I think we are looking sideways at quantum mechanics if we only look at and theorize about the particles and their associated fields. A physical model that was all about the fields, and only secondarily about the particles, might yield useful insights. The fields could be modeled as strange attractors, regions in which particles behaved in ways ( Read more... )

Occupy Iowa Caucus: Anonymous Hacker Group Claims Responsibility For Web Video (VIDEO)

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A new web video comes as evidence the hacker group Anonymous is getting involved in the 2012 election. The Des Moines Register reports that Anonymous has claimed responsibility for a clip encouraging viewers to disrupt January's Iowa caucuses. The ( Read more... )

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Energy and matter are interchangeable: E = mc2, after all.

What if material objects -- say, particles, whether electrons and other fermions, or photons and other bosons -- are just highly organized strange attractors in the endless flow of energy filling the universe ( Read more... )

In his Chaos: Making a New Science, James Gleick discusses the fact that chaos, in the mathematical sense, is an inherent aspect of healthy living systems of all kinds, from single cells all the way up to ecosystems of all sizes. In fact, the less chaos, in that sense, in a living system, the more moribund and the closer to death it is. ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html?_r=1

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Ave atque vale, Bennie, we hardly knew ye. You will be missed ( Read more... )

http://www.universetoday.com/75074/neptune-acquitted-on-one-count-of-harassment/

Rising Sea Temperatures, Global Warming, Mass Extinction Parallels | Ocean Ecosystem, Marine Life Threatened

You don't like the figures, send a nastygram to the NOAA. I just work here. And, just incidentally, as far as I'm concerned, rabig anti-global-warming types are blood siblings to Al Gore, drama queens whose only concern is that the world ( Read more... )

ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews

They've faced down humans time and time again, but Fred Phelps and his minions from the Westboro Baptist Church were not ready for the cosplay action that awaited them today at Comic-Con. After all, who can win against a counter protest that includes robots, magical anime girls ( Read more... )

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'Memba these? Your parents sure do . . . (I should have posted these last months, but what the hey, better late than never, right?)

“Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Burning of the School”

“Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Burning of the School,” Marcia and Jon Pankake, A Prairie Home Companion Folk Song Book ( ( Read more... )