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Why The Multiverse Could Be Real

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The multiverse pops out of quite a few theories in physics, and has been proposed as a solution to certain vexing problems. But it’s also been argued that the very idea of a multiverse is just bad science. That it’s unfalsifiable and a dead-end to inquiry and as bad a violation of Occam’s razor as you could imagine. But the multiverse might also exist. Can something that exists be bad science?

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Genome Music: Rare Disease Sequences Turn Into Songs

The performance garnered a huge media attendance, allowing the team to accomplish their goal of bringing attention to SCID. Frishkopf hopes to perform the piece in a concert in the future.

Genome Music Raises Rare Disease Awareness from Concerts to Contests

From a serendipitous idea to physical compositions, Kantipuly and her collaborators have demonstrated the power of music to bring people together and work for a good cause. Recently, the team connected with another composer, Casey McPherson, who also produces genetic music but in more modern styles and the founder of To Cure a Rose, a nonprofit organization focused on developing a cure for a rare genetic disease.

Two to tango: Study shows dancers’ brains sync up as they move together

Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered something that experienced ballroom dancers have long known: When dancers are in tune with each other, their brains may sync up, helping them move as one.

“When we dance, our brains are actually coupling,” said Thiago Roque, a graduate student in the Atlas Institute who led the study. “We are synchronizing our brains through our behavior.”

For the unique experiment, the researchers placed electroencephalogram (EEG) caps, or devices that measure electrical activity in the brain, on pairs doing the Argentine Tango—a sensuous dance where a leader and follower hold each other tight while moving together to music.

What If The Universe Is Math?

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In his essay “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics”, the physicist Eugine Wigner said that “the enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious”. This statement was inspired by the observation that so many aspects of the physical world seem to be describable and predictable by mathematical equations to incredible precision especially as quantum phenomena. But quantum phenomena have no subjective qualities and have questionable physicality. They seem to be completely describable by only numbers, and their behavior precisely defined by equations. In a sense, the quantum world is made of math. So does that mean the universe is made of math too? If you believe the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis then yes. And so are you.

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Why Magnetic Monopoles SHOULD Exist

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What happens if you cut a bar magnetic in half? We get two magnets, each with their own North and South poles. But what happens if you keep on cutting, into fourths and eighths and sixteenths and so on? Will we ever get to a single pole? I’ll spoil the answer for you: we don’t know! But the idea of magnetic monopoles remains one of physics’ most tantalizing maybes.

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Does Time Cause Gravity?

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We know that gravity must cause clocks to run slow on the basis of logical consistency. And we know that gravity DOES cause clocks to run slow based on many brilliant experiments. But I never explained WHY or HOW gravity causes the flow of time to slow down. And I’m not going to explain it now — because in a sense it’s not true. Gravity does NOT warp the flow of time. It’s the other way around — the warping of time causes gravity.

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How To Simulate The Universe With DFT

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If you used every particle in the observable universe to do a full quantum simulation, how big would that simulation be? At best a large molecule. That’s how insanely information dense the quantum wavefunction really is. And yet we routinely simulate systems with thousands, even millions of particles. How? By cheating. Using the ultimate compression algorithm: Density Functional Theory (DFT). Let’s learn how to cheat the universe.

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Computer vision helps observers understand how iconic artworks were created

Paintings are often made up of thousands of tiny brushstrokes, each going in a certain direction, that are not easily observed by the viewer. A cross-disciplinary research team from the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and Loughborough University in England has developed an image analysis method that helps to make the underlying brushstroke structure of paintings visible, giving new insight into how artists physically created their works.

This approach offers both experts and non-experts a fresh way to observe and interpret the making of artworks. The research was recently published in the journal Patterns.

The researchers bridged art and data science to show that painting style can be quantified and visualized as flow, turning elusive qualities like “gesture” into measurable, analyzable data. They used a computational technique to examine very small patches of Impressionist paintings, determining the direction of the brushstroke in each tiny spot and connect these different directions, as if drawing lines that follow the flow.

MogueHeart — The Dyson Sphere [SpaceAmbient Channel]

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📡 The Universe called… and my answer is music!
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Western music is getting simpler and more repetitive by the day and data prove it

Ever had that moment when a song comes on and it feels strangely familiar, like it reminds you of another song that came out just a few months ago? If you feel this phenomenon has become more frequent, then you are not imagining it. Science agrees with you. A recent study found that Western music is not only starting to sound more alike but is also becoming less structurally complex than in the past.

The team of researchers from Italy examined more than 20,000 pieces of music, tracing patterns from 17th-century classical compositions through 20th-century jazz and into modern genres all the way up to 2021.

Pieces that were written 400 years ago, particularly in the Classical genre, exhibit higher weighted efficiency. In other words, the music is not built around the same few patterns repeated again and again. Instead, it explores a wider range of note combinations, which makes it feel more varied, less predictable, and richer in structure.

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