Sunday, January 24, 2010

out and about, and kids are loud.



“There is no one reality. Each of us lives in a separate universe. That's not speaking metaphorically. This is the hypothesis of the stark nature of reality suggested by recent developments in quantum physics. Reality in a dynamic universe is non-objective. Consciousness is the only reality.” - Professor M. R. Franks 'THE UNIVERSE AND MULTIPLE REALITY'.

Parallel universes? Myth or Fact? It has been said that there are a number infinite universes that coalesce with our own. Different names suggest "alternative universes", "quantum universes", "interpenetrating dimensions", "parallel worlds", "alternative realities", and "alternative timelines", "multiverse", "meta-universe",or "metaverse". Recent discoveries in quantum physics (the study of the physics of sub-atomic particles) and in cosmology (the branch of astronomy and astrophysics that deals with the universe taken as a whole) shed new light on how mind interacts with matter. These discoveries compel acceptance of the idea that there is far more than just one universe and that we constantly interact with many of these “hidden” universes.

Doppelgängers? What do you know about them? Is to any double or look-alike of a person. The word is also used to describe the sensation of having glimpsed oneself in peripheral vision, in a position where there is no chance that it could have been a reflection. They are generally regarded as harbingers of bad luck. In some traditions, a doppelgänger seen by a person's friends or relatives portends illness or danger, while seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death.* A friend of mine found her doppelgänger online. She was just roaming the internet and saw a picture (of what she thought was herself) of a girl laughing with a bunch of people. She swore it wasn't her. She then found out that the girl was from like Gernamy or something.


And you know whats even weirder? Apparently the Japanese company, Actroid, were making mechanical doppelgängers as a new years promotional sale. They were  20.1 million yen ($223,000 USD). They only took orders from Jan 1st to the 3rd. In addition to providing the robot with the owner’s face, body, hair, eyes and eyelashes, Kokoro will model the robot’s facial expressions and upper body movements after the buyer. The robot’s speech will be based on recordings of the owner’s voice. 


How crazy is that?

*wiki*

Saturday, January 23, 2010

red dwarfs, or white degenerate dwarfs.

You know what I don't get? There are supposed to be black holes all over the universe. Billions of them! They suck up anything they can find, to feed their infinite stomachs. One day the universe is going to be a cold, dead, and dry place. Not that its not cold and dry already, but dead.  There is even suppose to be a Super Massive Black Hole in the center of our very own galaxy! So think about it, one day (possibly billions upon billions of years from now), our own galaxy is going to be sucked into that black hole. Did you know that in January 2008, the largest known black hole in the universe was discovered? Its at 18 billion solar masses! It is located in the heart of a quasar called OJ287, it’s at a distance of 3.5 billion light years !



The fight to find intelligent life out there in the universe is a scarce battle. But what if, one day, we do find life out there? In space. Not primordial life, no no no, that is completely different. They pose to threat to us. But think about it. Intelligent life. What if? I mean, would you be scared? Or would you be overjoyed because you know you're not alone in this vast universe? Personally I would be overjoyed. Just the thought of being able to find life out in the universe! Its not even that. To know that your planet is not the only one with life! On another note, we always perceived that 'aliens' from another planet were these little green men things with long fingers and bug eyes. Or (from the alien movie series) these savage beasts with no mercy. We have no idea what they will look like or how they would act! And the probability of them looking anything like us is either slim to nearly impossible. We just have these outrageous accusations and exaggerated stories about what they might look like, which probably started with a rumor gone bad. There is no way I believe that they are little green men.

And speaking of little green men. People of the internet, I welcome you to 'AREA 51'. Now, do you honestly believe that this place exist? Or that the Roswell UFO incident ever really happened? Why would you? I sure don't. I mean, would aliens really come thousands or billions of miles to earth to just 'crash land' and to be caught so easily by our 1940's government? For you people who don't know of the incident. *thank you wiki*


"The Roswell UFO Incident was the alleged recovery of extra-terrestrial debris, including alien corpses, from an object which crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, USA, on or about July 8, 1947. Since the late 1970s the incident has been the subject of intense controversy and the subject of conspiracy theories as to the true nature of the object which crashed. The United States military maintains that what was actually recovered was debris from an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon belonging to a classified program named "Mogul"; however, many UFO proponents maintain that in fact a crashed alien craft and bodies were recovered, and that the military then engaged in a cover-up."


And then there is this so called 'alien autopsy'. Honestly, its a total hoax! *thanks wiki again* "The footage caused an international sensation when it aired on television networks around the world. In 2006, Santilli admitted that the film was mostly a reconstruction but continued to claim that it was based on genuine footage now lost (how convenient), and that some frames from the original remained"


Anywho, off the topic of aliens. I wish that one day we can find a civilization out there, with intelligent life. It would be fantasitc.

Friday, January 22, 2010

the thought of you leaving, unbearable.



You know what I think is funny? Well, it may not be as funny to all of you, but I think it is. I have been trying to play the piano for over ten years now (without anyone teaching me) and all I can play is Fur Elise. And thats only the FIRST part. No, that is not ALL that I can play. The beginning to Moonlight Sonata, all of Symphony No. 9, Etude 3, and the Entertainer too! Some small game music, like TETRIS! I mean, really, who doesn't love tetris?! To the right is my beloved instrument. This is my Yamaha PSR-175. They don't make keyboards like this anymore! It has its own DJ feature (I think it was one of the firsts), preset tunes, left and right hand learning, recording, and it even came with 100 built-in songs! I just love this keyboard.






But I think, out of all the classical music in the whole world, Fur Elise has to be my favourite. To the left is the exact sheet of the song, Fur Elise, that I have (only the beginning part). It may seem confusing to people who dont read notes but thats ok! This song is just so beautiful, and so well known! Anyone who hears the first part, and instantly they recognize it! Thats what I love about this song. Hey, do you guys remember that old friend I was telling you about in my older post? The one that likes astronomy too? Well he taught me how to play this one song, and I've been getting a whole lot better at it. He made it up, and I absolutely love it. I even remixed it a little, made it a bit of my own. Ever since he showed me that song, I have played it, everyday. I never missed one day. You guys need to hear it. Maybe one day :D.


At the moment, I'm trying to learn some other songs to play on the keyboard. Some anime songs. I guess. You know, the more I think about it, the more it gets to me... I've been trying to play this instrument for ten years and look how far I've gotten. NOWHERE. I need to have someone teach me.


Until next time.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

the universe is a cramped place.

"We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night".

- Tombstone epitaph of two amateur astronomers.

Hello. I'm very much into astronomy. It's more so my passion. Meet GJ 1214b. This picture is an artist's rendition of what the planet might look like contrast to its parent star, GJ 1214. This planet was discovered earlier last month. It is approximately 40 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Ophiuchus and believed to be a super-earth and to be made up of 70% water. While there really is no direct evidence for the presence of water, the data-fitting mass and radius values are consistent with the planet being an ocean planet, composed primarily of water (~75% of total mass), surrounding a rocky core (~25%), possibly covered by a hydrogen and helium atmosphere (~0.05%).This is a fantastic find because where there is water, there has to be some sort of life, primordial, primitive, or intelligent. When I found this information out, I began to cry. Tears of joy. Its just, the possibility of finding life other than our own is ground breaking! But really, GJ 1214b could just be a rocky planet with an outgassed hydrogen-rich atmosphere. We really will never know until the data fits.

Do you ever wonder what is out there when you're looking up at the stars? I do, almost everyday. I really don't know when I got into astronomy, probably when I was around 16. I do know, for a fact, that I got really into astronomy when I was 19. That was around the same time I was talking to one of my closest friends. He is very much into astronomy as well, basically the only person I can call when I get excited about seeing 'Orion's Belt' in the night sky. Speaking of which, I havent really talked to him in such a long time. I love going to the park with a bunch of people and lying on the grass. We look up at the stars and try to name them all. I could only get a few, but it's always fun. The last time I did that was around the time of my final exam in eleventh grade. Those were some good times.

Now, to get back on topic. My favorite constellation in the whole entire (night) sky, has to be the Orion Constellation. Ever since I could remember, every time I look up at night, the first constellation I try to look for is Orion. It is one of the largest, most conspicuous, and most recognizable constellations in the night sky. Especially the The Belt of Orion. I try to look for that first. Orion's Belt has three of the brightest stars in our sky. ζ Ori (Alnitak), ε Ori (Alnilam), and δ Ori (Mintaka). Alnitak is approximately 800 light years away from earth and is 100,000 more luminous than our very own Sun. The second star, Alnilam, is approximately 1340 light years away from earth and is 375,000 times more luminous than the Sun. Mintaka, the third and final star, is 915 light years away and is 90,000 times more luminous than the Sun. It has always been said that, looking for Orion's belt in the night sky is the easiest way to locate the constellation Orion.

One of my other favorite things about our solar system is Jupiter's Galilean Moons. The Galilean moons are the four moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. They are the largest of the many moons of Jupiter. The four moons derive their names from the lovers of Zeus: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. I have my very own telescope, so whenever there is a clear night, I go to my roof and try to locate the four moons. I'm just an armature, but I already spotted Jupiter. At the current moment, I'm trying to find Io. That little bugger is hard to find. It would help though if I had a star map.

Nothing more to talk about now.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

what goes around the mind is scary.

Hello. I had two different but sort of the same dreams last time. No. make that three. The first two dreams were odd for me. I mean is, they are not like the usual dreams that I have. I think it's because when I sleep with socks on, I get the ODDEST dreams and when I don't, I have normal dreams. The third one was a classic dream for me. I know that some of you may think that's weird or very unorthodox but that's how I see it. I can't ever sleep with socks on, because I'll either have weird dreams, or I'd be sleeping very uncomfortably.

Dream #1: I was in a school, and I became a cheerleader, the unusual thing about this dream was that I was a cheerleader with my friends from around the world. I know I'll probably never meet them but still. Then I had to go, and I was driving my parents home. I found that to be weird, because I don't drive...

Dream #2: Somehow from dream #1, I ended up at a party. I was next to this really attractive guy. I was putting on gloves, like winter gloves. Everyone was watching us from what I could see. He wanted to hold my hand and I asked him if we're like, you know, together. He said yes and I flipped (in a good way I guess). Then it faded to, from what I could tell, me lying on a bed, sick. That whatever guy was watching over me and he had to go. Why did I find this dream weird? Because I NEVER have dreams like this. AT ALL. Not one really for relationships. But I liked it. It felt...nice.

Dream #3: Now This dream, I really do not remember how it starts, but I do know why I had this dream. This is thanks to playing 'Left 4 Dead 2' with my roommates till 6AM. OK, from what I remember, I was in a Hotel with people that I apparently knew. Then we started to get attacked by zombies! We were running, and tried going up this one hall, but there was a BOOMER there. So we went around another way and there were all these people huddled around, not wanting to go to the other hall. We heard these weird sounds and the guy I was with was like totally hugging me. It felt nice. Then I heard a really loud explosion. I woke up scared thinking someone bombed my house and wouldn't you know it, my ear popped. That's a normal dream.
<-- that's a boomer from 'Left 4 Dead 2'.

Well that's it for the dream talk. Now to think about something else.

a plumb to forgiveness.

"It is possible to influence the world through the mind alone."

I've been doing some searches online about my 'superpower' and came to a conclusion. If I were to ever have a superpower of any kind, it would have to be Psychokinesis. How cool would that be? Having the telekinetic ability to move matter? Apparently, Telekinesis is just apart of it. I mean, if I was really powerful, my Telekinesis could expand to other mind controlling abilities.

There is also Pyrokinesis (Speed up the naturally occurring vibrations of atoms in matter to alter temperature, possibly to the point of ignition if combustible), and Cyrokinesis (Ability to reduce the kinetic energy of atoms and thus reduce temperature, can be used to control, generate, or absorb ice). And just to name a few, Self Levitation, Object Deformation, Biological Healing, Teleportation, Phasing, Transmutation, Shapes-shifting, Invisible energy Shields, Controlling Magnetic forces/devices, control of light waves/particles, Telepathic Projection, and so much more! But that is only if I was very powerful. If I just had the basic Telekinesis, it would just be the movement of matter (as in objects). Apparently performing telekinesis can do a lot of physical stress to the body.

If Psychokinesis were to really exist as 'claimed' by some experimenters, it would violate some well established laws of physics, including the inverse square law, the second law of thermodynamics and the conservation of momentum. I'm not saying that I do not believe in Parapsychology, but it is really hard to prove don't you think? Especially when people 'show' it off for money. Internationally, there are several individual skeptics of the paranormal and skeptics' organizations who offer cash prize money for demonstration of the existence of an extraordinary psychic power, such as Psychokinesis. So, it makes you wonder doesn't it?

Time to let the mind rest.

the beginning of something new.

Hello. This is my first blogger. Well, I would not call this my 'first', but on this website? Yes. I've used my livejournal, myspace, and my facebook to blog about things and such, but nothing like this. Not to a site dedicated to only blogging. I find doing this pretty fun.

I want it to me memorable for me, so when I look back on it, I can think about my life back in the past. This blog will be a place for me to talk about the happy times in my life as well as bitch about my problems/drama . Some random things will be going on in this blog, but thats just the fun of it.

I don't know what else to post as my 'first' post on this site.

Bye for now.