a decade of Russian observations and a 1993 report on human adaptation to long-duration space flight, it all breaks down like this: Stage One: Welcome to microgravity! You’ll spend the first phase of your journey adjusting to a cramped environment, an upset stomach, headaches and space motion sickness. According to NASA’s Johnson Space Center, you’ll also experience a 26 percent drop in sleep efficiency, with greatly reduced REM (rapid eye movement) time.

Stage Two: According to “Space Psychology and Psychiatry” by Nick Kansas, you’ll probably hit your stride about six weeks into the mission. Stage Three: Sometime between week six and week 12, you can expect things to get a little moody aboard the old space station. Yep, space euphoria at long last. Pretty trippy, eh? A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations. (ca. 235 bc) b. Syracuse Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth. (1920-1992) b. Petrovichi, Russia. The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in century they were proved to be wrong.

It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is ... Isaac Asimov, Kensington Books, New York, 1996, p 226. (1) At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is--space begins to become abrasive.

Isaac Asimov, In Kensington Books, New York, 1996, p 220. (1) (1561-1626) b. For it is esteemed a kind of dishonour unto learning to descend to inquiry or meditation upon matters mechanical, except they be such as may be thought secrets, rarities, and special subtilities, which humour of vain supercilious arrogancy is justly derided in Plato. . . . (1842-? D. Not so close encounter. STS-125 Atlantis Solar Transit (200905120002HQ) Michael Specter talks denialism. Using Water as a Compustable Fuel. The Fox Is Black » Bach’s Cantata 147, ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’ Played On a Giant Wooden Xylophone In a Forest.

This is probably the largest, least creative title for a post ever, but it’s also one of the most descriptive as well. The video is a commercial by DOCOMO for the Touch Wood SH-08C, a limited edition phone of which there are only 15,000 being made. But honestly I could care less about the phone, this commercial is a thousand times more cool. By combining lord knows how many pieces of wood, they were able to make a long, downhill track that was able to reproduce Bach’s Cantata 147, Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring. This is a pretty phenomenal achievement and a beautiful piece of art.

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