The Awakening - Mécanique quantique du cerveau humain et la conscience «Times End Game Before reading this interesting and potentially life changing blog, it would be a good idea to watch the following short videos at the links provided below; and read the article, third link below, as a prerequisite if one does not understand the double slit experiment or basic quantum physics. Dr. All these refer to the elusive relationship between the body and the mind referred to more generally as the brain-mind problem. Psychology and related sciences were able to continue for many years by either ignoring the brain entirely or at best treating it as a black box whose rules of operation could be understood without reference to its internal contents or composition. The human brain without doubt is the most complex organ in the known universe. Consciousness on the other hand is neither physical nor biological. However, there are differences. Nature of Consciousness Conclusions
The Power of Outrospection | Non-Verbal.info | Introspection is out, and outrospection is in. Philosopher and author Roman Krznaric explains... Introspection is out, and outrospection is in. Philosopher and author Roman Krznaric explains how we can help drive social change by stepping outside ourselves. The RSA is a 258 year-old charity devoted to creating social progress and spreading world-changing ideas. World’s First Perpetual Motion Machine? | ASTOUNDE.com Can this machine operate forever? Since at least the 12th century, man has sought to create a perpetual motion machine; a device that would continue working indefinitely without any external source of energy. A large scientific contingent thinks such a device would violate the laws of thermodynamics, and is thus impossible. Could it be that as a race, we don’t fully understand the laws of physics and such a device may indeed be possible? Norwegian artist and mathematician Reidar Finsrud is an outside the box thinker that has devised a machine that he believes achieves true perpetual motion. The dream is that if we’re able to produce perpetual motion machines, that we’d have tapped into the holy grail of sustainability: an infinite energy source. A device that requires no input to run that could be affixed to a generator would harvest free energy to power whatever we so pleased. What are your thoughts? Source: Finsrud Comments comments
Swiss plan to orbit a satellite to kill old satellites It has always been rather ironic to me that the space surrounding the earth doesn't actually have a whole lot of space thanks to the hordes of satellites in orbit. Other than satellites that are actually working, there is a bunch of debris flying around orbiting the Earth that sometimes crashes in the other satellites that are in use, destroying them and making even more debris. Scientists in Switzerland have a plan to clean up junk that's in orbit around Earth. The plan involves a small satellite that would be placed in orbit and then catch up to the defunct or damaged satellites and capture them. CleanSpace One is a small satellite that reportedly wouldn't cost that much to put into orbit. [via Business Insider]
Right Brain v Left Brain Ciders worthy of your tastebuds AUSSIES have fallen for cider’s charms in a big way, so we pop the cap and peel away the hype to find which ciders are worthy of your time, money and tastebuds. Passengers to cop big fare hit CATCHING a taxi from the city to the outer suburbs on Saturday night will cost $20 more under the first cab fare increase in six years. Informer crisis link to top cop split EXCLUSIVE: THE demise of former top cop Simon Overland and his deputy, Sir Ken Jones, was the result of a dispute over Victoria Police’s handling of informers. I’m owed big salary: MasterChef star FORMER MasterChef Australia contestant Aaron Thomas, who has been accused of a $7 million fraud, is seeking a $150,000-a-month salary he says he is owed.
Matières Vivantes | Physique, Biologie, évolution, et tout le reste … par Tom Roud Divine Cosmos Physicists Achieve Quantum Teleportation of Photon Over 25 Kilometers For the first time, a team of physicists have successfully teleported a quantum state of a photon to a crystal over 25 kilometers away through a fiber optic cable. This effectively showed that the photon’s quantum state, not its composition, is important to the teleportation process. The team was led by Nicolas Gisin of the University of Geneva and the results were published in the journal Nature Photonics. With this new paper, Gisin’s team has successfully squashed the previous record they set a decade ago by teleporting a quantum state of a proton 6 kilometers. The quantum state of the photon is able to preserve information under extreme conditions, including the difference between traveling as light or becoming stored in the crystal like matter. To test this and ensure what they were observing was actually happening, one photon was stored in a crystal while the other was sent along optical fiber, over a distance of 25 kilometers.
Zen Table by Simon Hallam Imagine a Japanese Zen Garden built into a beautifully-crafted, glass-topped table. The body of the table encapsulates electronics and robotics, that sculpt geometric patterns and images into a field of microscopic silicone beads beneath a glass top. The effect is mesmerizing and magical; it is truly Zen-like to watch ever-changing patterns and images appear in the sand. The project is based on an idea I sketched in a notebook back in 1997. Since then I've tested a multitude of mechanical configurations and experimented with many different sculpting mediums. We Need Your Support The design and execution of the first functioning tables is complete. By contributing to this project, you are eligible for some fun and creative rewards, and you get to help (and watch) a new business ignite, from its initial spark into something tangible. Construction will use organically grown FSC certified moso bamboo, which is durable, strong, beautiful, and above all - renewable. Simon Hallam.
Mécanique quantique : nouvelle définition de la fonction d'onde - Fondamental La fonction d'onde de l'hydrogène (Wikimedia Commons) Un outil statistique et peut-être plus que ça En mécanique quantique, qui traite du comportement physique des particules atomiques et subatomiques, la fonction d’onde permet de calculer la densité de probabilité de présence d’une particule en certains points. En effet, à cette échelle, toute tentative de mesure influe directement sur la particule de sorte qu’il est impossible de connaître simultanément sa position et sa vitesse, c’est le fameux principe d’incertitude d’Heisenberg. Du coup, les mesures n'expriment pas des certitudes mais seulement des probabilités, représentées par la fonction d’onde. Pour les physiciens, la fonction d’onde est une abstraction mathématique et statistique qui permet de réduire, pas complètement, l’incertitude quantique. L’interprétation de Copenhague serait erronée Le débat sur la façon de comprendre la fonction d'onde remonte aux années 1920. Un «séisme» physique
"That Perfect High" -- R.I.P. Shel Silverstein From Dr. Legume Since Brother Shel Silverstein died this week, it got me looking through my archives, where I dredged up this little gem I thought I'd share with you all, a poem that bears a message VERY close to our hearts. ---------------- The Perfect High There once was a boy named Gimme-Some-Roy... As a kid, he sat in the cellar...sniffing airplane glue. But grass just made him wanna lay back and eat chocolate-chip pizza all night, and the great things he wrote when he was stoned looked like shit in the morning light. He tried PCP, he tried THC, but they never quite did the trick. Now, Baba Fats was a hermit cat...lived high up in Nepal, High on a craggy mountain top, up a sheer and icy wall. So out and off goes Gimme-Some-Roy, to the land that knows no time, Up a trail no man could conquer, to a cliff no man could climb. Grinding his teeth, coughing blood, aching and shaking and weak, Starving and sore, bleeding and tore, he reaches the mountain peak. "What's happenin', Fats?"
Hawking Radiation Recreated In A Laboratory A researcher claims to have produced a simulation of Hawking radiation, which if true will give physicists the chance to test one of Stephen Hawking's most significant predictions. In 1974, Hawking upended ideas about black holes with his theory that just outside the event horizon, particle-antiparticle pairs should appear as a result of the black hole's gravitational field. One of these would be drawn into the hole, but the other escape. Since the appearance of the pair draws energy from the hole and only half of this is recaptured, the effect is to reduce the hole's mass, causing it to eventually evaporate. Hawking's equations have won widespread support from physicists, and are a major contributor to his reputation. Now Professor Jeff Steinhauer of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology claims to be getting close. The fluctuations occur in pairs, modelling the particle-antiparticle pairs appearing around a black hole. Image CC BY-SA 2.5