Why isn't space white ?
Just stumbled upon this and I’m oh-so-pleased !
MIT’s graciousness is overwhelming.
If you have no access to 30 grand/year – here’s a solution for you. Open learning with Massachusetts Institute of Technology gives it all, be it Math, Physics, Chemistry or anything else. And it gives it free. Thank you MIT.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm
Well, that’s just hilarious. As soon as I thought I’m oh so smart and determined that there’s no infinity in the universe, meaning that it has some sort of limit, brought me to the following thoughts:
- anything can’t exist in nothing.. I think.. For instance if – yes, our universe has a limit, it should be in something. Lets assume it’s some sort of energy bubble that started the whole thing. There’s sufficient prove that that bubble
And that 3 pisses me off, because if it’s in something, there’s something else, and that something else should be in something as well.
So limitation of objects in space and their existence doesn’t make any sense.
And ok, whatever it started from – exists somewhere too. Or else how could it start ??
So we got 2 rhetorical dilemmas:
Seriously, plain concepts of time and space need not apply, we are dealing with something way beyond that !
UPD: Very nice !!! [From here]
The cosmological argument
Because the Hilbert’s paradox is so counterintuitive, it has often been used as an argument against the existence of an actual infinity, for instance an argument for the existence of God posed by the Christian philosopher William Lane Craig is roughly as follows;
Although there is nothing mathematically impossible about the existence of such a hotel (or any other infinite object), intuitively no such object could ever exist, and this intuition is a specific case of the broader intuition that no actual infinite could exist. Since a temporal sequence receding infinitely into the past would constitute such an actual infinite, time must have “started” at some point. Since “time” cannot be started by any temporal thing, and every action must have a cause, this cause must be God.
Saint Thomas Aquinas made a well-known argument for the existence of God through infinite regressions in his Summa Theologica.
that’s ironic 
it doesn’t really prove the existence of God (whatever the heck that means !), but it certainly proves the fact that infinity is not the way to address the question. And, in fact, we don’t know what exactly is. Although, a dude up in the skies, all full of ideas, certainly sounds appealing.. Could that be that the whole thing kinda limits it’s existence in it self ? And energy decided to create a particle on it’s own ? And then BAM ! But I still have troubles understanding the physical aspects of it. Can anything exist inside it self ? Are we all only exist inside our selfs, not in an environment ?
It’s also kinda cool to find one logical dude on “their side” ! Will go and read more on the guy and update you after.
lol. I was very excited about this invention in my head how energy transforms into matter and matter into energy. And how world is a random occurrences of those matter glimpses.
And then i stumbled upon this
and then they show formula
E=MC2
i fall on the floor.
The moment they show it I suddenly realize fully what the heck it means. It’s funny how you study something without actually realizing what it means. And then you suddenly come up with it not realizing that you studied it.
Ideas are too funny. Seriously, I’m off to university next year. I pinky swear.
ps: i still hope i kinda came up with it lol, maybe Einstein meant just one concrete particle
this is beyond me, seriously !
can you imagine how much code would a procedure like this take ? It’s incredible how complex simplest things may be.
Here’s an example of deadly HIV getting into the white cells. It’s a freaken bacteria, but certainly a smart one.
Is universe infinite ? It sure sounds poetic, but in order to guess we can look at the semantics.
First, infinity is something that doesn’t have an end, in which case if infinity exist it is everywhere, moreover, nothing can exist but that infinite matter.
Second, infinity does not have a beginning nor does it have the end. Therefore nothing that can be altered or collaborate in any way can be infinite. For instance if it’s infinite amount of particles in space, if they collaborate, create new particles or alter/limited in size, weight, consistence, time or affected in any way whatsoever, they can not be infinite.
Now, as infinity can not have a beginning nor an end, it does not start anywhere. If the universe is developing, expanding, moving, changing it should not be infinite.
Lastly, infinity can not be made of limited things. So you can say that universe is, in fact, limited as it made of objects that have limited properties.
Now, the only thing that could be unlimited/infinite is the energy. I mentioned it in my last blog. I have a theory that any object possesses the energy value and in fact made of pure raw energy. That energy is a plane for physical objects to exist. Any physical object, for instance, crashing into another physical object releases energy. In Swiss collider there were number of particles disappearing after collision took place. No one can say why, could be because those particles could not exist on their own. But even if that’s the case then where would they disappear ? It appears like they dissolved back into the pure energy. So if that translation takes place – it’s only logical to assume reverse takes place as well. That’s where, I think, when number of random energy collaborations happen, the flashes of matter appear, and in the right circumstance a simplest physical body may occur. That could explain the existence of the universe to some extent. Now it could be that energy in fact is infinite, but then it does 2 things that contradicts this theory.
One – it collaborates. Nothing infinite can collaborate as anything altering differs with time, and nothing that is affected by time or space is infinite.
Second it alters it’s state.. well. Maybe it doesn’t. When a conversion from energy to particle and particle to energy takes place, does energy really changes it’s state or it simply stays the same in it’s value. Maybe being altered physically does not mean being altered for a constance like energy.
But it just doesn’t seem right that anything unlimited would find time and space to collaborate in order to produce something.
I am not gonna propose that universe is limited nor that it’s unlimited. But I am guessing that it is limited after all.
life is a random collaboration of particles created from the pure energy. When energy collaborates – it creates random glimpses of physical matter. The infinite number of those collaborations may result in creation of bodies in space. I just don’t understand how come those particles have properties ? why would anything have properties ? why would a random bell shaped curve come to THIS – to the world as we know it ?
also if anything is infinite, it would mean that it fills everything, nothing would exist but that. Nothing that has a limit of any sort (time or space) is infinite.
If energy is infinite, could that mean that simplest physical matter is infinite too ?
How deep does it go ?
OMG, i didn’t just receive THIS
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Dear customer,
Help stop your TV fees from increasing. CTV, Global and the CBC have recently asked the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to significantly increase TV taxes.
The CRTC has been asked to do this by having Bell and the other operators pay more, which would result in higher fees for you.
We don’t think that’s right, you shouldn’t either. So please speak and have your say.
This is what’s happening.
The CRTC has told satellite and cable companies to hand over $100 million a year as of September 1, 2009. These fees are being passed on to you.
This money is passing through something called the Local Programming Improvement Fund (LPIF) – straight to media giants like CTVglobemedia and Canwest Global, straight to the CBC.
No new local programming, no improvement to anything other than the bottom line of broadcasters.
You are now likely paying for this on your TV bill.
You should also know that hot on the heels of that campaign, CTV, Global and the CBC are now lobbying for even more.
Each year, satellite and cable companies pay hundreds of millions of dollars to broadcasters. We contribute to the CRTC’s operating budget. Although to date these fees have not been broken out on monthly bills, you need to know they exist – especially because the TV networks still want more.
If the CRTC gives in to the broadcasters’ latest demand and lets local TV stations charge for their currently free over-the-air local signals, it would more than double the portion of your Bell TV bill going to government fees – and into the bank accounts of the broadcasters, like CTV, Global and the CBC.
In fact, if the CRTC lets broadcasters have their way, then government-imposed fees will be just shy of one billion dollars.
It’s time to say enough. Help make it stop. Let the CRTC know what you think about new TV taxes — have your say.
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I am sorry for a lot of reading, but it was so interesting to read this from the face of a company. I am not saying that Bell Canada should not have defended their customers, that was nobel, go Bell Canada. *pets Bell Canada*
What I really thought of – is how generally companies aren’t the ones who pay taxes. We do. And you’d think “O’right I pay my income tax, my purchase tax, thats fine..”
Heck no – it’s not fine. When you go and buy something, for instance tooth paste. You pay your $2 + 14% that goes to the government. But really out of that $2 you also pay at least a $1 to the government as well. How does it work ? Simple, as government charges taxes from companies that produce and sell their product.
So what you really end up paying is your own tax + the tax that company pays for this tooth paste.
So what I am really saying is that we don’t need to pay ~60% of our purchases to the government. Thats nearly a stealing, if I may say so.
Spread the word. And have your say, if that means anything..
I had mine just now, thanks.
ps: did they just accuse CRTC of being greedy bustards ? ahaha !
I don’t have any comments.
this is the letter i received from Rabbi Yoseph Y. Zaltzman of JRCC with the following text:
With the Gaza offensive now well into its third week, it is natural for the feelings of deep concern we all initially felt to subside somewhat. Life resumes…
But life as normal has not resumed for our brethren in Israel. And as a united people, we must make an exerted effort to keep our minds and hearts focused on our brothers and sisters who find themselves in distress.
The current situation underscores the principle of “Kol Yisroel Areivim Ze Lozeh” – every Jewish person is responsible for the other. A Jew in the North must defend the Jew in the South and vice versa. All of Israel will come to the defence of a few poor Jews in Sderot, no matter how few to save them from being assaulted from Gaza on a regular basis with missiles – placing their lives in mortal danger. This is what makes us all so proud of being Jewish, our amazing commitment to save the life of every single Jew.
and that all right after reading the following articles:
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GAZA CITY, Jan 16: At least 10 people were killed on Friday in an Israeli strike on a house in Gaza City during a funeral vigil, according to Palestinian medics.
Earlier, a woman and her five children — all under the age of 13 — were killed when an air strike destroyed their house in Jabaliya.
Amid feverish diplomacy in Cairo and Washington, Israel said its offensive could be “in the final act”, but again bombarded the Gaza Strip, where more than 1,150 Palestinians have been killed and 5,000 wounded in three weeks of fighting.
Gazans savoured some respite a day after fierce combat that some had seen as a final Israeli push before a ceasefire.
But Israeli strikes intensified later, killing 30 Gazans.
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Brown condemns Gaza attack on UN
Gordon Brown has said an Israeli attack on a United Nations building in Gaza was “indefensible” and reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire.
There were 700 people sheltering in the UN relief agency compound when it was hit by rocket shells and caught fire.
Israel has apologized to the UN for the incident but maintained that Hamas fighters were firing from the site.
Mr Brown said “no-one could defend” the attack which, he added, showed a ceasefire was “absolutely essential”.
read the full article here
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Am I missing something ?
I don’t really know what to think. You tell me.
Funky.
Earlier this year, when I took Interactive Media from Centennial College, I applied to the ADCC (theadcc.ca) student competition. The Club recognizes all our fellow Canadian advertisers, art directors, copywriters, innovators, their brave clients, and other cool dudes. As the part of their annual awards they have a student competition, usually with a challenges like “relaunch Bell Canada brand” (this year).
Kind of “Can you do better than Zulu Alpha Kilo, Leo Burnett and 3 other agencies put together ?”..
It was before Bell relaunched with all these Ers, they still had beavers and apparently were not satisfied with them. I thought beavers were cute.
So for the competition I came up with rather silly campaign with the dear old Alexander Graham Bell him self a center of all ads. Its not a complex concept, very straight forward, “it’s our ground” – not that literary though, “it’s our roots”, “innovation, creation, kill degradashon and stagnaaaashon”, and turned the whole thing into the microsite.
currently unavailable due to unpaid hosting ;P
So the awards happened few days ago, where I got the Silver. But to my great horror I was called on the stage and spoke some stupid stuff for 5 minutes without even thanking anyone. Lol.
But practice makes perfect. You know..
For now just congratulate me ! :}
Thats what I saw today checking the listings on IMDb 250 raiting
I have a tough time believing in these results. 23000 votes in one day ? Hm.. 
Hm.
Over a year now I’ve been studying 2 matters:
magnetism and lasers.
Both of these, I felt, are future and use of these will make the human live so much easier and the planet cleaner.
Today however just for fun I decided to cross them.
What I came up with is some sort of a magic wand.
The idea is to have a concentrated stray of particles with a determined aspect of polarity and frequency.
What it will give us is a stream of strong magnetic field in a concentrated limited space.
The polarity may either be positive or negative and depending on the one you use you can manipulate the object with the set polarity.
So imagine a small stick object that has an ability to manipulate objects on a distance without use of any force.
Here’s how it’d work:
A. Laser magnet stick closed
B. Laser magnet stick open
1 – cap; 2 – magnetic laser; 3 – change of polarity change; 4 – the stick it self; 5 – concentrated magnetic laser beam; 6 – the opposing side, either opposing or same polarity – receiver of the beam; 7 – an object.
In fact anything can include a small magnetized chip with a set frequency, which you will be able to manipulate.
Another use can actually be the gravity breach. Extreme concentration of the polar rays can do anything.
ps: If you currently work on this or came up with the similar invention, please contact me – ikantsurova (at) gmail.com
it’s so curious how many people think of the same thing simultaneously. My friend Eugene Brodsky recently proposed idea to have eco-friendly gym where all electricity is taken directly from human work out, something I accidentally thought of earlier this year, I then got curious and found this >> Funny how ideas work
In our fast moving century it is not enough to have only a book, or only a movie or tv-show. After creation of such online experiences as Second Life, company now really try to create their own little worlds, rather than just producing a piece of media in it self. It is simply not enough. You have to engage the audience further, take every possibility to keep their attention on a product. Create ‘an experience’, rather than just ‘a product’ and to sell the whole thing not just a part of it. And that’s when first ideas about integrated digital media started coming into play.
We are in the digital age, age of interaction between customer and an ‘intelligent product’. Every film now has a story to it integrating featured DVD and website with experience. Take for example Pirates of Caribbean and scroll down the google search page. All you see is a part of so called Integrated Digital Experience. The movie in it self is not enough, what really sells product is the branding around it, and branding is an old term for Integrated Digital Experience in media industry. A common sense. So lets look closer at the components of it.
Pirates of Caribbean integrated experience contain
It doesn’t cover the whole ‘experience’, however. That would be only the ‘interactive part’ of it. Yet the industry uses it hugely in any way possible. Take another example: we all seen these silly ad billboards with “i hate sarah marshall” slogans. To spoil a surprise for you, it is a campaign for the new movie called “Forgetting Sarah Marshall“. The movie itself doesn’t seem to be anything special, yet their interactive strategy is, in fact, quite interesting. They created the series of campaign promoting “http://www.ihatesarahmarshall.com/“, which will lead you to the blog of the main character in the movie, Peter Bretter, who is writing about his life, his ex, his journal, etc.
Not to mention that almost every teenage group oriented movie will have their characters on myspace, posting comments, pictures, blog posts, etc. They all are no longer just characters, they are the real people, only living in the virtual space.
Breaking the borders between reality and show is not new to the media industry, take for instance Blair Which Project. They sold experience, not the movie or website. And that’s what I believe the biggest idea behind the Integrated Digital Media component. It is about experience that user gains from collective media tools and features. User doesn’t like to be a passive consumer of the product, they want to be in the crux of it, be the hero in the story, change it along the way, make a decisions along the way, to participate at least.
You never sell a product in it self, you sell the integrated experience formed in one story. And interactive tools are only tools, the idea/concept of how making it real, feasible and engaging is what giving it value. And that’s the bottom line.
Since I am in a rather communicative mood in this wonderful Sunday afterMoon there’s another discrepancy I’d like to clarify here.
Undoubtedly misunderstanding the subject matter my friends and teachers keep protesting against the use of the word ‘but‘. But, they say, is a negative word, which creates contradiction instead of coming to a peace of matters. Ha !
Well, you can certainly use ‘and‘ instead of ‘but‘, but it won’t make anyones life easier or reveal, as they say, a spiritual knowledge, and I am certainly vote for a knowledge than for a peace.
You could also consider that ‘but‘ used after ‘yes‘ (“Yes, I agree., but &^*(), isn’t it ?”) is there not to create a contradiction, but to bring a new edge of the question into the sight. So ‘but‘ is not only positive, but most beneficial word in the world.
And thats how you know you communicate with a real debater. :}
Incredible. So much heart, how wisely put, how delicately emphasizes words they all want to hear, how philosophically inclined, how selflessly he puts it all together.
How noble it all sounds !
He speaks of children, of his country, his nation, future generations for which they try to make Germany a better place. How selfless he encourages people to be towards their nation.
Scary.
The ironic thing is – i fell for it too when i watched it.
Yet it is incredible level of deception of people who was not capable to think for them self or to believe in their own power. Power of an individual. I don’t think there would be a total of 1% of people on this planet who believe in the power of an individual.
I recently watch this incredible film called Bronson
I thought it was about a person who was so far off to bother with system, authorities or structures that he doesn’t need to believe in the power of an individual. He represents it.
If you watched either you think either can be justified, either can have a potent ground ? Can either actually be good ? Curious to hear some opinions.
I actually watched Blue Velvet on my iPod Touch one time.. Not that I’ve watched it for a first time on the iPod, but it’s just really funny.
And what’s ironic I actually feel his pain. Not that I was throughly bothered by the quality of sound or video but it just not right to watch real artistic film in the subway.
revised and updated as of Dec20, 2007 by Irina K. O.:
Have you ever thought how strangely based our education is?
Have you ever thought that we are in fact being judged by the level of our awareness or fact intelligence, rather than a completely different criterion – thinking and logic. We taught to know, not to understand in many cases.
The child who was bright enough to understand theory of relevance deeper and catch it why is it so important and useful for humanity will certainly receive a lower grade on the test lucking the awareness, for instance, that Albert Einstein was the developer or the theory.
No one bothers explaining what’s so useful and relevant about the relevance theory (both of them). No one teaches us to think deeper into things, how to examine things critically, how to filter the information by its trustworthiness, no one teaches us how to think logically !
It is generally assumed you either logical minded (mathematical or analytical they also call it) starting from year 2 when you place right shaped figure into accordingly shaped hole, or you never will be.
In our learning structure most rewarding thing is to know a facts/figures/events/formulas/theories and getting judged by same principle.While we are not ought to question each and every one of them.
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“Obey” – religion taught us for last couple of thousand years; “obey” say parents, just because it’s easier to manage child that way; “obey” say teachers, because our education is originally coming from churches and religion.
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Now think, what is the real drama behind ‘Obeying ‘ ? How much do we harm people saying: “Just follow the rules, don’t think about it..”; It’s certainly an easier may to govern and lead people to whatever you need them to do.
But at the same time, it is almost like watching television where things had been priorly approved for you to see and what’s good or bad has been determined for you. Isn’t it a little too totalitarianistic ? And aren’t we supposed to be a liberal society ?
Liberal society is mainly valued by the freedom of thought and expression. Yet they trained us for last couple of thousand years to obey the rules without questioning.
I am certainly not saying no one was questioning things, no one was questioning structures and rules before, but just look at the history and see what a small percentage of people that was. How in later years they try to grab peoples attention and make them active in terms of society and politics – but they were not taught to be so (curious and ask questions) from age of 5, nor from age of 10 or 15.
We try to encourage curiosity in people. Every single high school teacher, college teacher, university teacher says – come on guys, look deeper into it, look into the structure, are you sure you ought to believe it ? Explore ! – they say. – Think critically. Read more about it.
A good start. But the structure of education is still the same.. Curiosity is not rewarded. Critical thinking is left aside then it comes to ‘real paper with official title books’ and those students who constantly ask and question what teacher is saying to them are considered as trouble maker. And they are indeed a trouble makers in many ways, but only because they try to bring change which most people do consider as a trouble, as well as we unfortunately often look at things from a domestic point of view, not from the global. That what makes that kid a trouble maker instead of a properly acting human with rights, thoughts, questions and opinions.
We have to influence our educational system to be flexible about their judging standards. We have to educate crowd to think and to feel obligated to be involved and examine them self whether its right or wrong.
People ARE curious in the age of 2-7. What happens next ? They go to school. Where did all the curiosity go with millions of “Why” questions is not a mystery anymore I hope.
Education in early stages of life has to include the practical thinking and logic courses. It has to reward critical thinking and argumentative opinions which structures logically and make sense.
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Here’s the interesting paper from Dr. Alec Fisher from University of Cambridge called “‘Thinking Skills’ and Admission to Higher Education”
http://iraoksman.com/Dr_Alec_Fisher__Thinking_Skills_for_Admissions_to_HE.pdf
But there’s a truly a problem in that paper. And the problem is – ‘Thinking skills’ is indeed viewed as a Higher Education tool and privilege. And that’s where humanitarian problems start and end.
More on the subject to follow.
it is rather silly to post something like “What kind of tree are you ?” in your blog, but this has truly captured me and don’t let go. MBTI – Myers-Briggs personality indicator based on the Carl Gustav Jung’s typological theory.
And it is amazingly accurate. That is me for instance:
:}
Most importantly, however, I finally found quite a few like-minded people. Whole 3% of population !.. ;(
http://www.entp.org/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/entp/
http://centennialcollege.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5902145965
Being only few month old, iPod Touch, alongside with its brother iPhone, managed to fight its way to the very top of the personal devise (PDA) market. That is not the only war, however, new devise set in the market. After purchasing my iPod Touch (“iPod” further) I spent a very little time browsing “normal sized internet”, I actually browse it with my new iPod.
And every day to my great amazement I find a growing number of websites creating new format for their pages: it now actually fits into the relatively small iPod’s window (640×480). The new look has a name – “iPhone/iPod Touch web applications”, which can be accessed through Safari browser in your gadget. Originally having a simple web games and VoIP online merchants – web application list for iPhone products now contains a number of web giants like facebook.com, ebay.com, weather.com, gmail.com etc. (the full list can be found here http://ipodapplicationlist.com) Not to mention the build in applications such as You Tube by youtube.com developers and iTunes build-in store. It is thus clear that a size of small web is only a matter of time. How many companies would detect the trend before every single one of them will join the progress? How big the web usability issue would arise having yet another devise for a web browsing?
The dilemma of web usability is an old one. Daily thousands of web designers are struggling to make their website look good on user’s monitors researching most popular screen resolutions and browsers used. A whole new study has been created and websites like http://usability.com.au/ gain a birth. Wouldn’t it be a dream for a web-masters to have their websites viewed on one devise only with known resolution and parameters? On the other hand it’ll most likely add pain to the developers since they already have few different looks attached to their websites – for firefox, for IE, for flash, for html, for 1024×768 and 1280×1024, for mac osx and windows. Add the web-application view to it and you’ll have a very complicated list of needed resolutions to please a user. Yet it is a good thing, I believe, and the name to it is “Progress”.
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