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Olfactory Experience
If you sprinkle fine sand uniformly over a drumhead and then make it vibrate, the grains of sand will collect in characteristic spots and figures, called Chladni patterns. These patterns reveal much information about the size and the shape of the drum and the elasticity of its membrane. In particular, the distribution of spots…
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Spaun brain activity
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Quantum Foam and Discrete Measures
Physicists would dearly love to study this foam but there’s a problem. Spacetime only becomes foam-like on the tiniest scale, at so-called Planck lengths of 10^-35 metres or so. See: How to Measure Quantum Foam With a Tabletop Experiment An ongoing question was raised by Bee of Backreaction and thoughts I have had as to…
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Abell 399 and Abell 401, connected by a bridge of hot gas
This image shows galaxy clusters Abell 399, lower center, and Abell 401 connected by a bridge of hot gas (ESA Planck Collaboration / STScI Digitized Sky Survey) Planck’s primary task is to capture the most ancient light of the cosmos. If this faint light interacts with the hot gas permeating different types of space structures…
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Observational Gravitational-Wave Astronomy.
Figure 1: Gravitational wave strain and strain sensitivity for a 5 year observation with PTAs. The red dashed line is the approximate strain sensitivity for current PTAs (11), and the green dashed line shows the previous estimate for the stochastic signal strength that is currently in standard use for PTA analyses (13, 14). The dark…
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TEDxCambridge – Jeff Lieberman on science and spirituality
[youtube=http://youtu.be/N0–_R6xThs] Jeff Lieberman, an MIT-trained artist, scientist and engineer, makes a scientific argument for mystical experience. He asks us to challenge our perception of what we are, our relationship to the universe, and our relationship to one another. Our minds are “thought-generating machines.” What we would happen if we could turn off the machine? If…
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TEDxCambridge – Jeff Lieberman on science and spirituality
Jeff Lieberman, an MIT-trained artist, scientist and engineer, makes a scientific argument for mystical experience. He asks us to challenge our perception of what we are, our relationship to the universe, and our relationship to one another. Our minds are “thought-generating machines.” What we would happen if we could turn off the machine? If we…
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Do We Create the Reality by Observing
Anton Zeilinger heads up the IQOQI lab in Vienna. Photograph by Mark Mahaney. Zeilinger and his group have only just begun to consider the grand implications of all their work for reality and our world. Like others in their field, they had focused on entanglement and decoherence to construct our future information technology, such as…
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Noam Chomsky – "The machine, the ghost, and the limits of understanding"
Professor Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: “The machine, the ghost, and the limits of understanding: Newton’s contributions to the study of mind” at the University of Oslo, September 2011. Q&A at 45:33 I push back on the limitations inferred by others so as to direct my mode of operation, “in a question form,” so…
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Do We Create the Reality by Observing
Anton Zeilinger heads up the IQOQI lab in Vienna. Photograph by Mark Mahaney. Zeilinger and his group have only just begun to consider the grand implications of all their work for reality and our world. Like others in their field, they had focused on entanglement and decoherence to construct our future information technology, such as…
