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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
Telepathic Therapy: Brain Waves Are Used To Remotely Control DNA-Based Nanobots A team of Israeli scientists developed a contraption that uses a person’s brain waves to remotely control DNA-based nanorobots — while the nanobots were inside a living cockroach. When prompted by a human thought, the clam shell-like robots opened up, revealing a drug-like molecule that tweaked the physiology of the cockroach’s cells. rOZZ Music Pictures |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
I've just done an EEG for diagnostic purposes. No cockroaches around, fortunately. Tullio |
bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 6995 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 3 |
I just went up the most recent pages of this thread. Here is a thought that came to my mind. Lasers are perhaps not a natural part of nature, but like an electron microscope, we could be using such a tool in order to research and study nature. Definitely true when it comes to a couple of other things as well, but are the tools being used being more important than the subjects being researched or investigated? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature This link is probably better and more comprehensive, as well as coherent when compared with a couple of other similar examples. For example that of Creation versus Genesis, which I have made a note of, but have not posted yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation Both these things could be viewed in a similar context if the header "Religion and philosophy" is being used, as on this ambiguation page. If rather Evolution as a subject was thought of as being a possible part of, or the reason for creation, these two things could be two different things. This not only because of a possible personal view when it comes to a couple of things, but rather because of what one thing is supposed to be with respect to another. I will have a little more about this later in my own thread. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
There is an article by Jennifer Cobb Kreisberg published in June 1995 in "Wired News" titled "A Globe, Clothing itself with a brain" which summarizes the ideas of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,SJ, the author of the "noosphere" concept, which predates the WWW by about 50 years. I have only a hard copy. Teilhard de Chardin was a paleontologist, the discoverer of the Peking man whose remains were lost in the II World War, but which is searched again by Chinese scientists at Chou-Cu-Tien. He is author of several books, the most important of which is "The human phenomenon", published after his death in 1954. He is buried in New York City. Tullio |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Fro "Nature" of October 6 I learn that Roger Penrose has written another book, "The emperor's new physics".. I shall have to read it. Also Carlo Rovelli has written a new book titled "Reality is not what it seems". Physics is becoming weird. Tullio |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Fro "Nature" of October 6 I learn that Roger Penrose has written another book, "The emperor's new physics".. I shall have to read it. Also Carlo Rovelli has written a new book titled "Reality is not what it seems". Physics is becoming weird. For some reason scientists start to giggle when asked "What is reality?" :) BBC Horizon: What is reality? https://vimeo.com/136357786 |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
See Bernard d'Espagnat, "A la recherche du reel", Paris, 1981, translated in Italian with the title "Alla ricerca del reale", Boringhieri, 1981. Tullio |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
A lifetime studying quantum mechanics has convinced Bernard d'Espagnat that the world we perceive is merely a shadow of the ultimate reality. https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2009/mar/17/templeton-quantum-entanglement |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Read "Shadows of the mind" by Roger Penrose. The cave is Plato's cave. Tullio |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Another Penrose book:"Fashion, faith and phantasy in the physics of the universe", Princeton University Press. He attacks strings theory, cosmic inflation and quantum gravity. A voice out of the chorus of contemporary physics. Tullio |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6651 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
https://futurism.com/scientists-have-created-a-totally-new-type-of-laser-with-light-and-water-waves/ This is interesting! Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Quantum Computers Ready to Leap Out of the Lab in 2017. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-computers-ready-to-leap-out-of-the-lab-in-2017/ Well I guess I don't hold my breath... |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Another project from the New South Wales University in Australia proposes a football field large quantum computer on "Nature" magazine. Tullio |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
From the Planck scale to the cosmic scale, the size comparison of the universe will show you just how large our universe is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIiJZINJFiw |
William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
The film is in error when it states that Chimpanzees are man's closest relative. Our closest relative is a Bonobo. We are more closely related to Gorillas than are Chimpanzees. We do share 98% to 99% of our DNA with these species. Some say orangutans. We are as closely related to these apes as horses are to zebras, yet act much differently by comparison. As I have posted some time ago: we were probably most like a gibbon ape that swung down from the trees about 6 million years ago and started walking upright in the grassy savannas. We ran swiftly and avoided most predators and stalked our prey, learning to use sharpened sticks and later on stone tools and spears. So we are all Great Apes--some say not so great !! |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
No doubt that we humans are very close to Gorillas. A Conversation With Koko The Gorilla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oh1uhrdc6w |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
So we are all Great Apes--some say not so great !! With the remaining in science threads :-) Physics can be very interesting. For example: Take the following & put together.... Boredom Retirement Sociopathy Internet ...more than enough "hot air" to fly a Zeppelin non stop around the world :-) |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
It sure would be nice to read posts that deal with the title of the thread. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
Let's try some science. Do you really think that the speed of light is the cosmic speed limit --if so according to whom (the Observer ??). How do the photons know how fast they are moving relative to the spin and orbit of the Earth, the movement of the sun around the Galaxy and the movement among galaxies. Where is the start of the inertial plane to determine this? I claim that you could establish length as the invariable just as easily as the speed of light.. Unfortunately remember that the "observer" must depend upon light to make his determination of the time of an event. as for the Michelson Morley experiment--please prove that the table did not contract in length. I suggest looking at the Lorentz transformations. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Do you really think that the speed of light is the cosmic speed limit Of course it is. Two reasons. It requires an inifinitiv amount of energy to even reach the speed of light for matter and information. If something could travel FTL it would mean that time is going backwards. |
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