Category Archives: science

Everything science—in the broadest sense.

Kwantumcomputer wereldveranderend

Volgens Ronald de Wolf van het CWI in een artikel in de Computable nummer 19 van 11 mei 2007, pagina 30 en 31. En zelfs lekkende qubits geven toch antwoord… Benieuwd hoe Ronald aankijkt tegen de kombinatie van spiritualiteit en … Continue reading

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Luis von Ahn—Smart Games—Smart Software

Article in Automatiseringgids on Luis von Ahn‘s ESP Game—a.k.a. the Google Image Labeler—to smart tag images by human swarms. Ahn also created the spam-avoiding Captcha. Thank you very much Luis!

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Quantum Quackery

Quantum physics is claimed to support the mystical notion that the mind creates reality. However, an objective reality, with no special role for consciousness, human or cosmic, is consistent with all observations. Source: http://www.csicop.org/si/9701/quantum-quackery.html By Victor J. Stenger via Skeptical … Continue reading

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Love—The Purest Form of Energy

To Love is a verb, so hard work it is. And Love (with a capital L, in order not to be confused with its romantic meaning), passion, is the ultimate source of energy, strength and creativeness in the universe. My … Continue reading

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Souls of Distortion

In the same email, Eduard Povel also pointed me to Jan Wicherink from Souls of Distortion. An interesting man, resonating with “What the Bleep?”, science and spirituality, and even Joe Satriani, one of my favourite guitarists as well. I’ll ping … Continue reading

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Car running on water?

I’ve heard about fuel cells that run on the energy release when hydrogen and oxygen bind in to water. And where you still need energy up front to split the water into these two components. But Eduard Povel pointed me … Continue reading

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Holotropic—moving toward wholeness

From DK Matal: The key findings of Quantum Physics point towards Holistic Quantum Relativity and the Holotropic State, especially: Dr David Bohm’s work about the universe being made up of an “interconnected unbroken wholeness”; The Non-Locality phenomena, ie, Bell’s Theorem; … Continue reading

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Linking scientific paradigms

From Slashdot: Here is a giant chart mapping relationships among scientific paradigms, as published in the journal Nature. Interesting to see the void between the soft human/social (red) and hard, materialistic scientific (blue) science scapes being bridged by computer and … Continue reading

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Me, My Soul, and I

Me, My Soul, and I: “Writer Douglas Hofstadter elaborates on his more mind-bending ideas. By Kevin Kelly from Wired Magazine.” (Via Wired News.)

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Stephen Hawking Says Universe Created from Nothing

Stephen Hawking Says Universe Created from Nothing: “mr_3ntropy writes ‘Speaking to a sold out crowd at the Berkeley Physics Oppenheimer Lecture, Hawking said yesterday that he now believes the universe spontaneously popped into existence from nothing. He said more work … Continue reading

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Fundamental Research of Matter -> Fields

Took my daughter Tamar to the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics ‘Rijnhuizen’ for a school excursion. FOM is one of the research institutes of the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter. I was welcomed by Amy Shumack (native Australian and … Continue reading

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