Telescopic Evolution

Waking Life excerpt:

Futurist Ray Kurzweil now has a major picture motion!
A film adaptation of Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near will premier later this year. Cutting edge graphics and concepts will be employed to make this interesting.

Clink HERE.

McKenna, CERN and the time-travelers

You may have noticed the many articles popping up describing the anticipation felt by the world physics community over the completion of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, specifically the idea that the first experiments may serve as a portal for future time-travelers to burst into our dimension and turn our age into a cosmic tourist-trap. This sounds strange coming from some of the most advance scientists in the world but the idea was already espoused by Terence McKenna. When asked to describe what his proposed 2012 eschaton would actually be, he would first explain how speculation is near impossible due to things like event horizons and catastrophe theory but then he offered the analogy of the first time-machine being invented that could forward and back through time but not before the time-machine was invented. So on that day all these time-trotters would show up on that momentous day for history, and thus revealing the endpoint of the novelty/habit wave of history.
Just goes to show, you don't need a physics degree to understand the contours of the multiverse, just 5 dried grams'll do the trick.

Here's one of the many blurbs and articles about the CERN LHC time travel idea:

Futurenauts Using Ultra-duper Atomsmasher

& New Scientist cover story.

Synchronicities

If you've ever read any Robert Anton Wilson or Alistair Crowley or occult conspiracy material, you will have heard of the particular place the number 23 holds in reality. Or if you haven't been exposed to 23's ubiquity then I refer you to the recent Jim Carey thriller, The Number 23. Well, the simplest universal program (universal computer) was proved to be a 2-3 Turing machine about a month ago! A 2-3 Universal Turing machine is like cellular automata with two states and three colors, and contains every pattern possible. A 7-state, 4-color machine from 1962 held the record until now. Proved in 20 pages by a 20 year old, it was an historic breakthrough in mathematics and the info-sciences (more info below). So, relax all you 23ers, you were right. No matter how hard you try, you will never stop seeing 23s EVERYWHERE!!
In celebration, watch this strange short film!
(seriously, watch this film, it's wild.)


More info on the universal computer:
New Scientist
Stephen Wolfram's blog

LISA Gravitational Wave Observatory

This is crazy! Seriously phenomenal. (Attention Span Warning: This is nine minutes long. Do not attempt to watch unless you are in the mood for some advanced poetry, science, or concepts! (or stoned, perhaps.))

... Sometimes it's hard to follow the weird voice... but I think it'is an O-K method of relaying this information. Voot!
Summary from Youtube:
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna or LISA mission will study the mergers of supermassive black holes, test Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, and probe the early Universe. Detecting gravitational waves is a new way to observe the Universe. Through them we will learn more about the mergers of giant black holes and the death spirals of stars that black holes capture and swallow. LISA will look for gravitational waves coming from our Galaxy and other galaxies. LISA will also map the structure of space and time around black holes and determine if Einstein's theories are correct.

No vacuums, just noodles please...

Scientists revelation: The universe is a bowl of noodles!
Light and matter unified in 'string-net liquid' theory and Herbertsmitherite is a new type of matter that may be the silicon of the quantum computer.
Go to: New Scientist

The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken

7 minutes.

Must-know terms for the 21st cent. intellectual

(Sentient Developments, Jan. 11, 2007)

George P. Dvorsky has created a list of the most fundamental and crucial terms that re-define the human condition and should be known by any expert generalist.

They include Accelerating Change, Anthropic Principle, Artificial General Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Cosmological Eschatology, Engineered Negligible Senescence, Mind Transfer (Uploading), Molecular Assembler, and of course, Technological Singularity.
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The biggest, most expensive experiment in history

is being built.

and then if you want to learn more, or get a real idea of just how collosal this is, watch this;
(pt. 1)

(pt. 2)