Shining Light on the Double-Slit Experiment and Quantum Reality
Over the past few years, I’ve been increasingly consumed with the idea in quantum mechanics and also Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. I am fascinated with the idea that our subatomic particles can and indeed do exists in more than one place as once. Therefore, we exist in more than one place at once as well. This … Read more
Attack of the Lucid Hallucinations – Charles Bonnet Syndrome | @OliverSacks
I’ve been fascinated with neuroscience all my life. As a child, I wanted to be a psychologist or psychiatrist, and study rare conditions. I remember seeing the film Awakenings and thinking how remarkable and mysterious the brain really is. The Science Channel had a short series documenting odd and rare neurological cases. One of them … Read more
What is Transhumanism?
I am a big fan of all thing techie. I marvel at the acceleration of our technological prowess, and imagine a world where one day we will merge with machines as the next level of our evolution. I believe now it’s a directed evolution for humanity. I have been watching Fringe and they touched on … Read more
The Possibly of Time Travel and The First Time Machine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects (or in some cases just information) backwards in time to some moment before the present, or sending objects forward from the present to the future without the need … Read more
Michio Kaku – Escape to a Parallel Universe
big think: http://bigthink.com/ideas/18973 How might the universe end? Michio Kaku: Well, when we try to look at the whole universe itself – many people ask the question, “Well Professor, how do you know — how do you know that the universe is expanding? How do you know that it came from a big bang? How … Read more
TED – Craig Venter unveils “synthetic life”
In June, I was astounding by the news the Dr. J. Craig Venter and his team succeed in creating synthetic life. History was made as this single-celled organism was born. The first species in history to be newly created by man. What does this mean for humanity? What does this mean for medicine? Did we … Read more
TED – Brian Cox: Why we need the explorers @ProfBrianCox
Professor Brian Cox has always been one of my heroes growing up and even today in my young adulthood. He has made science and cosmology chic and trendy. He has spurred the fascination of science to a new generation and appears regularly on documentaries attempting to answer the greatest mysteries in science. Currently, working with … Read more
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