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Sunday, October 11, 2015
WAR IS INSANITY!
What if we had a nuclear war tomorrow? How many Atomic or Hydrogen bombs would it take to wipe out billions of people? How many men and women and children would die horrific deaths? Why have we allowed a few powerful and dangerous human beings the ability to destroy Syria and to create a face to face confrontation with Russia and the United States? This insanity must stop! The tidal waves of refugees must be slowed and reversed and Syria as a country must be saved!
One small ray of hope is that the United States has militarily backed out of Syria and avoided a dangerous confrontation with Russia. The Russians may believe they have won but they are now stuck with a hot potato. They and not the Americans will be reaping the political and economic consequences of their current actions in Syria. The country is in shambles. Thousands of buildings have been destroyed. The economy is gone and millions of people have fled the country and all for what? So a few sick people can claim victory? Victory over what?
The future is here and now and a little scary! With quantum logic gate intelligence, Robots will be soon walking around doing the hard labor for us until the day they decide to take over.
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Posted: Oct 05, 2015
A quantum logic gate in silicon built for the for the first time (w/video)
(Nanowerk News) The significant advance, by a team at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney appears today in the international journal Nature ("A two-qubit logic gate in silicon").
"What we have is a game changer," said team leader Andrew Dzurak, Scientia Professor and Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at UNSW.
"We've demonstrated a two-qubit logic gate - the central building block of a quantum computer - and, significantly, done it in silicon. Because we use essentially the same device technology as existing computer chips, we believe it will be much easier to manufacture a full-scale processor chip than for any of the leading designs, which rely on more exotic technologies.
"This makes the building of a quantum computer much more feasible, since it is based on the same manufacturing technology as today's computer industry," he added.
This image shows inside the laboratories at ANFF, where the researchers designed and built the world's first two-qubit logic gate. (Image: UNSW)
The advance represents the final physical component needed to realise the promise of super-powerful silicon quantum computers, which harness the science of the very small - the strange behaviour of subatomic particles - to solve computing challenges that are beyond the reach of even today's fastest supercomputers.
In classical computers, data is rendered as binary bits, which are always in one of two states: 0 or 1. However, a quantum bit (or 'qubit') can exist in both of these states at once, a condition known as a superposition. A qubit operation exploits this quantum weirdness by allowing many computations to be performed in parallel (a two-qubit system performs the operation on 4 values, a three-qubit system on 8, and so on).
"If quantum computers are to become a reality, the ability to conduct one- and two-qubit calculations are essential," said Dzurak, who jointly led the team in 2012 who demonstrated the first ever silicon qubit, also reported in Nature.
Until now, it had not been possible to make two quantum bits 'talk' to each other - and thereby create a logic gate - using silicon. But the UNSW team - working with Professor Kohei M. Itoh of Japan's Keio University - has done just that for the first time.
The result means that all of the physical building blocks for a silicon-based quantum computer have now been successfully constructed, allowing engineers to finally begin the task of designing and building a functioning quantum computer.
A key advantage of the UNSW approach is that they have reconfigured the 'transistors' that are used to define the bits in existing silicon chips, and turned them into qubits. "The silicon chip in your smartphone or tablet already has around one billion transistors on it, with each transistor less than 100 billionths of a metre in size," said Dr Menno Veldhorst, a UNSW Research Fellow and the lead author of the Nature paper.
"We've morphed those silicon transistors into quantum bits by ensuring that each has only one electron associated with it. We then store the binary code of 0 or 1 on the 'spin' of the electron, which is associated with the electron's tiny magnetic field," he added.
Dzurak noted that that the team had recently "patented a design for a full-scale quantum computer chip that would allow for millions of our qubits, all doing the types of calculations that we've just experimentally demonstrated."
He said that a key next step for the project is to identify the right industry partners to work with to manufacture the full-scale quantum processor chip.
Such a full-scale quantum processor would have major applications in the finance, security and healthcare sectors, allowing the identification and development of new medicines by greatly accelerating the computer-aided design of pharmaceutical compounds (and minimizing lengthy trial and error testing); the development of new, lighter and stronger materials spanning consumer electronics to aircraft; and faster information searching through large databases.
Source: University of New South Wales
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Time is a human cultural invention created to measure the movement of energy. In my philosophical sense of reality, ' Time ' does not exist as a physical entity unless you believe that: Time = Energy. The speed of changing Energy does absolutely exist as a physical entity. That motion of energy, whether fast or slow, is what we measure in comparison with our own human energy. We tend to confuse our measure of energy which we call Time, with the reality of eternal energy. A timeless eternity of changing energy constantly evolving into different shapes and forms of matter including forms of life. A mind blowing concept! Especially when you throw in the concept of anti-matter. Many call eternal energyGod for short.
Einstein found that energy equalled mass multiplied by the speed of light squared. Joseph Raglione found that Time is energy. A human measure of external energy in comparison to human internal energy. Humans have linked their measure called Time with eternal energy and Energy is Mass multiplied by the speed of light squared. Also and to reverse Einstein's Theory, Mass equals energy minus the speed of light squared. The common denominator is the speed of light squared and the question is: What exactly is the speed of light squared? NASA scientists have begun answering some of our most basic questions and it is worth our energy to contemplate what they have learned.
P.S. For fun, exchange the word Time with the word Energy. Look at your watch and think, what energy is it? If my watch needles rotated backward would they still be measuring eternal energy? If my watch is broken how much energy must pass before my watch changes into a state of dust and where does the dust go? Remember the old theory that energy cannot be created or destroyed? If it cannot be created or destroyed energy must be timeless!
10:18 AM
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Gentle Readers:
We are having a federal election in Canada and Three media spot-lighted federal candidates seem to be clones of each other! Thomas Mulcair, the one politician I believed would protect the environment, has not declared himself pro-environment and against the oil pipe-line that his so called opponent, Stephen Harper, so desperately wants to impliment across the continent. Why? My educated guess is that prime minister Harper wants to please the Chinese government who own a large junk of the Canadian Alberta Tar sands. A pipe-line would help deliver Bitumin oil to our shipping ports and then to China a lot faster than trains and trucks. Tom Mulcair also understands this and neither one of them seem to give a Rat's Ass about the environment!
Justin Trudeau, third in line to the political throne, is a Liberal blowing in the wind. He has yet to find a cause for himself and so I am going to give him one. Please Justin, I know you are young enough to be my son but please find out what happened to our municipal Tax money in the province of Quebec! The money certainly did not go to protecting the environment because this week, Montreal announced it is dumping Five Billion Liters of raw sewage into the Saint Laurence River. Five Billion Liters is a lot of raw sewage and why in the name of honesty is it going directly into our river? A river that supports fish and Whales! Is it because the province has not spent one dime creating new water treatement plants?? What happened to our Tax Dollars and why is our provincial so called government continuing to spend billions of Dollars on roads and bridges and highways that continue to cater to the Oil and Gas and Automobile crowd? Apparently they also don't give a Gas Fart about the environment!
There is one dark horse in this race, or I should say Filly, that at least has the intelligence to know what is right and wrong. Her name is Elizabeth May and she is head of the Green Party of Canada. A great many people do not give her a chance of winning because she does not appear to be dangerous enough! Well allow me to correct that image right now! Elizabeth May will be extremely dangerous to liers and thieves and especially to polluters across Canada. Her mandate as head of the Green Party of Canada is to protect the environment and the future for your children! It is time for a change! Vote Green!
acquired September 14, 2015download large Surface Soil Moisture image (188 KB, PNG, 1878x1199)
acquired September 14, 2015download large Root Zone Soil Moisture image (188 KB, PNG, 1878x1199)
acquired September 14, 2015download large Ground Water Storage image (210 KB, PNG, 1878x1199)
At the end of summer 2015, the western United States continues to face a deep, ongoing drought. Conditions were particularly severe in California, Oregon, and Washington, where below-average precipitation has had a large, lasting effect on water supplies.
The shortage is visible to satellites that detect the movement and depletion of water supplies at and below Earth’s surface. The maps above were produced with data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment(GRACE) satellites, combined with other satellite and ground-based measurements. They show the relative amount of water stored near the surface and underground as of September 14, 2015.
The maps do not show an absolute measure of wetness, or water content. Instead they show how water content in mid-September 2015 compares to the average for the same time of year between 1948 and 2012. Dark red represents areas where dry conditions have reached levels that historically occur less than 2 percent of the time (once every 50 or more years).
The top map shows moisture content in the top 2 centimeters (0.8 inches) of surface soil. States near the coasts were significantly drier than normal, while the Southwest and Midwest regions were also affected but to a lesser extent.
However, it takes time for the effects of rainfall or drought to be felt deeper in the ground, which explains the differences between the three maps. The middle map depicts moisture in the “root zone,” or the top meter (39 inches) of soil; the third map shows the state of groundwater in shallow aquifers. While the eastern United States does not show as severe an anomaly at the surface, many aquifers have not recovered from previous deficiencies.
Western states, meanwhile, show far-below-normal conditions at all depths due to the long-term drought. California, for example, is in its fourth year of severe drought. Early in 2015, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dammed the Los Angeles Aqueduct to conserve the limited snowmelt from the Eastern Sierra; for the first time since 1913, the aqueduct stopped carrying runoff from Owens Valley. By April, state officials announced there was no snow in the Sierra Nevada for the first time in 75 years of measurements. The announcement spurred researchers to launch a study of tree rings in the Central Valley. They found that mountain snow—which California relies on for water—has not been so low since the 1500s.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, areas in Washington and Oregon also saw severe or extreme drought conditions in mid-September. As of September 15, extreme drought spanned 67 percent of both states. Low winter snowpack played a role in the summer drought in these states as well.
Drought was ongoing at the same time that the region saw soaring temperatures. According to Weather Underground blogger Christopher Burt, summer 2015 was poised to become the warmest on record in Washington and Oregon.
References and Related Reading
Department of Ecology, State of Washington (2015, September) Drought impacts. Accessed September 17, 2015.
Department of Ecology, State of Washington (2015, September) Washington Drought 2015. Accessed September 17, 2015.
NASA Earth Observatory maps by Joshua Stevens, using data from Matt Rodell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and the GRACE science team. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.
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GRACE
An article from Think Progress.
Pope Francis Looked Happier To Be With The Homeless Than With Members Of Congress
Shortly after finishing his historic address to Congress Thursday morning, Pope Francis declined to stay and talk with lawmakers, choosing to spend his time with a very different group of people: The homeless.
After receiving a standing ovation from Congress, Supreme Court Justices, and various other governmental officials, Francis left the U.S. Capitol to travel to nearby St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. There he spoke before roughly 250 staff and volunteers before joining another 300 people — many of them homeless — for lunch with St. Maria’s Meals, a project of the local branch of Catholic Charities.
“The Son of God came into this world as a homeless person,” Francis told the group, referencing the birth of Jesus Christ, who was born to Joseph and Mary in a stable according to the Biblical account. “[He] knew what it was to start life without a roof over his head. We can imagine what Joseph must have been thinking. How is it that the Son of God has no home? Why are we homeless, why don’t we have housing?”
“Joseph’s questions are timely even today; they accompany all those who throughout history have been, and are, homeless,” Francis said.
Francis was reportedly mobbed by gleeful supporters when he reached the site, but proceeded to work the crowd, wearing a grin noticeably broader than when he addressed Congress earlier that day. Chefs were said to prepare chicken and pasta for the event, creating dishes the local Catholic Charities CEO called “easy to serve, but very healthy, very nutritious.”
The food program began roughly three years ago, and reportedly serves dinner to anywhere from 250 to 500 poverty-stricken or homeless people each Wednesday. Catholic Charities helps run six homeless shelters throughout the city.
“We can find no social or moral justification, no justification whatsoever, for lack of housing,” Francis said. “There are many unjust situations, but we know that God is suffering with us, experiencing them at our side …[Jesus] tells us this clearly: ‘I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink; I was a stranger and you welcomed me.’”
The gesture is part of Francis’ longstanding support for the homeless since becoming pope. In addition to speaking out on behalf of the poor in Evangelii Gaudium, his first exhortation as pontiff, he has also made headlines for personal attempts to help the impoverished: Francis celebrated his birthday in 2014 by giving sleeping bags to the homeless, is rumored to sneak out of the Vatican at night to minister to those sleeping on the streets, and announced last November plans to install showers in St. Peter’s Square to serve those with no place to bathe. He also promised in January that the Vatican will soon start offering free shaves and haircuts to those who otherwise can’t afford them.
Francis’ trip has not been a joyous occasion for all homeless people, however. New York City police dispersed about a dozen homeless people from the foot of a Harlem train station on Wednesday, attempting to clear the area ahead of the pontiff’s visit to the city later this week.
We have encouraging news to share about Meenakshi Kumari and her 15 year old sister who were ordered by a village council in India's Uttar Pradesh state to be raped and paraded naked as punishment.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of India recognized the risks to Meenakshi and her family and ordered the Delhi Police to provide the family with protection.
Thank you for taking action to help make this happen! This case is so extraordinary because Meenakshi, a Dalit woman, courageously reported human rights violations that were taken seriously by authorities and resulted in a ruling to protect her and her family.
But this isn’t over yet.
The family must receive justice and reparation, and if they are unable to return to their village they must receive support to rebuild their lives in another community.
Meenaksi and her family still need justice. Please use your Social Media channels to ask your friends and family to take action today!
You were one of more than 500,000 Amnesty supporters worldwide who spoke out for Meenakshi and her sister. Your willingness to defend their rights can help us bring about change in attitudes and laws in India, and protect other women and girls at risk of gender discrimination. Thank you so much for taking action and sharing this important story.
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Gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls is widespread in India. In response to increasing levels of violence, our colleagues at Amnesty International India launched a "Ready to Report" campaign to raise awareness and support victims of gender-based violence, like Meenakshi, to come forward and report crimes against them.
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