Philosophy Wire: Quantum states. Forever. Now! (Watch for Socrates)

A team of scientists has announced the discovery of a simple modification that allows quantum systems to stay operational - or 'coherent' - 10,000 times longer than before. [1] One second. Ten thousand seconds. A century. A thousand years. Forever. Different words meaning the same thing: Now. For all there ever is, is now. Look at the water drops falling. The bee buzzing. Worlds colliding. Empires falling. Do you feel it? No, they did not crumble in the past. Look at Rome burning! And stop looking at those stupid particles. Socrates dies as we speak! Whispering to us…

(Nothing is coherent… Except the world that is not…)

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Philosophy Wire: Chaotic particles. Chaotic cosmos. Teardrops from the sky…

A phenomenon that is well known from chaos theory was observed in a material for the first time ever. A structural transition in the ferroelastic material barium titanate, caused by an increase or decrease in temperature, resembles the periodic doubling seen in non-linear dynamical systems. This 'spatial chaos' in a material was first predicted in 1985 and could be used in applications such as adaptable neuromorphic electronics. [1] See the cosmos splitting in two. Right before your eyes. And then come together in unity. It is a chaotic world. It is a world in perfect order. So strange. And yet, so familiar. In the eyes of an angered man. In the sadness of a wise woman. Yes, you can observe structural transitions some-How. But it is that Why which makes you doubt if that really means anything. Look carefully. Do you dare question yourself?

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Philosophy Wire: Faces. Particles. Cosmos.

Scientists use approach analogous to facial-recognition technology to track atomic-scale rearrangements relevant to phase changes, catalytic reactions, and more. [1] Faces. Atoms. Interactions. Reactions. The essence of the cosmos hidden inside a cloud seen by kids while lying on the grass. Particles moving. A face frowning. A universe collapsing…

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Philosophy Wire: Non-existing limits. Small electrons. Infinite God…

Physicists have observed the quantum mechanical Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in a system of several hundred interacting atoms for the first time. [1] Made up definitions. Laws without a law maker. Fake limits in a limitless world. Stop seeing what you think of. Imagine particles as big as galaxies. Nebulas as small as quarks. There is no paradox in anything. Except in the belief in paradox itself. Let the world shape your thoughts. Expand into the outer limits of the cosmos. Look yourself in the mirror of existence. Look at God. Inside a small electron. Moving the universe…

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Philosophy Wire: Expanding atoms… Expanding universe…

Researchers playing with a cloud of ultracold atoms uncovered behavior that bears a striking resemblance to the universe in microcosm. Their work, which forges new connections between atomic physics and the sudden expansion of the early universe, was published in Physical Review X and highlighted by Physics. In several sets of experiments, Eckel and his colleagues rapidly expanded the size of a doughnut-shaped cloud of atoms, taking snapshots during the process. The growth happens so fast that the cloud was left humming, and a related hum may have appeared on cosmic scales during the rapid expansion of the early universe - an epoch that cosmologists refer to as the period of inflation. [1]

Patterns everywhere.
Similarities and analogies.

Repetitions.
Parallel lines.

Mirrors reflecting the cosmos.
Playing no role at all.
Except to reveal what already Is.

A world crying in silence…
That it is not real…
Within a similar world, which is…

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Philosophy Wire: Observing the unobservable…

Researchers have succeeded in shortening the pulse duration of an X-ray laser to only 43 attoseconds. With a time resolution in the range of a few quintillionths of a second, they are now able for the first time to observe the movement of electrons during chemical reactions in slow motion. [1] At some day we will be able to observe everything. And yet, it would not matter at all. Take the best microscope. It is useless. It sees nothing. You do. And no matter how much the resolution increases, the image in the mirror is the same… It is you… Looking up. From below…

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Philosophy Wire: Changing everything. In an ever stable world.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2017-08-24]: A Polish-British team of physicists has constructed and tested a compact, efficient converter capable of modifying the quantum properties of individual photons, while retaining superposition. [1] A particle being everything and everywhere at the same time. A not changing entity. Only because it has changed into everything already. The cosmos in miniature. See this tiny speck of dust. It is here. And there. Humans. Rivers. Water on a beach. Stars. Everything together. Everywhere. Inside the silence of creation. Screaming...

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Philosophy Wire: Particles. Antiparticles. Unity.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-11-12]: Scientists discovered an elusive particle that is its own antiparticle. [1] We are all sets of opposites. Our philosophy is a set of opposites. The cosmos is a set of opposites. Opposites which nullify each other. In the end only One exists. Nothing. And everything.

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Philosophy Wire: Make your own eyes...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-11-01]: The human eye has inspired physicists to create a processor that can analyse sub-atomic particle collisions 400 times faster than currently possible. In these collisions, protons - ordinary matter - are smashed together at close to light speeds. The experimental processor could speed up the analysis of data from the collisions. Published in the pre-print arXiv server, the algorithm used by the processor has been proposed for possible use in Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments at Cern in 2020. It could also be useful in any field where fast, efficient pattern recognition capabilities are needed. The processor works in a similar way to the retina's incredible ability to recognize patterns extremely quickly. [1] We see things with our eyes. But we create new eyes to see the things we want to believe. Our experience is not enough. We want to create new experiences. Science, unlike religion, is not based on empirical data. It is based on faith. And it needs it's own eyes to "see"...

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Philosophy Wire: New particle... Old news...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-10-04]: Scientists could have found traces of a new particle. [1] Everything unknown is named. And it is scary and liberating at the same time the fact that WE are the ones who name it...

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Philosophy Wire: Element 117... Knowledge... Existence...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-06-15]: Element 117 is close to be "discovered" and gain its place in the periodic table. [1] We discover what we already believe it exists. We find whatever we are already certain it exists. Existence is driven by knowledge. Not the other way around… But who drives knowledge? My God! :)

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Philosophy Wire: Particles. Particles! Particles!!!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-05-24]:

A new particle discovered. [1]
And after that a new one. And another. And another. And another...
Starting to walk without having a clue when you will arrive your destination, is the best way to get lost…

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Philosophy Wire: Beginning, One, Logic, Light. Thoughts.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-05-17]:

Scientists try to recreate the primordial soup of elementary particles which consisted the universe in its initial steps. [1]
We try to recompose the whole from its parts.
We believe things change.
We think time as moving forward.
We believe that SOMETHING existed in the Beginning.
Scientific thought?
Intuition?
Faith?
Or simply... logical?
Simple thoughts.
Shinning through layers of modern dogmatism...
There is no time.
Things do not change.
The whole cannot be divided into parts.
Scientific thought?
Intuition?
Faith?
Or simply... logical?
Simple thoughts.
Shinning through layers of modern dogmatism...

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Philosophy Wire: After Higgs what?

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Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-07-03]: Theoritical physicists have identity problems. [1] In a post-Higgs (sort of speak, let's assume it has been "discovered" - read related posts in Harmonia Philosophica) they do not know what to do. There are no more particles for the to discover. Oh what a disaster for the data-driven Science of the Stupid!

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Philosophy Wire: Dogmatism check...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-06-07]: Weinstein's new theory of everything could be tested in just one hour. [1] Wow! That is Dogmatism-in-a-Box! :)

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