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Week 5 Post 3

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The mindset that humans are just walking mindless masses is very consequential. Thinking that humans are nothing more than chemical scum or disregarding a mindful self in others  and  yourself can lead empirically evil feats. For example, slavery and the exploitation of humans beings for financial advantages, or curating laws that offend an entire population of people. There is a  prevalent disconnect in our society where a persons worth is often determined by  characteristics that they have no power over.  That subsequent self doubt is then used for someone's monetary gain (think of advertising for skin care products and makeup!). So many people receive the message that because their bodily self does not fit an unrealistic role, their potential is  undeserving of being explored. These unrealistic roles include physical body image, socioeconomic status, race, gender, sexual identity, physical/intellectual abilities and financial advantages/disadva...

Week 5 Post 2

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Dualism is a concept that is recognized when dealing with certain complex ideas or fields. These are the ideas that AI may have a learning part and an inferring part, wave-particle duality, mind-body dualism and in religion the thought that humans have a spirit beside their bodies.  The light cone shows a single place as the position of the observer experiencing time, which when applied to humans, one could argue, suggests a non-physical part of humans that is responsible for observing. And it wouldn't necessarily make sense if a single point in the ears, eyes, nose, or brain etc... is the powerhouse of all perception.  In christianity, it is sometimes preached that in order to join God after death you have to "ask Jesus into your heart". Since this is clearly not proposing a little human will enter the beating heart of every christian, it agrees that we may have a dual self. Additionally, wit...

Week 4 Post 2

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The discovery the Planck's length a riveting moment in the history of physics.  Max Planck, a German theoretical physicist discovered the Planck's length almost by accident. The Planck's length is significant because it is a minimum length in nature. Despite it's inconceivably small length, the Planck provides insight into why a unified theory of quantum gravity is necessary. In the late 1800's, physicists had mapped a spectrum of the electromagnetic energy that a blackbody gives off (a blackbody being a body that can absorb and emit every kind of electromagnetic radiation. For the purpose of constructing the blackbody spectrum, scientists used very hot metal). Several physicists tried to trace the spectrum with a formula, but often encountered infinites and results did not properly describe the curves of the spectrums. The problem came from the limit of explanations that classical mechanics could provide and that it allowed for an infin...

Week 4 Post 3

I initially wanted to study the Planck's length because it is presumed that the Planck's length is a measurement alien world might be familiar with as well.  In my quest, I realized I had made a huge mistake in my search. The Planck's length tells us that there is a minimum length in nature/limit to the amount space and time can be divided. Even though I had read many times about the issue of singularities and infinities in applied mathematics, I was still under the impression that space could be divided into infinitesimally small amounts. When a theory presents an infinity or singularity, something must be faulty within the mathematics as singularities and infinity cannot be proven. A good example of others who had dealt with this issue is a paradox from philosopher Zeno of Elea. He said to get from one point to another you must first go halfway, then halfway from that, and halfway from that and on and on and on to an infinitesimally small segment of space. How do we get a...

Week 3 Post 3

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Utilizing the idea that everyone and everything are being constantly affected by particle moment and changing can be very im pactful. Many many people are afraid of change because it is just too... uncertain;  there is a popular political ideology that by definition is " averse to change or innovation". The acceptance of uncertainty has the ability to uplift the oppressed, and when we learn to promote change we learn to love better.  As Stephen Hawking wisely stated it " Intelligence is characterized by the ability to adapt to change". Similarly, accepting the absence of free will may lead to increased compassion for others. Free Will does not work thanks to particle movement and the principal that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Particular actions caused me to type this sentence while  sitting in the exact position I am in. Said particular actions were also governed by some other distinct influence. This applies to everyone ...

Week 3 Post 2

The light cone displays an observer in one singular moment. If this is the case, the observer will be affected by photon energy in any given moment former or coming. One could then infer that said observer is continually being affected by change due to particle movement. This concept is similar to free will. Free will is the hypothetical* ability/inability to make decisions based on information that is exists in the upper portion of the light cone. Often times people tweak the meaning of Free Will to avoid a pessimistic connotation, bot according to its formal, philosophical definition, Free Will does not exist for a number of reasons. The first reason Free Will cannot exist is because no one can exactly predict any following events and attain future information to make decisions upon. One might say, "couldn't we use technology to analyze particle movements, standing waves, photon energy, and present information in order to make accurate conclusions about the future?". Th...

Week 2 Post 3

As an hourglass moves and gravity take the grains of sand from above to below, we are living our lives and experiencing the passing of time. Eventually as you and I approach the end of our lives, our standing waves to perceive and grains of sand run out. The light cone is quite poetic! With all of this in mind some questions and thoughts are conjured: If the position of the observer of time is singular, what peice of ourselves is responsible for the awareness of time? Surely it must not be part of my physical body- maybe we have a dual or "higher" self that is accountable for sentience. Lastly, in the videos I watched, there was reference to ideas such as absolute zero, and movement outside our visible light spectrum. I am unfamiliar with these but look forward to exploring them more.

Week 2 Post 2

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Albert Einstein uses the light cone to help us think about space time. The light cone resembles an hourglass, and works similarly. The middle of the light cone is a singular point in space occupied by only a singular observer. This point is always at one point in time as well- the present time. The upper portion of the light cone is termed "all possible paths of emission photons". That daunting phrase is just a fancy way of saying that the atomic collisions created in all matter (no matter the compound or state) emits electromagnetic energy in the form of photons. This can be from ultraviolet light, visible light, gamma rays, micro waves etc... The photons travel in standing waves, and when those waves come into an observers presence, the passing of time is perceived. The imminent future of the observer unfolds with each oscillation of the standing wave. There is whole slue of standing waves that any observer has the potential to experience. It is all dependent on the actions...

Week 1 - Post 3

The speed of light amazes me- not the actual velocity but what it represents. Why is it that 300,000,000m/s is the speed that an object with mass would approach an infinite mass? There must be something supremely significant about electromagnetic energy and its properties.  What happens when you go faster than the speed of light, would you time travel? And would bodies approaching the speed of light theoretically become singular since you decrease in apparent length the quicker you move? I also want to learn more about orientation in space. Because space is a vacuum and there is no "up, down, right, left, back, and forth. For most people if you ask them to represent gravity they might suggest a trampoline with a heavy object in the middle that constitutes space time and any celestial body. But with earths force of gravity already in effect, how is this a rational paradigm?  In my previous blog I talked about how electromagnetism is very powerful energy. It needs no medium to t...

Week 1 - Post 2

What is most interesting about the theories of General and Special relativity is how they identify with the space time continuum. Albert Einstein was able to make some wild conclusions: When thrown, objects create a parabola shape due to the acceleration of gravity. He presumed that matter bends space and that acceleration and gravity are very similar. This works in the sense that acceleration can mimic gravity (these properties just behave exactly opposite of each other). When object are accelerating, their masses grow heavier, versus an object in free fall where the mass will become virtually negligible. These concepts make logical sense considering mass growing infinite when approaching the speed of light and that  acceleration due to gravity is always constant no matter the weight of an object. Additionally, Einstein  concluded (with the help of his 1st wife, Mileva Maric) that objects moving at higher speeds experience time slower. This also becomes clear when minding tha...

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