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 Internet use 'good for the brain'
June 14, 2009, 03:44:52 AM by Gilly Internet use 'good for the brain'
Areas activated by reading a book in the brain of an experienced web user
For middle aged and older people at least, using the internet helps boost brain power, research suggests.
A University of California Los Angeles team found searching the web stimulates centres in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning.
The researchers say this might even help to counter-act the age-related physiological changes that cause the brain to slow down.
The study features in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
A simple, everyday task like searching the web appears to enhance brain circuitry in older adults
Professor Gary Small
University of California Los Angeles
As the brain ages, a number of changes occur, including shrinkage and reductions in cell activity, which can impact on performance.
It has long been thought that activities which keep the brain active, such as crossword puzzles, may help minimise the impact - and the latest study suggests that surfing the web can be added to the list.
Web use stimulates much more activity in the same brain
Lead researcher Professor Gary Small said: "The study results are encouraging, that emerging computerized technologies may have physiological effects and potential benefits for middle-aged and older adults.
"Internet searching engages complicated brain activity, which may help exercise and improve brain function."
The latest study was based on 24 volunteers aged between 55 and 76. Half were experienced internet users, the rest were not.
More info on BBC website
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There is no such thing as time, science tells us
June 12, 2009, 12:24:25 AM by GillyThere is no such thing as time, science tells us, and can apparently prove as such, not as we know it anyway. Time is merely a concept that we have created to moniter the distance that the Earth travels through the universe. And thus because there is no such thing as time you can transcend this "universal indicator". Time is a relational concept.
Time is not a continuum. Think about it as an element of relativity that exists vertically, not horizontally. Don't think of it as a 'left to right' thing - a so called time line that runs from birth to death for each individual, and from some finite point to some finite point in the universe. Time is an 'up and down' thing. The elements of time: each element separate and distinct, yet each existing simultaneously with the other. As much as there ever will be, as much as there ever was...
Einstein theorised that if it wasn't "time" which was moving, but he who was moving through space at a given rate, all he had to do was change the amount of space between objects - or change the rate of speed with which he moved through space from one object to another - to "alter" time.
The universe is expanding at incredible speeds, and if you could travel as fast as this you would be able to travel through time.
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