To make fast decisions we all calculate by guessing the (almost) right number of items. Why do we all have that ability? The scientists are puzzled... And who do they "call"?
Well, it seems that some other animals (other primates, birds and perhaps dolphins/whales) have this ability too. Some of the reasons are obvious - if you belong to a group it's an advantage to have a sense that tells you that something or someone belonging to that group is missing - this give the group better survival conditions.
By fast guessing a number of items, qualities or persons (at least almost correctly!) crises have been avoided from one generation to the next in increased manner. By knowing almost in advance that another (hostile) group would be equally matched by your own, there were no reason to go to war about resources.
This changed much by religions in mankinds later periods ( "The god is on our side"). Neandertals probably didn't believe in any gods judging in their favour, but lived in peace or harmony with their neighbours. Of course, they were chased off by the superstitious Sapiens. If the Neandertals believed in anything superstitious, it would be that the world was full of demons or spirits that all were hostile. Neandertals with less advanced societies were often prey of Nature - so why should they believe in any gods??
Inventions or ideas by the smart Sapiens showed on the other hand that life really could be good. The persons that made the inventions or discoveries and so on were soon forgotten... so who or what could be behind "all the good stuff in life"? Like Neandertals, they probably also believed in evil... so there had to be something (or someone!) that counteracted that evil... and what could that be, you wonder? You guessed it: Gods!
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36601/title/FOR_KIDS_Math_and_our_number_sense
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The Nature Behind It All
Just some updates for my future book with the same name...
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1- The power of four...
Four leaf clover has a sort of propeller shaped leaves... this make it easier for the leaves to wave in the wind since this compact lump is heavier than three leaf clover. And why is it important to clover to wave in the wind? If you look carefully, you see a V-shape pattern on each leaf, which look a bit similar to birds at distance in the air.
When insects approach, they discover the V-shape patterns and try to avoid the (animated) leaves. So they won't lay eggs there (to develop leaf eating worms). If a farmer get propeller like leaves of paper also with a similar V-shape pattern around his crop, his crop will be more left alone from insects, I guess.
2- BUurrr... ("goodbye to Summer..." "...seal it with a kiss" - Hyland)
One most likely reason why the leaves turn reddish is to gradually prepare for winter. It's more cost effective to have the left green (wind and cold protected) leaves to gather the increasing weaker sunlight to produce some nutrition still, while the more cold exposed, reddish leaves don't draw cold nutrition to the three (or plant) - which might be harmful. So it's a bit like us humans - we more likely get a cold when fall is at our doorstep (aaatschooo!).
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1- The power of four...
Four leaf clover has a sort of propeller shaped leaves... this make it easier for the leaves to wave in the wind since this compact lump is heavier than three leaf clover. And why is it important to clover to wave in the wind? If you look carefully, you see a V-shape pattern on each leaf, which look a bit similar to birds at distance in the air.
When insects approach, they discover the V-shape patterns and try to avoid the (animated) leaves. So they won't lay eggs there (to develop leaf eating worms). If a farmer get propeller like leaves of paper also with a similar V-shape pattern around his crop, his crop will be more left alone from insects, I guess.
2- BUurrr... ("goodbye to Summer..." "...seal it with a kiss" - Hyland)
One most likely reason why the leaves turn reddish is to gradually prepare for winter. It's more cost effective to have the left green (wind and cold protected) leaves to gather the increasing weaker sunlight to produce some nutrition still, while the more cold exposed, reddish leaves don't draw cold nutrition to the three (or plant) - which might be harmful. So it's a bit like us humans - we more likely get a cold when fall is at our doorstep (aaatschooo!).
Friday, September 12, 2008
The Purpose Of It All?
PUurrr...pose? Why, you poor, lonely guys... (Agneta F)
We may never know what made the whole world, but at least we know that the world will not sustain life forever. There's a rapid increase of space in our universe, but the energy amount here is constant, so the energy possible to exploit will be increasingly difficult as it spreads out in an increased volume of space as the billion years pass by. We will be trapped in our own galaxy - The Milkyway (together with Andromeda and some small neighbour galaxys) with stars that at the later stages won't radiate enough heat. Even the black holes will eventually disappear.
This goes for every galaxy in the universe - there's no escape. What to do then? There's no other option but to find out everything about the nature of 1-particles, 2-energy, 3-time, 4-space and 5-dimensions and how they relate to each other. The sooner we find out, the better... there might be some sort of loopholes that let life survive by altering one or more characters belonging to some of 1-5, or all of those - meaning we have to take the ultimate step by creating a whole new universe.
The "old" universe, our own, may not survive into a new universe... so a sort of doomsday machine will be constructed, either by us (our descendants) or an alien civilization. An AI will calculate the exact moment before a civilization in our galaxy will not be able anymore to slurp up enough energy from their nearby stars and be forced to invade other star systems with life already present, and decide to "push the button".
There's a possibility that this type of AI already is constructed by an alien civilization... so possible hostilities between aliens and natives at a star system might get the AI there (or at the other star system) to push the button EARLY. This threat will keep civilizations at peace with each other. So there's little chance of Earth ever being invaded by hostile aliens. Every civilization would want to build a doomsday machine that has this ability to keep the civilization from going to war with other civilizations. If a primitive civilization doesn't have a doomsday machine, one will be placed nearby, but out of reach for that civilization. Probably would it have a scrambling effect on intelligent signals that reach a primitive civilization (to be on the safe side).
This goes for every galaxy in the universe - there's no escape. What to do then? There's no other option but to find out everything about the nature of 1-particles, 2-energy, 3-time, 4-space and 5-dimensions and how they relate to each other. The sooner we find out, the better... there might be some sort of loopholes that let life survive by altering one or more characters belonging to some of 1-5, or all of those - meaning we have to take the ultimate step by creating a whole new universe.
The "old" universe, our own, may not survive into a new universe... so a sort of doomsday machine will be constructed, either by us (our descendants) or an alien civilization. An AI will calculate the exact moment before a civilization in our galaxy will not be able anymore to slurp up enough energy from their nearby stars and be forced to invade other star systems with life already present, and decide to "push the button".
There's a possibility that this type of AI already is constructed by an alien civilization... so possible hostilities between aliens and natives at a star system might get the AI there (or at the other star system) to push the button EARLY. This threat will keep civilizations at peace with each other. So there's little chance of Earth ever being invaded by hostile aliens. Every civilization would want to build a doomsday machine that has this ability to keep the civilization from going to war with other civilizations. If a primitive civilization doesn't have a doomsday machine, one will be placed nearby, but out of reach for that civilization. Probably would it have a scrambling effect on intelligent signals that reach a primitive civilization (to be on the safe side).
Monday, September 8, 2008
What Is Real?
Hmmmm.... clones... blueprints... zombies...
At last a book with some REAL science! Or perhaps unreal...?
One of man's biggest mysteries... Who are we? What are we?
Why are we? Where are we? Are you more than me? Am I more than you?
In the beginning of reading a lot of "weird" stuff I understood less and less...
It's like having scrambling piles of jig saw puzzles belonging to totally different themes.
But suddenly you find a few pieces that belong together, and you see at least a few outlines that explain in a rough manner how some stuff in this weird universe is related. I want to find those outlines an put'em on this blog... further explanations of mysteries (even women!) will be presented in a book (or books!) I am planning to write.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Get your cow, cowboys and cowgirls...
...and let it lead you to Santa with your wishlist:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2623809/Cows-point-north-thanks-to-in-built-compasses.html
But seriously, the reason why cows point their head north might be that wind from north is cooler than wind from south, and then they avoid in larger degree udder (and bladder or uterus) infection if their udder and other vulnerable parts nearby is protected from cold wind. Combining that with daylight and the tendency of facing north is preferred through evolution.
Mystery solved?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2623809/Cows-point-north-thanks-to-in-built-compasses.html
But seriously, the reason why cows point their head north might be that wind from north is cooler than wind from south, and then they avoid in larger degree udder (and bladder or uterus) infection if their udder and other vulnerable parts nearby is protected from cold wind. Combining that with daylight and the tendency of facing north is preferred through evolution.
Mystery solved?
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Higgs Boson
If it's there, then perhaps another particle that it interacts with? I can't imagine just one single type of particle (and perhaps only Higgs field?) that just stays there... everything is in motion and interact with (opposite) particles with near same physical qualities.
My guess would be two particles that change phase so swift that they don't annihilate each other, and that the interaction/vibration between the particles curves space so that the motion inward is slightly faster than outward - explaining both mass and gravity.
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/lp708818-cern/
My guess would be two particles that change phase so swift that they don't annihilate each other, and that the interaction/vibration between the particles curves space so that the motion inward is slightly faster than outward - explaining both mass and gravity.
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/lp708818-cern/
Monday, July 28, 2008
Based On a True Story (?)
Preliminary valuations in my future book (?) about The Star Systems
About 5 billion years ago the Solar System was made from the leftovers of a much earlier star that went nova. Spiral matters of dust and ice particles reached billions of miles from the centre of the nova explosion.
During many hundred thousand years the spirals lumped together (through flocculation) to make even thicker spirals, until those got so heavy that they began to contract and curve around a common centre of gravity while giving the proto star rotational velocity (analogue to a skater pulling her arms together to make a pirouette).
At the formation of spirals the dust particles and the ice particles split (due to different density and vibrations) to shape "countless" mingled layers of ice and dust. Through gravity the spirals contracted within and got closer to each other, which meant that dust particles from different layers got tighter and the temperature in each spiral rose due to friction, so that much of the ice particles eventually turned into water.
The process of turning ice into water was chaotic and uneven, and much of the water froze and melted over and over again to make bigger lumps of water and ice at a certain distance from the spirals common centre of gravity. The lumps easily froze together, and since ice are less dense than water, large layers of ice and water vibrated the dust layers tighter and tighter to shape "countless" rocks of different size and density by the extra influence of gravity and increasing temperature near the centre of the proto star (later the Sun).
At the centre large layers of water quickly turned into steam, and in a serial like explosions caused by the quick expansion of hot water, huge parts of rocks, water and ice broke loose, and like sledge hammers the parts (or prototype planets) were slung out from the centre.
At a certain distance much of the water at the prototype planets froze to bigger or smaller lumps of ice, and due to less density only tailed along with a lot of dust. Some of the lumps of ice got loose through the sledgehammer effect to become (dirty) comets. A sort of sledgehammer effect also happened inside the prototype planets themselves (due to hot steam and gravity from the proto star) to form several satellites - or moons - of different size already when the p-planets were travelling from the centre of the glowing protostar to find a stable orbit many millions of miles away.
Lighter elements (like helium) and water particles near the centre of the proto star were in the hot stage too little dense to follow the "sledgehammers" in a large degree, and much of the heavier elements (like metals) were in the centre too compact, and by the influence of too great gravity, not able to tag along with the sledgehammers.
So the central parts of the proto star were soon hotter, while the prototype planets melted and partly froze over again on their travel from the centre of the proto star. Much of the lighter elements lumped together and through the heat around the rocks they got less dense. So gas prototype planets (with a heavy rock core) suddenly lost much of their mass (to the proto star) and gained speed to travel further than the lighter rocky prototype planets (with more water/ice than gas layers).
Through gravity from the newborn star - the Sun - the planets found their orbits. If the Moon had been twice as big and the Earth had been 50% smaller, they could have been a double (or binary) planetary system with a shared (or almost shared) atmosphere and a stable spiral orbit around the Sun, so "the one Earth" in a few hours would be ahead of "the other Earth" - and vice versa.
Probably are binary planetary systems quite common around stars in the universe, and life probably occurs more often in such systems than on "lonely" Earths. The days are perhaps 50% longer than the days on our Earth due to the spiral delay by orbiting along a common centre of gravity, but the year is perhaps 50% shorter than the year on Earth. The tidewater at a binary planet follows curves that give rapid and expanded distrubution of water together with weather systems. Predictable, but rapid shifting levelling conditions like that would help and stimulate evolution of life.
About 5 billion years ago the Solar System was made from the leftovers of a much earlier star that went nova. Spiral matters of dust and ice particles reached billions of miles from the centre of the nova explosion.
During many hundred thousand years the spirals lumped together (through flocculation) to make even thicker spirals, until those got so heavy that they began to contract and curve around a common centre of gravity while giving the proto star rotational velocity (analogue to a skater pulling her arms together to make a pirouette).
At the formation of spirals the dust particles and the ice particles split (due to different density and vibrations) to shape "countless" mingled layers of ice and dust. Through gravity the spirals contracted within and got closer to each other, which meant that dust particles from different layers got tighter and the temperature in each spiral rose due to friction, so that much of the ice particles eventually turned into water.
The process of turning ice into water was chaotic and uneven, and much of the water froze and melted over and over again to make bigger lumps of water and ice at a certain distance from the spirals common centre of gravity. The lumps easily froze together, and since ice are less dense than water, large layers of ice and water vibrated the dust layers tighter and tighter to shape "countless" rocks of different size and density by the extra influence of gravity and increasing temperature near the centre of the proto star (later the Sun).
At the centre large layers of water quickly turned into steam, and in a serial like explosions caused by the quick expansion of hot water, huge parts of rocks, water and ice broke loose, and like sledge hammers the parts (or prototype planets) were slung out from the centre.
At a certain distance much of the water at the prototype planets froze to bigger or smaller lumps of ice, and due to less density only tailed along with a lot of dust. Some of the lumps of ice got loose through the sledgehammer effect to become (dirty) comets. A sort of sledgehammer effect also happened inside the prototype planets themselves (due to hot steam and gravity from the proto star) to form several satellites - or moons - of different size already when the p-planets were travelling from the centre of the glowing protostar to find a stable orbit many millions of miles away.
Lighter elements (like helium) and water particles near the centre of the proto star were in the hot stage too little dense to follow the "sledgehammers" in a large degree, and much of the heavier elements (like metals) were in the centre too compact, and by the influence of too great gravity, not able to tag along with the sledgehammers.
So the central parts of the proto star were soon hotter, while the prototype planets melted and partly froze over again on their travel from the centre of the proto star. Much of the lighter elements lumped together and through the heat around the rocks they got less dense. So gas prototype planets (with a heavy rock core) suddenly lost much of their mass (to the proto star) and gained speed to travel further than the lighter rocky prototype planets (with more water/ice than gas layers).
Through gravity from the newborn star - the Sun - the planets found their orbits. If the Moon had been twice as big and the Earth had been 50% smaller, they could have been a double (or binary) planetary system with a shared (or almost shared) atmosphere and a stable spiral orbit around the Sun, so "the one Earth" in a few hours would be ahead of "the other Earth" - and vice versa.
Probably are binary planetary systems quite common around stars in the universe, and life probably occurs more often in such systems than on "lonely" Earths. The days are perhaps 50% longer than the days on our Earth due to the spiral delay by orbiting along a common centre of gravity, but the year is perhaps 50% shorter than the year on Earth. The tidewater at a binary planet follows curves that give rapid and expanded distrubution of water together with weather systems. Predictable, but rapid shifting levelling conditions like that would help and stimulate evolution of life.
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