MooPig Re-Direct Department :: "Can humans regrow fingers?"

Did you ever Ask the Doctor ...
Mashed martial Articles by Pat Darnell  |  Oct 5, 2014  |  Bryan TX

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HowStuffWorks "Can humans regrow fingers?": "When a hobby-store owner in Cincinnati sliced off his fingertip in 2005 while showing a customer why the motor on his model plane was dangerous, he went to the emergency room without the missing tip. He couldn't find it anywhere. The doctor bandaged the wound and recommended a skin graft to cover the top of his right-middle stub for cosmetic purposes, since nothing could be done to rebuild the finger. Months later, he had regrown it, tissue, nerves, skin, fingernail and all (Julia Layton. no date. LINK) ..."
'via Blog this'

"...This particular hobbyist happened to have a brother in the tissue-regeneration business, who told him to forego the skin graft and instead apply a powdered extract taken from pig's bladder to the raw finger tip. The extract, called extracellular matrix, lays the framework that cells use to generate any given body part. It's like a cellular scaffolding, and all animals have it. It holds the signals that direct cells to divide, differentiate and build themselves into a specific form (ibid. Layton.)..."

Here’s another picture of the magic of pig bladder powder, just in case you want to see more fingers growing back.

CONCLUSION
It takes a pig in the village to make things right. We at MooPig have been preachin' this adage for a pig's age. That's a long time.


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracellular_matrix
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/E/ECM.html
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2014&program=sigtrans
http://www.uta.edu/biology/wilk/classnotes/cellphys/extracellular%20matrix.pdf
http://www.tocris.com/pharmacologicalBrowser.php?ItemId=187918#.VB7NoPldWwA
http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/musculoskeletal/extracellular-matrix.htm
http://nisatasha.empowernetwork.com/blog/pig-bladder-powder-regrows-mans-finger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITxx2sOLW2Y#t=182

MooPig Share the Science Department :: "Familiarize Yourself with the Present Moment"

If only I had an Exotic Brain
Mashed article from mashed NYTimes articles by Pat Darnell, and the Herd  |  Dec 7, 2013 |  Bryan TX

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On my desk sits a Rubric's Cube with dust on it, and unsolved. If I had an exotic brain I would be more like the wise bovine with its special cultural symbiosis. One cow alone does not a Summer make... eh? It takes many diverging carbon based entities to make up a theory about life, the universe, and everything. It also takes a compendium of particles and winking beams, and dark energies to make up everything in the universe. It takes a herd to get through life.

Lately, for the past 50 years, Nobel Prizes in Physics have centered around finding "new particles" in the make up of matter and all things. In 2002:

" ... It was there, in the 1970s, that Raymond Davis Jr. attempted to catch neutrinos, spooky subatomic particles emitted by the sun, in a vat of cleaning fluid a mile underground and for a long time came up empty. For revolutionizing the study of those particles, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002. ( DENNIS OVERBYE. Published: October 30, 2013. LINK) ... "

It sort of has become a melee of particle farming. "If it is out there, we will find it," say the many hopeful, yet frustrated, physicists. Each experiment, to find the elusive dark matter that supposedly makes up 25% of the universe, takes at least a year to complete. And for those who devote themselves to the task, there is seldom joy at the end of the procedure. Lately, experimenters have this to say:

" ... As has become de rigueur for such occasions, the scientists took pride and hope in how clearly they did not see anything. “In 25 years of searching, this is the cleanest signal I've ever seen,” Dr. Gaitskell said in an interview.

That meant, the scientists said, that their detector was working so well that they would easily see a dark matter particle if and when it decided to drop by. (ibid. DENNIS OVERBYE. Published: October 30, 2013.) ... "

What can all this fantaz-morphic research bring to the table of common knowledge? That's a good question, and not easily answered. Safe to say knowledge of our primordial physics does not help us in any knowable way today.
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The math of Higgs-boson is impossible for the layman to understand. High energy physics, H.E.P, is what is called "basis-independent." However, unlocking pre-Big-Bang physics could offer knowledge of particles and their energies that could be used in medicine to heal, or to help read all the band waves that are invisible to humans. It turns out that high energy physics research is open ended research, although fundamental, that will take many generations to find that which it seeks. And, some "basis's are misleading, or too convenient." Nonetheless, it will be the "correlations between deviations in Higgs-boson couplings that will reveal the underlying physics."

Each discovery is tagged by the issuance of a Nobel Prize, as in "... finally, in 2012 — after 48 years, billions of dollars and the work of thousands of talented experimental physicists — we finally saw a tiny bump in data plots obtained at the Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva. That bump, evidence that the collider was producing Higgs boson (SEAN CARROLL. Published: October 8, 2013. LINK ) ... vindicated the work of Mr. Englert and Mr. Higgs years before ... "

Finding the Higgs Leads to More Puzzles - NYTimes.com: EXCERPT  |   " ... As Joseph Lykken, a theorist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and Maria Spiropulu, of the California Institute of Technology, put it in a new paper reviewing the history and future of the Higgs boson: “Taken at face value, the result implies that eventually (in 10^100 years or so) an unlucky quantum fluctuation will produce a bubble of a different vacuum, which will then expand at the speed of light, destroying everything.” The idea is that the Higgs field could someday twitch and drop to a lower energy state, like water freezing into ice, thereby obliterating the workings of reality as we know it. Naturally, we would have no warning. Just blink and it’s over."

"But cheer up. ... You might think that finding the Higgs boson, after 50 years and $10 billion or so, would bring clarity to physics and to the cosmos. But just the opposite is true: they may have found the Higgs boson, but they don’t understand it. (DENNIS OVERBYE. Published: November 4, 2013.) ... "

'via Blog this'

In reference below you will find a slew of NYTimes articles mostly by Dennis Overbye, about multiple universes, dark energy, massive protons, Higgs-Boson, super-symmetry; how does it all go together? Because, "accepting multiple universes means giving up the Einsteinian dream of a single explanation for the cosmos, a painful concession."

We, as a species, are limited by what we can explain.

“Physical science has historically progressed not only by finding precise explanations of natural phenomena, but also by discovering what sorts of things can be precisely explained. These may be fewer than we had thought. (Steven Weinberg,November 7, 2013. LINK) .. ”

CONCLUSION
This mad hatter idea of "Theory of Everything, T.O.E." is a lonesome, undiscovered thing. If it is even out there, it will escape many future explorations. It was a folly to get excited over a T.O.E in the first place; or was it?

" ... Dark matter has teased and tantalized physicists since the 1970s, when it was demonstrated that some invisible material must be providing the gravitational glue to hold galaxies together. Determining what it is would provide insight into particles and forces not described by the Standard Model that now rules physics, not to mention a slew of Nobel Prizes. (ibid. DENNIS OVERBYE. Oct 30, 2013.) ... "

For now, a quarter of the universe is still missing in action. The biggest surprise of discovering the Higgs boson? That there were no surprises; ... in theoretical physics: what if the Higgs field exists in an ultra-dense state that could mean the collapse of all atomic matter? If so, then it explains how fundamentally the universe lives and dies -- and regenerates.

Steve Braun EXCERPT | Comment:

" ... Nov 23 2013: I get a little frustrated when physicists use a cloaked version of the "fine-tuning argument" in their cosmology. You will find many physicists saying that the "how" questions should replace the "why" questions, because "why" begs the question of "purpose" and "who dunnit". We should not conclude that there is anything special about the Higgs mass, anymore than we should conclude there is anything special about the strength of gravity. If you think that the universe must be fine-tuned to support our life, you have started with a conclusion - life, or the length of time we expect to be observers of our universe - and then looked at empirical data and concluded that there is something special because the values for the Higgs field in either state allow us to continue to observer our universe for "a long time". (LINK) ..."

Therefore, in another universe parallel to ours, the alternate me understands the value of Higgs-boson? Now that the quantum vaccuum is "the medium" ... Probably so, but the alternate me might be Ferdinand the Bull.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/science/finding-the-higgs-leads-to-more-puzzles.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fscience%2Fspace%2Findex.jsonp
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/science/space/dark-matter-experiment-has-found-nothing-scientists-say-proudly.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/science/finding-the-higgs-leads-to-more-puzzles.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fscience%2Fspace%2Findex.jsonp&_r=0
http://www.ted.com/talks/gian_giudice_why_our_universe_might_exist_on_a_knife_edge.html
http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/lhc-c13/lykken/
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/nov/07/physics-what-we-do-and-dont-know/
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~weintech/weinberg.html
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/08/science/the-higgs-boson.html#/?g=true
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/science/physicists-see-higgs-boson-in-new-particle-but-more-study-is-needed.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/science/englert-and-higgs-win-nobel-physics-prize.html
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/higgs_boson/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/dark_energy_astronomy/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/cern/index.html?inline=nyt-org
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/n/nobel_prizes/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier
http://www.nytimes.com/video/science/1247466052693/collider-reaches-its-power-goal.html?ref=largehadroncollider

MooPig Rage Segments :: "Preclusion of Creating the Universe" Rage

To make impossible by necessary consequence
Retrieved by Pat Darnell and the Raging Herd

[SOURCE]
Stellar Shrapnel
NASA | " ... This composite image shows N49, the aftermath of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud. A new long observation from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals evidence for a bullet-shaped object being blown out of debris field left over from an exploded star.

" ... In order to detect this bullet, researchers used Chandra to observe N49 for more than 30 hours. Using the new Chandra data, the age of N49 -- as it appears in the image -- is thought to be about 5,000 years and the energy of the explosion is estimated to be about twice that of an average supernova. These preliminary results suggest that the original explosion was caused by the collapse of a massive star.

Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/S. Park et al. Optical: NASA/STScI/UIUC/Y.H. Chu & R. Williams et al. ..."

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Few People ever actually Relax through some sort of Meditation
by Pat Darnell

Consider with me a moment, please, our universe. Then as you slowly sink into your mind thinking of our infinite universe, maybe you could consider also co-existing universes… never ending, full of worlds, without ends.

As you become more comfortable, and rested in the thoughts of places waiting for you to explore throughout infinity, could you then begin a journey through space in an enjoyable armchair, satisfactorily at ease, experiencing new things and materials far out of bounds to our usual comfortable hobbit holes?

We travel, we see that amounts of materials in the universe is so large, we are astonished that we ever troubled over our “needs for more and more” back on earth — living superficially on only the crust of earth.

Traveling like this immediately expands our once limited minds, and unused regions of our brains are stimulated and aid in our awe and understanding of the structure and nature of infinite universe. We become tame and relaxed in the journey, as we pass from and to another and another beautiful region of our universe.

In a steady unhurried motion, like we have known in our dreams, we move ever so smoothly through many, many far flung spaces where our surroundings is like cream poured into hot tea. There are swirls of convection as we travel through cold areas into warmer and then burning furnaces of creation, escaping back to cooler space.

We move through the material universe of creation like whales easily swaying in the sea, and we feel this is an ancient migration, our natural response to instincts, to a place of our further destinies in faith, hope and charity, as whales do migrations from pole to pole on earth.

We go extreme distances each time we blink, far enough away that we reminisce about our first home, earth, and remember how small we were there. We find mother earth is our index, or homing point as we navigate the expanse. We have discovered that infinity is continuous discovery.

From the tiniest green lizard that was first on the scene this day of spring on earth, climbing out from the whey of winter to the holly bush that is humming with hundreds of returned honey bees, we too learn to branch out and explore new dimensions.

Thanks for joining me tonight in a moment of eternal braid of life. Now when I snap my fingers, someone please call me and wake me up… 1, 2, 3…
snorezzzzzzzz ... zzzzzzzz

More Perspectives: As for me and my house...

From: d2r2

I have been closely involved with this operation since the git-go.

Truly, the only thing more lonesome than the video in storage is, possibly, the book the movie was based on sitting on a shelf.

I had to sort thru the tapes and discs many times, while in storage, and they were sirens singing to me. Sometimes I would grab up great quantities and stack them carefully to re-box and take somewhere. Then I would snap back to reality and put them back. Sometimes I would take out one here and one there, to watch later with great interest to discover what all the talk was about. Some of those are on shelves in my house. I also picked up my all time favorites, and there are many.
"Predator", no words, just action.
Even the Mom mentioned likes this one. "The Incredibles", says it all. "Easy Rider", My Generation.
"Life As A House", Fatherhood dissected.

Movies are American, like Jazz.
We live our movies and they tell our stories. American is the teeming masses of the world in a coast-to-coast-to-coast-to-coast landscape of purple mountains majesty and amber waves of grain. Home of the brave and land of the free. I drive around a 100 mile loop called Beltway 8 and see every church in the world showcased by its faithful congregation, operating and worshipping with no strings attached. The people get tired and discouraged with leadership and they, how mundane, vote them out of office.

Movies are made about life, the universe and everything.

I'm cinematically yours, Dave

December 29, 2006 6:03:00 PM CST