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I was sort of a neutral fan of the Doors but when I watched this video it brought back memories. I'm old enough, lol...that I saw them play on the Ed Sullivan show as well as Elvis. It was so funny because both of these guys were considered scandalous at the time. Little did they know Alice Cooper, Ozzy and others were waiting in the wings...hahahaha

Back to Clash of the Titans. Some of the reasons I am seeing for all the flap is the fact they changed the mythology. The actors didn't do that. It says in the credits it was based on the first movie. BASED. It won't be exact. They didn't base it on the mythology because the first one didn't either, hahaha. It was sort of accurate but there is no Titan called the Kraken...they are a sea creature out of Norse Mythology. It is only a movie. I tell you, I don't understand people getting in such an uproar about mythology and a movie that is purely for entertainment. I still say...I LIKED IT.

Freaky Physics Proves Parallel Universes Exist

By John Brandon

- FOXNews.com



Look past the details of a wonky discovery by a group of California scientists -- that a quantum state is now observable with the human eye

-- and consider its implications: Time travel may be feasible.



Look past the details of a wonky discovery by a group of California scientists -- that a quantum state is now observable with the human eye -- and consider its implications: Time travel may be feasible. Doc Brown would be proud.



The strange discovery by quantum physicists at the University of California Santa Barbara means that an object you can see in front of you may exist simultaneously in a parallel universe -- a multi-state condition that has scientists theorizing that traveling through time may be much more than just the plaything of science fiction writers.



And it's all because of a tiny bit of metal -- a "paddle" about the width of a human hair, an item that is incredibly small but still something you can see with the naked eye.



UC Santa Barbara's Andrew Cleland cooled that paddle in a refrigerator, dimmed the lights and, under a special bell jar, sucked out all the air to eliminate vibrations. He then plucked it like a tuning fork and noted that it moved and stood still at the same time.



That sounds contradictory, and it's nearly impossible to understand if your last name isn't Einstein. But it actually happened. It's a freaky fact that's at the heart of quantum mechanics.



A UC Santa Barbara physicist has found a way to move this tiny metal paddle into two states simultaneously, such that it both vibrates and holds still.



How Is That Possible?



To even try to understand it, you have to think really, really small. Smaller than an atom. Electrons, which circle the nucleus of an atom, are swirling around in multiple states at the same time -- they're hard to pin down. It's only when we measure the position of an electron that we force it to have a specific location. Cleland's breakthrough lies in taking that hard-to-grasp yet true fact about the atomic particle and applying it to something visible with the naked eye.



What does it all mean? Let's say you're in Oklahoma visiting your aunt. But in another universe, where your atomic particles just can't keep up, you're actually at home watching "The Simpsons." That may sound far-fetched, but it's based on real science.



"When you observe something in one state, one theory is it split the universe into two parts," Cleland told FoxNews.com, trying to explain how there can be multiple universes and we can see only one of them.



The multi-verse theory says the entire universe "freezes" during observation, and we see only one reality. You see a soccer ball flying through the air, but maybe in a second universe the ball has dropped already. Or you were looking the other way. Or they don't even play soccer over there.



Sean Carroll, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology and a popular author, accepts the scientific basis for the multi-verse -- even if it cannot be proven.



"Unless you can imagine some super-advanced alien civilization that has figured this out, we aren't affected by the possible existence of other universes," Carroll said. But he does think "someone could devise a machine that lets one universe communicate with another."



It all comes down to how we understand time.



Carroll suggests that we don't exactly feel time -- we perceive its passing. For example, time moves fast on a rollercoaster and very slowly during a dull college lecture. It races when you're late for work . . . but the last few minutes before quitting time seem like hours.



Back to the Future



"Time seems to be a one-way street that runs from the past to the present," says Fred Alan Wolf, a.k.a. Dr. Quantum, a physicist and author. "But take into consideration theories that look at the level of quantum fields ... particles that travel both forward and backward in time. If we leave out the forward-and-backwards-in-time part, we miss out on some of the physics."



Wolf says that time -- at least in quantum mechanics -- doesn't move straight like an arrow. It zig-zags, and he thinks it may be possible to build a machine that lets you bend time.



Consider Sergei Krikalev, the Russian astronaut who flew six space missions. Richard Gott, a physicist at Princeton University, says Krikalev aged 1/48th of a second less than the rest of us because he orbited at very high speeds. And to age less than someone means you've jumped into the future -- you did not experience the same present. In a sense, he says, Krikalev time-traveled to the future -- and back again!



"Newton said all time is universal and all clocks tick the same way," Gott says. "Now with Einstein's theory of Special Relativity we know that travel into the future is possible. With Einstein's theory of gravity, the laws of physics as we understand them today suggest that even time travel to the past is possible in principle. But to see whether time travel to the past can actually be realized we may have to learn new laws of physics that step in at the quantum level."



And for that, you start with a very tiny paddle in a bell jar.



Cleland has proved that quantum mechanics scale to slightly larger sizes. The next challenge is to learn how to control quantum mechanics and use it for even larger objects. Do so -- and we might be able to warp to parallel universes just by manipulating a few electrons.



"Our concepts of cause and effect will fly out the window," says Ben Bova, the science fiction author. "People will -- for various reasons -- try to fix the past or escape into the future. But we may never notice these effects, if the universe actually diverges. Maybe somebody already has invented a time machine and our history is being constantly altered, but we don’t notice the kinks in our path through time."



http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/05/freaky-physics-proves-parallel-universes/

I really don't understand the bad reviews this movie is getting. It is hogwash! The only thing I noticed about this remake is they changed the mythology a bit when making this version. It is fiction and for entertainment. One has to remember when you go to see things based on Greek or Roman mythology it will be bigger than life. It isn't something you can rationalize or try to understand by today's logic. It is mythology and what some believed in ancient times. They changed one of the god brothers who was bringing the Kraken to Hades instead of Poseidon and they added Io as a love interest and some other things. This doesn't follow the mythology that is written but so what. It is based on what most think of as fiction anyway. It was similar to the first movie but up dated with fancier special effects. Over all it had the same feel of the first movie. I don't understand all the fuss about it. I have seen movies that make this movie look like an Oscar winner in quality. I really hate critics and people who don't know Greek mythology and then go off on the movie. Don't see it if you don't like movies that deal with this sort of thing. I am sure if they make a movie based on Norse gods it will be extrapolated upon. Does that make it the worse movie ever made? Come on. It has made a lot of money I think anyway, lol.



I didn't expect it to be an exact copy of the first. They killed Danae which isn't according to the mythology. They didn't do that in the first movie which followed what was written a little closer. If you want a movie to be interesting you have to make it action packed which they did do. I thought some of the changes to be quite interesting and creative. BUT I like movies dealing with mythology and I don't mind musicals, lol... This of course was not a musical but I hear so many say bad things about movies of that type. How did people get so jaded I am wondering ?

Since I am older, some things I wonder about outside of the realm of metaphysics or the occult very often is concerning the entertainment industry.



I get curious from time to time about what happened to this person I use to watch back in the sixties or seventies and very often a child actor. Its kind of a where are they now. Sometimes I will use this in my ezine. I have some favorite actors/actresses from years gone by. One of them was Jaclyn Smith, one of the original "Charlie's Angels". I have found out I wasn't the only one but she was born in the same year as I was along with some of the others. I was curious how they were doing since a few had had cancer and one died, Farah Fawcett. This was Thursday I was on my last curiosity run on the net.



One thing led to another and I ended up looking to see what John Forsythe was doing now. I had thought he had passed away but he was still alive and 92. I talked about him with my daughters husband who is very gracious to listen to me about things I know he isn't interested in. I commented on how much I had liked him and that he had such an air of class in everything he did. Most know him as the voice of Charlie for the angels.



I am watching Larry King tonight (Friday) and on the bottom of the screen where they have news running across it on CNN it states: John Forsythe has died at the age of 92. I am so shocked. I couldn't believe it even though he was quite old, but the next day? That night (Thursday) I had turned on LMN and they were playing a movie I had never seen which was starring Jaclyn Smith. These kinds of things happen to me all the time and not just connected to something like actors/actresses I don't know. This time it has me really weirded out. I had mentioned that I expected to hear soon he passed because of his age but I never thought it would be the very next day.