M.J. Rose

Happy Holidays to all of you! May your 2010 be filled with wonder and optimism.

Now, if anyone still has any doubts that we live in a universe where anything is possible, even something as incredible as reincarnation, check this out:

After a Short Delay, Quantum Mechanics Becomes Even Weirder

By Adrian Cho
ScienceNOW Daily News

According to quantum mechanics, light can be either a graceful rippling wave or a hail of bulletlike particles, depending on how you look at it. Now, an experiment shows that an observer can make the choice retroactively, after light has entered a measuring apparatus. The result shows that reality is truly in the eye of the beholder…

Click here to learn how this is possible.

Meet explorer, Buddhist and spiritualist Alexandra David-Neel – Probably one of the most remarkable women of her time. I stumbled upon knowledge of her when I was researching Tibet and I am so happy to have found her. In 1911 this fascinating woman went alone to Lhasa and befriended the 13th Dalai Lama when that area of the world was still closed to foreigners. And this is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the adventures this woman had in the East (for example, she lived for a while as a spiritual hermit in a cave near the Himalayas.) Why isn’t there a blockbuster film about this woman?

Read about her here, and here. Maybe you will be as inspired by her spirit as I am.

I have always thought that I’d have to live again in order to have the slightest chance of traveling in space. And I am probably right. But the good news is the technology for space travel could vastly improve travel times around planet Earth. (Hey, it’s worth the ticket price just to get those few seconds of micro gravity!)

Commercial Spaceships May Speed up Consumer Air Travel
Want to fly anywhere on Earth in less than two hours?

By Irene Klotz

…Virgin Galactic is scheduled to unveil SpaceShipTwo in California’s Mojave Desert, the first spacecraft for private passenger travel.

With several firms working on commercial suborbital spaceships, a two-hour flight to anywhere on Earth may soon be possible, says an advocacy group laying the groundwork for global high-speed air and space travel…

For the rest click here.