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World’s Largest Pyramid Discovered, Lost Mayan City Of...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:45:24 -0400

World’s Largest Pyramid Discovered, Lost Mayan City Of Mirador, Guatemala CNN

"The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of..."

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:35:05 -0400

“The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.”

- Salman Rushdie

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Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:47:47 -0400

The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:18:00 -0400

The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate:

More than a year after an explosion of sparks, soot and frigid helium shut it down, the world’s biggest and most expensive physics experiment, known as the Large Hadron Collider, is poised to start up again. In December, if all goes well, protons will start smashing together in an underground racetrack outside Geneva in a search for forces and particles that reigned during the first trillionth of a second of the Big Bang.

Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I’m not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. No, I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.

Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, put this idea forward in a series of papers with titles like “Test of Effect From Future in Large Hadron Collider: a Proposal” and “Search for Future Influence From LHC,” posted on the physics Web site arXiv.org in the last year and a half.

According to the so-called Standard Model that rules almost all physics, the Higgs is responsible for imbuing other elementary particles with mass.

“It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck,” Dr. Nielsen said in an e-mail message. In an unpublished essay, Dr. Nielson said of the theory, “Well, one could even almost say that we have a model for God.” It is their guess, he went on, “that He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them.”

This malign influence from the future, they argue, could explain why the United States Superconducting Supercollider, also designed to find the Higgs, was canceled in 1993 after billions of dollars had already been spent, an event so unlikely that Dr. Nielsen calls it an “anti-miracle.”

"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us."

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:07:58 -0400

“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

This Mortal Coil “Waves become wings”

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:05:56 -0400

This Mortal Coil “Waves become wings”

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water people

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:19:35 -0400

water people

New Theory Nixes "Dark Energy": Says Time is Disappearing from the Universe

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:08:33 -0400

New Theory Nixes "Dark Energy": Says Time is Disappearing from the Universe:

Remember a little thing called the space-time continuum? Well what if the time part of the equation was literally running out? New evidence is suggesting that time is slowly disappearing from our universe, and will one day vanish completely. This radical new theory may explain a cosmological mystery that has baffled scientists for years.

Scientists previously have measured the light from distant exploding stars to show that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. They assumed that these supernovae are spreading apart faster as the universe ages. Physicists also assumed that a kind of anti-gravitational force must be driving the galaxies apart, and started to call this unidentified force “dark energy”.

However, to this day no one actually knows what dark energy is, or where it comes from. Professor Jose Senovilla, and his colleagues at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, have proposed a mind-bending alternative. They propose that there is no such thing as dark energy at all, and we’re looking at things backwards. Senovilla proposes that we have been fooled into thinking the expansion of the universe is accelerating, when in reality, time itself is slowing down. At an everyday level, the change would not be perceptible. However, it would be obvious from cosmic scale measurements tracking the course of the universe over billions of years. The change would be infinitesimally slow from a human perspective, but in terms of the vast perspective of cosmology, the study of ancient light from suns that shone billions of years ago, it could easily be measured.

Many Mansions

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:08:14 -0400

Many Mansions

Metropolis

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:10:21 -0400

Metropolis

"All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and..."

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:58:15 -0400

“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”

- Swami Vivekananda

Birds on the Wiresby Jarbas Agnelli from Vimeo:Reading a...

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:38:18 -0400

Birds on the Wires
by Jarbas Agnelli

from Vimeo:
Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn’t the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.

I sent the music to the photographer, Paulo Pinto, who I Googled on the internet. He told his editor, who told a reporter and the story ended up as an interview in the very same newspaper.

Viktor Shauberger

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:00:00 -0400

Viktor Shauberger

Viktor Schauberger

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:59:00 -0400

Viktor Schauberger:

Viktor Schauberger was an Austrian inventor and naturalist who built and patented a water ram pump involving a spiral flow which he claimed to have learned from a visit to the Egyptian pyramid. Schauberger is considered the father of implosion technology. Many of his inventions are based on his study of fluidic vortexes.

Viktor Schauberger was born in Holzschlag, Austria in 1885. Growing up in a family of forest workers led Schauberger to study the physics of the forest. He researched water flow and other natural phenomena.

Beginning in 1929, Schauberger began patenting inventions based on water engineering. Schauberger built a water turbine to produce hydroelectricity.

During World War II, Schauberger was forced by the German SS to continue his research into vortex technology to aid in the design of German planes and even a type of fly saucer (the Repulsin). The stress led to his mental breakdown and hospitalization. After the war, Viktor Schauberger began his research on vortex technology and invented water-power turbines.

In 1958, at the age of seventy-three, Viktor Schauberger died in Linz, Austria.

Nature was my Teacher - The Vision of Viktor Schauberger (1 of...

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:58:42 -0400

Nature was my Teacher - The Vision of Viktor Schauberger (1 of 5)

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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:11:52 -0400

Our Tech Future? A Machine That Can Sense What You're Thinking

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:37:26 -0400

Our Tech Future? A Machine That Can Sense What You're Thinking:

A sound-powered cellphone might sound like donuts that help you lose weight, an anti-hangover alcohol or an ad for “Guaranteed returns, work from home, APPLY NOW” - but it might well be possible. A team of Texan scientists have published a paper claiming a breakthrough allowing audio-energized electronics.

Piezoelectric materials can convert between electrical energy and mechanical motion. Normally we use them that way, forming the heart of speaker systems, but recent advances have increased interest in running them backwards. Any situation where things are moving anyway is potentially a power source. One Japanese train station is already testing electricity generating floors in a train station, harnessing power from a million passengers a day, while the US Army is obviously interested. Piezoelectric suits would mean less weight for soldiers to carry - the very act of walking would power small electronics.

Professor Tagin’s paper states there is a magic mini-size for piezoelectric parts which radically enhances their efficiency. At around twenty-one nanometers, their model shows a hundred per cent increase in electricity generation. Such an increase is not impossible (piezeolectrics are very far from being totally efficient converters), but before anybody throws out their charger they should wait for a working prototype.

The final barrier between man and machine is being broken down. The ultimate in input is on the way, with the beginnings of a machine that can tell what you’re thinking about. If you can think of awesome applications of this technology, cool. If you can think of terrifying ones, congratulations on having a better understanding of the world.

Harry Smith “Early Abstractions” (1946-57), Pt. 3

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:50:05 -0400

Harry Smith “Early Abstractions” (1946-57), Pt. 3