Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest

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Physicists have discovered how to create matter from light — a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorized 80 years ago. In just one day over several cups of coffee in a tiny office, three physicists worked out a relatively simple way to physically prove a theory first devised by scientists Breit and Wheeler in 1934. Breit and Wheeler suggested that it should be possible to turn light into matter by smashing together only two particles of light (photons), to create an electron and a positron — the simplest method of turning light into matter ever predicted. The calculation was found to be theoretically sound, but Breit and Wheeler said that they never expected anybody to physically demonstrate their prediction.

Eli Levine‘s insight:

Ok, so they haven’t actually done the experiment yet.

However, this could be a significant ending of one phase of our knowledge and understanding about our universe and the beginning of another; when the material universe learns how to make itself from energy from the conscious level.

Let’s see where this experiment goes.

Think about it.

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The Democratic Party’s Future Is Awash in Dark Money | VICE United States

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Amid talk of a left-wing revival inspired by populists like NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and US Senator Elizabeth Warren, corporate titans from finance to natural gas to big retail to telecom are trying t…

Eli Levine‘s insight:

Oh, Democrats.

You can’t have your money and your seats at the same time.

One has to be sacrificed in order to save the United States from imploding.

The other will only hasten the economic, environmental, social and, more to the point, political implosion of the US.

Twits….

Think about it.

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Hamburger-making machine churns out custom burgers at industrial speeds

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Momentum Machines is developing a hamburger-making machine that churns out made-to-order burgers at industrial speeds.

Eli Levine‘s insight:

There goes a lot of the jobs that were made in the recovery efforts, following the 2007-08 Financial Crash. Even top level investment and public sector jobs are likely to be taken over by machines in the coming decades and centuries, if nothing deviates from the present course that we’re on (bearing in mind, that the slightest changes in deviation in the present second will likely lead to monumental changes in the future.

McDonalds is already putting in kiosks to cashier at some of their restaurants in Europe. Don’t know how the economy will react to that loss of jobs and income, however little it may be for the individuals earning it. My guess would be that profits will rise, while economic growth and well being stagnates and declines for the sake of a few people’s profits.

But anyway, the universe is essentially an algorithmic thing that runs on math. The best possible solutions in any category will likely be the same throughout this universe, especially when we think of things in terms of higher level social functions within our species.

Welcome to the future of us, unless anything happens to change in the present along the way.

Think about it.

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Oil ‘knee-deep’ after LA pipe spill

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Crude oil is knee-deep in a district of Los Angeles after 50,000 gallons spilled from a broken pipe, the fire department says.

Eli Levine‘s insight:

Hooray for deregulation and the pursuit of the cheapest costs!

Yay market Capitalism, and all of its wonders!

What good is survival, health and well being, when you could be rich instead?

Wouldn’t money be the thing that makes everything better?

Seriously, enjoy your planet and ideology.

I wish I could be done here.

Think about it.

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Climate Change Deemed Growing Security Threat by Military Researchers

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The accelerating rate of climate change poses a severe risk to national security and acts as a catalyst for global political conflict, a report published Tuesday said.

Eli Levine‘s insight:

If you don’t believe the hippies, believe your own people in the military industrial complex.

Sorry conservatives, but, in the grand scheme of the universe, in spite of all the power and control you’ve managed to accumulate, you’re still an inferior grade of organism for survival on this planet, and you all belong in mental institutions for diagnosis and treatment.

You’re otherwise a danger to yourselves and a danger to others.

Think about it.

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Margaret J. Wheatley: Using Emergence to Take Social Innovations to Scale

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Eli Levine‘s insight:

Very cool.

It’s not how many you reach, but who you reach.

Very cool indeed.

Think about it.

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23 Photos Of People From All Over The World Next To How Much Food They Eat Per Day

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span style=”font-size:16px;”>Photographers Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio, who also happen to be married, traveled around the world and met people from all walks of life.

Eli Levine‘s insight:

I love this stuff.

What do you eat?

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Pakistan's Nukes

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/12/20121215165553869639.html

 This is a dangerous situation that needs our attention.

We can't afford to have a nuclear country, like Pakistan, fall to the Taliban or collapse into chaos. And, drone attacks, won't do anything to help the situation.

I think this is something that we can work with China on.

China is an ally of Pakistan's (what with the mutual conflict with India), and can possibly help us help them secure the nuclear materials.

I think that by keeping nuclear weapons out of the Taliban's hands would be a mutual goal of ours with China, what with the Muslim Uigher population problem that the Chinese are having.

Wouldn't want them to get fueled by fellow jihadists or Muslims.

Think about it.