The iBrain is part of a new generation of portable neural devices and algorithms intended to monitor and diagnose conditions like sleep apnea, depression and autism. Invented by a team led by Philip Low, a 32-year-old neuroscientist who is chief executive ofNeuroVigil, a company based in San Diego, the iBrain is gaining attention as a possible alternative to expensive sleep labs that use rubber and plastic caps riddled with dozens of electrodes and usually require a patient to stay overnight.
“The iBrain can collect data in real time in a person’s own bed, or when they’re watching TV, or doing just about anything,” Dr. Low said.
The device uses a single channel to pick up waves of electrical brain signals, which change with different activities and thoughts, or with the pathologies that accompany brain disorders.
About the Hawking experiment, he said, “The idea is to see if Stephen can use his mind to create a consistent and repeatable pattern that a computer can translate into, say, a word or letter or a command for a computer.”
The researchers traveled to Dr. Hawking’s offices in Cambridge, England, fitted him with the iBrain headband and asked him “to imagine that he was scrunching his right hand into a ball,” Dr. Low said. “Of course, he can’t actually move his hand, but the motor cortex in his brain can still issue the command and generate electrical waves in his brain.”
The algorithm, called Spears, was able to discern Dr. Hawking’s thoughts as signals, which were represented as a series of spikes on a grid.
Artist’s conception of the spiral structure of the Milky Way with two major stellar arms and a central bar. "Using infrared images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that the Milky Way’s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Previously, our galaxy was thought to possess four major arms." (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
these conceptual problems arise only if we take Space/Time as Absolute.
Time/Space is Relative.
We do not determine Time/Space.
We are conditioned by them and Human mind can not comprehend anything without reference to them.
Refer, my blog Time a ,A Cyclic Theory.
Time is Non-Linear.
If we accept this fact. these seeming contradictions would cease to exist.
Asymmetry is the creation of the Human Mind,so also
Symmetry.
We look for these things, when in Reality they do not exist.
Things are what they are, and not because what we perceive them to be.
Sri Vishnu Purana, in the Evolution of The Universe deals with this point in detail.
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“The spin of our galaxy has a twisting effect on our local space that is a million times stronger than that caused by the spin of the Earth.” –Dr Mark Hadley, of the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick
Milky Way image
In 2011, A University of Warwick physicist produced a galaxy sized solution which explains one of the outstanding puzzles of particle physics, while leaving the door open to the related conundrum of why different amounts of matter and antimatter seem to have survived the birth of our Universe.Physicists would like a neat universe where the laws of physics are so universal that every particle and its antiparticle behave in the same way. However in recent years experimental observations of particles known as Kaons and B Mesons have revealed significant differences in how their matter and anti matter versions decay.
This “Charge Parity violation” or “CP violation” is an awkward anomaly for some researchers but is a useful phenomenon for others as it may open up a way of explaining why more matter than anti matter appears to have survived the birth of our universe.
Dr Mark Hadley, of the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick, believes he has found a testable explanation for apparent Charge Parity violation that preserves parity but also makes the Charge Parity violation an even more plausible explanation for the split between matter and antimatter.
Dr Hadley’s paper (just published in EPL (Europhysics Letters) and entitled “The asymmetric Kerr metric as a source of CP violation”) suggests that researchers have neglected the significant impact of the rotation of our Galaxy on the pattern of how sub atomic particles breakdown.Dr Hadley says:
“Nature is fundamentally asymmetric according to the accepted views of particle physics. There is a clear left right asymmetry in weak interactions and a much smaller CP violation in Kaon systems.
These have been measured but never explained. This research suggests that the experimental results in our laboratories are a consequence of galactic rotation twisting our local space time. If that is shown to be correct then nature would be fundamentally symmetric after all.
This radical prediction is testable with the data that has already been collected at Cern and BaBar by looking for results that are skewed in the direction that the galaxy rotates.”
It is easy to neglect the effect of something as large as a galaxy because what seems most obvious to us is the local gravitation field of the Earth or the Sun, both of which have a much more readily apparent gravitational affect on us than that exerted by our galaxy as a whole. However Dr Hadley believes that what is more important in this case is an affect generated by a spinning massive body.
The speed and angular momentum of the Milky Way‘s massive spinning body creates “frame dragging” on its local space and time twisting the shape of that space time and creating time dilation effects.
When CP violation has been observed in the decay of B-Mesons the key difference observed between the break-up of matter and antimatter versions of the same particle is variation in the different decay rates.
Curiously even though researchers observe that wide variation in the pattern of decay rates when those individual decay rates are added together they add up to the same total for both matter and antimatter versions of the same particle.
These astonishing images are said to show the human spirit (in blue) leaving the body.
Russian scientist Dr konstantin korotkov claims that the pictures show the exact moment of death.
The images show “the soul” gradually slipping out of the body before the patient’s image turns red…
The activity of konstantin korotkov, deputy director of the st. Petersburg research institute of physical culture and world-renowned authority on kirlian photography, was recently highlighted by life.ru. Korotkov is the developer of the gas-discharge visualization (gdv) technique in kirlian photography.
Now scientists have taken gdv photographs of a person as he was dying. In the photos, it could be seen that the area of the belly lost its life force (the purported soul) first, followed by the head. The heart and groin were the last to lose their life force, in that order.
Scientists using the gdv technique say that the aura of those who die unexpectedly or violently differs from those who experience a calm death. The souls of the former remain in a state of confusion for several days and return frequently to their bodies, especially at night. Korotkov ascribes that phenomenon to unused energy retained by the soul. He suggests that the gdv technique will also have applications for distinguishing genuine psychics from frauds.
Chaitra Sukla Paksha Navami is treated as Rama Navami. Rama Navami is the ninth day of the waxing phase of the moon in the month of Chaitram as per Telugu calendar.
There are two dates due to the Thithi(waxing and waning of the Moon) and the Star in which Lord Rama is born.
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Thithi(Navami) might fall on one day,the Nakshatra((Punarvasu) on another day.
Lord Rama’s Nakshatra is Punarvasu, Thithi is Navami.
(The dates differ because of the practice in following different systems of the Almanac.)
If people follow Sauram(who follow Stars,more specifically the movement of the Sun-Solar calendar,Saura Manasa).
They give importance to the Star , Punarvasu,which is prevails for major portion of the Day.
For conducting occasions by Star , the Star must be prevalent for the major portion of the day, while for
Thithi, the balance, that is the least presence on the Day is to be observed – Chandra Maanasam).
That Lord Rama was a historical figure and not a figment of imagination is proved.
Please read my Blog on the Route Taken by Lord Rama.
Two names , among the pantheon of Hindu Gods have the Pranavam OM,The Ultimate Reality, in their names.
One is UMA, consort of Lord Siva and another is Lord Rama.
That is the reason why Uma asks of Lord Siva (as if she does not know-for our benefit) the name which can deliver the results of Lord Vishnu’s Sahasranama.
Lord Siva Replies it is Rama.
(‘kenopaayena laguna……
Sri Rama Ramethi….)-Sri Vishnu Sahasra Namam)
Following is the procedure for performing Sri Rama Navami Pooja.
The Full Sankalpa Text.
Aadhya Brahmanah,
Dwdheeya Paraarthe,
Swetha Varaha Kalpe,
Vaivaswatha Manvantare,
Astavikum Sathi tha me.
Kali Yuge,
Pradhame padhe.
Jambooth Dweepe,
Bharata Varshe,
Bharata Kande,
Merooh,
Dakshine parsve for those south of India) Sahapthe,
Asmin,
Varthamane,
Vyavahaarike,
Prabhavaathi,
Shasti Savastharaanam,
Madhye …….(name of the year) nama samvathsare
Dakshinaayane /Uttarayane(movement of the SUN to Cancer to Capricorn),
…….(Name of the season among the six seasons), Ritau,
…..(Name of The Month),
…….pakshe(indicate the Waxing and Waning of the Moon)
Panakam ,Neer More along with regular fruits etc may be offered.
Advisable to do Seetha Astothram as well.
Use this Link to convert into your Time Zone.
Rama Astothra Text.
108 Names of Lord Rama / Shree Rama Ashtothram
OM shriiraamaaya Namaha OM raamabhadraaya Namaha OM raamachandraaya Namaha OM shaashvataaya Namaha OM raajiivalochanaaya Namaha OM shriimate Namaha OM raajendraaya Namaha OM raghupu.ngavaaya Namaha OM jaanakiivallabhaaya Namaha OM jaitraaya Namaha OM jitaamitraaya Namaha OM janaardanaaya Namaha OM vishvaamitrapriyaaya Namaha OM daantaaya Namaha OM sharaNatraaNa tatparaaya Namaha OM vaalipramathanaaya Namaha OM vaagmine Namaha OM satyavaache Namaha OM satyavikramaaya Namaha OM satyavrataaya Namaha OM vratadharaaya Namaha OM sadaahanumadaashritaaya Namaha OM kausaleyaaya Namaha OM kharadhva.nsine Namaha OM viraadhavadhapaNDitaaya Namaha OM vibhiishhaNa paritraatre Namaha OM harakodaNDa kha.nDanaaya Namaha OM saptataala prabhettre Namaha OM dashagriiva shiroharaaya Namaha OM jaamadgnya mahaadarpadalanaaya Namaha OM taaTakaantakaaya Namaha OM vedaantasaaraaya Namaha OM vedaatmane Namaha OM bhavarogasya bheshhajaaya Namaha OM duushhaNa trishiro hantre Namaha OM trimuurtaye Namaha OM triguNaatmakaaya Namaha OM trivikramaaya Namaha OM trilokaatmane Namaha OM puNyachaaritrakiirtanaaya Namaha OM trilokaraxakaaya Namaha OM dhanvine Namaha OM danDakaaraNya puNyakRite Namaha OM ahalyaa shaapa shamanaaya Namaha OM pitRi bhaktaaya Namaha OM varapradaaya Namaha OM jitendriyaaya Namaha OM jitakrodhaaya Namaha OM jitaamitraaya Namaha OM jagadgurave Namaha OM Rixa vaanara sa.nghaatine Namaha OM chitrakuuTa samaashrayaaya Namaha OM jayanta traaNa varadaaya Namaha OM sumitraaputra sevitaaya Namaha OM sarvadevaadi devaaya Namaha OM mRitavaanar jiivitaaya Namaha OM maayaamaariichahantre Namaha OM mahaadevaaya Namaha OM mahaabhujaaya Namaha OM sarvadevastutaaya Namaha OM saumyaaya Namaha OM brahmaNyaaya Namaha OM munisaMstutaaya Namaha OM mahaa yogine Namaha OM mahodaraaya Namaha OM sugriivepsita raajyadaaya Namaha OM sarvapuNyaadhika phalaaya Namaha OM smRita sarvaagha naashanaaya Namaha OM aadipurushhaaya Namaha OM paramapurushhaaya Namaha OM mahaapurushhaaya Namaha OM puNyodayaaya Namaha OM dayaasaaraaya Namaha OM puraaNapurushhottamaaya Namaha OM smitavaktraaya Namaha OM mitabhaashhiNe Namaha OM puurvabhaashhiNe Namaha OM raaghavaaya Namaha OM anantaguNa gaMbhiiraaya Namaha OM dhiiroddaattaguNottamaaya Namaha OM maayaamaanushha charitraaya Namaha OM mahaadevaadipuujitaaya Namaha OM setukRite Namaha OM jitavaaraashaye Namaha OM sarvatiirthamayaaya Namaha OM haraye Namaha OM shyaamaa.ngaaya Namaha OM sundaraaya Namaha OM shuuraaya Namaha OM piitavaasase Namaha OM dhanurdharaaya Namaha OM sarvayaGYaadhipaaya Namaha OM yajvane Namaha OM jaraamaraNavarjitaaya Namaha OM vibhiishhaNa pratishhThaatre Namaha OM sarvaavaguNavarjitaaya Namaha OM paramaatmane Namaha OM parasmai brahmaNe Namaha OM sachchidaananda vigrihaaya Namaha OM parasmai jyotishhe Namaha OM parasmai dhaamne Namaha OM paraakaashaaya Namaha OM paraatparaaya Namaha OM pareshaaya Namaha OM paaragaaya Namaha OM paaraaya Namaha OM sarvadevaatmakaaya parasmai Namaha
This is generally a cotton cloth-now Polyester has come into being-wrapped around the waist.
There are two types of cloth specification based on their length.
One is 4 yards and another is yards.(There are 10/6 and 9/5 as well,these are recommended people who are tall)
While 4 yards will be enough for wrapping around the waist once, 8 yards will come for two wraps around.
The apprehension that the Dhoti will come off the waist is only an uncomfortable feeling and once one gets used to wearing the Dhoti he will feel comfortable.
Dhoti is very comfortable,convenient, easy to wear, economical and airy.
It takes very little time to wear and washing is simple and one can do it with hand.
There are various colors,mostly white,black,Saffron and Navy Blue.
Only white is recommended by the Sastras(Hindu Rule Book for House Holders)
Black/Navy Blue is not recommended,but people who visit Sabarimalai to have Darshan of Lord Ayyappa wear this color, possibly to identify them as Pilgrims visiting Sabarimalai.
Householders are proscribed from wearing this Dhoti of this colour.
Eight yards Dhoti shall be more comfortable as 4 yards will be not sufficient in length for adults of more than 5’6″.
There are two styles of wearing Dhoti.
One is wearing it just by wrapping around the waist.
The other is called ‘ Pancha Kachcham'( five fold tuck in) , which is prescribed by the Sastras for House holders(Unmarried should not wear in this style)
It indicates that one is married.
Panchakacha is , now a days worn by the Hindus, during functions, both for auspicious and inauspicious)
In fact it should be worn daily.
Panchakacha style wrapping is reported to preserve the electrical/magnetic forces in the Human Body and does not earth it,as the wrapped cloth is fully connected at all ends with no loose ends.
Kaccha means the part of cloth that is tucked to the back, in between the legs. The Pancha Kaccha has five folds of cloth in the kaccha and the nine-yards saree, doesn’t have a fold.
In case one of us aren’t aware.. The kacha style of dressing (where in the saree or the dhoti is worn in the style that ultimately is similar to a pair of pants) has been made compulsory for the married lot because-
#1 To indicate that you are married and you shouldn’t even remotely dream of having a crush on the married guy/girl
#2 To conserve the positive sexual energy that drains out via the moolaadhaara.. Now don’t ask me why, but looks like another subtle energy source gets wasted via the moolaadhara and the Kacha helps conserve all the reproductive energy.
Hold the dhoti such that you are right down the center of the dhoti (lengthwise). Both the ends should be free and you should be holding the dhoti such that there is enough dhoti to go around you just once.
Wrap it around you once (as shown) keeping the wrap a little tight at the stomach portion.
Fold the dhoti a few times so that the it is held firmly at your hip.
Take the end that is on top (typically should be the one to your left); Starting from the end, slowly make folds of about 2 inches each (kosuval).
Insert the folds into the wrap around the hip (as shown).
Take the breadth portion of the top fold and starting from the end (so that the border coloring is visible), make similar folds (as shown).
Insert this second set of folds on top of the previous one (as shown).
Take the other free end of the dhoti, starting breadthwise, make similar folds.
Run this between your legs and bring it behind you (as shown).
Ensure that the folds are not twisted.
Insert the new set of folds behind your back (as shown).
For wrapping around the waist you can tie thw first fold either on the left side of your waist or right,depending on which ever is convenient to you( left-handed might prefer Right tuck in)
