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UBC researchers invent tiny artificial muscles with the strength, flexibility of elephant trunk The new material was devised at the University of Texas at Dallas and then tested as an artificial muscle in Madden's lab at UBC. A chance discovery by collaborators from Wollongong showed the enormous twist developed by the device. Guided by theory at UBC and further experiments in Wollongong and Texas, the team was able to extract considerable torsion and power from the yarns. The torsional rotation of helically wound muscles, such as those in the flagella of bacteria, has existed in nature for hundreds of millions of years.3 Analysis of the helical plate for bone fracture fixation

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Silicon Optical Waveguide Vortex Beam Emitters The Vortex AtomThe Spinergy of the Universe Posted by admin on Aug 29, 2011 in Recent Posts, The Wild Side of Science | 0 comments The Vortex Universe Part One: The Vortex Atom the Spinergy of the Miniverse by Theresa C. Dintino listen to this post The Spinergy of the Miniverse Play Now | Play in Popup | Download The Universe is made up of energy vibrating at different speeds. This energy spins into vortices that create patterns. These patterns of energy appear to us as solid or physical. But this is only an illusion. This is true of the atom as well. The atom is made of smaller components called, particles. These are the electron, neutron, and proton. Each of these are made up of smaller.. Wilhelm Reich and The Love Impulse The now is the only time that exists. We hear this repeated often. But how can that be? Time is not what we think it is. Time is composed of multilayered and multidimensional spirals of energy that intersect. Time is an alive energy. An experience I had the other day led me to a greater understanding of time. In a recent drum ritual created by a circle of close women friends, I experienced a vision of interlocking time spirals. I saw us in simultaneous lives, all happening now, doing a similar ritual. Though we were of different places and time, all of them were intersecting and interacting in this particular moment. The visions I was seeing werent just images. I could feel them. I could smell the damp, dense, green undergrowth of one of the ancient groves of trees we were in. The moment that these spirals overlapped and lined up revealed to me a now whose texture contains the depth of all pasts and the potentiality of all futures. I saw us in the past and in the now and in the future, doing the same ritual. Later in the week I had a massage and experienced similar visions.4 The helical molecules are cholesteric liquid crystals, related to the molecules that form the backbone of liquid crystal displays. The cholesteric molecules don't mix well with the surrounding polymer liquid.5

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stage helical embryo The molecular machinery that starts the process by which a biological cell divides into two identical daughter cells apparently worked so well early on that evolution has conserved it across the eons in all forms of life on Earth. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at

Berkeley have shown that the core machinery for initiating DNA replication is the same for all three domains of life - Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya. A superhelix is a molecular structure in which a helix is itself coiled into a helix. This is significant to both proteins and genetic material, such as overwound circular DNA. The earliest significant reference in molecular biology is from 1971, by F.B. Fuller:

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Cross-section of collagen triple-helix; each pro-peptide form a left handed helix and assemble with the other two chains in a right handed super-helix. Glycine occupies the centre of the helix, whilst the X and Y residues are at the surface with their side chains extended outward of helical configuration.6 A team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Milan has discovered some unexpected forms of liquid crystals of ultrashort DNA molecules immersed in water, providing a new scenario for a key step in the emergence of life on Earth. "We found this to be a remarkable result," Clark said. "It means that small molecules with the ability to pair up the right way can seek each other out and collect together into drops that are internally selforganized to facilitate the growth of larger pairable molecules. "In essence, the liquid crystal phase condensation selects the appropriate molecular components, and with the right chemistry would evolve larger molecules tuned to stabilize the liquid crystal phase. If this is correct, the linear polymer shape of DNA itself is a vestige of formation by liquid crystal order." 7

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Tantal, Prometej i Lucifer Prometheus, whose name means forethought, or he who thinks ahead, is a figure whom Steiner refers to as the Greek Lucifer. Prometheus awakened a consciousness in humans that was too dangerous in the eyes of Zeus, so Zeus had Prometheus chained to a rock in the Caucasus mountains. But Prometheus is patient, for he knows a secret that is not known to Zeus. In the future, Zeus will lie with a mortal woman, Io, and she will give birth to a son, who will start a line of descent leading to the birth of Hercules or Heracles, meaning he who is called by Hera. This great hero, whom Steiner indicates is a portent of Christ Jesus, will grow up to succeed Zeus in his position of authority as Law-giver in the heavens. Heracles will also kill the vulture that eats Prometheus' liver, and then liberate the great Greek Lucifer. In Aeschylus' tragedy, Io is under a terrible curse from Hera (Juno) and has been wandering over the earth when she suddenly comes upon the chained Prometheus. Her name Io is a possible dialectical form of the Greek word ego! So here we have thought meeting ego in the figures of Prometheus and Io. And it will be instructive to keep them in mind when contemplating the distinctions between thought and ego-consciousness as Steiner describes the four periods of philosophy. For example, Prometheus is male, a god, punished by Zeus, chained to a rock; Io is female, a mortal, punished by Hera (Juno), the jealous wife of Zeus (Jupiter). Io is free to roam the earth but she is relentlessly pursued and stung by the thousandeyed gadfly, a wonderful though wincing description of the pricks and pangs of modern self-consciousness. To express these two world views in terms of a renewal of ancient Greek picture consciousness, the stories of Prometheus Bound and Tantalus Condemned are apropos. Prometheus is modern ego consciousness chained to the rock of the physical mineral body as thought is chained to the brain. Prometheus expresses for ordinary consciousness knowledge of the deterministic Newtonian universe wherein space is the infinite stage upon which the three actors: time, matter and energy play their separate parts. Prometheus was condemned by the Law, Zeus, for stealing fire, or spirit from the divine. On the other hand, Tantalus was condemned for stealing not fire from the gods, but rather ambrosia and nectar, divine food and drink. Tantalus is chained, not to a rock, but is stuck in the middle of a river up to his chest. He lives in eternal longing for food and drink, but when he bends down to drink the river water, it recedes from his open mouth; if he reaches up to grasp the fruit of the tree branches above him, they recede as well. Tantalus can only live in the water of life with longing, a picture of spaceless time, the eternal duration of the present moment never fulfilled, while Prometheus waits patiently in timeless space, knowing his future destiny as well as his past. The longing of Tantalus is a picture of ordinary consciousness trying to grasp the etheric realm of life, growth and metamorphosis of form. It also expresses very well the situation described by Einstein's special theory of relativity. If desolate non-living space is the infinite stage to Prometheus-Newton, the living richness of time is forever forbidden to Tantalus-Einstein by the insurmountable barrier of the finite speed of light. Such a speed can never be achieved by any being or material object in our known universe. In fact, the more an object approaches the limiting speed of light, the more difficult it becomes to go a little faster because the object's mass increases, a fact that requires more and more energy to propel the object any faster, until the energy need becomes infinite. At that point, the object's mass would increase beyond the mass of the entire universe, space would contract to infinitesimal thinness, while time would dilate into eternal duration. We inherit the finished work of creation as the Rosicrucian saying goes: Ex Deo nascimur (out of God we are born). Albert Einstein became a pioneer or prophet of the second: In Christo morimur (in Christ we die), since we can no longer find the original spirit in Nature. Finally, we must fulfill the third: Per Spiritum Sanctum reviviscimus (through the Holy Spirit we are resurrected). In a Pentecost lecture, Rudolf Steiner identified the Holy Spirit as the transformed or redeemed Lucifer. He also identified Prometheus as the Greek Lucifer. It is then up to all of us with our strong ego-consciousnesses to liberate Prometheus-Lucifer from his chains and to resurrect our way to the realm of the spirit transcending Nature.8

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