blow up your mind for the fun of it.

if you're like me, you find it funny occasionally trying to mentally swallow something way to big. The result either suffocation or bloat that lasts for days - and keeps you engaged with the dilemma - or better, a super sensation of the Grand Gulp.

I'm not a researcher type of guy myself - I do it if I really have to like in studies - but normally I prefer having my information as chewed-up to proper chunks for me. But then occasionally - especially in matters that doesn't really have anything to do with anything I need - I look for bites that challenge my swallowing capabilities.

One area that offers nearly endless stocks for super bloats and gulps, (more the first than the second for me) is theoretical physics and quantum mechanics. Nice bite ready to swallow - is an application lately reported in Tietokone news blog. They tell that some scientist are trying to come up with a 3D screen - that makes use of so called wormhole.
(wikipedia: hypothetical topological feature of spacetime that is essentially a 'shortcut' through space and time. The essential idea of the screen is to build wormholes and cover them up with a cloak of invisible material.

The actual screen is far ahead - to say the least, but they do have mathematical model to build up the wormhole - and the active research circulates in metamaterial that would provide the invisibility. That material should make the light travel around the wormhole pipe, instead of bouncing back from it - i.e. visibility. They already accomplish the material in relation to microwaves, and now they hope is to do same with visible light.

I say wow, what do you say? if my explanation sounded confusing, it's because i am confused. Just say wow - quite few of people around us would be getting it either. I do have some choking over idea of wormhole - a path that would take me from kitchen to toilet without having to go through - the time and space - of the hallway. Likewise the other bite of invisible material needs some chewing. Other than that is all sounds great. I swallow "3D" and a "screen" - especially separately.

but this blew my mind for today, and for a couple of more to come.