Thank you

Just wanted to express my appreciation to all my friends who gave me a hand this past week. Ingmar for your kickass printer, Kim and Adam for help getting my application seen by the right people, and Tosh for giving me a ride. So thanks y'all!

Our universe

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/14/scisurf114.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox

Awesome. I've always thought we lived in a giant fractal, or some infinitely complex geometric pattern. Hope this study gets more attention!

640GB Flash drive on a PCI Express card?

DROOOOOL.
Except the price, which is not so drool. ($19200 for 640GB)

Relativity and scale

"It's all relative." That's a term that fits so many of our experiences. Relative motion; if we imagine being a tiny bacteria in a ball of water, even if the mass of water was cruising at 9000mph, inside the bubble we wouldn't feel much movement because the relative motion around us is small.. if we disregard the resistance of air, like if we were in space, perhaps it would feel like everything was perfectly still, and we could carry out our daily bacteria lives..whatever it is we do..multiply all day I guess. In the same way our senses are blind to the incredible speed at which the earth travels through space.

Some cool facts about the speed of the earth

Ok so the bacteria concept was cool, but why stop there? Why can't our entire observable universe be inside some particle, which is part of a drop of liquid free-falling in some huge uber planet's atmosphere? This isn't my original concept or anything, remember the end scene from Men in Black? It may take several buh-jillian years for the drop to impact the ground, but maybe an event like that caused our first big bang, forcing matter to expand. After a while it chilled, started contracting, and condensed to the point of another big bang and so on. We're probably living in the 35th big bang, in it's expansion phase.. something like that.

Anyway, if such a scenario is possible, then maybe the opposite is true when we look inward, at the molecular level. If we subdivide matter enough times we may discover entire universes floating around. If the relative motion is clam enough in one of those universes, perhaps there could be life at that level.

The scale of our existence seems special because we live in a world that seems stable, and ideal for life, but maybe we're just living in one of the many sweet spots. Just like when you're tuning for a radio station, we may encounter other sweet spots if we look at the right frequencies / scales.

BrrAiiiinnnNNnssss....

So today was the annual gathering of Zombies in San Francisco. Upon arrival I witnessed about 30-40 zombies in Union Square, dancing around to Micheal Jackson's Thriller. How funny is that!? After getting bitten by one, I was contaminated and my memory of the event ends there. Looking for bedsheets in the mall and walking home alone after the event with my face covered in fake blood was kind of embarrassing, but awesome. lol

Here's a video clip. I know the quality sucks, my cellphone tried, k?

Video

P.S. those eyes are photoshoped, but white contacts would have been cool!

We might be alien turds every fraction of a second

I was just reading an article about particle accelerators and how they can re-create the condition of the universe fractions of a second after the big bang. It’s all pretty much over-the-head kind of stuff and has nothing to do with this post. But while I was reading this my thoughts derailed and I had a strange idea; what if all the matter we see around us was vibrating at crazy frequencies? Not like tiny vibrations seen in photons but covering large distances in space like waves in water. That is to say, our world as we know it deconstructs, scatters across the universe, turns around and comes back to form the same configuration again. We would surely notice something like that right? Well think of the images you see on TV, or your monitor. You think you’re seeing a fluidly animated image, but you’re actually just seeing static images in quick succession. So why couldn’t this be the case for matter as well? If this vibration was happening faster than our senses can detect, there would be no way of knowing. Hell, the matter that makes that jogger over there, could be deconstructed every .00000000000000000000000000001 second and forming some alien turd in a galaxy far away. I even took the time to draw a diagram, you better appreciate it. All this is probably not the case but it’s just one of those moments that make you go, wow, that would be awesome, and I need to get my head checked.

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