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[1610.05318] Tales of 1001 Gluons. Frank J. Tipler. Frank Jennings Tipler (born February 1, 1947) is a mathematical physicist and cosmologist, holding a joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Physics at Tulane University.[2] Tipler has written books and papers on the Omega Point based on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's religious ideas, which he claims is a mechanism for the resurrection of the dead. He is also known for his theories on the Tipler cylinder time machine.

People have argued that his theories are largely pseudoscience.[3] Biography[edit] The Omega Point cosmology[edit] The Omega Point is a term Tipler uses to describe a cosmological state in the distant proper-time future of the universe that he maintains is required by the known physical laws. Tipler's argument that the omega point cosmology is required by the known physical laws is a more recent development that arose after the publication of his 1994 book The Physics of Immortality.

Reception[edit] Selected writings[edit] Books[edit] Articles[edit] See also[edit] Scientists have confirmed a brand new phase of matter: time crystals. For months now, there's been speculation that researchers might have finally created time crystals - strange crystals that have an atomic structure that repeats not just in space, but in time, putting them in constant oscillation without energy. Now it's official - researchers have just reported in detail how to make and measure these bizarre crystals.

And two independent teams of scientists claim they've actually created time crystals in the lab based off this blueprint, confirming the existence of an entirely new phase of matter. The discovery might sound pretty abstract, but it heralds in a whole new era in physics - for decades we've been studying matter that's defined as being 'in equilibrium', such as metals and insulators. But it's been predicted that there are many more strange types of matter out there in the Universe that aren't in equilibrium that we haven't even begun to look into, including time crystals. And now we know they're real.

And it's not just speculation, either. A thought on the "many worlds theory" [discussion] : C_S_T. Quantum Entanglement: Love on a Subatomic Scale. When talking about love and romance, people often bring up unseen and mystical connections. Such connections exist in the subatomic world as well, thanks to a bizarre and counterintuitive phenomenon called quantum entanglement. The basic idea of quantum entanglement is that two particles can be intimately linked to each other even if separated by billions of light-years of space; a change induced in one will affect the other. [How Quantum Entanglement Works (Infographic)] In 1964, physicist John Bell posited that such changes can occur instantaneously, even if the particles are very far apart. Bell's Theorem is regarded as an important idea in modern physics, but it seems to make little sense. After all, Albert Einstein had proven years before that information cannot travel faster than the speed of light. Indeed, Einstein famously described the entanglement phenomenon as "spooky action at a distance.

" There are practical applications to this work as well. Spooky Action Is Real: Bizarre Quantum Entanglement Confirmed in New Tests. Sorry to break it to you, Einstein, but it looks like the universe is one big dice game. Two recent studies have confirmed that the "spooky action at a distance" that so upset Albert Einstein — the notion that two entangled particles separated by long distances can instantly affect each other — has been proven to work in a stunning array of different experimental setups. One experiment closed two of the three loopholes in proofs of spooky action at a distance. Another found that quantum entanglement works over astonishingly large distances. And future tests are focused on making the final loophole as small as possible. [8 Ways You Can See Einstein's Theory of Relativity in Real Life] Error loading player: No playable sources found Overall, the new series of tests is simply confirming what physicists have long suspected.

But although the new tests don't break new theoretical ground, they could pave the way for quantum computing and perfectly secure communication technologies, Hanson said. Physicists prove Einstein's 'spooky' quantum entanglement - CNET. Few things in science get crazier than quantum mechanics, with related theories sometimes sounding more like paranormal activity than physics. So when such theories gain experimental proof it's a big day for physicists. Quantum entanglement is a curious phenomenon that occurs when two particles remain connected, even over large distances, in such a way that actions performed on one particle have an effect on the other. For instance, one particle might be spun in a clockwise direction. The result on the second particle would be an equal anti-clockwise spin. Three different research papers claim to have closed loopholes in 50-year-old experiments that demonstrate quantum entanglement, proving its existence more definitively than ever before.

"Things get really interesting when two electrons become entangled," said Ronald Hanson from the University of Delft. Enlarge Image However, the Bell Test experiments had some significant loopholes. Quantum entanglement. Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon that occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated or interact in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently – instead, a quantum state may be given for the system as a whole. Such phenomena were the subject of a 1935 paper by Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen,[1] describing what came to be known as the EPR paradox, and several papers by Erwin Schrödinger shortly thereafter.[2][3] Einstein and others considered such behavior to be impossible, as it violated the local realist view of causality (Einstein referred to it as "spooky action at a distance"),[4] and argued that the accepted formulation of quantum mechanics must therefore be incomplete.

History[edit] However, they did not coin the word entanglement, nor did they generalize the special properties of the state they considered. Concept[edit] Meaning of entanglement[edit] Apparent paradox[edit] The hidden variables theory[edit] His Master's Voice - Wikipedia. His Master's Voice (HMV) is a famous trademark in the recording industry and was the unofficial name of a major British record label. The phrase was coined in the 1890s as the title of a painting of a terrier mix dog named Nipper, listening to a wind-up disc gramophone. In the original painting, the dog was listening to a cylinder phonograph. In the 1970s, the statue of the dog and gramophone, His Master's Voice, were cloaked in bronze and was awarded by the record company (EMI) to artists or music producers or composers as a music award and often only after selling more than 100,000 sound carriers such as LPs.

The painting[edit] The trademark image comes from a painting by English artist Francis Barraud and titled His Master's Voice. The logo[edit] In early 1899, Francis Barraud applied for copyright of the original painting using the descriptive working title Dog looking at and listening to a Phonograph. In 1921 the Gramophone Company opened the first HMV shop in London. HMV[edit] On tv a while ago, Brian Greene said that we may see gravity as the weakest force because it may only exist partly in our universe and partly in another. Is this considered a credible theory today? If so, would the gravity waves we've observed be travelin. Philosophers want to know why physicists believe theories they can’t prove — Quartz. It’s often assumed that physics and philosophy are at opposite ends of the academic spectrum. In fact, they’re close—so close that they can overlap, with professors sometimes switching between the two fields as they work to advance our understanding of highly abstract subjects in theoretical physics.

One such professor is Richard Dawid, a philosophy of science researcher at Ludwig Maximilian Universität Munich, who has a PhD in theoretical physics and began his career researching particle physics. He transitioned to philosophy, he tells Quartz, to investigate how physicists can come to believe in certain theories without necessarily having the empirical evidence that proves them. The criteria for establishing a theory, he discovered, is not in itself subject to scientific enquiry.

“They’re considered background assumptions,” says Dawid. “It’s a question that’s driven by physics but it’s a philosophical question.” “String theory is not a fully developed theory,” Dawid tells Quartz. Henri Poincaré. French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science Jules Henri Poincaré (,[4] ;[5][6][7] French: [ɑ̃ʁi pwɛ̃kaʁe] ( listen);[8][9] 29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science.

He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The Last Universalist",[10] since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime. As a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.[11] In his research on the three-body problem, Poincaré became the first person to discover a chaotic deterministic system which laid the foundations of modern chaos theory.

He is also considered to be one of the founders of the field of topology. The Poincaré group used in physics and mathematics was named after him. Life[edit] Education[edit] First scientific achievements[edit] Career[edit] Work[edit] Discovery Center – Resonance Academy. Welcome to our Virtual Discovery Center where you can learn about the Academy, our featured Programs and how you participate. Explore the Connected Universe Academy Intro Student Testimonials Course Preview Become a Resonance Academy Delegate Upcoming Virtual Events – Open to the Public Join us for another episode of our exciting Channel 64 Series December 9th, 2015 at 2pm PT, 5pm ET, 10pm GMT Virtual Events – For Academy Students These monthly events are for Academy Students only.

Bell’s math showed that quantum weirdness rang true. First of two parts There’s just enough time left in 2014 to sneak in one more scientific anniversary, and it just might be the most noteworthy of them all. Fifty years ago last month, John Stewart Bell transformed forever the human race’s grasp on the mystery of quantum physics. He proved a theorem establishing the depth of quantum weirdness, deflating the hopes of Einstein and others that the sanity of traditional physics could be restored.

“Bell’s theorem has deeply influenced our perception and understanding of physics, and arguably ranks among the most profound scientific discoveries ever made,” Nicolas Brunner and colleagues write in a recent issue of Reviews of Modern Physics. Before Bell, physicists’ grip on the quantum was severely limited. Weirdness was well established, but not very well explained. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle had ruined Newton’s deterministic universe — the future could not be completely predicted from perfect knowledge of the present.

Time-dependent density functional theory. Quantum-mechanical framework for simulating molecules and solids Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is a quantum mechanical theory used in physics and chemistry to investigate the properties and dynamics of many-body systems in the presence of time-dependent potentials, such as electric or magnetic fields. The effect of such fields on molecules and solids can be studied with TDDFT to extract features like excitation energies, frequency-dependent response properties, and photoabsorption spectra. TDDFT is an extension of density-functional theory (DFT), and the conceptual and computational foundations are analogous – to show that the (time-dependent) wave function is equivalent to the (time-dependent) electronic density, and then to derive the effective potential of a fictitious non-interacting system which returns the same density as any given interacting system.

Overview[edit] Formalism[edit] Runge–Gross theorem[edit] Time-dependent Kohn–Sham system[edit] Kohn–Sham orbitals and. Parallel Universes and Density Shifting. Parallel Universes and Density Shifting In order to visualize what are parallel universes, you have to be introduced to new scales and concepts beyond what has been imagined by mankind.

It is time for you to shed the shackles of present day science immersed in theories that promote those who presented it with acceptance via a presence in the media. We will move mankind to the next level of understanding with answers that are interrelated. Where all theories support each other such as the Unified Field Theory, instead of many exceptions common today in science essentially are unrelated or contradict. The Universe is based on major 5 dimensions, and is unknown except to a select group of mankind! You are familiar with the first three linear axis of ordinary spatial volume related, x, y, and z of standard math. Lets introduce a new frame of reference. Many have heard the rumors involving the Philadelphia Experiment and there is truth in what happen.

Mankind's Version of Parallel Universes. Breaking up the indivisible to observe the implausible—particles with a fractional charge | Ars Technica. It was 1909 when Robert Millikan and Harvey Fletcher carried out their famous oil drop experiment in which they determined that the smallest unit of charge possible was 1.592x10-19 Coulombs, a value we now refer to as e, the fundamental charge (the modern accepted value is 1.602176565(35)x10-19 C). It is the magnitude of the negative charge carried by the electron, as well as the positive charge of a proton. It is also the smallest unit of charge that any stable, independent particle can possibly have—no particles can have -3/4e charge, nor can they carry +2.8e of charge—barring technicalities.

A paper published in this week's edition of Science examines in detail one of the technical loopholes to the preceding statement. We have spent a large amount of time breaking up hadrons to our heart's content, resulting in a spew of quarks, bosons, and other fundamental particles. But there may be a way to split up something that looks a lot like an electron.

Dr. Winston Roberts, The Quark Model. The Quark Model Once the quark model was proposed to explain all of the 'elementary particles' that were being observed in the fifties and sixties, it was realized that sets of the new particles could be grouped together in a particular way, if there were three kinds of quarks, three flavors, that made up these particles. This way of grouping the particles together, or classification scheme, was called 'The Eightfold Way' by one of its early proponents, Dr. Murray Gell-Mann. It is a mathematical scheme derived from group theory (no, not group therapy). At the time a number of mesons had been discovered, and from they way in which they disintegrated or decayed (the particles found lived for very short times, often less than a microsecond), the quarks that they contained could be deduced. Using the eightfold way, Gell-Mann arranged the mesons in the hexagon shown.

At the bottom of the diagram, the letter Q denotes the charge of the meson. All content © Winston Roberts 2006. Thundarr the Barbarian. Angular momentum.