Quantum Physics
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two thoughts: i do this drive-by shot maybe four times a week and never get it centered. until today. i don't think that's meaningful, just useful since i don't want to actually pull over in winter. so here we have another one of my over-used motifs. thought 2, entirely random, was that naming a tunnel after lincoln was pretty insulting if you compare it to the george washington bridge. driving thru the lincoln tunnel is like driving thru the port authority bathrooms, circa 1972. the only remotely awesome thing about the lincoln tunnel is that it was built under a river. well, maybe that's the answer. beauty is only river deep.
Quantal Canyon Road in Los Padres National Forest,Ventura County, California near the Kern-Ventura County Line
L'abbazia di Morimondo è un'abbazia cistercense sita a pochi chilometri da Milano, in località Morimondo, ai confini con il territorio di Pavia.
L'abbazia inizia la sua storia il 4 ottobre 1134 con l'arrivo di un gruppo di monaci fondatori provenienti dalla casa-madre di Morimond, in Francia. Accolti inizialmente a Coronate, a circa un miglio dalla sede definitiva, i monaci scelsero poi il luogo per la costruzione del loro monastero l'11 novembre 1136..... Cit. Wikipedia.
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Querétaro - México.
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I see one of the greatest dangers of AI, in its ownership by a few tech oligarchs with direct access to power.
AI Surveillance software such as" Paladir Elite" laid the foundation for a force like ICE. It is on par with Chinese surveillance software and is a popular tool used by autocrats and dictators to spy on the population.
There is both a curse and a blessing in AI.
Seen in Brisbane today, about to embark on a 10 night South Pacific cruise. This is Royal Caribbean's second trip out of Brisbane this past fortnight. Note the ship's cleaners putting final touches to the front superior cabin windows. Thanks to the security lady that allowed me to stop 'for just a minute' to take this photo!!
Sadly, this is one cruise I won't be embarking on. Not yet anyway.
A shot that has sat on my hard drive waiting for me to spend 20 min processing it to remove the flare I got while stupidly using the 24-70 LOL.
At the border of the high Padan Plain, just at the feet of the first line of the Prealps, there lays a string of five lakes. They draw a line that is the base of the so-called Larian triangle, i.e. the triangle-shaped mountainous land between the two arms of the Lake Como (also called Lario). These lakes, often called the Lakes Briantei, or the Brianza Lakes (from the name of that land, Brianza), are way smaller than the Lario and the other great lakes of Northern Italy - just a string of beads in the higher plain - but they share the beauty of their larger cousins, although on a smaller, more intimate scale. I have always felt quite strongly the fascination of their common origin, which dates from the end of the Würm glaciation, some 11,700 years ago. I can easily see in my mind the enormous, mighty glaciers from the Alps flowing beyond the last mountains and spreading through the high plain. A powerful sight, indeed... Yet all that glory was deemed to end as the climate was becoming warmer, and eventually the glaciers began to recede, leaving behind deep ditches and huge semilunar terminal morains. You can easily fill in the story - the melting waters, the swamps, the debris from the looming mountains, and, eventually, the lakes.
Well, this is not a lesson in geology - I am by no means an expert, just a guy who perceives geology in a deeply emotional way (quite possibly a trait acquired from my late father, who was a passionate amateur mineral and fossil prospector).
I have begun a photographic exploration of those relics of the last glaciation, the Lakes Briantei. At sunrise, of course.
My first session was at the Lake Annone, the largest one, that is divided in two basins by a narrow peninsula. I limited myself to the Western basin, mostly looking Eastward.
This is a detail landscape showing, if needed, how a grand landscape may have smaller, complete landscapes nestled within itself. There could be many landscapes-within-a-landscape, every photographer might perceive and discover new ones. I loved this detail, as a gap between the mountains lets the eye run further and further away, following the outlines of distant mountains as the air becomes more and more transfixed with golden light, until it reaches the lone, elegant outline of the Pizzo dei Tre Signori (= "Peak of the Three Lords", a name stemming from the historical division of the area that it marked, between the State of Milan, the Republic of Venice and the Grisons canton of Switzerland). I am bound to this mountain by epic, adventurous memories from my youth and this quantum tunnel beams both my eye and my mind from the lake directly to that proud peak (which is some 30 km away), as the enticing, sparkling reflections on the waters of the lake make my soul dance. I hope that the photo is good enough to stir emotions within your heart as well... Have a happy Sunday!
I have processed this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-2.0/-1.0/0/+1.0/+2.0 EV] by luminosity masks with the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal" exposure shot).
Along the journey - post-processing always is a journey of discovery to me - I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic to give a slight tonal boost to several parts of the scene. As usual, I gave the finishing touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
Raw files processed with Darktable.
Ramva3 met with K’hall’s vessel mid-flight, its scorched hull trailing faint ion wisps. Moments later, Leska10 appeared—an escort dispatched to guide the two damaged orbs to sky dock.
Adrienne leaned toward K’hall, her voice low. “How bad is the damage?”
K’hall offered a faint smile. “Not catastrophic. Some systems are offline—we need repairs. These orbs were built for reconnaissance, not war. Their defenses are minimal.”
Adrienne at a nearby screen, noting the other Arcturian craft. “Your people seem deeply embedded here.”
K’hall nodded, his gaze distant. “We arrived on Earth eighty of your years ago. Emissaries. Our purpose: to nurture the spiritual evolution of humankind. We are guardians—not just of humans, but of all realms that intersect here. Intervention is rare, but recent developments demand vigilance.”
He paused, studying Adrienne. “Humans are not native to this planet. They came in ships, fleeing a cataclysm that shattered their home world. That diaspora scattered them across the galaxy. They are in a somewhat immature stage of development.”
His eyes flicked to Kayla, though his words remained for Adrienne. “Your bloodline is not ordinary. You and she carry the bloodline of Ikhon, a very advanced race of star beings. Your kind were sent… incarnated… into human form to guide and protect. You possess more power than you know.”
A shadow passed over his features. “We did not anticipate the lizards. Their influence over humanity is... insidious. We’ve yet to break their hold.”
Kayla’s voice cut through the tension. “There is a way to deal with the Reptiles.”
K’hall’s reply came slow, deliberate. “That... must be discussed.”
Kayla frowned.
Avhal’s voice rang out. “Axiom5 on visual. Clearance granted for Bay 8.”
“Thank you, Avhal.” K’hall rose, nodded to the girls, strode to the control room and took his seat.
The vast underbelly of Axiom5 was on screen, its docking bays aglow. “Bext,” K’hall commanded, “lock onto Bay 8’s approach beam. Engage auto-docking.”
Ahead, Ramva3 limped toward Bay 3, its hull damage stark against the sky. One by one, the orbs aligned and docked. A soft jolt. The hiss of magnetic clamps. Silence.
K’hall turned, his voice calm but resonant. “Welcome to Axiom5.”
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A relatively recent discovery in the realm of physics, quantum entanglement is bizarre, eerie, mysterious, and seemingly magical. Albert Einstein shied away from the theory, calling it "spooky action at a distance." Since then, however, numerous experiments have confirmed this strange phenomenon. Basically, entangled particles can be separated from each other, over incredibly long distances--light years, in fact--and still mysteriously change when its partner is acted upon, almost as if there were an invisible umbilical cord connecting them. This seemingly conscious connection between entangled particles even occurs faster than the speed of light, a fact that made Einstein so leery about this possibility. The frontier of scientific discovery always has been a place of wonder, imagination, curiosity and delight, and never more so than in our time. This topic is very complex; this is only the most basic description of the phenomenon, and I am but an enthralled layman. That aside, it's incredibly fascinating--I suggest you take the time to learn a little about it! The ramifications of this discovery are very interesting--some even speculate that people can be entangled in a way, an incredibly fascinating ramification that only suggests something many of us believe anyway, though for different reasons.
Needless to say, the Universe is a big, strange and wonderful place.
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