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2013-05-17 09:41:02 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

I attended an amazing talk of the amazing  Michel Spiro, the former Director of the epic LEP machine which was replaced by the LHC in 2000 when the researchers were looking at the B-E-Higgs Boson in the region of mass of 115 GeV. It was his decision to STOP the LEP and open the door for physicists, civil engineers and scientists to start working on the LHC machine. 

Link of my post related to this topic. 
( https://plus.google.com/u/0/100264010813126229552/posts/BUbDi3V26Dh )

#CERN   #LHC   #LEP    #MichelSpiro   #higgsboson   #particlephysics  

2013-05-16 10:37:07 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Black hole's super-fast spin revealed

Astronomers have made the first reliable measurement of a supermassive black hole's spin, showcasing a technique that could help unravel the mysteries of these monsters' growth and evolution.
The enormous black hole at the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is spinning about 84 percent as fast as Einstein's general theory of relativity allows it to, researchers determined. The find demonstrates that at least some supermassive black holes are rotating rapidly — a claim previous studies had hinted at but failed to confirm.

#cosmology   #astronomy   #blackhole   #generalrelativity   #breakthrough   #sciencethursday   #astrophotography  

2013-05-16 10:14:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Higgs Boson, LHC, CERN and the two infinite. by the amazing Michel Spiro. He was the Director of the EPIC LEP: the machine used before the LHC at CERN.
His career is just amazing!
I am not going to miss this talk tomorrow xD Can't waiiiiiiiiiit ;- )
 
http://www.ias.u-psud.fr/website/modules/content_sem/index.php?id=267

2013-05-12 07:57:56 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Noam Chomsky on Why Marijuana is Illegal and Tobacco [and alcohol] is Legal

#marijuana   #ideology    #capitalism   #marijuanalegalization   #propaganda   

2013-05-11 21:48:56 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

"One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all."

~Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2013-05-11 20:38:31 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I am incredibly lonely too... like my fellows: Nietzsche, Gödel, Einstein, Spinoza, Hegel, Kant, Camus, Kafka, Wittgenstein, Leibniz and others...

#nerdlife   #geeklife   #nerdstyle   #loneliness

2013-05-09 13:57:23 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Happy Fibonacci number day ;- )
5/8/13

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spiral
#fibonaccinumber #fibonacciday #goldenspiral

2013-05-08 10:55:29 (14 comments, 5 reshares, 4 +1s)

10 things academics say students get wrong in exams

From lack of analysis to regurgitating lecture material, don't let these 10 common mistakes scupper your chances of exam success.

2013-05-06 05:45:39 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Build me a bridge so I can climb to the top;
and take a big breath of air;
No one can tell me what is wrong;
'cause I am the only one here;

Life kept on running faster than me;
I could not stop her so she kindly stopped for me;

Show me a mountain;
I am ready to see it sitting right in my hands;
My love is an ocean;
but I can't even swallow one grain of sand;

Oh, often I couldn't stand the stench of my own self;
but still I never wanted to be anybody else;

People are searching through their black abyss;

looking for all the things that they could have missed;
But I've never found a quick way to cure;

Give me some time and as it goes by;
I'll try to figure out what makes sense;
It seems to me that everything should come together in the end.;

My conscience once... more »

2013-05-01 22:39:36 (6 comments, 4 reshares, 10 +1s)

Noam Chomsky Advice to Young Students

#chomsky #civilization #creativity  

2013-05-01 14:43:22 (10 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

What is Gravity?

A new Theory of Gravity according to which the Force of Gravity experienced at any given location in space is due to the drag Force induced by the net flow of aether...
http://graviton.co.in/what-is-gravity/

Gravity is not responsible for people falling in Love though, like Einstein taught us :-)

#physics #gravity #einsteinaethergravity #sciencewednesday  

2013-05-01 14:36:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Just as god intended.

2013-05-01 10:46:27 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

anonymous asked me many questions:

Well, I'm an Ubuntu guy and an Android guy, I've got a Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos.

I don't belong to a community or a doctrine, even though I'm a Nietzschean.

As a young student of Theoretical physics, I used to look at Mathematics as a tool , but lately [last three years] I became 'convinced' that mathematics is more than a tool, mathematics is probably reality, and like E. Cioran said: "What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts." and in fact, mathematics could never be converted to human languages.

Asking about the WILL to achieve something big, well, it's inverted actually because if you have an aim and a goal then the WILL is included in the process. It's fucked up if one looses his aim. I am not claiming that there is a general... more »

2013-04-25 11:18:13 (430 comments, 660 reshares, 2631 +1s)

A Kenyan elite runner passes water to a dehydrated disabled Chinese runner who she saw suffering. This delayed her from winning. She became 2nd in the race not only losing the 1st position but also a US$10,000 cash prize. It's not all about winning.

Gold is not only found in in Africa, the best Gold in Africa is found often in their hearts.
#humanity   #goodness    #civilization    #humanism   #secularhumanism  

2013-04-19 16:32:55 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

Hi folk;

Today, I dropped by Marseille, Present year's European Capital of Culture. (2013)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Capital_of_Culture#Present_year
Paris is amazing, but Marseille is just lovely, charming and alive.

I wish you will have a good week-end my friends everywhere

2013-04-15 07:05:14 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

For me personally, I believe that Leonhard Euler is probably the greatest mathematical physicist of all time. Period. 
He actually worked on and contributed to almost all the physics and the mathematics of his time. 
I don't like the fact that he doesn't get enough rep like Joseph Louis Lagrange & William Rowan Hamilton do for instance. I can safely claim that "Euler" is everywhere in classical and modern theoretical physics, more than any other scientist. 
He was amazing. A brilliant & unique mind. 

#LeonhardEuler #Euler   #greatminds   #justsaying   #scienceeveryday   #biography  

2013-04-14 20:08:51 (5 comments, 5 reshares, 32 +1s)

Who said Nerds are not very romantic?
haha :-)

#nerdhumor   #geekhumor #welovescience #welovemath <3

2013-04-14 09:51:27 (22 comments, 6 reshares, 18 +1s)

Science and philosophy of science are always based on experiments and facts.
Here's a cool video about three types of parallel universes spreading in the scientific and philosophical communities. You will like it. But you gotta rewind it.

This is also an interview with Professor Brian Greene that I loved so much; especially this statement that you gotta hear it even if you can't watch the entire video.
http://youtu.be/Vfvq1J7eVpU?t=1m25s

#paralleluniverse #theoreticalphysics #philosophyofscience #stringtheory #sciencesunday  

2013-04-14 05:17:50 (9 comments, 2 reshares, 12 +1s)

Gotta love Hitch...

#christopherhitchens #atheism #rationality #reason #debate  

2013-04-13 20:23:27 (9 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

I am not crazy, I'm not freak, I'm not socially awkward, I'm not weird...
My reality is just different from yours.

2013-04-13 18:35:39 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 20 +1s)

Happy birthday Christopher Hitchens
You don't know how much we love you; Hitch; and how much love you had in your heart for humans and the planet earth; you have always been inspiring...

#happybirthday   #christopherhitchens #greatminds #atheism #freethinking #quoteoftheweek   #atheism  

2013-04-12 15:36:25 (9 comments, 3 reshares, 17 +1s)

Brian Greene

When I write general level books (or posts on my page), I generally avoid equations as most people are more comfortable with plain English.

But equations are beautiful. Within a few symbols, equations can capture deep mathematical truths or far reaching aspects of the physical universe. Here are 3 of my favorites.

The first equation is amazing: in a single simple expression it ties together three basic mathematical constructs: Pi, i (the square root of -1), and e (the base for natural logarithms).

The second are the Einstein Field Equations from General Relativity, which relate the curvature of space-time (left hand side of equation) to the distribution of energy-momentum in space-time.

The third is, well, one of those equations that makes your jaw drop. It is a formula for Pi that was discovered by the singular mathematical genius,... more »

2013-04-11 21:38:30 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 17 +1s)

Oh poor Super Mario: I feel you bro..
lmao what a pity!

#geekhumor #geekfunny #supermario #mario #videogames  

2013-04-11 18:08:45 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Superstrings and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
by Gerard 't Hooft
According to well-known arguments, classical, deterministic systems cannot reproduce all fundamental quantum phenomena. However, when one decides to ignore the no-go theorems and tries to construct deterministic models anyway, it seems that lots of interesting models emerge. Until some time ago, it seemed to be hopeless to construct deterministic models that could account for the Standard Model, but we found a deterministic system that very accurately seems to reproduce (super)string theory. Such an idea would revolutionize string theory, but would contradict the no-go theorems. We discuss this peculiar situation in theoretical physics. Does the notion of "invisible conspiracy'" make sense?

http://ipht.cea.fr/Phocea/Vie_des_labos/Seminaires/index.php?id=992162

I wasn't... more »

2013-04-10 19:14:55 (23 comments, 10 reshares, 36 +1s)

Higgs boson: Stop calling it the 'God particle', says Peter Higgs.

Higgs will use his BBC soapbox to ask us all to please stop it with the whole God thing:
"First of all, I'm an atheist,"
The Telegraph quotes him as telling the BBC:
"The second thing is I know that name was a kind of joke and not a very good one."

here's the link of my post about the same issue: http://goo.gl/4tcst

#higgs #higgsboson #higgsparticle #higgsteria #atheism #secularism #godparticle  

2013-04-10 14:03:59 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Revolutionary Laser System May Produce Next Large Hadron Collider

An international team of physicists has proposed a revolutionary laser system to produce the next generation of particle accelerators, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)... The International Coherent Amplification Network (ICAN) sets out a new laser system composed of massive arrays of thousands of fibre lasers, for both fundamental research at laboratories such as CERN and more applied tasks such as proton therapy and nuclear transmutation.

#physicsnews #LHC #technologynews #particlephysics #scienceeveryday  

2013-04-10 09:28:51 (15 comments, 10 reshares, 14 +1s)

and either is Science or in Art, great solitude is actually sort of happiness.

#philosophyoflife #pablopicasso #wednesdayreflection  

2013-04-09 09:05:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Tuesday Morning reflection:

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.
_*~Nietzsche

#tuesdayreflection #nietzsche #philosophy #politics

2013-04-08 17:09:20 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Spontaneous shot by my room-mate Nicolas while reading a book about the greatest mathematicians alive, their lives, works, achievements, their relationship with theoretical physicists, pieces of advice and some anecdotes...

The book in French
http://www.amazon.fr/Les-Déchiffreurs-Voyage-en-mathématiques/dp/2701147379

The T-shirt: "The Lagrangian of the Standard Model" [the last line is the Higgs' and the physicist is the amazing John Ellis]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshmt/7503048090/
In a meeting with him:
https://plus.google.com/100264010813126229552/posts/GPCnATvjSm6

O and my new "Che" hat; don't get it twisted, I do not agree with him in so many topics, but I still consider him a symbol and an icon of revolution, my revolt in the Camusian-Nietzschean sense...

2013-04-08 14:48:11 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson express the verdict and "determinism" of science and experiments in comparaison with some old-new fables and superstitions.
In another context, some thoughts came to my mind about the complicated relationship between Einstein and Quantum Physics...

#neildegrassetyson #einstein #science #scienceisfact #scienceisawesome #quantumphysics   #pseudoscience #reason #rationality #superstition  

2013-04-07 07:49:39 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

I'm listening to classical music, doing some readings about Albert Camus' life, about supercomputers in the world, simulations' new techniques and technology related topics, and reading a novel in of Émile Zola: "L'Œuvre" in French.

So it's a wonderful Sunday morning: Philosophy(Camus);  Spirituality(Novel and Music) and catch up on Technology (Supercomputers and so on).
 
Have a nice Sunday my friends everywhere.
#sundaymorning #secularsunday   

2013-04-07 06:53:44 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Hence also morality is not properly the doctrine how we should make ourselves happy, but how we should become worthy of happiness. It is only when religion is added that there also comes in the hope of participating some day in happiness in proportion as we have endeavoured to be not unworthy of it.

~The Critique of Practical Reason by Kant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_Practical_Reason
http://www.amazon.com/Kant-Critique-Practical-Cambridge-Philosophy/dp/0521599628

#philosophy #kant #morality #religionpoisonseverything  

2013-04-06 19:50:46 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 17 +1s)

"People empty me. I have to get away to refill."
~Charles Bukowski


#bukowski #beingalone #timetothink  

2013-04-06 17:07:50 (1 comments, 5 reshares, 25 +1s)

Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia is the oldest freshwater lake on Earth, and one of the largest and deepest, containing around one-fifth of the world's freshwater. In winter, it freezes over, and these beautiful transparent, turquoise masses of broken ice appear momentarily in March, caused by the unequal structure, temperature and pressure in the main body of the packed ice.

Read more: http://bit.ly/144ZUek

2013-04-06 02:41:41 (14 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Origins of life? Discovery could help explain how first organisms emerged on Earth
A structural biologist at the Florida State University College of Medicine has made discoveries that could lead scientists a step closer to understanding how life first emerged on Earth billions of years ago.

"..If Blaber's theory holds, scientists may refocus where they look for evidence in the quest to understand where, and how, life began...
"Rather than a curious niche that life evolved into, the halophile environment now may take center stage as the likely location for key aspects of abiogenesis," he said. "Likewise, the role of the formation of proteins takes on additional importance in the earliest steps in the beginnings of life on Earth."

#biology #lifeonearth #originoflife #biologyvsreligion  

2013-04-05 18:37:28 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

haha nice one, isn't it?

How many designers does it take to change a light bulb?
None, that's a hardware problem!


I was thinking about one of my latest and favourite physics jokes, check it out please:
http://goo.gl/HTFKh  :L

#geekhumor #nerdyjoke #nerdjokes #spiderman #webdesign  

2013-04-05 16:19:51 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky debate "Justice vs. Power" in 1971

A transcript of this amazing debate is available here:
 http://www.chomsky.info/debates/1971xxxx.htm 

I hope I am not repeating myself, because this post is related to my last one (http://goo.gl/EMEIb)  the amazing thing here is that this kind of debates shows us how to think and also how to debate in a classy beautiful way.
Thinking should be taught like dancing must be taught, Nietzsche claimed.

#epicdebates #philosophyoflife   #education #reasoning #noamchomsky  #michelfoucault #wakeup  

2013-04-04 07:07:25 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

Noam Chomsky discusses the purpose of education, impact of technology, whether education should be perceived as a cost or an investment and the value of standardised assessment.

I'd be thankful if someone can upload on youtube the FULL epic 1971 debate between Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault about human nature, justice and power. 
This is a transcript of the more than an hour fruitful debate http://www.chomsky.info/debates/1971xxxx.htm 

#philosophyfriday   #philosophy   #education   #noamchomsky   #michelfoucault  

2013-04-03 13:25:16 (23 comments, 7 reshares, 28 +1s)

Duh! Do you know what I'm talking about...

#godisntreal ; #religionpoisonseverything ; #atheism ; #science ; #theoreticalphysics ;  #reason ; #rationality ; #god ;        

2013-04-03 10:02:40 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Why Nietzsche is so great?

There are so many reasons, first of all, thanks god we had Kant, Hegel and Spinoza before him, this is very crucial.
However, Nietzsche is great basically because he is not limited to his era.
He even said that people will be able to READ and UNDERSTAND his philosophy around 2000s, he passed away in 1900.

Check out this link too. (http://goo.gl/m73z5)
 
#nietzsche #nietzschephilosophy #nietzschesuperman  

2013-04-01 13:00:52 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

A Remark About Loosing Followers on G+

Don Marquis said once: "If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you actually make them think, they'll hate you."


I don't really care how many followers I have on G+, but I really care about life on earth...
Check out these amazing posts of mine:
http://goo.gl/Uih2E
http://goo.gl/EBKlF
http://goo.gl/6GMKR
http://goo.gl/E7fO2
http://goo.gl/zBdoS
http://goo.gl/ZIjby
http://goo.gl/8AS7Z
The epic video http://goo.gl/La3aM

2013-03-31 21:30:49 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 19 +1s)

This is Physics; nahmean...

#religionpoisonseverything ; #atheism ; #science ; #theoreticalphysics ;  #reason ; #rationality ; #godisntreal  

2013-03-31 21:23:26 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 15 +1s)

Because tbh, lately on my social networks G+, Twitter and the other blue thing I forgot how to call it, jesus has been too main-STREAM


#Easter #antitheism #rationality #zombiejesus #hipster  

2013-03-31 20:10:14 (12 comments, 4 reshares, 14 +1s)

It [Super String Theory; M-theory] really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all scientific theories. It's wrong!
~Edward Witten

Professor Witten is probably the greatest Theoretical Physicist alive.(I go for Gerard ′t Hooft or Murray Gell-Mann though).
Ed Witten elaborated M-theory with the known 11 dimensions.
We don't know if we should consider him a physicist or a mathematician. He's kind of like Carl Friedrich Gauss. He's outstanding. He received Fields Medal in 1990, a medal which is equivalent to Noble Prize but for Mathematics. He is the first physicist who receives this prestigious medal.
The quote by the way is so incredibly subtle, nerdy and true!

#edwardwitten #witten #theoreticalphysics #stringtheory #sciencesunday #quoteoftheday  

2013-03-30 07:39:02 (4 comments, 6 reshares, 30 +1s)

The epic meeting between Professor Einstein and Chaplin:
The tale says

Einstein: "What I admire most about your art is that's universal... You don't say any word and the whole world understands you!"

Chaplin: "But your glory is greater... The world admires you while no one understands you!"

#geekhumor #nerdhumor #geekfunny #saturdayinspiration #einstein #chaplin #sciencevsart  

2013-03-27 16:22:15 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Be careful in casting out your devil ‘lest you cast out the best thing about you.
~Friedrich Nietzsche


#nietzsche #nietzschephilosophy #beyondgoodandevil 

2013-03-26 15:41:31 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

YAY! Newsflash
Lockheed Martin wants to use a quantum computer to develop radar, aircraft systems
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin is using a quantum computer to develop new radar and aircraft systems, the New York Times reports. The use cases show commercial adoption is getting closer.

I don't want to die yet because of three things:
One: There are SO MANY amazing books I didn't read and movies I didn't watch yet. 
Tow: I wanna know whether M-Theory (Super String Theory) is right or not.
Three: I wanna enjoy the use of quantum computers... a quantum computer like your  laptop (in size) is able to compute stuff that even a "normal" computer with a size of the universe can NOT do.

#physics #quantumcomputing #technologynews #quantumphysics #scienceeveryday

2013-03-25 10:36:24 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

My Mondays therapy...

Bon courage my friends everywhere

#beethoven #classicalmusic #sonata #ValentinaLisitsa #mondayreflection #mondaymotivation  

2013-03-24 13:12:18 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 24 +1s)

Party time right ! Well, good Weekend my friends.

I don't think that dudes are always as lucky as the Oxygen though...just sayin' :-)

2013-03-24 04:59:35 (6 comments, 10 reshares, 27 +1s)

Question: What element is a girl's future best friend?
Answer: Carbon.

#nerdyjoke #nerdyjoke #geekhumor #carbon #sundayhumor

Hint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond