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Ordering
The Blissful Brain
The Blissful Brain is published
by Gaia Thinking. For more information on how to order your
copy, please click
here.
Guardian
G2: Mind over matter by Andy Darling
"Neuroscientist Shanida Nataraja has
proven meditation does more than clear your head, it can put
both halves of your brain to work, improving your concentration,
memory, and decision-making...". To read more, please
click
here.
The
Times: Calm down dear by Angela Pertusini
"Claims by the neuroscientist Shanida
Nataraja regarding the benefits of meditation have been backed
up by rigourous scientific research and are explained in her
acclaimed book The Blissful Brain: Neuroscience and Proof
of the Power of Meditation". To read more, please click
here.
Just
this Day event: A Day of Silence and Stillness at St
Martin's in the Field on 23rd of November 2011
Shanida Nataraja will be participating in
this exciting event that aims to explore the power of silience
and stillness in our busy world. For more information, please
click
here or visit the Just
This Day website.
Mindfulness
in the Workplace: Brain based approaches to improving employee
resilience and productivity at Robinson College, Cambridge
on 10 February 2012
Shanida Nataraja will be speaking at this
day event that brings together leading experts in mindfulness
to discuss how it could help organisations improve productivity
& resiliance. Speakers include Professor Mark Williams, Michael
Chaskalson, Ruby Wax, Margaret Chapman, and more (for more
information, please see click
here.
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Wave-Particle
Duality
One
of the most important features of quantum theory is that of
wave–particle duality. All matter displays both particle-like
and wave-like properties. Take the example of light. Light’s
wave-like properties can be seen in the following experiment
(see Figure 1 below). A small hole in screen A illuminates
two narrow slits in screen B. The light waves passing through
these two narrow slits interfere with each other, creating
a typical interference pattern of light and dark bands on
screen C. The light bands represent where the two light waves
have reinforced each other, whereas the dark bands represent
where the two light waves have cancelled each other out. These
are the same interference patterns that can be seen if two
water waves collide with each other: where the waves are synchronised,
they reinforce each other and the ripple becomes bigger; where
the wave are out of sync, they cancel each other out and the
ripple becomes smaller.
Figure
1: Thomas Young’s Two-Slit Experiment
Light’s
particle-like properties can be seen when objects are heated
in an oven. All objects release electromagnetic radiation
i.e. light when they are heated: the higher the temperature
(i.e. the higher the energy) of the oven, the higher the frequency
of the light emitted. Around 1900, Planck discovered that
the energy release was not continuous, as in a wave, but in
discrete units, which he termed energy quanta. Einstein later
referred to these energy quanta as light particles (or photons).
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