tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9295881691659151892024-03-14T01:03:01.239+08:00I am Me.Food for ThoughtsNajhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742904061116374108noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929588169165915189.post-89555274296419972232010-12-21T21:05:00.001+08:002010-12-21T21:06:05.332+08:00The Nature of ExistenceHey guys! I haven't posted for a long time since I'm kinda busy with other stuff. Anyway, as I was searching for something to watch today, I came across this documentary called "The Nature of Existence". I thought that this was kinda interesting so I'm sharing it here. Haven't seen it myself so I'll be watching this after I make this post. I hope you enjoy this.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>What if you asked the spiritual leaders, gurus, scientists, artists, and everyday people of the world why we exist, and what are we supposed to do about it? What started the Universe, and was it a mistake? Does God exist, and why does he seem so interested in our sex lives?<br />
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<b>Synopsis of the film:</b> What is the most important question there is? After exploring the phenomenon of STAR TREK fans in the acclaimed documentary TREKKIES, filmmaker Roger Nygard is taking on THE NATURE OF EXISTENCE, traveling the globe to the source of the world’s philosophies, religions, and belief systems, interviewing spiritual leaders, scholars, scientists, artists and others who have influenced, inspired, or freaked out humanity.<br />
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“I made a list of the eighty-five toughest questions I could think of,” said Nygard, “starting with biggest one, ‘why do we exist?’ and then I began interrogating the widest cross-section of humanity possible.” Here are a few more of the questions asked in the movie: What is man’s purpose? What started the Universe? Where was God during the Holocaust? What is Truth? Should people have sex before marriage? What is the best way to find happiness? Where is the afterlife? Where are the voices in my head coming from? …How would YOU answer? What journey is more important than one that takes us closer to finding meaning in our existence?<br />
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Profiled in the film are people like Indian holy man, His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (The Art of Living), who described his job as “dehusking” people: “stress is the husk, which covers the light, the joy within a person.” Nygard spoke with Catholic Archbishop D’Ambrosio in Italy, who believed his is the true religion and said, “To believe in Christ is not easy. But it’s not impossible.<br />
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In Athens, Georgia, Rob Adonis, founder of Ultimate Christian Wrestling, says he looks forward to the afterlife, “In Heaven I’m going to be perfect, I’ll have abs of steel, I’m going to be chiseled, I’m going to have a great tan.”<br />
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24th Generation Taoist Master Zhang Chengda of China’s Azure Cloud Temple on Taishan, China’s holiest mountain, said, “If you do good in this life, then you can continue practicing Tao in the afterlife.”<br />
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Islamic scholar Dr. Zakir Naik in Mumbai, India, maintains, “In Islam, the Truth prevails, not majority.”<br />
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In England, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, said, “Not only do you not need God, it’s positively counterproductive, if you are trying to understand the nature of Existence.”<br />
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In Palo Alto, California, Leonard Susskind (co-discovered string theory) explained that modern string theorists are coming to the conclusion that there is not just one Universe, but more likely trillions, if not an infinite number of Universes, all with laws of physics different from ours.<br />
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Professor Li Shaoqiang, in Confucious’s hometown of Qufu, China, explained that, “Chinese people worship Mao Ze Tung as god because he founded a country.”<br />
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And over 100 others like Harvard psychologist and author Daniel Gilbert (Stumbling on Happiness), film director Irvin Kershner (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back), novelist and Mormon Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game), and Stonehenge Druids Rollo Maughfling & King Arthur Pendragon.<br />
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After a four-year world-wide odyssey beginning in 2005, the filmmakers had over 450 hours of footage to boil down to an hour and a half, to bring audiences the best and the most transcendental moments, to present a fascinating look at humanity, and our Universe, as seen through the eyes of some of the most interesting people on our planet, and perhaps, some of the most interesting beings in our Universe.<br />
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Explore the biggest question of all.. Since ancient times, we've looked into the night skies and wondered: How far do the stars stretch out into space? And what's beyond them?<br />
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In modern times, we built giant telescopes that have allowed us to cast our gaze deep into the universe. Astronomers have been able to look back to near the time of its birth. They've reconstructed the course of cosmic history in astonishing detail.<br />
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From intensive computer modeling, and myriad close observations, they've uncovered important clues to its ongoing evolution. Many now conclude that what we can see, the stars and galaxies that stretch out to the limits of our vision, represent only a small fraction of all there is.<br />
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Does the universe go on forever? Where do we fit within it? And how would the great thinkers have wrapped their brains around the far-out ideas on today's cutting edge?<br />
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For those who find infinity hard to grasp, even troubling, you're not alone. It's a concept that has long tormented even the best minds.<br />
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Over two thousand years ago, the Greek mathematician Pythagoras and his followers saw numerical relationships as the key to understanding the world around them.<br />
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But in their investigation of geometric shapes, they discovered that some important ratios could not be expressed in simple numbers.<br />
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Take the circumference of a circle to its diameter, called Pi.<br />
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Computer scientists recently calculated Pi to 5 trillion digits, confirming what the Greeks learned: there are no repeating patterns and no ending in sight.<br />
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The discovery of the so-called irrational numbers like Pi was so disturbing, legend has it, that one member of the Pythagorian cult, Hippassus, was drowned at sea for divulging their existence.<br />
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A century later, the philosopher Zeno brought infinity into the open with a series of paradoxes: situations that are true, but strongly counter-intuitive.<br />
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In this modern update of one of Zeno's paradoxes, say you have arrived at an intersection. But you are only allowed to cross the street in increments of half the distance to the other side. So to cross this finite distance, you must take an infinite number of steps.<br />
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In math today, it's a given that you can subdivide any length an infinite number of times, or find an infinity of points along a line.<br />
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What made the idea of infinity so troubling to the Greeks is that it clashed with their goal of using numbers to explain the workings of the real world.<br />
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To the philosopher Aristotle, a century after Zeno, infinity evoked the formless chaos from which the world was thought to have emerged: a primordial state with no natural laws or limits, devoid of all form and content.<br />
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But if the universe is finite, what would happen if a warrior traveled to the edge and tossed a spear? Where would it go?<br />
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It would not fly off on an infinite journey, Aristotle said. Rather, it would join the motion of the stars in a crystalline sphere that encircled the Earth. To preserve the idea of a limited universe, Aristotle would craft an historic distinction.<br />
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On the one hand, Aristotle pointed to the irrational numbers such as Pi. Each new calculation results in an additional digit, but the final, final number in the string can never be specified. So Aristotle called it "potentially" infinite.<br />
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Then there's the "actually infinite," like the total number of points or subdivisions along a line. It's literally uncountable. Aristotle reserved the status of "actually infinite" for the so-called "prime mover" that created the world and is beyond our capacity to understand. This became the basis for what's called the Cosmological, or First Cause, argument for the existence of God.Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742904061116374108noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929588169165915189.post-68256418235118398802010-11-29T22:24:00.000+08:002010-11-29T22:24:07.823+08:00Quantum Suicide and Immortality, Schrödinger's Cat and the Weird World of Quantum MechanicsThis is a very long article but I promise that it's worth the read if you find Physics fascinating.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How Quantum Suicide Works</b></span><br />
by <b>Josh Clark</b><br />
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<b>Introduction to How Quantum Suicide Works</b><br />
A man sits down before a gun, which is pointed at his head. This is no ordinary gun; it's rigged to a machine that measures the spin of a quantum particle. Each time the trigger is pulled, the spin of the quantum particle -- or quark -- is measured. Depending on the measurement, the gun will either fire, or it won't. If the quantum particle is measured as spinning in a clockwise motion, the gun will fire. If the quark is spinning counterclockwise, the gun won't go off. There'll only be a click.<br />
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Nervously, the man takes a breath and pulls the trigger. The gun clicks. He pulls the trigger again. Click. And again: click. The man will continue to pull the trigger again and again with the same result: The gun won't fire. Although it's functioning properly and loaded with bullets, no matter how many times he pulls the trigger, the gun will never fire. He'll continue this process for eternity, becoming immortal.<br />
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Go back in time to the beginning of the experiment. The man pulls the trigger for the very first time, and the quark is now measured as spinning clockwise. The gun fires. The man is dead. <br />
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But, wait. The man already pulled the trigger the first time -- and an infinite amount of times following that -- and we already know the gun didn't fire. How can the man be dead? The man is unaware, but he's both alive and dead. Each time he pulls the trigger, the universe is split in two. It will continue to split, again and again, each time the trigger is pulled.<br />
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This thought experiment is called quantum suicide. It was first posed by then-Princeton University theorist Max Tegmark in 1997 (now on faculty at MIT). A thought experiment is an experiment that takes place only in the mind. The quantum level is the smallest level of matter we've detected so far in the universe. Matter at this level is infinitesimal, and it's virtually impossible for scientists to research it in a practical manner using traditional methods of scientific inquiry.<br />
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<b>Quantum Physics</b><br />
Instead of using the scientific method -- investigating empirical evidence -- to study the quantum level, physicists must use thought experiments. Although these experiments are only carried out hypothetically, they're rooted in the data observed in quantum physics.<br />
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What science has observed at the quantum level has raised more questions than it has answered. The behavior of quantum particles is erratic, and our understanding of probability becomes questionable. For example, photons -- the smallest measure of light -- have been shown to exist in both particle and wave states. And the direction of particles is thought to travel in both directions at the same time, rather than in only one direction at different times. So when we examine the quantum world, we are outsiders to the knowledge it holds. As a result, our understanding of the universe as we know it is challenged.<br />
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This has led some to believe that our grasp of quantum physics is as basic as the understanding of ancient Egyptian astronomers centuries ago, who claimed that the sun was a god. A few scientists believe further investigation into quantum systems will reveal order and predictability within what we currently see as chaos. But is it possible that quantum systems can't be understood within the traditional models of science?<br />
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In this article, we'll look at what quantum suicide reveals about our universe, as well as other theories that either support or contradict it.<br />
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But first, why can't a physicist simply measure the particles he's attempting to study? In the next section, we'll learn about this fundamental flaw of quantum observation, as explained by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.<br />
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<b>Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle</b><br />
One of the biggest problems with quantum experiments is the seemingly unavoidable tendency of humans to influence the situation and velocity of small particles. This happens just by our observing the particles, and it has quantum physicists frustrated. To combat this, physicists have created enormous, elaborate machines like particle accelerators that remove any physical human influence from the process of accelerating a particle's energy of motion. <br />
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Still, the mixed results quantum physicists find when examining the same particle indicate that we just can't help but affect the behavior of quanta -- or quantum particles. Even the light physicists use to help them better see the objects they're observing can influence the behavior of quanta. Photons, for example -- the smallest measure of light, which have no mass or electrical charge -- can still bounce a particle around, changing its velocity and speed.<br />
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This is called Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. Werner Heisenberg, a German physicist, determined that our observations have an effect on the behavior of quanta. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle sounds difficult to understand -- even the name is kind of intimidating. But it's actually easy to comprehend, and once you do, you'll understand the fundamental principle of quantum mechanics.<br />
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Imagine that you're blind and over time you've developed a technique for determining how far away an object is by throwing a medicine ball at it. If you throw your medicine ball at a nearby stool, the ball will return quickly, and you'll know that it's close. If you throw the ball at something across the street from you, it'll take longer to return, and you'll know that the object is far away.<br />
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The problem is that when you throw a ball -- especially a heavy one like a medicine ball -- at something like a stool, the ball will knock the stool across the room and may even have enough momentum to bounce back. You can say where the stool was, but not where it is now. What's more, you could calculate the velocity of the stool after you hit it with the ball, but you have no idea what its velocity was before you hit it.<br />
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This is the problem revealed by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. To know the velocity of a quark we must measure it, and to measure it, we are forced to affect it. The same goes for observing an object's position. Uncertainty about an object's position and velocity makes it difficult for a physicist to determine much about the object.<br />
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Of course, physicists aren't exactly throwing medicine balls at quanta to measure them, but even the slightest interference can cause the incredibly small particles to behave differently.<br />
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This is why quantum physicists are forced to create thought experiments based on the observations from the real experiments conducted at the quantum level. These thought experiments are meant to prove or disprove interpretations -- explanations for the whole of quantum theory.<br />
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In the next section, we'll look at the basis for quantum suicide -- the Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. <br />
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<b>The Many-Worlds Theory</b><br />
The quantum suicide thought experiment is based on and seeks to prove what has become an increasingly accepted interpretation of quantum physics, the Many-Worlds theory. This theory was first proposed in 1957 by a doctoral student at Princeton University named Hugh Everett III. The theory was scorned for decades until fellow Princetonian Max Tegman created the quantum suicide experiment, which lends support to the interpretation.<br />
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According to the Many-Worlds theory, for each possible outcome to an action, the world splits into a copy of itself. This is an instantaneous process Everett called decohesion. It's kind of like a choose-your-own-adventure book, but rather than choosing between either exploring the cave or making off with the treasure, the universe splits in two so that each action is taken.<br />
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One vital aspect of the Many-Worlds theory is that when the universe splits, the person is unaware of himself in the other version of the universe. This means that the boy who made off with the treasure and ends up living happily ever after is completely unaware of the version of himself who entered the cave and now faces great peril, and vice versa.<br />
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This is the same case with quantum suicide. When the man pulls the trigger, there are two possible outcomes: the gun either fires or it doesn't. In this case, the man either lives or he dies. Each time the trigger is pulled, the universe splits to accommodate each possible outcome. When the man dies, the universe is no longer able to split based on the pulling of the trigger. The possible outcome for death is reduced to one: continued death. But with life there are still two chances that remain: The man continues living or the man dies.<br />
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When the man pulls the trigger and the universe is split in two, however, the version of the man who lived will be unaware that in the other version of the split universe, he has died. Instead he will continue to live and will again have the chance to pull the trigger. And each time he does pull the trigger, the universe will again split, with the version of the man who lives continuing on, and being unaware of all of his deaths in parallel universes. In this sense, he will be able to exist indefinitely. This is called quantum immortality.<br />
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So why aren't all of the people who have ever attempted to kill themselves immortal? What's interesting about the Many-Worlds interpretation is that according to the theory, in some parallel universe, they are. This doesn't appear to be the case to us, because the splitting of the universe isn't dependent on our own life or death. We are bystanders or observers in the case of another person's suicide, and as observers we're subject to probability. When the gun finally went off in the universe -- or version -- we inhabit, we were stuck with that result. Even if we pick up the gun and continue shooting the man, the universe will remain in a single state. After all, once a person is dead, the number of possible outcomes for shooting a dead person is reduced to one.<br />
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But the Many-Worlds theory stands in contradiction to another quantum theory, the Copenhagen interpretation. In the next section, we'll look at this theory and see why it changes the rules of quantum suicide.<br />
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<b>The Copenhagen Interpretation</b><br />
The Many-Worlds theory of quantum mechanics supposes that for each possible outcome of any given action, the universe splits to accommodate each one. This theory takes the observer out of the equation. No longer are we able to influence the outcome of an event simply by observing it, as is stated by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.<br />
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But the Many-Worlds theory turns a widely accepted theory of quantum mechanics on its ear. And in the unpredictable quantum universe, this is really saying something.<br />
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For the better part of the last century, the most accepted explanation for why the same quantum particle may behave in different ways was the Copenhagen interpretation. Although it's getting a run for its money from the Many-Worlds interpretation lately, many quantum physicists still assume the Copenhagen interpretation is correct. The Copenhagen interpretation was first posed by physicist Niels Bohr in 1920. It says that a quantum particle doesn't exist in one state or another, but in all of its possible states at once. It's only when we observe its state that a quantum particle is essentially forced to choose one probability, and that's the state that we observe. Since it may be forced into a different observable state each time, this explains why a quantum particle behaves erratically.<br />
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This state of existing in all possible states at once is called an object's coherent superposition. The total of all possible states in which an object can exist -- for example, in a wave or particle form for photons that travel in both directions at once -- makes up the object's wave function. When we observe an object, the superposition collapses and the object is forced into one of the states of its wave function.<br />
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Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics was theoretically proven by what has become a famous thought experiment involving a cat and a box. It's called Schrödinger's cat, and it was first introduced by the Viennese physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935.<br />
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In his theoretical experiment, Schrödinger put his cat in a box, along with a bit of radioactive material and a Geiger counter -- a device for detecting radiation. The Geiger counter was designed so that when it sensed the decay of the radioactive material, it triggered a hammer which was poised to break a flask containing hydrocyanic acid, which, when released, would kill the cat.<br />
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To eliminate any certainty regarding the cat's fate, the experiment was to take place within an hour, long enough so that some of the radioactive material could possibly decay, but short enough so that it was also possible none would.<br />
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In Schrödinger's experiment, the cat was sealed in the box. During its stay there, the cat came to exist in an unknowable state. Since it could not be observed, it could not be said whether the cat was alive or dead. It existed instead in the state of both life and death. It's sort of like quantum physics' answer to the old Zen question: If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?<br />
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Since the Copenhagen interpretation says that, when observed, an object is forced to take one state or another, the quantum suicide experiment doesn't work according to this theory. Since the direction of the quark measured by the trigger can be observed, eventually the quark will be forced to take the clockwise direction that will fire the gun and kill the man.<br />
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But isn't all of this just silly? Do these thought experiments and quantum interpretations really teach us anything? In the next section, we'll look at some of the possible implications of these ideas.<br />
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<b>The Implications of Quantum Physics</b><br />
When compared to classical science and Newtonian physics, the theories proposed to explain quantum physics seem insane. Erwin Schrödinger himself called his cat experiment "quite ridiculous" [source: Goldstein, Sheldon]. But from what science has been able to observe, the laws that govern the world we see every day don't hold true on the quantum level.<br />
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Quantum physics is a relatively new discipline, dating back only to 1900. The theories that have been posed on the subject are all just theories. What's more, there are competing theories that give different explanations for the peculiar happenings that take place on the quantum level. Which one will history show is the correct one? Perhaps the theory that proves to be the true explanation for quantum physics hasn't been posed yet. The person who poses it may not have even been born yet. But given the logic that this field of study has established, is it possible that all theories explaining quantum physics are all equally true at the same time -- even the ones that contradict each other?<br />
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Niels Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics is perhaps the most comforting theory put forth. By explaining that particles exist in all states at once -- in coherent superposition -- our understanding of the universe is put slightly askew, but still remains somewhat comprehensible. Bohr's theory is additionally comforting because it makes us humans the cause for an object to take a determined shape. Although scientists find a particle's ability to exist in more than one state frustrating, our observations affect the particle. At least it doesn't continue to exist in all states while we're looking at it.<br />
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Much less comforting is Everett's Many-Worlds interpretation. This theory takes out of our hands any power over the quantum universe. Instead, we are merely passengers of the splits that take place with each possible outcome. In essence, under the Many-Worlds theory, our idea of cause and effect goes out the window.<br />
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This makes the Many-Worlds interpretation somewhat disturbing. If it's true, then in some universe parallel to the one we currently inhabit, Adolf Hitler was successful in his campaign to conquer the world. But in the same token, in another universe, the United States never dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.<br />
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The Many-Worlds theory also certainly contradicts the idea of Occam's razor, that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. Even stranger is the implication by the Many-Worlds theory that time doesn't exist in a coherent, linear motion. Instead, it moves in jumps and starts, existing not as a line, but as branches. These branches are as numerous as the number of consequences to all of the actions that have ever been taken.<br />
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It's tough not to imagine what our understanding of the quantum world will prove to be. The theoretical field has already progressed tremendously since its inception more than a century ago. Although he had his own interpretation of the quantum world, Bohr may have accepted the later theory that Hugh Everett introduced concerning the Many Worlds. After all, it was Bohr who said, "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."<br />
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Our Sun has served Earth well for almost five billion years. It's bathed us with heat and energy. But like humans, our home star is mortal. In five billion years, it will stop nurturing its planetary offspring.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taken by Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope on January 12, 2007, this image of the Sun reveals the filamentary nature of the plasma connecting regions of different magnetic polarity.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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The aging star will bloat out beyond the orbit of our planet incinerating all living things--including humans if we're still around.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Life-cycle of the Sun</td></tr>
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<object width="500" height="330"><param name="movie" value="http://www.megavideo.com/v/ORVJQZ05bfdaa06a0ffc61d5192b3cc7308a7838"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.megavideo.com/v/ORVJQZ05bfdaa06a0ffc61d5192b3cc7308a7838" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="330"></embed></object>Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742904061116374108noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929588169165915189.post-45013873942262247572010-11-27T15:52:00.001+08:002010-11-27T15:57:01.752+08:00Hate E-mails with Richard DawkinsThought this one was really funny! lol<br />
<object width="500" height="306"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-ZuowNcuGsc?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-ZuowNcuGsc?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="306"></embed></object>Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742904061116374108noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929588169165915189.post-5535691123244558982010-11-26T23:03:00.017+08:002010-11-26T23:03:00.783+08:00Total Eclipse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPDqac_3j64/TOfYQ4vkkHI/AAAAAAAAAnY/mHrwu-EQWmM/s1600/history-channel-the-universe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="221" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPDqac_3j64/TOfYQ4vkkHI/AAAAAAAAAnY/mHrwu-EQWmM/s400/history-channel-the-universe.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
Once they were dreaded and thought to be dragons eating the sun!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">RAWR!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>But modern science has dispelled mythology and we now look forward to total Solar Eclipses as one of the most spectacular phenomena in the heavens.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How a total solar eclipse occurs.</td></tr>
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Explore the complex movements of Earth, Moon and Sun that produce these unusual events and hear details why we may be the only intelligent beings in the known Universe to witness eclipses like we see on Earth. Man-made eclipses also figure into the science in the form of instruments called “coronagraphs.” They blot out the sun and reveal its corona, uncovering secrets which, while enlightening, also warn of a disaster that could make our advanced technology crash and burn.<br />
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Finally, travel into deep space, where the tiny eclipses caused by planets circling distant stars is now beginning to reveal hundreds more stars where “exoplanets” exist… perhaps even those in habitable zones like the Earth.<br />
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<object height="330" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.megavideo.com/v/FYJIMXGVdd36a8025175c25b37f1c6607850803f"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.megavideo.com/v/FYJIMXGVdd36a8025175c25b37f1c6607850803f" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="330"></embed></object>Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742904061116374108noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929588169165915189.post-52261161793036805082010-11-25T22:45:00.011+08:002010-11-25T22:45:00.186+08:00Asteroid Attack<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPDqac_3j64/TOfYQ4vkkHI/AAAAAAAAAnY/mHrwu-EQWmM/s1600/history-channel-the-universe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="221" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPDqac_3j64/TOfYQ4vkkHI/AAAAAAAAAnY/mHrwu-EQWmM/s400/history-channel-the-universe.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
What are the latest discoveries in the deadly world of asteroids? Will a Japanese spacecraft become the first to bring an asteroid sample back home?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">253 Mathilde, an asteroid measuring about 50 kilometres (30 mi) across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the NEAR Shoemaker probe.</td></tr>
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What would happen to America's east coast if the impact that helped form Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago struck today? And why did President Obama choose an asteroid as the destination for the next manned mission into space? Learning about these huge space rocks isn't just about science, it's about survival.<br />
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<object height="330" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.megavideo.com/v/F27IPYDK14fb79295a839179c0627476a7599683"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.megavideo.com/v/F27IPYDK14fb79295a839179c0627476a7599683" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="330"></embed></object>Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742904061116374108noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929588169165915189.post-30160735830663300602010-11-24T23:33:00.002+08:002010-11-24T23:33:00.465+08:00Secrets of the Space Probes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPDqac_3j64/TOfYQ4vkkHI/AAAAAAAAAnY/mHrwu-EQWmM/s1600/history-channel-the-universe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="221" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPDqac_3j64/TOfYQ4vkkHI/AAAAAAAAAnY/mHrwu-EQWmM/s400/history-channel-the-universe.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
They've discovered water on other planets, and snatched the actual building blocks of life from a comet's tail.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Voyager 1 - the farthest human-made object from Earth at 17.242 billion km, or 10.712 billion miles and currently traveling at 17.07 km/s or 61,452 km/h (38,185 mph)</td></tr>
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But can space probes find a new Earth and even make contact with alien life? In the 21st century, space probes are photographing, drilling and even sniffing new worlds in the quest for life and scanning thousands of distant suns trying to detect Earth-like planets. It's only a matter of time before space probes unlock the secrets to extra-terrestrial life and the universe itself. <br />
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One of the universe's most enduring mysteries is time travel.<br />
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Discover why time travel into the future is unavoidable in the Einsteinian world of relativity. As for the past the laws of physics don't tell us it's impossible, but the bizarre consequences of going into the past and altering the future make for mind-bending science. Finally go for the future by traveling to the nearest star, 4.3 light years away in only 45 days. <br />
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It bursts from the sun with the power of 10,000 nuclear weapons and when it hits our planet it could create the largest disaster in recorded history.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coronal Mass Ejections - When these blast through the sun's outer atmosphere and plow toward Earth at speeds of thousands of miles per second, the resulting effects can be harmful to communication satellites and astronauts outside the Earth's magnetosphere. On the ground, the magnetic storm wrought by these solar particles can knock out electric power. A better understanding of this solar activity could give people on Earth more time to prepare by placing satellites in a safe configuration, planning the best time for astronaut space walks or rocket launches, and implementing contingency plans to deal with any power outages.</td></tr>
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A magnetic storm from the sun could wipe out electrical power and nearly every piece of electronics in the Northern Hemisphere. It's a planet-wide hurricane of magnetic forces that scramble all 21st Century technology, possibly for good. What causes this magnetic superstorm? Why is magnetism so powerful and yet so poorly understood? And is there anything we can do to prevent the Magnetic Storm?<br />
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In the last few years, Mars has shown many new clues that life may have once existed there and may even exist there today.<br />
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There is now proof that water once flowed on the surface and that the frozen poles are mostly water, not carbon dioxide as previously thought. Mars has snow, an auror and lightning generated by dust storms. Most intriguing of all are the seasonal plumes of methane that just may point to bacteria living below the surface.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The panoramic view of Mars taken by the Mars Rover Exploration Opportunity (MER-B)<br />
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We are in the midst of the greatest era of space discovery. 21st century spacecraft and sophisticated imaging technology are venturing into un-chartered territory every day--and much of the extraordinary phenomenon is happing right in our own cosmic backyard. Take an exhilarating, unprecedented exploration of the seven most amazing wonders of our solar system.<br />
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Take an exhilarating, unprecedented exploration of the seven most amazing wonders of our solar system. Our virtual tour begins with a trip to Enceladus, one of Saturn’s outer moons, where icy geysers spout from its surface. Then venture to Saturn’s famous rings, which contain mountain ranges that rival the Alps. Next dive into the eye of the biggest storm in the solar system–Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Soar through the Asteroid Belt, containing millions of leftover rocks from the formation of the solar system. Trek up Mount Olympus, the largest volcano, located on Mars. Have a close encounter with the searing surface of the sun, and finish the journey by exploring our home planet Earth.<br />
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Well, starting today, I'm gonna be posting the 5th season of The History Channel's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universe_%28TV_series%29">The Universe.</a><br />
I only started watching this and I'm only on episode 3 right now. <br />
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The 5th season is composed of 8 episodes.<br />
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Episode 1 - 7 Wonders of the Solar System<br />
Episode 2 - Mars: The New Evidence<br />
Episode 3 - Magnetic Storm<br />
Episode 4 - Time Travel<br />
Episode 5 - Secrets of the Space Probes<br />
Episode 6 - Astroid Attack<br />
Episode 7 - Total Eclipse<br />
Episode 8 - Dark Future of the Sun <br />
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@<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/03162172122869453950">LoveIslander</a><br />
Is this the series you were talking about?<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_%28BBC_TV_series%29">Life</a>Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742904061116374108noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929588169165915189.post-65941519277244755692010-11-14T01:14:00.000+08:002010-11-14T01:14:54.350+08:00First Life with David Attenborough<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPDqac_3j64/TN7Dky8ec2I/AAAAAAAAAlc/ktmCYWK6LlU/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPDqac_3j64/TN7Dky8ec2I/AAAAAAAAAlc/ktmCYWK6LlU/s400/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
After fifty years of broadcasting, Sir David Attenborough goes back to the very beginning of life to reveal an astonishing alien-looking world. If "science is poetry of reality", this mesmerizing feature is certainly a proof of it.<br />
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First Life tackles the subject of the origin of life on Earth. He investigates the evidence from the earliest fossils, which suggest that complex animals first appeared in the oceans around 500 million years ago, an event known as the Cambrian Explosion. Trace fossils of multicellular organisms from an even earlier period, the Ediacaran biota, are also examined. The naturalist travels to Canada, Morocco and Australia, using some of the latest fossil discoveries and their nearest equivalents amongst living species to reveal what life may have been like at that time. The series utilises cutting-edge visual effects to reconstruct and animate the extinct life forms.<br />
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If you don't like Megavideo, here are some alternative sites where you can watch this.<br />
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<a href="http://www.zshare.net/video/81970406d3f91e37/">Click Here</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.novamov.com/video/4cc5d3a0ac8f7">Click Here</a><br />
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BTW, I'm running out of good videos to share so I'm really sorry for posting less frequently lately. If you have some recommendations, please do post it in the comment so I can check it out.<br />
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Anyway, enjoy watching this great documentary video.Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742904061116374108noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929588169165915189.post-33998822986663109392010-11-10T05:10:00.002+08:002010-11-11T04:21:54.120+08:00Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking - The Story of EverythingLast Episode of this Epic Series.<br />
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In two mind-blowing hours, Hawking reveals the wonders of the cosmos to a new generation. Delve into the mind of the world's most famous living scientist and reveal the splendor and majesty of the universe as never seen before. See how the universe began, how it creates stars, black holes and life - and how everything will end. <br />
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The promise of time travel has long been one of the world's favorite scientific "what-ifs?" Hawking explores all the possibilities, warping the very fabric of time and space as he goes. From killing your grandfather to riding a black hole, we learn the pitfalls and the prospects for a technology that could quite literally, change everything. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The concept of Wormholes</td></tr>
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BTW, sorry for being a bit inactive here. The other blog is taking too much of my time.Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742904061116374108noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929588169165915189.post-13756669542575845382010-11-06T01:29:00.001+08:002010-11-11T04:21:24.120+08:00Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking - Aliens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPDqac_3j64/TNQ7zs09xZI/AAAAAAAAAjs/3sT_j67jnxc/s1600/1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="221" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPDqac_3j64/TNQ7zs09xZI/AAAAAAAAAjs/3sT_j67jnxc/s400/1.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />
Hawking joins science and imagination to explore one of the most important mysteries facing humankind — the possibility of alien, intelligent life and the likelihood of future “contact.” Traveling from the moons of Jupiter to a galaxy maybe not so far, far away, he’ll introduce us to possible alien life forms — in stunning CGI — that face the same universal trials of adaptation and survival as the residents of Earth.<br />
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Probe the physiological, psychological and cultural challenges of sex in space. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is how they imagine sex in space in 1979.</td></tr>
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Update:<br />
Found a site where you can watch this but you need to install the "DivX Web Player"<br />
<a href="http://stagevu.com/video/wvuunqvxmslt">Click Here</a>Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742904061116374108noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929588169165915189.post-56898060967797275682010-11-03T22:20:00.007+08:002010-11-14T01:31:58.257+08:00National Geographic - Inside: The Milky WayInside the Milky Way takes viewers on an astounding journey across 100,000 light-years to witness key moments in the history of the Milky Way. Using the latest science, NGC constructs a 3-D state-of-the-art CGI model of our galaxy. We'll peer into the heart of the Milky Way on the hunt for super-massive black holes, watch how stars are born and die, fly out and above the plane of our galaxy to understand its true shape and scour its dusty spiral arms for the possibility of life.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What Earth's skies could look like if we were in another part of the Milky Way galaxy.<br />
This sky represents how the sun came to be with clouds of gas and dust of the Orion Nebula.</td></tr>
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<b>Update:</b><br />
Another site where you can watch this<br />
<a href="http://www.novamov.com/video/4cc7190ea0fdc">Click Here</a>Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742904061116374108noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929588169165915189.post-79823800945666243922010-11-02T23:58:00.000+08:002010-11-02T23:58:37.554+08:00BBC Horizon 2010: What Happened Before the Big BangThey are the biggest questions that science can possibly ask: where did everything in our universe come from? How did it all begin? For nearly a hundred years, we thought we had the answer: a big bang some 14 billion years ago.<br />
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But now some scientists believe that was not really the beginning. Our universe may have had a life before this violent moment of creation.<br />
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Part 1<br />
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Part 2<br />
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Part 3<br />
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Part 4<br />
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Part 5<br />
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Part 6<br />
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This is a really good documentary. It tackles about different scientific theories about the beginning of the Universe. It will give you a glimpse about the chaotic world of Cosmology! lol<br />
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I'm sure this will also cause some confusion to a few people.Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742904061116374108noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929588169165915189.post-20569873354619597662010-11-02T23:45:00.000+08:002010-11-02T23:45:28.517+08:00I'm Back!Hey guys! Sorry for the absence. I was too lazy too update this blog! lol<br />
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Actually, the storm took down my net for almost a week after my last post.<br />
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When it returned, I was too lazy to continue posting so I took a small "vacation".<br />
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Anyway, I'll be posting again from now on.<br />
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I have a lot of awesome documentary videos to show to everyone!Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742904061116374108noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929588169165915189.post-72885837486762586102010-10-21T03:11:00.000+08:002010-10-21T03:11:55.724+08:00LHC Experiment ExplainedI'm still trying to look for more info about the Higgs Boson particle. For now, this is the only related video that I have.<br />
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I'll bring more info about the Higgs Boson particle later.Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742904061116374108noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929588169165915189.post-49132250340592449192010-10-20T02:39:00.001+08:002010-10-20T11:17:30.300+08:00No Proper Post Today / AdbriteMy internet is kinda acting up because of the typhoon and I haven't got any new videos to share with.<br />
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Anyway, since halloween is just a few days away, I thought I'd share this with everyone.<br />
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EDIT:<br />
I received an email earlier today from Adbrite. They said the my blog is generating invalid clicks or impressions thereby disabling my account. Of course I emailed them back asking for more information and a possible re-review. Just now, they email me again saying that after a re-reviewed, they still concluded that my blog is really generating invalid clicks and impression and that my account will not be reinstated.<br />
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I must say, this really is a letdown. Although I wasn't expecting much from it, it still upsets me quite a bit.<br />
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Anyway, I think I have found a new interesting documentary and I'll share it with you guys later.Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742904061116374108noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929588169165915189.post-31437555639141172862010-10-18T19:14:00.004+08:002010-10-18T20:59:37.947+08:00Introduction to The Large Hadron Collider<i>Well, I'm still alive so here's another blog entry.</i><br />
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I was thinking of doing this for sometime now but I know that putting a long article here will only bore most of my followers.<br />
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So instead of, I'm putting this videos to give you an overview on what the Large Hadron Collider is all about.<br />
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<b>The Large Hadron Collider</b><br />
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<b>How Does it Works?</b><br />
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<b>Results and Analogy</b><br />
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EDIT:<br />
Btw, <b>ESO</b> stands for European Southern Observatory. That's the place where this video was shot.<br />
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Also, if you haven't guessed yet, <b>VLT</b> is for Very Large Telescope!(No SHIT, Einstein!)<br />
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EDIT 2:<br />
So, as of this moment this is the situation here:<br />
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See that white spot? I'm under it right now! Well anyway, I hope things won't take a turn for the worst; otherwise, I won't be able to comment on your blog and update mine.Najhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742904061116374108noreply@blogger.com31