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Distribution of World’s Water

admin :: May.22.2008 :: Photos/Graphs, The World, Physical Science :: No Comments »

Superstring Theory in a Nutshell

Theoretical physicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory in simple, non-technical language. I have my fingers crossed on the experiment that’ll prove the existence of higher dimensions and the string theory.

admin :: May.06.2008 :: Physical Science :: No Comments »

The Strangeness of Science By Richard Dawkins

One of the best intellectuals of modern time talking about how we are not evolved to comprehend the complexities of the world.   Evolution only gives us five senses, and a lot of psychological short-cuts (ie. emotions or hunches).


It is hard for us to grasp or even imagine the worlds we do not have direct contact with (ie. quantum worlds, or cosmological worlds, or higher dimensions).  What we understand of the world is a model our brains construct so we can operate efficiently in it. Animals that evovled differently would have a different model of its world (ie. Bats construct model using sound waves).

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Inner Working of a Cell

http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/media.html

Very amazing video. In a way, a human being is just a compilation of individual automatons, with each automaton has its own biological function. Together, the automatons make up a complex system which we define as one human being.

If you think of a human being as a cell, with its designated functions, we can imagine any organizations to have its own consciousness and spirit, just like a biological being.

Therefore, it does not surprise me that an army, a company, a society, or any form of social organization can have its own self-awareness, memory, personality, desire, intelligence, emotion, aggressiveness & defensiveness, and a spirit.

admin :: Mar.10.2008 :: The World, Physical Science, Business/Management, Psychology :: No Comments »

Imagining The Tenth Dimension

We usually get lost when listening to physicists talking about parallel universes, 10th dimensions, warmholes, etc. Because our brains are evolved to only perceive the three dimensional world, we have trouble understanding how space and time can be bent, let alone higher dimensions. This video and book shows us how to imaging higher dimensions in a way we can understand and make sense.

Imagining the Tenth Dimension: A New Way of Thinking About Time and Space