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Fwd: World Science: Study may overturn thinking on human brainpower

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:12:34 +0300

My way

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:04:00 +0300

i guess the first few steps of our past

on the present of today has been as

much as can be expected of the way

we were as children once when first

we faced the fate of choice and chose

trust, not truth. The day i met you my

beloved, the day that I found my self

house-of-gnar: Pyrite - Vermont by adamantine on Flickr. A...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:44:14 +0300

house-of-gnar:

Pyrite - Vermont by adamantine on Flickr.

A cluster of pyrite crystals from Springfield, Vermont. The view is 18 mm across. These crystals are octahedrons, an unusual shape for pyrite.

The formation of crystals is in itself a fascinating wonder of nature

astronemma: Einstein’s Gravity Theory Passes Toughest Test...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:41:52 +0300

astronemma:

Einstein’s Gravity Theory Passes Toughest Test Yet

An extreme pair of superdense stars orbiting each other has put Einstein’s general theory of relativity to its toughest test yet, and the crazy-haired physicist still comes out on top.

About 7,000 light-years from Earth, an exceptionally massive neutron star that spins around 25 times a second is orbited by a compact, white dwarf star. The gravity of this system is so intense that it offers an unprecedented testing ground for theories of gravity.

Scientists know general relativity, proposed by Albert Einstein in 1915, isn’t the complete story. While it does very well describing large, massive systems, it’s incompatible with quantum mechanics, which governs the physics of the very small. For something extremely small, yet extremely massive — such as a black hole — the two theories contradict each other, and scientists are left without a physical description.

Rare systems like this binary star pair offer a chance to probe the boundary between the two theories, and search for possible openings toward new physics that could reconcile them.

“We thought this system might be extreme enough to show a breakdown in general relativity, but instead, Einstein’s predictions held up quite well,” Paulo Freire, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany, said in a statement.

The white dwarf in the pair represents the remains of an aging star that lost its atmosphere and is gradually cooling down. Its companion, the neutron star, is much more massive and is so dense that the protons and electrons in its atoms have collapsed to form neutrons. Created in a supernova explosion that marked the death of a star, the neutron star contains twice the mass of the sun packed into an area just 12 miles (19 kilometers) wide. On the surface of this star, gravity is 300 billion times stronger than on Earth.

The neutron star is what’s called a pulsar, because it gives off a beam of light that appears to pulse on and off as it rotates past Earth.

The gravitational field created by the pulsar is so strong that the scientists suspected they might notice deviations from the predictions of general relativity in the motions of the white dwarf around it. General relativity posits that massive objects warp the space and time around them, causing other objects, and even light, to travel along curved paths when they pass nearby.

General relativity also predicts that a close binary system such as this one will radiate gravitational energy in the form of ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. This loss of energy would cause the orbital period of the system to change slightly over time. Alternative theories of gravity offer slightly different predictions for the white dwarf’s motions.

“Our radio observations were so precise that we have already been able to measure a change in the orbital period of 8 millionths of a second per year — exactly what Einstein’s theory predicts,” said Paulo Freire, another team member at the Max Planck Institute.

Though the results don’t help physicists solve the fundamental gravity quandary, they do confirm that current efforts to detect gravitational waves, based on Einstein’s predictions, are on the right track. Several Earth-based tests are underway to look for perturbations in space-time distances caused by passing gravitational waves.

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Funny how these masterful thinkers deductive though and conscious reasoning still stand up to the scrutiny of science and technology>

Canadian government under fire for distortion of history of aboriginals

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:38:17 +0300

Canadian government under fire for distortion of history of aboriginals:

Aboriginals in Quebec blame the Canadian government for keeping a majority of people in the dark over the history of the country’s indigenous inhabitants. They are now demanding the government stop re-writing history and tell and teach the truth.

The Indians are restless, and rightfully so!

themicrobiologist: Enterococcus faecium is an important...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:36:00 +0300

themicrobiologist:

Enterococcus faecium is an important multidrug-resistant nosocomial pathogen causing biofilm-mediated infections in patients with medical devices. Insight into E. faecium biofilm pathogenesis is pivotal for the development of new strategies to prevent and treat these infections. In several bacteria, a major autolysin is essential for extracellular DNA (eDNA) release in the biofilm matrix, contributing to biofilm attachment and stability. In this study, we identified and functionally characterized the major autolysin of E. faecium E1162 by a bioinformatic genome screen followed by insertional gene disruption of six putative autolysin genes. Insertional inactivation of locus tag EfmE1162_2692 resulted in resistance to lysis, reduced eDNA release, deficient cell attachment, decreased biofilm, decreased cell wall hydrolysis, and significant chaining compared to that of the wild type. Therefore, locus tag EfmE1162_2692 was considered the major autolysin in E. faecium and renamed atlA_Efm. In addition, AtlA_Efm was implicated in cell surface exposure of Acm, a virulence factor in E. faecium, and thereby facilitates binding to collagen types I and IV. This is a novel feature of enterococcal autolysins not described previously. Furthermore, we identified (and localized) autolysin-independent DNA release in E. faecium that contributes to cell-cell interactions in the atlA_Efm mutant and is important for cell separation. In conclusion, AtlA_Efm is the major autolysin in E. faecium and contributes to biofilm stability and Acm localization, making AtlA_Efm a promising target for treatment of E. faecium biofilm-mediated infections.

Source: mBio

The surgeons nightmare

Not my color sorry.

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:13:22 +0300

Not my color sorry.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination....

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:46:00 +0300

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein

That Sucks. Not!

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:11:34 +0300

You have been from one end of perception, to the end of aware, from the
Classic Thinkers like Archimedes and Plato all the way to such modern
day evangelists as Santiago’s construct of nature, and the nature of
man and the collective conscious we share, and what you have recently
found is irrefutable proof for Ancient Alien Wisdom and if it were not
for the prophets of extraterrestrial interference insistence on using
what if, it may have softened the blow of what you now know as total
baloney, that the reason you have recently gained all by your self was
not yours at all, but a sense that belong to everything there is

At least as far as things matter. Welcome to my world of awe and
wonder.