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Songs of the Stars: the Real Music of the Spheres
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/sites/all/libraries/mediaplayer/player.swf Songs of the Stars: the Real Music of the Spheres Recording Details Speaker(s): Donald KurtzCollection/Series: Perimeter Institute Public Lecture Series Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive (PIRSA). Different oscillation modes penetrate to different depths inside a star. Asteroseismology (from Greek ἀστήρ, astēr, “star”; σεισμός, seismos, “earthquake”; and -λογία, -logia) also known as stellar seismology[1][2] is…
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NASA | IRIS: The Science of NASA’s Newest Solar Explorer
At the end of June 2013, NASA will launch its newest mission to watch the sun: the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS. IRIS will show the lowest levels of the sun’s atmosphere, the interface region, in more detail than has even been observed before. This will help scientists understand how the energy dancing through…
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Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it…..
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Iris-Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph
This graphic shows the IRIS observatory with the solar arrays removed. The orange section to the left is the spacecraft bus which includes the spacecraft support structure, the command and data handling system, power distribution system, reaction wheels, X- and S-Band communications systems, Li-Ion battery, magnetic torque rods, and electronics for the sun sensors. The…
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Olay to Divine Inspiration
I think one needs to draw a distinction here with regard to what consciousness is able to access, given the understanding that information already exists. That becoming aware of it, as part and parcel of something larger then ourselves…..as in the conscious state access versus the unconscious ability and doorway too. Anyway, I presented the…
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Freeman Dyson: 98 – Summer school at Les Houches
Born in England in 1923, Freeman Dyson moved to Cornell University after graduating from Cambridge University with a BA in Mathematics. He subsequently became a professor and worked on nuclear reactors, solid state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics and biology. He has published several books and, among other honours, has been awarded the Heineman Prize and the…
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Tacit Knowledge
Tacit knowledge (as opposed to formal, codified or explicit knowledge) is the kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalizing it. For example, stating to someone that London is in the United Kingdom is a piece of explicit knowledge that can be written down,…
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Musical Acoustics
A recipe for a violin Chladni patterns show the geometry of the different types of vibration of violin plates. This site has an introductory explanation of modes of vibration and a library of photographs of the Chladni patterns of the bellies and backplates of two different violins (one mass-produced and one hand-made). It also has…
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Cool horizons for entangled black holes
Schwarzschild wormholes General relativity contains solutions in which two distant black holes are connected through the interior via a wormhole, or Einstein-Rosen bridge. These solutions can be interpreted as maximally entangled states of two black holes that form a complex EPR pair. We suggest that similar bridges might be present for more general entangled states.…
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Time Begins, When Counting Begins?
Like Copernicus’ heliocentric theory, Newton’s law of gravitation, and Darwin’s theory of evolution, non-Euclidean geometry has radically affected science, philosophy, and religion. It is fair to say that no more cataclysmic event has ever taken place in the history of all thought.Saccheri’s Flaw while eliminating Euclid’s “Flaw” The Evolution of Non-Euclidean Geometry The basis of…
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Quantum Biology and the Hidden of Nature
Can the spooky world of quantum physics explain bird navigation, photosynthesis and even our delicate sense of smell? Clues are mounting that the rules governing the subatomic realm may play an unexpectedly pivotal role in the visible world. Join leading thinkers in the emerging field of quantum biology as they explore the hidden hand of…
