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Aug 11, 2016

LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

Posted by in categories: particle physics, space

As the Large Hadron Collider’s first sign of a superparticle melts away, physicists must contemplate their nightmare scenario, says Gavin Hesketh

By Gavin Hesketh

Particle physics finds itself in testing times. This branch of science aims to describe the universe by pulling it apart into its most fundamental building blocks, or particles, and putting them back together in a way that explains how everything works.

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Aug 11, 2016

Nexus: Choosing Sides In The Trans-Human Revolution

Posted by in category: futurism

Beyond the fights and the chases in Ramez Naam’s Nexus trilogy, it is an opportunity to consider how technology might move some humans beyond humanity, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

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Aug 11, 2016

There’s a mysterious object doing a crazy loop around our solar system — and scientists have no idea what it is

Posted by in category: space

Scientists have nicknamed it “Niku,” which means rebellious in Chinese. And the object’s reckless behavior has scientists scratching their heads.

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Aug 11, 2016

Quantum dots with impermeable shell used as a powerful tool for “nano-engineering”

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, chemistry, engineering, nanotechnology, quantum physics, wearables

I never get tired of talking about the many uses for Q-dot technology. One area that has me even more intrigued is how it is used in crystallized formations. I expect to see more and more experimenting on crystalized formations on many fronts including complex circuitry for performance and storage.

And, with synthetic technology today plus 3D printing along with Q-dots we could (as I have eluded to many times over several months) truly begin to see some amazing technology be developed on the wearable tech front.

Wearables could include synthetic circuitry stones in various accessories to not only store information, but also serve as another form of unique id because in synthetic stones we have been able (like in nature) create complex crystalized formations that are each unique/ 1 of a kind like a unique finger print, or iris of an eye. I expect to see some very interesting things coming in this space.

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Aug 11, 2016

The Most Dangerous Object Known To Humanity

Posted by in category: futurism

How the origin of Earth’s greatest meteor shower might be the demise of life on Earth as we know it.

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Aug 11, 2016

Future By Design | The Venus Project — Directed by William Gazecki

Posted by in category: futurism


Lifeboat’s Jacque Fresco in a 2006 documentary about his work and The Venus Project

Aug 11, 2016

Seven ways to skin Schrödinger’s cat — By Richard Webb | New Scientist

Posted by in category: physics

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““If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you haven’t understood quantum mechanics.” That jibe, supposedly made by physicist Richard Feynman half a century ago, still rings true today.”

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Aug 11, 2016

Dark matter hopes dwindle with X-ray signal

Posted by in category: cosmology

A previously detected, anomalously large X-ray signal is absent in new Hitomi satellite data, setting tighter limits for a dark matter interpretation.

08/10/16.

CERN.

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Aug 11, 2016

Bionic Bird drone looks and flies just like a bird

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, drones, transhumanism

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This drone looks and flies just like a bird.

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Aug 11, 2016

The laws of nature make life on other planets inevitable — according to this groundbreaking theory

Posted by in categories: alien life, biological, chemistry, physics

According to theoretical physicist and super-genius Stephen Hawking, “The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet orbiting round a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies.” Indeed, to most modern scientists we are nothing more than an entirely random ‘happy accident’ that likely would not occur if we were to rewind the tape of the universe and play it again. But what if that is completely wrong? What if life is not simply a statistical anomaly, but instead an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics and chemistry?

A new theory of the origin of life, based firmly on well-defined physics principles, provides hefty support for the notion that biological life is a “cosmic imperative”. In other words, organic life had to eventually emerge. If such a theory were true, it would mean that it is very likely that life is widespread throughout the universe.

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