The Sound of An Atom

Scientists Capture The Sound Of An Atom For The First Time

September 12, 2014 | by Stephen Luntz

Photo credit: Philip Krantz, Krantz NanoArt. An artificial atom (right) generates sound waves consisting of a stream of quantum particles picked up on the left by a “microphone” of metal fingers.Illustration not to scale.

It’s been only a day since an “artificial atom” was used to do extraordinary things with light, but now it’s the turn of sound. In a new paper published in Sciencelead author Martin Gustafasson describes how an artificial atom and “the weakest sound that can be detected” form a tool for studying quantum behavior.

An artificial atom is a material made to behave electronically like a single atom. They can be formed from millions of billions of atoms, but share the atomic trait that they absorb certain quantities of energy and may then release this energy as light.

In a preparatory paper published in a July issue of Physical Review A, a sub-group of the Science authors note that an important feature of atoms is that they are much smaller than the wavelength of optical light, making them appear like a point. To achieve the same effect with formations made from multiple atoms, it is necessary to use the longer wavelengths of microwave radiation. (more…)


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Scientists Create (So-Called) Solid Light

September 11, 2014 | by Stephen Luntz

Photo credit: Princeton University, Engineering School. By creating a “self-trapping regime” scientists have made light behave like a crystal

On a late summer afternoon it can seem like sunlight has turned to honey, but could liquid—or even solid—light be more than a piece of poetry? Princeton University electrical engineers say not only is it possible, they’ve already made it happen.

In Physical Review X, the researchers reveal that they have locked individual photons together so that they become like a solid object.

“It’s something that we have never seen before,” says Dr. Andrew Houck, an associate professor of electrical engineering and one of the researchers. “This is a new behavior for light.”

The researchers constructed what they call an “artificial atom” made of 100 billion atoms engineered to act like a single unit. They then brought this close to a superconducting wire carrying photons. In one of the almost incomprehensible behaviors unique to the quantum world, the atom and the photons became entangled so that properties passed between the “atom” and the photons in the wire. The photons started to behave like atoms, correlating with each other to produce a single oscillating system. (more…)


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Astronomer Says Spiritual Phenomena Exist in Other Dimensions

By , Epoch Times | April 7, 2014

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Astronomer and mathematician Bernard Carr theorizes that many of the phenomena we experience but cannot explain within the physical laws of this dimension actually occur in other dimensions.

Bernard CarrBernard Carr (Wikimedia Commons)

Albert Einstein stated that there are at least four dimensions. The fourth dimension is time, or spacetime, since Einstein said space and time cannot be separated. In modern physics, theories about the existence of up to 11 dimensions and the possibility of more have gained traction.

Carr, a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Queen Mary University of London, says our consciousness interacts with another dimension. Furthermore, the multi-dimensional universe he envisions has a hierarchical structure. We are at the lowest-level dimension.

“The model resolves well-known philosophical problems concerning the relationship between matter and mind, elucidates the nature of time, and provides an ontological framework for the interpretation of phenomena such as apparitions, OBEs [out-of-body experiences], NDEs [near-death-experiences], and dreams,” he wrote in a conference abstract. 

Carr reasons that our physical sensors only show us a 3-dimensional universe, though there are actually at least four dimensions. What exists in the higher dimensions are entities we cannot touch with our physical sensors. He said that such entities must still have a type of space to exist in. (more…)


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Stanford Scientist: Vast, Powerful Realm Between Particles Influenced by Human Consciousness

Mind Power
By , Epoch Times | March 1, 2014

 

Stanford University Professor Emeritus William A. Tiller has been researching a level of physical reality hitherto undetectable with conventional measurement instruments.

He says two kinds of substances exist:

1. The electric atom/molecule level: Substances on this level can be measured with traditional instruments. We can measure them because they are electric-charge based. 

2. The magnetic information waves level: Tiller explains in an introduction to his research on his website: “This new level of substance, because it appears to function in the physical vacuum (the empty space between the fundamental electric particles that make up our normal electric atoms and molecules), is currently invisible to us and to our traditional measurement instruments.”

This second type of substance has great power, and it is affected by human thought.

 Power of the Magnetic Information Waves

Tiller put the energy of the magnetic information waves level into perspective in an interview for the documentary “What the Bleep Do We Know?” (See the interviews below) He compared the latent energy of the entire known universe to the latent energy in the vacuum inside a single hydrogen atom. (more…)


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Looming Crisis in Physics, Answer Could Be in Other Dimensions

The universe is full of mysteries that challenge our current knowledge. In “Beyond Science” Epoch Times collects stories about these strange phenomena to stimulate the imagination and open up previously undreamed of possibilities. Are they true? You decide.

The Large Hadron Collider earned its fame finding the Higgs boson particle, the so-called “God particle,” but it failed to find something very important it was looking for—superpartner particles. The search for superpartner particles has frustrated physicists to the point of figurative nail-biting—the particles aren’t where they were very much expected to be, and if they don’t exist, a paradigm shift could be imminent.

A principle called supersymmetry (casually referred to as “Susy,” pronounced “Suzy”) is supposed to balance the equation of our existence. According to Susy, every particle has a superpartner particle that we haven’t yet been able to detect.

“If superpartners are not found, we face a paradigm rupture in our basic grasp of quantum physics. Already this prospect is inspiring a radical rethinking of basic phenomena that underlie the fabric of the universe,” wrote Maria Spiropulu, an experimental particle physicist who works on the search for Susy using CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist based at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, in a Scientific American article published May. They continued: “Indeed, results from the first run of the LHC have ruled out almost all the best-studied versions of supersymmetry. The negative results are beginning to produce if not a full-blown crisis in particle physics, then at least a widespread panic.” (more…)


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Just How Small Are We Really In The Universe?

3 Videos That Will Shift Your Perspective, Showing Just How Small We Really Are in the Universe
September 6, 2014 | By | Reply

 

Hubble Spies a UFOBuck Rogers, Staff Writer
Waking Times

Keeping a sense of perspective in these crazy times is imperative, and as astronomy pushes the envelope, seeking an ever greater understanding of our place in the cosmos, we are sometimes rewarded with fascinating new visual interpretations of our universe that have the power to completely re-write our sense of purpose and possibility. Making the struggles we have here on Earth seem small. The following 3 videos are inspiring examples of how technology can assist in our evolution, and help us to keep stay grounded, by providing us renewed perspectives on life here on Gaia.

1. Laniakea – The Immeasurable Universe

Thanks to the recent work of a team of researchers at the University of Hawaii, we now have an even better of idea of just how tiny our little lives are in the big picture of the universe. In fact, as a new model for mapping the movement of galaxies has revealed, the cluster of galaxies that is home to planet earth may be around 100 times bigger than previously thought.

Setting out to answer the question, “where in the universe is the Milky Way?,” the team of scientists has drawn a compelling new map of the super cluster of galaxies which is our home, in relation to neighboring clusters. Gathering data on the positions and relative movements of over 8000 galaxies, while accounting for the effects of the continuous tug of gravity, they have mapped the cosmic flows, or flight paths of these galaxies, which gives the most comprehensive picture we’ve ever had of how the universe organizes itself. (more…)


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Carl Sagan – Pioneering Brother of Light

carl-sagan pioneering brother of lightCarl Sagan on Life, Learning and the Universe

Carl Edward Sagan (9 November 1934 – 20 December 1996) was an American astronomer and popular science writer and presenter, revered and loved for his inspired and enlightened perspective and sincere efforts to truly educate. Enjoy these selected quotes. – Zen

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English (up to fifty words used in correct context) no human being has been reported to have learned Dolphinese.”

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.”

“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.” (more…)


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Is The Universe The Same As Your TV Screen?

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014 by JOSH RICHARDSON

New Experiment Will Answer Some Mind-Bending Questions On Whether We Live In a Hologram

The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is completing a unique experiment called the Holometer which has recently started collecting data to answer some mind-bending questions about our universe–including whether we live in a hologram.

Much like characters on a television show would not know that their seemingly 3-D world exists only on a 2-D screen, we could be clueless that our 3-D space is just an illusion. The information about everything in our universe could actually be encoded in tiny packets in two dimensions.

Take a look around you. The walls, the chair you’re sitting in, your own body – they all seem real and solid. Yet there is a possibility that everything we see in the universe – including you and me – may be nothing more than a hologram.

All physical matter, everything we have around us is the result of a frequency. If the frequency is amplified, the structure of the matter will change. This self-contained system is a hologram. Change any one aspect of the hologram, and you change the entire system. (more…)


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Science Discovers What UN.AR.I.U.S. Has Said All Along

The Black Hole at the Beginning of Time

by Niayesh Afshordi, Robert B. Mann and Razieh PourhasanBlack_Hole_article
-August 2014, Scientific American, 38-39, 43

Excerpt per Fair Use:

“IN HIS ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE, THE GREEK PHILOSOPHER PLATO DESCRIBED prisoners who have spent their entire lives chained to the wall of a dark cavern. Behind the prisoners lies a flame, and between the flame and prisoners parade objects that cast shadows onto a wall in the prisoners’ field of view. These two-dimensional shadows are the only things that the prisoners have ever seen-their only reality. Their shackles have prevented them form perceiving the true world, a realm with one additional dimension to the world that they know, a dimension rich with complexity and-unbeknownst to the prisoners-capable of explaining all that they see. Plato was on to something.

We may all be living in a giant cosmic cave, created in the very first moments of existence. In the standard telling, the universe came into being during a big bang that started from an infinitely dense point, but according to recent calculations that we have carried out, we may be able to track the start of the universe back to an era before the big bang-an era with an additional dimension of space. This protouniverse may have left visible traces that upcoming astronomical observations could uncover.

The universe appears to us to exist in three dimensions of space and one of time-a geometry that we will refer to as the “three-dimensional universe.” In our scenario, this three-dimensional universe is merely the shadow of a world with four spatial dimensions. Specifically, our entire universe came into being during a stellar implosion in this suprauniverse, an implosion that created a three-dimensional shell around a four-dimensional black hole. Our universe is that shell.

Why would we postulate something that sounds, on the face of it, so absurd? We have two reasons. First, our ideas are not idle speculation-they are firmly grounded in the mathematics that describe space and time. (more…)


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