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Can time be traced back to infinity? The rainbow gravity theory suggests time had no beginning and there was no singularity and that different wave lengths of light are affected differently than others. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rainbow-gravity-universe-beginning&WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20131211

Scientists have begun to consider Einsteins "spooky action at a distance" maybe spookier than was first thought. Entangled particles might be the result of worm holes connecting the particles or groups of particles that are entangled. Even Black holes could be similarly entangled. http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Spooky_action_builds_a_wormhole_between_entangled_particles_999.html

This find may secure the lives of many people despite global warming melting glaciers. It is unfortunate the water is concentrated on continental shelves off Australia, China, North America and South Africa, rather than being more dispersed. There are many questions regarding its use, including technical, legal, and economic. For example, will pumping from these aquifers cause sea water to foul the fresh water, are the resources in international waters, and how much will it cost to move that water to places like Europe that are far from the sources.

I found a link to mtu.edu news release on the 3D printer, but have not been able to access the server, yet. It appears to be overloaded, rather than down.

As the title says, a paper just came out in which the use of lures by alligators has been reported. V. Dinets, J.C. Brueggen & J.D. Brueggen , Ethology Ecology & Evolution (2013): Crocodilians use tools for hunting, Ethology Ecology & Evolution, DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2013.858276 The abstract: In a photo within the article an alligator was balancing sticks and similar nestbuilding materials on its head. Now they need to learn how to use beer as a lure...

It sounds dubious, but DARPA may buy one.

Posted in Astronomy and Cosmology forum : link below http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/80227-dr-who-take-on-start-and-end-of-universe/ as they say sit back and enjoy the show for 3 minutes 1000.s did in the LONDON Royal Albert Hall a few days ago ( here on BBC i player ) should work automatically . Mike

While chimpanzees craft sticks as tools and use rocks as tools, no other modern animal, except man, combines stone and wood into a tool.

One of My daughters is in Australia at the moment. She e mailed me today Quote " Hey Dad, Check out the link below. Me and Marcus were sat in a hostel on the Queensland coast of Australia last Wednesday and out of nowhere a huge meteor shower went straight past us! Was incredible! See why you should come over here? http://www.sott.net/category/17-Fire-in-the-Sky Love xay xxxxx " It seems coincidental that the visit of Ison comet is just passing this week into the suns corona, could this be fragments breaking off on its way in. It is due coming out from the sun during December for the biggest show in recent years. Note the quotes above ,alre…

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)! My economics teacher likes to think that he knows copious amounts of fine details when it comes to computing. He keeps going on about the NSA having one of only two terahertz computers in the world. This doesn't exactly mean much of anything, as far as I'm aware there still isn't at present a terahertz transistor to design a chip on. So I decided to do a little research and it seems that the current standard in national security is the petaflop. Recent articles suggest however, that in fact there is currently a work in progress toward an exaflop security center, and this has generated so…

Inner shell electrons being shared is a wild thought to me but I am limited to high school chemistry (which I did perfectly in btw ) but a very interesting development... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=chemical-bonds-inner-shell-electrons&WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20131122 How many more predictions from Star Trek have to come true before it is canonized

Physicists at the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics have developed a device that "leaves the photon untouched upon detection". After reviewing the link to the original article, I found the following that explains that "an incoming photon is reflected off an optical resonator containing a single atom prepared in a superposition of two states". So, I wouldn't say that the photons are untouched. However, the claim is that the detector allows the photons to continue on their way after being detected: This non-destructive technique of observing the photon may lead to new advances in quantum computing, communication, and information processing: Pretty cool…

The infinite monkeys Brian Cox and Robin Ince are back! http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03j9lvb/The_Infinite_Monkey_Cage_Series_9_Through_the_Doors_of_Perception/ And catch previous series here http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+infinite+monkey+cage+series+9&page=1

Molecular hydrogen is being discussed as a possible greenhouse gas to explain an early warm mars. Other models using just CO2 and H2O do not result in a warm Mars with a dim Sun but adding molecular hydrogen might do the trick. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131124200548.htm

More reason to eat your vegetables.

I wonder how much current this material can conduct?

This increase may make microalgae oil production competitive with petroleum diesel. There are many millions of acres of desert in the southwest with saline groundwater that can be used to grow marine microalgae. There is little rain in this area, which means these groundwater sources will deplete quickly if squandered. Fortunately, growing algae is best done in greenhouses or in photobioreactors that conserve water. If this development sparks the large scale production of algal oil, it will create jobs, reduce CO2 emissions, and stop the flow of dollars to oil producing countries. It would be a huge benefit for the environment and economy of the US…

Smile while you eat a few nuts, and you will be happier, too. They did not report a causal relationship, merely a correlation that is consistent with other similar studies. They did not report any specific nut as superior in this study.

http://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_a_camera_that_takes_one_trillion_frames_per_second.html Some researchers may find this high speed photography useful for their own projects. It makes possible some things that otherwise would be impossible, including seeing around corners...really. Watch the Ted Talk above.

The double Nobel Prize winner, Frederick Sanger, best known for the technique of Sanger sequencing, has died aged 95. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25020112 The scientific community will be forever indebted to you, Sanger, for the knowledge and technologies resulting from your "messing about in the Lab" and will remember you fondly.

Several groups have now repeated the feat of the Japanese group working at the insitute headed by Nobel Prize winning stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka. That is, they have created functioning oocytes from adult female mouse cells. The groups are now trying to repeat the feat with monkey and human cells. The below story contains links to the academic papers in Nature Protocols, and Nature: link removed

Does the visible photon have a counterpart, a dark photon, that interacts with the components of dark matter? http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/november-2013/connecting-the-visible-universe-with-dark-matter

Thorium powered car could run for a century with out refueling! Nuclear power car runs on thorium!

US physicists have studied the fluid dynamics of urine "splashback" - and found tips to help men and women with their accuracy and hygiene. Using high-speed cameras, the team filmed jets of liquid striking toilet walls and studied the resulting spray. Splashback was low when the jets were used close up with a narrow "angle of attack", said the Brigham Young University team. They will present their research at an American Physical Society meeting. "In response to harsh and repeated criticisms from our mothers and several failed relationships with women, we present the splash dynamics of a simulated human male urine stream," reads their conference abstract Read…

This research is consistent with my belief (speculation) that abiogenesis is inevitable because chemicals will self assemble and create life. And, if the chemicals still exist in the right conditions, abiogenesis continues. But, whatever spontaneous life is created will have little chance of survival, because evolved forms are be much more capable of surviving and thriving.