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I guess not. At the atomic level there's a lot of randomness.
Einstein wasn't quite statisfied with these consequences, that's why he said: God doesn't play dice.

>>>Portugal legalized everything 8 years back, and drug use went down.

ritics in the poor, socially conservative and largely Catholic nation said decriminalizing drug possession would open the country to "drug tourists" and exacerbate Portugal's drug problem; the country had some of the highest levels of hard-drug use in Europe. But the recently released results of a report commissioned by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, suggest otherwise.

The paper, published by Cato in April, found that in the five years after personal possession was decriminalized, illegal drug use among teens in Portugal declined and rates of new HIV infections caused by sharing of dirty needles dropped, while the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction more than doubled.

"Judging by every metric, decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success," says Glenn Greenwald, an attorney, author and fluent Portuguese speaker, who conducted the research. "It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the drug problem far better than virtually every other Western country does."

LINK - http://hypography.com/forums/political-sciences/19349-what-would-happen-if-we-legalized.html

I think he meant orbital ratios.

In a solar system, the planets around a star (or moons around a planet) need to have orbits that have the same ratio otherwise the accumulated grativational forces would throw one or more objects out of the system.

This article has a good explanation.

Here's a copy from 5/2005 http://forums.hypography.com/technology-news/2670-waves-power.html

In the experiment described in today's issue of the scientific journal Nature, the group achieved teleportation using singly-ionized calcium atoms that were confined and cooled to ultra-low temperatures (around 15 millionths of a degree above absolute zero). Using lasers, the internal configurations of the atoms -- their quantum states -- were controlled very precisely, allowing entanglement between two of the atoms to be created. One of these entangled atoms was then further entangled with a third atom -- the input of the teleporter. By performing a simple measurement on this pair, and another series of interactions dependent on the outcome of the measurement, the original input state was then re-created on the remaining (output) atom. The quantum state teleportation experiments were carried out at the University of Innsbruck's Institute for Experimental Physics."

If it is possible to teleport a proton, and it's possible also to store information in a proton, it is possible to communicate information faster than light.

This means it's possible for us to create quantum computers which transfer information instantly, I'm not even sure we know what this means yet but discovering this is like discovering atomic technology in the 1930s.

If protons can be teleported due to non locality of the quantum, it changes everything. What we really have to consider is the fact that nuclear elements can be teleported to.

First Quantum Teleportation Experiments

What is basically says is that everything in the universe is connected, as if we are on a 2d river, and if you mess with something over here, it messes with something over there, as if there is no here or there, and no distance at all.

If there is no distance at all, that changes the world. Right now we have only managed to make it so there is no distance with photons, and maybe atoms, but just by doing this we allow for there to be no distance for communication. When there is no distance for communication it means we could communicate with aliens accross the universe using this method and actually recieve a response.

It also means we can communicate with each other instantly.

WE have quantumly teleported atoms

It's proven that we have teleported atoms. As we can see, we are on the edge of a breakthrough, which will either be very good or very bad for our species.

Please look at this low cost alternative CO2 Sequestration system.

The integrated energy strategy offered by Terra Preta Soil technology may
provide the only path to sustain our agricultural and fossil fueled power
structure without climate degradation, other than nuclear power.

I feel we should push for this Terra Preta Soils CO2 sequestration strategy as not only a global warming remedy for the first world, but to solve fertilization and transport issues for the third world. This information needs to be shared with all the state programs.

The economics look good, and truly great if we had CO2 cap & trade in place. These are processes where you can have your Bio-fuels, Carbon Sequestration and fertility too.

  Nature article: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v442/n7103/fu ll/442624a.html

Here's the Cornell page for an over view:
http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehm...r_home.h tm

This Earth Science Forum thread on these soil contains further links ( I post everything I find on Amazon Dark Soils, ADS here):
http://forums.hypography.com/earth-science/3451-te rra-preta.html

The Georgia Inst. of Technology page:
http://www.energy.gatech.edu/presentations/dday.pd f

There is an ecology going on in these soils that is not completely understood, and if replicated and applied at scale would have multiple benefits for farmers and environmentalist.

Terra Preta creates a terrestrial carbon reef at a microscopic level. These nanoscale structures provide safe haven to the microbes and fungus that facilitate fertile soil creation, while sequestering carbon for many hundred if not thousands of years. The combination of these two forms of sequestration would also increase the growth rate and natural sequestration effort of growing plants.

Here is a great pyrolysis process , ( http://www.eprida.com/hydro/ ) which could use existing infrastructure to provide Charcoal sustainable Agriculture , Syn-Fuels, and a variation of this process would also work as well for H2 , Charcoal-Fertilizer, while sequestering CO2 from Coal fired plants to build soils at large scales , be sure to read the "See an initial analysis NEW" link of this technology to clean up Coal fired power plants.

If pre Columbian Indians could produce these soils up to 6 feet deep over 20% of the Amazon basin it seems that our energy and agricultural industries could also product them at scale.

Harnessing the work of this vast number of microbes and fungi changes the whole equation of EROEI for food and Bio fuels. I see this as the only sustainable agricultural strategy if we no longer have cheap fossil fuels for fertilizer.

We need this super community of wee beasties to work in concert with us by populating them into their proper Soil horizon Carbon Condos.

Regardless of the quantity that the Earth receives, it is still a miniscule fraction (9.088*10^-8% or 0.00000009088%) of the energy that the sun puts out.

Actually you are not quite correct with regard to neural stem cells. See Hypography or Nature among other researches.

if you have to live with using only 5% of the energy that you use now, what will you choose to use it on? Take it as a thought experiment - you're not allowed to invent ways to produce your own energy; assume that this has already been done.

Then there's solar. The US has about 113,000 km^2 of impervious surface (pavement, roofs, etc.). If you can cover 30% of this with PV, the PV has 15% efficiency and the average insolation is 1300 kWh/m^2/year (somewhat less than mid-Kansas gets), that would be 44.1 trillion kWH of sunlight from which you'd get 6.61 trillion kWh of electricity (755 GW average). That's another 2.5 kW/capita just from 30% of area we've already got covered with stuff, and you're getting it net after conversion losses.

Reducing per-capita energy to 500 watts might be an interesting thought experiment, but as a prediction of the future... ridiculous.

http://www.hypography.com/article.cfm?id=34220

the blog entry that they linked to was kinda vauge on details ;) turns out the only math the used was in calculating how tumours grow, and how they prevent immune responses, so they figured out an immune system response they can trigger that will cause the cells that cause tumours to grow to become a 'target' of the patients immune system. no math equasion used to 'cure' it at all, just a little deductive reasoning and science...

http://www.hypography.com/article.cfm?id=34220

the blog entry that they linked to was kinda vauge on details ;) turns out the only math the used was in calculating how tumours grow, and how they prevent immune responses, so they figured out an immune system response they can trigger that will cause the cells that cause tumours to grow to become a 'target' of the patients immune system. no math equasion used to 'cure' it at all, just a little deductive reasoning and science...

http://www.hypography.com/article.cfm?id=34220

the blog entry that they linked to was kinda vauge on details ;) turns out the only math the used was in calculating how tumours grow, and how they prevent immune responses, so they figured out an immune system response they can trigger that will cause the cells that cause tumours to grow to become a 'target' of the patients immune system. no math equasion used to 'cure' it at all, just a little deductive reasoning and science...

http://www.hypography.com/article.cfm?id=34220

the blog entry that they linked to was kinda vauge on details ;) turns out the only math the used was in calculating how tumours grow, and how they prevent immune responses, so they figured out an immune system response they can trigger that will cause the cells that cause tumours to grow to become a 'target' of the patients immune system. no math equasion used to 'cure' it at all, just a little deductive reasoning and science...

http://www.hypography.com/article.cfm?id=34220

http://physics.about.com/b/a/088887.htm

the blog entry that they linked to was kinda vauge on details ;) turns out the only math the used was in calculating how tumours grow, and how they prevent immune responses, so they figured out an immune system response they can trigger that will cause the cells that cause tumours to grow to become a 'target' of the patients immune system. no math equasion used to 'cure' it at all, just a little deductive reasoning and science...

Guess that will about as successful as The Quest for a Grand Unified Theory. http://www.hypography.com/links.cfm?id=8222

http://www.hypography.com/article.cfm?id=31610

See The Five Ages of the Universe (review), by Fred Adams and Greg Laughlin.

If you can get to D.C., USA, there's one along part of the Mall.

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