A few days ago, an unlikely individual published a paper on the theory of everything. This guy isn’t a college professor or any typical “Einstein” like figure. And yet, he has struck upon a possible theory of everything based on a mathematical pattern. The Theory of Everything 1.0 Beta was essentially Einstein’s Space-Time continuum. TOE 2 was String Theory. It is still a widespread theory though still contested heatedly. And now, TOE3 arises from a mathematical pattern named E8. It is an intricate pattern of 248 points distributed over 8 dimensions. To introduce the Theory of Everything…it is the holy grail of physics. It is the quest to find a mathethematical set of formulas that would unite the forces of Electromagnetism, strong force, weak force, and gravity. Standard Model as of now unites 3 out of these 4. It leaves gravity alone, as no one has been able to make gravity “work” with the others. This individual, Garrett Lisi was studying the E8 pattern and realized that some equations about this structure resembled the equations governing particles. He was able to place particles on each of the points. Any blank points left are supposedly particles that we have not yet discovered, such as the elusive graviton. Using the family of patterns that E8 belongs to, he was able to fill the object. By rotating the pattern using a computer and projecting it into 2 dimensions, he could see different interactions between the particles. He could see gravity-electro-weak interactions between particles. So far, all the observations made using this pattern have fit real-world observations. This model uses nothing but simple math and of course…8 dimensional geometry. However, this appears at first glance to be much more elegant and simple than String Theory. We may be seeing the discovery of the Theory of Everything…or, simply a spectacularly wrong theory that is elegant nonetheless. Read the article on NewScientist
Seeing how i feel pretty sick today…im home from work, and well…what else is there to do but figure out and find more ways to make dangerous things? Ya….. so, here is how you can take a maglite and a dvd burner, combine the two with a bit of tweaking and get yourself a laser on par with a Spyder laser. Check it out on instructables. Keep in mind never to point this thing at ANYone, or even point it where there could possibly be a person. also….don’t point it at an aircraft unless you want the FAA and possibly the FBI after you ;P
mmm, apparently….potato chip flavoring can increase the life of concrete.Sadly, its just one of the components…, sodium acetate. It waterproofs concrete by taking water’s place, then shrinking when dried. Interesting….maybe we should just cover the roads with potato chips. (NO) Check it out on Physorg
Just a few of the changes made to Endeavour (first flown in 1992)
-Flatscreen LCDs replacing many gages and old CRT monitors -New GPS computers allowing it to land a almost any large airport, instead of the limited number of airstrips its cleared for in the US -New power systems allowing it to stay docked to the ISS for up to 12 days (50% more then it could before) -New engine sensors that could help avert another disaster on takeoff -150 miles of wire thats been inspected -14 thousand safety checks that have have been completed
Thank you MIT……for giving us, fearless mice. Apparently, MIT biochemists identified the molecular mechanism that creates fear, and somehow cured it from mice. Well….now, we have mice that will probably bite the cat. Woot. If they can do this in mice…..mmmmm……this is getting slightly dangerous, eh? No pictures of fearless mice, but…you can read the entire description of them: Cure for fear.
Depending on who you ask, the internet weights “About two ounces (60 grams), or perhaps 0.2 millionths of an ounce (6
micrograms), depending which method you use to calculate the weight of
the active electrons necessary to sustain the global network.”
Not a whole lot, is it? Well, it’s not really the weight of the entire internet. It’s not the weight of all the wires, cables, computers, and servers. Just the electricity that makes em all go. Still pretty amazing….
Experts say that the internet weighs “About two ounces (60 grams), or perhaps 0.2 millionths of an ounce (6
micrograms), depending which method you use to calculate the weight of
the active electrons necessary to sustain the global network.”
You ever heard of Matlab, or Mathmatica? Well, they do math for ya Here are some awesome open source/free software that can do all that those paid programs can do!
wxMaxima: GUI for Maxima which is an algebra manipulation program.
Use wxMaxima, to use Maxima….which is the actual program.
For numerical computations, instead of algebra…use Scilab. (nough said…)
Finally, for statistical computations…use R. Slightly more complicated, there are several GUI’s that you can use to simplify it.
