[Scientists sent a FAX today.] Scientists have showcased a new method for transmitting images across a network without physically sending the image. [They sent information instead, though it's not clear how they "sent" that information, by what means or medium. Was it ether?] This advancement could lead to the development of a quantum internet capable of managing high-dimensional entangled states.
The study, published in Nature Communications, was carried out by a global team from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain.
They employed a method known as quantum state transfer, which entails transferring the quantum characteristics of one system to another, without transmitting any physical particles.
The team demonstrated the encoding of images in the quantum states of two entangled photons, which maintain a quantum connection even when separated.
Light (photons) travels, but information?
By measuring one photon, the other photon can be instantly manipulated to recreate the image, regardless of the distance between them. [Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance."]
This is akin to the concept of quantum teleportation, which has previously been demonstrated with single photons or qubits, the fundamental units of quantum information.
However, the team set a new record by transmitting images with 15 dimensions of information, using only two photons as a quantum resource.
I still don't think I get it. Explain it in 60 seconds
“Traditionally, two communicating parties physically send the information from one to the other, even in the quantum realm,” says the lead PI from Wits University.
“Now, it is possible to teleport information so that it never physically travels across the connection – a ‘Star Trek’ technology made real.” More
Schrödinger's cat? | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains...
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Do we share parallel universes? | Weird or What? | ft. William Shatner
(Documentary Central) Weird or What examines the possibility of parallel worlds. First, it talks to a woman who claims to have encountered shadow people and considers whether such beings come from another dimension or are really just illusions in our minds. It then looks at teleportation and talks to a man (attorney, chrononaut, future president, and teleporter Andrew D. Basiago, from time traveling Project Pegasus), who claims to have traveled from New Jersey to New Mexico in the blink of an eye. Hypnotherapist Bruce Goldberg gives his analysis. Finally, it looks at the theory that ancient archeological crystal skulls found in Mexico are doorways to other worlds.
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(Star Trek) Spock's death from the movie "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan"
Let us live while we can for death is certain; life is not. Soon enough Mara comes.
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Star Trek's Spock, Leonard Nimoy, dead at 83: Nimoy endeared himself to uncountable fans as his character Benjamin Spock. He died today, Feb. 27, 2015 at his home inL.A.'s ritzy Bel Air neighborhood, his spouse confirmed. He was 83. According to Susan Bay Nimoy, the explanation for his death was "end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease," or COPD, that he attributes to years of smoking. He was reportedly hospitalized earlier this month. It's very sad even though he told us all we could suck it.
To the average person death is by no means a pleasant subject or talk for discussion. It is something dismal and oppressive -- a kill-joy, a fit topic only for a funeral house. The average person immersed as we are in ourselves, ever seeking after the pleasurable, ever pursuing what excites and gratifies the senses, refuses to pause and ponder seriously that these very objects of pleasure and gratification will some day reach their end.
If wise counsel does not prevail and urge the unthinking pleasure-seeking person to consider seriously that death can also knock at our door, it is only the shock of a bereavement under our own roof, the sudden and untimely death of a parent, wife, child [or beloved TV star] that will rouse us up from our delirious round of sense-gratification and rudely awaken us to the hard facts of life.
Then only will our eyes open, then only will we begin to ask ourselves why there is such a phenomenon as death. Why is it inevitable? Why are there these painful partings which rob life of its joys?
There is also a solution to the problem of death -- and not only death but also aging, sickness, and suffering -- and the Buddha teaches that this ultimate solution is nirvana, the "end of suffering."
Three things: impermanence, disappointment, egolessness!
To most of us, at some moment or another, the spectacle of death must have given rise to the deepest of thoughts and profoundest of questions. What is life worth, if able bodies that once performed great deeds now lie flat and cold, senseless and lifeless? What is life worth, if eyes that once sparkled with joy, eyes that once beamed with love are now closed forever, bereft of movement, bereft of life?
...It is the contemplation of death (while living), the intensive thought that it will some day come upon us, that softens the hardest of hearts, binds one to another with cords of love and compassion, and destroys the barriers of caste, creed, and race among the peoples of the Earth all subject to a common destiny. Death is a great leveler. Pride of birth, pride of position, pride of wealth, pride of power must give way to the all-consuming thought of inevitable death. It is this leveling aspect of death that made the poet say:
"Scepter and crown
Must tumble down
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade."
It is the contemplation of death that helps to destroy the infatuation of sense-pleasure. It is the contemplation of death that destroys vanity. It is the contemplation of death that gives balance and a healthy sense of proportion to our highly over-wrought minds with their misguided sense of values. It is the contemplation of death that gives strength and steadiness and direction to the erratic human mind, now wandering in one direction, now in another, without an aim, without a purpose.
It is not for nothing that the Buddha has, in the very highest terms, commended to his disciples the practice of mindfulness regarding death. This is known as "marananussati bhavana." One who wants to practice it must at stated times, and also every now and then, revert to the thought maranam bhavissati -- "death will take place."
This contemplation of death is one of the classical meditation-subjects treated in the Path of Purification (Visuddhi Magga) which states that in order to obtain the fullest results, one should practice this meditation in the correct way, that is, with mindfulness (sati), with a sense of urgency (samvega), and with wisdom (ñana).More
(In Search OfSeason 2, Episode 2) "The Man Who Would Not Die: The
fascinating saga of the Count of Saint-Germain," who dazzled the courts
of Europe for over 100 years, leading some to believe he was immortal.
What do a fiction writer and an astrophysicist have in common? Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser connect the dots between the cosmos, our minds, and all the ways we discover the story of where we came from (onbeing).
Stephen
Hawking has produced a “mind-bending” new theory that argues black
holes do not actually exist -- at least not in the way we currently
perceive them.
Instead, in his paper, Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes,
Hawking proposes that black holes can exist without “event horizons,”
the invisible cover believed to surround every black hole.
Rude Prof. Hawking gets proof of black holes - Trisha Takanawa, Quahog News ("Family Guy")
During a previous lecture, “Into the Black Hole,”
Hawkins described an event horizon as the boundary of a black hole, “where gravity is just strong enough to drag light back, and prevent it
escaping.”
“Falling through the event horizon, is a bit like going
over Niagara Falls in a canoe,” he said. “If you are above the falls,
you can get away if you paddle fast enough, but once you are over the
edge, you are lost. There's no way back.
Fake Buddha quote (H.koppdelaney/flickr)
“As you get nearer the
falls, the current gets faster. This means it pulls harder on the front
of the canoe, than the back. There's a danger that the canoe will be
pulled apart. It is the same with black holes.”
But now Hawking
is proposing “apparent horizons” could exist instead, which would only
hold light and information temporarily before releasing them back into
space in “garbled form,” Nature has reported.
The
internationally-renowned theoretical physicist suggests that quantum
mechanics and general relativity remain intact, but black holes do not
have an event horizon to catch fire. More
Hawking wants to be a hedonist and SEX maniacAccording
to a source who has been a member of Freedom Acres swingers club for
nearly half a decade, Hawking, 70, shows up to the club with a bevy of
nurses and assistants and has naked woman grind on him.
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StephenHawking: "Therearenoblackholes" (Nature News) Notion of an "event horizon," from which nothing can
escape, is incompatible with quantum theory, physicist claims.
Stephen Hawking: We must move to space! Asking Big Questions about the universe at TEDtalks. In keeping with the theme of TED, Prof.
Hawking asks questions like: How did the universe begin? How did life...
The
coming stage of [our spiritual and cultural] evolution, Teilhard de Chardin said, won't be driven by
physical adaptation but by human consciousness, creativity, and spirit.
"On Being" visits with de Chardin's biographer Ursula King and experience his ideas
energizing New York Times' Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin and evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson. LISTEN
(NYT) — Around the time of the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing last week, an amateur astronomer in Australia detected evidence that a comet had collided with Jupiter, leaving a bruise the size of Earth. This was just days before the longest solar eclipse the world will see this century, in Asia, the same summer as a new “Star Trek” movie. For backyard stargazers, it hasn’t been this delicious since Pluto was demoted from planet status. More>>
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