Could inductive charging lead to a battery-less future?

With the advent of inductive charging all sorts of technological devices are getting an update. A laptop that charges other nearby devices such as a wireless mouse, a cell phone, or a mp3 player through an electromagnetic field. As of now we are limited to a meter or less as to how far away we can charge wirelessly.

I picture one day we will inhabit a world where there will be no urgent need for a battery. Well, not to run our devices, anyway. All of our gadgets will run on the same power that they transmit on; all done wirelessly. To get an idea of what it would be like just take out your battery on your laptop and plug in your power supply. Your laptop should still work just as if the battery was there. Now imagine this without the power supply attached, but the laptop drawing power from the airwaves…or more precisely the electromagnetic field. A device without a battery would be lighter, cost less, and slimmer than one that does. It would seem to be able to be activated at any moment.  This would change the world completely.

This is not far-fetched, as we do live and breathe inside an electromagnetic field today. Harnessing this power would free us from the chains that outlets restrict us by. Couple this with bioenergy manifestation (such as energy collected from the footsteps of others or the collection of body heat and converted into electricity)and you would really see perpetuity.

Did I create me or did me create I?

Hello again. I have been pondering this question for quite some time now. I have become uncomfortable with what the possible answers could mean. Being the product of something intangible and unrealized. What I am referring to, people, is the Many World theory. To familiarize those of us unfamiliar with the theory, I will try to concisely explain the idea…in a nutshell: The Many World  Theory proclaims to be a universe in which all other universes exist. Look inside one of them with a really  powerful microscope and you will see yourself browsing the internet reading this very page. Peer in another and you will find yourself tucked in for the night (if its night time where you are present), as you have made the better decision to retire early than to surf the web (Early to bed and early to rise…). Snoop into another yet and discover you do not exist at all! Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku expounds maybe “there are billions of parallel universes”. These splitting universe are due to you choosing one decision over another. Or are you and your universe the result of a discussion made in another?

Multiverse

This question can cause a head splitting headache. Like the old adage asks “which came first the chicken or the egg?”. Lets entertain the thought for a moment, picture a woman eating lunch at her desk. When she is done she has the option to walk over to the trash receptacles or to ball her trash up and shoot it there. She chooses to shoot it and at this moment the universe halves itself. In the other she walks over and dumps her waste in the garbage. The universe multiples with each consecutive decision she makes. How many decisions does one make in a day, a week, a month, a year? If you could draw a line connecting these universes you would have a sorta tree figure. You would be able to see which universe preceded which.

So did her decision create the alternate reality or did the alternate reality create her?

Got Robots?

Let a Robot Lend A Hand

Yes, we have all heard about the dreaded future of robots vs humans and how we will be crushed by that which we have created. Fret not I tell you. I see a different future for us. One where robots (if ever able to achieve self-awareness) will worship humans till the end of time. Always wanting to help; always wanting to serve.

Just look at our ancestors. They worshiped Roman gods, Greek gods, and other deities. We currently have many religions all around the globe. So why must a self-aware robot desire to destroy that which created it?

We have no innate desire to destroy the Sun or this planet, from which we rose.  Nor should they have a desire to decimate our race. On the contrary, they will worship us, desire to be us, and exhibit servitude, as the least they could do. Think of the movie “Bicentennial Man” when thinking of our mechanical counterparts. They will admire humans and strive to be like them the way we admire our gods. Or the way a child emulates a parent. Their minds would be like children compared to a race that existed millions of years before them. At least, that’s how they will look at it. Forever grateful that they were created and given the gift of awareness. Forever peaceful.

We Will Boldly Go…

We could very well create the aliens we search for. Picture for a moment that some time in the future we develop advance machines. These machines are set out to explore the galaxies. They are able to evolve and modify themselves exponentially. Colonizing asteroids, moons, and rocky planets with factories. After a few centuries they will have become so unrecognizable that they will be truly alien to us. Still worshiping the human race, continuously loyal.

They may find solutions to engineering roadblocks that prevent us from magical things such as Faster-Than-Light (FTL) travel or time travel. Maybe they have figured a way to overcome the time barrier and have visited us already. Showing up in videos from amateurs to NASA’s space missions. Always elusive, always calculating the right moment to depart. They may have (in the sense it has already happened in the future) solved the problem of what to do when the universe becomes a frozen dark void. Maybe a googol of them, with their computing power working in unison, will figure out how to escape into another universe.

We Will Become Them

It will start with a single chip replacing a neuron. Then another…and another. Each step of the way scientist will evaluate the human’s condition to check if they are still “there”, in a sense. This will continue until the entire brain is a collection of microchips. The person will feel no different, will notice no change…at first. Slowly they will become aware of complex task becoming mere child’s play. They will marvel at the insights into problems that they can recall giving up on. They will thirst for more modifications to an ailing body. Immortality will be well-within reach. The human populace will become metallic. Jettison the body for more efficient was to travel in micro-gravity. Eon will pass and we may evolve into beings consisting of energy, entirely. Electromagnetic, space-faring beings who had shed their metallic skin as they once did their fur.

Robots will come. They will change they way things are. If you see a robot do not be alarmed.  It could be your descendant’s future staring back at you through those optical lens. Put down the EMP bomb and lend her a hand.

-DLJJ

Day and Night….

I have always wondered what a robot feels like. Not required to sleep, how do they perceive what a day is? To us, it begins with a morning and ends with a night. We have a “fresh start” feeling in the beginning of our day (unless we haven’t had our coffee, yet) and a need to “recharge” or “shut-down” feeling at night. After awaking you feel like its a new day. Have you ever stayed awake past 24 hours? I have. And my concept of the essence of “Day” and “Night” have changed.

One Long Day

In my experiences of staying awake for 24 hours or longer (in some cases 48 hours) I have noticed my day still existing. For instance, if I stayed awake for 24 or 48 hours from today it will still feel like the date were September 2, 2010 in lieu of September 3rd or 4th. I was aware of folks around me acknowledging a “new day”. Lucky them.

Makes You Jealous, Doesn’t It?

Seeing someone sleeping comfortably makes me a little jealous. Okay maybe more. Alright, a whole lot more. I digress, my concept of day and night have changed. Really, its been one tremendously long day since the creation of the planet. If you wanna get deeper: since the beginning of time or big bang.

Oooooooo…

I, then, realized how much of a construct our days, weeks, months, and years are. They just show a relationship between things. Look at a year, for instance, the time it takes the Earth to completely orbit our star. We could just say 4 seasons instead of a year. It would mean the same thing. For instance, my son will be 40 seasons, soon.

The real issue is what exactly is time. Seems to just be the relationship between events. Maybe there is no actual 4th dimension. Well, not the one we have imagined. No time, no time travel. Or is there?

-DLJJ

Virtual Particles, harmful?

I wonder, are virtual particles are harmful? They pop in and out of existence everywhere. What happens when one of those particles manifest in a space occupied by my body? Does it annihilate one of my particles? Does this process inevitably leads to a sort of disease? Hmmm…

Multiverse

Ah yes…we cannot consider time travel without acknowledging the multiverse. Infinite versions of this world all due to the choices we make. Or more accurately, the way an electron splits.

So here’s my question: Do I create other versions of myself or am I the result of a version of myself? I guess its the old adage: chicken or the egg.

Time Travel…when would you go?

I always knew that after my kids were born I would never travel to a time before there arrival. I do wanna see the dinosaurs. I do wanna see the future, but if time travel exist you cannot visit events before they happen and you cannot visit any time before the time machine existed. So idk…where I would visit. Maybe incognito @ my parents house when they were kids. I would certainly learn a thing or 2.

Blackholes…dark and lovely

I remember always having an infatuation with blackholes early on. An object that is so strong something as intangible as light cannot escape it. Of course I’m speaking in a gravitational sense here. Then one day I thought about its opposite, the white hole. Some all-light emitting hole in the universe spewing mass and energy. But what type of mass? Surely not planets and stars. Nor liquids and gas. I cannot imagine a complex molecular structure surviving, intact, through a singularity. Maybe its constituents?

Like cheese on a grater, matter is broken up into atomic particles and subatomic particles. I can picture a white hole vomiting up, down, top, bottom, strange, and charm quarks. But there’s no evidence of this.

Maybe particles of that size squeezes through the fabric of space and are immediately joined with their counterpart…what we know as virtual particles. This being the end result of transmission through a blackhole.

Theories of a scientific nature

Welcome. This is my first post here. I will be sharing my thoughts on things of a scientific nature. I am partial to physics and astronomy, but not limited to them. I will try to post frequently.