If you are a movie fan..This is for you...If you have been wondering whether the famous PEARL TOWER depicted in the movie SKYSCRAPPER as the tallest building in the world,then you dont need to worry because the building is only fictional. It is not a real building. The building is entirely fictional, and there's not really any real world skyscraper that compares to it — at least not yet. But the film's marketing department has gone all out to convince fans that it is a real building thanks to the creation of a viral marketing website touting the building's unique features. Rising 240 stories above Hong Kong, the building features a spherical glass observation deck at the top — that's where the name The Pearl comes from. Between floors 200 and 230 is a giant wind turbine located within the building, generating its own power and making it a green skyscraper. Adding to its greenness is a giant, 30-story botanical garden located on the 100th floor. There's also an Olympic-sized swimming pool, gyms, basketball courts, a driving range, a movie theater, and a six story shopping mall — in addition to luxury apartments and hotels. In the movie, The Pearl is 3,500 feet tall, which would make it the tallest building in the world by a whopping 783 feet over the actual world's tallest building, the 2,717 foot tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai. That height differential alone is larger than New York's Met Life Tower, which was at one time the tallest building in the world. Its 250 stories would also easily be a world record, dwarfing the current title-holder Burj Khalifa's 163. The tallest building in Hong Kong in real life is the 1,588 foot tall International Commerce Centre, which is less than half the size of the fictional Pearl. The Pearl was designed by production designer Jim Bissell, while architect and Burj Khalifa designer Adrian Smith also had some input for the more technical aspects of the building. Bissell got his idea for the building's design from an ancient Chinese fable called the Dragon and the Pearl, with the building somewhat resembling a twisting dragon with a pearl in its mouth, as he explains in the video below.

As for possible real life inspirations for The Pearl beyond the Burj Khalifa, there are a couple of buildings in China that may fit the bill — both with the word "pearl" in their names. The Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai rises 1,535 feet, and was China's tallest structure from 1994 until 2007. The building functions mainly as a TV tower, though it does feature a circular observation deck with a glass floor. Then there's the Pearl River Tower in Guangzhou. Designed with input from Adrian Smith, the 1,016 foot tall skyscraper is one of the world's greenest buildings, according to Inhabitat, and it generates its own power through a number of methods, including through the use of wind turbines like The Pearl. Outside of China, there's the upcoming Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia. Another Smith design, this megatall structure will take the title of world's tallest building in 2020 when it's topped out at 3,280 feet. That still makes it a couple hundred feet shorter than The Pearl, which was surely no accident on the part of the filmmakers. The Pearl may not be a real building, but it's not as far-fetched as it seems. It's only a matter of time before an actual skyscraper is built that's just as tall and energy efficient as The Pearl, and hopefully by then The Rock will still be around to make sure it's safe for the rest of us.

Physicists have come up with what they claim is a mathematical model of a theoretical "time machine" - a box that can move backwards and forwards through time and space. The trick, they say, is to use the curvature of space-time in the Universe to bend time into a circle for hypothetical passengers sitting in the box, and that circle allows them to skip into the future and the past. "People think of time travel as something as fiction. And we tend to think it's not possible because we don't actually do it," said theoretical physicist and mathematician, Ben Tippett, from the University of British Columbia in Canada. "But, mathematically, it is possible." Together with David Tsang, an astrophysicist at the University of Maryland, Tippett used Einstein's theory of general relativity to come up with a mathematical model of what they're calling a Traversable Acausal Retrograde Domain in Space-time (yep, the acronym is literally TARDIS). The physicists propose creating a kind of 'bubble' of space-time geometry, which carries whatever's inside it through space and time along a large circular path. If this bubble can hit speeds greater than the speed of light - something the pair say is mathematically possible - this would allow it to move backwards in time. "It is a box which travels 'forwards' and then 'backwards' in time along a circular path through spacetime," the researchers explained in their 2017 paper. "Delighted external observers would be able to watch the time travellers within the box evolving backwards in time: un-breaking eggs and separating cream from their coffee."

GHOST BLACKHOLE FROM ANCIENT UNIVERSE THAT DIED BEFORE THE BIG BANG HASS BEEN DICOVERED

Scientists have found that the universe we live in is not the first one to ever exist. A group of leading physicists have found that eons ago, other universes existed and they had black holes, just like the current universe. They say that cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) - the same thing that causes white noise on TVs - is evidence of the remnants of these black holes. The eccentric view has come from Oxford University mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, State University of New York Maritime College mathematician Daniel An and University of Warsaw theoretical physicist Krzysztof Meissner. These leading thinkers are now calling for a modified version of the Big Bang to account for this multiverse theory. The theory is called conformal cyclic cosmology, or CCC, and states that universes develop, expand and die in sequence. The black holes in each one then leaves its mark on the following universe that follow. Recently published data has then argued that these are detectable in existing data from the CMB.

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Latest Google Pixel 3 XL leak shows wireless charging in action

If you are the fancy type this post is for you:

There have been hints Google's Pixel 3 line would support wireless charging, but it now appears to be a virtual lock. Maxim Khoroshev has posted a video showing a Pixel 3 XL topping up on a wireless charger. While it's not exactly a dramatic event (the device plays an animation hinted at in earlier code), it suggests that Google phone fans will finally get the Qi charging they've missed since the Nexus days. The quick clip also supports notions that Google is using an all-glass back to make wireless power a viable option.
Khoroshev also posted photos that he claimed were from the Pixel 3 XL, although that's tough to verify without the snapshots' original metadata. If accurate, they suggest what you already suspected: that Google will maintain its reputation for quality AI-assisted photography.
Both the Pixel 3 XL and its regular-sized counterpart are widely expected to launch soon (possibly in October, as with past Pixel releases) alongside the wireless Pixel Stand. It might also represent Google's opportunity to open a full-fledged retail store rather than small pop-ups and store-within-a-store concepts.

THE BEST WAY TO ENCOURAGE ELECTRIC VEHICLE ADOPTION.

The world is slowly transitioning from gasoline-fueled vehicles to electric powered vehicles.Coupled with this transitioning however is the problem of our motorists trying to adapt to this change.

Switching from gasoline-fueled to electric-powered vehicles can reduce local levels of air pollution, particularly in cities with lots of traffic. It’s a swap that many countries are keen to encourage, but what’s the best way to nudge vehicle owners in this direction?

In the US alone, the years since 2008 have seen more than 400 state and local incentives to increase the adoption of plug-in-electric vehicles. In a recent study, researchers searched through the data to determine the most effective tools that policy-makers can apply.

“A rebate targeted at affordable battery electric vehicles (BEVs) combined with early investments in charging infrastructure along roadways where EVs would most need them is likely to increase EV adoption,” says Easwran Narassimhan of Tufts University, US, who carried out the analysis with Caley Johnson from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Narassimhan and Johnson’s results show that a $1000 incentive increase given as a rebate can raise EV sales by 4.8% compared with just 2.3% when the saving is provided as a tax credit. The observation tallies with earlier work, which found that incentives closer to the point of sale tended to be more attractive to potential customers than rewards that arrived later.

Early investments in infrastructure get the thumbs up from the team as public charging points are likely to incentivise early adopters, which can provide a multiplying effect on electric vehicle sales. There are other options too.

One of the most cost-effective policies was an exemption from high-occupancy lane rules – a relatively inexpensive incentive that boosted sales of battery electric vehicles by 15%.

Also, there are signs that rising environmental awareness could be as strong a factor as the availability of tax incentives — especially in promoting sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles — at least in states with a good track record in communicating pollution issues.

With more data being added all the time, policy-makers are likely to be even better equipped in future to reduce the number of gas-guzzling vehicles on our roads. Narassimhan and Johnson are keen to expand their analysis as new figures become available.

“This includes looking more closely at demographic factors such as vehicle miles traveled per capital, environmental awareness, and unemployment,” says Narassimhan. “We’re also interested in incentives for home charging and home electric vehicle supply equipment, which intuitively should have a strong relationship since a majority of electric vehicle owners charge at home.”