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New Theories / Neuroqore wants to speak to me about my human memory erasing machine idea.
« on: 15/03/2017 21:18:38 »
I finally built it, Neuroqore want to meet with me to talk about building a modified gamma knife machine.
Can you look at my idea for the worlds first human memory erasing machine in the Quora link below, and tell me what you think of the idea.
The idea is in my profile page on Quora, when in my profile page click (more) to see the whole idea with diagrams.
I cannot paste the text, and diagrams in this description box because there is too much text, and pictures, it exceeds 20,000 characters limit.
Please, please let me know what you think of this idea, your reply can be as little as a few words.
The link to the idea is here below.
https://www.quora.com/profile/Nicholas-Lee-199




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New Theories / Can this idea for a human memory erasing machine work?
« on: 06/01/2017 00:27:54 »
The link to Googles Quora website is in the link below.
The idea for the human memory erasing machine, that uses a modified gamma knife machine is in Nicholas Ryans answer to the initial Quora question.
https://www.quora.com/Can-I-have-only-some-memories-erased-from-my-brain/answer/Nicholas-Ryan-26

The idea works by combining the yet to be built latest MRI machine (for imaging Neuro disease Using high-field MR, And Contrastophores) which can image a area of about 0.1mm, or 1000 neurons, and see changes occuring as fast as one-tenth of a second.
Combining it with the latest CT scanners with Magnetoencephalography (MEG), and Electroencephalogram (EEG) to see the electro signals, happening in real time.
Magnetoencephalography, the SERF (spin exchange relaxation free) magnetometer in being investigated for future machines.
Combining further with the modified gamma knife machine.
Then using the 10% to 25 technique to erase specific memories, as well as erasing the most recent memories.
Could it work, if you are a neuroscientist could you verify if it is at least possible to do.
Thank you for your opinion. :D

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New Theories / Can this human memory erasing machine idea work?
« on: 10/10/2016 18:53:07 »
Can you look at my human memory erasing machine idea on Quora forum, and tell me if you think it could work.?
If you type in Nicholas Lee profile Quora in a search engine you can see my idea on Quora.
The idea is in my profile.
It has diagrams, so I cannot show diagrams in naked scientists forum.
Look at the idea on Quora forum, and get back to me on naked scientists forum to tell me what you thought about it.
That you for your help, anything helps, even a few words.

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General Science / Have I built the world's first human memory erasing machine?
« on: 28/08/2016 20:06:04 »
I am currently trying to find a way to build a human memory erasing machine, that uses a modified gamma knife machine, to ionize micron cubic sized groups of neurons in the brain.
It would be tested safely on animals first.
Could this technique be safer to use than Electroconvulsive Therapy, at erasing specific memories from people with PTSD.
With Electoconvulsive Therapy the good memories the person wants to keep gets erased, and the person is left confused after treatment.
The next step in Andre Fenton's work is to erase spatial memories specifically in a mouses brain using a modified gamma knife machine.
The steps to doing this technique is below.
The yet to be built INUMAC MRI machine (for imaging Neuro disease Using high-field MR, And Contrastophores) can image a area of about 0.1mm, or 1000 neurons, and see changes occuring as fast as one-tenth of a second.
It would allow much more precise functional imaging of the brain at work, than is currently available. You cannot really discriminate what is happening in the brain at the level of a few hundred neurons.


With the INUMAC it should be possible to find a bad memory within 1000 neurons with the BOLD signal, where the activity is most active with the BOLD signal in the 1000 neurons is where you test the 10%to 25% theory. You do not need to find EVERY group of neurons in the brain that holds a specific memory.
A single neuron can contain around hundreds, to thousands of synapses.
So in 1000 neurons that is a lot of synapses containing the memories of specific spatial tasks.
So if you ionize cubic areas around 2, to 25 microns, with a modified Gamma Knife, in the the general area of the BOLD signal that houses the 1000 neurons, you CAN get lucky and ionize the specific memory.
Ionizing SOME of the groups of neurons is enough to disrupt a specific memory.
If the bad memory can be associated, and found in a group of 1000 neurons is should possible to ionize those groups of neurons which reside in a cubic are around 2 microns or smaller.
The best way to find a specific memory is to ask the person, to recollect it, and ask him if he remembers it.
It would be a repeated process of asking the person to recollect the bad memory, ionizing the synapses, and neurons, then asking the person if he remembers.
This three step process you would just repeat over, and over again until the bad memory was gone.
I will admit with this technique you are shooting in the dark because you can only see the BOLD signal in 1000 neurons, but it is inevitable you will find, and ionize the bad memory, with the three step repeated process of recollection, ionization, and asking the person if he remembers the memory.
Combine the INUMAC with the latest CT scanners.
With the latest CT scanners, the final picture is far more detailed than an X-ray image.
Inside the CT scanner is a X-ray detector which can see hundreds of different levels of density.
Combine the INUMAC, and latest CT scanners with Magnetoencephalography (MEG), and Electroencephalogram (EEG) to see the electro signals, happening in real Magnetoencephalography, the SERF (spin exchange relaxation free) magnetometer in being investigated for future machines.
This will help increase the accuracy of the electro signal in the brain.
Now you have both BOLD, and electro and chemical signals to deduce what neurons hold which specific spatial memory.
Modify a Gamma Knife machine, currently the ball lenses need to be worked on to ionize micron sized groups of neurons, in cubic areas in the brain.
Remember a gamma wave can pass through something as small as an gamma knife surgery they ionize tumors in the brain the size of a pea, so ionizing a cubic area in the brain of around 20 microns would be way safer than gamma knife surgery.

A gamma wavelength is as small as 10 picometre’s, the width of an atom is 32 picometre’s, so a gamma wavelength is small enough to pass through something as small as an atom.
So a gamma wavelength passes through a pipe with an aperture (hole) that is small enough to collimate the beam, to be around 20, to 15 microns in width.
The collimater adjusts to increase, or reduce the width of the gamma beam.
A single neuron ranges in size from 4, to 100 microns, so a group of 20 neurons should be housed inside a cubic area of around 80 microns, which is the cubic target of neurons I want to ionize.
Some of these diagrams become shifted when looking at them on a smart phone.

A cubic target area of a group of 20 neurons in the brain, 80 microns small, not to scale.
So the beams of Gamma radiation come out of the Cobalt sources holes.
The smaller the holes the more thinly the gamma beams are going to be.
With them being thinner, that means the meet area in the center where all the beams meet is going to be smaller.
Just using two Gamma Knife beams of radiation, on a cubic target in the brain, will make the smallest meet area where the beams come together in the center.
Using more than two Gamma Knife beams, say 20 beams will make a larger cubic target radius area, where all 20 beams come together in the meet area in the center.
Just using two beams of Gamma Knife radiation makes the smallest meet area in the center, rather than using 20 beams.
The Question is are two beams of Gamma Knife radiation around 0.1mm small in width, do the two Gamma Knife beams have enough dose to affect, or eliminate a group of neurons in a cubic area around 0.1mm small, or smaller.
If not could the Cobalt sources be increased in size, and shape to make the gamma beams more intense, to make up for the Gamma Knife beams being thinner?
Because the beams are now thinner in width, than a regular sized Gamma Knife beam, and as small as 0.1mm they are weaker to affect a target.
The whole point of these questions is to see if the meet area in the center, where all the gamma beams come together, can be made smaller.
The smaller the meet area, by making the beams of radiation thinner I think is the key to making the beams meet in an area smaller than 2mm, or 0.1mm which is my goal, this is what I want to achieve.
Where all the beams meet to I want to see if this new Gamma knife can eliminate a group of 20, to 50 neurons, or smaller.
As you add more Gamma Knife beams to the target in the center the area where they all meet in the center gets bigger, the more beams you add to the target the larger the dot gets in the center.
If all the Gamma Knife beams all come together in the center of a target, they cannot help but make a large radius area dot in the center, like in the diagram below, in the center there is a big dot, the more beams you add the bigger this dot gets in the center.
As more, and more Gamma Knife beams are added to the target in the center the dot in the center gets larger, and larger.

Here are some of my ideas below, to modify the Gamma Knife, to make the Gamma Knife beams thinner in width in order to affect, or eliminate a target area of a group of neurons in the brain around 0.1mm small.
Where the beginnings of Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s start.
Build a small metal pipe like this below, that would be in two pieces, and stages of size.
From the left to the right, the second pipe would have the largest aperture funnel shaped hole in the center to let the most of the Gamma Knife beams go through.
Then as the Gamma Knife beams are funneled through the second pipe, the beams then pass into first pipe with an even smaller hole, making the beams even smaller, collimating the beams to around 20 microns in width.
So the Gamma Knife beams get smaller as they go through the pipes.
/////////////////////////
//////////////////This aperture (hole) can be made
/////////////////////////
//////////////////Shorter in length, if it would help in
Cobalt Source./////Protective shielding./////Beam intensity.

A square shaped cobalt source could help with beam intensity, as well as size, of the
Cobalt 60 source. Other elements in the periodic table of elements could make more
Stronger intense gamma beams.
So the Gamma Knife beams are being forced into the first pipe that has the smallest hole, the hole is small enough to collimate the beams to around 20 microns in width which can be adjusted to increase, and decrease the gamma knife beams width.
To help ionize the cubic target, depending how big is.
The Cobalt source could be modified to make stronger Gamma Knife beams, to make up for the Gamma Knife beams being thinner.
Increasing the source could make stronger intensity beams, and the shape of the cobalt source, being square shaped could help with beam intensity.
The hole in the center where the Gamma Knife beams pass through, gets narrower going from left to right like this diagram below.
This pipe can be shortened to help the Gamma Knife beams pass through better.
As the Gamma Knife Beams go through the hole in the third, second stage of the pipe the hole gets narrower, to concentrate all the beams into the smallest first stage pipe with the smallest hole.
Remember the target of a group of neurons would be no further than three inches away from the edge of the first stage pipe aperture.
If this idea cannot work, can this extra modification below to the first 0.1mm pipe, help make the Gamma Knife beams travel through the first pipe better, and make the Gamma Knife beams go completely through the 0.1mm pipe.
As well as Gamma Knife beams passing through the second pipe into the first pipe, with the 0.1mm hole.
Can small Cobalt sources be built into the first pipe with the 0.1mm hole?
The Cobalt sources the Gamma Knife beams come from would be built into the first pipe.

These parts the aperture can be adjusted up, and down to collimate the beam more thinly, or make the beam wider.
The Cobalt source would be built as close to the hole in the center, of the 0.1mm pipe as possible, where the original Gamma Knife beam passes through, to help the beam going through the center have more intensity to ionize the neurons.
These parts the aperture can be adjusted up, and down to collimate the beam more thinly, or make the beam wider.
So the Gamma Knife beams flow from the Cobalt sources built into the first pipe, and the holes from the Cobalt sources are built are narrow as possible to make the beams join up with the original Gamma Knife beam in the center.
So the Gamma Knife beam in the center is being made stronger, by all the other Gamma Knife beams from the small Cobalt sources.
If the Gamma Knife beam in the center is weak, or scatters and the beam cannot get through the 0.1mm pipe the extra Cobalt sources built into the pipe give the Gamma Knife beam more power to get through the 0.1mm hole.
Please note the first metal pipe in the diagram above, is five inches in length, if there is a problem with this pipe being too long in length for the Gamma Knife beams to travel through it could be made smaller in length to around three inches, if this helps the beam pass through better.
Small cobalt source built into the first pipe.

Here is a close up of the Cobalt sources built into the first metal pipe below.
See how the small Cobalt sources send a small beam of Gamma Knife Radiation, (shown by the arrow) through a hole, and the Gamma Knife Beam joins up with the original Gamma Knife beam going through the Center, to make the original Gamma Knife beam Powerful more intense.
We have to build the Cobalt sources, as small as possible,
So we can fit lots of them into the first pipe, as many as possible. The more Cobalt sources there are means more Gamma Knife beams going through, joining up with the original Gamma Knife Beam passing through the center.
So if the Cobalt sources are built as small as possible, that means that we can get lots of Cobalt sources into the first pipe.
So we can get as many Cobalt sources into the first pipe as possible, so that more Gamma Knife beams can join up with the original Gamma Knife beams going through the center of the pipe.
So in the first pipe all the space in the pipe is completely used up, filled with Cobalt sources, the more there are means more Gamma Knife beams going through to join up, with the original Gamma Knife beam going through the center.
So how much would it cost to build and make the modified metal pipe?
Can we work together and build a prototype of this pipe, to help with Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s disease.
There is still much to discover about how Alzheimer’s disease eats away at the tissue of the brain — and a higher resolution scanner could detect the onset of disease much earlier than currently possible.
Functional imaging, which follows brain activity by watching neuron excitation, could be taken to a whole new level of detail and reveal structural complexities we currently cannot see. Where normal hospital scanners can see down to resolution of about a cubic millimeter (roughly 10,000 neurons per pixel), INUMAC will be able to see roughly ten times more acutely, with a resolution of 0.1 mm, or 1000 neurons, and observe changes inside the living brain occurring at 1/10 of a second. This will be a huge leap forward for brain researchers, allowing them to learn more about how the brain functions.

The way the modified gamma knife machine works is it just uses two to twenty five beams.
But two beams will make the smallest meet are in the center where the gamma waves beams intensity is the strongest to ionize the cells.
The two gamma knife beams are adjusted in width by the collimater, to ionize groups of neurons in cubic sized area in the brain.
Two gamma knife beams are best to use to make a smaller meet area in the center, but more than two beams can be used if it helps better with ionization of a cubic area of a group of neurons.
How long the groups of neurons need to be ionized is also a factor in ionization.
A neuroscientist may say " you need to find very group of neurons associated with a specific memory, and then you would need to ionize every group of neurons associated with that memory to erase that specific memory."
You do not need to find EVERY group of neurons in the brain that holds a specific memory.
Ionizing SOME of the groups of neurons is enough to disrupt a specific memory.
And here is how you do it.
You look for the groups of neurons that hold the bad memory on the INUMAC MRI, and FMRI, CT EEG, and MEG technology.
You find the bad memories, by asking the person to recollect the bad memory.
When you have identified which groups of neurons could hold the bad memories.
You ask the person to recollect the bad memory, as you ionize the neurons associated with the bad memory, you keep asking the person to recollect the bad memory, the more you ionize, the more hazy the bad memory becomes to the person, as you ask him to recollect it.
So gradually the bad memory should be erased, but the point is you did not need to find, and ionize EVERY group of neurons in the brain to erase the bad memory.
Which would be like finding a needle in a forest.
So what you have done here is you have stopped the neurons from communication with each other to make a complete working bad memory to the person.
By ionizing SOME of the neurons you have disrupted the neurons communication process with each other that forms the bad memory to the person.
Is it better the person leaves confused, and things in his mind not making a little sense, or the person being severely depressed with PTSD.
Of all the neurons that hold the bad memory just ionizing less than 10% of the groups of neurons, could be enough to disrupt the communication process between these neurons to successfully erase a memory.
This is a lot more safer than electroconvulsive therapy, it can cause confusion, and memory loss, of either good memories, or memories of important this you should know.
This technique with INUMAC, and FMRI, and a modified gamma knife is more specific, at erasing the bad memories, and leaving the good memories, and memories of things you need to know.
ZIP (Zeta Inhibitory Peptide), and Optogenetics is never going to work in a human.
ZIP (Zeta Inhibitory Peptide) would almost wipe a persons memory out.
In Gamma Knife surgery they ionize a area in the brain the size of a pea, I want to ionize a cubic area a few microns in size, so this would be way less dangerous than gamma knife surgery.
Also gamma waves may not need to be used, X-rays could be used to ionize the groups of neurons, which would be more safer.
Safety is the most important priority in this idea.
This idea to erase specific memories, is a option that is a safer, more specific technique better than electroconvulsive therapy.
Stanford scientists have demonstrated a technique for observing hundreds of neurons firing in the brain of a live mouse, in real time, and have linked that activity to long-term information storage. The unprecedented work could provide a useful tool for studying new therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.
The researchers first used a gene therapy approach to cause the mouse's neurons to express a green fluorescent protein that was engineered to be sensitive to the presence of calcium ions. When a neuron fires, the cell naturally floods with calcium ions. Calcium stimulates the protein, causing the entire cell to fluoresce bright green.
A tiny microscope implanted just above the mouse's hippocampus – a part of the brain that is critical for spatial and episodic memory – captures the light of roughly 700 neurons.
The microscope is connected to a camera chip, which sends a digital version of the image to a computer screen.
The computer then displays near real-time video of the mouse's brain activity as a mouse runs around a small enclosure, which the researchers call an arena.
The neuronal firings look like tiny green fireworks, randomly bursting against a black background, but the scientists have deciphered clear patterns in the chaos.
"We can literally figure out where the mouse is in the arena by looking at these lights," said Mark Schnizer, an associate professor of biology and of applied physics.
When a mouse is scratching at the wall in a certain area of the arena, a specific neuron will fire and flash green. When the mouse scampers to a different area, the light from the first neuron fades and a new cell sparks up.
"The hippocampus is very sensitive to where the animal is in its environment, and different cells respond to different parts of the arena," Schnitzer said. "Imagine walking around your office. Some of the neurons in your hippocampus light up when you're near your desk, and others fire when you're near your chair. This is how your brain makes a representative map of a space."
The group has found that a mouse's neurons fire in the same patterns even when a month has passed between experiments. "The ability to come back and observe the same cells is very important for studying progressive brain diseases," Schnitzer said.
For example, if a particular neuron in a test mouse stops functioning, as a result of normal neuronal death or a neurodegenerative disease, researchers could apply an experimental therapeutic agent and then expose the mouse to the same stimuli to see if the neuron's function returns.
Although the technology can't be used on humans, mouse models are a common starting point for new therapies for human neurodegenerative diseases, and Schnitzer believes the system could be a very useful tool in evaluating pre-clinical

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Technology / Could you erase human memories specifically in mice with this technique.
« on: 11/08/2016 00:41:32 »
Could this technique be safer to use than electroconvulsive therapy, at erasing specific memories from people with PTSD.
1. The yet to be built INUMAC MRI machine (for imaging Neuro disease Using high-field MR, And Contrastophores) can image a area of about 0.1mm, or 1000 neurons, and see changes occuring as fast as one-tenth of a second.
It would allow much more precise functional imaging of the brain at work, than is currently available.
You cannot really discriminate what is happening in the brain at the level of a few hundred neurons.
Combine the INUMAC with the latest CT scanners.With the latest CT scanners, the final picture is far more detailed than an X-ray image.
Inside the CT scanner is a X-ray detector which can see hundreds of different levels of density.Combine the INUMAC, and latest CT scanners with Magnetoencephalography (MEG), and Electroencephalogram (EEG) to see the electro signals, happening in real time.In Magnetoencephalography, the SERF (spin exchange relaxation free) magnetometer in being investigated for future machines.This will help increase the accuracy of the electro signal in the brain.
Now you have both BOLD, and electro and chemical signals to deduce what neurons hold which specific spatial memory.
2. Modify a Gamma Knife machine, currently the ball lenses need to be worked on to ionize micron sized groups of neurons, in cubic areas in the brain.
Remember a gamma wave can pass through something as small as an http://atom.In gamma knife surgery they ionize tumors in the brain the size of a pea, so ionizing a cubic area in the brain of around 20 microns would be way safer than gamma knife surgery.
3. A neuroscientist may say " you need to find very group of neurons associated with a specific memory, and then you would need to ionize every group of neurons associated with that memory to erase that specific memory."You do not need to find EVERY group of neurons in the brain that holds a specific memory. Ionizing SOME of the groups of neurons is enough to disrupt a specific memory.And here is how you do it.
You look for the groups of neurons that hold the bad memory on the INUMAC MRI, and FMRI, CT EEG, and MEG technology.
You find the bad memories, by asking the person to recollect the bad memory.When you have identified which groups of neurons could hold the bad memories.
You ask the person to recollect the bad memory, as you ionize the neurons associated with the bad memory, you keep asking the person to recollect the bad memory, the more you ionize, the more hazy the bad memory becomes to the person, as you ask him to recollect it.
So gradually the bad memory should be erased, but the point is you did not need to find, and ionize EVERY group of neurons in the brain to erase the bad memory. Which would be like finding a needle in a forest.
So Coming Soon what you have done here is you have stopped the neurons from communication with each other to make a complete working bad memory to the person.By ionizing SOME of the neurons you have disrupted the neurons communication process with each other that forms the bad memory to the person.
Is it better the person leaves confused, and things in his mind not making a little sense, or the person being severely depressed with PTSD.
Of all the neurons that hold the bad memory just ionizing less than 10% of the groups of neurons, could be enough to disrupt the communication process between these neurons to successfully erase a memory.This is a lot more safer than electroconvulsive therapy it can cause confusion, and memory loss, of either good memories, or memories of important this you should know. and this technique with INUMAC, and FMRI, and a modified gamma knife is more specific, at erasing the bad memories, and leaving the good memories, and memories of things you need to know.
ZIP (Zeta Inhibitory Peptide), and Optogenetics is never going to work in a human.
In Gamma Knife surgery they ionize a area in the brain the size of a pea, I want to ionize a cubic area a few microns in size, so this would be way less dangerous than gamma knife surgery.
Also gamma waves may not need to be used, X-rays could be used to ionize the groups of neurons, which would be more safer.
Safety is the most important priority in this idea. This idea to erase specific memories, is a option that is a safer, more specific technique better than electroconvulsive therapy.Stanford scientists have demonstrated a technique for observing hundreds of neurons firing in the brain of a live mouse, in real time, and have linked that activity to long-term information storage. The unprecedented work could provide a useful tool for studying new therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.
The researchers first used a gene therapy approach to cause the mouse's neurons to express a green fluorescent protein that was engineered to be sensitive to the presence of calcium ions.
When a neuron fires, the cell naturally floods with calcium ions. Calcium stimulates the protein, causing the entire cell to fluoresce bright green.A tiny microscope implanted just above the mouse's hippocampus – a part of the brain that is critical for spatial and episodic memory – captures the light of roughly 700 neurons.The microscope is connected to a camera chip, which sends a digital version of the image to a computer screen.The computer then displays near real-time video of the mouse's brain activity as a mouse runs around a small enclosure, which the researchers call an arena.The neuronal firings look like tiny green fireworks, randomly bursting against a black background, but the scientists have deciphered clear patterns in the chaos.
"We can literally figure out where the mouse is in the arena by looking at these lights," said Mark Schnitzer, an associate professor of biology and of applied physics and the senior author on the paper, recently published in the journalNature Neuroscience.
When a mouse is scratching at the wall in a certain area of the arena, a specific neuron will fire and flash green. When the mouse scampers to a different area, the light from the first neuron fades and a new cell sparks up."The hippocampus is very sensitive to where the animal is in its environment, and different cells respond to different parts of the arena," Schnitzer said. "Imagine walking around your office. Some of the neurons in your hippocampus light up when you're near your desk, and others fire when you're near your chair. This is how your brain makes a representative map of a space."The group has found that a mouse's neurons fire in the same patterns even when a month has passed between experiments. "The ability to come back and observe the same cells is very important for studying progressive brain diseases," Schnitzer said.
For example, if a particular neuron in a test mouse stops functioning, as a result of normal neuronal death or a neurodegenerative disease, researchers could apply an experimental therapeutic agent and then expose the mouse to the same stimuli to see if the neuron's function returns. Although the technology can't be used on humans, mouse models are a common starting point for new therapies for human neurodegenerative diseases, and Schnitzer believes the system could be a very useful tool in evaluating pre-clinical research.
If you combined my modified gamma knife machine idea, to ionize neurons in the mouses brain, in this experiment you could prove my 10% theory that you just need to ionize 10% of the neurons associated with a specific spatial memory, to erase the memory.
Proving the theory that you do not need to find, and ionize every neuron in the brain to erase a bad memory.
I am grateful for your help, anything helps even a few words.



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Chemistry / Can the absorption, and emission process of the electron happen at a slower rate
« on: 10/08/2016 18:47:15 »
Can the absorption, and emission process of the electron happen at a slower rate.?
When the electron moves to a higher shell, is there a way to make this process happen more slowly, rather than instantly.
To possibly make the electron stay in a higher shell level that transmissions all visible light.
Something kind of happens like this in illuminous objects I think.
I am grateful for your help, anything helps even a few words.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / How small can a gamma wave, or gamma knife beam be collimated.?
« on: 09/08/2016 03:25:05 »
If you have two gamma knife beams, and the beams could be adjusted in width.
How thin could the gamma knife beams become, to ionize a cubic area as small as 20 microns.
Is there ball lens technology that allows you to collimate gamma waves, or beams  to do this.
If it cannot be done with gamma waves, what about X- rays, or other EM waves that ionize brain cells.
I am grateful for your help, anything helps even a few words.

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Technology / Could FMRI, PET, CT, EEG, and MEG be more advanced, but it would take more Cost.
« on: 06/08/2016 13:58:53 »
Are these current neuroimaging technologies, at their most advanced level, or is the cost to make them more advanced just too much money, and there is not enough funding.
It would help a lot with neuro disease, and how the human memory is understood, like how memory in encoded, because it is not fully understood.
If these technologies were at the most advanced level.
I am grateful for your help, anything helps even a few words.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / If you put electricity, magnetism, super heat, super cold in a mass the size of
« on: 05/08/2016 07:44:15 »
Sorry to moderators this is the shortest I can make this question in the subject line to make sense at all.
Its a large question, can't think of a way to shorten it, to make sense.
...a star how would it effect space, and time.

Speed stretches time to slow it down, something in the atom, like quarks creates gravity, when put together in something as large as a moon.
How would super cool temperature, magnetism, electricity, and super heat effect time, and space, if they were put into a mass as large as a supergiant star.

Like at the hadron collider, when they smash gold particles together, the temperature is 7.2 million degrees Fahrenheit.

Thats hotter than supernova explosion.

If this 7.2 million degree heat was in a large mass like in a star, would it have a effect on space, and time, to cause a slowing of time possibly, or not at all.


I am grateful for your help, anything helps even a few words.

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General Science / Is there a safer alternative to electroconvulsive therapy for erasing memory?
« on: 02/08/2016 07:41:26 »
-y. This idea is to help people with PTSD. So electroconvulsive therapy never has to be used again.

1. The yet to be built INUMAC MRI machine (for imaging Neuro disease Using high-field MR, And Contrastophores) can image a area of about 0.1mm, or 1000 neurons, and see changes occuring as fast as one-tenth of a second.
It would allow much more precise functional imaging of the brain at work, than is currently available.
You cannot really discriminate what is happening in the brain at the level of a few hundred neurons.
Combine the INUMAC with the latest CT scanners.
With the latest CT scanners, the final picture is far more detailed than an X-ray image.
Inside the CT scanner is a X-ray detector which can see hundreds of different levels of density.
Combine the INUMAC, and latest CT scanners with Magnetoencephalography (MEG), and Electroencephalogram (EEG) to see the electro signals, happening in real time.
In Magnetoencephalography, the SERF (spin exchange relaxation free) magnetometer in being investigated for future machines.
This will help increase the accuracy of the electro signal in the brain.
Now you have both BOLD, and electro and chemical signals to deduce what neurons hold which specific spatial memory.
2. Modify a Gamma Knife machine, currently the ball lenses need to be worked on to ionize micron sized groups of neurons, in cubic areas in the brain.
Remember a gamma wave can pass through something as small as an atom.
In gamma knife surgery they ionize tumors in the brain the size of a pea, so ionizing a cubic area in the brain of around 20 microns would be way safer than gamma knife surgery.
3. A neuroscientist may say " you need to find very  group of neurons associated with a specific memory, and then you would need to ionize every group of neurons associated with that memory to erase that specific memory."
You do not need to find EVERY group of neurons in the brain that holds a specific memory.
Ionizing SOME of the groups of neurons is enough to disrupt a specific memory.
And here is how you do it.
You look for the groups of neurons that hold the bad memory on the INUMAC MRI, and FMRI, CT EEG, and MEG technology.
You find the bad memories, by asking the person to recollect the bad memory.
When you have identified which groups of neurons could hold the bad memories.
You ask the person to recollect the bad memory, as you ionize the neurons associated with the bad memory, you keep asking the person to recollect the bad memory, the more you ionize, the more hazy the bad memory becomes to the person, as you ask him to recollect it.
So gradually the bad memory should be erased, but the point is you did not need to find, and ionize EVERY group of neurons in the brain to erase the bad memory.
Which would be like finding a needle in a forest.
This is a lot more safer than electroconvulsive therapy it can cause confusion, and memory loss, of either good memories, or memories of important this you should know. and this technique with INUMAC,and FMRI, and a modified gamma knife is more specific, at erasing the bad memories, and leaving the good memories, and memories of things you need to know.
ZIP (Zeta Inhibitory Peptide), and Optogenetics is never going to work in a human.
In Gamma Knife surgery they ionize a area in the brain the size of a pea, I want to ionize a cubic area a few microns in size, so this would be way less dangerous than gamma knife surgery.
Also gamma waves may not need to be used, X-rays could be used to ionize the groups of neurons, which would be more safer.
Safety is the most important priority in this idea.
This idea to erase specific memories, is a option that is a safer, more specific technique better than electroconvulsive therapy.
I am grateful for your help, anything helps even a few words.






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Chemistry / Can any visible lights electron voltage be changed to increase, or decrease.
« on: 01/08/2016 01:22:09 »
Red light has 1.8 eV, and blue light has 3.1eV can these numbers be changed to increase, or decrease.
Electron voltage requirement, in electrons is different in every single atom, and molecule.
The electrons, electron voltage requirment seems fixed, and cannot be changed, unless the electron moves away from the nucleus to a higher shell.
So if lights electron voltage, can be changed to increase, or decrease, transmission should occur in the electron.
Could opaque objects be made translucent.
Its like light is getting transmission, without being absorbed, and you can see through the opaque object.
Electrons absorb 1 photon per 1 electron, so you cannot play around with mixing EM waves.
The electron will choose to absorb 1 photon then ignore the other photon of another EM wave that is not visible light.
There are so many ways to play around with light, slow it down, play around with wavelength, and frequency, there must be a way to do this.
I am grateful for your help, anything helps, even a few words.

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Chemistry / Would removing a neutron from the nucleus change electron voltage requirement?
« on: 26/07/2016 06:14:03 »
I thought knocking a proton from its atomic nucleus would make the electrons, electron voltage requirement change to absorb a different color of visible light.
Knocking it out is going to change it to the next element up, or down in the periodic table.
But if the atoms element does not change by knocking the proton out then, if there is some change in the electrons, electron voltage requirement to visible light, like it absorbs a different color, then this proof its the protons, and neutrons that effect eV in electrons, as well as distance from the atom, and as atoms form covalent bonds to make molecules.
I just want to know if knocking put the neutron, will change the electron voltage requirement by 00.1, that would be enough to show that protons, and neutron effect the electron, in the absorption, and emission process.
But protons are positive, and would possibly effect the electron because it is negative, so what if the neutron was knocked out which is a negative particle, which should not effect the electron.
I am not a expert in atoms, and maybe this experiment can only be done in a light laboratory.
I am grateful for your help, anything helps even a few words.

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Chemistry / Can knocking a proton from the nucleus make electrons, electron voltage change?
« on: 23/07/2016 16:11:30 »
It seems like a mystery how energy levels change in different atoms, and as atoms form covalent bonds to make molecules, electron energy levels change also.
As I see it there is three ways that make the electron change energy levels:
1. Energy levels are different in each atom, so is the amount of protons, neutrons a factor in the electrons energy levels.
2. As atoms form covalent bonds to form molecules, energy levels change also.
3. The further away the electron is from the nucleus, changes energy levels of the electron, as the electron is in higher shell levels.

So is this correct that distance from the nucleus, the amount of protons, and neutrons, and atoms forming molecules are all factors in electron energy levels changes.
If you knock a proton, or neutron out of the nucleus, I am not sure if the element changes to the next element up, or down in the periodic table, because it is now mussing a proton, or neutron.
But if the atom did not change to another element, by knocking out a proton, or neutron would the electrons, electron voltage change to a higher, or lower number.
I am grateful for your help, anything helps even a few words

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Chemistry / Why Is there a minus in electron volt requirement of electrons?
« on: 21/07/2016 20:31:08 »

Is the a plus to signifying above 0, or not.?
I read " Most glass begins absorbing light significantly at about 350 nm and below (that's 3.5 eV). Very high purity fused quartz is transparent down to about 200 nm (6.2 eV)."
Then I looked at the hydrogen atom energy levels/shell levels, and the electron energy level requirements were in - minus, like -13.6, and -3.6 for the electron to move to a higher shell level.
But in the statement about glass there is no minus, in 3.5 eV.
Does this mean its above minus, and it is plus +3.5 eV like this.
So it would mean there are no ranges in the hydrogen atom to absorb ultra violet.
Is this correct, or wrong, still studying about electrons right now, its complicated.
I am grateful for tour help, anything helps even a few words.

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Chemistry / What factors determine electron energy shell levels in atoms?
« on: 21/07/2016 19:41:33 »
It seems like a mystery how energy levels change in different atoms, and as atoms form covalent bonds to make molecules, electron energy levels change also.
As I see it there is three ways that make the electron change energy levels:

1. Energy levels are different in each atom, so is the amount of protons, neutrons a factor in the electrons energy levels.

2. As atoms form covalent bonds to form molecules, energy levels change also.

3. The further away the electron is from the nucleus, changes energy levels of the electron, as the electron is in higher shell levels.

So am I correct that distance from the nucleus, the amount of protons, and neutrons, and atoms forming molecules are all factors in electron energy levels changes.
But can you explain why, or is electron energy levels changing in electron voltage requirement just a mystery that cannot be explained.
Is it just a behavior of electrons that is observed.
I am grateful for your help, anything helps even a few words.

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Chemistry / Which atoms have electrons in shell levels that do not absorb visible light?
« on: 19/07/2016 23:38:17 »
Of all the elements in the period table, which atoms have electrons in higher shell levels that do not absorb visible light.?
Or you could say which atoms have electron with energy levels that transmission ALL visible light.
I know that glass does only absorb ultra violet wavelengths of around 350 to 200nm.
So basically any electron in a higher shell in any single atom, that is not in the ground state, that has a electron energy level requirment of around 3.5 to 1.5 electron volts.
Hydrogen shell 2 energy level requirement is 1.5 electron volts.
Also very high purity fused quartz is transparent down to 200nm, which is 6.2 electron volts.
I am trying to figure out what electrons can be in shell levels, in certain atoms, that transmission visible light automatically.
Like in glass.
I am grateful for your help, anything helps even a few words.

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Chemistry / With the ground state filled, do electrons in higher shells transmission light
« on: 18/07/2016 19:11:42 »
.... every time because their energy levels are in a range that does not absorb visible light.
Electron energy levels change depending on what shell level their in, so with some atoms haveing their ground state completely filled with 2 electrons, does this means the other electrons in other higher shell levels, have energy level requirements that will transmission visible light always.
Like if these electrons in higher shell levels energy requirement was around 1.5 eV, which ultraviolet wavelengths of 350 to 200nm would only get absorbed.
So basically what I am asking is does any atom with its ground state completely filled, have electrons in higher shell levels that have a electron voltage requirement of around 1.5 electron volts to transmission light every time.
I want to know of electrons in some atoms transmission light every time, while other electrons in the same atom absorb every time.
I am grateful for your help, anything helps even a few words.

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Chemistry / Can you help, with this simple hydrogen atom question?
« on: 15/07/2016 21:47:38 »
The absorption, and emission process can only move electrons to higher shell levels, as well as atomic high speed collisions.
But if the electron could be forced to stay in shell 2 with a energy requirement of 1.5 electron volts.
Would ALL wavelengths of light get transmission, and only ultra violet wavelengths would absorb.
I know its impossible to make the electron stay in the shell 2 region, because its wants to emission the extra energy it has, and go back to the ground state.
So if the electron can be kept in shell 2 area, would ALL visible light transmission, because the electron does not have a energy requirement to visible light anymore, just to ultraviolet wavelengths.
I think all visible light will transmission as long as the electrons energy level requirement is around 3.5 electron volts, which is wavelengths of around 300 to 150nm.
Is this correct.
I am grateful for your help, anything helps even a few words.

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General Science / DNA switches can change electron energy levels , but physicist's cannot change
« on: 14/07/2016 04:12:39 »
... the energy levels.
Physicists cannot change energy levels in tissue to make it transparent, but animals can, with DNA switches with evolution.
What's the secret, a physicist can not change energy levels in human tissue, to make it translucent, or transparent.
Three photon microscopy is a clear example of the limitations physicists have.
But animals like Glass Frog, Phronima, Barreleye fish, and jellyfish, see it as a advantage to being transparent, for example the belarreleye fish has its eyes inside its head.
So the DNA switches evolve to make them transparent, which means that DNA switches have the ability to change electron energy levels.
Electron energy levels changing is a behavior that is observed, but cannot necessarily be controlled.
If it could you would see transparent patients in hospitals, because it would have a lot of medical applications.
The point I am trying to make is DNA switches seem to have the answer, and have the capability of changing electron energy levels, something that is seemingly impossible to do.
I am grateful for your help, anything helps even a few words.

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Chemistry / Do electron energy levels increase at higher velocities?
« on: 14/07/2016 02:52:16 »
Do electron energy levels increase at higher velocities, irrespective of distance from the atomic nucleus?
Or is it the shell level where it is that makes the energy level change only.
Does it have nothing to do with its speed
I think the electron can only speed up if it is far away from the nucleus, in a higher shell of 3, 4 or 5, I am not sure.
But does the energy level (electron voltage requirement to be absorbed by visible light) change as it speeds up.
I am grateful for your help, anything helps even a few words.

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