I just happened to watch a telecast on Discovery India on a topic called Speed with modern research and one of the ideas that predicted much result was Super Cavitation.

Supercavitation is the use of cavitation effects to create a large bubble of gas inside a liquid, allowing an object to travel at great speed through the liquid by being wholly enveloped by the bubble. The cavity (i.e., the bubble) reduces the drag on the object and precisely this makes supercavitation an attractive technology: drag is normally about 1,000 times greater in water than in air.
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The potential of this technology being relatively frictionless linear as well as radial motion in an environment of much high density and hence much high drag.

Wireless Fidelity popularly known as Wi-Fi networks is expected to evolve at a much steady and competant rate to have its hold against the new generation T3 intra satellite architecture or also known as T3ISA. T3ISA which is a new come project would allow data and voice transfer upto the speed of 2 MBps through satellite intra communication which provides great speed and reliability

Since Wi-Fi, being most popularly used as an open communication method available only at a range of 40-50 m from the transmitors called the hotspots are expected to be evolved at a radical rate to cope with T3ISA since one of the major disadvantages of Wi-Fi were availability. Wi-Fi providers are going to manipulate the current FDDI data linking facility between continents to provide a sophisticated data projection system. FDDI uses the method of Optical Data Transmission by Total Internal Reflection. By the projection method, multiple copies of same data are transferred through different channels to find the fastest path for each data and hence to transfer it. The actual data is NOT Fragmented as in the case of frame transfers

Expecting more to come of this initiative of Wi-Fi Providers.

Lee Smolin (theoritical physicist, major contributor to loop quantum gravity) writes about the path that Einstein chose to take, and why, he (Smolin) thinks, theres a dearth of professional theoritical physicists with the same moral clarity as his. Nice read on Einstein's work, and the world of theoritical physics and physicists.

For more than two centuries after Newton published his theories of space, time, and motion in 1687, most physicists were Newtonians. They believed, as Newton did, that space and time are absolute, that force causes acceleration, and that gravity is a force conveyed across a vacuum at a distance. Since Darwin there are few professional biologists who are not Darwinians, and if most psychologists no longer often call themselves Freudians, few doubt that there is an unconscious or that sexuality plays a big role in it. So as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s great discoveries, the question arises: How many professional physicists are Einsteinians?

Einstein's Legacy -- Where are the "Einsteinians?"

American Scientist is featuring an article on the similarity and connection between stories and scientific theories. The author presents his views based on Einstien's Noble Prize winning 1905 paper on the Photoelectric Effect.

All theories tell a story. They have a beginning, in which people and ideas, models, molecules and governing equations take the stage. Their roles are defined; there is a puzzle to solve. Einstein sets his characters into motion so ingeniously, using entropy to tease out the parallels between moving molecules and the energy of light. The story develops; there are consequences of Einstein's approach. And at the end, his view of light as quantized and particular confronts the reality of the heretofore unexplained photoelectric effect. The postscripted future, of all else that can be understood and all new things that can be made, is implicit.

Storied Theory

I was reading about the Global Consciousness Project, and thinking it was FUD, but it caught my imagination anyways. Here is a simple visual random number generator, see if you can influence it :-D

A century after Einstein's miracle year, most people still do not understand exactly what it was he did. Here, we attempt to elucidate.

Miraculous visions, 100 years of Einstein (Economist.com)

The Ohio state university has some interesting research work going on - glaciologist Lonnie Thompson has expressed his worries over evidence that shows history repeating itself in the form of a drastic climatic change, that happened 5,200 years ago (3200 B.C.). Thompson and his research group believe that implications of the climatic change had been catastrophic for emerging cultures then, and that it could scale up to an even worse scenario if it happens again, considering the world's population of 6.4 billion. Not a very comforting prospect for man kind!

Evidence shows that around 5,200 years ago, solar output first dropped precipitously and then surged over a short period. It is this huge solar energy oscillation that Thompson believes may have triggered the climate change he sees in all those records.

Some of the notable markers in records suggesting that the climate was altered 5,200 years ago include, a perfectly preserved plant that recently emerged from the Quelccaya ice cap in the Peruvian Andes,

The plants were carbon-dated to determine their age and tests indicated they had been buried by the ice for perhaps 5,200 years. That suggests that somehow, the climate had shifted suddenly and severely to capture the plants and preserve them until now.

the preserved body of a man trapped in an Alpine glacier (reminds me of Encino Man!),

In 1991, hikers found the preserved body of a man trapped in an Alpine glacier and freed as it retreated. Later tests showed that the human – dubbed Oetzi – became trapped and died around 5,200 years ago.

and narrow tree rings.

Thompson points to a study of tree rings from Ireland and England that span a period of 7,000 years. The point in that record when the tree rings were narrowest – suggesting the driest period experienced by the trees – was approximately 5,200 years ago.

A reason to associate such a climatic change to fluctuations of solar energy, is the well known fact that a historic global cooling called the Little Ice Age, from 1450 to 1850 A.D., coincided with two periods of decreased solar activity.

Scientists have identified two causes of the Little Ice Age from outside the ocean/atmosphere/land systems: decreased solar activity and increased volcanic activity. Research is ongoing on more ambiguous influences such as internal variability of the climate system, and anthropogenic influence (Ruddiman). Some have also speculated that depopulation of Europe during the Black Death, and the resulting decrease in agricultural output, may have prolonged the Little Ice Age.

Source:OSU Research News

Just thought about something that has been nagging me for quite a while. I was browsing in my mind of mass storage devices and the immediate things that pop up at the 3 levels of storage, and the related stuff. Now, looking at ternary storage devices, right now completely monopolized by tape devices, I hit up on an idea. Why not, make the entire system (a database/storage information system) a 4 level system of storage. The tapes go back down to the 4th level, and in its place comes the set of Recordable discs. I am saying Recordable discs for the following reasons

From Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Ask the Experts: Computer Science: How do Internet search engines work?:

Javed Mostafa, the Victor Yngve Associate Professor of information science and director of the Laboratory of Applied Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington, explains.