MIT's Peter Shor explains why he devised an algorithm for a quantum computer that could unravel our online data encryption http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029445.100-my-quantum-algorithm-wont... // not worth saying this may be relevant to landspeeder development... 'Electromagnon' effect couples electricity and magnetism in materials http://phys.org/news/2013-11-electromagnon-effect-couples-electricity-magnet... "It has been well known for a long time that electricity and magnetism are two sides of the same coin. Waves in free space, such as visible light or mobile phone radiation, always consist of both an electric and a magnetic component. When it comes to material properties, however, electricity and magnetism have been viewed as separate topics." To Settle Infinity Dispute, a New Law of Logic // not _really https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131126-to-settle-infinity-question... note: enormous problems with this. mathematics as if short-fiction. what if concept/cosmology is being influenced by language framework (q: is truth bounded or infinite). hierarchical nesting core of set theory, numberline in this context, why assumed 1d/2d versus N-dimensional. issues of bounded infinity everywhere (particle ladder, consciousness), perhaps zero is issue (empty set?) -- metaphysics seem completely off, being and nothingess as set relations not grounded in reality it seems. (note: why three zeroes allowed to diagram infinity as a first question, what if number line is hiearchical, zero different dimension than 1...N) Your Next Phone Will Be The Ultimate Surveillance Machine // via digg http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/your-next-phone-will-be-the-ultimate-s... The internet mystery that has the world baffled // via digg http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10468112/The-inte... // consider consolidating many credit cards into one card with bluetooth, // how if that signal is hacked, access to eight cards combined the bounty... Soon, You Might Pay for Everything With a Coin // via digg http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2013/11/soon-you-might-pay-for-everyth... [correlation between money and desire. what happens when truth is separated from exchange, kept outside or removed from it. what is the guarantee: in <blank> we trust?] Watch The Idea, the First Animated Film to Deal with Big, Philosophical Ideas (1932) http://www.openculture.com/2013/11/the-idea-1932.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MplLxhyzWSg Australia's Using Pop Radio to Track Space Junk http://gizmodo.com/australias-using-pop-radio-to-track-space-junk-1474126810 [quote] 4 Great Tech Ideas That Flopped // via digg http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=pogue-4-great-tech-ideas-th... "The plug-and-play gadget: A spinoff of the PalmPilot called The Handspring Visor held much of the same attraction as the PhoneBloks. It was a handheld organizer with a big cartridge slot on the back. Into it you could snap a range of accessories: more storage, a GPS receiver, a camera, a cellular transmitter, a remote control, a Bluetooth module, an MP3 module or a voice recorder. The Visors were on the market for about four years (1999 to 2003) and have fans to this day. But clearly, the concept of interchangeable gadget parts alone isn’t enough to start a revolution." (note: the above article mentions something repeatedly endlessly about PDA development, that it no longer exists, especially in the context of the Handspring which preceded and was probably a trial for the modularity of the iPhone and iPod Touch (a PDA or networked digital assistant). the Handspring was certainly limited unlike the Apple ecosystem approach which could expand exponentially and had wide software integration, and thus the concept lives on in another product line and its development yet is consistently not attributed this way.) in-article url: Why Snap-Together Cell Phones Will Never Work http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-snap-together-cell-phon... rel. [video] PhoneBLocks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAw7vW7H0c tuning of active exhaust systems (kaaaars) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/car-tips/chamber-music-of-a-diffe... [video] Siberian Ice Drummers http://www.snowaddiction.org/2013/11/the-coolest-music-in-the-world-listen-t... Hüsker Dü - Hare Krsna http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3iXCEhHdUM Hüsker Dü - Eight Miles High http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKyBlJ_JN8 Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND3haD-c0lw --- ring as platform --- emfs-cellphone/linear hall-effect sensor, gyro-mapping bt as datalogger pole-mounted sensor+computer spatio-temp (freq) excavation/stratigraphy 2 axis or 3 axis, nfc/bt, archeo-GRID SENSOR RINGS - ZigBee comms/authentication - potential follow on box/device, monitor signal spacetime within map framework TSCM monitoring of area (radiation, signals, frequencies, etc) integrated in visual real-time data model LED carpet turns the floor into a screen (with video) http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029455.300-led-carpet-turns-the-floo... (note: consider possibility of tempoary maze or labyrinth, especially crypto or security applications, otherwise invisible) [image] ex. electromagnetic aesthetics as context http://lostvhs.com/2013/11/17/point-blank/ How Braille Was Invented http://gizmodo.com/how-braille-was-invented-1471756840 (invention, innovation, resistance, tragedy, victory) Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8UlY8eXCk Kitsch Palace : Das Model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J031_IrO24M This New Polymer Regenerates Large Parts of Itself, Like Lizards Do http://gizmodo.com/this-new-polymer-regenerates-large-parts-of-itself-lik-14... Researchers discover roots of superfluorescent bursts from quantum wells http://phys.org/news/2013-11-roots-superfluorescent-quantum-wells.html [quote] ...mysteries remained, especially in results obtained at low or zero magnetic fields. Kono said the team didn't understand at the time why the wavelength of the burst changed over its 100-picosecond span. Now they do. //... Kono said superfluorescence is a well-known many-body, or cooperative, phenomenon in atomic physics. Many-body theory gives physicists a way to understand how large numbers of interacting particles like molecules, atoms and electrons behave collectively. Superfluorescence is one example of how atoms under tight controls collaborate when triggered by an external source of energy. //... "The quantum well, as before, consisted of stacked blocks of an indium gallium arsenide compound separated by barriers of gallium arsenide. "It's a unique, solid-state environment where many-body effects completely dominate the dynamics of the system," Kono said. "When a strong magnetic field is applied, electrons and holes are fully quantized – that is, constrained in their range of motion—just like electrons in atoms," he said. "So the essential physics in the presence of a high magnetic field is quite similar to that in atomic gases. But as we decrease and eventually eliminate the magnetic field, we're entering a regime atomic physics cannot access, where continua of electronic states, or bands, exist." [unquote] {educational fair-use of copyright, 2013} ∎ ♕ ♞