Extraordinary Off-Grid Hobbit Home only cost £3,000 to build.
Simon Dale's Hobbit House
Simon Dale proves that you don't have to be an architect to design and build a beautiful, cozy, low-energy home. With a few simple tools you can construct an extraordinary hobbit home that has virtually no visual or environmental impact on the surrounding landscape. Using locally-sourced and natural materials taken from the nearby woodlands, a common practice among designers in Wales, alternative energy sources, and a lot of imagination, the self-styled builder has created a gentle, naturally-lit family home that exists in total harmony with nature.
Crystals of golden proportions: Daniel Shechtman received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals, perfectly ordered materials that never repeat themselves.
The X-ray diffraction pattern reflects the atom positions in a crystal.
"It's all about symmetry".
The Discovery of Quasicrystals: The atoms in the crystal in front of Shechtman yielded a forbidden symmetry. It was just as impossible as a football – a sphere – made of only sixcornered polygons. Since then, mosaics with intriguing patterns and the golden ratio in mathematics and art have helped scientists to explain Shechtman’s bewildering observation.
Einstein Was Right, Neutrino's Do Obey The Speed Of Light.
Neutrino's faster than light (>300,000 km/sec)? The most famous equation E=mc^2 turns out to be incorrect? Travellin' in time might theoretically become possible? Virtually everything in modern physics and fundamental laws of nature would have to be rethought. Don't want to think about the implications. Do hope the experiments are flawed and Einstein was right. The Telegraph: CERN-scientists-break-the-speed-of-light
Marc Lee Pusey: Actually, I hope that Albert is proven wrong on this one. Science needs a major game changing shake-up every now and again, and this one looks to be a possible doorway to a fascinating future of possibilities.
Future possibilities far beyond our thoughts indeed. Uncertain about certainty or certain about uncertainty, that's the question. Our minds have to be shaken up too, once in a while.
Neutrino likes Guinness. Btw, was mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records, broke the universal record of speed.
'Atom interrogation, oh, Science you're so Funny'!
Where were you on Facebook, a million years ago? We have G+ now, TALK! First day at G+. Like!
My apologizes, we didn't have Facebook then. Why are you delayed? Did speak neutrino already 20 years ago. Not on Facebook because that didn't exist at that time either. Neutrino said he did leave at the same time as you did a million years... ago and travelled faster than the speed of light. Your speed was 6000 m/s less than neutrino's. What took you so long? Was it because you thought Einstein's oldfashioned E=mc2 was still valid then? You should have upgraded your engine like neutrino's.
E = NEQ mc2:
Neutrino's can travel even faster than light,
Then Einstein's equation was not quite right,
Scientists confused,
Others pretty amused,
Would it be possible now to book a time-flight?
Marc Lee Pusey: I'll be booking mine in the future to come back to now and help me get stuff done.
You can already order some pints of Guinness in advance in the future and empty them when you'll be back to now. Fresher than fresh. Unfortunately, at least one disadvantage, the price!
"The Crystal's Cave" or "Giant Crystal Cave" is a cave connected to the Naica mine in Mexico.Geologist Juan Manuel García-Ruiz of Granada's University calls this cave with stunning crystals "the Sistine Chapel of crystals". The cave at a depth of 300 m is extremely hot with air temperatures reaching up to 58 °C with 90 to 99 percent humidity. This is due to an underground magma chamber below the cave. The magma heated the ground water and it became saturated with minerals, including large quantities of gypsum (CaSO4.2H2O). The hollow space of the cave was filled with this mineral rich hot water and remained filled for about 500,000 years. During this time, the temperature of the water remained very stable at over 50°C. This allowed crystals to form and grow to immense sizes. The main chamber contains giant selenite (crystallized gypsum or CaSO4.2H2O) crystals. The cave's largest crystal found to date is 11 m in length, 4 m in diameter and 55 tons in weight. The floor of the cave is covered with perfectly-faceted crystalline blocks. Huge crystal beams jut out from both the blocks and the floor.
At the same level two other caverns were discovered, "The Queen’s Eye Cave" and "The Candle's Cave".
"The Cave of Swords" is located at a depth of 120 m, above the Cave of Crystals, and contains spectacular, smaller (1-2 m long) crystals.
"The Ice Palace" is at a depth of 150 m and is not flooded, but its crystal formations are much smaller, with small 'cauliflower' formations and fine, threadlike crystals.
An optical or visual illusion can be created by fooling the brain. The explanation for this phenomena is that the information obtained through the eyes is used for only 20% by the brain to form an image. The rest is complemented by the brain through past experience, expectations and other senses. The resulting image is only an extrapolated interpretation of reality. Therefore, reality can be interpreted differently and result in an optical illusion. The brain can be considered as a bit sloppy in this respect, most likely for reasons of 'efficiency' at the cost of accuracy. Unfortunately, the failure must be taken for granted. Nevertheless, optical illusions can be fascinating, enjoyable and awesome. Enjoy!
Spinning Dancers
'Visual illusions: Dissociation between perception and reality'.
"Visual illusions are defined by the dissociation between physical reality and subjective perception of an object or event. When we experience a visual illusion, we may see something that is not there, or fail to see something that is there, or even see something different from what is there. Because of this dissociation between perception and reality, visual illusions demonstrate the ways in which the brain can fail to recreate the physical world" (by Martinez-Conde)
Silencing illusion
'We see things as we would like to see things'. There's an analogy with the above mentioned influence of a past event or experience on the brain. Our brain determines our view based on our experience and in this way our thoughts and views are mostly formed on the basis of prejudice and therefore free thoughts on a particular subject will be blocked. If we experience something it will be imprinted in our brain together with our expectation and view in view of a possible recurring occurence. As a consequence, our thoughts and view won't change easily, our thoughts about the subject are 'stuck'. If this is the case we then should feed our brain with a renewed vision by forcing ourselves to have a look at it from the other side. In this way a negative view or opinion can be changed in a positive one (Avatar). However, we see things as we would like to see things. The conscious and unconscious observations of reality will pass several 'filters' of our brain and will be incomplete and/or transformed into distorted reflections of 'reality'. Our views are to some extent coloured by our mind. The world around us will be interpreted differently by each of us. This is why we experience life differently. A positive or negative attitude matters a lot and in fact will result in different views on the world. We experience reality only as an approximation of reality. The phenomena of visual illusions is a nice example that our brain can fool us. Be aware and stay always on guard, you can and you will be cheated. Again, reality will only be experienced as an approximation of reality and will never be complete or real!
