I found this today on BrisbaneTimes.com.  Science is so exciting right now!  (Okay.. with that last comment I may have officially gone from weird to nerd forever!)

Forget the broadband wars, researchers are currently working on technology that would enable home computers to transmit information faster than the speed of light.

Researchers from the University of Queensland are currently working towards a breakthrough, using revolutionary quantum technology.

Other benefits could include ultra-secure communication, advanced prediction of weather using super fast quantum computing and at the very border of imagination, quantum teleportation.

Beyond that, the sky’s the limit, so to speak, says the UQ team.

“It’s too early to tell what the implications will be for our lives,” Professor Andrew White from UQ’s Centre for Quantum Computer Technology said.

“Sixty years ago people were working on the first diode, they knew it was important and it was a new way to move information around but they had no clue that it would lead to iPods or internet banking.

“We’ve done the world’s most complicated quantum circuit demonstrated but it is a very basic circuit. What we have done is more or less a very small first step.”

The research at UQ, which is being done in conjunction with scientists at the University of Toronto, involves quantum entanglement where particles can affect each other even though they are physically separated.

“We have made the first ever computer circuit that uses entanglement, which is this thing that Einstein found disquieting; he called it ’spooky action at a distance’,” Professor White said.

Entanglement’s most exciting application so far has been its use in quantum teleportation, which was conducted for the first time at the Australia National University (ANU) in 2002.

ANU physicists Dr Ping Koy Lam and Warwick Bowen won the coveted Eureka Science Prize in the UK for teleporting a beam of light one metre across a room.

UQ doctoral student Ben Lanyon said that research into entanglement is its early stages.

“We have some idea of some really interesting problems that we can solve but there may be many others,” he said.

For now, the technology will be used to develop new methods for code breaking and unbreakable encryption for communications.

“Our goal is not just to break these codes in practice but to show they can be broken and motivate a more secure system,” Mr Lanyon said.

“These codes form the basis of most banking and computer security and has implications for how we keep all data secure in the future.”

For “Holiday Magic,” Hirata will bring together a number of elements to create that wonder. Silverman has a “magical teleportation device,” Fisher is performing the dark art of juggling, Cagigal will work his tricks and Hirata anchors the show with his unique act, which takes dreams - “in both the sense of fantastical visions and as wants and desires” - as its subtext.

“I’ll be doing several effects. Essentially I’m manipulating light,” Hirata says, speaking carefully so as not to reveal too much of the show. “For instance, in a rather playful way going from the idea of dreams to nightmare, essentially I share an image, nothing too scary, from a nightmare and then show how we magically create nightmares with light, thereby conquering them.” (As you can tell, magic tricks are hard to describe.)

Hirata has been performing magic since his childhood. He is a full-time magician. While he says that there are some great young performers working “street magic” tricks (think Criss Angel), his style is best suited to longer-form theater.

“My technology and techniques are traditional, but my approach is original,” he says. “I take a lot of inspiration from painting. Magic juggles a lot of elements, and one is the fantasy element.

I know a lot of you will say I’m silly for even thinking this… but indulge me. What if magicians like Hirata really do have special powers? And what if the “magician act” is simply an “act”? Maybe all magicians are capable of things like teleporting or jumping and they protect themselves and their “talent” by pretending it is not real? Okay, maybe not all magicians, but what if a few do possess abilities that the rest of us would say were “weird”?

I was looking around Jack’s youtube page and found this poodle lady’s video. There is only one word for this and that word is “WOW”.

and “WOW” again.

I couldn’t pass by this site and not share it with you… The title alone had me more than intrigued.

“Exploring the Extraterrestrial Dimensions of Human Consciousness”

IN 2005 cosmologist and astrophysicist Eric Davis completed a paper for the United States Air Force arguing that teleportation was an achievable technology and a legitimate science. “Specifically the purpose of his study was to collect information describing the teleportation of material objects, providing a description of teleportation as it occurs in physics, its theoretical and experimental status, and a projection of potential applications” (Witcher).

Davis compiled five futuristic viable modes of teleportation:

• “Quantum teleportation is a technique that shifts the characteristics, but not the location of sub-atomic particles at great distances” (Witcher);
• “Wormholes, a highly theoretical possibility whereby the intense gravitational field near black holes could rip open entrances to distant locales” (Vergano);
• Parallel Universe travel in parallel dimensions;
• Science-fiction-based Star Trek transporter beams, which he dismisses;
• Psychic Teleportation, the most reasonable starting point: Chinese researchers have demonstrated test subjects teleporting fruit flies and grasshoppers with their minds alone (Witcher); Famed and defamed psychic Uri Geller supposedly teleported a sealed crystal compound out of existence.

You can find more information here: Teleportation

Carl Sagan chats up the 4th dimension.

My best friend in the world has a bit of a crusher on Jack over on Youtube. I say he’s alright and seems nice enough (but stressed with his life). This one is for you, Sharon. Here he is.. tada! Mr. Lips. Or should I say “watch your Jack”!!??

I found this information on a site called astralexperience.com - I know this isn’t exactly what’s going on with that guy Jack over on Youtube, but it is all “projection”. And, by the by, as of today, Jack is thinking he suffered a black out or something. That was my spec!!! I know the idea of “projecting” is very weird and sounds impossible for most people. To me it doesn’t seem impossible…and I like that it’s weird! Of course.

Astral projection (or etheric projection) is the ability to separate one’s consciousness from the confines of the physical body, enabling one to travel vast distances through time and space and then return safely.

Once separated, the possibilities in this spirit-like form are endless, as there are no restrictions in the means of locomotion as are present in the physical body. You may choose to walk, glide, fly or even think yourself to a location simply by imagining the place you want to be.

Perhaps you wish to visit someone on the other side of the planet – you only have to think of that person and you’ll be there, in an instant. Being a non-solid form, the astral body (body of consciousness) is able to pass through walls and other solid matter with ease and could even make physical contact with another projector.

Although there are some people out there practising astral projection, it is not commonly known in the western world and most people in the street would scoff at the idea.

Here’s another great posting by Tim Jones over at Remote Central!

(Fascinating topic!  Please go to Tim’s blog if you would like to read more)

If we are to accept the idea that Silbury Hill was a pyramid, we might then ask why there is only one of its type, not only in Britain, but in the entire continent of Europe - excluding the mysterious step pyramids in the Canary Islands, which in any case would appear to be more recent than Silbury Hill. In both the New World and the Middle East, numerous pyramids of various types were constructed, and it might be considered odd that only one was constructed in Britain - unless of course there were others that have for one reason or another, simply vanished from view over the past four millennia.

Dad and I found this photo last week. I’ve been staring at it for seven days now and can’t come up with any answers to my three big questions. (Mum finally agreed to allow me to post this.. yay!) Who are these people? What do they have to do with Gran’s Duncan Society? And the window?!!!  Do you guys see someone in the window?