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Anonymous 25/6/2009(Thu)09:10:11 No.86358

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Is it logically possible to be a theist and a scientist? I'm not stupid, I believe in evolution, but I'm an agnostic, I don't believe in a benevolent God since the world has its share of shit, but I refuse to completely eliminate the possibility of a God in the universe. Wanna know what you think, anons. Not a troll here.

Anonymous 25/6/2009(Thu)09:17:46 No.86369

I think one word for that could be a deist. They claim to reject the notion of miracles, prophets, etc., while claiming to observe the universe as a rational, understandable creation.

Where is the conflict in agnosticism though?

Anonymous 25/6/2009(Thu)09:32:51 No.86387

>>86369
There is no conflict, except the one I'm having with my generation. Everybody is atheist or so they say, and it seems like bringing the subject of God, even metaphorically, to express a philosophical standpoint, is received as a disgrace to the youth.
I don't advocate religion, but I'm convinced spirituality is mandatory in order to understand the universe throughly. And it looks like we're deprived of this discipline nowadays.
I don't want to venture too far in metaphysics, since this isn't the right place for this subject. I just wanted to see how hostile your answer would be to a question about God. So far you seem like a true gentleman.

Anonymous 25/6/2009(Thu)09:49:21 No.86407

Science has nothing to do with your personal beliefs.

If you are Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist it doesn't matter, many scientists aren't atheists, Darwin was not atheist, Newton was not atheist, Galileo was not atheist. What you must have in mind is that just because your holy book is not 100% according to your findings this doesn't means that you should ignore them.

By the way, there is a thread about the relation of different religions and science in the /ssh/ social sciences and humanities board
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Anonymous 25/6/2009(Thu)09:54:25 No.86413

It's hard to bring it in to a conversation, though, because it's often used as a escape button, (i.e. "God did it").

I think the important part is acknowledging that there is a system of natural checks and balances, and that even on the universal level, every ecosystem has a progenitor, whether bacterial, plant, animal, or thermonuclear weapon.

Understanding the ecosystem is more important, however, than trying to pinpoint the exact cause of the indescribable situation around you.

If you want to make it real painful, though, try reconciling science and magic.

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Anonymous 18/6/2009(Thu)12:26:14 No.76635

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Menlo Park, Calif.�Move over, silicon�it may be time to give the Valley a new name. Physicists at the Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have confirmed the existence of a type of material that could one day provide dramatically faster, more efficient computer chips.

Recently-predicted and much-sought, the material allows electrons on its surface to travel with no loss of energy at room temperatures and can be fabricated using existing semiconductor technologies. Such material could provide a leap in microchip speeds, and even become the bedrock of an entirely new kind of computing industry based on spintronics, the next evolution of electronics.

Physicists Yulin Chen, Zhi-Xun Shen and their colleagues tested the behavior of electrons in the compound bismuth telluride. The results, published online June 11 in Science Express, show a clear signature of what is called a topological insulator, a material that enables the free flo

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Anonymous 19/6/2009(Fri)10:36:25 No.77895

>>76931
is that some mother fucking BISMUTH?

Anonymous 19/6/2009(Fri)11:06:28 No.77934

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FUCK YEAH!!! BISMUTH!!!

Anonymous 20/6/2009(Sat)01:10:46 No.78646

>>77934
this thread is now purely about BISMUTH!!!

Anonymous 25/6/2009(Thu)07:01:05 No.86264

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http://amazingrust.com/Experiments/how_to/Bismuth_Crystals.html

BISMUTH.

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Anonymous 13/6/2009(Sat)01:46:06 No.64182

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I really would love to have some fun with nitroglycerin!

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Anonymous 16/6/2009(Tue)12:40:11 No.68022

>>66340

What the hell?

Anonymous 16/6/2009(Tue)09:58:05 No.71211

>>66340
>>68022
Info about the video:

Location: Brovary town, Russia.

Transmitter output: 150 kW

Also used: old Soviet antennas, 90 meteres (280 ft) long cable.

That�s all what you need for UNSAFE experiments to receive radio waves.

In the area of the effect of radio waves very big potential difference emerges. Because of the modulation of the radio signal the electical spark arc starts vibrating with the human voice and begins to �speak�.

The intensity of current in such �radio� can reach hundreds of ampers and it easily can molt metals.

Such electricity doesn�t have any barriers, it can come through the thick tree.

Don�t try this at home!

Anonymous 20/6/2009(Sat)11:20:04 No.79563

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>>66340
Imperial March!

Anonymous 25/6/2009(Thu)04:14:59 No.86185

>>64245

I really love this guy. Oldbie internet science sites pioneer, all his videos are really interesting, and best of all, he actually EXPLAINS what's going on in his videos. I really hope he would make more...

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Faster than light travel might be possible! Anonymous 25/6/2009(Thu)05:33:01 No.85717

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Certain classes of higher dimensional models suggest that the Casimir Effect is a candidate for the cosmological constant. In this paper we demonstrate that a sufficiently advanced civilization could, in principal, manipulate the radius of the extra dimension to locally adjust the value of the cosmological constant. This adjustment could be tuned to generate an expansion/contraction of spacetime around a spacecraft creating an exotic form of field-propulsion. Due to the fact that spacetime expansion itself is not restricted by relativity, a faster-than-light 'warp drive' could be created. Calculations of the energy requirements of such a drive are performed and an 'ultimate' speed limit, based on the Planckian limits on the size of the extra dimensions is found.

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0807/0807.1957v2.pdf

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Anonymous 25/6/2009(Thu)04:33:40 No.85676

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Interactive Data Eyeglasses

For car designers, secret agents in the movies and jet fighter pilots, data eyeglasses � also called head-mounted displays, or HMDs for short � are everyday objects. They transport the wearer into virtual worlds or provide the user with data from the real environment. At present these devices can only display information. �We want to make the eyeglasses bidirectional and interactive so that new areas of application can be opened up,� says Dr. Michael Scholles, business unit manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS in Dresden.

Anonymous 25/6/2009(Thu)04:34:16 No.85677

The chip measuring 19.3 by 17 millimeters is fitted on the prototype eyeglasses behind the hinge on the temple. From the temple the image on the microdisplay is projected onto the retina of the user so that it appears to be viewed from a distance of about one meter. The image has to outshine the ambient light to ensure that it can be seen clearly against changing and highly contrasting backgrounds. For this reason the research scientists use OLEDs

In industry and in the medical field, the interactive data eyeglasses could enable numerous tasks to be performed more simply, efficiently and precisely. Many scenarios are possible, including patients� vital functions, MRT and x-ray images for the operating surgeon, construction drawings for erection engineers and installation instructions for service technicians.

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New radio chip mimics human ear, could enable universal radio Anonymous 23/6/2009(Tue)08:35:30 No.84008

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MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals.

Anonymous 23/6/2009(Tue)08:52:50 No.84027

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Rahul Sarpeshkar, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and his graduate student, Soumyajit Mandal, designed the chip to mimic the inner ear, or cochlea. The chip is faster than any human-designed radio-frequency spectrum analyzer and also operates at much lower power.

"The cochlea quickly gets the big picture of what's going on in the sound spectrum," said Sarpeshkar. "The more I started to look at the ear, the more I realized it's like a super radio with 3,500 parallel channels."

Sarpeshkar and his students describe their new chip, which they have dubbed the "radio frequency (RF) cochlea," in a paper to be published in the June issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. They have also filed for a patent to incorporate the RF cochlea in a universal or software radio architecture that is designed to efficiently process a broad spectrum of signals including cellular phone, wireless Internet, FM, and other signals.

Anonymous 23/6/2009(Tue)08:54:45 No.84028

The RF cochlea mimics the structure and function of the biological cochlea, which uses fluid mechanics, piezoelectrics and neural signal processing to convert sound waves into electrical signals that are sent to the brain.

As sound waves enter the cochlea, they create mechanical waves in the cochlear membrane and the fluid of the inner ear, activating hair cells (cells that cause electrical signals to be sent to the brain). The cochlea can perceive a 100-fold range of frequencies -- in humans, from 100 to 10,000 Hz. Sarpeshkar used the same design principles in the RF cochlea to create a device that can perceive signals at million-fold higher frequencies, which includes radio signals for most commercial wireless applications.

The device demonstrates what can happen when researchers take inspiration from fields outside their own, says Sarpeshkar.

Anonymous 23/6/2009(Tue)08:54:54 No.84029

"Somebody who works in radio would never think of this, and somebody who works in hearing would never think of it, but when you put the two together, each one provides insight into the other," he says. For example, in addition to its use for radio applications, the work provides an analysis of why cochlear spectrum analysis is faster than any known spectrum-analysis algorithm. Thus, it sheds light on the mechanism of hearing as well.

The RF cochlea, embedded on a silicon chip measuring 1.5 mm by 3 mm, works as an analog spectrum analyzer, detecting the composition of any electromagnetic waves within its perception range. Electromagnetic waves travel through electronic inductors and capacitors (analogous to the biological cochlea's fluid and membrane). Electronic transistors play the role of the cochlea's hair cells.

The analog RF cochlea chip is faster than any other RF spectrum analyzer and consumes about 100 times less power than what would be required for direct digitization of the entire bandwidth. That makes it desirable as a component of a universal or "cognitive" radio, which could receive a broad range of frequencies and select which ones to attend to.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/bio-electronics-0603.html

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World's strongest laser unveiled Anonymous 08/6/2009(Mon)05:27:26 No.59949

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The world's most powerful laser is prepped and ready to begin keeping tabs on the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile while also studying the heavens and attempting to develop new sources of energy.

The super laser, officially known as the National Ignition Facility, was unveiled Friday before thousands of people at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Among those in attendance were Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; and other national and local officials.

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Anonymous 08/6/2009(Mon)07:34:13 No.60167

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Anonymous 08/6/2009(Mon)07:34:15 No.60169

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Anonymous 23/6/2009(Tue)09:06:54 No.83560

And now we just have to fit that in our mouths and...