The school is opening on the wrong day. They should have had the grand opening this week or earlier in the week, but no they are opening on July 15th. Yeah that’s right, the day the final Harry Potter movie opens. What were they thinking? They could have gotten a better crowd by opening this week instead. I don’t think many people will be going to that grand opening they will be in line at the movie theater instead.

Last winter I was thinking about how I could stop up the huge draft under the door. I started looking at things I could buy to fix this problem but they were all too expensive. So I sat on it.  One wash day I washed my mattress cover pad and then I put it in the dryer. Well, the dryer ended up being too hot and kind of melted it a bit. So I couldn’t use it for a mattress pad anymore. Then, when I was about to toss it out I had an epiphany. I could use this for blocking the cold and hot air coming in from the big gap at the bottom of the door.

So then I was thinking how I could do this. Should I get a piece of material and sew one? But, I sat on it. I nixed getting the material. I had to think up some other solution. So I kept thinking and thinking and weeks went by. Finally I decided that the pantyhose I had used for packing material when I moved would be just the thing. I could stuff the pad into the hose. Bingo and I wouldn’t have to sew anything. I started looking for the pantyhose hoping I hadn’t thrown it out. The first place I looked the pantyhose wasn’t there. I was thinking about another place I could look. But, what’s this? I found something else.

I bought a chair to sit in while I was waiting for my stuff to arrive from the moving company. The chair was very inexpensive and folded up. There was a bag to carry the chair in. That is what I found while looking for the pantyhose. I am not using the chair now because it broke. It lasted more time than it should have so I got my money out of it. Low and behold the bag was just the right length for the door! So I rolled up the mattress pad and stuffed it in the bag. Whoo Hoo!!! I closed the end with the fastener and voila!! I had something without having to sew and without having to buy some material!!! Plus the bag has a handle and I can pick it up and move it easily when I open the door.

I have been reading and the books I have read are: Endless Universe by Paul J Steinhardt and Neil Turok, Angels & Demons by Dan Brown and The Bourne Sanction by Eric Van Lustbader. I am currently reading Clarence Darrow For The Defense by Irving Stone. I read Angels & Demons immediately after reading Endless Universe. I highly recommend reading these two back to back just like I did. After you read them you will see why. One is a good segue into the other. Most of the books I am reading I already have read and kept because I liked them. All I have to do is look in my boxes for books to read.

Segue a frente o post publicado no blog dererumnatura sobre um projecto que envolve a descoberta de cérebros Africanos:

O físico-matemático britânico Neil Turok (na imagem), da Universidade de Cambridge, tem vindo a promover o “African Institute for Mathematical Sciences”, criado na Cidade do Cabo, na África do Sul, para encontrar e desenvolver grandes talentos científicos no continente africano. O artigo de Chris Milton intitulado “O Próximo Einstein”, que acaba de sair na “IM Magazine”, fala dessa procura de “um Einstein africano”. Pode ser lido aqui.

Fonte: DeRerumNetura

Spazio e tempo esistevano già prima della “madre” di tutte le esplosioni. E l’universo è un susseguirsi di cicli senza fine. In un libro la nuova teoria di Steinhardt e Turok sull’origine del cosmo di Federico Tulli

«Il Big bang può non essere stato l’origine dell’universo, ma un momento, un evento periodico che si ripete ogni trilione di anni». La nuova teoria sull’universo ciclico sintetizzata in queste poche frasi da uno dei suoi due ideatori, l’astrofisico statunitense dell’università di Princeton Paul Steinhardt, sta ottenendo sempre più proseliti tra gli astrofisici. Non solo oltreoceano. A quanto pare, dunque, non è solo la rottura di un ingranaggio del superacceleratore di particelle Lhc installato al Cern di Ginevra per ricreare l’attimo che ha preceduto il Big bang a mettere in crisi i fautori della più classica delle teorie sull’origine del cosmo. L’ipotesi scientifica di Steinhardt, detta anche “dell’universo senza fine”, risale al 2001 ed è frutto di studi congiunti col fisico britannico dell’università di Cambridge Neil Turok. Secondo i due scienziati, che hanno raccolto i risultati delle loro ricerche nel libro Universo senza fine (il Saggiatore), il Bing bang «non è il momento germinale della storia, ma un evento ciclico coincidente con la collisione tra il nostro universo e un mondo parallelo». Steinhardt, che è uno degli autori del modello inflazionario dell’universo (sviluppato nel 1980 dal fisico statunitense Alan Guth che spiega cosa sia avvenuto nel primo secondo di “vita” del cosmo dopo il Big bang) e ha contribuito a studi sulla materia e sull’energia oscura, ricorda che «la spiegazione sulla nascita del cosmo finora più accreditata si basa sull’idea che spazio e tempo abbiano avuto inizio 14 miliardi di anni fa».

L’ipotesi alternativa che lui e Turok stanno tentando di dimostrare è che spazio e tempo esistessero già prima della “madre” di tutte le esplosioni. E che prima di questa se ne siano verificate ciclicamente altre e che ciascun ciclo condiziona quello successivo. Vale a dire che gli eventi che hanno preceduto l’ultima esplosione (il Big bang appunto) hanno plasmato la struttura su larga scala dell’universo che osserviamo oggi. Allo stesso modo, gli eventi che hanno luogo oggi determineranno la struttura dell’universo nei cicli a venire. Un’idea, questa, di un prima del Big bang e di un dopo il prossimo, che in Universo senza fine viene sviluppata dai due autori senza «ricorrere al linguaggio preciso della matematica utilizzato solitamente dai fisici», ma cercando di «comunicare i concetti in maniera discorsiva, ricorrendo ad analogie, disegni informali e aneddoti». Ne esce il racconto di un avvincente viaggio oltre le porte socchiuse dei laboratori in cui si svolgono gli esperimenti della più affascinante delle discipline scientifiche. E seguendo calcoli e ragionamenti che dimostrano come l’universo visibile potrebbe essere solo una parte della realtà ci si ritrova coinvolti in quel misto di fantasia e folle razionalità che sorregge l’entusiasmo di Turok e Steinhardt, fermamente convinti di aver dato il la alla più valida delle teorie alternative a quella del Big bang. Anzi, a dire il vero la loro sarebbe proprio l’unica alternativa in circolazione visto che via via negli anni finora tutti si son dovuti arrendere all’evidenza di un’unica grande esplosione all’origine dell’universo conosciuto. Ciò che più colpisce in questo veleggiare oltre le colonne d’Ercole della fisica del XX secolo è l’ipotesi che spazio e tempo si siano affacciati all’esistenza molti cicli fa, ma è possibile anche che essi siano letteralmente senza fine, infiniti. Nel corso della sua lectio magistralis a Genova Scienza, Steinhardt ha ricordato che «la teoria dell’universo senza fine risolve numerosi dubbi di quella classica del Big bang, unendo in un unico sistema la fisiche e le “sacche” differenti in cui finora è stato diviso l’universo. L’endless universe theory grazie agli straordinari progressi avvenuti in astronomia e fisica delle particelle è un’alternativa concreta in continuo sviluppo sulla nascita di pianeti, stelle e galassie. E in questo momento – ha concluso lo scienziato della Princeton university – il mondo potrebbe andare verso un nuovo Big bang». Non resta che porsi una domanda: se così fosse, quando mai potrà essere dimostrato che aveva ragione?

Left 46/2008

The night before last I had a powerful dream. I was looking over at my Self coming to the end of a long journey (end of life?), only my Self was two disks hovering in the air vertically. The front one was the one that had received all the praise and blame and attention through my whole life. But behind it was another disk I’d never noticed. This second disk was quiet and pure and innocent and the true Life Source. It had carried me through everything, yet I’d never been aware of it.

As I awoke and tried to hold onto as much of the dream as I could, a poem came to mind that I haven’t thought about in years: How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning.

I padded off to the bathroom and began to ponder the two disks. They looked like the model of parallel universes from Neil Turok’s TED talk. Only his figures have corners and mine were rounded.

I began thinking about Jill Bolte-Taylor’s stroke.

Next I was thinking about chaos theory and how symmetry can be found along various dimensions. Maybe our two brain hemispheres mirror reality on a much larger scale. Watch the Eames’ Powers of Ten. Notice how the universe uses the same patterns over and over. The planets move around a sun. Gallaxies spin around an axis. Molecular structure, cellular structure, atomic structure. Brownian motion. Whoa, it’s mind boggling all the different ways you can find repeats of iterations and ways that the micro mirrors the macro.

If WE have brains split into a half where ego lives and a half where “whoa, this is so cool, I’m having a stroke!” lives, then who is to say this isn’t an iteration of a pattern that exists also on a universal scale? Maybe God’s brain is similarly divided, so to speak.

Last night I was reading to Sylvain from Pema Chodron’s Start Where You Are. “We already have everything we need,” I began.

“There is no need for self improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves–the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds–never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.”

That last sentence shook me. I was back again with Neil Turok and his two universe slices that hover so close to one another. Should they slip too close and touch, what might you have? A bang, perhaps. A Big Bang.

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Man,

Being Canadian gets better every day. First we have Beer and Maple syrup, and now there’s a chance that the greatest mind of the 20th Century will join our ranks. Even if its only a temporary posting, the prospect of Stephen Hawking joining the Perimeter Institute along side of Neil Turok is great, even if it doesn’t happen.

You’re probably wondering why should I care? Well, for the simple fact that if Mr. Hawking were to leave Cambridge for Waterloo, the minds that would converge on this “small” community in souther Ontario would be huge.

Think of what all those minds could come up with? Maybe the Grand Unified Theory, String Theory, think of the doors this will open?

Makes me proud to be a Canadian.

Today i woke up and wanted to see this movie again. Maybe something happened in my dreams, maybe in paralell universe (read Neil Turok yesterday). Don’t know. Just had a feeling that i got to do it. To feel the cycles of life, cyles of Universe. As Turok proposed, there is not one single start of Universe or Big Bang…it’s cyclic. It’s born and reborn.

[NEIL TUROK:] For the last ten years I have mainly been working on the question of how the universe began — or didn’t begin. What happened at the Big Bang? To me this seems like one of the most fundamental questions in science, because everything we know of emerged from the Big Bang. Whether it’s particles or planets or stars or, ultimately, even life itself.

The film can be described as a simple Buddhist fable: simple but multi layers. All the elements play their own symbolic roles; the snake, the fish, the cat and the frog (all living creatures). The issue of reincarnation is central.

The film narrates a personal journey from unawareness and childhood to awakening and maturity. Through the seasons, we are witnessing the flowing nature of life in its pure manifestation: birth,pain,love,despair,death and rebirth.

The dialog are concise.They are short but quite sufficient (Buddhism wisdom does not require a lot of words). The brilliant photography adds the beauty. Casts are in deep connection with the context. I’m interested to know Kim is a director or a monk itself?

Listen to Neilt Turok’s TED talk http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/232

3 Theories That Might Blow Up the Big Bang 

That is something i like. Breaking the conventional truth. Cos all its just approximation. Theory. Concept. While i’ve been studied Psychology in University, zillions of concepts bothered me the most. Concepts, accepted as a conventional truth. Conventional. That is the name of the game. …but this …reading today brought me joy back….I don’t find myself in concepts….creationism and neither in Big Bang…cos both limit your mind not to think further ….There were always a limits…i love the ones who doubted about them. And reading this I remember big brains of our civilisation who were brave enough to doubt ..even for the price of their  own life. Earth was plain…right?…and centre or Universe….yea…right

lets us doubt further…big bang is theory..it might be real, but it might be not…and if u ask yourself if it might be not….only than…how many new questions u get…without asking…its just a scientific frame…but truth can be so different…or the same as they say…but i wonna doubt and wonna question this frontier..and i worship all who did doubt further …and give glory to all of them who sacrificed their life for doubting in conventional truth…

Love so much those guys who were dare to doubt. Conventional truth. Big Bang is…was…but is not final frontier.

Giordano Bruno (1548, Nola – February 17, 1600, Rome) was an Italian philosopher, priest, cosmologist, and occultist. Bruno is known for his mnemonic system based upon organized knowledge and as an early proponent of the idea of an infinite and homogeneous universe. Burnt at the stake as a heretic by the Roman Inquisition, Bruno is seen by some as the first “martyr ^[1] for science.”

Bruno also affirmed that the universe was homogeneous, made up everywhere of the four elements (water, earth, fire, and air), rather than having the stars be composed of a separate quintessence. Essentially, the same physical laws would operate everywhere, although the use of that term is anachronistic. Space and time were both conceived as infinite. There was no room in his stable and permanent universe for the Christian notions of divine Creation and Last Judgement.

Bruno’s cosmology is marked by infinitude, homogeneity, and isotropy, with planetary systems distributed evenly throughout. Matter follows an active animistic principle: it is intelligent and discontinuous in structure, made up of discrete atoms. This animism (and a corresponding disdain for mathematics as a means to understanding) is the most dramatic respect in which Bruno’s cosmology differs from what today passes for a common-sense picture of the universe. ….Others yet see in Bruno’s idea of multiple worlds instantiating the infinite possibilities of a pristine, indivisible One a forerunner of Everett’s Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.^[12]

Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564^[2] – 8 January 1642)^[1][3] was a Tuscan (Italian) physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution. His achievements include the first systematic studies of uniformly accelerated motion^{[citation needed]}, improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the “father of modern observational astronomy”,^[4] the “father of modern physics”,^[5] the “father of science”,^[5] and “the Father of Modern Science.”^[6] The motion of uniformly accelerated objects, taught in nearly all high school and introductory college physics courses, was studied by Galileo as the subject of kinematics. His contributions to observational astronomy include the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter, named the Galilean moons in his honour, and the observation and analysis of sunspots. Galileo also worked in applied science and technology, improving compass design.

Galileo’s championing of Copernicanism was controversial within his lifetime. The geocentric view had been dominant since the time of Aristotle, and the controversy engendered by Galileo’s opposition to this view resulted in the Catholic Church’s prohibiting the advocacy of heliocentrism as potentially factual, because that theory had no decisive proof and was contrary to the literal meaning of Scripture.^[7]Galileo was eventually forced to recant his heliocentrism and spent the last years of his life under house arrest on orders of the Inquisition.

I managed Newtonian physics OK, the stuff you do in high school, but I gave it up before I got to quantum mechanics. I rather suspect that is the same for most psychologists. Around us, our understanding of the world is changing and I wonder whether psychology is keeping up.

Neil Turok, of Cambridge University, won a TED prize this week for his work in mathematical physics and his parallel work setting up the Africa Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Cape Town. Neil was born in South Africa and grew up in exile (is that fair) in East Africa and the UK. So I am motivated to ‘have a go’ and see how much I understand of what he has to say and how it relates to us.

The beginning

Most of us have heard of the big bang. But the problem with the big bang is, what happened before the big bang. Where did the big bang come from?

No beginning

The new theory is that big bangs happen cyclically. They come and go like growth and contraction in an economy. And the big bang is the good part, the part where we expand and be different.

Big bangs are preceded by big crunches, the part signally the end of a phase of contraction in the universe.

Our beginning

So how does this affect us? Is a big crunch imminent? Not as far as I know. As I understand it, we are living in phase when things will go on much as we know them, at least in the grand order of things.

But we may think differently perhaps about our own lives.

A cyclical view of the world considers it quite normal to have good stages in life and bad. To have seasons which are not associated simply with good when you are young and bad when your are old. Bad necessarily precedes good and is therefore one and the same thing. If you want to know how new that idea is in the west, try writing it down in your own words and citing movies and books that illustrate the idea.

A cyclical view of the world suggests that there are many possible futures. We know that. But in psychology we have been trained to predict, in a Newtonian way. If we have these conditions at this time, that is NOW, then this will happen in a few minutes, in an hour, or NEXT. We’ve predicated a whole industry on making these predictions, and possibly a second on promising the world we make them a lot better than we do.

That we have many possible futures means that from HERE and NOW, there are many different routes that we can follow to many different places. Yes, says the classically trained psychologist, but to which one and which one is ‘best’.

To exploit the new model, we don’t ask that question. We ask what are the routes we can follow. Lets just write down the possible routes. Let’s just do that task of showing all the possible ways forward.

First Things First. During the presentation they gave wish updates. Encyclopedia of Light – www.eol.org AWESOME!!!. Adobe built the navigational tool. Visualization to build relationships via a powerful user interface and we can’t forget the Potenko Generator is wicked cool as well as the AMD Open Architecture. The Wish on News Photography is making headway. September there should be an update.

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Dave Eggers

How can we give each student 1 hour a week 1 on 1 attention? Working on whatever we are working on and then stop when the kids came in and tutor. Even funnier was operating a business and tutoring company behind a Pirate Supplier Store. The best was the .com auction and 11 G4’s. If you are on Valencia Street kids run to get tutored there.

Stigma was at work “Kids weren’t going to some place to get help” Publishing, Tutoring and Pirate Store at Work. It evolved and then the space for tutoring needed to be used prior to 230pm. The whole thing evolved and tons of tutors and then the schools started asking them to start going to the schools to help those who wouldn’t be able to go to the store. Then “Schools gave us classroms”

Funnier yet was that he stated the Pirate store started to make money and pay the rent. Then in Brooklyn a superhero store opened. The same thing occurred a huge tutoring opportunity. Kids became smarter and loved to learn. Kids became authors, and Kids loved education.

It just didn’t end there. Seattle sprouted a space travel store. Then another city and another store ….boring spy store. LA Time travel Store. Ann Arbor, Dublin Ireland

“Those who can write effectively get ahead.”

His TED wish. “I wish you personally to find a way to engage in a public school and tell the story of how you got involved. “

WEBSITE: www.onceuponaschool.org

Neil Turok

South African Research and AIMS to create a powerful South Africa. Opening Centers all over Africa for research and science benefit.

AIMS Principle

1. Relevant
2. Innovative
3. Cost-effective
4. High Quality

Wish – The next Einstein will be African

Karen Armstrong

Karen writes on Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. She is a former nun, now a “freelance monotheist”. She has advanced the theory that fundamentalist religion is a response to and product of modern culture. (thanks Wikipedia)

Religion should be a force to bring the world together she stated and people are longing for change.

“Religion is kind of a fault line. When a conflict gets ingrained in a region religion gets sucked in”

She told a story about the iliad. Very moving.

Wish: ” I wish that you would help with the creation, launch and propagation of a Charter for Compassion, crafted by a group of leading inspiration thinkers from three abrahamic traditions of judaism, christianity and Islam and based on fundamental principle of universal justice and respect