i am the chef tonight :-D

i had a dinner this evening with two friends of mine..i was the chef :-D
i cooked Rice Salad (Insalata di riso), eggplants balls(polpette di melanzane)...and above all the semifreddo al caffè :D


Semifreddo al caffè





eggplants balls(polpette di melanzane)


Rice Salad (Insalata di riso)

the world hunger

In the world more than 5 millions people die every year of hunger,
most of whom are, of course, children.

Welcome to my kitchen :-)

lol...i look sooooooo like a cheffff.....yummy...sometimes i can have good results :-P



MUFFINS








TIRAMISU'



TORTA PARADISO (HEAVEN CAKE)

Life Extension--Our Salvation or Our Ruin?

"The life expectancy will be around 5000 years ... by 2100."
- Aubrey de Grey

The medicine has made great strides over the last fifty years and the next fifty will produce even more revolutionary innovations, changing the limits of natural human longevity.
Biotechnology, genetics, and, later, nanotechnology will allow us a level of control over our biology never before achieved in human history.
We have the tools for slowing down the disease and the aging process more than what people believe, but we dont have all the techniques we need to extend human life indefinitely.
However, it is clear that the progress in science and technology is accelerating.
The expert on longevity and gerontology Aubrey de Gray uses the metaphor of maintaining a house to illustrate this key concept.
How long does a house hold up?The answer obviously depends on how you will care. If you dont make anything, the roof sooner or later will stand damages and the house will collapse. But if you will repair all the damages and rebuild or renew everything using new materials and technologies, its life can be extended indefinitely.
The same for body and mind. The only difference is that we already know the techniques necessary for the maintenance of a house, instead our knowledge about biology is still limited.
Despite this, thanks to increasing knowledge of the human genome, the proteins expressed by the genome (proteome), the biochemical processes and those of our metabolism, we are quickly gaining the knowledge we need.
We start to understand how aging is not an inexorable progression, but a set of biological processes linked to each other.

A few days ago i was looking for something about life extension and i went through an interesting book "Fantastic Voyage" by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman...
This book describes three "bridges":
The first bridge is a program for the longevity. It consists of therapies available today that allow you to stay healthy long enough to be able to take maximum advantage of the second bridge, once constructed.
The second bridge is the biotechnology revolution. Studying proteins and genes, we are accumulating all the things that will allow us to eliminate disease and aging.
I found an interesting deepening about the Therapeutic cloning...that concerne the possibility to create new tissues to replace diseased tissues or organs.
The third bridge is the revolution in the fields of nanotechnology and of AI (Artificial Intelligence). This revolution will enable us to rebuild our bodies and brains at the molecular level. These technologies will introduce new tools to expand our health and our abilities.

Then There are developments that could lead to humans being able to live forever??!!!
The average age will be in the region of a few thousand years.hmmm...But is it desirable?
i think how many family members i should have to buy Christmas presents for...... my grandchildren, great grandchildren, great great grandchildren, great great great grandchildren.....!LOL
..Living soo many years? Probably not. That certainly won't help overpopulation. Live as long as I would like to? Yes.
Some people think that it would be boring to live for so many years. But if you have a curious mind, eternal life on earth would provide wonderful prospects for developing your potential in various fields of endeavor.
Some people instead feel that the shortness of life is what makes it so precious...what about carpe diem if you can wait for another chance sooner or later during your 1000 years??you can compare life to gold, which exists only in limited amounts. If gold could be found everywhere, they point out, its value would be diminished. Nevertheless, gold would still be beautiful. Surely the same is true of life.
What about my loved ones?A long life on earth would not mean much to me if they were not with me.

Well, I think that human greatness lives in its smallness, its weaknesses, its imperfections.
Only the awareness of a condition made by imperfection and partiality, can lead us to the wire that can let us ascend to the infinite, the wire that takes to the change, to correction and self-criticism.
Only the awareness of our own condition, with a very specific purpose, can catalyze a process of improvement.
Only an end, besides, gives a meaning to the life and then life without an end would be worthwhile to be lived, it would be like starting on a journey by ship, but without a goal.
The expectations, desires, but above all the insecurities and fears would be defeated, they would be dissolved and the content of the journey(life) would vanish.

Growing organic food...;-) cultivated by me

Growing organic food is environmentally friendly, healthy and best of all, delicious.
here the results after i work the land :-)
A self sustaining farm that grows its own food does not need pesticides or herbicides because a truly self-sustaining farm has an ecosystem that regulates pests and weeds naturally.


LETTUCE





TOMATOES








EGGPLANTS




PLUMS

WormHole and Parallele Universes

Wormholes are very interesting things, they are feasible solutions for the equations of Einstein, the evidence of the existence of blackhole is very strong, so, why not think seriously about Wormhole?
Our Universe stayed three-dimensional for thousend of years, then, Einstein, introduced the space-time and now physicist speak about 10 or even 11 dimensions and they tell us about other universes. wormhole, then, gain importance not only theoretically, but practically also, because they can be the connections to those other universes, and they can be the way to travel to stars and visit other planets.
Time is defined as being the fourth dimension of our universe. The other three dimensions are of space, including up-down, left-right and backward-forward. Time cannot exist without space, and likewise, space cannot exist without time. This interconnected relationship of time and space is called the spacetime continuum, which means that any event that occurs in the universe has to involve both space and time.
When Albert Einstein released his theory of special relativity, he laid the foundation for the theoretical possibility of time travel.
According to The Theory of Relativity gravity bends space time around it. What it means is that, light which is said to have linear propagation (straight line) follows a distorts its path in presence of a massive body. Actually light always follows a straight path,but its the space that bends.
Any body which has mass produces a distorting in space time due to its gravity. Because of this distorting objects that were supposed to move in a prescibed path bends towards the massive body.
This is not just a theory, it has been proved and actually we are making use of this principle for a lot of applications like finding the mass of stars etc.
This was proved way back in 1919, by none other than Albert Einstein during a solar eclipse.
During the eclipse we could see the stars lying closer to the path of sun ( they cannot be seen otherwise due to the brightness of the sun). We knew the actual postition of these stars, but the gravity of sun caused a deviation in the path of light from them making them appear a bit closer to sun. Thus Einstein’s theory was verified.
This effect is prominent with bodies with high gravity like black holes.
When stars that are more than four times the mass of our sun reach the end of their life and have burned up all of their fuel, they collapse under the pressure of their own weight. This implosion creates "black holes", then a black hole is what remains when a massive star dies. The core's gravity is so strong that even light cannot escape.
This object is now a black hole and literally disappears from view. Because the core's gravity is so strong, the core sinks through the fabric of space-time, creating a hole in space-time -- this is why the object is called a black hole.
The core becomes the central part of the black hole called the singularity. The opening of the hole is called the event horizon.
You can think of the shape of a black hole as similar to an ice cream cone. It is large on top and tapers into a point, called a singularity. At the singularity, the laws of physics cease to exist and all matter is crushed beyond recognition. This kind of non-rotating black hole is called a Schwarzschild black hole, named after the German astronomer Karl Schwarzschild.
There are then two types of black holes:

- Schwarzschild (Non-rotating black hole)
- Kerr (Rotating black hole)


While writers have produced some great ideas for time machines over the years, a real-life time machine has yet to be built. Most theories of time travel don't rely on machines at all. Instead, time travel will likely be done by way of natural phenomena that will transport us instantly from one point in time to another. These space phenomena, which we are not even sure exist, include:

- Rotating black holes

- Wormholes


A rotating black hole is another type of black hole, called a Kerr hole, is also theoretically possible.
In this case, the singularity isnt a point as in non rotating ones but has a ring shaped form.All the matter that is sucked into the black hole will move towards it. But unlike a point singularity, where upon reaching it the matter will be completely destroyed, here it will be thrown out of the worm hole through an opening called the white hole.
While the black hole forms one end of a wormhole, the white hole forms the other end. Its properties are just the opposite of black hole. It throws every thing out and doesnot allow anything to enter it.
Kerr holes are rotating black holes that could be used as portals for time travel or travel to parallel universes.
In 1963, New Zealand mathematician Roy Kerr proposed the first realistic theory for a rotating black hole. In his theory, dying stars would collapse into a rotating ring of neutrons that would produce sufficient centrifugal force to prevent the formation of a singularity. Since the black hole would not have a singularity, Kerr believed it would be safe to enter it without being crushed by the infinite gravitational force at its center.
If Kerr holes do exist, it might be possible to pass through them and exit out of a "white" hole. A white hole would have the reverse action of a black hole. So, instead of pulling everything into its gravitational force, it would use some sort of exotic matter with negative energy to push everything out and away from it. These white holes would be our way to enter other times or other worlds.

Theoretically there could be another type of tunnel-like structure existing in the universe that could be used for a time travel portal. Wormholes, also called Einstein-Rosen Bridges, are considered to have the most potential for time travel if they do exist.
Not only could they allow us to travel through time, they could allow us to travel many light-years from Earth in only a fraction of the amount of time that it would take us with conventional space travel methods.
Wormholes are considered possible based on Einstein's theory of relativity, which states that any mass curves spacetime. To understand this curvature, think about two people holding a bed sheet up and stretching that sheet tight. If one person were to place a baseball on the bed sheet, the weight of the baseball would roll to the middle of the sheet and cause the sheet to curve at
that point. Now, if a marble were placed on the edge of the same bed sheet it would travel toward the baseball because of the curve.



In this example, space is depicted as a two-dimensional plane rather than the four dimensions that actually make up spacetime. Imagine that this sheet is folded over, leaving a space between the top and bottom. Placing the baseball on the top side will cause a curvature to form. If an equal mass were placed on the bottom part of the sheet at a point that corresponds with the location of the baseball on the top, the second mass would eventually meet with the baseball. This is similar to how wormholes might form.
In space, masses that place pressure on different parts of the universe could eventually come together to form a tunnel ... this is a wormhole. It can connect two distant parts of a universe or even different universe. We could then travel from Earth to another galaxy and back relatively quic­kly (within a lifetime). For instance, let's picture a scenario in which we would want to travel to Sirius, a star that's seen in the Canis Major constellation just below Orion. Sirius is about 9 light-years from Earth, which is about 54 trillion miles (90 trillion km). Obviously, this distance would be far too great for space travelers to traverse and return in time to tell us about what they saw there. So far, the farthest people have traveled into space is to the moon, which is only about 248,548 miles (about 400,000 km) away from Earth. If we could find a wormhole that connected us to the space around Sirius, then we could cut the time considerably by avoiding the trillions of miles that we would have to cross with traditional space travel.
So by connecting two different places, wormholes provide a better and much faster transportation system. But how far is it really possible?
The inside of a worm hole is highly sensitive. Even a miniscule disturbance can cause it to break down,So how can we travel through it without causing any disturbance? One way is to use a really large wormhole so that our passing through will not produce a notable disturbance.
Another thing is that, once we are inside the black hole, we will be torn into pieces and reassembled in the white hole. It is clearly shown in Jet Li’s Sci Fi movie The One in which when he is transported to another universe, this body is torn to pieces.
An interesting theory regarding time travel brings up the idea of parallel universes, or alternative histories. Let's say that you do travel back to meet your grandfather when he was a boy. In the theory of parallel universes, you may have traveled to another universe, one that is similar to ours, but has a different succession of events. For instance, if you were to travel back in time and ravish one of your ancestors, you've only ravished that person in one universe, which is no longer the universe that you exist in. And if you then try to travel back to your own time, you may end up in another parallel universe and never be able to get back to the universe you started in.
The idea here is that every action causes the creation of a new universe, and that there are an infinite number of universes that exist. When you ravished your ancestor, you created a new universe, a universe that was identical to your own up until the time you changed the original succession of events.

My point of view is that the wormhole is better as a shortcut for traveling the enormous distances from Earth to stars, even when it imply a travel in time also. Wormhole can not only be used to travel in time, but also to travel to another part of the universe. Many years will be passing until we can really understand first, how the Universe work and then, the manner to manipulate the wormhole, because until now they are only a pretty mathematical conjecture. We have, before, to know, really, how Universe works and how it starts, until that time, there is no reason to speculate about worm hole construction and usage, nor in a time machine.



“The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.” Lao Tzu

Weird Artwork.....

I have been intrigued by a lot of pictures that show weird objects...maybe UFO...pictures consist of frescos, illustrations and oil paintings.






Two images c.6000 BC from Tassili, Sahara Desert, North Africa. They do not look human do they ? Also notice the disk in the sky in the first picture.






This cave painting is c.10,000 BC and is from Val Camonica, Italy. It appears to depict two beings in protective suits holding strange implements.








These are two cave paintings from Tanzania. Both are estimated to be up to 29,000 years old. The first one is located in Itolo and depicts several disc shaped objects. The other painting is from Kolo shows four entities surrounding a women. Notice also the entity looking down from inside some sort of box or object.







These petroglyphs were created thousands of years ago by ancient Indians in the American Southwest. According to Indian folklore, two objects collided high in the sky and one crash-landed in the region of Death Valley. Some men arrived (presumably in another ship) and spent some time repairing the damaged Craft and were observed by the local Indians. The two images below may possibly depict the ship (left) used by the men who came to repair the damaged craft. In comparing the two images, the the first one seems to depict structural damage around the edges and the bottom. Could it be the one that allegedly crashed? The images are stills taken from an old TV series entitled "In search of..." hosted by Leonard Nimoy.








This image is by flemish artist Aert De Gelder and is entitled "The Baptism of Christ" It was painted in 1710 and hangs in the Fitzwilliam Musuem, Cambridge. A disk shaped object is shining beams of light down on John the Baptist and Jesus.










This is a 17th century fresco and is located in the Svetishoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, Georgia. Notice the two saucer shaped objects either side of Christ. In the two blow ups you can see they contain faces.









This painting is called "The Madonna with Saint Giovannino". It was painted in the 15th century. The Palazzo Vecchio lists the artist as unknown although attributed to the Lippi school. Above Mary's right shoulder is a disk shaped object. Below is a blow up of this section and a man and his dog can clearly be seen looking up at the object.








The above painting is by Carlo Crivelli (1430-1495) and is called "The Annunciation" (1486) and hangs in the National Gallery, London. A disk shaped object is shining a pencil beam of light down onto the crown of Mary's head. A Blow up of the object is next to the painting.











The first picture shows a fresco entitled "The Crucifixion" and was painted in 1350. Two objects with figures inside can be seen in the top left and top right of the fresco. Two enlargements of these objects are shown above.
The fresco is located above the altar at the Visoki Decani Monestary in Kosovo, Yugoslavia





These two tapestries were created in the 15th century. Both depict the life of Mary. Hat shaped objects can be clearly seen in both tapestries.The one on the right is entitled "The Magnificat". Both are located at the french basillica Notre-Dame in Beaune, Burgandy.








The first image comes from the 10th Century Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit text "Prajnaparamita Sutra", held at a Japanese museum. In the enlargement you can see two objects that look like hats, but why are they floating in mid air ? also one of them appears to have port holes on it. Indian Vedic texts are full of descriptions of Vimanas. The Ramayana describes Vimanas as a double decked, circular or cylindrical aircraft with portholes and a dome. It flew with "the speed of the wind" and gave forth a "melodious sound".