World's first Space Hotel with Artificial Gravity will be in orbit by 2025. The Gateway Foundation is building a space hotel named as Von Braun Space Station, which is based on the concepts of an American rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun. Robots and drones will be used to assemble the hotel in the orbit itself. It is expected that first ever space hotel will be operational by 2025. The shape of the space hotel will be like an enormous wheel having a diameter of 623 feet. The wheel shaped giant space hotel will rotate slowly to generate a gravitational force. The Hotel will have 24 individual modules with sleeping and support facilities. These individual modules will be spread around the wheel on three decks. The space hotel would be able to accommodate about 400 people in total.
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Actually the Von Braun Space Station would be made of two rotating concentric rings which would provide artificial Gravity one sixth as strong as Earth's. The Artificial gravity will provide the sense of direction and orientation and it would be easy to perform the basic tasks like walking, eating food, going to a toilet and showering, the way we are used to on Earth. “Eventually Going to space will just be another option people will pick for their vacation, just like going on a cruise, or going to Disney World.” Tim Alatorre, senior design architect of Von Braun Space Station said in an interview with Dezeen. Here it is interesting to note that Wernher Von Braun, the man behind the first space hotel, was a top Nazi rocket scientist who developed the infamous V2 rocket. He was taken in by NASA after the war. There he became a famous American scientist. According to Tim Alatorre, the senior design architect of Von Braun Space Station, the space hotel will be something like a cruise ship. It will have many of the things you see on cruise ships: Restaurants, bars, musical concerts, movie screenings, and educational seminars." just in space. As the demand for such vacations in space grows, the gateway Foundation intends to build bigger space stations. They call the next class of space station "The gateway". It would have the capacity to accommodate more than 1400 people in total. Image Credits: Gateway Foundation Credits and Source: Go to HOME PAGE Universe Origin Theories, Beginning, Evolution and Future of the Universe (BIG BANG Theory, Steady State Theory and Pulsating Theory)
This newly discovered computer chip could speed up scientific discoveries by 1000 times!!! British computing startup Blueshift Memory, has developed a new type of computer chip, that has the potential to speed up scientific discoveries by 1000 times. According to the creators of this chip, it could lead to new drug discoveries while also significantly improving traffic congestion. This powerful chip could also significantly boost the research in the fields of artificial intelligence design, DNA research and weather forecasting. It also has the potential to solve different issues like pollution in cities through optimizing their infrastructure and layout, improving research into climate change and much more. The possibilities are limitless.
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With the help of the new chip, computers will be able to carry out operations in a matter of minutes, that currently take hours or days!!! A major problem with our high-performance computers is - they are unable to utilize their full CPU potential when performing data intensive operations such as analyzing large scale databases. A prototype of the memory chip is already addressing the growing gap between the quicker progress of CPU, compared to memory chips. This issue is Known as 'data tailback'. Peter Marosan, the chief Technology officer at Blueshift Memory, explains this issue and its solution by giving a very simple example... " imagine if you are a taxi driver but the town where you work is always changing, people are constantly swapping houses and the shops and services are forever disappearing and reappearing in different places. That's similar to the way in which data is organised in existing chips." "Our design is the equivalent of replacing that with a stable, structured town, where you already know, where everything is, and can find it much more quickly. It makes everything faster, easier and more effective." It is also possible to improve the speed of search engines up to 1000 times by solving this issue of data tailback. According to Blueshift Memory, it is expensive to develop the chip beyond the prototype model but they are currently seeking funding for further development of the chip. Go to HOME PAGE Universe Origin Theories, Beginning, Evolution and Future of the Universe (BIG BANG Theory, Steady State Theory and Pulsating Theory)
According to some futurists, humans will be able to upload their consciousness to computers in the near future. They say that humans will achieve digital immortality by uploading their Minds to computers. This process is also known by various other names like - Whole Brain Emulation (WBE), Brain Upload, Mind Upload, Mind Copying or Mind Transfer. So what this brain upload actually is - It is the hypothetical futuristic process of scanning the mental state of a particular brain substrate and copying it to a computer. This mental state includes long term memory and “self”.
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Then a simulation model of the brain's information processing could be run by the computer, such that it responds in essentially the same way as the original brain and experiences having a conscious mind. Martine Rothblatt- A lawyer, author, entrepreneur and CEO of biotech company United therapeutics Corp. Says - “the purpose of biotechnology is the end of the death" Rothblatt introduced the concept of "mindclones"- that are the Digital versions of humans that can live forever. She explains how the mind clones are created from a "mindfile", a sort of online repository of our personalities. This mindfile would be run on "mindware" a kind of software for consciousness. Physicist Roger Penrose of the University of Oxford and others disagree with the interpretation of brain as a mere computer. According to Penrose, consciousness is a quantum mechanical phenomena arising from the fabric of the universe. So uploading the brain would have to involve quantum computers. Credits and sources Wikipedia Go to HOME PAGE Universe Origin Theories, Beginning, Evolution and Future of the Universe (BIG BANG Theory, Steady State Theory and Pulsating Theory)
Here we will discuss 4 different theories, that tells how our beautiful universe will be destroyed eventually. As we know, nothing will last forever in this universe, not even the universe itself. The 4 theories about the end of the universe that we are going to discuss here are-
End of the Universe Theories
1.The Big Freeze (Heat Death) 2.The Big Rip 3.The Big Crunch & 4.The Big Bounce Now we will discuss each of these theories about how the universe will end one by one-
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1.The Big Freeze (Heat Death) Theory
Actually the fate of the universe is determined by its density. This scenario, in combination with the big rip scenario, is currently considered as the most important hypothesis. According to the big freeze theory, continued expansion of the universe would result in a universe that would eventually approach absolute zero temperature. In this scenario, stars are expected to form normally for 10^12 to 10^14 years, i.e. for 1 to 100 trillion years, but eventually the supply of gas needed for the formation of stars will be exhausted. The existing stars will cease to shine as they will run out of fuel. This will cause the universe to grow darker and darker with time. These dying stars will eventually turn into black holes and our universe will be dominated by these black holes. The black holes also will not survive for infinite time as they emit Hawking radiation. A Related scenario is the heat death. According to it, the universe goes to a state of maximum entropy, in which everything is evenly distributed, there are no gradients- which are needed to sustain information processing, one form of which is the life.
2.The Big Rip Theory
According to the big rip theory, the universe expands so fast that the gravitational force of attraction cannot compensate it and tears it apart. If the density of dark energy increases with time, it will cause the rate of acceleration of the universe to increase. It will lead to a steady increase in the Hubble constant. As a result, eventually all the matter present in the universe will disintegrate into unbound elementary particles and radiation. As the dark energy density and the expansion rate of the universe becomes infinite, the end state of the universe will be a singularity.
3.The Big Crunch Theory
The big crunch hypothesis states that, the universe will not continue to expand forever. This Theory assumes that the average density of the universe will be enough to stop its expansion and it will start to contract. Because of This continued contraction, all the matter and spacetime in the universe would collapse Into a dimensionless singularity. This is the reason why it is named as the big crunch. At this stage, the universe will be at a point from where it started- The Big bang. This scenario allows the big bang to occur immediately after the big crunch of a preceding universe. If this happens repeatedly, it creates a cyclic model. This cyclic model of the universe is also known as an oscillatory universe. Theoretically, the cyclic Universe could not be reconciled with the second law of thermodynamics: Entropy would build up from oscillation to oscillation and cause heat death. According to current evidences, the universe is not closed. This has caused the cosmologists to abandon the oscillating universe model.
4.The Big Bounce Theory
According to the Big Bounce hypothesis, the universe will continuously repeat the cycle of a big bang, followed up with a big crunch. So the big Bounce is a hypothetical cosmological model for the origin of the known universe. The big Bounce theory assumes the big bang as the beginning of a period of expansion which is followed by a period of contraction. So the big Bounce means, the big crunch followed by the big bang. It is really exciting to think that we could be living at any point in an infinite sequence of universes or conversely, the current Universe could be the very first iteration. So That is all for now, about the theories, that suggest the fate of our universe. Go to HOME PAGE Universe Origin Theories, Beginning, Evolution and Future of the Universe (BIG BANG Theory, Steady State Theory and Pulsating Theory)
