Very cool, well explained video about all the dimensions (we know of), which is, believe it or not, 10! Everything is explained very straightforward and, though the ideas are complex, in a way that even I was able to get. I’m considering picking up the book; if not for me, than for my father, who I would think would be very interested in these kind of things.
Most of us have gotten used to the idea of there being four dimensions: but how can we possibly imagine the tenth? This project starts from the unique argument that time really is just one of the directions in the fourth spatial dimension, and our spacetime universe is being created one planck length at a time as we twist and turn in the available branches of the fifth dimension. This “new way of thinking about time and space” is not the traditional position of mainstream science: still, many people around the world feel this new idea has resonances with their own ways of understanding reality.
This is fun, its about time they started in with the interesting creatures.. I mean who wants the genome of a fruit fly anyway(sic)!?!
I certainly would have raised one of these in space!
At first dismissed as a prank, and later cited as proof that God has a sense of humour, the duck-billed platypus has finally given up its evolutionary secrets.
…and talk about Kinky!
The fact that the animal has five X and five Y chromosomes is “the weirdest thing about a very weird animal,” said Ewan Birney, a co-author on the paper, based at the European Bioinformatics Institute, near Cambridge. “In theory it means there are 25 possible sexes, though in practice that doesn’t happen.”
Yesterday I came across a documentary (called Do You Want to Live Forever?) about this man, Aubry DeGrey, a man who says he has figured out how to cure aging. Imagine not only living much much longer, but living those years in the best of health. He has his critics and you can judge for yourself, but you cannot deny his passion for this.
A true maverick, Aubrey de Grey challenges the most basic assumption underlying the human condition — that aging is inevitable. He argues instead that aging is a disease — one that can be cured if it’s approached as “an engineering problem.” His plan calls for identifying all the components that cause human tissue to age, and designing remedies for each of them — forestalling disease and eventually pushing back death. He calls the approach Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS).
