250x faster than 'superfast' broadband: UK researchers in 'Li-Fi' connectivity breakthrough Internet connectivity through light fidelity (Li-Fi) has reached a new milestone, according to UK researchers. A team of researchers from the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, St Andrews and Strathclyde working on the Ultra-Parallel Visible Light Communications Project claim to have reached record data transmission speeds of 10.5 Gbit/s via Li-Fi. Li-fi works by utilising specialised LED bulbs to transmit data through parallel streams of light that are undetectable to the human eye. "If you think of a shower head separating water out into parallel streams, that's how we can make light behave," said Professor Harald Haas, a German physicist and one of the project leaders at the University of Edinburgh. To reach speeds in excess of 10 GBits/s, the researchers used a micro-LED bulb developed at the University of Strathclyde, transmitting 3.5 GBits/s through each of the primary colours – red, green and blue.
Nazi Bell Uncovered Other individuals who may not have first hand witnessed the Bell device itself have also contributed to understanding the project surrounding the Bell. Dr Ronald Richter strove to recreate the Bell project in Argentina after the war and the dismantling of his Bell device under political pressure applied upon Argentina in 1952 grant further insights. It is also worth noting that Ardenne disclosed to Frolov that whilst Ardenne had installed one cyclotron like device in the mine at Ludwikowice, he said there was already another one inside the mine. At Bissingen in April 1945 the French captured what appears to have been another, incomplete Bell device created by the Swiss scientist Dallenbach. When ALSOS reached the Austrian town of Melk they came across another nuclear project with what was termed a transformer room. Numerous Top Secret codenames are associated with the so-called Nazi Bell. The code name Charite-Anlage co-existed with Project Thor. Science behind the Bell Photo-chemistry:
DISC AIRCRAFT OF THE THIRD REICH (1922-1945 and BEYOND) discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/HAUNEBU.htm Senator Richard Russell served 38 years in the Senate, and was its senior, and one of the most influential, senators at the time of his death in 1971. He was chairman of the Armed Services Committee from 1951 to 1969, and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1952. A report, classified Top Secret until 1959, when it was downgraded to Secret. and not released until 1985. detailing his UFO encounter was made available by the Fund for UFO Research and its chairman, Dr. Bruce Maccabee. Several key documents were obtained by the group through the Freedom of Information Act.. "The three observers were firmly convinced that they saw a genuine flying disc," says the Air Force Intelligence report, dated October 14, 1955. It goes on to say Russell and his two traveling companions spotted the UFOs on October 4, 1955, while traveling by rail across Russia's Transcaucasus region. The second flying disc was seen performing the same actions about one minute later.
SPACESHIPS OF THE GODS For the life of me I don't know how we believed all that propaganda about how the Communists were a big threat to America. Basically the Communists were a third-world nation and are still having a rough time catching up to the rest of the world. Looking back it all seems like this big scam to get more money out of taxpayers for nuclear weapons. The big problem is both sides made enough bombs to kill all the people in the world ten times over. There has to be another reason why they would make so many nuclear bombs. The Nazi party never surrendered after the war. If the last war with Germany was WW II, don't you think by this time the 'Third Reich' would have a contingency plan? Admiral Dönitz moved the last battalion of over a hundred U-boats to bases in Antarctica at New Swabia (Neuchwabenland) and South America. Given the Aryan preoccupation with underground caverns it is quite logical that they would colonize such a place. There is a 1948 list of 261 German flying saucers.
New ion engine could reach Mars in 39 days Last week, as the world celebrated the first lunar landing, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins both called for NASA to make Mars its next goal. But the chemical propulsion system that took them to the moon would take six months, at least, to get a man to Mars and cost hundreds of billions of dollars. However, a new ion plasma rocket being developed by another former astronaut, Franklin Chang-Diaz, could potentially reach Mars in just 39 days using a fraction of the fuel. The problem with traditional rockets is that they’re terribly inefficient. About 90% of a mission’s initial weight is fuel, most of which is burned up escaping earth’s gravitational pull. After that, a traditional rocket could only slowly coast to Mars. Chang-Diaz’s prototype, however, promises specific impulses as high as 15,000 seconds. The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR, for short) consists of three linked magnetic cells.
NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program April Danann Exciting MIT droplet discovery could turbocharge power plants, airships and more Top engineers at MIT say they have come across a handy effect which could seriously boost the efficiency of a critical piece of kit used in many important technologies. The piece of kit in question is the humble water condenser, which has been in use for hundreds of years: James Watt introduced it to the earliest steam engines, turning them from inefficient curiosities to the motors which powered the Industrial Revolution. Today, condensers are critical to the functioning of most powerplants - and if they can be made better, they could greatly strengthen the case for the reintroduction of airships. In essence, a condenser works by exposing steam to a cold surface. This causes the steam to turn into water, which flows down the cold surface and drips off into a collecting sump. In a powerplant, the condenser is attached to the exhaust end of the turbines which drive the generators. Overall, the condenser becomes more efficient. But what's the airship angle? There's more from MIT here Bootnote
Virtual Retinal Display beams images onto your eyeballs by Geoff Gasior — 10:22 AM on October 14, 2013 Everyone seems to be pretty excited about the Oculus Rift VR headset. The folks at Avegant are working on an even more intriguing head-mounted display. Dubbed the Virtual Retinal Display, the headset eschews LCD screens in favor of a micro-mirror array that beams reflected light directly into the eyes. Avegant CEO Ed Tang spoke to CNet about the technology, which purportedly eliminates eye strain while also producing more realistic images than traditional LCDs. He describes the difference as being akin to watching something through a window versus on a screen. The current prototype offers a resolution of 1280x800 per eye, but the perceived resolution is supposedly much higher. Somewhat surprisingly, gaming isn't Avegant's focus. Although the existing versions of the Virtual Retinal Display look a little funky, a more polished, consumer-oriented product is set to debut in the first quarter of next year.
Time Warp: Researcher Shows Possibility of Cloning Quantum Info from the Past Popular television shows such as “Doctor Who” have brought the idea of time travel into the vernacular of popular culture. But the problem of time travel is even more complicated than one might think. LSU’s Mark Wilde has shown that it would theoretically be possible for time travelers to copy quantum data from the past. It all started when David Deutsch, a pioneer of quantum computing and a physicist at Oxford, came up with a simplified model of time travel to deal with the paradoxes that would occur if one could travel back in time. “The question is, how would you have existed in the first place to go back in time and kill your grandfather?” Deutsch solved the Grandfather paradox originally using a slight change to quantum theory, proposing that you could change the past as long as you did so in a self-consistent manner. “Meaning that, if you kill your grandfather, you do it with only probability one-half,” Wilde said. “We can always look at a paper, and then copy the words on it.
Spooky action put to order: Physicists classify different types of 'entanglement' A property known as "entanglement" is a fundamental characteristic of quantum mechanics. Physicists and mathematicians at ETH Zurich show now how different forms of this phenomenon can be efficiently and systematically classified into categories. The method should help to fully exploit the potential of novel quantum technologies. "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." Thus spoke the American physicist Richard Feynman—underlining that even leading scientists struggle to develop an intuitive feeling for quantum mechanics. When more than two particles are entangled, the mutual influence between them can come in different forms. Putting entangled states in their place The ability to gain information about entangled states of several particles is a central aspect of this work, explains Christandl: "For three particles, there are two fundamentally different types of entanglement, one of which is generally considered more 'useful' than the other. A perfect match