EINSTEIN@HOME - Team FreeBSD
A team dedicated to the users of FreeBSD running BOINC under linux compatibility mode, or a native FreeBSD BOINC build. Team FreeBSD is dedicated to users of FreeBSD, but not limited to JUST the users. Anyone with the interest in developing a community of people interested in technology, open standards, NIX or BSD based operating systems are welcome and encouraged to earn credits and share ideas and conversation.
http://einstein.extracted.org
Global Consciousness Project - Physics Involved, "..the goal is to learn the sources of structure and understand mechanism."
25 May, 2008 16:25
"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/
"We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner,what you actually did in order to get to do the work." -- Richard Feynman In his Nobel Lecture, 1966
"The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international effort involving researchers from several institutions and countries, designed to explore whether the construct of interconnected consciousness can be scientifically validated through objective measurement. The project builds on excellent experiments conducted over the past 35 years at a number of laboratories, demonstrating that human consciousness interacts with random event generators (REGs), apparently "causing" them to produce non-random patterns. A description of the technical implementation is given under procedures..."
"..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
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the sound of a gravitational wave
24 May, 2008 17:52
"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."
- Equal mass binary gravitational waves:
- Two neutron stars, each of 1 ½ solar masses: gravitational_1.wav
- Two black holes, each of 2 ½ solar masses: gravitational_2.wav
- Two black holes, each of 50 solar masses: gravitational_3.wav
- Extreme mass ratio binary gravitational waves:
- Initially circular orbit, into rapidly spinning black hole: gravitational_4.wav
- Initially circular orbit, into slowly spinning black hole: gravitational_5.wav
- Initially highly eccentric orbit, into rapidly spinning black hole: gravitational_6.wav
Source for all the content above: http://web.mit.edu/sahughes/www/sounds.html (files located locally)
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HTML, CSS, and RSS feed changes for http://einstein.extracted.org
24 May, 2008 16:33
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!
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We're a crunching! Welcome two new members!
17 May, 2008 09:18
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!
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For those of you wondering what the EINSTEIN@HOME Project is:
Einstein@Home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational wave detector. It also searches for radio pulsars in binary systems, using data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 and an International Year of Astronomy 2009 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.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
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