- Intel Microchip Packs Two Billion Transistors - GO Moore's Law GO! This means 4 million transistors in 2010, 8 million in 2012, 16 million in 2014, etc...
- Eyes to the skies getting bigger - I have always wondered why is it that when we look for the center of the universe, the place where the big bang happened, it's all around us...in every direction. Shouldn't it be, oh I don't know, like off to the left and down, or something? Maybe someone out there could explain it to me? Leave a comment if you will.
- Team develops energy-efficient microchip - I see this appying to Body Area Networks very well.
- Tuning In to Nanotube Radio - "Researchers have made analog electronics out of carbon nanotubes." I suspect this may be the 6th Paradigm of computation. Integrated Circuits are the 5th and current Paradigm and follows Moore's Law, which is expected to hit a wall around 2020, approximately. Good to know that this new method is well on its way to replacing the venerable IC.
- Genetic 'telepathy'? A bizarre new property of DNA - What the?!? This is indeed bizarre. Read it for yourself.
- Embryos Created With DNA From 3 People - "British scientists have created human embryos containing DNA from two women and one man, a procedure that could potentially prevent conditions including epilepsy, diabetes and heart failure."
- With Mini in vivo Robots, Anyone Can do Surgery - "By attaching a millimeter-sized camera robot to a tether, scientists have designed a way to allow individuals with non-medical backgrounds to perform minimally invasive surgery in almost any location. Unlike room-size and expensive surgical robots, mini in vivo robots are inexpensive and mobile enough to support emergency surgeries almost anywhere, from the battlefield to outer space." By extension, with sufficient miniaturizastion and autonomous AI, we could have mini-surgeons permanently housed inside of us to perform on demand surgeries automatically, repairing us as needed as determined by its software parameters.
- Remote-control DNA 'pistons' could power tiny robots - This could enable molecular nano-factories, or the nano-surgeons I was just talking about above.
- Charles Ostman discusses synthetic biology and the Singularity - Damn, I just wanted to hear this guy, and it's on a pay for subscription site. I might cave in later and cough up the cash...I hope its worth it.
- Flexible, Nanowire Solar Cells - "Exotic materials and cheaper substrates could lead to better photovoltaics."
- New Thoughts On Language Acquisition: Toddlers As Data Miners - This is a valid research path for AI. By reverse engineering our own behaviors and starting at the infant level then growing the AI like a child, we should have greater success that if we tried to reverse engineer a fully mature adult.
- Rewritable holograms promise 3D displays - Interesting, but I feel a better approach would be to have contact lenses that are inherently 3D that can augment reality instead of a remote static display.
- Electromagnetic Railgun Blasts Off - "A supersonic bullet is fired with a record-breaking 10 megajoules of muzzle energy." Whoa Nelly!
Well, thats it for today. See you very soon!
9 comments:
ello again. Your inquiry about the center of the universe does have an answer. The universe doesn't have a true center. The reason for this is because the expansion of the universe is not from a single point but equally throughout the matter that is space. For example, the space between galaxies is expanding in all directions rather than being pushed from a single point of origin. As you may already know, this expansion is accelerating. This is attributed to the reverse effects that dark energy has on dark matter. It has been said that the battle has been lost for dark matter, and is not subject to infinite dissemination/expansion of the matter within the universe. Eventually, the space between galaxies will be so vast, that there will be no possibility for matter to coalesce and form new planets and stars. The fate of the universe will be a cold, lifeless, and largely matterless void.
I have heard this before. An article by Brian Fraser on Advanced Stellar Propulsion Systems at http://www.geocities.com/scripturalphysics/4v4a/ADVPROP.html touches on this topic a bit. Interesting idea of space progressing in three dimensions.
So what I am hearing you say is that we are in the center of the unverse, but so are all other points as well at the same time. THAT is hard for me to visualize. Isn't that kind of like saying that if I head a particular direction I will eventually return to the point I left, even though I never turned around? And wouldn't it take infinity to do so? I guess I am being thick headed and foggy this morning. Feh.
You're correct about traveling in one direction and eventually arriving at your point of origin. Although to our perspective, relative to our understanding of time and the amount of time of our lifespan, it would appear to be infinite. This is not the case though. Sure, it would take trillions of years, depending on the speed at which you travel, but since the universe is finite we can come to a discernible timeline in which we would expect to complete such a long journey. At the same time, we have discovered methods that would cut that time down significantly. It is feasible to make such a journey in less than 1 lifetime with one of the latest theories out there today - and no, it doesn't include dimensions, black and white holes, or warm holes. It is theoretically possible to warp the fabric of space and time to travel at speeds far greater than the speed of light, but that's another story.
I should also point out that I was wrong when I initially proclaimed that the current theory didn't include dimensions, but since space and time are dimensions, that would include dimensions. Just FYI.
"At the same time, we have discovered methods that would cut that time down significantly. It is feasible to make such a journey in less than 1 lifetime with one of the latest theories out there today - and no, it doesn't include dimensions, black and white holes, or warm holes. It is theoretically possible to warp the fabric of space and time to travel at speeds far greater than the speed of light, but that's another story."
Could you expand on that and cite a source for me to look at? I am interested in what discovery and what breakthrough theories you are referring to...
Thanks,
Certainly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/research/warp/ideachev.html
Add these to your list:
http://www.io.com/~kontakt/rileycon/propulsion.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon
Really, there is so much out there, but hopefully this will give you a kick-start.
I am curious about the rileycon weblink you posted...Is that a science fiction site?
Now, I feel like an idiot... because I didn't read that particular page with any bit of scrutiny. I saw the bold letters describing theories and processes already known to science, and passed that along as evidence of this fact. Had I known that there was a fantasy aspect to that particular source, I wouldn't have submitted it. You're right, it's a science fiction site. Science fiction does take ideas from current theories inside of the scientific community in an attempt to satisfy the what, the how, and the why - which adds to the realism of their story.
The key source is the information from NASA - which weighs the pros and cons of several promising theories which do match my original assertion of FLT.
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