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Topics and developments in science and medicine, presented by Futurism.
What’s Wrong With The God Equation? By Howard Bloom
In the spring of 2021, the British magazine The New Scientist announced that Michio Kaku, a high-profile physicist from the City University of New York who has appeared on TV steadily over the last 40 years, would be giving a virtual lecture. Kaku was going to explain grand unified theories of everything. First, he was going to explain how Newton came up with laws of motion. Then he was going to show how over a hundred years and fifty years later, Maxwell worked out four equations that took Newton one step further and described what electromagnetism was. Finally, Kaku was going to explain how physicists today are trying to come up with an even more inclusive equation, an equation that describes the laws of the motion of matter, electromagnetism, and gravity. Says Kaku, physicists want an equation that you can put on a T-shirt. That to them will be “the grand unified theory of everything.” The GUT. In other words, physicists are looking for what Kaku’s new book title calls “The God Equation.”
By Jimmy Stars World5 years ago in Futurism
True Speed Of Light Was Never Really Measured: let me prove it
I know what you are thinking. -click bait Source: medium No one has measured the speed of light. That feels insane now that we are talking about it. It's ridiculous. The speed of light is exactly 299,792,458 meters per second. We are so sure of it that since 1983, we've actually used the speed of light to define how long a meter is. It's just the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458th of a second. That definition ensures that the speed of light is exactly this number,
By Arunava Ch.5 years ago in Futurism
How Much Our Earth Is Ready To Prevent Future Asteroid Collisions?
Stephen Hawking once said, "A universe is a violent place. The stars devour the planets, the giant nebulae in the universe emit deadly rays, the black holes collide with each other, and the asteroids move around at hundreds of miles per second. "
By Shoaib Rahman5 years ago in Futurism
Urban Mobility in Digital Era
By 2030, most of the world’s population is expected to be concentrated in the cities and if the trend remains, by 2050 nearly 80% of the global community will live in an urban environment. As we already observe the rapid influx of people into cities, many countries come to face several crucial sustainability challenges such as elevated traffic levels, increased congestion, and enhanced carbon emissions and pollution. Contemporary urbanization calls for mobility solutions that are coherent with land use and promote the growth and competitiveness of the cities.
By Risalat Consultants International LLC5 years ago in Futurism
The First Wave
This is still just the first wave of newly released ancient viruses. There will be more. Many more. There are two studies that I have excerpted from the National Institutes of Health, in the 1st one I’m quoting 9 excerpts regarding the melting polar caps due to global warming and effects on other ecosystems; while the second study covering rainforest destruction has 3 excerpts.
By Steve McManus5 years ago in Futurism
The dematerialization of matter goes too far
Richard Feynman once remarked, when asked which physical statement contains the most information in the least words: “I am convinced that this would be the atomic hypothesis (…), which says that all things are made of atoms. That material things consist of atoms and that these consist of further particles is today part of the canon of the naturalistic understanding of the world. Now, of course, a strange epistemological uncertainty relation is increasingly noticeable in this naturalism. The deeper the understanding of matter, the more the concept of matter evaporates.
By AddictiveWritings5 years ago in Futurism
Wormholes in the laboratory
One example is a scenario in which two black holes are connected by the laws of quantum mechanics. This means that whatever happens to one of the two collapsed stars immediately affects the other — regardless of how far apart they are. If such a connection exists, it could solve one of the greatest mysteries of cosmology.
By AddictiveWritings5 years ago in Futurism
The Flat Earth Conspiracy and The People That Keep It Going
I have a guilty little secret that I have been hiding from those closest to me for years and I think it's about time I let it out. I love the flat earth, in fact, I am well and truly addicted. No, I am not a flat earther. I do not believe we are living on a pizza shaped planet covered with a glass dome that no one has ever seen or measured. What I'm addicted to is the idea itself and the characters that put themselves out there to defend it.
By R M Skillen5 years ago in Futurism
Looking at the Stars is Like Looking into the Past
Wonders of the Night The night seems to bring out a side of us we don’t usually see during the day. Our hearts and minds tend to open up during twilight hours; making us feel and think about things we don’t usually feel and think about during the day. There is something mystical about the night time, the moonlight, and the stars sparkling in the sky. It makes us think about all that was, all that is, and all that could be.
By Summer Hoydn5 years ago in Futurism
