| May 31, 2010 |
Well finally be live! Yey!
New Site Launch
Friday, January 8th, 2010 | No Comments
| January 11, 2010 |
Trying to put some order into this massive web of sites.
New Law of Physics Could Explain Quantum Mysteries (via PhysOrg.com)
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 | No Comments
The Invariant Set Postulate differentiates between reality and unreality, suggesting the existence of a state space, within which a smaller subset of state space (reality) is embedded. Image is from the Christus-Pavilion in Volkenroda, Germany. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
(PhysOrg.com) — Since the early days of quantum mechanics, scientists have been trying to understand the many strange implications of the theory: superpositions, wave-particle duality, and the observer’s role in measurements, to name a few. Now, a new proposed law of physics that describes the geometry of physical reality on the cosmological scale might help answer some of these questions. Plus, the new law could give some clues about the role of gravity in quantum physics, possibly pointing the way to a unified theory of physics.
Our world may be a giant hologram (via New Scientist via Gizmodo)
Friday, March 6th, 2009 | No Comments
by Marcus Chown
DRIVING through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to miss the GEO600 experiment. From the outside, it doesn’t look much: in the corner of a field stands an assortment of boxy temporary buildings, from which two long trenches emerge, at a right angle to each other, covered with corrugated iron. Underneath the metal sheets, however, lies a detector that stretches for 600 metres.
For the past seven years, this German set-up has been looking for gravitational waves – ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as neutron stars and black holes. GEO600 has not detected any gravitational waves so far, but it might inadvertently have made the most important discovery in physics for half a century.
For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time – the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into “grains”, just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. “It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time,” says Hogan.
If this doesn’t blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab’s Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: “If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram.”
Reinvent Wheel? Blue Room. Defusing a Bomb? Red Room. (via NYTimes)
Saturday, February 7th, 2009 | No Comments
By PAM BELLUCK
Trying to improve your performance at work or write that novel? Maybe it’s time to consider the color of your walls or your computer screen.
If a new study is any guide, the color red can make people’s work more accurate, and blue can make people more creative.
Too cool, can’t wait – Teleportation Milestone Achieved (via Gizmodo via LiveScience)
Saturday, January 24th, 2009 | No Comments
By LiveScience Staff
Star Trek transporter room – The U.S. Air Force recently took a look into teleportation.
teleportation experimental set-up
A Graphic Representation of Housing Prices for the Last 100 Years…
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 | No Comments
Too many jobs
Friday, December 12th, 2008 | No Comments
It seems these days that I have very little down time. I think I’ve spent about 4 months out of the year traveling. Most of that (3 months) has been with my GAHP endeavor. The rest with either vacation or teaching/lecturing.
When I am in the city, I’m either running from one meeting to another, lecturing or I’m at my acupuncture practice. Writing has been getting the short-shrift.
Looks like next year is going to get even busier. The lecturing is going to increase by 25%, I am planning on adding 3 additional countries to our roster for GAHP, and I’ve got to start boogying on two writing projects that are looming.
Writing – a new textbook on Qigong, a translation of a friend’s work on modern formulas in Chinese medicine
Humanitarian work – expanding our current sites (tripling), and adding Nepal, and China
Chinese Medicine – Keeping my wonderful practice going
Lecturing – increasing the number of countries/states I am currently lecturing in, San Diego, Montreal, Miami – as well as NY
Each one could be a full time job. I am putting in very close to 100 hours a week. The toll it’s taking is pretty apparent.
With all that going on when do I plan to create balance? Hmmmm. This is gonna require a bit of thought…
Citizen Enforcers Take Aim (via NYTimes)
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 | No Comments
By BENEDICT CAREY
Last month a Georgia woman named DeShan Fishel was driving near a school and saw a Jeep rush past a stop signal on a school bus, clipping a 5-year-old boy. The other driver sped away.
Ms. Fishel whipped a U-turn and gave chase. She stayed with the Jeep on surface streets and caught the driver on a highway in Dawson County, Ga., making him pull over. She watched the driver until police officers arrived.
Thomas Jefferson’s Love Affair — With Wine (via NPR)
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 | No Comments
Thomas Jefferson was the nation’s third president, our first ambassador to France, an inventor and master gardener. He may also have been America’s first wine connoisseur — something historians are learning more about as they renovate Jefferson’s wine cellar.
