12.31.2009
Stop 'Monsantosizing' Food, Seeds and Animals!
The undersigned individuals, organisations and institutions call on governments and patent offices to stop this worrying development and to revise existing patent regulations. The patent regulations in the EU, US and in many other countries, as well as the WTO Trips Agreement, urgently need to be reviewed in order to stop the monopolisation and corporate control of the world’s genetic resources. This review should lead to a regulation that guarantees the right to food and a prohibition of patents on plants and farm animals.
English...
Die unterzeichnenden Personen, Organisationen und Institutionen appellieren an die Regierungen und Patentämter, die bestehenden Regeln im Patentrecht zu überprüfen. Die Patentgesetze der EU, der USA und vielen anderen Regionen müssen verändert werden, um die fortschreitende Monopolisierung und die weltweite Kontrolle der genetischen Ressourcen durch wenige große internationale Konzerne zu verhindern. Durch neue Regelungen soll das Recht auf Nahrung gestärkt und Patente auf Pflanzen und landwirtschaftliche Nutztiere verboten werden.
Deutsch...Les personnes, organisations et institutions soussignées en appellent aux gouvernements et aux offices de brevets à mettre le haro sur ce développement des plus inquiétants et à revoir la législation en vigueur sur les brevets. Les règlementations sur les brevets de l’UE, des USA et de nombreux autres pays devraient être revues de suite afin d’arrêter la monopolisation et la mainmise des entreprises sur les ressources génétiques mondiales. Cette révision devrait poursuivre l’objectif de garantir le droit à l’alimentation et d’interdire les brevets sur les plantes et les animaux de rente.
Français...Las abajo firmantes personas, organizaciones e instituciones lanzan un llamamiento a los gobiernos y a las oficinas de patentes para poner coto a este desarrollo preocupante y para que se revisen las regulaciones sobre patentes existentes. Las regulaciones sobre patentes de la UE, los EE.UU. y muchos otros países, así como también los así llamados Acuerdos Trips de la OMC deben ser revisados con urgencia para poner coto a la monopolización y al control empresarial de los recursos genéticos del mundo. Esta revisión debería conducir a una regulación que garantice el derecho a la alimentación y la prohibición de patentes sobre plantas y animales de la granja.
Castellano...
DARPA's Defense Sciences Office: Programs[*]
[* ...these programs deal in incredible sciences, technologies and approaches. Take a look (For descriptions of the different programs, hit the links) ...and these are just the ones DARPA's showing us. Think of the 'secret programs'...]
http://www.darpa.mil/dso/programsexp.htm#z- Accelerated Insertion of Materials (D-3D)
- Accelerated Learning
- Accelerated Manufacture of Pharmaceuticals
- Armor Challenge
- Blood Pharming
- Chemical Communications
- Chemical Robots
- Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System
- Compact Directional Neutron Source
- DARPA Initiative in Titanium
- Deep Bleeder Acoustic Coagulation
- Discovery and Exploitation of Structure in Algorithms
- Disruptive Manufacturing Technologies
- Education Dominance
- Engineered Bio-Molecular Nano-Devices/Systems
- Feedback Regulated Automated Molecular Release
- Focus Areas in Theoretical Mathematics
- Fracture Putty
- Fundamental Laws of Biology
- Geospatial Representation and Analysis
- Guided BEC Interferometry
- Hardwire® DARPA Armor
- High-Performance, Corrosion-Resistant Materials
- Human-Assisted Neural Devices
- Hyperspectral Radiography Sources
- Instant Fire Suppression
- Integrated High Energy Dense Capacitors
- Long-Term Storage of Blood Products
- Micro Power Sources
- Mobile Integrated Sustainable Energy Recovery
- Multifunctional Surface Systems
- Nano Air Vehicle
- Nano-Composite Optical Ceramic
- Naval Advanced Amorphous Coatings
- Negative Index Materials
- Neovision
- Neurotechnology for Intelligence Analysts
- Next Generation Super Carbon Fiber
- Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation
- Optical Lattice Emulator
- PowerSwim
- Precision Inertial Navigation Systems
- Predicting Health and Disease
- Predicting Real Optimized Materials
- Preventing Violent Explosive Neurologic Trauma
- Prognosis
- Programmable Matter
- Protein Design Processes
- Reactive Material Structures
- RealNose
- RealWorld
- Restorative Injury Repair
- Revolutionizing Prosthetics
- Robust Portable Power
- Sensor Topology for Minimal Planning
- Slowing, Storing and Processing Light
- Stealthy, Persistent, Perch and Stare
- Structural Amorphous Metals
- Surviving Blood Loss
- Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics
- Tactical Underwater Navigation
- Topologically Controlled Lightweight Armor
- Trauma Pod
- Wasp
- Z-Man
12.30.2009
Israeli Body Snatchers
· Organ Harvesting Conspiracy Confirmed.
Long speculated concerns that the Israeli military has been harvesting organs from battlefield casualties has been recently confirmed by officials, and is our top story in this most recent edition of ATS News. Our anchor, Johnny Anonymous, covers several angles of this highly-charged and confirmed conspiracy theory, that includes the naming of those involved and admitted time frames of the "body snatching." Additional stories include the largest global corporation you've never heard about and their ties to major global governments, a new global currency backed by the UN, additional research into the Norway spiral, recent investigations into William Shakespeare, and more.
A By-Product of Heart Transplants
· Can memories and preferences be stored in cells?
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/24934/
In a paper published in the Journal of Near-Death Studies, Dr. Paul Pearsall of the University of Hawaii and Dr. Gary Schwartz and Dr. Linda Russek of the University of Arizona discussed 10 cases of heart or heart-lung transplants in which the recipients were reported to have “changes in food, music, art, sexual, recreational, and career preferences, as well as specific instances of perceptions of names and sensory experiences related to the donors.”
In addition, the researchers pointed out that like the above recipients, there might be other recipients who dismiss the idea that they adopted their donors’ preferences because of their expectations of the donors, so the number of organ transplant recipients who experienced a personality change similar to that of their donors might be underrepresented.
Read more...
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/24934/
...after a heart transplant, Sonny Graham of Georgia fell in love with his donor’s wife and married her. Twelve years after their marriage, he committed suicide the same way his donor did.
...a man named William Sheridan received a heart from an artist who died in a car accident, and suddenly he was able to produce beautiful drawings of wildlife and landscapes.
...Claire Sylvia, the recipient of a heart and a lung in 1988, wrote in her book, A Change of Heart: A Memoir, that after the transplant she started to like beer, fried chicken, and green pepper—all of which she didn’t like before but her donor, an 18-year-old boy, liked.
In a paper published in the Journal of Near-Death Studies, Dr. Paul Pearsall of the University of Hawaii and Dr. Gary Schwartz and Dr. Linda Russek of the University of Arizona discussed 10 cases of heart or heart-lung transplants in which the recipients were reported to have “changes in food, music, art, sexual, recreational, and career preferences, as well as specific instances of perceptions of names and sensory experiences related to the donors.”
In addition, the researchers pointed out that like the above recipients, there might be other recipients who dismiss the idea that they adopted their donors’ preferences because of their expectations of the donors, so the number of organ transplant recipients who experienced a personality change similar to that of their donors might be underrepresented.
How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1229857/How-16-ships-create-pollution-cars-world.html
![Tankers moored off Devon[UK] waiting for oil prices to rise even further - www.dailymail.co.uk](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/21/article-1229857-07410EE5000005DC-925_468x286.jpg)
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As ships get bigger, the pollution is getting worse. The most staggering statistic of all is that just 16 of the world’s largest ships can produce as much lung-clogging sulphur pollution as all the world’s cars.
Because of their colossal engines, each as heavy as a small ship, these super-vessels use as much fuel as small power stations.
But, unlike power stations or cars, they can burn the cheapest, filthiest, high-sulphur fuel: the thick residues left behind in refineries after the lighter liquids have been taken. The stuff nobody on land is allowed to use.
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There are now an estimated 100,000 ships on the seas, and the fleet is growing fast as goods are ferried in vast quantities from Asian industrial powerhouses to consumers in Europe and North America.
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Each is a quarter of a mile long and can carry up to 14,000 full-size containers on their regular routes from China to Europe.
As ships get bigger, the pollution is getting worse. The most staggering statistic of all is that just 16 of the world’s largest ships can produce as much lung-clogging sulphur pollution as all the world’s cars.
Because of their colossal engines, each as heavy as a small ship, these super-vessels use as much fuel as small power stations.
But, unlike power stations or cars, they can burn the cheapest, filthiest, high-sulphur fuel: the thick residues left behind in refineries after the lighter liquids have been taken. The stuff nobody on land is allowed to use.
[...]
There are now an estimated 100,000 ships on the seas, and the fleet is growing fast as goods are ferried in vast quantities from Asian industrial powerhouses to consumers in Europe and North America.
[...]
Each is a quarter of a mile long and can carry up to 14,000 full-size containers on their regular routes from China to Europe.
Emma – dubbed SS Santa by the media – brought Christmas presents to Europe in October and is now en route from Algeciras in Spain to Yantian in southern China, carrying containers full of our waste paper, plastic and electronics for recycling.
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Bunker fuel is also thick with sulphur. International Maritime Organisation (IMO, the UN body that polices the world’s shipping) rules allow ships to burn fuel containing up to 4.5 per cent sulphur. That is 4,500 times more than is allowed in car fuel in the European Union. The sulphur comes out of ship funnels as tiny particles, and it is these that get deep into lungs.
Thanks to the IMO’s rules, the largest ships can each emit as much as 5,000 tons of sulphur in a year – the same as 50million typical cars, each emitting an average of 100 grams of sulphur a year.
With an estimated 800million cars driving around the planet, that means 16 super-ships can emit as much sulphur as the world fleet of cars.
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Bunker fuel is also thick with sulphur. International Maritime Organisation (IMO, the UN body that polices the world’s shipping) rules allow ships to burn fuel containing up to 4.5 per cent sulphur. That is 4,500 times more than is allowed in car fuel in the European Union. The sulphur comes out of ship funnels as tiny particles, and it is these that get deep into lungs.
Thanks to the IMO’s rules, the largest ships can each emit as much as 5,000 tons of sulphur in a year – the same as 50million typical cars, each emitting an average of 100 grams of sulphur a year.
With an estimated 800million cars driving around the planet, that means 16 super-ships can emit as much sulphur as the world fleet of cars.
12.29.2009
Are People Broken? Why We've Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression
· A psychologist asks: Have consumerism, suburbanization and a malevolent corporate-government partnership so beaten us down that we no longer have the will to save ourselves?
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/144529/are_americans_a_broken_people_why_we%27ve_stopped_fighting_back_against_the_forces_of_oppression?page=entire
Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not "set them free" but instead further demoralize them?
Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of obvious oppression will demoralize us even further?
What forces have created a demoralized, passive, dis-couraged U.S. population?
Can anything be done to turn this around?
Yes. It is called the "abuse syndrome." ...
No. For victims of the abuse syndrome, the truth of their passive submission to humiliating oppression is more than embarrassing; it can feel shameful ...
Maybe. ...
... today, most U.S. citizens are broken by financial fears. ...
We are also broken by a corporate-government partnership that has rendered most of us out of control when it comes to the basic necessities of life, including our food supply. A few examples:
Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of obvious oppression will demoralize us even further?
What forces have created a demoralized, passive, dis-couraged U.S. population?
Can anything be done to turn this around?
Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not "set them free" but instead further demoralize them?
Yes. It is called the "abuse syndrome." ...
Does knowing the truth of their abuse set people free when they are deep in these abuse syndromes?
No. For victims of the abuse syndrome, the truth of their passive submission to humiliating oppression is more than embarrassing; it can feel shameful ...
Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of obvious oppression will demoralize us even further?
Maybe. ...
What forces have created a demoralized, passive, dis-couraged U.S. population?
... today, most U.S. citizens are broken by financial fears. ...
We are also broken by a corporate-government partnership that has rendered most of us out of control when it comes to the basic necessities of life, including our food supply. A few examples:
- Schools and Universities
- Mental Health Institutions
- Television
- Commericalism of Damn Near Everything
Can anything be done to turn this around?
When people get caught up in humiliating abuse syndromes, more truths about their oppressive humiliations don't set them free. What sets them free is morale, -the immobilized need a shot of morale.
Double-Blind Test of the Effects of Distant Intention on Water Crystal Formation
http://www.explorejournal.com/article/S1550-8307%2806%2900327-2/fulltext
Dean Radin, PhD; Gail Hayssen; Masaru Emoto, BA; Takashige Kizu, BA
The hypothesis that water “treated” with intention can affect ice crystals formed from that water was pilot tested under double-blind conditions. A group of approximately 2,000 people in Tokyo focused positive intentions toward water samples located inside an electromagnetically shielded room in California. That group was unaware of similar water samples set aside in a different location as controls. Ice crystals formed from both sets of water samples were blindly identified and photographed by an analyst, and the resulting images were blindly assessed for aesthetic appeal by 100 independent judges. Results indicated that crystals from the treated water were given higher scores for aesthetic appeal than those from the control water (P = .001, one-tailed), lending support to the hypothesis.
The hypothesis that water “treated” with intention can affect ice crystals formed from that water was pilot tested under double-blind conditions. A group of approximately 2,000 people in Tokyo focused positive intentions toward water samples located inside an electromagnetically shielded room in California. That group was unaware of similar water samples set aside in a different location as controls. Ice crystals formed from both sets of water samples were blindly identified and photographed by an analyst, and the resulting images were blindly assessed for aesthetic appeal by 100 independent judges. Results indicated that crystals from the treated water were given higher scores for aesthetic appeal than those from the control water (P = .001, one-tailed), lending support to the hypothesis.
This pilot study was designed to test the most plausible conventional explanation for the crystal formation claim: the presence of subjective biases. To eliminate these biases, the person taking photos of the crystals (T.K.) and the aesthetic raters of those crystals were both blind to the treatment versus control conditions. The results were consistent with the hypothesis that water treated with pleasant intentions would result in more pleasing crystal shapes. If this effect was not due to obvious subjective biases, then what else might have accounted for the results?
There are at least three unconventional alternatives that might explain the observed effects. One is that the intentional source was not the audience in Tokyo but rather D.R. and G.H. This possibility cannot be excluded, but, although these investigators were open to the hypothesis, neither held strong expectations about the experimental outcome. A second possibility is that the water was not altered at all, but rather the bottles were randomly assigned by D.R. and G.H. to the two conditions that would later result in a fortuitous differential effect or that T.K. fortuitously decided to take photos that would ultimately result in the observed outcome or both. Such anomalous assignment effects, formalized as “Decision Augmentation Theory,” require the ability to unconsciously sense and act upon future possibilities, ie, a form of precognition. A third possibility is that the intentions of future observers (including readers of this article) retroactively influenced the water. Although this explanation may seem outrageous, there is experimental evidence suggesting that such time-reversed effects may exist.
In conclusion, the present pilot results are consistent with a number of previous studies suggesting that intention may be able to influence the structure of water. Future replications should concentrate on eliminating all conceivable conventional artifacts, and protocols should be employed that can help discriminate among the various unconventional explanations.
Read more...
There are at least three unconventional alternatives that might explain the observed effects. One is that the intentional source was not the audience in Tokyo but rather D.R. and G.H. This possibility cannot be excluded, but, although these investigators were open to the hypothesis, neither held strong expectations about the experimental outcome. A second possibility is that the water was not altered at all, but rather the bottles were randomly assigned by D.R. and G.H. to the two conditions that would later result in a fortuitous differential effect or that T.K. fortuitously decided to take photos that would ultimately result in the observed outcome or both. Such anomalous assignment effects, formalized as “Decision Augmentation Theory,” require the ability to unconsciously sense and act upon future possibilities, ie, a form of precognition. A third possibility is that the intentions of future observers (including readers of this article) retroactively influenced the water. Although this explanation may seem outrageous, there is experimental evidence suggesting that such time-reversed effects may exist.
In conclusion, the present pilot results are consistent with a number of previous studies suggesting that intention may be able to influence the structure of water. Future replications should concentrate on eliminating all conceivable conventional artifacts, and protocols should be employed that can help discriminate among the various unconventional explanations.
The New Information Order
· How the Internet is freeing conspiracy theories from the control imposed by traditional media.
http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/conspiracycorner/2485/the_new_information_order.html
In the pre-Internet age, our society had an order of information in which knowledge was managed by experts and authorities, as well as representatives of the political, legal, scientific, medical and economic powers-that-be. Academics, scientists, spokespersons for the state and the owners, producers and editors of the major media decided what was real and what was unreal, what was true and what was false. The upside of this was that an awful lot of utter nonsense did not find mainstream distribution. The downside was that some material was misclassified as unreal or false – either by error, or because of interest group pressure, ideology or group-think.
The Internet threatens all this by speeding up circulation of unofficial data and simply bypassing the official information authorities. Crucially, it enables the creation and distribution of pure speculation or outright lies without significant legal hazard.
In the pre-Internet ‘knowledge order’, the label ‘conspiracy theory’ was one of the key management tools of the powers-that-be, enabling the denigration of a political or historical proposition without it having to be falsified. In the post-1964 sections of Dr Christopher Andrew’s 1,000-page history of MI5, In Defence of the Realm (Allen Lane, 2009), Andrew, as the spokesman for MI5, repeatedly dismisses the claims of critics of the agency as “conspiracy theories”. Based on the notion of an authority being allowed to see the official records of a secret agency, to report back that all is well and that the agency’s critics are simply misinformed or conspiracy theorists, Andrew’s book looks like one of the last hurrahs of the old information order.
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The Internet threatens all this by speeding up circulation of unofficial data and simply bypassing the official information authorities. Crucially, it enables the creation and distribution of pure speculation or outright lies without significant legal hazard.
In the pre-Internet ‘knowledge order’, the label ‘conspiracy theory’ was one of the key management tools of the powers-that-be, enabling the denigration of a political or historical proposition without it having to be falsified. In the post-1964 sections of Dr Christopher Andrew’s 1,000-page history of MI5, In Defence of the Realm (Allen Lane, 2009), Andrew, as the spokesman for MI5, repeatedly dismisses the claims of critics of the agency as “conspiracy theories”. Based on the notion of an authority being allowed to see the official records of a secret agency, to report back that all is well and that the agency’s critics are simply misinformed or conspiracy theorists, Andrew’s book looks like one of the last hurrahs of the old information order.
U.S. military is liaising with extraterrestrial life according to independent sources
http://www.examiner.com/x-2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m12d28-US-military-is-liaising-with-extraterrestrial-life-according-to-independent-sources?cid=examiner-email
Independent sources have claimed an on-going set of face-to-face meetings between U.S. military officials and extraterrestrial life. The sources reveal that senior U.S. Navy officers have played a leading role in an inter-services working group responsible for the meetings, and that different extraterrestrial groups are allegedly involved. One source claims that the contact involves extraterrestrial groups known as Reptilians, and a silicon based life form dubbed ‘the Conformers’. Another source claims that the extraterrestrials are called Ebens from the Zeta Reticuli star system, but known colloquially as the Grays. A third source claims that human looking extraterrestrials representing an association of star nations are liaising with military officials. Two of the sources have been interviewed by this writer who has been aware of their claims for more than a year, and finds them credible. The similarities in these independent reports gives reason to conclude that an ongoing program of secret meetings involving senior military personal from the U.S. Navy and other military services with one or more extraterrestrial civilizations is underway.
Read more...The Curious Cancer from the Country of Rothschildlandia
http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/2009/12/curious-cancer-from-country-of.html
Dog Poet Transmitting……
[...]
So this Nigerian -without a passport- gets waved through ICTS security after some negotiation, from a Sharply Dressed Man, and then he sets his balls on fire and blows up his laptop; and what did you get besides a lousy t-shirt? You now get full body searches because, apparently, ICTS is the most incompetent security firm on the planet. Yet ICTS is still doing security all over the world.
[...]
The Zionist controlled US is now killing people in Yemen, while financing terror in Iran; and the Zionist controlled S&MSM is trumpeting the Iranian dead, as if it were something on the level of Katrina. Meanwhile, the war to control the opium in Afghanistan, the war to loot oil and antiquities in Iraq and the war for control of material transport (in anticipation of the next war in Iran) in Pakistan just keep rolling along like Old Man River. It’s a river of blood is what it is.
[...]
It’s pretty clear that the reverse Kabala -black- magic they practice is pretty powerful because no one is saying anything about.. oh right, they control the world’s media. Duh. They also control who gets published and whose music gets played and distributed; which accounts for the general quality. They control who gets elected. They control who appears in movies and which movies get made; which accounts for the general quality. Now they control who gets on an airplane and if you’re not a Nigerian, pretending to be a Sudanese refugee, without a passport, you are shit out of luck.
As this is all going on, we’ve got this huge collection of orthodox rabbis who are into a bewildering array of crimes that range from the demonic to the amusing; organ trafficking, sex slavery, religious conversion of shiksas by the people ostensibly controlling the conversions, who are having sex with them and then farming them out among their associates and ...they keep getting caught!
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There is no way I am going to an airport to let Israeli golems rape me at a security checkpoint. It’s pretty obvious that this latest affair and the ones in the on deck circle are all about stopping the free movement of people from place to place, unless they are a Nigerian pretending to be a Sudanese refugee, without a passport, or if they are loaded down with boxcutters and sundry.
End Transmission……
Read all of it...
[...]
So this Nigerian -without a passport- gets waved through ICTS security after some negotiation, from a Sharply Dressed Man, and then he sets his balls on fire and blows up his laptop; and what did you get besides a lousy t-shirt? You now get full body searches because, apparently, ICTS is the most incompetent security firm on the planet. Yet ICTS is still doing security all over the world.
[...]
The Zionist controlled US is now killing people in Yemen, while financing terror in Iran; and the Zionist controlled S&MSM is trumpeting the Iranian dead, as if it were something on the level of Katrina. Meanwhile, the war to control the opium in Afghanistan, the war to loot oil and antiquities in Iraq and the war for control of material transport (in anticipation of the next war in Iran) in Pakistan just keep rolling along like Old Man River. It’s a river of blood is what it is.
[...]
It’s pretty clear that the reverse Kabala -black- magic they practice is pretty powerful because no one is saying anything about.. oh right, they control the world’s media. Duh. They also control who gets published and whose music gets played and distributed; which accounts for the general quality. They control who gets elected. They control who appears in movies and which movies get made; which accounts for the general quality. Now they control who gets on an airplane and if you’re not a Nigerian, pretending to be a Sudanese refugee, without a passport, you are shit out of luck.
As this is all going on, we’ve got this huge collection of orthodox rabbis who are into a bewildering array of crimes that range from the demonic to the amusing; organ trafficking, sex slavery, religious conversion of shiksas by the people ostensibly controlling the conversions, who are having sex with them and then farming them out among their associates and ...they keep getting caught!
[...]
There is no way I am going to an airport to let Israeli golems rape me at a security checkpoint. It’s pretty obvious that this latest affair and the ones in the on deck circle are all about stopping the free movement of people from place to place, unless they are a Nigerian pretending to be a Sudanese refugee, without a passport, or if they are loaded down with boxcutters and sundry.
End Transmission……
12.28.2009
Evidence of macroscopic quantum tunneling detected in nanowires
http://news.illinois.edu/news/09/0527tunneling.html
A team of researchers at the University of Illinois has demonstrated that, counter to classical Newtonian mechanics, an entire collection of superconducting electrons in an ultrathin superconducting wire is able to “tunnel” as a pack from a state with a higher electrical current to one with a notably lower current, providing more evidence of the phenomenon of macroscopic quantum tunneling.
Physics professors Alexey Bezryadin and Paul Goldbart led the team, with graduate student Mitrabhanu Sahu performing the bulk of the measurements. Their research was published on the Web site of the journal Nature Physics on May 17.
Quantum tunneling is the capability of a particle to inhabit regions of space that would normally be off-limits according to classical mechanics. This research observes a process called a quantum phase slip, whereby packs of roughly 100,000 electrons tunnel together from higher electrical current states to lower ones. The energy locked in the motion of the electrons as they phase slip is dissipated as heat, causing the nanowires to switch from a superconducting state to a more highly resistive one.
It’s through this switching of states that allows the tunneling of the phase slip to be observed, the researchers say.
Goldbart, who is also a researcher at the university’s Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, describes a quantum phase slip as a phenomenon that allows the spatially extended structure of superconductivity “to undergo a kind of quantum mechanical rip or tear, one where the entire extended behavior of the superconductivity tunnels its way through a classically forbidden set of configurations.”
“Semiconductors, insulators and metals all hinge upon the ability of particles to make it through classically forbidden regions, despite apparently having negative kinetic energy there, as quantum physics allows,” Goldbart said.
In Newton’s world, according to Goldbart, particles would be reflected from such regions.
Although quantum mechanics governs the realm of atoms and molecules and smaller, quantum phenomena sometimes “leak up” to macroscopic scales, he said.
Read more...
Physics professors Alexey Bezryadin and Paul Goldbart led the team, with graduate student Mitrabhanu Sahu performing the bulk of the measurements. Their research was published on the Web site of the journal Nature Physics on May 17.
Quantum tunneling is the capability of a particle to inhabit regions of space that would normally be off-limits according to classical mechanics. This research observes a process called a quantum phase slip, whereby packs of roughly 100,000 electrons tunnel together from higher electrical current states to lower ones. The energy locked in the motion of the electrons as they phase slip is dissipated as heat, causing the nanowires to switch from a superconducting state to a more highly resistive one.
It’s through this switching of states that allows the tunneling of the phase slip to be observed, the researchers say.
Goldbart, who is also a researcher at the university’s Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, describes a quantum phase slip as a phenomenon that allows the spatially extended structure of superconductivity “to undergo a kind of quantum mechanical rip or tear, one where the entire extended behavior of the superconductivity tunnels its way through a classically forbidden set of configurations.”
“Semiconductors, insulators and metals all hinge upon the ability of particles to make it through classically forbidden regions, despite apparently having negative kinetic energy there, as quantum physics allows,” Goldbart said.
In Newton’s world, according to Goldbart, particles would be reflected from such regions.
Although quantum mechanics governs the realm of atoms and molecules and smaller, quantum phenomena sometimes “leak up” to macroscopic scales, he said.
“Observing switching events in superconducting nanowires at high-bias currents provides strong evidence for quantum phase slips. Our experiments provide further evidence that the laws of quantum mechanics continue to govern large systems, composed of many thousands of electrons, acting as a single entity.”
Earth's north magnetic pole racing towards Russia due to core flux
http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-18585.html
A new research has determined that Earth's north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia, at almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) a year, due to magnetic changes in the planet's core.
The core is too deep for scientists to directly detect its magnetic field. But researchers can infer the field's movements by tracking how Earth's magnetic field has been changing at the surface and in space.
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The magnetic north pole had moved little from the time scientists first located it in 1831.
Then in 1904, the pole began shifting northeastward at a steady pace of about 9 miles (15 kilometers) a year.
In 1989 it sped up again, and in 2007 scientists confirmed that the pole is now galloping toward Siberia at 34 to 37 miles (55 to 60 kilometers) a year.
Read more...
The core is too deep for scientists to directly detect its magnetic field. But researchers can infer the field's movements by tracking how Earth's magnetic field has been changing at the surface and in space.
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The magnetic north pole had moved little from the time scientists first located it in 1831.
Then in 1904, the pole began shifting northeastward at a steady pace of about 9 miles (15 kilometers) a year.
In 1989 it sped up again, and in 2007 scientists confirmed that the pole is now galloping toward Siberia at 34 to 37 miles (55 to 60 kilometers) a year.
Monoatomic Elements
http://www.halexandria.org/dward479.htm
[Also...]
David Radius Hudson
ORME: Orbitally Rearranged Monoatomic Elements
Rhodium and Iridium
White Powder of Gold
Monoatomic elements are nothing more than elements which are chemically isolated, i.e. instead of 60 atoms of Carbon are 34 atoms of Silicon being bound together in something called a Buckministerfullerene or a knobbier version of the same. The significance lies in the fact that when a single element metal progresses from a normal metallic state to a monoatomic state, it passes through a series of chemically different states. These include:
Other elements which have many of these same properties are the Precious Metals, which include Ruthenium, Rhodium, Palladium, Silver, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, and Gold. All of these elements have to greater or lesser degree, the same progression as gold does in continuously reducing the number of atoms chemically connected. Many of these precious elements are found in the same ore deposits, and in their monoatomic form are often referred to as the White Powder of Gold.
Read more...- An alloy of numerous atoms of the same element, which exhibit all the characteristics normally associated with the metal: electrical conductivity, color, specific gravity, density, and so forth. The atom’s intrinsic temperature might be room temperature.
- A combination of significantly fewer atoms of the same element, which no longer exhibit all of the characteristics normally associated with the metal. For example, the electrical conductivity or color might change. The atom’s intrinsic temperature drops, for example, to 50 to 100 °K (or about two hundred degrees below zero °C).
- A Monoatomic form of the element -- in which each single atom is chemically inert and no longer possesses normal metallic characteristics; and in fact, may exhibit extraordinary properties. The atom’s intrinsic temperature is now about 1 °K, or close enough to Absolute Zero that Superconductivity is a virtually automatic condition.
Other elements which have many of these same properties are the Precious Metals, which include Ruthenium, Rhodium, Palladium, Silver, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, and Gold. All of these elements have to greater or lesser degree, the same progression as gold does in continuously reducing the number of atoms chemically connected. Many of these precious elements are found in the same ore deposits, and in their monoatomic form are often referred to as the White Powder of Gold.
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The Millennium Project, operational since 1996, is a global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities. The Millennium Project manages a coherent and cumulative process that collects and assesses judgements from its several hundred participants to produce the annual "State of the Future", "Futures Research Methodology" series, and special studies such as the State of the Future Index, Future Scenarios for Africa, Lessons of History, Environmental Security, Applications of Futures Research to Policy, and a 700+ annotated scenarios bibliography.
It connects local and global perspectives via regional Nodes (groups of individuals and institutions) in Argentina (Buenos Aires); Australasia (Melbourne, Australia); Azerbaijan (Baku); Bolivia (La Paz/Santa Cruz); Brazil (Sao Paulo); Brussels-Area (Brussels); Central Europe (Prague, Czech Republic, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, and Warsaw, Poland); Canada (Kingston); Chile (Santiago); China (Beijing); Cyber Node, Internet; Egypt (Cairo); Finland (Helsinki); France (Paris); Germany (Essen/Berlin); Gulf Region (Kuwait); India (New Delhi and Madurai); Iran (Tehran); Israel (Tel Aviv); Italy (Rome); Japan (Tokyo); Korea (Seoul); Malaysia (Penang); Mexico (Mexico City); Peru (Lima); Russian Federation (Moscow); Silicon Valley (US); Slovenia (Ljubljana); South Africa (Pretoria-Johannesburg); Turkey (Istanbul); United Arab Emirates (Dubai); UK (London); Venezuela (Caracas); Washington, DC (coordinating office).
The Millennium Project was selected among the "100 Best Practices" by UN Habitat, best 7 foresight organizations by Battelle Northwest for the U.S. Department of Energy, and among the "Top Picks" by Future Survey, of the World Future Society.
The purpose of the Millennium Project is to be an international utility to assist in organizing futures research by continuously updating and improving humanity's thinking about the future and making that thinking available for feedback as a geographically and institutionally dispersed think tank.
It connects local and global perspectives via regional Nodes (groups of individuals and institutions) in Argentina (Buenos Aires); Australasia (Melbourne, Australia); Azerbaijan (Baku); Bolivia (La Paz/Santa Cruz); Brazil (Sao Paulo); Brussels-Area (Brussels); Central Europe (Prague, Czech Republic, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, and Warsaw, Poland); Canada (Kingston); Chile (Santiago); China (Beijing); Cyber Node, Internet; Egypt (Cairo); Finland (Helsinki); France (Paris); Germany (Essen/Berlin); Gulf Region (Kuwait); India (New Delhi and Madurai); Iran (Tehran); Israel (Tel Aviv); Italy (Rome); Japan (Tokyo); Korea (Seoul); Malaysia (Penang); Mexico (Mexico City); Peru (Lima); Russian Federation (Moscow); Silicon Valley (US); Slovenia (Ljubljana); South Africa (Pretoria-Johannesburg); Turkey (Istanbul); United Arab Emirates (Dubai); UK (London); Venezuela (Caracas); Washington, DC (coordinating office).
The Millennium Project was selected among the "100 Best Practices" by UN Habitat, best 7 foresight organizations by Battelle Northwest for the U.S. Department of Energy, and among the "Top Picks" by Future Survey, of the World Future Society.
The purpose of the Millennium Project is to be an international utility to assist in organizing futures research by continuously updating and improving humanity's thinking about the future and making that thinking available for feedback as a geographically and institutionally dispersed think tank.
A Veteran's Voice: Mike Prysner (Spa Subs)
"Our real enemy is not the ones living in a distant land whose names or policies we don't understand. The real enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it's profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not several thousands of miles away. They are right here in front of us."
- Mike Prysner
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