author's notebook
11-11-2024
241024
zero in the brain
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-human-brain-contends-with-the-strangeness-of-zero-20241018/
a.i. kills
https://www.rappler.com/technology/mother-sues-chatbot-company-character-ai-google-son-suicide/
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-human-mind-isnt-meant-to-be-awake-after-midnight-scientists-warn
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/dromaeosauriformipes-rarus-13365.html#google_vignette
242022
https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-are-evolving-right-before-our-eyes-on-the-tibetan-plateau
241012
the europa mission
https://www.wired.com/story/europa-clipper-mission-nasa-jupiter-moon-exploration-signs-life/
241011
the creativity of ants
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-asteroid-dinosaurs-ant-agriculture.html
Today, four different groups of ants cultivate four types of fungus. In some cases, the insects even alter the growth of the cultivated product so that it provides certain nutrients.
"When we cultivate them in the lab, the fungi take the expected form of hyphae. However, inside the colony, one of these hyphae types becomes swollen and forms structures similar to grape clusters, rich in sugars. We still don't know how the ants do this," says Kooij.
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-breakthrough-mathematician-problems.html#google_vignette
"Some mathematicians have this rare intellect," Tiep said of Brauer. "It's as though they came from another planet or from another world. They are capable of seeing hidden phenomena that others can't."
241010
how big is the universe?
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/milky-way-shapley-concentration/
Magic numbers of neutrons and protons in nuclei: 2 8 20 28 50 82 126
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-physicists-special-properties-stable-atoms.html
139,255 neurons of adult fruit fly brain mapped. Compare 86billion neurons in adult human
https://www.earth.com/news/first-complete-map-of-every-neuron-in-the-brain-revealed/
240926
gold’s origins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX7Uzgv8yPU
how mass=energy, the strong force, gluons and muons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enWN0DrbNSE
240925
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-physics-experts-possibility-fundamental-concepts.html
240924
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/how-neurons-encode-word-meanings/
“One of the surprising findings is that even small focal cortical areas may be potentially able to represent complex meanings largely in their entirety. Areas such as the one we recorded may contain broad mixtures of different cells, each responding to different word meanings to provide a rich and detailed representation of the linguistic information communicated through speech…
We were able to decode the meaning of words from a relatively small number of cells, suggesting that it may be possible to read out meanings and concepts from the activity patterns of neurons during natural speech processing.
240919
lotg chaps: god good and evil
240918
PRAYER TO THE ONE UNIVERSE: THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE. . . IN THE MYGHTY WORK OF FURTHERING LIFE AND EXISTENCE.
PRAYER TO MAN: EVERYHING WE DO WE MUST MEASURE AGAINST THE ABSOLUTE VALUE OF FURTHERING LIFE AND EXISTENCE, DOES IT ADD TO LIFE OR DOES IT ADD TO DEATH..
PRAYER TO OURSELVES: THIS IS OUR FATE. WE MUST PROVE OURSELVES CAPABLE OF KEEPING ALIVE AS A SPECIES OF EVOLVED CONSCIOUS LIFE, AS THE THINKING CHILDREN OF THE UNIVERSE
PRAYER TO MYSELF: SO BE IT.
230916
https://technology.inquirer.net/137116/ai-is-accelerating-the-climate-crisis-expert-warns
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-mouse-sex-based-differences-brains.html
https://www.thetransmitter.org/dopamine/reconstructing-dopamines-link-to-reward/
research team found that when they gave rats a drug that binds to microtubules, it took the rats significantly longer to fall unconscious under an anesthetic gas. The research team’s microtubule-binding drug interfered with the anesthetic action, thus supporting the idea that the anesthetic acts on microtubules to cause unconsciousness.
https://futurism.com/neoscope/organisms-beyond-life-death
But here's how the biobots are different. Though the aforementioned anthrobots, for example, were taken from human lung cells, they were somehow able to repair damaged neuron cells placed nearby in a petri dish, which they were able to move to on their own using writhing, hair-like projections called cilia. The anthrobots weren't engineered or programmed to do this — they just did it on their own.
The xenobots also developed cilia-based mobility, which is novel, because in the frog cells they were derived from, the cilia are used to move mucus — not the cells themselves, according to the researchers. The xenobots are also capable of self-replicating without growing, or essentially repairing themselves.
"Taken together, these findings demonstrate the inherent plasticity of cellular systems and challenge the idea that cells and organisms can evolve only in predetermined ways," Noble and Pozhitkov wrote. "The third state suggests that organismal death may play a significant role in how life transforms over time."
240915
‘tired light’ finding vs ‘big bang’
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-century-theory-big.html
240913
youtube search: terahertz frequency, bismuth crystals, magnesium alloys, and roswell
climate change rocks the earth for two weeks
The seismic event was detected by earthquake sensors around the world but was so completely unprecedented that the researchers initially had no idea what had caused it. Having now solved the mystery, the scientists said it showed how global heating was already having planetary-scale impacts and that major landslides were possible in places previously believed to be stable as temperatures rapidly rose.
manipulating human dna and chromosomes
A DNA molecule is structured like a long double strand. In living cells, this long strand is wrapped around specialized proteins to form a material called chromatin, which in turn coils on itself to form the structures we know as chromosomes. If uncoiled and stretched end-to-end, all of a person’s chromosomes would measure about six-and-a-half feet long. Human cells must fit 23 pairs of these chromosomes, collectively called the genome, into each cell’s nucleus. Hence the need for tight coiling.
Since DNA is both a carrier of information and a physical molecule, the cell needs to unfurl the tightly coiled parts of the DNA to copy its information and make proteins. The areas along the genome that are more likely to be expressed are less rigid physically and easier to open up. The areas that are silenced are physically more coiled and compact and therefore harder for the cell to open up and read. Like an instruction manual that opens more easily to some pages than others.
240822
PENROSE ON QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnXUuyfPK2A
PBS ON PENROSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa2Kpkksf3k
PETROV ON PENROSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXElfzVgg6M
ABIOGENESIS from non-living to living
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNK3u8uVG7o
ORIGIN OF ELEMENTS AND END OF OURS: A NEBULA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRzxTzKIsp8
CHEMICAL EVOLUTION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRzxTzKIsp8
DENNIS NOBLE: genes are not the blueprint
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNhF8R1qQ0c
240821
the role of plankton
connectome approach to brain cells. (compare to grid’s)
https://www.extremetech.com/science/mit-scientists-detangle-the-brain-with-new-open-source-ai
alternative view to expanding universe
https://bigthink.com/the-well/why-does-the-universe-keep-expanding/
240820
in this unlikely article we discover the most probable origins of q0 in the quantum world...a fantastic insight. read below how it begins:
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1053550
A crowd or a flock of birds have different characteristics from those of atoms in a material, but when it comes to collective movement, the differences matter less than we might think. We can try to predict the behavior of humans, birds, or cells based on the same principles we use for particles. This is the finding of a new study published in the Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, JSTAT, conducted by an international team that includes the collaboration of MIT in Boston and CNRS in France. The study, based on the physics of materials, simulated the conditions that cause a sudden shift from a disordered state to a coordinated one in "self-propelled agents" (like biological ones).
while here seems to be a physiologic rendition of the minimal sentence and q1q2q3!
https://interestingengineering.com/health/brain-multiple-copies-of-single-memory
Researchers from the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland, found that memories of specific experiences are stored in the brain as multiple parallel copies distributed across a minimum of three different clusters of neurons.
240810
HELIUM IS THE BASE 2 OF THE PERIODIC TABLE. see 41:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJQjjBR6PbY
are birds flying atom: a physics and biology interface
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1053550
why carbon for life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAFC4RY1cKQ
240807
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/then-i-am-myself-the-world-conscious
240805
here’s a eureka.
remember how the genetic code is limited to 43 = 64 nucleotide bases.
why it’s only 3 quads is its q1 q2 q3
in effect it’s tense, verb, and focus (dividing doer and object both into 4 possible focuses).
making 16 affix sets (q2q3) and their minimal sentences (q1q2q3)=64.
this view of things finally defines q4 as the quadrisection of q3 into the possible simple sentences, linking each affix set with one of four possible complementary affixes. resulting in 256 simple sentences in the language.
therefore, the 64 nucleotide bases represent the most elementary/minimal verbal (biochemical) actions presumably available for dna to construct its messages with.
when any of two of these 16 linkup, one the 256 elementary sentences of the dna is constructed.
it came to me just now. 1626h. it has troubled me about q3q4ow i present it
in botg it is difficult to get to the bottom of the 43 of the genetic code. this explains it.
the mathematics of both is the same but expressed differently
256 = 4x4x4x4 = (((4x4)x4)x4)
the latter sits better in my head as a truer picture of the first four quads q1q2q3q4.
240724
terahertz frequency, bismuth crystals, magnesium alloys, and roswell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXElfzVgg6M
quantum consciousness and tryptophan microtubules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXElfzVgg6M
is there an observer that makes the universe real?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlhhFutA1wE
are our brains the consciousness of the universe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9q82d6Hmkk
abiogenesis: the science of the origin of life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNK3u8uVG7o
scihub, anna’s archive etc...open access science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EmQ66ayQvg
is the universe real?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSAhtl7BVtE
sleep-wake interface redefined
Scientists have developed a new method to analyze sleep and wake states by detecting ultra-fast neuronal activity patterns, just milliseconds long, challenging traditional understandings based on slower brain waves. This research also uncovered that individual brain regions can briefly transition between sleep and wake independently, revealing complex, localized brain activities that may reshape our understanding of sleep mechanics.
240722
“When we’re still and we’re bored, time goes very slowly because we’re not doing anything or nothing is happening. On the contrary, when a lot of events happen, each one of those activities is advancing our brains forward.” Thus, the researcher concluded, “the more that we do and the more that happens to us, the faster time goes.”
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/cosmic-penguin-and-egg-mark-space-telescopes-second-anniversary/
“Webb is providing insights into longstanding mysteries about the early universe and ushering in a new era of studying distant worlds, while returning images that inspire people around the world and posing exciting new questions to answer.
“It has never been more possible to explore every facet of the universe.”
240711
the grid’s motor-brain connect
nails are sensitive
https://www.sciencealert.com/your-fingernails-have-unexpectedly-precise-sensory-capabilities
240710
the external mind and the feeling of being watched
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9pTbMoufp4
240708
let there be light
https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-what-turned-on-the-lights-at-the-dawn-of-time
the scale of us. illustrated
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/humanity-cosmic-tale-despair-hope/
gold and origins of periodic table
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX7Uzgv8yPU
240703
multiverses and and grid. see 32:21. 33:17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6akmv1bsz1M
amazing. filter water with branch of plant!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSBwJNDDUfc
john michel
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240626-the-priest-who-predicted-black-holes-in-1783
Michell died on 21 April 1793 at age 68 having remained rector at Thornhill to the end. Other intellectuals of his period were – and are – much better known. They published more frequently and on subjects that were more popular. Michell, by contrast, followed his nose. In McCormmach's words, he "took up scientific problems as they interested him, in whichever field, and he pursued them as far as he wished and no further; and he published his work if and when he wanted to, and only when he was fully satisfied with it". This goes some way to explaining his obscurity after death – he sacrificed impact and renown in the name of intellectual freedom.
As the Alexandrian astronomer Ibn al-Haytham had observed 700 years before Newton, the "seeker after the truth" is not one who puts his trust in authorities, "but rather the one who suspects his faith in them... one who submits to argument and demonstration". Following in this tradition, Michell, like his father, was an autodidact, protecting his scientific integrity by remaining unattached to any "body or denomination of men".
Michell's independence allowed him another freedom essential to original thought: that of imagination. According to McCormmach, he chose astronomy specifically because it offered new vistas for theory. In his passion for scientific imagination, Michell anticipated the creativity of theoretical physicists today. As Einstein put it in 1929, "imagination encircles the world."
240701
the future in the brain: predictive processing. when brain science catches up to the grid
https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/predictive-processing-and-athletes/
ancient arctic wolf remains
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/28/russian-scientists-conduct-autopsy-on-44000-year-old-wolf