Black Holes & Entanglement

Black Holes & Entanglement.

Facts:

• Heavy objects warp the fabric of space itself.

• In a black hole, space becomes infinitely curved: As you go deeper into the black hole, space becomes ever more curvy until, at the centre, it becomes infinitely curved. This is the singularity. 

• The boundary of a black hole might be a blazing firewall.

• Once you fall in, there's no coming out.

• Nobody is sure what lies inside a black hole.

• Black holes distort passing light rays, causing "lensing".

• Black holes can pull material away from nearby stars.

Images and site from BBC-Earth: The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole

• Entanglement: Widely-separated particles can be spookily "entangled". Two sets of particles that are separated in space are mysteriously "entangled". They are part of a single, indivisible whole, so that the information needed to describe them can't be found in either set alone, but in the spooky links between them.    

Links: 

• 2015 BBC-Earth: The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole

• ColumnAry blogspot: Zwarte gaten

Ayreon

AyReOn.

Familiar with "rock operas" ('Tommy', The Who), thematic musical projects (Alan Parsons Project / 'Tubular Bells', Mike Oldfield / 'Sgt. Pepper's', The Beatles / albums from Pink Floyd: Animals, Ummagumma, The Wall) and you like music from The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Yes or EmersonLake&Palmer?

In that case I would like to draw your attention to Arjen Lucassen, a Dutch singer, songwriter, composer, multi instrumentalist and record producer. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Everything_%28album%29

Styles: heavy metal, progressive rock, psychedelic, folk, classical, electronica 
Projects: Ayreon, Ambeon, Star One, Guilt Machine, Stream of Passion


The track title 'Pink Beatles in a Purple Zeppelin'  from the album 'Lost in the New Real' reflects that he's influenced by the holy trinity: Beatles, Floyd, Zeppelin (and Deep Purple?)

Pink Beatles in a Purple Zeppelin

Discography:

1994 - Pools of Sorrow, Waves of Joy
1996 - Strange Hobby
2012 - Lost in the New Real*

Ambeon: 
2000 - Fate of a Dreamer

Guilt Machine: 
2009 - On this Perfect Day

Stream of Passion: 
2005 - Embrace the Storm
2006 - Live in the Real World

Star One:
2002 - Space Metal
           Victims of the Modern Age
2003 - Live on Earth:

Ayreon:
1995 - The Final Experiment
1996 - Actual Fantasy
1998 - Into the Electric Castle
2000 - Ayreonauts Only
2000 - The Universal Migrator 
          part 1: The Dream Sequencer, part 2:Flight of the Migrator
2004 - The Human Equation 
2008 - Timeline 
2008 - 01011001
2013 - The Theory of Everything*
          phase 1: Singularity, 2: Symmetry, 3: Entanglement, 4: Unificaton

Lost in the New Real, full song preview

links:

- album track (Theory of Everything)

- album trailer (Theory of Everything)

- Theory of Everything: phase1 Singularity

- Theory of Everything: phase2 Symmetry

- Theory of Everything: phase3 Entanglement

- Theory of Everything: phase4 Unification

- Lost in the New Real, full song preview

- Promo trailer for Lost in the New Real

- Pink Beatles in a Purple Zeppelin

- Welcome to the Machine (Pink Floyd cover)

- The Battle of Evermore (Led Zeppelin cover)

- Lost in the New Real (Wikipedia)

- Ayeron (Wikipedia)

- The Theory of Everything (Wikipedia)

- homepage : http://www.arjenlucassen.com/content/video/ 
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArjenLucassenOfficial

 

NickCave

NiCkCaVe.

New Album from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: "Push The Sky Away"

Fabulous:

Tracks:

1. We No Who U R
2. Wide Lovely Eyes
3. Water's Edge
4. Jubilee Street
5. Mermaids
6. We Real Cool
7. Finishing Jubilee Street
8. Higgs Boson Blues
9. Push The Sky Away


Links:

• Where The Wild Roses Grow with Kylie Minogue    (and another version)

• Henry Lee with P.J. Harvey 

• YouTube:WeNoWhoUR

• See more on Pitchfork

• 2015: Deadly Cliff fall of Nick Cave's son

Beth Hart

BeTh HaRt.

Beth Hart is sensational, stunning on stage and an awesome singer
Music style: Rock, Blues, Gospel, Jazz, Classical
Related artist: Janis Joplin

My personal fav's:
album: Live At Paradiso (2005)
songs: Whole Lotta Love, L.A. Song, Leave The Light On
clips: Whole Lotta Love (Paradiso), I'd Rather Go Blind (Kennedy Center Honors 2012)

Like her on Facebook.

album cover from Live At Paradiso Amsterdam

                  

pic from My Space

 Video's:

album cover: Beth Hart, live bij Giel 

(Bang Bang Boom Boom, I Need A Dollar, Baddest Blues)

Bang Bang Boom Boom (Official Video)

I'd Rather Go Blind (with Jeff Beck, Kennedy Center Honors 2012)

Stairway To Heaven: Ann & Nancy Wilson from Heart (Kennedy Center Honors 2012)

Whole Lotta Love (Live At Paradiso 2004)

Live At Paradiso (Full Concert 2004)

Am I The One

Albums:

1. Beth Hart and the Ocean of Souls (1993, CD re-issued in 2009)
2. Immortal (1996)
3. Screamin' for My Supper (1999)
4. Leave the Light On (2003)
5. Live at Paradiso (2005, also available on DVD)
6. 37 Days (2007, also available on European-released 37 Days Live DVD)
7. My California (2010)
8. Don't Explain (2011, with Joe Bonamassa)
9. Bang Bang Boom Boom (2012)
10. Seesaw (2013, with Joe Bonamassa)

Links:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialbethhart

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/BethHart/

• Website: http://www.bethhart.com/

• My Space: http://www.myspace.com/hartrocks

- 28 November 2013 concert in Paradiso, Amsterdam

Stuff of Matter

Stuff of Matter, Stuff that Matters.

The periodic table of chemical elements is a masterpiece of organized chemical information. The elements represent stuff of matter, stuff that matters. Not only on Earth but also on other celestial bodies. 
Dark matter is a special type of matter. It accounts for an estimated 84% of matter in the universe and 23% of the mass-energy. Dark matter cannot been observed by eye, it doesn't emit or absorb light or other electromagnetic radiation at any significant level. Instead, its existence and properties are inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter, radiation, and the large scale structure of the universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter).

With the aid of the Hubble Space Telescope it was possible to identify a small filament of dark matter, an invisible cosmic structure that can only be detected by the gravitational effects it has on its surroundings. Scientists have been able to construct a 3-D view of the filament, the first time ever that the difficult-to-detect dark matter has been measured in such detail (https://www.facebook.com/AstrophysicsAndAstronomy).

First 3-D model of dark matter

The Periodic Table of Elements: 

The periodic table of elements according to relative abundance. The table will vary for other celestial bodies. Who cares? 

https://www.facebook.com/AnalyticalChemistryTechniques

The version of the periodic table of elements below visualizes the occurrence of the particular elements in objects of daily life.

http://www.sciencegeek.net/tables/tables.shtml

Dmitri Mendeleev (creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements in 1869).

Dmitri Mendeleev:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev

And what about this one?

Links:

• WebElements: Lots of key information about the chemical elements of the periodic table (http://www.webelements.com/index.html)
• The Universe: A facebook platform dediicated to discussion Astronomy and Astrophysics (https://www.facebook.com/AstrophysicsAndAstronomy) 

Creative Thinking

CrEaTiVe Thinking.

Think like a wise fool. The wise fool will reverse our standard assumptions, notices things that other people overlook, can be irreverent, cryptic, absurd, takes the contrary position in most conversations and stimulates thinking. 
Example: "If a man is sitting on a horse facing the rear, WHY do we assume that it is the man who is backwards, and not the horse?".

The Wise Fool 

(from Roger von Oech)

To create, a person must:

• Have knowledge but forget the knowledge
• See unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder
• Work hard but spend time doing nothing
• Create many ideas yet most of them are useless
• Look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different
• Desire success but learn how to fail
• Be persistent but not stubborn
• Listen to experts but know how to disregard them

 

from SayPeople

from deviantART

Links:

http://blog.creativethink.com/2011/08/think-like-a-wise-fool.html

from Michael Michalko

Mutefish Live

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Majorana particles

Majorana fermions.

Dutch researchers discovered the predicted Majorana particles (quasiparticles that are their own antiparticles). Computer technology based on quantum bits (qubits, 0 AND 1 at the same time) i.s.o. bits (0 or 1) will result in very fast computers, which in turn will speed up development of e.g. medicins. 

Fermions vs. Bosons: 

"Particles and quasiparticles come in two basic types, fermions and bosons, depending on the type of spin they have. The elementary particles of matter (electrons, quarks and neutrinos) are fermions, while photons and other force carriers are bosons. Particles are paired with antiparticles—antimatter electrons are positrons, etc.—but photons are their own antiparticles. To annihilate, particles and antiparticles must have opposite charge, so Majorana fermions, which are their own antiparticles, need to be electrically-neutral. At present, no fermion is known to be its own antiparticle, although neutrinos may have this property (we don't yet know)." 

majorana-fermions-in-a-nanowire

arXiv

The Physics arXiv blog.

 http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/

My most favourite blog is by far that from the Technology Review: "The Physics arXiv blog". Some very interesting topics below: 

• Mathematical Model Computes Snow Flake Shapes for the First Time

• Self Portrait of Young Leonardo da Vinci

• How Neutrino Beams Could Reveal Cavities Inside Earth

• Electron Holography Produces First Image of a Single Protein

• Physicists Predict The Existence of Time Crystals

Holography of a Protein Molecule

Time Crystals

Snow Flakes

Leonardo

Images are from Technology review.
 

SnapIt

SnapIt.

The screen capture software SnapIt captures anything you see on your PC screen. It is a convenient tool for graphic designers, bloggers who capture and crop images for their posts, for tech writers who need to describe menus and interfaces of applications, web designers and those who work with graphics every day. It captures and auto saves images with one click.

Researchers 'recreated' a Stradivarius for the first time by making use of hi-tech tools such as X-Ray images, CT scanning and computer-aided carvin.

Unfortunately, we can't make use of these hi-tech tools. The only tool we have is making screenshots. Cropping these screenshots after being captured with PrtScrn is often a hassle. The handy tool SnapIt is a covenient solution to tackle these problems.

* Supports hotkeys, auto-saving, clipboard
* Automatically copies screenshots to the clipboard
* Tracks capture history, auto-saves captured images
* Saves files in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF formats

* Auto-names captured images

SnapIt, a convenient tool for us bloggers

 <a href="http://www.digeus.com/products/snapit/snapit_screen_capture_3_5.html">Screen Capture Software</a>

SpiderSilkMusic

Spider Silk and Music.

Comparing the structure-function relationships in spider silk and a musical composition. Ontology Logs (ologs) connects spider silk and music.

MIT researchers claim that there is a deep relation between the lightweight strength in spider silk and the sonic structure of a melody in a music composition. This may be beneficial for the development of materials with repeating patterns. Spider silk has a repeating structure at nano level. The step-by-step comparison begins with the primary building blocks: an amino acid and a sound wave, and moves up to the level of a beta sheet nanocomposite (the secondary structure of a protein consists of repeated hierarchical patterns of protein assemblages) and a musical riff (a repeated pattern of notes or chords). 

i)   nanotech-now.com
ii)  crazyengineers.com 

iii) web.mit.edu

PLoS ONE: Protein 3D Structure Computed from Evolutionary Sequence Variation

Here is another interesting example (olog) of structure-function relationships: the prediction of the protein 3D structure from the aminoacid sequence (including a GPCR membrane protein). The blinded inferences are de novo, i.e., they do not use homology modeling or sequence-similar fragments from known structures. The co-evolution signals provide sufficient information to determine accurate 3D protein structure to 2.7–4.8 Å Cα-RMSD error relative to the observed structure, over at least two-thirds of the protein (method called EVfold, details at http://EVfold.org/). This discovery provides insight into essential interactions constraining protein evolution and will facilitate a comprehensive survey of the universe of protein structures, new strategies in protein and drug design, and the identification of functional genetic variants in normal and disease genomes.

DWDD Recordings

DWDD Recordings - Melkweg Amsterdam 2011.

Ruben Block (Triggerfinger)

Playlist

DWDD recordings

YouTube
2CD

 

Line-up part I: Video Part I & recordings part I

Waylon, Miss Montreal, Frank Boeijen, Dazzled Kid, Fay Lovsky, Blaudzun, Stefan Schill, Saskia en Serge, Wouter Hamel, Ruben Block, Roosbeef, Hans Vandenburg, Lenny Kuhr, Bertolf, Hans de Booij, Anneke van Giersbergen, Jack Poels. 

Line-up part II: Video Part II

Bennie Jolink, Marike Jager, Anita Meijer, Jan Dulles & Jaap Kwakman, Elle Bandita, Krystl, Ben Cramer, Sabrina Starke, Torre Florim, Jacqueline Govaert, Jan Smit, Ellen ten Damme, Thé Lau, Janne Schra, Mathilde Santing, Felix Maginn, Stevie Ann, Alain Clark.