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Image665 - The Criss Angel "MindFreak" Television
Show ceremonies at Hollywood's historic Magic
Castle, naming Criss Angel as The Academy of
Magical Arts' 2005 Magician of the Year. Those
honoring Criss Angel included: Gay Blackstone, Milt
Larsen, Criss Angel, Irene Larsen, Dale R. Hindman,
Troy Cory-Stubblefield, Josie Cory, Costa
Sarantakos, Demitra Sarantakos, Joann Sarantakos
and George Strumpolis - Photos snaps by Krista
Woodley
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Feature Story / Do you
recognize the voice?
45th Week 2005 / Quantum
Theory Physics - Radio and Magic. Scientific Talk
Explaining Religion How Physics strings us
along.
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THERE HAS BEEN much talk of late about the
scientific method, which usually takes place in the
context of distinguishing science from other "less
rational" practices, such as religion and magic.
But in recent years science itself has been showing
increasingly magical tendencies. In the field of
theoretical physics, it is now common practice to
talk about other dimensions of reality, entire
landscapes of universes for which there is no
empirical evidence
whatever.
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In the latest, hottest Big Science tome --
the delightfully titled "Warped Passages" --
Harvard physicist Lisa Randall describes the idea
that the universe we see around us is but one tiny
part of a vast reality that may include an infinite
number of other universes. Randall is an expert on
both cosmology and that arcane branch of particle
physics known as string theory. By marrying the two
fields, she and her colleagues have formulated a
picture in which our universe may be seen as a
soap-film-like membrane (a "braneworld") sitting
inside a much larger space: the bulk. According to
general relativity, the universe we live in has
four dimensions: three of space and one of time.
Randall's work extends this framework and posits
the existence of a fifth dimension. The fifth
dimension is the bulk, and within its immeasurably
expanded space, there is no reason to assume that
ours is the only cosmos.
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Evidence for this new dimension is
nonexistent. The reason it is being imagined is to
resolve a puzzle about gravity: Why is it that when
you put a magnet on your fridge door, the magnet
sticks to the fridge rather than falling to the
floor? How is it that the tiny magnet exerts a
bigger force than our whole
planet?
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Randall's fifth dimension is an attempt to
explain why gravitational force is so much weaker
than the other forces of
nature.
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Competing versions of string theory talk
about 10 or 11 dimensions, though usually they are
tiny. Yet these microscopic dimensions have also
become seedbeds for epic ecologies of coexisting
universes. String cosmologists routinely write
papers about the "populations" of universes that
would arise from particular versions of their
equations, conjuring into being with a few lines of
symbols infinite arrays of other
worlds. •
•IN MANY WAYS, string theorists'
extension of the universe is just one more step in
a historical chain of cosmic expansions. In the
17th century, the Newtonian revolution expanded our
vision by positing that the point-like stars were
other material suns with their own planetary
systems. A century later, Immanuel Kant suggested
that the hazy astronomical blobs known as "nebulae"
were each separate galaxies, a notion of immensity
so staggering it beggared belief at the time. From
one material planet to many; from one star to many;
from one galaxy to many; and now, according to
string theory, our vision must expand from one
space-time to many.
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•
The difference here is that the prior
extensions were prompted by observations of distant
phenomenon. The extra dimensions of string theory
and the other universes they might entail have
never been observed and, in principle, they may not
be observable, at least not directly. At present
they are pure fictions. String theory is so fecund
in its descriptive power that one physicist has
estimated there may be as many as 10 to the power
of 100 different versions of its equations! Each
one articulates a different set of possible
universes and, at present, there is no way of
determining if our universe matches any of
them.
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•
Once upon a time, the sine qua non of
scientific practice was supposed to be empirical
verification. Experimental evidence was the core
principle of Francis Bacon's much-vaunted
"scientific method." In truth, the picture has
always been more complex. Science is also an engine
of the imagination, leading our minds beyond the
mundane realm of what is to the enchanted regions
of what might be.
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Nowhere is the speculative dimension of
science more prominent than theoretical physics,
which has given us such magical possibilities as
time machines made from spinning black holes,
wormholes that become portals to the far ends of
the universe and the "parallel worlds" of quantum
mechanics, which, in theory, make every possible
version of history a realized physical
fact.
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•
The stories that theoretical physicists tell
us are written in the language of mathematics, but
for all its formal rigor, the science has become in
effect a form of speculative literature. Unchained
by the fetters of verification, string theorists
are free to dream, articulating through their
equations vast imagined domains in which almost
anything that is mathematically possible is deemed
to be happening
"somewhere."
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As Randall writes in her opening pages:
"Physics is far more creative and fun than people
generally recognize."
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See More Magic Castle Story.
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"The whole evening," said
Josie, "was a liken to those men and women who work
in the field of attempting to define the
differences between the wireless telephony and
telegraphy of the 20th century. In today's
theoretical physics, it is now common practice to
talk about other dimensions of reality, entire
landscapes of universes for which there is no
empirical evidence whatever. FOR
MORE STORY ABOUT STRING
THEORY •
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"At least", says Josie,
"what you saw disappear in front of your eyes, you
got back at the end of the session by the magic
practitioner."
Part
02
-- The
Theory of Creating Magical Formulas, concepts, after
the original invention.
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The
more you learn about people, the more reasons you
may find not wanting to buy their product, if they
even have one with
content.
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•For
instance, the biggest problem with "Marconi" is not
of his telegraphony dit dah's making, it was his
politics. The more we learn about Marconi, the less
we like him and, correspondingly, the less we care
about his Dit dah radio invention.
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Marconi (1874-1937) was
truly a ground breaking inventor; one of the first
telecommunication winners of the 1909 Nobel Prize
for physics, (Karl Ferdinand Braun of Germany,
shared the prize), in recognition for their
contribution to the development of wireless
telegraphy, a feat that few have equaled. Because
he knew so many important cultural figures -- he
was a close friend of both Mussolini and the Nazi
leaders -- his life offers a chance to tell a much
grander saga of the times. Mussolini made him
president of the Accademia d'Italia.
MORE
ABOUT
Awards and
Payola.
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Particularly when writing about radio,
publishings achieve that larger vision. But Marconi
was also a deeply troubled man, as the numerous
tales of his 1927 infidelities while married to
Beatrice and Countess Bezzi-Scali. Marconi's first
marriage to Beatrice O'Brian, daughter of the 14th
Baron Inchiquin of Ireland, was annulled after 18
years, the same year he married Countess
Bezzi-Scali. History attests to the fact that
Marconi joined Mussolini's Fascist Party in Italy,
in 1923. He had many fractious relationships and
was absent from his post-war duties to his company.
MORE
ABOUT
Awards and Payola.
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Einstein •
•IN
MANY WAYS, Einstein's theory, easier to understand
than string theorists explaining the extension of
the universe, is just one more step in a historical
chain of cosmic expansions. But neither has
CONTENT.
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Did
you hear Einstein's Voice explaining his theory on
Energy? The explanation
of his 1905 theory was broadcast over the NBS100
radio frequencies in the
1920s.
•
•In
the 17th century, the Newtonian revolution expanded
our vision by positing that the point-like stars
were other material suns with their own planetary
systems.
•
•
A century later, Immanuel
Kant suggested that the hazy astronomical blobs
known as "nebulae" were each separate galaxies, a
notion of immensity so staggering it beggared
belief at the time. From one material planet to
many; from one star to many; from one galaxy to
many; and now, according to string theory, our
vision must expand from one space-time to many.
FOR
MORE STORY GO TO EINSTEIN IN
SOULFIND
It's about 10 or 11 dimensions
on top of the fifth dimension we've already heard
about. What's inside the delightful book titled,
"Warped Passages", authored by Harvard physicist
Lisa Randall describes the idea that the universe
we see around us is -- but one tiny part of a vast
reality that may include an infinite number of
other universes.
•
•
According to general
relativity, says Harvard physicist Lisa Randall, -
explains that the universe we live in has four
dimensions: three of space and one of time.
Randall's work extends this framework and posits
the existence of a fifth dimension. The fifth
dimension is the bulk, and within its immeasurably
expanded space, there is no reason to assume that
ours is the only
cosmos.
•
•
Evidence for this new
dimension is nonexistent. The reason it is being
imagined is to resolve a puzzle about gravity: Why
is it that when you put a magnet on your fridge
door, the magnet sticks to the fridge rather than
falling to the floor? How is it that the tiny
magnet exerts a bigger force than our whole
planet?
•
•
The difference here is that
the prior extensions were prompted by observations
of distant phenomenon. The extra dimensions of
string theory and the other universes they might
entail have never been observed and, in principle,
they may not be observable, at least not directly.
At present they are pure fictions.
•
•
String theory is so fecund
in its descriptive power that one physicist has
estimated there may be as many as 10 to the power
of 100 different versions of its equations! Each
one articulates a different set of possible
universes and, at present, there is no way of
determining if our universe matches any of
them.
•
•
Once upon a time, the sine
qua non of scientific practice was supposed to be
empirical verification. Experimental evidence was
the core principle of Francis Bacon's much-vaunted
"scientific method." In truth, the picture has
always been more complex. Science is also an engine
of the imagination, leading our minds beyond the
mundane realm of what is to the enchanted regions
of what might
be.
•
•
Nowhere is the speculative
dimension of science more prominent than
theoretical or
(concept)
physics, which has given us such magical
possibilities as time machines made from spinning
black holes, wormholes that become portals to the
far ends of the universe and the "parallel worlds"
of quantum mechanics, which, in theory, make every
possible version of history a realized physical
fact.
•
•
The stories that theoretical
physicists tell us -- are most often than not, are
written in the language of mathematics,
like
Eistiens E=mc2, but for
all its formal rigor, the science has become in
effect a form of speculative literature. Unchained
by the fetters of verification, string theorist,
or galaxy
dream theorists as they would like to call
themselves, are free to
dream, articulating through their equations vast
imagined domains in which almost anything that is
mathematically possible is deemed to be happening
"somewhere," -- like the broadcasting of radio
signals vs. wireless telephne
frequencies.
•
•As
Randall writes in her opening pages: "Physics is
far more creative and fun than people generally
recognize."
•
•
Randall is an expert on both
cosmology and that arcane branch of particle
physics known as string theory. By marrying the two
fields, she and her colleagues have formulated a
picture in which our universe may be seen as a
soap-film-like membrane (a "braneworld") sitting
inside a much larger space: the bulk.
E=mc2
/
"It
followed from the special theory of relativity that
mass and energy are both but different
manifestations of the same thing -- a somewhat
unfamiliar conception for the average mind.
Furthermore, the equation E is equal to m
c-squared, in which energy is put equal to mass,
multiplied by the square of the velocity of light,
showed that very small amounts of mass may be
converted into a very large amount of energy and
vice versa.
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The mass and energy were in
fact equivalent, according to the formula mentioned
above. This was demonstrated by Cockcroft and
Walton in 1932,
experimentally."
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In March, and in May, 1905,
Einstein sent to the Annalen der Physik, the
leading German physics journal, a paper with a new
understanding of the structure of light. He argued
that light can act as though it consists of
discrete, independent particles of energy, in some
ways like the particles of a gas.
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A few years before, Max
Planck's work had contained the first suggestion of
a discreteness in energy, but Einstein went far
beyond this. His revolutionary proposal seemed to
contradict the universally accepted theory that
light consists of smoothly oscillating
electromagnetic waves. But Einstein showed that
light quanta, as he called the particles of energy,
could help to explain phenomena being studied by
experimental physicists. For example, he made clear
how light ejects electrons from
metals.
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May, 1905, he Annalen der
Physik received another paper from Einstein. The
well-known kinetic energy theory explained heat as
an effect of the ceaseless agitated motion of
atoms; Einstein proposed a way to put the theory to
a new and crucial experimental test.
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If tiny but visible
particles were suspended in a liquid, he said, the
irregular bombardment by the liquid's invisible
atoms should cause the suspended particles to carry
out a random jittering dance. Just such a random
dance of microscopic particles had long since been
observed by biologists (It was called "Brownian
motion," an unsolved mystery). Now Einstein had
explained the motion in detail. He had reinforced
the kinetic theory, and he had created a powerful
new tool for studying the movement of atoms.
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June 1905 Einstein sent the
Annalen der Physik a paper on electromagnetism and
motion. Since the time of Galileo and Newton,
physicists had known that laboratory measurements
of mechanical processes could never show any
difference between an apparatus at rest and an
apparatus moving at constant speed in a straight
line.
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Objects behave the same way
on a uniformly moving ship as on a ship at the
dock; this is called the Principle of Relativity.
But according to the electromagnetic theory,
developed by Maxwell and refined by Lorentz, light
should not obey this principle. Their
electromagnetic theory predicted that measurements
on the velocity of light would show the effects of
motion. Yet no such effect had been detected in any
of the ingenious and delicate experiments that
physicists had devised: the velocity of light did
not
vary.
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Einstein had long been
convinced that the Principle of Relativity must
apply to all phenomena, mechanical or not. Now he
found a way to show that this principle was
compatible with electromagnetic theory after all.
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As Einstein later remarked,
reconciling these seemingly incompatible ideas
required "only" a new and more careful
consideration of the concept of time. His new
theory, later called the special theory of
relativity, was based on a novel analysis of space
and time -- an analysis so clear and revealing that
it can be understood by beginning science
students.
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September, 1905 - Einstein
reported a remarkable consequence of his special
theory of relativity: if a body emits a certain
amount of energy, then the mass of that body must
decrease by a proportionate amount. Meanwhile he
wrote a friend, "The relativity principle in
connection with the Maxwell equations demands that
the mass is a direct measure for the energy
contained in bodies; light transfers
mass..
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•This
thought is amusing and infectious, but I cannot
possibly know whether the good Lord does not laugh
at it and has led me up the garden path." Einstein
and many others were soon convinced of its truth.
The relationship is expressed as an equation:
E=mc?. This achievement translates into higher
advertising rates and all the
rest •
•The
creative and the financial are also intrinsically
related when it comes to production budgets.
Throwing money at projects is not a substitute for
creativity. Discipline and innovation are often the
complementary sides of the same
coin.
•
•Inventive
genius can drive phenomenal returns on investment.
Look what Chaplin did with a cane and tramp suit,
or what Jim Henson did with felt and a ping pong
ball. Their materials may have been commonplace,
but their visions were uncommon. And, in financial
terms, the return on investment on uncommon vision
is virtually
infinite.
•
•Content
from this community My thesis to you is that as
long as we allow our incredible tradition of
creativity to persist, then the doomsdayers will
continue to be proved wrong, as content from this
community will be viewed on whatever entertainment
hardware is available &endash; whether a digitally
projected film on a 5-story Imax screen at
CityWalk, or a scratched 16 millimeter print on a
bed sheet in Somalia. Unfortunately, this is easier
said than done. As they say, the entertainment
industry isn't brain
surgery.
•
•It's
harder. Brain surgery requires an understanding of
the intricate physical workings of our brain.
Successful entertainment requires an understanding
of the emotional jumble of the mind. It is hard to
track the electrical connections of a neural
synapse. It is even harder to track the emotional
connections that result in a laugh or a
cry.
