Peter Weyland at TED2023: I will change the world Peter Weyland has been a magnet for controversy since he announced his intent to build the first convincingly humanoid robotic system by the end of the decade. Whether challenging the ethical boundaries of medicine with nanotechnology or going toe to toe with the Vatican itself on the issue of gene-therapy sterilization, Sir Peter prides himself on his motto, “If we can, we must.” After a three year media blackout, Weyland has finally emerged to reveal where he’s heading next. Wherever that may be, we will most certainly want to follow. Conceived and designed by Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof and directed by Luke Scott. Sir Peter Weyland was born in Mumbai, India at the turn of the Millennium. In less than a decade, Weyland Corporation became a worldwide leader in emerging technologies and launched the first privatized industrial mission to leave the planet Earth.
Could a Higgs Boson Announcement Be Imminent From the LHC? | Wired Science Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider could be getting an early Christmas present: the Higgs boson. According to the latest rumors, scientists at the LHC are seeing a signal that could correspond to a Higgs particle with a mass of 125 GeV (a proton is slightly less than 1 GeV). Public talks are scheduled to discuss the latest results from ATLAS and CMS, two of the main LHC experiments, on Dec. 13. This follows one day after a closed-door CERN council meeting where officials will get a short preview of the findings, whatever they may be. “Chances are high (but not strictly 100%) that the talks will either announce a (de facto or de iure) discovery or some far-reaching exclusion that will be really qualitative and unexpected,” wrote theoretical physicist Lubos Motl on his blog. But if the rumors are true, and the Higgs has been seen at 125 GeV, it could bolster the idea that there is physics beyond the Standard Model that describes the behavior of subatomic particles.
Physics Flash Animations We have been increasingly using Flash animations for illustrating Physics content. This page provides access to those animations which may be of general interest. The animations will appear in a separate window. The animations are sorted by category, and the file size of each animation is included in the listing. In addition, I have prepared a small tutorial in using Flash to do Physics animations. LInks to versions of these animations in other languages, other links, and license information appear towards the bottom of this page. The Animations There are 99 animations listed below. Other Languages and Links These animations have been translated into Catalan, Spanish and Basque: En aquest enllaç podeu trobar la versió al català de les animacions Flash de Física. Many animations have been translated into Greek by Vangelis Koltsakis. Most animations have been translated into Hungarian by Sandor Nagy, Eötvös Loránd University.
Anti-Gravity [under construction] "Earth is the special principle of diamagnetism, the root of anti-gravity." -Richard Lefors Clark Daniel Home (from 1820-1850): a world famous levitator of the 19th c. who lived in the Lake Ontario grid point area (aka.Marysburgh Vortex; other Bermuda Triangle; "the gateway to oblivion on the eastern end of Lake Ontario"), apparently very active; where many European nobleman and scientist visited and verified the feats of levitation. Project Magnet (1950): only known official government research program into the Earth Grid system involving the Canadian National Research Council and US Navy to investigate the Marysburgh Vortex magnetic anomalies and possible magnetic utility; Wilbert Smith, a Canadian communications engineer in the Dept. of Transportation was the director of the team of scientists; project was officially terminated after data results became to sensitive (eg.UFO data?) N-S axis is referred to as magnetic E-W axis is referred to as diamagnetic
The Aviator: Science Fiction of the Post Global Warming World How can you go wrong with blimps? The Aviator is a new book that gives you a world of post-global warming climate and interesting developments in transportation technology and artificial intelligence. It is written by New Zealand based writer Gareth Renowden. The Aviator explores a post-apocalypse world where the apocalypse is not nuclear war or a large object hitting the earth, or even an outbreak of zombi-ism, but rather, unfettered human-caused climate change. The truth is, a future Earth with continued climate change could end up in a number of different states, but the planet ala The Aviator is a reasonable approximation of a switched-over climate, brought to us by someone who knows the science well. I have truly enjoyed it. The book’s web site is here.
Exposing PseudoAstronomy Your Brain on Pot: Watch a handy, 2-minute explanation from ASAP Science. (VIDEO) One of my favorite YouTube accounts is AsapSCIENCE, a video series created by Mitchell Moffit and Gregrory Brown and devoted to explaining everyday phenomena in about two minutes—with plenty of visual aides. Their latest installment, “Your Brain on Drugs: Marijuana,” is another gem. If you don’t quite understand how or why marijuana has the effect it does on the human mind, it provides a quick, comprehensible explanation that doesn’t stint on the science. Ordinarily, the video explains, the neurons in your brain “temporarily become unresponsive after firing, to prevent them from overreacting” to stimuli. Cannabinoids “interrupt this approach,” however, and, as a result, each train of thought “becomes the most significant and profound thing ever.” Cannabinoids also affect the amount of dopamine and norepinephrine in your brain, which can lead to feelings of euphoria, but also anxiety. Sounds about right.
Largest dark matter map holds clues to dark energy - space - 11 January 2012 By Lisa Grossman We may not know what dark matter is, but we can still put it to work. The largest map of dark matter ever made (pictured) is one of several new ones that will help to nail the properties of the equally mysterious dark energy, which is thought to drive the universe’s accelerating expansion. A group led by Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh, UK, and Ludo Van Waerbeke of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, presented the huge map at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Austin, Texas, this week. Dark matter makes up 83 per cent of the universe’s matter, but is invisible, so its presence must be inferred from its gravitational influence. Heymans’s team used the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to observe 10 million galaxies, each about 6 billion light years away. Cosmic web The map shows a great cosmic web, with scattered clumps of dark matter linked by wispy filaments. Measuring acceleration More on these topics: cosmology
Science Space Photo of the Day | Wired Science When the lamp is shattered, The light in the dust lies dead. When the cloud is scattered, The rainbow's glory is shed. These words, which open Shelley’s poem "When the Lamp is Shattered," employ visions of nature to symbolize life in decay and rebirth. It's as if he had somehow foreseen the creation of this new Gemini Legacy image, and penned a caption for it. What Gemini has captured is nothing short of poetry in motion: the colorful and dramatic tale of a life-and-death struggle between two galaxies interacting. Polar-ring galaxies are peculiar objects. Models of how polar-ring galaxies form offer two general formation scenarios: 1) a piercing merger between two galaxies aligned roughly at right angles, or 2) when the host galaxy tidally strips material from a passing gas-rich spiral and strews it into a ring. Born of Violence NGC 660’s polar ring resolves into hundreds of objects, a considerable part of which are blue and red supergiant stars. Weighing the Evidence Life from Death?
Electromagnetic theories of consciousness The electromagnetic theories of consciousness propose that consciousness can be understood as an electromagnetic phenomenon. Overview[edit] Theorists differ in how they relate consciousness to electromagnetism. Some electromagnetic theories are also quantum mind theories of consciousness; examples include quantum brain dynamics (QBD) approaches of Mari Jibu and Kunio Yasue[7] and of Giuseppe Vitiello.[8] In general, however, quantum mind theories other than these QBD approaches do not treat consciousness as an electromagnetic phenomenon. Also related are E. Cemi theory[edit] The starting point for McFadden and Pockett's theory is the fact that every time a neuron fires to generate an action potential, and a postsynaptic potential in the next neuron down the line, it also generates a disturbance in the surrounding electromagnetic field. McFadden thinks that the EM field could influence the brain in a number of ways. McFadden's view of free will is deterministic. Objections[edit]
BSA Image Collection Brief Answers to Cosmic Questions Structure of the Universe Does the Universe have an edge, beyond which there is nothing? Are the galaxies arranged on the surface of a sphere? Why can't we see the whole universe? Does the term "universe" refer to space, or to the matter in it, or to both? Evolution of the Universe Did the Universe expand from a point? If so, doesn't the universe have to have an edge? More about the Big Bang When they say "the universe is expanding," what exactly is expanding? Structure of the Universe Does the Universe have an edge, beyond which there is nothing? Are the galaxies arranged on the surface of a sphere? Why can't we see the whole universe? If you could suddenly freeze time everywhere in the universe, and magically survey all of creation, you would find galaxies extending out far beyond what we can see today. Does the term "universe" refer to space, or to the matter in it, or to both? Today, the situation is reversed. Evolution of the Universe Did the Universe expand from a point?
15 Current Technologies My Newborn Son Won't Use I was surprised when a 23-year-old co-worker told me she didn't remember a time before broadband Internet. At some point, her parents must have had dial-up, but she was so young that she doesn't even remember back that far. Wireless broadband won't dominate the home market until he's 8 to 10, but my son won't remember a world where consumers pay for wired Internet connections. Even today, 4G LTE provides comparable download speeds and better upload speeds than cable Internet, but the cost of using mobile broadband all the time is prohibitive. Delivery of subunit influenza vaccine to skin with microneedles improves immunogenicity and long-lived protection : Scientific Reports Microneedle fabrication and coating As previously described25, metal microneedles were fabricated by etching stainless steel sheets (McMaster-Carr, Atlanta, GA). Each microneedle measured 700 µm tall, with a cross sectional area of 170 µm by 55 µm at the base and tapering to a sharp tip, with five microneedles per row. Cells and viruses Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells (ATCC CCL 34, American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA) were maintained in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium (DMEM) (Mediatech, Herndon, VA) containing 10% fetal bovine serum (Hyclone, ThermoFisher Scientific, Rockford, IL). Immunizations, lethal challenge and sample collection Female BALB/c mice (Charles River Laboratory, Wilmington, MA) (50 mice per group, 6–8 weeks old) received one dose (3 µg) of the subunit A/Brisbane/59/2007 vaccine through the skin using microneedle arrays coated with the antigen or by IM injection. Evaluation of humoral immune responses Measurement of lung viral titers after challenge