Category: Existence
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Cannabis, pain, perception
A study from the University of Oxford suggests that cannabis makes pain more bearable rather than actually reducing it. [1] In particular, volunteers had a cream rubbed into the skin of one leg to induce pain. They where also given either a 15mg tablet of THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol) – the ingredient that is responsible for the high when…
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Walking through walls, QM, Reality…
What exactly is “real”? How do you know that your dreams are “not real”? Because your mother told you so. How do you know that the wall you see in front of you is “real”? Because you see it. And because other people see it too. But not all people see the same. And surely not…
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The Dark Side, reality, “events”…
Ebb and Flow chased each other around the moon for nearly a year, peering into the interior. With dwindling fuel supplies, the twin NASA spacecraft are ready for a dramatic finish. On Monday, they will plunge — seconds apart — into a mountain near the moon’s north pole. It’s a carefully choreographed ending so that…
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Universe, choices, the burden of freedom
We will some day understand Universe because we are actually the choices we make. We are the ones who formulate reality [1]. And no “physical law” will ever relieve us from the burden of freedom…
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Time reversal, “Time” and “time”…
Researchers at the University of Maryland have discovered how to transmit power, sound or images to a “nonlinear object” without knowing the object’s exact location or affecting objects around it using a “time-reversal” technique. [1] The time-reversal process is like playing a record backwards. When a signal travels through the air, its waveforms scatter before…
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