By: PJ Haarsma
Title: Virus on Orbis 1
Publisher/date: Candlewick press, 2006
Summary: This book is a story about a ship full of human kids being sold to aliens that live on gigantic rings surrounding a black hole. Then a 13 year old boy named JT finds out that he is the first human softwire. A Gigantic leap in evolution by millions of years. He has the ability to enter computers with his mind.
The four rings that is the center of civilization in the known universe, are controlled by a gigantic living computer. The fact that a human child can enter this mainframe at will, makes him very valuble and the citizens would do anything to obtain him. The science that i have chosen to research is the nueral imports that the alien citizens have in the story. These machines are Connected to the nueral pathways making it possible to download information straight into your brain. So basiacally a computer to brain connection.
As the video and the information shows, it is completley possible for a device in the far future to be created that can connect to your neural pathways and download information in to your brain. This science has seen many developments in the past 40 years. The fact that the brain can be used to control machines or computers is amasing in my view. In a further 40 years, i think that BCI will get much further ahead.
The science of a brain to computer connection has been researched before, it is called the BCI Brain Computer Interface.
A brain–computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a direct neural interface or a brain–machine interface (BMI), is a direct communication pathway between the brain and an external device. BCIs are often aimed at assisting, augmenting or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor functions.
Research on BCIs began in the 1970s at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) under a grant from the National Science Foundation, followed by a contract from DARPA. The papers published after this research also mark the first appearance of the expression brain–computer interface in scientific literature.
The field of BCI research and development has since focused primarily on neuroprosthetics applications that aim at restoring damaged hearing, sight and movement. Thanks to the remarkable cortical plasticity of the brain, signals from implanted prostheses can, after adaptation, be handled by the brain like natural sensor or effector channels. Following years of animal experimentation, the first neuroprosthetic devices implanted in humans appeared in the mid-nineties.
By: PJ Haarsma
Title: Betrayal on Orbis 2
Publisher/date: Candlewick press, 2008
Summary: Johnny Turnbull is on his second year of slavery, he and his sister travel to the second ring of orbis. Their new master is the caretaker of the samirans, an ancient alien species that could easily be mistaken for a giant whale. The two samirans are kept in a massive glass container, and the mined crystals from the moons next to orbis are taken to them,
and then cooled down by the Samirans as they drag it across the water. The Whales have gone through this enslavement with no one to translate for them for no one could speak their language. Then they met JT. He was able to speak to them for some amazing reason, possibly his softwire abilities. They communicate to each other, then JT decides to help them escape. The Race is on.
The science that i am researching in this book is the nano machines within the Samiran's water tank. They can absorb
body heat.
Nanotechnology is very possible, in the future these machines could very well be able to absorb body heat. But as the information will show, their are alot of oppurtunities in nanotech but there are also many issues that are raised. The toxicity and and harm to the enviroment, so although it is possible. The side affects need to be put under consideration.
The science of nanotech has been around for a long time, although the robots that appear in the book are a lot further down the track, i still have researched all these things: Nanotechnology (sometimes shortened to "nanotech") is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with structures sized between 1 to 100 nanometre in at least one dimension, and involves developing materials or devices possessing at least one dimension within that size. Quantum mechanical effects are very important at this scale, which is in the quantum realm.
Nanotechnology is very diverse, ranging from extensions of conventional device physics to completely new approaches based upon molecular self-assembly, from developing new materials with dimensions on the nanoscale to investigating whether we can directly control matter on the atomic scale.
There is much debate on the future implications of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology may be able to create many new materials and devices with a vast range of applications, such as in medicine, electronics, biomaterials and energy production. On the other hand, nanotechnology raises many of the same issues as any new technology, including concerns about the toxicity and environmental impact of nanomaterials, and their potential effects on global economics, as well as speculation about various doomsday scenarios. These concerns have led to a debate among advocacy groups and governments on whether special regulation of nanotechnology is warranted.
By: PJ Haarsma
Title: Wormhole Pirates on Orbis 3
Publisher/date: Candlewick press, 2009
Summary: JT is on his 3rd year of slavery. He is transported to Orbis 3 and while he is being transported the ship is hijacked by a group that call themselves Wormhole Pirates. They have always been known as myths and it is a shock when people see that they are real. The menacing bunch is barely captured and are getting carried away when the leader turns to Johnny and says "Tell him we put on a good show, alright softwire?" He is put into a state of shock, and doesn't know how he knows who he is. When he sees his master, he sees a familiar face. Later he joins a sport that he knows as 'Quest nest' and starts to enter competitions. He finds that he is a natural and people start to notice. It is a book filled with twists and turns. The science i have decided to research in this book is travelling through wormholes.
Wormhole travel is nothing more than a theory that hasn't been proved. It is near impossible in my opinion that people could one day build giant ships that can travel through wormholes yet not get destroyed. It is impossible to predict exactley where and when you would end up even if you do make it alive. So, the science in this book is very unlikely....
Travelling through wormholes is seen as a possible way of time travel, and crossing long distances in space quickly. Yet it is an unstable and dangerous idea, that has so many things that could go wrong.
In physics, a wormhole is a hypothetical topological feature of spacetime that would be, fundamentally, a "shortcut" through spacetime. For a simple visual explanation of a wormhole, consider spacetime visualized as a two-dimensional (2D) surface. If this surface is folded along a third dimension, it allows one to picture a wormhole "bridge". (Please note, though, that this is merely a visualization displayed to convey an essentially unvisualisable structure existing in 4 or more dimensions. The parts of the wormhole could be higher-dimensional analogues for the parts of the curved 2D surface; for example, instead of mouths which are circular holes in a 2D plane, a real wormhole's mouths could be spheres in 3D space.) A wormhole is, in theory, much like a tunnel with two ends each in separate points in spacetime, or it can be also known as two connecting black holes.
By: PJ Haarsma
Title: Virus on Orbis 1
Publisher/date: Candlewick press, 2006
Summary: This book is a story about a ship full of human kids being sold to aliens that live on gigantic rings surrounding a black hole. Then a 13 year old boy named JT finds out that he is the first human softwire. A Gigantic leap in evolution by millions of years. He has the ability to enter computers with his mind.
The four rings that is the center of civilization in the known universe, are controlled by a gigantic living computer. The fact that a human child can enter this mainframe at will, makes him very valuble and the citizens would do anything to obtain him. The science that i have chosen to research is the nueral imports that the alien citizens have in the story. These machines are Connected to the nueral pathways making it possible to download information straight into your brain. So basiacally a computer to brain connection.
As the video and the information shows, it is completley possible for a device in the far future to be created that can connect to your neural pathways and download information in to your brain. This science has seen many developments in the past 40 years. The fact that the brain can be used to control machines or computers is amasing in my view. In a further 40 years, i think that BCI will get much further ahead.
The science of a brain to computer connection has been researched before, it is called the BCI Brain Computer Interface.
A brain–computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a direct neural interface or a brain–machine interface (BMI), is a direct communication pathway between the brain and an external device. BCIs are often aimed at assisting, augmenting or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor functions.
Research on BCIs began in the 1970s at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) under a grant from the National Science Foundation, followed by a contract from DARPA. The papers published after this research also mark the first appearance of the expression brain–computer interface in scientific literature.
The field of BCI research and development has since focused primarily on neuroprosthetics applications that aim at restoring damaged hearing, sight and movement. Thanks to the remarkable cortical plasticity of the brain, signals from implanted prostheses can, after adaptation, be handled by the brain like natural sensor or effector channels. Following years of animal experimentation, the first neuroprosthetic devices implanted in humans appeared in the mid-nineties.
By: PJ Haarsma
Title: Betrayal on Orbis 2
Publisher/date: Candlewick press, 2008
Summary: Johnny Turnbull is on his second year of slavery, he and his sister travel to the second ring of orbis. Their new master is the caretaker of the samirans, an ancient alien species that could easily be mistaken for a giant whale. The two samirans are kept in a massive glass container, and the mined crystals from the moons next to orbis are taken to them,
and then cooled down by the Samirans as they drag it across the water. The Whales have gone through this enslavement with no one to translate for them for no one could speak their language. Then they met JT. He was able to speak to them for some amazing reason, possibly his softwire abilities. They communicate to each other, then JT decides to help them escape. The Race is on.
The science that i am researching in this book is the nano machines within the Samiran's water tank. They can absorb
body heat.
Nanotechnology is very possible, in the future these machines could very well be able to absorb body heat. But as the information will show, their are alot of oppurtunities in nanotech but there are also many issues that are raised. The toxicity and and harm to the enviroment, so although it is possible. The side affects need to be put under consideration.
The science of nanotech has been around for a long time, although the robots that appear in the book are a lot further down the track, i still have researched all these things:
Nanotechnology (sometimes shortened to "nanotech") is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with structures sized between 1 to 100 nanometre in at least one dimension, and involves developing materials or devices possessing at least one dimension within that size. Quantum mechanical effects are very important at this scale, which is in the quantum realm.
Nanotechnology is very diverse, ranging from extensions of conventional device physics to completely new approaches based upon molecular self-assembly, from developing new materials with dimensions on the nanoscale to investigating whether we can directly control matter on the atomic scale.
There is much debate on the future implications of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology may be able to create many new materials and devices with a vast range of applications, such as in medicine, electronics, biomaterials and energy production. On the other hand, nanotechnology raises many of the same issues as any new technology, including concerns about the toxicity and environmental impact of nanomaterials, and their potential effects on global economics, as well as speculation about various doomsday scenarios. These concerns have led to a debate among advocacy groups and governments on whether special regulation of nanotechnology is warranted.
By: PJ Haarsma
Title: Wormhole Pirates on Orbis 3
Publisher/date: Candlewick press, 2009
Summary: JT is on his 3rd year of slavery. He is transported to Orbis 3 and while he is being transported the ship is hijacked by a group that call themselves Wormhole Pirates. They have always been known as myths and it is a shock when people see that they are real. The menacing bunch is barely captured and are getting carried away when the leader turns to Johnny and says "Tell him we put on a good show, alright softwire?" He is put into a state of shock, and doesn't know how he knows who he is. When he sees his master, he sees a familiar face. Later he joins a sport that he knows as 'Quest nest' and starts to enter competitions. He finds that he is a natural and people start to notice. It is a book filled with twists and turns. The science i have decided to research in this book is travelling through wormholes.
Wormhole travel is nothing more than a theory that hasn't been proved. It is near impossible in my opinion that people could one day build giant ships that can travel through wormholes yet not get destroyed. It is impossible to predict exactley where and when you would end up even if you do make it alive. So, the science in this book is very unlikely....
Travelling through wormholes is seen as a possible way of time travel, and crossing long distances in space quickly. Yet it is an unstable and dangerous idea, that has so many things that could go wrong.
In physics, a wormhole is a hypothetical topological feature of spacetime that would be, fundamentally, a "shortcut" through spacetime. For a simple visual explanation of a wormhole, consider spacetime visualized as a two-dimensional (2D) surface. If this surface is folded along a third dimension, it allows one to picture a wormhole "bridge". (Please note, though, that this is merely a visualization displayed to convey an essentially unvisualisable structure existing in 4 or more dimensions. The parts of the wormhole could be higher-dimensional analogues for the parts of the curved 2D surface; for example, instead of mouths which are circular holes in a 2D plane, a real wormhole's mouths could be spheres in 3D space.) A wormhole is, in theory, much like a tunnel with two ends each in separate points in spacetime, or it can be also known as two connecting black holes.
References:
BCI-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interface
Nanotech-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology
Wormholes-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole