Sitting for a quick coffee…
Random thoughts.
(Could anything get closer to the truth?)
What is everything?
If not something and nothing together?
Philosophy snapshot: Everything?
Tag: One
Limits of measurements… Limits of out self…
The limits of classical measurements of mechanical motion have been pushed beyond expectations in recent years. But the sensitivity that we can achieve using purely conventional means is limited. For example, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics implies the presence of “measurement backaction”: the exact knowledge of the location of a particle invariably destroys any knowledge of its momentum, and thus of predicting any of its future locations.
Backaction-evading techniques are designed specifically to ‘sidestep’ Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle by carefully controlling what information is gained and what isn’t in a measurement, e.g. by measuring only the amplitude of an oscillator and ignoring its phase. In principle, such methods have unlimited sensitivity but at the cost of learning half of the available information.
Now, in an effort to improve the sensitivity of such measurements, the lab of Tobias Kippenberg at EPFL, working with scientists at the University of Cambridge and IBM Research — Zurich, have discovered novel dynamics that place unexpected constraints on the achievable sensitivity. Published in Physical Review X, the work shows that tiny deviations in the optical frequency together with deviations in the mechanical frequency, can have grave results — even in the absence of extraneous effects — as the mechanical oscillations begin to amplify out of control, mimicking the physics of what is called a “degenerate parametric oscillator.” (1)
The problem of measurement. An unsolvable problem. And yet, within our mania to understand everything we have missed that every unsolvable problem points only to the obvious: that the problem itself is wrong!
Trying to measure things. In a cosmos which cannot be measured.
Trying to observe things. In a cosmos not meant to be observed.
Trying to understand. In a cosmos which was never meant to be understood.
Destroyers of the world.
Trying to push through a veil we ourselves have set up.
We are the cosmos.
There is no cosmos.
Trying to understand our self. Without accepting our self.
Can’t you see?
There is no need to learn how to swim.
You are already deep in the water…
Light. Low light. Essence.
It was a puzzle about birds.
Migratory birds are known to rely on Earth’s magnetic field to help them navigate the globe. And it was suspected that a protein called cryptochrome, which is sensitive to blue light, was making it possible for birds to do this.
Yet many of these animals are also known to migrate at night when there isn’t much light available. So it wasn’t clear how cryptochrome would function under these conditions in birds.
A new study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center in collaboration with SMU (Southern Methodist University), though, may have figured out the answer to that puzzle.
Researchers found that cryptochromes from migratory birds have evolved a mechanism that enhances their ability to respond to light, which can enable them to sense and respond to magnetic fields.
“We were able to show that the protein cryptochrome is extremely efficient at collecting and responding to low levels of light,” said SMU chemist Brian D. Zoltowski, who was one of the lead authors of a new study on the findings. (1)
There you go. They still use light.
But they can see light where we cannot.
There is nothing which is not what it is.
There is no one who does not what he does.
You are you. Birds are birds.
You cannot change your nature.
It is just that your nature is… flexible.
We are dancing in the cosmos. And no matter what we think we can do. We will always dance. Because we can. Because we are meant to dance. We think we do things. We trick our selfs into believing we can make things happen. How wrong are we. The music never stopped playing. And the more we do something, the more we stop listening…
In a world full of music, the only thing we can do is not dance.
And fall…
Passing through walls… Broken glass…
Researchers have captured the most direct evidence to date of Klein tunneling, a quantum quirk that allows particles to tunnel through a barrier like it’s not even there. The result may enable engineers to design more uniform components for future quantum computers, quantum sensors and other devices. (1)
We constantly see things. We sense things. We are blocked by things.
Watch carefully and you will see.
That whenever you see something you stop seeing something else.
Our senses are not the window to see the cosmos.
They are our jail inside that cosmos.
A cosmos we ourselves create on our own.
And no, it is not just that our senses might be faulty thus making us sense things which are not there (see here for an article on how healthy people can sometimes mis-attribute touch to the wrong side of their body, or even to a completely wrong part of the body) It is the essence of the senses and what they mean to us which is inherently disassociated with what we call ‘reality’.
A tiny particle can pass through a wall. A human cannot.
You are made by particles. And yet they may never sense what you do.
Disconnected cosmos. Disconnected humans.
Disconnected perception. Disconnected reality.
Due to all the things we think connect us…
Let go of that glue. It is the only reason that you see a broken glass.
Look away.
And everything will disappear.
For there is nothing to see…
Related articles
Droplets carrying an ocean…
Self-cleaning surfaces and laboratories on a chip become even more efficient if we are able to control individual droplets.
University of Groningen professor Patrick Onck, together with colleagues from Eindhoven University of Technology, have shown that this is possible by using a technique called mechanowetting. “We have come up with a way of transporting droplets by using transverse surface waves. This even works on inclined or vertical surfaces.”
The idea of mechanowetting is basically very simple: put a droplet on a transverse surface wave, and the droplet will move with the wave. “One of the properties of water droplets is that they always try to stay on top of a wave. If that top runs ahead, the droplet will run with it,” Onck explains. It is possible to move the droplets by using mechanical deformation to create surface waves. “The remarkable thing about this is that it also works on inclined or vertical surfaces: drops can even move upwards against gravity.” (1)
Water carrying water.
A sea carrying drops.
An ocean carrying humans.
The abyss holding into hopes.
But it’s not the world you are looking at. But its mirror image.
Turn around and look at yourself.
See…
Hopes carrying the abyss.
Humans taming the ocean.
Small tiny drops…
Carrying the sea…