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21st-Mar-2008 03:45 pm - Note to self
Michio Kaku
Ten to the forty-two Kelvin - The temperature in which 'nothing' will boil.
marvo
Quantum entanglement

As you know two particles that are entangles on a quantum level react as if they are the same. No matter how far apart they are.

Now if we expand this to deal with a mass of particles, for example, a turbine that is part of a electrical generator.

Now if you had two of these entangles you could 'in theory' you could power one generator to create electricity and the other turbine would turn as if powered and also create energy, but without any source of power.

Free energy?

What you think?
2nd-Feb-2006 02:49 pm - Brain Exercising
marvo
Using a balloon to demonstrate why Human Cloning is so difficult.

Get a balloon.

Get several glasses full to the brim with water.

Surround the deflated balloon with the glasses, careful not to spill any.

Attach a pump to the balloon.

This could be a respiration of the start of life.

Slowly start to pump up the balloon until it bursts.

The act of blowing it up, and the bursting, effects the glasses and water around the balloon. In effect changing them.

Now imagine trying to reverse that procedure.

Or trying to repeat it using the same balloon and glasses (and "unspilling" any water)

Make sense?
12th-Jan-2006 02:44 pm - Transgenic pigs
marvo
Glow in the Dark Pigs!


Will we be getting glow in the dark bacon next?

The end of the fridge light is in site!
10th-Nov-2005 11:25 am(no subject)
marvo
But a mini black hole would strongly violate this symmetry. A movie of a super-hot black hole emitting particles has a distinct time direction and would look strange and unexpected if the movie were run backwards. This means that particle collisions at the LHC should show dramatic violations of time reversal invariance. Moreover, since right- vs.-left handedness and matter-vs.-antimatter asymmetries cannot be expected to compensate, the more fundamental TCP symmetry principle (time-reversal plus matter-antimatter interchange plus reversal of spatial directions) will also be violated. Even at lower collision energies at accelerators like the FermiLab Tevatron, where there may not be enough collision energy to produce free black holes, sub-threshold virtual process involving black holes might be expected to produce time reversal and TCP symmetry violations (but we note that none have been observed).

Wow.

Dosn't that sound just SO cool! :)

From The CERN LHC:A Black Hole Factory?
24th-Jan-2005 01:40 pm - Robots go to War
marvo
'Robot soldiers' bound for Iraq

The robot fighter has been christened Swords, after the acronym for Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection Systems.
27th-Oct-2004 11:32 am - YY
ZAP!
The human Y chromosome is a smidgen of a chromosome and contains virtually no
genes. It only contains those genes necessary for becoming male, the SRY for
example. Sex determination occurs differently in different species and I
cannot say whether all Y chromosomes are so small in all species. But in
humans, the X contains genes that all of need for life-in females there are
two copies of each gene and in males only one (they only have one X) but most
of the genes on the X have nothing to do with sex determination. Examples
include genes for the ability to see color and to make blood clotting
proteins. Whether these same genes are found on all species' X I do not
know,
but I suspect not all of them. So, at least in humans, everyone needs at
least one X. Without one, life is impossible (for humans).


Fasinating.
15th-Oct-2004 03:05 pm - AH ha!
marvo
So if you entangle photons they have a shorter wavelength and higher energy!

Makes sence now.
13th-Jul-2004 09:36 am - Socrates
marvo
In ancient Greece (469 - 399 BC), Socrates was widely
lauded for his wisdom. One day the great philosopher came
upon an acquaintance who ran up to him excitedly and said, "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?"

"Wait a moment," Socrates replied. "Before you tell me
I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test."

"Triple filter?"

"That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my student let's take a moment to filter what you're going to say. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"

"No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and... "

"All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?"

"No, on the contrary."

"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something
bad about him, even though you're not certain it's true?"

The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.

Socrates continued. "You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter - the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?"

"No, not really ."

"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?"

The man was defeated and ashamed.

This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.


But he never did find out which student was sleeping with his wife.
13th-Oct-2003 01:40 pm - Ain't Brains Great!
marvo
A proper update will hopefully be arriving soon.

But I want to let everyone know about a truly amazing program on television at the moment.

It's called "the Human Mind" and is one of those Natural History / Science type programs.

It's fascinating.

Things found out after 2 programs:

Humans are far easier to reprogram than Computers

The part of the brain that makes you Introvert / extrovert also effects the way you react to Lemon.

The Reason Teenagers going through pubity seem confused by life and less able to understand other peoples feeling.

How to remember things

How to change your mood

Omega Three - Super mind Supplement (and it works!)

Anyway. Have a look HERE
There is more details and some tests and so on.
14th-Jun-2003 11:57 am - The Computers are comming
marvo
It took two BILLION years for organic like to evolve from single cell organisms to multiple cell ones.

It's taken computers less than 100 years to do the same.

Makes you think doesn't it.

Listening to an audio version of Prey by Michael Crichton
and although it's very much formulaic of all his books (an expert in a field sent to investigate some event out of the ordinary - Andromeda strain, Sphere, Jurassic Park and so on)

And this is about Nano Technology and how it could get out of control.

Fascinating.

You humans better get your boots on or you'll find yourself left behind ;)
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