Arvin Ash

How does Bitcoin work?. It's Like a Candy Bar (or Fig Bar) if you want to be healthy. Imagine You and I are at the school cafeteria, and I have bag of M&M’s with me. I give it to you. I gave you the bag. You received the bag. I have no M&M’s and now you have exactly one bag of M&M’s. Transaction done. Straight forward. We don’t need anyone to verify what just happened. You have the bag and I don’t. Now imagine that I have a digital M&M’s. And I want to give it to you. It is just a bunch of numbers in a computer file attached to an email. I send it to you. Now you have the digital M&M’s and I don’t right? Well, not exactly. What if I sent that email to you and CC’s 10 other people. How will you know who got the original M&M’s. The one I sent you could be fake, right? Ah ha…this is essential problem that digital currencies have had. And that cryptocurrency now solves, and this is what makes it so special. If you could have had your best friend, Jimmy be by my side to verify that I only emailed you the digital M&M’s first, and no one else, you would be satisfied, right? But your best friend can not always be by my side to verify. And what if I gave him $10 to lie for me? Instead, cryptocurrency solves this problem in even a better way… What if the general public was by my side to verify that I indeed sent that digital candy to you? I could not cheat because then everyone would be there to tell you that I cheated. I couldn’t pay everyone $10. And no ONE person would be responsible for this verification, so they could not collectively collude with me. The Bitcoin protocol solves this issue of verification in a similar way. Every transaction that has ever happened with a bitcoin is recorded in something called block chain. This block chain is made public and open source so that everyone has access to it and anyone can see it. Whenever a new transaction occurs on the bitcoin, a new block is added to the chain…but… But it has to be verified by everyone else that can see the

Life after death - as been asked for millenia. Is There Life After Death? What is the real truth? Let me ask you a question... do you remember what your life 150 years ago? Yes, precisely... you were not around 150 year ago. You have no recollection of it because you did not exist... yet. Similarly, 150 years from now, you will not be around to experience life. Once you die, your conscience ceases to exist. There is absolutely no evidence that your conscience lives on after you die, no matter what new age gurus, or various books have to say about it. Sure, there are people that have experienced -out of body-experiences, and seen a ͞bright light͟ when they felt they were almost dead. But all such experiences can be explained with they way our brains work, and the chemistry of our brains when it is under extreme stress or deprived or neutrients, and the like. I know that I am being a kill joy͟ to the millions of people that want to believe that they will continue to live on after they die in this world. But, I’m afraid the cold hard truth is - that there is absolutely no scientific evidence of life after death. It is highly improbable. But this is not bad news at all....the good news is....you are alive NOW! You have a chance to live the kind of life you want to live. It is a gift that you are a conscious being living on to day’s earth, at perhaps the greatest time for human beings. There is relative peace in the world, and a greater proportion of the people of the world is prosperous today than ever in our history. And you have a chance to make the best of it. You should.... because it is likely your ONLY chance.

Why is the sky blue? Well, it is not quite actually blue. Here's the story: The sun does not emit yellow light like you’ve been taught. It emits White light…and white light is made up of all the different colors of the rainbow. I can prove it to you by this glass of water. See how the sun’s light gets diffracted into its component colors? This diffraction happens because the light interacts with the water molecules and diffractsinto the different colors of light. Similarly, when the light from the sun goes through the earth’s atmosphere, It so happens that the white light from the sun gets scattered by the molecules in the air. Shorter wavelength light is scattered more than longer wavelength light. Violet and Blue are shorter wavelength than red, green, or yellow. These two colors are scattered the most so that is what you see… Wait…the sky is blue, I don’t see any violet you say? Ahhh…this is where your eyes deceive you. You should see violet…but…You see the receptors in your eyes most sensitive to red, green, and blue. Your eyes perceive violet as a combination of red and blue. The net effect is that what you “see” is mostly blue with a tinge of red. If you had dedicated violet receptors in your eyes, the sky would appear mostly violet with a tinge of blue. -Arvin Ash | Who Gives A Bleep

What is hell Like? If There Really Was a Hell, what would it be like? It’s not as difficult to imagine as you might think. Hell is supposed to be a place where you suffer for all eternity. What would this really be like? Let’s look at this logically. There are two types of suffering physical and mental…or emotional. And this suffering would be for eternity. Eternity is very, very long time. It is forever. In order to survive for eternity, we could not be in our current physical state. In other words, our bodies could not survive for eternity. If we are lucky, we might live to be 90 years old. The longest any person has ever lived was Jeanne Calment of France Who lived to be 122 years. But eternity is much much longer than that. Even 1 million years is nowhere close to eternity. A billion is not even close, 1 billion times a billion times a billion is not even close to forever. The point is our bodies could not survive for eternity. In fact, no material thing can survive for eternity…and here’s why: The universe is expanding at a very high rate (see my video on dark energy). Space is expanding and it is accelerating. At some point in the future, probably several trillion years from now, space will expand so much that even all the things in it will fly apart, including all molecules and atoms, and even the nuclei of atoms. This means that no material thing will survive for eternity. So, what will survive?...probably pure energy will survive for all eternity. So, since the requirement is that we must suffer for all eternity, we would need to be composed of pure energy. Now, there is absolutely no physical harm that can come to pure energy…because physical harm just means that you are putting some kind of energy into it. if you try to put energy into energy…the energy will just grow more energetic. You will not harm the energy you began with. And you could not kill this energy – it would exist forever. So physical harm wi

What is Dark Energy? Simply explained here. Almost 14 billion years ago, The Universe started as a big bang…from a point that was infinitesimally small. A colossal explosion occurred from a point smaller than the point on this pen. Like any explosion, scientists expected that over time the explosion would slow down until it stops. In a real world explosion, it’s the friction of the air and gravity that slows an explosion down. So similarly, it was expected that the big bang explosion would also be slowing down due to the effects of gravity counteracting the effect of this big-bang expansion. In the late 1990’s, two teams of scientists set out to measure this slow-down. They used the Hubble space telescope to look at type 1A supernova explosions. These special supernovae emit the same luminosity no matter where in the universe they are located, so they serve as standard candles. They used these supernovae to determine the slow-down of the big bang explosion. But what they discovered shocked these scientists. The results were so shocking that the scientists studying this did not themselves believe it. They had to double check, triple check and quadruple check their results, to make absolutely sure. But the results did not change. They found that not only is the expansion of the universe not slowing down, it is not even steady….the expansion of the universe is accelerating. The expansion is getting faster! This is a complete shock to astronomers and physicists…because this kind of acceleration implies that there must be an enormous amount of mysterious energy that is driving this expansion. There has to be energy because it has to push against all the gravity that is contained in the universe. And frankly, scientists have no idea what this energy is or where it is coming from. And when scientists have no idea about something…they call it “dark” Thus, this mysterious energy that is making the universe accelerate is expansion is called “dark e

Are we all related? Yes, in fact, all life is related. You Are Related to a Tomato! A lot of you know that apes and humans share a common ancestor – so you know you’re related to Bonzo the ape at your local zoo. But did you know that you ALSO share a common ancestor with a Tomato……. yeah…You are related to this tomato! You may have nieces, nephews and first and second cousins – you are all related because you have the same ancestor – in this case a grandmother or grandfather or great grandparent. Similarly, if you go back enough generations – the ape that you see at your local zoo and you share a common ancestor. But it turns out that our relationship to other living things goes much much deeper than you imagined. You see…All living things share the blueprint of life – that “blueprint” is a molecule called DNA. This orangutan and I share 97% of our DNA, and this chimp shares 99% of his DNA with me. But you probably already knew that…didn’t you? That we all come from apes – well, to be accurate We share a common ancestor with apes that lived probably about 3-6 million years ago. Just like you and your drunk -- 2nd cousin Bobby have the same ancestor – a great grandfather who lived maybe 100 years ago. But did you know that we also share a common ancestor with this Tomato!!!!! Truth is…There is only one type of DNA made up of only 4 different types of molecules called nucleotides. And all living things – plants and animals, are based on this SAME DNA. The only difference is the order…or sequence of these bases, that determines the differences in living things. By sequencing the genes of various organisms, researchers have found that ALL living things – plants, animals share common DNA sequences. This confirms the mind blowing truth that all living things shared a common ancestor. This common ancestor that lived probably 3 to 4 billion years ago, when earth was in its infancy. This was probably a one celled organism. And all the diversity of li

When will be run out of oil? Why haven’t we run out of oil already? In 1977, President Jimmy Carter went on TV and declared that the biggest crisis that we were going to face in our lifetime was going to be running out of oil. He couldn’t have been more wrong…Yes we have been burning more of it almost every year since 1977. But we have more oil now than we did in 1977, and we may never run out. How is that possible? In 1977, people knew only of the then current oil reserves, and knowing our consumption rate, with some quick math, you could easily figure out that we would run out of oil within 40 years, …or about now…that…seems pretty laughable now. What they didn’t know then is how vast our oil reserves actually are. It turns out the earth has a much larger amount of oil than we ever imagined. So much so, that we will likely never run out…up to the day we perfect an inexhaustible form of cheap energy such as solar or nuclear fusion. But that’s for another video. This is all due to Technology advance. Our technology has enabled us not only to find vast new previously unknown oil reserves in Venezuela and Kazakhstan, for example, but we also perfected ways to extract oil from oil shale using a process called fracking. Simply put, this is a way to extract oil from shale rock using high pressure water. It turns out that the United States alone has trillions, not billions but trillions with a “T,” of gallons of oil in the form of Shale rock. That’s almost 10 times more than Saudi Arabia. And there are trillions more gallons of oil in Canada, in the form of tar sands, which are extractable. In addition, More oil is being found in previously used oil sites by technologies like drilling sideways, drilling deeper, and using high pressure water to squeeze more oil from a drilling site. We consume about 35 billon barrels of oil per year, so with the trillions we have available. This will probably last for 100 years

Most popular food in the world? It is not what you think. You love pizza and ice cream. You love sushi and apples too. They taste so good don’t they? But none of these is anywhere near the most popular food in the world. And You may be shocked to learn that this most popular food in the world, is kinda bland. When we talk about the most popular food in the world, we have to distinguish between the most popular in terms of what people actually consume vs. most desired food in the world (which does not necessarily mean that it is most consumed, because it may be too expensive like ice cream….or may be more of a treat than a staple food…like chocolate) So let’s look at foods that are the most consumed by the world. Let’s look at corn first. The world produces more corn than any other single food in the world. If you go to the Midwest of the USA, You will find miles and miles of farmland with nothing but corn growing on it. I used to wonder as a kid, growing up in Michigan, who the heck is eating all this corn. There is more of it in the world than any other food. And big portion of it is produced in the United States. Well, it turns out, most of the corn is not consumed by humans, but by animals. It is used for animal feed. used in farming beef, pork, chicken, etc. So if you are a meat eater, you consume it indirectly. Most of the rest is used to make ethanol, corn oil, and corn syrup. A very small portion of it is actually eaten directly by people The food that is the most popular, that is, the most eaten by humans is the second biggest crop in the world is…and what is that? Wait for it…wait for it…it is rice. Rice is the most important source of calories for human beings. People on average eat as much rice as their weight every year. The average person in the world weighs about 137 lbs, (I weigh much more than that, unfortunately) – but 137lbs happens to be almost exactly what we consume

How big is the universe? How big is space? No, it’s much bigger than that. The sun is a million times bigger than earth. Imagine for a minute that the Sun was the size of this basketball. Earth would be about the size of this nail head. And how far do you think it would be. This far?…maybe this far? Nope and nope. This nail head would be 100 feet away. Now…here’s the big question, how far away would the nearest star be? That answer is going to shock you! Do you think it would be a thousand feet away, a mile, 10 miles maybe? Nope, nope and nope. I am currently located near New York City in the United States. To see the nearest star to our basketball sun, I would need to travel to Russia. Let that sink in for a minute. Now, here is the really shocking part. There are 200 billion such starts in our own Milky Way Galaxy. …And each one of these stars are as far from each other as our sun is from its nearest star. And what’s in between. Pretty much just empty space. And here is something even more mind-boggling than that – the Milky Way galaxy is one of just 2 Trillion such galaxies in the Universe. Let that sink in for a second. The vastness of space, and its emptiness is mind boggling. But it’s the truth. Can you handle it?

Will Artificial Intelligence take over? the world? And Will AI Kill Us All? The greatest threat to the destruction of humanity, according to Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and the late physicist Stephen Hawking is AI or artificial intelligence. Could they be right? Will AI (Artificial Intelligence) take over the world? Or have they been watching too many science fiction movies. If anyone other than these three highly intelligent people had made the same statement, you could write them off as “crack pot pseudo scientists” But given that these are three preeminent and highly intelligent people, you have to take this seriously. First, what is AI? Quite simply it is a type of machine intelligence. It already exists, Siri on iphone speech recognition and the vision recognition systems of self-driving cars are low level forms of artificial intelligence. High level forms of AI would be self-learning machines, and perhaps even conscious such as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character in the Terminator, or the robots in West World , which are at least as intelligent as humans. These don’t exist yet, …but we are probably going to get there in this century. Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering at Google, is a famous futurist who predicted the rise of the internet and fall of the Soviet Union. He believes that AI will be vastly more intelligent than humans by the year 2045 – This is the point at which there will be nothing that humans can do, that an AI Machine will not be better at. That’s less than 30 years from now. Does this mean that, humans will be destroyed at that point? No, it doesn’t mean that Does it mean that humans may be redundant, or mostly useless? Probably…yes. If AI does become much more intelligent than humans, yes, they may possess the capability to destroy us, but the question is not, “can they?” – The question is “would they?” To answer this question, we have to f

What is Quantum Computing? quantum computing explained - because it is your destiny! The cell phone you have in your pocket is thousands of times more powerful than the computer that was used to land humans on the moon. In the future, computers will be thousands of times more powerful than your smart phone…because of quantum computing. It will usher in the age of Artificial Intelligence. But just how does quantum computing work? Our computers are doubling in power about every 2 years. But at its core, it is really a very simple device. Even the most complex computers today are just fancy calculators. They recognize only two things, Yes or no, on or off. A computer works with only two numbers, a zero or a one, heads or tails – that is it. Essentially the brains of a computer consists of on/off switches like the light switch in your house. These are called transistors.The transistors in a computer work by either being on or off. When it’s on, it is a 1. When it is off, it is a 0. This is why it’s called binary language. Every piece of data is represented by these switches. For example, all the letters of the alphabet can be represented by 7 switches or bits. The more of these transistors we have inside a computer, the more information it can process. So the smaller we can make them, the more we can fit inside the small frame of a computer. The problem is that we have almost reached the limit of how small we can make these transistors. Today we can fit a few billion of these switches onto a chip the size of your fingernail. Instead of bits, a quantum computer has quantum bits or qubits, which work in a really crazy way. Instead of either a zero or a 1, heads or tails - a qubit can store a zero and one at the same time. So imagine flipping a coin, a regular computer only recognizes a head or a tail. A quantum computer can recognize or deal with all the possibilities in between. So the computing powe

Check out "Part II" of this video here: https://youtu.be/v8-oocxPwlM -- How did the universe form? How did the Universe come from nothing? If you were to get rid of every “thing” in a certain part of space – all the planets, stars, atoms, particles, and even light and radiation… that space would still have weight – it would weigh something. It turns out that what we think of as “nothing” is NOT nothing. It is something. Space is bubbling with virtual particles that pop in and out of existence. (Quantum Fluctuations). These particles do this in a time scale so short that the laws of physics forgives this creation of these ghost particles that seem to arise from nothing. The laws of quantum mechanics allow this. The empty space within a proton represents 90% of the mass of the proton. And since most of our physical world is made up of protons and neutrons, this so called “empty space” inside them is what gives us mass. Here is the analogy – a zero represents nothing right? But a zero can also be represented by the number 1 million plus negative one million: 1,000,000 + (-1,000,000) = 0 The above equation is the key to understanding how our universe began. The total energy of the universe is 0, or “nothing” …however, at the beginning of the universe the zero spontaneously divided into 1 gazillion megawatts of energy, and negative 1 gazillion megawatts of energy. The total energy was still zero, but it was divided into these two numbers. The positive energy is represented by all the matter you can see in the universe – stars, planets, particles, radiation… …Because energy is equivalent to mass using Einstein’s famous equation E=MC(2) And what about the negative energy – where is that? That negative energy is in the form of gravity. The universe is flat. It is in perfect balance. The negative energy of gravity cancels out the positive energy of matter. Like my favorite character from the Matrix says…It is symphony of mathematical precision…th

The 5 Biggest Reasons You Are Unhappy? 5). You are focused on the future and the past, rather than the present. In your daily thoughts, are you dwelling on past failures, or how things could have been. you could have been somebody, you could have gotten that girl or guy. Unrequieted love You are thinking if I could only re-do that part of my life, how different it would be. If you are honest with yourself, you will realize that you would have made the exact same decision back then with the information that you had at the time. So stop kicking yourself. That different decision would not have made any difference overall anyway. It would have just given you a different set of problems. There are no fatal mistakes. You are still here. You have the rest of your life to make it the best life it can be. And if you are like most people not focused on the past, you are focused on the future. more than the present? Stop it. Bring your mind back here. Spend more time with your loved ones. This is the biggest regret people on their deathbed. No one says, I should have focused more on my job, on my career. They all say, I should have started this, pursued my passion. I wish I spent more time with this person or that person. Invest your time and money in your experiences – time with people you enjoy being with. Go on that vacation with your family. These are the memories that will last a lifetime. 4) You are judging others rather than learning from them. Think about it when you judge others too quickly – think, hmm, this person is really irritating, but are they making a valid point. Is there something admirable about them? What can I learn from them? If you are zoned out looking at your CNN app, you are probably getting angry about something because you are judging. If you are always on your Facebook app, you may be doing the same. Always look at an interaction with another person a

How to Live on $1400 per month. What is so magical about $1400 per month? Why did I choose that number? This is the average social security benefit that Americans will receive in retirement in 2018. And given that 40 million households have ZERO savings for retirement right now, including 30% of households where the main breadwinner is 55 or over. This could be the only source of money many people will have to live on in their retirement years. But can a person live on just $1400 per month? The answer…is YES. In many parts of the world, people would jump with joy if they could get their hands on a steady $1400 per month. You could almost live like a king in countries like Panama, Philippines, Nicaragua, Armenia, and Grenada on that income. Many American Expats do live in these countries happily. But living in these countries, you may give up some things that you take for granted here in America - things like great healthcare, 1st amendment freedoms, corruption, language, and American culture. So, I am going to presume that you have a strong desire to remain in the United States. I am also going to presume that you are retired, but under the age of 65, so you do NOT qualify for Medicare yet, so you have to buy your own medical insurance. The good news about that is that you can get very good low cost medical insurance through the Obamacare or ACA marketplace. I am also going to presume you are single, and are a family of one. The first thing you should do is move to a low cost area of the country. This can save you significant money. For example, someone in Atlanta, Georgia can have almost the same lifestyle on half the income as someone living in San Francisco, California. Your income at $1400 per month, will be $16,800 per year. At this level, you will owe no federal tax. And in addition, in most states, you will not pay any state income tax either, so you don’t need to move to a state that has 0 income tax. You should just move to a state

Where is the Internet? Location? How does the internet work? And most importantly, how much does it weigh? You are on it right now. 30 years ago, it didn’t exist for most of us. But today Many of us can’t live without it. Of course, I am talking about the internet. There are about 4 billion internet users in the world – more than half of all human beings, but where is this all-powerful, god-like technology actually located? I am going to show you not only where it’s located, but how it works. When we watch a live television show, it is being broadcast from a studio somewhere in the world, it is being transmitted via satellite or through a TV station tower. But when it comes to the internet…It turns out that it is not located in just one spot. This is the reason it exists in the first place. The internet was created in 1969 by the research unit of the United States Defense department, called DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). It was created with the thought that since it would be a network, not located in any one place, it could not be easily destroyed in case of war, because if you bombed one arm of the network, there would be others that would still allow people to communicate, and so we wouldn’t lose the war. The internet consists of a massive network of servers (a fancy name for specialized computers) located in data centers throughout the world. They are tied together with a backbone of mostly fiber optic cables, and exchange points located in major cities. The term world wide web is part of the internet – it is just a user-friendly way to access the information on the internet. When you enter a particular domain name in your browser, like Amazon.com or ArvinAsh.com your browser seeks out the location of the server which holds the files for that website by finding its uniqueIP address. An IP is simply an agreed-upon digital addressing strategy, or internet protocol, which consists of a series of numbers, separated by perio

New video with less provocative conclusion here: https://youtu.be/jH0_C1kUOEw . Are we alone in the universe? 5 Reasons we are (probably) completely alone in the universe. A government funded program called SETI, or the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence has been listening for intelligent life in the universe, with their radio telescopes, for past 50 years, but so far NOTHING has been found. Is it possible that the hundreds of scientists around the world that are looking for intelligent life are on a futile mission to nowhere –because there is actually NO OTHER intelligent species in the entire universe – The shocking answer could be – YES. I’ll explain why. There are more stars and planets in the universe than all the sands on all the beaches of the world. How is it possible that we could be the only intelligent life out there. I am talking about intelligent life, not just any kind of life. I think ordinary life is probably everywhere in the universe, and I predict there is life within our own solar system. See my other video on this subject. Intelligent life is a completely different animal, no pun intended, than simple forms of life like bacteria and viruses. There is a good chance that there is NO other intelligent life…and here are 5 reasons why: 5) Earth has a very large moon compared to its home planet. And this moon was formed due to a colossal impact with another planet early in earth’s history. This collision caused the earth to almost completely melt, which led to molten iron being pulled to the center of the earth. The reason this is important is because it is the flow of this iron that allows earth to have a relatively strong magnetic field. Without this field, life would not exist, because cosmic rays would have wiped out any early life. The moon also gives the earth orbital stability, and has absorbed potential meteor impacts that would have otherwise devastated earth. Such massive collisions are probably rare in the universe.

5 Biggest Lies You’ve Been Told About Money – and how It’s making you poor You have been living lies about money that have been told to you for a generation. And you are…getting poorer as a result.In the next 5 minutes, I am going to expose the 5 biggest lies, and tell you the real truth about money. 5) “Live within your means.” Everybody tells you to live within your means. You don’t really get rich that way. Learn to Live BELOW your means. Then save the rest of your money. If you are living barely within your means, you are living hand to mouth. You might be one paycheck away from bankruptcy. You will not get rich. You will remain where you are. There is happiness in living only with things you need. 4) “Live for the moment.” It’s true but this applies to your time, not your money. When it comes to money –people get rich by DELAYING GRATIFICATION…Not spending money right away simply because they have it. My father always told me, “you don’t get rich by spending money”—save for the future. The delay will be worth it. When I see people driving fancy cars and wearing fancy clothes, all I see is spending not investing. I wonder how many of them are like my friend in Beverly Hills. They are getting poorer, not richer. How many times have you seen a lottery or a game show where someone won a big chunk of money. They always talk about how they are going to spend it. These are the kinds of people that will stay poor. If I won a big chunk of money, I would not think about how to spend it. I would think about how I would INVEST it. Which brings me to number 3. 3) “You have to spend money to make money.” Completely and utterly false. You don’t spend money to make money. You INVEST money to make money. This is the biggest reason rich people get rich. This is true not just for any business venture you might start, but the money that you have saved, as well. Don’t keep the money you have saved in a bank account. if you do,

How to be smart? You can be smarter than a smart person. Do you sometimes wish that you were smarter than you are right now? And that if you were, you would be more successful in life? I am going to show you 3 huge disadvantages that highly intelligent people have, and how, by knowing these handicaps, you can be smarter than them. First let me shatter this myth you have told yourself: Most highly successful people do not have an IQ that is any higher than yours.The latest research shows there is no correlation between IQ and net worth. The world is full of brilliant, highly intelligent people that are not necessarily happy, nor accomplished, nor financially successful. In fact, being extremely intellectually gifted can actually hamper your success. And here’s why – it comes with baggage – 3 big bags. The first bag: Smart people can become lazy – why? Because they are used to not having to try very hard in school to get good grades. They are used to understanding things very quickly, or learning a new skill without really having to sweat or toil. They can become used to not failing much. But Success is most often about perseverance in the face of failure, after failure, after failure. This is the way most self-made rich people have gotten rich – by dogged determination and learning from multiple failures.This is a learned skill, that smart people just don’t have much practice in. Learn to try new things. Learn to fail. You will succeed as a result. Bag # 2: Smart peoplealso do not socialize as much. They tend to be Introverted. The latest research shows that smart people have fewer friends. But Success is mostly about collaborating with other people that have talent in areas other than yours, or ideas you may not be thinking of. If you think about how some people are lucky. There really is no such thing. It’s about Being in the right place at the right time -- which requires socializing, and networking, and being more outgoing. Whe

Crop circles decoded, and their secrets revealed. They are sometimes beautiful patterns in the middle of a field. They attract tourists from around the world. They have inspired conspiracy theories, tales of alien visitors, and some people have even found complex hidden mathematical formulas in their patterns. But who or what is making these crop circles. In the next 4 minutes, Let’s solve this mystery! The first crop circle was reported in 1966 in a small town called Tully, in Australia, where a farmer said he saw a flying saucer take off from his farm land. When he went to investigate, he found a circular pattern of depressed crops and grass in his field. And so the idea that aliens were creating these mysterious patterns began. The first modern crop circles did not appear until the 1970’s. But they were simple circular shapes, that some could dismiss as being due to weather like the one that occurred in 1966. But in 1996, one of the most spectacular crop circles appeared near Stonehenge in England. http://www.colinandrews.net/JuliaSetStory.html There was no doubt that this one was NOT due to any weather. It was a mathematical shape based on something called fractals. Without getting into the details of fractals, let’s just say that this crop circle definitely showed a sign of intelligence. And on top of the mystery, some eye witnesses said they saw this shape appear out of nowhere in less than an hour. Theories about aliens really got hotter than they had ever been.Now, did some hoodlums go to the trouble of designing a complicated math shape like a fractal, or was it the work of super intelligent beings from outer space? what is Bottom line? Well, unlike many things people believe like Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and ghosts which have never actually been seen, we know for sure that crop circles are real – very real. We can see them, feel them, touch them. What do we make of the belief that Many people that these things are mad

What is Dark Matter? -- What if I told you that there may be trillions of particles going through your body right now, and you can’t see it, hear it, or touch it. And that these particles are so vast, that they compose more than 6 times all the visible matter you can see in the universe. 6 times all the stars, galaxies, planets, gases, and radiation. And we not only cannot see any of it with our eyes, we cannot detect it with any of our instruments. So how the heck do we know that it’s even there? In the late 1970’s, an astronomer by the name of Vera Rubin, who happened to be a female in a male-dominated profession, was studying a mundane area of astronomy that no one else seemed to be interested in at the time. She was looking at the motion of stars in the spiral portions of the Andromeda galaxy, a neighbor of our own milky way galaxy. What she found shocked scientists…because it seemed to violate Newton’s laws of gravitation which had been established as scientific law for the previous 300 years. Her observations showed that the stars in the outer rim of the spiral arms were moving at about the same velocity as the stars in the inner part of the spiral arm. This violates Newton’s law of universal gravitation which should govern both the motion of stars in galaxies as well as the motion of planets around the sun. Force of Gravity = G m1 m2 / r2 m1= mass of first planet m2 = mass of second planet r2= square of distance between them G = Gravitational constant The equations dictate that the further away an object is from the center of mass (r), the lower the force of gravity, and the slower the object rotates around it. Stars closer to the center must travel faster than those away from the center. Otherwise, the stars would fly away from their orbits around the galaxy. This is easy to see in the motion of all the planets in our own solar system – which follow Newton’s laws pretty much to the letter. Vera Ru

What is the Meaning of Life?*Spoiler Warning* “Why am I here” “What is my Purpose” “What is the meaning of life” If you’re a subscriber, you knew that I was going to tackle this subject sooner or later didn’t you? This is a uniquely human question that we humans have asked ourselves for thousands of years now. Let’s distill those thousands of years in the next 2 minutes, and answer this question. And l want to give you a spoiler warning. If you need to find the answer for yourself, or if you don’t want to hear something that may not align with your faith, then click skip right now. And if you decide to stay, then please watch all the way to the end, because you will not get the full impact of this message otherwise. It is safe to say that no other animal on earth has asked this question. So we are quite the privileged hairless ape? We have created entire occupations, cultures, and ways of life in pursuit of answering this question…or because we think we have answered this question already. (show monks in Tibet, worshippers in India). I have some good news and bad news. First the bad news. You ready? You better sit down for this. I’ll give you a couple of seconds. Life has no innate meaning. Life is absolutely meaningless. Let that sink in for a minute. I don’t think this cold hard truth is shocking to you…because in your heart of hearts you have known this to be true. We are desperate to create meaning for our lives. Some of us cling to the hope and, I dare say… “delusion” that our life has some inherent meaning. It does NOT. But now…Here’s the good news. Just because Life has no innate meaning…does not mean that it is meaningless for you as an individual. It means that we have been given a clean slate to create whatever meaning we want from our lives. You have the opportunity to create a meaning for your life that means something to you. It’s like your English teacher

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I will show you how to meditate for beginners. This Method was taught to me by a practicing Yogi who has been using this simple ancient Indian meditation technique for over 40 years. He wanted to share its simplicity to encourage people to practice and enjoy the benefits of meditation. Meditation is now pretty much universally accepted by scientists and non-scientists as a great way to reduce stress, lower your blood pressure, increase your general well-being, and give you a huge performance boost. Some studies even suggest that meditationcan increase your life span. The problem is that most people don’t practice it. And they often don’t practice it because they feel intimidated by the thought of having to learn difficult sitting positions or certain yoga moves, or sometimes people feel overwhelmed because they don’t know where to start. I’m going to teach you a proven ancient meditation technique that you can learn in2 minutes. Try to meditate in early morning or late evening. Just don’t do it right after a meal. Wait 2-3 hours. Choose the same spot in a quietplace preferably near a window. Sit comfortably with a straight back posture on a chair in an upright position. Contrary to what you may have seen, you do not need to sit on the ground, orcontort your legs like anacrobat. Put your forearm and hands loosely on your thighs facing upwards. You don’t have to put your thumb and fingers together like what you might have seen on TV. And you do not have to make any noise like “Om,” or raise your arms. Just Close your eyes completely or keep them half closed – whatever feels better to you. Look straight ahead. Do not look down. Fix your inner gaze to a point between eyebrows Do not look down. Now Take a slow deep breath mentally counting up to 10. Hold your breath for the same count of 10. Then exhale again counting mentally up to 10. Do this 5 times. Now with closed eyes, just quietly o

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What is the God Particle? How does the Higgs Boson work? If you were a fish, would you know that the entire world in which you existed was contained in a substance called water? You probably wouldn’t know it because, you had always been in it. You could not see, breathe, travel or exist outside of it. Water would just be there, and you would take it for granted. You probably would not even know that it was a substance that you were living in. It would just be a kind of liquid field that permeates your entire world. We humans also live in such a field that permeates the entire universe we live in – without which we could not exist. What is this field, and what does the God particle have to do with it? In the 2nd half of the 20th century, physicists developed something called the standard model of particle physics. Nearly all phenomenon, and the underlying particles that make up ultimate building blocks of the universe can be explained by this model, except gravity.This model consists of 12 fundamental particles that make up all matter, and 4 particles, called bosons responsible for 3 fundamental forces of nature: strong force, weak force, and electromagnetism. Gravity is another force, and it not part of this model. But it can be modeled using general relativity. With the recipe provided in the standard model, and gravity, we can build everything in the entire universe. However, up until 2012, the standard model had a gaping flaw. According to its underlying theory, all force carrying particles should be massless. Although the photon which is indeed massless, experiments show that the weak force's bosons have mass. So here was a promising model that could be used to explain our universe. But perhaps it would need to be thrown out because it had this seemingly fatal flaw in being inconsistent regarding the way the weak force worked. In the late 1950s, physicists had "no idea" how to resolve these issues. All attempts to solve this problem just seemed

What is Mass? And Where Does it come from? It's source is going to blow you away! It's (mostly) NOT from the Higgs Field. We tend to think of mass as weight? So for example, you might weigh a 150 lbs. An elephant might weigh 12,000 lbs. But On the moon you would weigh 25 lbs, and the elephant would weigh only 2000 lbs. So is your mass 25 lbs or 150 lbs – neither. You weight is not your mass. The force of gravity acting on your mass is what gives you weight. Your mass is the amount of stuff that your body is made of. It’s your body’s resistance to motion or a measurement of the number of atoms you are composed of. If you counted up the mass of all the atoms in your body, that’s what your mass would be. Ok, but where does the mass of the atom come from? You might think that I am going to reference the so called God particle or the Higgs Boson as the particle that gives all fundamental particles mass. The Higgs field is only partly responsible for mass – in fact, only about 2 % of the mass of the universe is directly due to the Higgs field. Where does the other 98% come from? Let’s take a closer look at the atom. Atoms are composed of Protons and Neutrons in the nucleus, with an electron cloud whizzing at high speeds around it. But the mass of the electron is only 0.05% of the total mass of the atom. It is so small compared to the mass of the nucleus, that for our purposes here, we can ignore it. So let’s look at the nucleus of the atom only, which is responsible for 99.95% of the mass of the atom. It is composed of Protons and Neutrons, both of which have about the same amount of mass. So let’s look at just the proton. Where do protons get their mass? If you go inside the protons, you will find that they are fundamentally made up of three even smaller particles called quarks whizzing around each other. But the problem is when we measure the actual mass of the these three quarks – 2 Up, and 1 Down quark – their combined mass

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Is consciousness god? What is consciousness? And Where is it located? We tend to treat our consciousness as a mystery, perhaps even as a supernatural quality of being human. Something that might even be divine, connecting us to a higher power. But could the source of consciousness really just all be contained in the neurons, synapses and other connections within our brain? New research seems to point us to one of these directions. What is it that makes it so mystical for us. What is consciousness? No one knows for sure, but scientists seem to agree that consciousness has to involve the integration of activity from several brain networks, allowing us to perceive our surroundings. It integrates all our sensory inputs - sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste as one single unifying experience rather than isolated sensory perceptions. It connects us to our present, memories of our past…and to our emotions into a single ego-centric perception. All these things shape our perception of who we are, and what we believe to be the world around us. Even if we don’t know what it is, can we at least find out WHERE it is? Just days before he died in July 2004, Francis Crick, who co-discovered the structure of DNA, was working on a paper that suggested that our consciousness needs some kind of conductor to put all external stimuli and internal perceptions together He hypothesized that this conductor would need to rapidly integrate information from different parts of the brain and put them into a whole. For example, if you are sitting outside and you smell a neighbor’s barbeque, you might instantly be able to imagine the kind of food he is cooking. You may remember its name, its texture and its taste instantly. And you may even recall any past experiences, memories and emotions associated with the smell of that barbecue. All these things happen instantly. Crick suggested that the claustrum – a thin, sheet-like structure that lies hidden deep inside th

Does he like me? Does She Like me? How to know if someone likes you? Turns out most people do. This study mostly pertains to first impressions. We tend to like the other party more than they think. And we tend to think the other party dislikes us more than they actually do. Why is this the case? Video explains this, and also how the study was done. Citation: This study was published in Sept., 2018 in the journal Psychological Science. Here is a link to the article for those that may want to read the details: https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797618783714

Technological Singularity in 2045 – Get Ready - This is what the future may be like. Ray Kurzweil is a famous futurist who has been right about 90% of the time. He is such a visionary that in 2012 Google hired him to be their Director of Engineering. He predicted the rise of the internet over 30 years ago, in 1984,when most people had never even heard of it. And he even predicted its widespread use via wireless technologies in the 21st century. Ray was labelled “crazy” at the time. He has some “crazy” predictions for the next 30 years including the “Singularity” – which will change everything. First let’s look at why Kurzweil is so often right about the timing of his predictions. Take the example of DNA mapping. In 1990, an international collaboration of scientists was set up to map the entire human DNA sequence. It was a 15 year project. Well, after 7 years, in 1997, only 1 % of the genome had been mapped. And the project was declared a failure. Some Scientist estimated that it would take another 100 years to complete at this rate. Ray Kurzweil said, "1%?...You guys are almost done." And sure enough 6 years later, in 2003, the entire human genome had been sequenced. How did that happen? Because the technology doubled every year. So then every year 2%, 4%, 8%, 16%, 32%, 64%, 128% - so 1% doesn’t go to 7% in 7 years, it goes to 100% because100 is less than doublings from 1%. So Let’s look as some of Ray’s predictions – he predicts that by 2030, artificial intelligence will be as smart as a human. And by 2045, AI will not only exceed the brainpower of a human being, but it will exceed the brainpower of all 7 billion human beings on earth…combined! Scientists dramatically call this intelligence explosion the Singularity! This is not to be confused with the term singularity in Physics – which represents an infinitesimally small point from which all of creation came about. But this technological singularity may be just as momentous. How w

How to raise successful kids. And how to raise successful child. The video explains the science. Study Raw Data: https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/35/1/49/849772 TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=8Dv2Hdf5TRg Script: Shortly after World War II, an ambitious British Study on children and their parents was initiated. It followed 14,000 children and their parents from birth to childhood, and looked at not only the progress of their health but also their relative happiness and success. As you might imagine, this study produced mountains of data. But I’m going to summarize it into 6 major bullet points for you, which you will find shockingly simple. So here’s the bottom line when it comes to parenting if you want to maximize the success of your children: 6) Don’t be poor. Yes, I know that is an insensitive remark, but the study clearly shows that kids born into poor families do worse than those born in more affluent families. Poorer children appear to have a higher mountain to climb in order to become as successful as their more affluent counterparts. The study does not clarify why. But the authors also points out, some of the disadvantages of being poor can be overcome with other factors, which are the following bullet points. 5) Be an engaged parents. This seems pretty basic, and it is. Put simply, parents who are engaged with their children, that is, take time to talk and listen to them end up having more successful children. This should be no surprise. 4) Being warm, loving and kind to your children is also a factor in their success. Again, this seems pretty basic and logical. Goes to show that being a great parent is not necessarily rocket science. 3) Read to your children and encourage them to read on their own. The study found that children who were read to by their parents daily did better in school and were much more successful later in life. In addition, these children were more likely

What is the butterfly effect? The Real Butterfly Effect -- Imagine this scenario, a butterfly flutters its wings in Brazil, and it sets off a cascade of events over the course of time, which results in the touchdown of a tornado in Texas. This is the idea that lots of seemingly small chaotic differences in initial conditions can make a big difference over time and distance. Is this effect real? And if so, how does it work? Let’s look at this more closely. In 1972, meteorology professorEdward Lorenz asked the question at a conference: “Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?” This was really just a rhetorical question. Lorenz was trying to point out that large meteorological phenomenon, like tornadoes or hurricanes cannot be predicted far in advance, because there are too many small variables which are beyond our capability to measure. This is why tomorrow’s weather forecasts is much more accurate than a 10 day forecast. There are too many variables that can change over 10 days, whereas there are fewer variables that change in 1 day. In other words, Lorenz was trying to say that weather is unpredictable. He said this to illustrate the idea that some complex and dynamic systems have behaviors such that a small variance in the initial conditions could have a huge effect on the results. This idea in mathematics is part of the so called chaos theory - Meaning we don’t have a way to predict things even if we know all the variables. At least not yet. The butterfly in Brazil making a tornado in Texas is a dramatic way to illustrate this. Or is it? -- just for fun, let’s just see how that might work, if it was really possible. Let’s make it as realistic as possible. Instead of Brazil, picture a swarm of monarch butterflies that are migrating from Eastern Canada to Mexico for the winter. This by the way actually happens every year before the onset of winter. Tens of thousands of monarch butterflies do t

Why existence? Why is there something rather than nothing? Why are we even here at all.We know a lot about the “how” and the “What” of our existence, but we don’t know much about the “why” of our existence…yet it may be the most important question of all, maybe even the most important question in the Universe. Why are we here? Most people in the world believe that God created the universe. Many religions explain the “why” of existence in some variation of the anthropic principle, that is, a universe made for the special existence of human beings, or of earth. But, it is possible if not inevitable that we will find life elsewhere in the Universe, and these explanations will not be complete. So for the moment, let’s explore explanations that could be applied regardless of the existence of God. SoLet’s first look at what we have – we have a Universe with sentient conscious beings – us – that are here asking this question. These beings have determined that the Universe seems to obey a certain set of laws using the principles of mathematics. Laws like Newton’s law of gravity. Einstein’s laws of relativity. And Max Plank’s laws of quantum physics. We know this because our experiments have consistently shown this to be true. So now we can ask the question, why are there these laws? Why not some other laws? Are these laws just arbitrary – meaning they exist only in this Universe. And a different set of laws could exist in an alternate universe. Could other laws have existed if we had been in a different Universe? Why are there any laws at all? Why not no laws? And why should these laws be able to be expressed in mathematics – a language that we mere humans happen to comprehend? To answer this, I am going to borrow shamelessly from Jim Holt’s Ted talk on why the universe exists. I encourage you to check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORUUqJd81M The simplest form of existence would be nothing. What could be simpler than

How to have more sex in marriage? Science speaks. A new study in published in the journal of personality and social psychology shows that couples who do this have more sexual desire, more sex, more passion for each other, and a happier relationship. And to top things things off, this requires no doctor, therapy and does not even have to cost any money. So What is this magical elixir? Well, it is not a drug – it’s an experience. The scientists conclude that “Enaging in novel activities” does this. What does Novel activities mean? They define it to mean self-expanding activities that allows a person to have new experiences, gain new perspectives, or learn a new skill. So this could be something like you and your partner learn to dance, or travel to a country you have never been to before, or learn to play the guitar. Now, these activities have to be experienced together as a couple, not individually. But it turns out that couples who do this feel greater sexual desire for each other and have more sex. Why do novel activities result in this? The researchers theorize that it could be because couples experience greater intimacy while participating in these activities, and it could also be because partners are seeing a side of their partner during these activities that they may not have seen before, allowing them to learn more about their partner and form greater intimacy. It seems people get excited when seeing their partners learn, change and grow. Who knew? So what are you planning to do with your partner next weekend? You have to do something, if you want something! Citation http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-47337-001

Where is the center of the universe? All this, everything you see around you, started in a big bang, from a point smaller than the point at the end of this sentence. It as an infinitesimally small point, called a singularity. This was a huge explosion of pure energy. Like all explosions, we expect it to have started somewhere. It is this location that we call the center of the explosion. So, if the Universe started with a big explosion, where is the center of this explosion? Here is the shocking answer: There IS NO Center…and there is an infinite number of centers. The big bang wasn’t an explosion in space, it was an expansion of space itself. Let me explain using the analogy of a balloon. In order to get this, you have to imagine that the 2 dimensional surface of this balloon represents the 3 dimensional space of our universe. Only the surface of the balloon is the universe, not what’s on the inside which is air. The 3D space we live in is like this balloon. And the points on this balloon represent galaxies or any point in space. When we blow up the balloon, you will see that every point is moving away from every other point. If you were living on any of these points, you would think that you were at the center of the universe because you would observe that everything is moving away from you. This is precisely what we see, when we observe the universe. On the surface of this balloon, there is no center, or you could say every point is the center since everything is moving away from every point. So where is the center of the Universe? Everywhere is the center. I am the center of the universe, and so are you. So when your dad says something like, “you are not the center of the universe young man” – you can say, I and Arvin would beg to differ, and you would have science to back you up.

Just How much sleep to you really need? Science has the definitive answer. A study published this year by the Brain and Mind institute Western University in Canada tracked a massive number of people – over 40,000 to track their sleep over a three-day period and then to undergo a series of cognitive and neurological tests. What made this study different than other sleep studies is that the sleeping was not done in a sleep lab, but in real world conditions – in people’s own bedrooms in their own homes. So the results presumably are also more realistic. And most sleep studies do not engage such a huge number of people – a total of about 44,000 people participated in this. So what was the bottom line? The Bottom line is not a big surprise: 7-8 hours is what you need to be cognitively most alert and efficient. THE SHOCKER: But there is something surprising that came out of this as well. The researchers said this “those who exceeded the maximum (8 hours) of suggested sleep time were equally, as impaired as those who slept too little…” . It turns out that too much sleep is just as bad as too little sleep. So the study defines a narrow window of 7-8 hours as being the optimal number of hours you need. Don’t get less than 7 hours, and don’t get more than 8 hours, or your thinking ability will suffer. Why is getting too much sleep just as bad as getting too little sleep – the researchers don’t have an answer. But future scientific studies should answer that question. The average US adult gets about 6.8 hours of sleep a night, not quite the minimum. But a full 40% of us get no more than 6 hours. No wonder we are so damn grumpy. Citation: https://academic.oup.com/sleep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sleep/zsy182/5096067

Microbiome: How many bacteria live on the human body. Science has an answer to this. But first, here’s a question for you: What is by far the largest organ in the body…almost 20 square feet in area, and without it, you would die a painful death? It’s your skin. How many bacterial live on the human body? What you don’t know about your skin is that there are more living things on it than all the humans on earth combined. There is a whole universe of living things inside and on your body. But don’t go grabbing soap and water just yet – because getting rid of these bugs can kill you.. There are more bacteria on a square inch of your skin than the population of Manhattan.In fact, some parts of your skin, like your underarms, front of your elbow, belly button, between your toes, and private areas have 10 times as many bacteria. Why? because they are usually moist and/or dark, where bacteria can grow more readily. Most of the other parts of your skin like your forearms, thighs, and back of your hands are dry. So just like a desert, there just aren’t as many living things there because the conditions are not good for them. But it turns out that almost all the normal bacteria on your skin are good for you. Why? because they keep the bad bacteria away by either taking up space, or creating a microenvironment that keeps bad bacteria from taking hold and growing. And there are billions of bad bacteria floating around just looking for a spot to land so that they can live, and make you sick. We really need to think of the natural bacteria on our skin not as foreign invaders, but as part of us. Like an organ such as the liver or pancreas. It is Part of our human body without which we really can’t survive. The average human has 100 trillion bacteria on and inside their body. In fact, you’re body is the bacterial equivalent of more than 1000 toilet seats in a public bathroom. That’s right – if you are scared of sitting on a toilet seat, you should b

"Why do people hate me" you ask? You may be toxic to people around you and not even know it. If you find yourself being left out in conversations, or people stop talking after you enter a room, or people not looking at you when talking to a group of people – you just may be unbearable. If so, here are some things that you may be doing to make people hate you: 6) You are too competitive. If a coworker gets a promotion, you feel jealous. This quality of yours is very transparent. Deep downyou feel inferior. Life is not a zero sum game. News flash: What happens to other people is not always about you. You will get your time in the sun. Let someone else get their turn. Don’t compete, collaborate. 5) You are selfish. You take credit for other people’s contributions. There is probably nothing more annoying to people than someone else taking credit for their hard work. This only works in the short term because people will see through it. Stop being in it for yourself. Give others credit – you will win them over and will also earn a someone who becomes your advocate. 4) You are too quick to criticize, slow to praise. This may be part of your own insecurity. When you praise someone, you are not saying they are better than you. They will not think of themselves as being superior, you will endear yourself to the other person. They will think of you as being genuine, and sincere. It is a great way to make a friend and a supporter who will find it easier to praise you. 3) You can’t Take criticism. No need to get defensive. It takes guts to provide constructive criticism to someone. Anyone that gives it to you needs to be praised not bashed by you. They care enough about you to take the time to help you be better than you already are. Think of criticism as an opportunity to exceed your expectations of yourself. 2) You take no responsibility for bad results. You blame bad results on circumstances or on other people. Stop acting like the victi

Internet of Things or IOT Explained: You probably think of your toaster, refrigerator, washing machine, and lamp as mere dumb devices with an on off switch. But imagine if these devices had a brain. What if they were as smart as a dog, or even as smart as a human toddler…and what if they could talk to you? This idea is called IOT, or the internet of things, and it is coming. What will it mean for us, and how will it improve our lives? The internet of things, or IoT for short is the idea of connecting pretty much any electronic device or physical object with a processor to the internet, and to each other, and to us. They would be connected through wireless technology to the internet. And their data would be stored on a server in the cloud, and shared through a private network. It is estimated that 100 billion devices will be connected within the next 10 years. Some of these technologies are here already. For example, there are dishwashing machines that can detect the amount of dirt on your dishes and change the intensity of the wash accordingly. There are refrigerators that can detect when you have run out of milk, and remind you to get more. But these technologies have only scratched the surface. Imagine these future scenarios: - Your computer printer knows from your printing history that you will be running out of ink in a week, and orders the ink from your favorite online store. - Your washing machine knows that based on your laundry history, you are probably running out of fresh clothes, and you should be doing a load of laundry. It sets a reminder automatically on your phone calendar, and sends you a text. - Your security system detects that there is no one home, so it sends a message to your thermostat to turn the temperature down to save money. - You get in your car, put in your destination on your nav system, which alerts your thermostat that you will be home in 20 minutes, so that it can get the house up to a comfortable temp

Medicare for all explained. Medicare for all cost? Single payer. Medical costs in the United States are the highest in the world. Yet, not everyone in the United States is participating. We have 27 million people, nearly one tenth of our population that has NO medical insurance, and thus get very little professional medical care. What is even more disheartening is that for all the money we spend in the USA, we do not have better results. Our life expectancy is lower compared to almost all other advanced countries. But we spend more money per person than anybody else. Most advanced countries seem to have figured out a way to provide healthcare to nearly all their citizens at much lower cost. And most are using a single payer health system. But just because it works for other countries, does it mean that it would work for us too? I dissect this and answer this complex problem in the video above. next 5 minutes. Let’s be clear, single-payer healthcare does not mean that it is “free” healthcare, and it is not “socialized medicine” where the federal government owns all medical facilities and employs health care providers. This is not under discussion for the United States in any credible proposal. The most detailed plan that has been introduced is the plan developed by a team led by Senator Bernie Sanders. It would be a national health care plan that covers everybody, whether you are employed or unemployed, rich or poor, sick or healthy, black or white, one year old or 101 years old, and it would not matter if you had pre-existing conditions because absolutely every citizen would be covered. There would be little to no out-of-pocket costs for medical services by Americans. This plan would eliminate nearly all private insurers, but private plans by insurers would still be offered for people who wanted more coverage. This would mean that Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, employer sponsored plans would be eliminated. Your medical costs would be co

At 5:30AM, dawn on July 16, 1945 near a small town called Alamagordo New Mexico, the course of human history was changed. The first atomic bomb was detonated that day, and sealed the fate of humanity. It took the work of many people to accomplish this engineering feat, but the principle leader of the Manhattan project, and the man considered the Father of the atomic bomb was Robert Oppenheimer. After witnessing its awesome power on that fateful day, Oppenheimer was so taken aback, he quoted a phrase from the sacred Hindu text Bhagavad Gita – “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” We know its awesome power, but how exactly does an Atom bomb work? An atomic bomb works on the principle that when you break up the nucleus of an Atom, a large amount of energy is released. Why? Because it takes a large amount of energy to keep the nucleus bound together. When you split it apart, that energy is released. The analogy is like a stack of bowling balls. If you were to shoot a ball into the stack, all the energy that you expended in stacking them together would be released. You can think of the nucleus of an atom being similarly “stacked” together. The larger the nucleus, the easier it is to split it apart. Scientists chose the biggest and heaviest nucleus that is found in nature to be the best candidate for splitting –Uranium. Uranium is unique in that one of its isotopes is the only naturally occurring element that is capable of sustaining a nuclear fission reaction. A Uranium atom has 92 protons, and 146 neutrons, together giving it an atomic mass of 238 – or U238 -- the heaviest naturally occurring element on the periodic table. U238 however is generally stable in nature, and is not fissionable or “splittable” because it is so stable. A very small portion of Uranium, when it is mined, is in the form its isotope U235. This isotope has the same 92 protons, but only 143 neutrons, or 3 fewer than U238. U235 is highly unstable. Which

Biological Immortality: The top 3 biggest causes of death are in order: Heart disease, Cancer, and Lung disease. These and other diseases kill as many as 2.5 million people per year just in the United States. What if we could cure these and all other biological diseases, along with the “disease” of old age, so that you would become biologically immortal? This is not such a far-fetched idea. With medical advances accelerating, some scientists are saying that this is very possible within the next 40 years. And if you became biologically immortal, how long would you live before you died in an accident, homicide, suicide, or war? For the sake of fun, let's take a look at that. If you could not die from any biological sicknesses, like heart attacks, cancer or diabetes, then pretty much the only things that could kill you would be accidents, murder, suicide or war. Let’s look at how long you would live if this was the case. Note - Most of the stats I discuss below are for the United States, which is an advanced and mostly safe country. If you are living in most other countries, you would likely die sooner, except for the case of homicide, which is a bit lower on average in other countries.The stats I am using are used by American insurance companies to calculate life insurance rates. So lets look at your chances of dying if you were biologically immortal: In a flood – you would live to be almost 40,000,000 years old if the only thing that could kill you was a flood. Lightening – You would live 12,000,000 years before you died of a lightening strike. Dog bite – 9,000,000 years Airplane crash – 770,000 years Drowning in a pool – You’d live for 450,000 before you died of drowning in a pool Fall from stairs – 140,000 years Killed in a fire – 120,000 years Killed by gun – 30,000 years Killed in a War – 20,000 years Murdered – 13,000 years Now we are getting to some significant numbers. Died in a Car accident – 9,000 year

Standard Model of particle physics, Explained simply. The structure of matter, that is, everything you see in the universe – you, me, the earth, stars happens to be made up of some core fundamental particles which are governed by four fundamental forces. Our best understanding of these fundamental particles and forces, is represented by the standard model of particle physics. It is a stunning piece of work which explains nearly everything, But it has a gaping flaw, because it does not explain something that is fundamental to our existence. Not only that, it also happens to predict that our universe should NOT exist at all. The standard model consists of 12 elementary particles known as fermions. The fermions are 6 quarks and 6 leptons. All non-fundamental particles like protons and neutrons are made of these elementary particles. The guage bosons are force carriers and are responsible for three fundamental forces of nature. Gluons mediate the strong force which binds the nucleus of an atom. W and Z bosons mediate the weak force which is responsible for radioactive decay. Photons mediates the electromagnetic force which causes light and magnetism. And the Higgs Bosons gives all fundamental particles their mass by interacting with them. And how do the forces manifest themselves?...it happens through the exchange of the guage bosons.So for example, if you bring two magnets together, the force is actually being manifested because of an exchange of photons between the positive and negative poles. You can’t see the with the naked eye, but they are there. Similarly the other guage bosons are being exchanged for the other forces. Where is gravity? It is nowhere to be found. This is pretty important, because of course, without gravity, the universe, and we would not exist. So as impressive as the standard model is, it does not explain gravity. All we have to do is find a new gauge particle called the “Graviton” – then we will have a model that e

How will the universe end? Whether you think the universe is good, bad or indifferent, it will come to an end…someday. How will that happen? Will it simply die a slow death over time? Will it die dramatically in a big explosion as the universe is ripped apart? Or will we see a big bang in reverse as the universe ends in a colossal crunch? There are three factors that will determine the ultimate fate of the galaxy: The overall shape of the universe, The amount of dark energy, And the rate of growth of dark energy. There are three possibilities for the shape of the universe – closed, open and flat. If the universe is closed, it means that it is shaped like a sphere – so even though it may be expanding right now, it will eventually stop and converge into a big crunch, which would result eventually in everything ending in a black hole type of singularity. If the universe is open, that means it is shaped like saddle, which means that it will keep expanding forever, and the ultimate fate of universe in this case – is most likely a big freeze, where galaxies would be become very far apart, such that we would not be able to see any other galaxies besides our own. The stars would eventually burn out as all the hydrogen gas in the universe is used up. The only things remaining would be black holes. And these too would eventually evaporate because of something called hawking radiation. This is where a small amount of matter is constantly being discarded and disappearing near the event horizon of black holes. The third possibility is that the universe is neither closed nor open but is flat, shaped like three dimensional piece of paper. This means it will keep expanding forever. So what really is the shape of the universe. The most recent observations suggest that it is in fact flat. This was verified by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy or WMAP probe. For a long time, physicists thought that the big freeze is how the universe will end, even with a flat u

The closest thing we have to an all-encompassing framework that explains all particles and forces is represented by the Standard Model of particle physics. But this model is flawed because it does not explain gravity.A theory of everything has to be able to reconcile quantum mechanics with the general theory of relativity. This reconciliation appears to be possible with a theory called “Loop Quantum Gravity” -- or LQG. What is it? The theory of LQG attempts to show that this geometric fabric of space-time is not continuous as Einstein presumed, but is itself quantum, made up of discrete quanta. This is akin to the clothes or sweater you might be wearing right now. Even though it looks smooth from far away, if you looked at it closely, you would see threads, nodes and loops woven together. These are the quanta or bits that your clothing is made of. This is different than every other theory including string theory. Because even in string theory, space is the background or the canvas, on which strings vibrate. In LQG this space-time background is itself quantized . So this means that distance has a minimum quantity about equivalent to the plank length or 10 to the -33 cm. Similarly, area has a minimum value of 10 to the -66 cm squared, and volume has a minimum value of 10 to the -99 cm cubed - below which it cannot go. This is super tiny. LQG says that there are about 10 to the 99 quanta of volume in every cubic centimeter of space. This quantum of volume is so tiny that there are more such quanta in a cubic centimeter than there are cubic centimeters in the entire visible universe -- (10 to the 85) And Time itself has a minimum quantity as well which is 10 to the -43 seconds or close to plank time. And what do these space-time quanta look like? They are like loops. The nodes that intersect is where the quanta volumes of space reside. It has a volume that is a multiple of the plank volume 10 to the -99 cubic centimeters. The loo