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Secret Lives of Invisible Magnetic Fields

The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries. All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries. Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced by fleeting electrons. Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?

Awarded the Nature Scientific Merit Award by Imagine Science Film Festival, New York 2009.
 Purchased by the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington for the permenant collection 2008.
 Awarded Best Film at Cutting Edge at the British Animation Awards 2008.
 Special Mention, Best International Experimental Short at Leeds International Film Festival 2008. Awarded Best Experimental Film at Tirana International Film Festival 2007.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9NohlfWfQw&feature=related Phenomenal magnetic field visualizations.

Phenomenal magnetic field visualizations.

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T. S. Eliot

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

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One of the most bizarre premises of quantum theory, which has long fascinated philosophers and physicists alike, states that by the very act of watching, the observer affects the observed reality. In a study reported in the February 26 issue of Nature (Vol. 391, pp. 871-874), researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have now conducted a highly controlled experiment demonstrating how a beam of electrons is affected by the act of being observed. The experiment revealed that the greater the amount of “watching,” the greater the observer’s influence on what actually takes place.

Quantum Theory Demonstrated: Observation Affects Reality

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Vortex

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Max Planck

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

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Terence McKenna & Nicole Maxwell: Amazonian Shamanism

Nicole the explorer swaps tales with mercury-minded Terence. The 7 1/2 hour tape set captures the humorous depth of this pair’s expertise in a compilation of the full weekend, including Terence’s rhapsodic overview of shamanism as the key for responding to our planetary ethno-ecological crisis. There’s information about Botanical Dimensions (the project of conserving rapidly vanishing medicinal and hallucinogenic Amazonian plants). Terence also provides the philosophical groundwork for the weekend with a discussion of his view that we’re approaching the end of history as evidenced by the destruction of the rainforests. Nicole, M.D. and researcher extraordinaire, discusses her pharmacopoeia of medicinal plants: contraceptives, abortifecents, menopausal aids, cures for arthritis, diabetes, hepatitis, terigia and all that wrapped up in a banana leaf of terrific stories.

Terence McKenna & Nicole Maxwell: Amazonian Shamanism

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Antikythera Mechanism

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical calculator (also described as the first “mechanical computer”) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, between Kythera and Crete, in 1900. Subsequent investigation, particularly in 2006, dated it to about 150-100 BC, and hypothesised that it was on board a ship that sank en route from the Greek island of Rhodes to Rome, perhaps as part of an official loot. Technological artifacts of similar complexity did not reappear until a thousand years later.

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Immanuel Kant

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

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BBC NEWS | Experts unveil ‘cloak of silence’

Scientists have shown off the blueprint for an “acoustic cloak”, which could make objects impervious to sound waves. The technology, outlined in the New Journal of Physics, could be used to build sound-proof homes, advanced concert halls or stealth warships. Scientists have previously demonstrated devices that cloak objects from microwaves, making them “invisible”. The Spanish team who conducted the new work believe the key to a practical device are so-called “sonic crystals”

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Ken Kesey – author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer— they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

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