"It is one of humanity's most enduring spiritual traditions: the idea that all life or all consciousness is interconnected. Human groups, whether ethnic, religious, or racial; as various as the Iroquois, the Sufis, and Western European Freemasons, all incorporate it into their belief structures. References to it can be found in ancient documents of the classical world, both East and West. It is a very compelling idea, spanning both millennia and the vast complexity of human cultures. Yet, as compelling as the concept is emotionally, only in recent decades has any objective evidence emerged that such a construct might be valid. Even this work, in fields as various as physics, parapsychology, and biology, has provided only suggestions, largely because the research was not conceived in global terms but, instead, focused on more limited vistas. Indeed, much of the relevant research has regarded only individual performances in experiments on anomalies such as telepathy, mind/matter interactions, and distant healing. Somewhat broader vistas are opened in studies of group resonance and morphogenetic fields."
"..the goal is to learn the sources of structure and understand mechanism." -- http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
"..Although information will be presented with the scientific rigor that is required for accuracy and clarity, the site is intended also to have a strong artistic and aesthetic presence, We expect to use music and dynamic images both for background and for display of information, and we will provide links to a variety of articles and scholarly resources. We believe important aspects of the project may be represented in stories, poetry and philosophy, including selected readings from Henri Bergson, Teilhard de Chardin, Carl Jung, and others who have thought deeply about consciousness. For example, one of the guiding models for this project is Teilhard's idea of a Noosphere, or layer of intelligence enveloping the earth, and his description of mankind's evolution toward a destiny to fulfill that role. While this metaphor is more spiritual than scientific, it provides a very interesting interpretive background (one of several that we may consider) for our specific scientific questions. A few examples of aesthetic expressions of the project's philosophy and mission are given in our poetic history. Even the scientific data sometimes create immediately meaningful pictures, as in the beautifully symmetrical traces that appear to note the death of Barry Fenn, our friend and REG host in New Zealand..." -- ..originally composed in early 1998 but it is still a good description of what the project is about...
Global Consciousness Project - Registering Coherence and Resonance in the World: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
Realtime display of the project's random number generator (requires Java): http://noosphere.princeton.edu/bsktobsrv/basketobserver.wall.html
A package for downloading and analysing data from the GCP archives: http://www.treurniet.ca/GCP/
"Since we want the network to grow larger, and to be broadly distributed around the world, we provide information about hosting an Egg, and access to the software, with details on the basic hardware and operating system requirements for becoming a host." - http://noosphere.princeton.edu/software.html
"In thinking about gravitational waves as tools for understanding
astronomical objects, one point that I stress very strongly is that
they cannot be used to form images - GW astronomy cannot be a visual
affair!
Instead, I advocate thinking about them as sound-like: Gravitational waves encode in an aural-like manner the dynamics of the source that generates them. You can almost think of as language-like: The signal that we "hear" encodes information about its source. Our goal as theorists and (eventual) GW astronomers is to understand that encoding, and thus to map those signals we "hear" into a deeper understanding of their sources."
Source for all the content above: http://web.mit.edu/sahughes/www/sounds.html (files located locally)
I was a little bored and cleaned up the HTML and CSS code for our team's EINSTEIN@HOME page. It is now W3C CSS Validated (level 2.1). The HTML still needs some work, but the changes make the portal look more appeasing.
You will find underneath the team's statistics graphs RSS feeds for any team related information that I may find.
The RSS feed URL has changed to: http://emi.extracted.org/rss.php?blogId=4&profile=rss20 This was for a proxy type separation of any other sites that may be used with the application services I use.
Enjoy!
Welcome Dan: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu//show_user.php?userid=325617, and Artefact2: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu//show_user.php?userid=203437
I always kid about computer exhaust, but I tell you - keeping even one computer crunching numbers can make the temperature uncomfortable. For me, much so - wrong side of the sun, and the computers included. I had to turn on my air, as embarrassing as that may be for this time of year.
Remember, water IS wet, and not always the safest way to cool your computers while you crunch. ;)
Again, welcome Dan and Artefact2!
My name is Andy Wright - the founder, but really the creator of Team FreeBSD. If you want me to add any links, or have any questions or inclinations for such things related to our group (or to just say hi) - send me an e-mail: einstein@extracted.org or Skype name: extracted
''It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure'' -- Albert Einstein