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(October 2, 2016 - October 7, 2016) ICCF-20
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 From Michael Waters site Cureforglobalcrises.com: Crises/ We now face the greatest convergence of global crises in the history of our civilization. Each is synergistic and complex. The cascading consequences of these threats are beyond our current ability to address with current strategy, science, technology, resources or politics...
...Yet, from a new scientific perspective, both the cause and potential solution to the overwhelming complexity of these issues has become crystal clear. In fact, maybe it all comes down to correcting just two basic mistakes.
The Cause - The issues seem complex because several of our most basic assumptions in science are flawed. These misunderstandings have led to a predictable chain of events that have led us to this point. The greater the level of mainstream education, the more implausible that statement may seem, but that is also part of the problem. Science often involves defense of existing assumption rather than open minded exploration of the unknown. This is not a condemnation of science. It is simply the identification of a disease that has infected it.
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Posted by vlad on Saturday, September 10, 2016 @ 17:07:33 EDT (387 reads)
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Electric Power from the Earth’s Magnetic Field
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Via Physics.Aps.Org : Focus: Electric Power from the Earth’s Magnetic Field
 A loophole in a result from classical electromagnetism could allow a simple device on the Earth’s surface to generate a tiny electric current from the planet’s magnetic field.
Tapping into Earth’s rotation. Although the Earth’s magnetic field is not aligned exactly with the planet’s rotation axis, there is a component of the field that is symmetric about this axis. A proposed device interacting with this component would extract energy from the Earth’s rotation to produce electric power.
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Posted by vlad on Monday, August 08, 2016 @ 14:18:32 EDT (1176 reads)
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Atomic bits despite zero-point energy?
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 From ScienceDaily.com: Atomic bits despite zero-point energy? Scientists explore novel ways of developing stable nanomagnets
Date: July 8, 2016/ Source: Forschungszentrum Juelich
Summary: Scientists have found out that zero-point energy plays an important role in the stability of nanomagnets. These are of great technical interest for the magnetic storage of data, but so far have never been sufficiently stable. Researchers are now pointing the way to making it possible to produce nanomagnets with low zero-point energy and thus a higher degree of stability.
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Posted by vlad on Saturday, July 09, 2016 @ 22:39:11 EDT (1610 reads)
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The Little Engine That Could
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 Via APS Physics: Researchers propose a stochastic heat engine that runs without an external control system.
A car engine is an everyday example of a heat engine—a device that turns thermal energy into mechanical work. Scaled down to microscopic sizes, however, these devices can harness work from otherwise unwanted random thermal motion. But such stochastic heat engines are typically nonautonomous because they rely on an external control system to operate. As a result, they consume more energy than the work they produce. Chiara Daraio and Marc Serra-Garcia from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, and colleagues have now come up with a design for an autonomous, classical stochastic heat engine. The system could be an ideal toy model with which to study thermodynamics on the microscale.
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Bizarre fourth state of water discovered
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From Gizmag/Science: Bizarre fourth state of water discovered
A sample of beryl and an illustration that shows the strange shape water molecules take when found in the mineral's cage-like channels (Credit: ORNL/Jeff Scovil)
You already know that water can have three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. But scientists at the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) have discovered that when it's put under extreme pressure in small spaces, the life-giving liquid can exhibit a strange fourth state known as tunneling.
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Exotic properties of unidimensional atoms' chain
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Anonymous writes:  Scientists find surprising magnetic excitations in a metallic compound
In this bulk metallic compound, we unexpectedly found one-dimensional magnetic excitations that
are typical of insulating materials whose main source of magnetism is
the spin of its electrons," said physicist Igor Zaliznyak, who led the
research at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National
Laboratory. "Our new understanding of how spinons contribute to the
magnetism of an orbital-dominated system could potentially lead to the
development of technologies that make use of orbital magnetism—for
example, quantum computing components such as magnetic data processing
and storage devices.
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Pilot-wave theory strikes back
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Anonymous writes:  With few decades of delay the Pilot-wave theory seems to be proven trues. A Team of physicists from Toronto, using the latest gentel probing techniques succeeded to prove the Pilot-Wave theory in the double slit experiment.
From Quanta Magazine: New Support for Alternative Quantum View
An experiment claims to have invalidated a decades-old criticism against pilot-wave theory, an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics that avoids the most baffling features of the subatomic universe.
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Energy in Space is Hiding in Plain View Disguised as Magnetic Vector Potential
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FDT writes: The central issue in zero-point energy extraction is that space is not an empty vacuum. Mainstream physics attempts to disguise this fact by altering the meaning of displacement current from the original meaning. In his 1861 paper "On Physical Lines of Force", James Clerk-Maxwell introduced the novel concept of displacement current as well as identifying Faraday's electrotonic state with electromagnetic momentum. The latter now appears in modern textbooks as a vector, usually denoted by the symbol A, but without any physical meaning whatsoever. And likewise displacement current is introduced in modern textbooks devoid of the physical meaning that Maxwell was hinting at.
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Physicists discover flaws in superconductor theory
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Anonymous writes:  From Phys.org: University of Houston physicists report finding major theoretical flaws in the generally accepted understanding of how a superconductor traps and holds a magnetic field. More than 50 years ago, C.P. Bean, a scientist at General Electric, developed a theoretical explanation known as the "Bean Model" or "Critical State Model."
The basic property of superconductors is that they represent zero "resistance" to electrical circuits. In a way, they are the opposite of toasters, which resist electrical currents and thereby convert energy into heat. Superconductors consume zero energy and can store it for a long period of time. Those that store magnetic energy —known as "trapped field magnets" or TFMs—can behave like a magnet.
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Puzzling Electrons behavior in new metamaterials
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Anonymous writes: A weird behavior of the electrons has been observed while studying new kind of crystal. According to the observation with a special scanning tunneling microscope, the electrons with a peculiar momentum sink in the material layer to appear on the other side.
 From Phys.Org: Down the rabbit hole: How electrons travel through exotic new material
New research from Princeton University demonstrates the bizarre movement of electrons through a novel material called a Weyl semi-metal. The image shows a schematic of the connections at special values of electron momentum, which come in pairs and are called Weyl points (red and blue dots). An electron that leaves the surface on a red point can return through its partner blue point, and vice versa. This bizarre behavior is due to the 'topological'connections through the bulk of the material. Credit: Yazdani et al., Princeton University.
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Gravitational waves detected for 1st time
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News release Feb 11, 2016 from LIGO Caltech: LIGO Opens New Window on the Universe with Observation of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes
WASHINGTON, DC/Cascina, Italy
For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity and opens an unprecedented new window onto the cosmos.
Gravitational waves carry information about their dramatic origins and about the nature of gravity that cannot otherwise be obtained. Physicists have concluded that the detected gravitational waves were produced during the final fraction of a second of the merger of two black holes to produce a single, more massive spinning black hole. This collision of two black holes had been predicted but never observed.
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Posted by vlad on Friday, February 19, 2016 @ 20:55:36 EST (3876 reads)
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Why a new physics theory could rewrite the textbooks
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WGUGLINSKI writes: To: Prof. Anthony W. Thomas, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, University of Adelaide
Dear Prof. Anthony W. Thomas
Regarding the paper “Why a new physics theory could rewrite the textbooks”,
published in Physical Review Letters (January 27, 2016), and
concerning the experiments made in the Thomas Jefferson National
Accelerator, you say:
"For many scientists, the idea that the internal structure of protons
might change under certain circumstances can seem absurd, even
sacrilegious. To others like myself, evidence of this internal change is
highly sought after and would help to explain some inconsistencies in
theoretical physics."
http://phys.org/news/2016-01-physics-theory-rewrite-textbooks.html
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Posted by vlad on Friday, January 29, 2016 @ 12:56:13 EST (3697 reads)
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2016 celebration: 100 years of Ether's return by Einstein
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WGUGLINSKI writes: To: Tam Hunt , Author of the article The Higgs Field as the New Ether
CC: Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
at MIT
In
2005 there was worldwide several celebrations of the centenary of the Special
Relativity, as we see for instance in the University of Pittsburgh: 2005: The Centenary of Einstein's
Annus Mirabilis of 1905
http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/homepage/Events_1905.html
In
2015 the centenary of the General Relativity was celebrated in the most important universities worldwide: GR100 Events around the World
http://www.isgrg.org/GR100events.php
But 2016 is the year of the centenary of another very important event for the Theoretical Physics. Because in 1916 Einstein has realized that his General Relativity is incompatible with the empty space, and so he has started to look for a new sort o Aether.
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Posted by vlad on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 @ 14:57:06 EST (3523 reads)
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Electric forces may bind nucleus
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 Sepp Hasslberger writes: Statistical Analysis of Isotope Masses: Electric forces may bind nucleus
This is a research done in the late nineties until 2003 by theoretical
physicist C Johnson. Analysis of the official NIST data of nuclear
energies indicates that there is a possibility atomic nuclei may be held
together by electric forces rather than the special nuclear forces that
are postulated in the standard model. This data, if confirmed by other
researchers, could lead to a re-thinking and simplification of particle
physics. The troublesome weak and strong nuclear binding forces of
current theory may well turn out to be superfluous.
We are hearing much about the electric nature of the Universe these
days.
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Posted by vlad on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 @ 19:43:24 EST (2728 reads)
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The innermost electrons of element 173...
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 A fascinating article "How many more chemical elements are there for us to find?" published on bbc.com by Philip Ball, concludes in a very intriguing manner: "...Like everything else at these tiny scales, it all comes down to quantum mechanics.
This tells us, among other strange things, that pairs of particles can sometimes pop into existence out of nothingness. One of the particles will be made of matter and the other out of antimatter: for example, one might be an electron and the other its antimatter counterpart, a positron. Normally, the two immediately collide and annihilate each other.
It turns out that the innermost electrons of element 173 might be in an unusual, unstable state that can evoke these "virtual" particles.
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Posted by vlad on Monday, January 18, 2016 @ 01:23:54 EST (2960 reads)
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