EARLY RAYS CAN TWITTER BE USED TO P
redicting the ups and downs of the stock market, it turns out, is not such a hard thing after all. The on-line social network Twitter can do it with 90% accuracy days in advance of the actual market. However be- fore you start looking for ways to invest in
PREDICT STOCK MARKET? Twittering, consider the facts here. The trick involves the use of millions of Twitter messages. Information scientists at Indiana University have, by analyzing more than 9.8 million tweets from 2.7 million users over a ten-month period in 2008, de- termined that overall public mood in the tweets precedes the market by up to a week. The scientists used mood-tracking tools to analyse the text content of the tweets and form a picture of the ups and downs in the overall public mood, and lo the Dow Jones closing averages followed it very nicely a few days later.
Other studies using random event gener- ators have demonstrated the existence of some kind of planetary consciousness which responds collectively to major events. We may all be in this together, after all.
The Search for Parallel Universes Accelerates
W A pond is the eye of this seeming giant bird. Ancient Geoglyphs In Peru? A
gigantic network of earthworks in Peru could have been created in the image of birds, snakes, and other animals—arranged as geoglyphs by ancient Peruvians. That is the contention of researcher Amelia Corolina Sparavigna who discovered them in satellite imagery.
If true, it suggests that the ancient Peru- vians had some way of making observations from great height. That capability, some argue, is already evident on Peru’s famous Nazca plain where animals are depicted on the ground in figures so large they can only be seen from the air.
Sparavigna used Google satellite maps 12 ATLANTIS RISING • Number 85
and an astronomical image-processing pro- gram, which she developed, to identify the images. So far there is no consensus over their authenticity. Some say they are just ag- riculture.
As to whether the ancients were capable of aerial observation, the question has lead some to speculate that the indigenous popu- lations were visited by extraterrestrials trav- eling in spacecraft; while others speculate that, to obtain the needed higher perspec- tive, ancient shamans were able to exit their bodies and take flight. Now all we need is Google maps.
ill parallel universes soon have visi- tors from our world? Hard to say, but serious physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland hope that 2011 will be the year when the frontier between science fiction and sci- ence fact will be thoroughly breached, at least in learning whether hidden worlds and extra dimensions exist.
After some difficulties getting started the giant atomic accelerator is now rou- tinely hosting many millions of collisions between high energy particles every second. The energy released by those events are expected to tell physicists a great deal about the “big bang,” believed to be the origination point of the universe. Also hoped is that the so-called “God particle,” alias “the Higgs Boson,” will soon manifest. The risk that the LHC could create a black hole capable of col- lapsing the world as we know it doesn’t seem to be causing much concern these days, and, after all, if that happens who of us will be around to complain about it, unless, of course, we find ourselves in some parallel universe. But if that hap- pens, all bets are off. Or should that be...on? We’ll have to get back to you on that, or maybe not.
Subscribe or Order Books, DVDs and Much More! Subscribe or Order Books, DVDs and Much More!
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84