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Breaking News: Single molecule, one million times smaller than a grain of sand, pictured for first time

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Single Molecule

It may look like a piece of honeycomb, but this lattice-shaped image is the first ever close-up view of a single molecule.
Scientists from IBM used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to reveal the chemical bonds within a molecule.
‘This is the first time that all the atoms in a molecule have been imaged,’ lead researcher Leo Gross said.

[This is incredible! How do these people do it? Awesome!]

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August 30, 2009 at 10:28 AM

How do you define consciousness?

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What does it mean exactly, to be conscious? Understandably, the fact that I am able to think and type out my thoughts right now is a form of consciousness, but it is impossible to imagine another person’s consciousness. I’m looking deeper.

The “definition” of consciousness could be considered the amount of time between your waking life and sleeping life.

Is consciousness just a quantum state from a higher dimension transcended into our 3rd and 4th dimensional self?

If that is the case then what would consciousness be like in a higher dimension? Certainly much different as currently we can only speculate.

If our perception of everything is based in the 3rd Dimension within a 4th Dimensional construct, then to have a reality based in the 4th Dimension within a 5th Dimensional construct might look like this…

The reality for a 4th or 5th Dimensional conscious being might be memory and/or choice based, similar to, The Matrix movies.

Their reality could be altered by thought and bias, which is a slippery slope. How do you govern beings that can change anything and time with a thought, that can travel through time and space with thought. (that is more of an ethical question…)

How will our inner conscious self flow into the next dimension?

What will it be like to perceive in 4 Dimensions or 5, 6, 7, etc…?

Trying to perceive a higher dimension is like trying to imagine a really beautiful woman naked. You have a preconceived concept of what a woman looks naked based upon memory and interpretation of that memory, but you cannot know her body to the exact fine detail.

In my opinion the 4th Dimension is similar to the process of a computer retrieving data from a microchip, only add emotion, physicality, spirituality and humanity.

Here is a great thought…

If we were to live in the 4th or higher dimensions…do we lose individuality? Do we cease to be human? Do we become a collective?

Things to think about…

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Imagining the Tenth Dimension part 2 of 2

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This is part 2 of the “mentally digestible” concepts of multi-dimensions. Watch it all. If your head isn’t spinning at the end…you weren’t paying attention at all.

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Imagining the Tenth Dimension part 1 of 2

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OMFG! Open your mind and travel to the 10 Dimensions. It will blow your mind. Very well done video making the concepts of higher dimensions “mentally digestible” to normal folk.

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The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D

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This is absolutely stunning. It is an honor to be alive to witness this. We live in amazing times. There are roughly 100 Ba-Ba-Ba-Billion galaxies. Each galaxy contains billions and billions of stars.

You do the math…or maybe I will to illustrate just how FUCKING HUGE that number is!

100 Billion galaxies x 10 Billion stars per galaxy = 1 sextillion stars guesstimated in the entire universe.

Try writing out 1 sextillion…

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Stars!!! Roughly

Who knows how big the universe really is? Who know how many stars there REALLY are? Who knows if we are TRULY alone in this vast…vast…vast…vast…fuck vast…fucking mind beguilingly huge beyond anyone’s wildest and craziest imaginations will ever dream of, universe that seems to keep expanding and expanding. We really are just a particle of a particle of a particle of a particle of a particle of a particle of a particle, etc…of a photon of a blip of a spec of a planet of a solar system of a galaxy of a galaxy cluster of a mega galaxy cluster of whatever the fuck comes after that…

I can’t even imagine what 1 Sextiliion looks like.

What gets me is that as much space that 1 sextrillion stars take up there is even more Dark Matter and even more Dark Energy.

Cosmologist have suggested that the following are current theoretical accounts for the total mass-energy of the universe.

Universe Pie Chart

74% = Dark Energy
22% = Dark Matter
3.6% = Intergalactic Gas
.4% = Stars, Planets, and everything tangible…

WOW! .4%!

Which means that if you really think about that percentage compared to HOW MANY stars are out there…and then think about Earth. Then think about yourself on Earth. Is your mind completely BLOWN away yet or is it just me writing this at 4:00 AM!

I need sleep…

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Is there a direct correlation between gravitational lensing, absolute zero Kelvin, atoms in a quantized condensate and time travel?

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Sounds like a mouthful doesn’t it? That’s because it is.

I’ve come to a bizarre, yet intriguingly possible theory of how gravitational lensing (dark matter’s gravitional pull over large swaths of empty space bends light and alters time / space in the process.), the theoretical absolute zero Kelvin, particles of atoms in a highly quantized state can be the contributing factors towards real time and space travel.

The predominant bias we all think of when we hear time / space travel are spaceships traveling across the universe beyond the speed of light or using a wormhole in the fabric of space to reach a far off planet or star system. No?

These concepts are part truth and mostly science fiction. One truth is that time is relative, but it depends on where you are standing…meaning…if we look at distant, distant stars we are seeing the light that they emitted millions if not billions of years ago. Now if we look at that same light but let’s say there were a bunch of solar systems standing between that one bright star and us. The light would take longer to get to us because of the gravitational pull of dark matter in the universe. So for the same amount of light to reach us one would longer to get to us, thus warping time and slowing it down. The opposite could occur as well, in theory. If there are let say to seperate gravations swirling about and in between the mighty gravities there could be a channel of space where a highly concentrated corridor of light gets shoved out faster and faster than normal speed…thus speeding up time.

So where does absolute zero + quantized particles in a condensate form come into play with time travel? Great question.

To achieve a quantized state to any particle, the state of that matter must slow down to a point where there is no energy lost, nor gained…absolute zero. To do this, the temperature gets so cold that even highly active atoms slow down and begin to act strange. [think the matrix when the film goes sideways and Keanu Reeves is dogging a bullet.] (some particles achieve a quantized state at slightly warmer temperatures than others, but who’s counting…this is all theory anyway.)

The theory was put forth by Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974) + Albert Einstein (1879-1955) in 1924-1925. Wikipedia: Bose/Einstein Condensate

Another way of thinking of this is, imagine how an old film reel flows while a movie is playing. Now imagine that film slowed down to a complete stand still and the film reel begins to move sideways.

That is SORT of what happens to quantized atoms and it’s particles on a subatomic level. So much so that when light enters quantized atoms and particles it slows down to just about the speed of a moving bicycle. From the fastest form of energy to something relative to a human scale is beyond extraordinary…it’s bizarro.

At this level atoms and sub-atomic particles act peculiar to say the least. Instead of the atom acting like 1 individual atom, it has an identity crisis of some sorts and literally changes shape and acts like a wavelength. Are you bizarro’d out yet? Good. So was I. The atom no longer sees itself as just 1 atom, but every particle and sub-atomic particle begin acting like the entire atom itself.

Maybe I am not describing it correctly, as my knowledge is FAR inferior to professional quantum physicists, but it’s so bizarre that you will shake your head a whole bunch of times. lol

Now taking the complete fundamentals of gravitational lensing, which I hypothesize is actually caused by quantized microscopic particles close to absolute zero temperature, across the emptiness and void of space quantized atoms and sub-atomic particles, and the theoretical absolute zero Kelvin model…mix them altogether you have what I call “The Opportune Moment”.

If the moment were right and if there were a way to control the potential of these quantized atoms and sub-atomic particles to react with light, we could slow down time or speed it up depending on the quantized atoms.

I know it sounds crazy and it is, but if gravitational lensing can either speed up or slow down light, then time travel can be possible.

The next logical question would be HOW. How can anything survive time travel in this sense after being quantized to absolute zero? Then there is the question of where will you wind up at? How will you get back? How would you go from absolute zero to normal and not destroy the integrity of matter itself?

Hey it’s a theory right?

I don’t have a Bachelors, Masters or even a Ph.D. in Astronomy or Cosmology (yet), but I sure as hell think a whole lot about this stuff as if I do.

I’m going to do some research on this, but I wouldn’t doubt that something in my theory has to be right.

Who knows, maybe all we need to travel in time is freeze something to or as close to absolute zero as possible and then program the quantized atoms, using a quantized computer that communicates with the atoms using logic and probability.

One thing is for sure…

When we die, we’ll either all figure it out or nothing.

It is highly probable that anything is possible.

What do you think? Am I full of shit? Or do you think I am on to something?

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Noodles Nugget of Minutia of the Day: July 18th, 2009

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Rise n’ Shine! It’s Saturday July 18th, 2009. Noodles’ Nugget of Minutia of the Day is: I’m jealous of the Hubble Space Telescope. It can peer deep into space + time and see in wavelengths I can never humanly achieve. I can only see in ROYGBIV. Imagine seeing and interpreting the universe with Infrared light? Or Ultraviolet light? Or X-Ray? Or every wavelength. There has to be intelligent life out there that can see in at least some of these wavelengths. Life has a funny way of existing. You never know.

Maybe jealousy isn’t the optimum word to use. Maybe the word should be enamored.

I’m enamored with perspective + possibility.

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July 18, 2009 at 7:18 AM

Noodles Nugget of Minutia of the Day: July 13th, 2009

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Rise n’ Shine! It’s Monday July 13th, 2009. Noodles’ Nugget of Minutia of the Day is: Absolute Zero is the coldest temperature that can be possibly acheived in the entire universe. (at least for now.) It is a theoretical number because as of this posting no one has ever reached this magic number. Scientists have come extremely, and ridiculously close to it, (in 1999 rhodium metal was cooled to 100 picokelvin, or 1 tenth of 1 billionth of a degree Kelvin) but not ABSOLUTE ZERO. It is so incredibly difficult to cool something down to that point. ABSOLUTE ZERO according to the major 3 temperature scales are: -459.67 (Fahrenheit), -273.15 (Celsius), and 0 (Kelvin). At this temperature atoms become so still that they start to have an identity complex…so to speak. Instead of the total atom acting like 1 atom, the sub-atomic particles within atom behave in a bizarre manner as if like each particle is the atom itself. In 1924, Albert Einstein and Satyenda Nath Bose came up with a theory that when atoms are cooled down to such a degree that their entire state of being collapses and quantum effects would start. Essentially a new state of matter is formed! Sounds crazy…and it is! When this happens even light can be slowed down to the speed of a bicycle. It boggles the mind. I highly suggest and recommend watching this special from NOVA on Hulu. It’s entitled ABSOLUTE ZERO. Here is the link: ABSOLUTE ZERO

Watch it now…and thank me later.

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Writings: The Curious Case of Consciousness and Cosmology

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What curious things consciousness and the cosmos are.

Both are amazing and mind-bogglingly impossible to fathom. The depths of consciousness are potentially as vast as the cosmos itself. It’s difficult to explain how it feels to be a conscious being to another conscious being, in that, no matter how you attempt to define a memory or a current heightened state of omnipresent-like self awareness, no one can really know what is really going on. Just as with the cosmos, we know certain details that lead to other concepts, etc., but we do not understand the very nature of the universe. What is it? Why does it exist? How is it that humans at this stage of the universe’s age have evolved just at the right time, on the right planet, to the right sized star, in right proportioned solar system, located at a “safer” part of our galaxy and so on and so forth?

It is difficult to explain and imagine. I am curious. I have been since as long as I can remember.

If one day we are able to explain the phenomena of consciousness, will this lend insight to the meaning of the cosmos? Or vice versa? Could this new found knowledge and actualization of a collective actualization create a larger distortion of our reality. Could a complete understanding of consciousness awaken the existential layer found within all of us? I have so many thoughts and questions that many other people have a least thought of at some point in their lives. We all ask ourselves the single biggest existential question of “Why are we here?” My difference in question is not asking WHY we are here, but more over, why are we conscious just enough to realize to ask the question why are we here. Why does the cosmos’ infinite nature resemble human consciousness at its greatest potential? There has to be a connection of some kind. Maybe I am reaching a bit, but what if none of this is “REAL”. I know if Rene Decartes were alive and here right now, he would have a fit with me.

It’s always good to question every aspect of existence…even existence itself.

Only one way to find out about existence altogether and that is to go through with it.

Until we all get to “the other side”, we will never know. For now at least.

The cosmos and consciousness will be better connected and understood once we all cross over. (That is of course…if there is anything after death other than total stillness.)

Are you curiously conscious? Cosmologically challenged? Let’s let MetaPhysical…

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July 8, 2009 at 12:43 AM

Michael Jackson & The Universe

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What in the world could Michael Jackson’s untimely and sad death have anything to do with The Universe?

Great question.

No, I am not going to demean the late Mr. Jackson in anyway by crudely referencing his bizarre behavior when alive as something from out of this World. (To those people I would say his actions were a reflection and a direct result of a lack of his own childhood, thus making actually quite human, but troubled.)

What I will say is this…

MJ and The Universe have one thing in common, which is that they both will go on forever. Just like the Universe is ever expanding and contracting. So will the Legend of MJ. (Of course there is the constant speculation as to the real purpose, timeline, future, dimensions of The Universe, but I’m going on current scientific data. Work with me here people…)

Even when celestial stars (no pun intended) go from hot to supernova to white dwarf or black hole (depending on the mass, density, etc.), the matter left behind begins new chapters for other new solar systems to breed new stars, planets, meteorites, moons, and more. So in a sense, MJ’s music will live forever in the hearts of his fans and future fans. His music will stand the test of time. Hundreds, Thousands, Millions of years from now one of the few voices and talents that mankind will be remember will be Michael Jackson. A truly gifted talent to mankind.

There will only be 1 MJ. A real diamond in the rough. Just like Earth is The Universe’s diamond in the rough.

As long as there are people around, MJ’s voice and songs will flood The Universe forever. (even if there are no people around…the sheer volume of radio waves currently streaming out from Earth to the rest of The Universe will travel for a very, very, very long time.)

So this is my random thought of the day. Hope you find some solace in it.

Take care Michael. You will be deeply missed, but NEVER forgotten.

A good friend of mine is a DJ and made this mix of MJ’s music.

Please download it and remember MJ from back in the day.

Click Here for the MJ Music Mix.

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June 26, 2009 at 4:27 PM

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