Exploring the Origin of Maximum Entropy States Relevant to Resonant Modes in Modern Chladni Plates
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Arecibo message is an interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth that was sent to the globular cluster Messier 13 in 1974. It was meant as a demonstration of human technological achievement, rather than a real attempt to enter into a conversation with extraterrestrials.
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Brooke Megan Greenberg was an American woman who remained physically and cognitively similar to a toddler despite her increasing age. She was about 30 in tall, weighed about 16 lb, and had an estimated mental age of nine months to one year. Brooke's doctors termed her condition Syndrome X
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Principles of Linguistic-Wave Genetics (PDF) - by Peter Gariaev (Presentation)
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Heart Sutra Reflections
Bodhisattvas have reached the point where neither attainment nor non-attainment has any meaning. Bodhisattvas not only see through delusion concerning the existence of Sansara, they also see through delusions concerning the existence of Nirvana. But that is not all. Bodhisattvas also see through delusions concerning the non-existence of Nirvana, for existence and none-existence are terms in a dialectic that does not apply to what is beyond all duality.
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Mumonkan - The Gateless Barrier: Version1, Version2 (PDF's)
The Wu-men-kuan, better known in its Japanese pronunciation Mumonkan, was compiled in 1228 by the monk Wu-men Hui-k’ai (Japanese: Mumon Ekai). It consists ofa series of forty-eight koans, meditation questions given to Zen students when they have reached a point in their practice where they can quiet and focus their minds. The first koan given to Zen students has usually been the first case here, Chao-chous dog and the meaning of Mu (Chinese: Wu, “not have”).
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'A monk once asked Joshu, “Has a dog the Buddha-nature?” Joshu answered, “Mu!”'
- Mumonkan, Koan 1
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Murray Gell-Mann & the invention of the quark
The term quark was coined by physicist Murray Gell-Mann, after a word from James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake. He also predicted the existence of a particle called the omega-minus, which was confirmed in 1964. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 for his work on the theory of elementary particles.
Gell-Mann was a child prodigy who entered Yale University at the age of 15 and graduated with a B.S. in physics in 1948. He introduced the concept of strangeness, a quantum property that accounted for previously puzzling decay patterns of certain mesons, in 1953. He also proposed a scheme for classifying subatomic particles into simple orderly arrangements of families, called the Eightfold Way, after Buddha’s Eightfold Path to Enlightenment and bliss, in 1961.
