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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is a 2014 American science documentary television series.[1] The show is a follow-up to the 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which was presented by Carl Sagan on thePublic Broadcasting Service and is considered a milestone for scientific documentaries. This series was developed to bring back the foundation of science to network television at the height of other scientific-based television series and films. The show is presented by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who was inspired by Sagan as a young college student. Among the executive producers are Seth MacFarlane, whose clout and financial investment was instrumental in bringing the show to broadcast television, and Ann Druyan, Sagan's widow and a co-creator of the original series.[2][3] The series loosely follows the same thirteen-episode format and storytelling approach that the original Cosmos used, including elements such as the "Ship of the Imagination", but features information updated since the 1980 series along with extensive computer-generated graphics and animation footage augmenting the narration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Spacetime_Odyssey In case you've missed them on TV! Here are the first 5 episodes:
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So I've debated putting personal opinions of mine out into the open on this site, but I think I've come to understand certain points of view through my own perspective on this thing we call existence and I haven't heard very many people approach problems from outside the box. I've gotten into a lot of discussions about abortion, religion, Love, god, and plenty of other 'hot' topics over the years. My views have changed with my understanding as I've grown. I've decided to throw out there what I consider the best possible way to 'end' abortion but still leave it up to choice. It's not a walk in the park, but it's a start. ----- Abortion must stay legal, and thus a possible consideration for any that may have to reach this kind of decision; but that doesn't mean abortion can not end.
We need to change the way we educate people, not by shoving 'murder' in their face and resorting to arsen and killings to get our point across. We are all here to guide people in our understanding of reality, not force it down their throat by use of force; and that is exactly what labeling abortion "Murder" does. If we actually cared and loved these people as, every religious figure head teaches us to do (above all other things); and as science has come to acknowledge as the best thing for our bodies and mind, then we'd act like it. "It is what it is;" a personal decision between you and your chosen deity and/or spiritual leaning and scientific understanding. The only people that the decision effects is the mother, father and loved ones. Not you, not me. So we have no business telling them what to do. If we are included in on the discussion, as many religious figures have taught over and over, we are to meet them with love and understanding before anything else. Anything. We may not agree with their decision, but it is not ours to make. For who are we to judge? And more importantly, who are we to meddle in the affairs of god? If we were loving these people we would respect their privacy like we would expect ours to be respected, and we wouldn't be privy to any of this information to judge them on in the first place. So if we meet them with 'murderer' and lock them away with rapists and drug dealers, human traffickers and the all dreaded "possession" inmates, and shame them; they will go and find darker more private ways to do what they want to do and/or feel is right; and this goes for any attempt to prohibit anything from a person, even killing for pleasure. There is no law made by man that can stop someone that has their heart and mind set on something they believe in. I believe suicide bombers are a great example of this conviction, no? So this kind of act will continue no matter how you try to "outlaw" it and the harder people push to remove it by force, the uglier and nastier it will get. But if we meet the problem (any problem) with love and understanding; the anger, the hate, the judgement all melt away from both sides and learning can happen; threw learning and growing no one loses. If we educated people like that, things would be different; within a generation if we took it all to heart, we would be able to find peace on earth and good will toward men if we'd all just learn how to love without critical judgement or condemnation. Imagine that. So we can either continue trying the old fashion way and see what kind of dark path that will take us down. Or we can start educating people and come to find that adults will behave like adults, and children will be children, but we'll all realize we're on the same boat, and heading in the same direction; and low and behold it just won't be so bad after all. Abortion will give way to adoption and everyone will be happy. But a mind will never be changed through force, only through understanding and Love. Thoughts? Concerns? Hello everybody, To consolidate information and make it easier for people to keep up with this site we've started a Facebook page, which can be found here: I'll be posting the majority of cool science news there, while keeping this blog more for information about the paper and personal ideas. So if you like the types of things I've posted on here so far, you can find them and much more on the new Perceptive Reality Facebook page.
We're also still looking for one or two more Content Creators that would like to help find interesting theories and/or new science to be posted on that page. If you'd like to volunteer, please message us. Hope all is well! Randy "In 1900, the British physicist Lord Kelvin is said to have pronounced: "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement." Within three decades, quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity had revolutionized the field. Today, no physicist would dare assert that our physical knowledge of the universe is near completion. To the contrary, each new discovery seems to unlock a Pandora's box of even bigger, even deeper physics questions. These are our picks for the most profound open questions of all." http://www.livescience.com/34052-unsolved-mysteries-physics.html
Many people have wondered, "what's next" in particle physics now that the Higgs Boson and it's corresponding field have been discovered. Here is a small slideshow of 5 particles physicist are now hoping to discover and a little on each one.
"The work "is a beautiful demonstration of quantum simulation, a growing field that uses real quantum systems to model others that are difficult to make, calculate, or observe," said Lindsay Leblanc, a physicist at the University of Alberta in Canada, who wrote a News & Views article about the new study in Nature." http://www.livescience.com/42935-dirac-magnetic-monopole-demonstrated.html An illustration of magnetic monopole Credit: Heikka Valja This was a great read, but it was just an excerpt...now I wanna read the full thing as it has left me at a cliffhanger. "In a memoir of family bonding and cutting-edge physics for readers of Brian Greene’s The Hidden Reality and Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist?, Amanda Gefter tells the story of how she conned her way into a career as a science journalist—and wound up hanging out, talking shop, and butting heads with the world’s most brilliant minds." http://www.amazon.com/Trespassing-Einsteins-Lawn-Beginning-Everything/dp/0345531434 A young science writer undertakes a quest to discover the underpinnings of what’s real in the universe through encounters with London rats and ontic structural realists
By Amanda Gefter ---- I'd post some paragraphs from it, but they may a point to say "No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher." So I'll just give you the link and play it safe: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/schrodingers-rats-and-the-search-for-ultimate-reality-excerpt/ Wonderful video/podcast. If you like Neil deGrasse, you'll want to watch this. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson talks conspiracies, origins of the universe/life, end of the world scenarios, the Apollo 11 moon landing hoax, and general awesomeness related to nature and outer space. For more of the Joe Rogan Experience, check out their site @http://podcasts.joerogan.net/ WO! SCIENCE!!!
--- For the first time ever, neuroscientists have observed memory-forming molecules travel around the brain of a living animal. The unprecedented breakthrough is shedding light on how nerve cells make memories. Prior to being able to recall — or more accurately, reconstruct — a memory, it has to be encoded and stored in the brain. It's a complicated and dynamic process involving changes to molecular structures which alter synaptic transmissions between neurons. But watching this process in action is easier said than done. |
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