Those looking for an overview of NEMS could do worse than to read this paper...
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0502566 Fascinating stuff. The perfect sensor for time varying gravito-kinetic fields IMHO. K. -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 11:27 PM To: vortex Subject: Change is in the details Waxing philosophical on ZPE and the divine architecture of hidden reality this weekend (aren't all vortexians?) ... Item ... the day-to-day practice of earth-bound Architecture can tell us more about reality than is evident from graceful lines and soaring spaces. "God is in the details," --attributed to the architect Mies van der Rohe contrast that with "The devils is in the details," --attributed to the architect Buckminster Fuller Both views are correct in their own way, and the two are not really antithetical any more than are gender differences (OK maybe that's not such a good example of the point I am trying to make) but many dualities are demonstrative of the janus-like visage and the self-same-ness of ostensibly contradictory identities . Item. This should come as no surprise to anyone who has studied the science of "Chaos". After all, self-organization and extropy often coalesce from the chasm of randomness by means of a polarity-seed - a tiny bit attraction and repulsion, a tentative bifurcation expanding into the "butterfly effect" and the famous "Lorentz attractor." Therefore, it can be said that emergent dualities are the very sine-qua-non of extropy. Mirrored-contrast, as is seen in opposites is ubiquitous below the surface of reality, and there is a very good reason for that in the vacuum of space, wherein lies the original duality - the grand-daddy of them all, the epo pair. Aha, once again, it all gets back to the epo. We see this basic similarity-of-extremes reflected everywhere in life - specially in religion, science and government. Were the Catholic popes of the inquisition any less consumed with evil than the godless Stalin, for instance? There is no doubt that many cops would be crooks if they couldn't be cops. But roles can switch in mid stream, and north become south (as will likely happen on Gaia soon). But this probably cannot happen when one polar extreme looses its extropy potential and becomes so doused with entropy as to be intransigent - as in the profound pig-headedness of the modern-day Luddites like Bob Park and his ilk, which are in contrast to the brilliant and open-minded horizons of eminent scientists like Brian Josephson and the late Julian Schwinger. Item. What are architects trying to tell us that transcends beautiful spaces? It is not *just* that both the grandest constructions projects depends for their success on a plethora of seemingly insignificant components. But it is also that getting the details right can create the "emergent" property from simplicity itself. When one is able to reiterate enough simple tasks like the tiny off-on switches of digital electronics, then a beautiful picture can emerge on a computer screen. Or, as Bucky Fuller also opined on many occasions, "The whole becomes far greater than the sum of its parts." Chaos theory was a big thing on the pop-sci scene almost two decades ago, following James Glieck's book (1987) which precipitated a trend that is ongoing today. Are there any lessons to be had there for the vortex "Zepmeister" (the tamer of the "west-wind" aether) either in "Chaos" or in the properly organizing the "details," which can be interpreted here to mean imposing an intelligent structure on a spatial geometry of a few nanometers? Perhaps... (and finally getting to the point). The story which precipitated this flight into philosophical fancy and endless rambling can be found at: http://www.physorg.com/news2996.html If is kind of the nano-version of the old tuning-fork scheme. You remember, the old Keely talk about when one excited tuning fork, placed in a room of hundreds of thousands of resonant tuning forks, would cause all the other forks to resonate to a similar intensity, thus multiplying the energy expressed by this assemblage into mechanical overunity. In the case of the team of Boston University physicists, led by Pritiraj Mohanty (thank Vishnu for foreign-born engineers), who developed the nanomechanical oscillator mentioned in the reference above, which set a record at for mechanical vibration of 1.49 gHz, when pushed to the limit. In this case, God is in the details. I find it immensely interesting, in reading the particulars, that the technique works at very **cold** temperature, not hot, and that the vibration in the vicinity of a spectrum where this particular observer is on record as expecting to finding OU - which is 1.42 Ghz. Are we getting closer to ZPE coherence, step-by-step and in fits-and-pieces? More later. Looks like I'm almost out of threadbare idioms for today... Jones ... the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are often the ones who do." -- from "Think Different," an Apple Computer Ad
