Quantum

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Quantum

“The object of thought becomes progressively clearer with an accumulation of different perspectives on it.”

 

Recently I wanted to study and think about the wisdom of pursuing the understanding of the nature of the universe,

Consciousness and existence under the aegis of quantum physics’ cutting edge,

has  originally experiential realizations, eventually resulting in organized religion

Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Shamanism, and accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus have all signposted my journey. However, while the realizations and subsequent teachings these systems contain may fundamentally hold a universal truth (the original experiential realizations) they are inherently expressed within the metaphors, language and ultimately the culture within which they arose.

The Zero-Point Field
A physicist by the name of Ervin Laszlo (who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005) considers the zero-point field to be the fundamental underlying basis for reality. Laszlo sees the zero-point field as the basis for the entire realm of manifest phenomena, including mass, energy, and information. The zero-point field stores information and according to Laszlo may very well be accessible by human consciousness non-sensorially in the form of intuitions, images, archetypes and the seemingly anomalous contents of altered-state experiences.

Laszlo writes about the zero-point field:

“There the almost infinitely varied things and forms of the manifest world are united in an essential oneness at a deeper level. At the fundamental level of reality the forms of existing things dissolve into formlessness, living organisms exist in a state of pure potentiality, and dynamic functions condense into static stillness. All attributes of the manifest world merge into a state beyond attributes. Time, space and causality are transcended in a state of pure being: the state of Brahman. Absolute reality is the reality of Brahman; the manifest world enjoys but a derived, secondary reality – mistaking it for the real is the illusion of maya.”

IMPORTANCE OF BINARY SYSTEM

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I will try to explain in simple words the importance of binary system.

The switch has only two options, on or off.

The morse code is another example because It also works with only two digits, a dot or a dash.

Computers can only talk in binary

Electronic circuits have only 2 states off and on

Each binary sequence has a special meaning

The binary system is essential in technology.

Bits and Bytes

It is very important to know the difference between a bit and a byte because these two can get easily confused.

10101110 is a byte a sequence of 8 zeros and ones, if you take a group of 8 bits, you have a byte.

Any character you type on your keyboard is interpreted by your computer as a byte, an 8 digit binary number.

A good example is how ASCII code (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) works

. For example, the letter “A” is expressed as the ASCII code 65. But 65 is a decimal number, so if you convert it to a binary number, you get 01000001. These 8 digits, or one byte, are known to your computer as the letter “A”.

One good example is monitoring data transfer speed. When you download a file from the Internet, you probably have noticed that your browser indicates the transfer rate in KBps. The letter “B” is capitalized. We are talking about bytes.(not bits)

Sometimes we are talking in kilobits per second that is written kbps ( note the lower letter b)

If we see the transfer rate is for instance 46 kbps,and since we know that 8 bits equal one byte, we divide 46 by 8 and get a theoretical maximum of 5,75 Kilo Bytes per second.(B capital letter)

 

                                                        Another thing

A CD stores data using the binary system in the following matter: When writing data to a CD, the laser does nothing else than following a spiral-shaped “guide groove” while burning the data as a long string of pits into a reflective dye layer on the CD. When the CD is read later, a laser follows the same spiral and reads either a pit where the light does not get reflected very well, or a smooth area called land where the light reflects very well. This system is nothing else but our good old binary system, using only two possible states, pit or land, to read and record data in binary.

Storing data on a magnetic media, such as a hard drive, also uses the binary system. In a very simplified manner of speaking, each data bit gets stored on a drive as a tiny magnetic field. Each magnetic field has two poles, North and South. When the disk spins around and data is read by the read head, the magnetic field either has the North or the South pole aligned first. Again, only two possible stages, North or South, 0 or 1.

                                      Another interesting thing

I bought a 8.4GB hard drive, but when I formatted it, Windows tells me that I have only 7.82 GB available. Did they sell me the wrong drive?”

No!

They sold you the correct drive, but it was not labeled quite correctly. The marketing department of the drive manufacturer doesn’t know too much about bits and bytes and the binary system. To make it easier to calculate, they assume that 1 KB is 1000 Bytes, 1 MB is 1000 KB, etc. which is wrong. So when they have a drive that can hold 8,400,000,000 Bytes, they just call it 8.4 GB and say that’s close enough for government work. Not so.The multiplication factor is not 1000 since we’re not using the decimal system, it is 1024 instead (2 to the power of 10).

To figure out the correct size of that drive, divide 8,400,000,000 Bytes by 1024 and you’ll get 8,203,125 KB. Divide that by 1024, and you get 8,010 MB. Divide that by 1024 and you get 7.82 GB which is the actual size of your hard drive in GB as reported by your operating system.

Poem by José Gomes Ferreira

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Due to its timeless, beauty and depth of “simple”  words I transcribe this poem
of The great poet and writer José Gomes Ferreira

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LIVING EVER IS ALSO TIRING

 The sun is always the same and the blue sky

or It is blue, distinctly blue

or It is gray, black, almost green…

But never has the unexpected color.

The world does not change

Trees give flowers,

Leaves, fruits and birds

like green machines.

The landscapes does not transform too.

No red snow falls,

There are no flowers that fly,

The moon has no eyes

And nobody is going to paint eyes in the moon.

Everything is equal, mechanic and exact.

Moreover, men are men

Hiccup, drink, laugh and digest

Without imagination.

  And there are miserable neighborhoods, always the same,

Speeches of Mussolini,

Wars, pride in a trance,

Racing cars ..

 And I am obliged  to live until  death!

*José Gomes Ferreira

Portuguese poet, writer and fiction writer (1900-1985)

 Poetry anthology

 Free translation from portuguese

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Pela sua actualidade ,  beleza e profundidade das palavras “simples” transcrevo este poema,do grande poeta e escritor José Gomes Ferreira

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 VIVER SEMPRE TAMBÉM CANSA

 O sol é sempre o mesmo e o céu azul

Ora é azul, nitidamente azul,

Ora é cinzento,negro, quase verde…

Mas nunca tem a cor inesperada

O mundo não se modifica,

As árvores dão flores,

Folhas,frutos e pássaros

Como máquinas verdes.

As paisagens também não se transformam.

Não cai neve vermelha,

Não há flores que voem,

A lua não tem olhos

E ninguém vai pintar olhos á lua.

Tudo é igual, mecanico e exacto.

Ainda por cima, os homens são os homens

Soluçam,bebem, riem e digerem

Sem imaginação.

 E há bairros miseraveis,sempre os mesmos,

Discursos de Mussolini,

Guerras, orgulhos em transe,

Automóveis de corrida..

E obrigam-me a viver até á Morte!

José Gomes Ferreira

Escritor poeta e ficcionista portugues

1900-1985

Antologia poética

Escritor, poeta e ficcionista português do Porto.

LAUGH

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LAUGH

A very serious defense to complex problems: LAUGH.!

 You must know how to laugh, as we must breathe or love.

 But it is not easy. Learn to laugh implies a predisposition, a willingness to forget.

We entered a cycle: it is sometimes necessary to forget to learn  how to laugh, but laugh often helps to  forget …

  So where are we?. One more reductive and simplistic solution to a complicated problem?. Or are these seemingly basic solutions much more profound and complex than sometimes imagined?.

  In many respects, laughing  has been scientifically studied as well as the more distant galaxies …. and here so close ….

 Kiss

Written by RUI, my son to help me to forget.

RIR

(in portuguese)

 Uma desfesa muito séria para problemas complicados: RIR.!

 É preciso saber RIR, como é preciso respirar ou amar.

 Mas não é fáçil. Saber rir implica uma predisposição, uma vontade de esqueçer.

 Entramos num ciclo: às vezes é preciso esqueçer para saber rir, mas rir ajuda muitas vezes a esquecer…

 Então em que ficamos?.Mais uma solução redutora e simplista para um problema complicado?.ou são estas soluções aparentemente básicas muito mais profundas e complexas do que algumas vezes imaginámos?.

 Em muitos aspectos , o riso está cientificamente tão bem estudado como as galáxias mais distantes….  e aqui tão pertinho….

 Beijo

 Escrito pelo meu filho RUI para me ajudar a esqueçer.

Awake Dreams

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THINK AND PLAN

We speak often in dreams.

Very few times in awake dreams

 But awake dreaming is so important because with them we imagine possible future situations   that we want to achieve.

These awake dreams are an instrument of thought and planning.

We think in the future because we know we can reach it.!

Hope is the foundation of thought.

BUDDHA

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BUDDHA and EINSTEIN

 Einstein said this

 “Buddhism has the characteristics to be expected in a cosmic religion of the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; is linked to the natural and spiritual, and is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity

 “If there is any religion to cope with modern scientific needs, it is Buddhism.”

 “A human being is part of the whole called” Universe “a part limited in time and space. He feels his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

 “This delusion is a kind of prison for us, we summarizes our desires and affections to a few people around us. Our task is to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody can achieve this completely, but the struggle to achieve this feat in itself, is part of the liberation and the basis of inner security. ”

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 This is the beginning of this interesting theme that leave us to think and wonder how a religion can be basically scientific and refers such actual themes and subjects that science is today dealing with.

 What are the knowledge of the old world (New world?)

 How can so many  thousands years ago could someone talk about the Whole Universe? A universe as a whole. The Now!

 

 

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DARK MATTER

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Dark Matter –The Cosmos

What is dark matter? This apparently invisible and mysterious stuff that researchers think is everywhere is not easily understood. A first step, however, is grasping what can be seen, and why.

When a scientist observes the space, either through a standard telescope or with the aid of a space-based observatory the things she observes emit light energy, called electromagnetic radiation.

Some of this radiation is optical — the visible light you see with your eyes. But this is just one type of light energy. Electromagnetic radiation comes in many wavelengths: radio waves (the longest), infrared, optical, ultraviolet, X-Rays and short gamma rays (the shortest, and also the highest form of energy. See more details on these wavelengths at the bottom of this page).

Galaxies, nebulae, stars, trees, microscopic bugs and anything else that can be observed glows with energy at one of these wavelengths.

But in recent decades, researchers have become increasingly convinced that there is a vast amount of material in the universe that does not glow at all. This mysterious “dark matter” is believed by most scientists to be the most common stuff in the universe, perhaps making up 90 percent or more of the total mass

Dark matter does not emit enough energy to be directly detected. But indirectly, researchers note its presence. Anything that has a mass exerts the force that we call gravity. Dark matter — or something that we have yet to find — exerts a gravitational pull on objects in and around distant galaxies, and even on light emitted by those objects, say scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

By measuring these mysterious effects of gravity, researchers determine how much “extra” gravity is present, and hence how much extra mass, or dark matter, must exist.

In large clusters of galaxies, for example, scientists say that five to 10 times more material exists than can be accounted for by the stars and gas they find.

So what is dark matter made of? No one knows for sure.

Normal matter — you, your computer and the air you breathe — is made of atoms, which are composed of protons, neutrons and electrons. Scientists call this “baryonic” matter. They suspect some dark matter is of the normal, baryonic variety. This might include brown dwarf stars and other objects that are simply too small, or too dim, to be seen from great distances.

But most dark matter is thought to be non-baryonic — truly strange.

If this is true, then just finding the stuff will be difficult, because researchers don’t even know what they are looking for.

lengths of light (Electromagnetic radiation

  • Radio: Wavelengths longer than infrared and very low energy.
  • Infrared: Wavelengths longer than the red end of visible light and shorter than microwaves (roughly between 1 and 100 microns). Little infrared radiation reaches Earth’s surface, but some can be observed by high-altitude aircraft or telescopes on tall mountains.
  • Optical/Visible: Electromagnetic radiation at wavelengths visible to the human eye. We perceive this radiation as colors ranging from red (longer wavelengths about 700 nanometers) to violet (shorter wavelengths about 400 nanometers).
  • Ultraviolet: Wavelengths shorter than the violet end of visible light. Earth’s atmosphere blocks most ultraviolet light.
  • X-rays: Very short wavelengths and very high-energy; X-rays have shorter wavelengths than ultraviolet light but longer wavelengths than gamma rays.
  • Gamma rays: The highest energy, shortest wavelength electromagnetic radiation. Usually, they are thought of as any photons having energies greater than about 100 keV (kiloelectron volts).

 

Conclusion

And now  if we are an open mind we may think of even anothers forms of light energy and mass that leaves us to believe that all we know is still the beginning of understanding  the universe and all the tranformations that can be done.

Adapted and added  from Light and energy by jmvc

Hope

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HOPE

 Of all virtues hope is the one that is most important in life, because without it who dare to begin any activity , to start any kind of enterprise?.

Who would have the audacity to face the future , mysterious, uncertain, unpredictable.

MATH -How to see Numerical Systems

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HOW TO SEE NUMERICAL SYSTEMS

We can build infinite numerical systems. What change is the basis. The most known are decimal , binary and hexadecimal

In decimal system(the usual one )the basis is the number 10 (we have ten fingers)

It is assumed in math that any number powered to zero equals 1

So you have in your mind the term “powered to”

2^4=2x2x2x2=16

5^3=5x5X5=125

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Now we go how to build numerical systems starting with decimal system:

In decimal system we have ten symbols  1,2 ,3 ,4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ,0

In binrary we have only 2 symbols  1, 0

In hexadecimal  16 simbols  1, 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , , 8 , 9 , 0 , A, B, C, D, E, F

Returning to decimal system

Number examples expressed in its basis (in this case 10)

16=1×10^1x+6×10^0   (1 is the first digit, 10 is the basis, 6 is the second digit

32=3×10^1+2×10^0

120=1×10^2+2x\10^1+0^0

3024= 3×10^3+0x10^2+2×10^1+4×10^0

 

12560= 1×10^4+2×10^3+5×10^2+6×10^1+0^0

Numbers in bold are the power counted from left to right of the digit position beging in zero

 

 

And what about binary system ?

We only have two digits 1 , 0

How can we write any number in a binary system  basis?

 

It is the same logical structure!

 

 

 

Binary System

Unlike the decimal system, only two digits – 0, 1 – suffice to represent a number in the binary system. The binary system plays a crucial role in computer science and technology.  The first 20 numbers in the binary notation are 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000, 1001, 1010, 1011, 1100, 1101, 1110, 1111, 10000, 10001, 10010, 10011, 10100, the origin of which may be better understood if they are re-written in the following way:

1:   00001                         11:    01011
2:   00010                         12:    01100
3:   00011                         13:    01101
4:   00100                         14:    01110
5:   00101                         15:    01111
6:   00110                         16:    10000
7:   00111                         17:    10001
8:   01000                         18:    10010
9:   01001                         19:    10011
10: 01010                         20:   10100

 

Lets see some binary numbers and convert them to decimal

1000 = 1×2^3+0x2^2+0x2^1+0x0^0=8+0+0+0=8

 

 

1111=1×2^3+1×2^2+1×2^1+1×2^0=8+4+2+1=8+4+1=15

 

 

Or using the digits written like above

 

Any binary  number can be converted into thedecimal  system by summing the appropriate multiples of the different powers of two. For example, starting from the right, 10101101 represents (1 x 20) + (0 x 21) + (1 x 22) + (1 x 23) + (0 x 24) + (1 x 25) + (0 x 26) + (1 x 27) = 173. This example can be used for the conversion of binary numbers into decimal numbers. 

For the conversion of decimal numbers to binary numbers, the same principle can be used, but the other way around. Thus, to convert, first find the highest power of two that does not exceed the given number, and place a 1 in the corresponding position in the binary number. For example, the highest power of two in the decimal number 519 is 29 = 512. Thus, a 1 can be inserted as the 10th digit, counted from the right: 1000000000.

In the remainder, 519 – 512 = 7, the highest power of 2 is 22 = 4, so the third zero from the right can be replaced by a 1: 1000000100. The next remainder, 3, consists of the sum of two powers of 2: 21 + 20, so the first and second zeros from the right are replaced by 1: 519 = 10000001112.

DREAM AND HOPE

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Hope is acquired. ‬
Reach hope through truth…
Paying the price of repeated efforts
And a long patience.

To find hope
We need to go beyond despair
However long is the night,
The sun always comes back to shine

‪The dream and hope are two painkillers ‬
That nature provides to humans.
‪The future belongs to those who ‬
Believe in the beauty of their dreams.

‪I keep building toward that realization.‬

© jmvc 5.06.2010