If the Bee Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth, Man Would Only Have Four Years Left To Live Albert Einstein? Charles Darwin? Maurice Maeterlinck? E. O. Dear Quote Investigator: A dramatic quotation about the dangers of environmental upheaval is attributed to the brilliant physicist Albert Einstein. If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. Some commentators are skeptical about this ascription. Quote Investigator: There is no substantive evidence that Einstein ever made a remark of this type about bees. The earliest evidence known to QI of a connection between Einstein and disastrous environmental scenarios caused by the disappearance of bees was published in the “Canadian Bee Journal” in 1941: If I remember well, it was Einstein who said: “Remove the bee from the earth and at the same stroke you remove at least one hundred thousand plants that will not survive.” QI has located no supporting evidence that Einstein made the remark above. The safety of England depends on the number of cats she keeps. In 1941 Ernest A.
The Earth is a Sentient Living Organism Contrary to the common belief that the Earth is simply a dense planet whose only function is a resource for its inhabitants, our planet is in fact a breathing, living organism. When we think of the Earth holistically, as one living entity of its own, instead of the sum of its parts, it takes on a new meaning. Our planet functions as a single organism that maintains conditions necessary for its survival. James Lovelock published in a book in 1979 providing many useful lessons about the interaction of physical, chemical, geological, and biological processes on Earth. Throughout history, the concept of Mother Earth has been a part of human culture in one form or another. What is Gaia? Lovelock defined Gaia as “…a complex entity involving the Earth’s biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.” As the climate changes, the planet comes alive. About the Author
Our quantum reality problem – Adrian Kent In 1909, Ernest Rutherford, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden took a piece of radium and used it to fire charged particles at a sheet of gold foil. They wanted to test the then-dominant theory that atoms were simply clusters of electrons floating in little seas of positive electrical charge (the so-called ‘plum pudding’ model). What came next, said Rutherford, was ‘the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life’. Despite the airy thinness of the foil, a small fraction of the particles bounced straight back at the source – a result, Rutherford noted, ‘as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you’. Instead of whooshing straight through the thin soup of electrons that should have been all that hovered in their path, the particles had encountered something solid enough to push back. Something was wrong with matter. Popular now Free will is back, and maybe this time we can measure it Why are people still dying of cancer?
Quantum weirdness is everywhere in life – Johnjoe McFadden The point of the most famous thought-experiment in quantum physics is that the quantum world is different from our familiar one. Imagine, suggested the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, that we seal a cat inside a box. The cat’s fate is linked to the quantum world through a poison that will be released only if a single radioactive atom decays. Yet nobody really believes that a cat can be simultaneously dead and alive. Quantum mechanics insists that all particles are also waves. Nevertheless, wrote Schrödinger in What Is Life? Subscribe to Aeon’s Newsletter Schrödinger’s argument was based on the following, seemingly paradoxical fact. What does this have to do with life? Schrödinger called these novel structures ‘aperiodic crystals’. Was he right? The colour of your eyes, the shape of your nose, your intelligence or propensity for disease are encoded at the quantum level A decade later, Watson and Crick unveiled the double helix. Or consider this. Take enzymes. Syndicate this Essay
Our Alien DNA In 1960, a young astronomer by the name of Frank Drake pointed the Green Bank radio telescope at the stars Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani…and listened for the sounds of an alien civilization. Drake's little experiment marks the official beginning of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Since that time, SETI has continued to scan greater parts of the sky, listening over wider and wider bands of the radio spectrum, but the silence has been deafening. To broaden the search, other technologies of transmission have been suggested, such as lasers. A paper published last year in Icarus, the prestigious journal of planetary science, asked if it was possible that terrestrial life on Earth had been 'seeded' from beyond the Earth - and if so, does the building block of that life, DNA, contain any sort of message from our alien creators. (For counter-comments against the claims of the paper, see this Pharyngula blog post). And the idea of biological SETI seems to make sense.
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Why Consciousness is Not the Brain The Science of Premonitions Author: Larry Dossey Excerpted from The Science of Premonition: How Knowing the Future Can Help Us Avoid Danger, Maximize Opportunities and Create a Better Life by Larry Dossey. Copyright 2009 by Larry Dossey. Reprinted by permission of the author. Physicist Freeman Dyson believes the cosmos is suffused with consciousness, from the grandest level to the most minute dimensions. “We don’t know who first discovered water, but we can be sure that it wasn’t a fish,” the old saw reminds us. In science, we have largely ignored how consciousness manifests in our existence. In spite of the complete absence of evidence, the belief that the brain produces consciousness endures and has ossified into dogma. This “identity theory” – mind equals brain – has led legions of scientists and philosophers to regard consciousness as an unnecessary, superfluous concept. The arguments about the origins and nature of consciousness are central to premonitions. Why irrational?
Quantum Physics came from Vedas: Schrödinger and Einstein read Veda's In this article we discuss a very brief and simplified history of Quantum Mechanics and will quote what the founding fathers of this branch of science had to say about Vedic influence on the development of their theories. We are not interested in new age mumbo-jumbo. We are interested in understanding what is real and what is false. This is why we, along with all other great minds, consult the Vedic texts. Please read on… The famous Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Laureate Niels Bohr (1885-1962) (pictured above), was a follower of the Vedas. Niels Bohr got the ball rolling around 1900 by explaining why atoms emit and absorb electromagnetic radiation only at certain frequencies. Then, in the 1920’s Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), an Austrian-Irish physicist (pictured below), who won the Nobel prize, came up with his famous wave equation that predicts how the Quantum Mechanical wave function changes with time. Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrödinger regularly read Vedic texts. and
Gud fins ikke, ikke sant? Om en fornuftsmessig åpning for at det i universet eksisterer én allvitende kraft. «Vi har en død religion. Den stenger oss inne i to muligheter: Enten et rasjonelt, tørt liv som avler frustrering og dermed en forferdelig aggresjon. Eller et dumt svermeri rundt ingenting». Dette skrev Georg Johannesen i 1965. Året etter ble jeg født på nordspissen av Andøya, omtrent der Golfstrømmen gir tapt for Nordishavets bølger. Etter førstegangstjenesten reiste jeg i 1986 til Bergen for å studere data, før jeg tre år senere dro til Trondheim for å bli sivilingeniør. Ved elektroavdelingen på Norges Tekniske Høgskole var elektromagnetismen naturlig nok den viktigste kraften. Mens havet bølger i væske, lydbølger i gass og jordskjelv i fast stoff, så forplantes elektromagnetiske bølger i et felt uten masse - et immaterielt felt. I 1992 var jeg tilbake i milde Bergen for å ta en doktorgrad. I likhet med andre celletyper bruker nervecellen energi på å lade seg opp.
Grand Unified Theory: Wave Theory and Life Chapter 10 Wave Theory and Life Printer-Friendly Version The following pictures are worth a thousand words: The essential matter from which our universe is created is energetic matter. It behaves like living matter, creating every known entity, including living objects and even thought (which occurs through energetic matter–wave interaction). essential structure of energetic matter is high-energy (concentrated energetic matter) electro-magnetic waves (picture above). In this chapter, I will discuss biological, living beings in terms of chemistry and physics, since basic energetic matter creates everything.