There’s evidence that tripping on magic mushrooms could actually free the mind.

Several small studies have linked the psychoactive ingredient in shrooms (which are illegal) with several purported health benefits, including the potential to help relieve anxiety and depression. But, as with any drug, shrooms also come with risks. And because they’re classified as Schedule 1 – meaning they have “no accepted medical use” – it’s been pretty tough for scientists to tease out exactly what they can and can’t do.

Here are a few of the ways we know shrooms can affect your brain and body:

Source : http://www.techinsider.io/mental-and-physical-effects-of-magic-mushrooms-2016-6

What could be more awesome than detecting something never detected before, making one of the most monumental discoveries in physics, andconfirming Albert Einstein’s 100-year-old predictions?

Detecting that same thing in space.

On Tuesday, at a press conference at the European Space Astronomy Center, scientists announced that they’re one step closer to building a giant detector in space called the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) that will be able to detect ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves.

You’ve probably heard of the Earth-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), which changed history when it first detected these gravitational waves in September. While LIGO can spot what’s produced by stars exploding and black holes colliding, LISA will be able to detect gravitational waves that are made when entire galaxies collide. And this would help us better understand how galaxies form and evolve.

Studying the universe in gravity could allow us to see as far back in time as the big bang, NASA scientist Charles Dunn told Business Insider. “It’s like opening a new window,” Oliver Jennrich, ESA deputy project scientist, told Business Insider. “All of a sudden we learn about things we had no clue existed.”

The mission is a collaboration between many institutions, including the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA.

A soundtrack to the universe.

Simulation of merging black holes showing gravitational waves.

What we are able to see with light only makes up .4% of the universe. The rest of the universe is invisible. We only know it exists because it generates gravity.

Gravity is currently the least understood force in physics. But thanks to that monumental September discovery we know that extreme events in the universe can create gravitational waves.

When you toss a pebble into a pond, it creates ripples on the surface that spread out, getting fainter as they get further from where the pebble smacked into the water. Gravitational waves do something similar to the fabric of space and time.

It’s these waves, or ripples, that scientists are now trying to spot in space. Doing so would let us listen, in a sense, to that 99.6% of the universe that we can never see.

It’s more or less like you’re walking in a jungle and you can’t hear the sound.

“Without sound you wouldn’t detect all the life in the jungle,” Stefano Vitale, LTP Principal Investigator, told Business Insider. “When you turn on the sound you can recognize the sources — objects you can’t see because they’re hidden in the jungle. Looking at a gravitational wave is … like adding the soundtrack to the universe because you see things you cannot see with light.”

Free Fallin’

LIGO has made huge strides in helping to detect smaller events of objects close to the mass of our sun. But what about the really big stuff, like the collision of supermassive black holes millions of times the mass of our sun at the center of galaxies?

This is where LISA comes in. To detect things like these, whatever detection system scientists are using must be free from seismic noise from things like Earth moving around, trucks driving, and people walking by.

In that vein, LISA will use a series of tiny 4.6-centimeter gold-platinum cubes, launched into space to get them into a state of near perfect free fall and influenced by nothing other than the sheer force of gravity.

So far, their results have been far better than expected.

“In some peoples minds, what we were trying to do was impossible,” Paul McNamara, ESA’s LISA Pathfinder project scientist, told Business Insider. “But straight out of the box, on day one, it worked. Not only have we achieved it, we achieved way beyond what asked for.”

LISA will be comprised of a triangle of three spacecrafts millions of miles apart. Each of them will house two of the tiny gold-platinum cubes, whose distance will be measured by how long it takes for a laser beam to get from one spacecraft to another.

As a gravitational wave passes through, the geometry of the triangle will change — one arm will get shorter and another will get longer — by about the size of the nucleus of an atom. And this miniscule change is what the scientists will be measuring.

“These events emit more gravitational waves than all the stars and galaxies and everything in the universe combined,” McNamara said. “When these two big objects smash together it shakes the entire universe. And we’ll be able to measure that.”

Source: http://www.techinsider.io/giant-gravitational-wave-detector-in-space-2016-6

Physicists have observed a new form of light, and it could totally change the way we understand the electromagnetic spectrum.

Light is one of the most well-studied things in physics, but it’s clear that it still holds some surprises. 

One of the measurable properties of light is called angular momentum, which measures how quickly a beam of light rotates.

Previously, physicists thought the angular momentum could only be a multiple of a number called Planck’s constant.

Now, researchers have observed a new form of light with an angular momentum of just half Planck’s constant.

An unexpected angular momentum value might not sound like a big deal, but the implications are pretty huge.

“What I think is so exciting about this result is that even this fundamental property of light, that physicists have always thought was fixed, can be changed,” physicist Paul Eastham said in a statement.

The research is published in the journal Science Advances.

Getty Images/Mark DavisShow lights are seen above the stage as fans attend day two of the 2016 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival Weekend.

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It´s almost unbelievable the importance we give today in our daily lives to social media, as if we we´re disconnected from ourselves, delegating and exteriorizing our interior frustrations psychically upon the lives of everyone else. The internet provides so much information that we literally get information overload and yet we release it through more online surfing in social media. Our generation and the people alive today demand and utilize social media as a way of feeling attached and connected to someone when in reality we are losing social skills and becoming technological introverts and every other dimensional expressive category in between.

Obviously, that is this society’s main characteristic today, and although is appalling and wonderful, it can be terrifying and overwhelming as well. We need it, we are already past the point of no return, in other words we could not go back and give it up, it is pre-programmed into our conscious and unconscious life´s and it will only get worse. The transition is well under way and as humans technology is quickly becoming our friend, partner, confidant, companionship and even our very shadow for it follows us everywhere we go.

So comfortably integrated in our life´s , least not forget the ever better and simple pleasures of taking walks, admiring a sunset, the stars, and the ocean and mountains, the fresh breeze and the peaceful resting pleasure of a Saturday afternoon´s nap, the smile of the people we love and respect, the constant change of things in time where truth and courage are forever the essence of this cycle, the essence of the lessons learned and the pragmatic sense of reality in a world where nothing seems legit or even certain in a given set of circumstances or in any given set for that matter.

Time is also an illusion, no time like the Present.

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