Ugly Fundamental Physical Truth

Neglect of the physical dimensions of natural phenomena is among the causes of some errors which cause the current persistent worldwide misconstruction.

For instance, life's motive appears to be closely related to the growth of crystals. This arises from the nature of genetic material in cell nuclei which, composed of long sequences of molecules arranged in regular sequences, exhibits crystalline order. It is the crystal arrangement of atoms that allows genetic molecules the extra dimensionality that arises from nuclear resonance.

Nuclei of stable atoms have what one would call a great extension in the time domain. They are always at the very smallest magnitudes of length and distance. The trade-off between distance and time, implicit in the motion of light, and constrained to the short distances of the nuclear scale, is why the nuclear time domain is so extended. This extension into the time dimension is brought to the surface, and into living organisms, in crystal resonance, and the fields of crystals thus have considerable extension in the time domain. That is why life is intrigued with time.

Human beings fancy immortality, and dream of it, built pyramids to struggle for it, yet kill the Sequoia and Redwoods that have attained much more of it than we already. Humans fancy numbers, but algae have attained them - yet humans mindlessly insist on it for themselves, never counting that the fundamental dimensions of size mean something in that argument.

Life is a nuclear phenomenon, that displays its variety and activity from the physical dimensions of space, time and order which exist in atomic nuclei. It is not easy to create a world of variety, beauty and intelligence. It takes billion of years. Saying that the Earth was "made" by somebody's Daddy a few thousand years ago is philosophically a criminal act that should be punished by law. We as human beings have responsibility not for a world which Daddy can fix for us every time we break something. We have a responsibility for a world that evolved in no other way than through billions of years of time. Life on Earth is a precious antique heirloom, not a triviality bestowed for the purpose of his popularity by some pharaoh, emperor or king.

However, crystals also have other attributes, properties, and qualities and they demonstrate other phenomena. One of them is growth. Crystals are well known for the way they grow when in solutions that contain the particles of which they construct themselves. Crystals differ greatly in their hardness, and some excellent examples exists of solutions in which two different kinds of crystals can grow in the same solution.

When two crystals of different hardness are grown in the same solution, the harder, tougher crystal literally crashes through the softer, yielding object disrupting its structure and pushing it out of the way. That is exactly why living organisms are at tooth and claw in nature: they are compelled by the very crystalline nature of genetic material, to grow and, when they encounter each other, the tougher organism wins.

Reproducing and increasing in number or in sheer physical size, the harder organism usually wins. This pattern is as fundamental as ice breaking rocks and sidewalks. It is a pattern well known in the military sciences.

That is why the human overpopulation problem is going to be very difficult to solve, and why it won't yield to superficial reasons. That is why it is already known as a tough problem that is going to require tough decisions.

Yet thinking only of winning is not going to solve the problem of overpopulation of the planet. That will result only in a planet overpopulated with tough, hard people who have killed and eaten everything that makes life interesting on Earth.

This too is a problem fraught with fundamental absolutes. Until mankind tamed fire and began to use it for cooking, organisms ate each other alive and kicking, or recently killed in one-on-one competition, leaving the scraps and remains to organisms that had adapted to scavenging. Some organisms fared better than others; by being tougher, or faster, or better concealed, they could resist attack.

The human development of fire in cooking made it possible to eat anything that lived and call it food. By now we can eat every kind of organism on the planet, and the malicious, murderous slaughter of wildlife for that purpose demonstrates it with revealing clarity. The number of sentient beings in bewildering variety of species that have been savagely reaped or mined like so much plant material or dirt is mind-numbing in the scale of its tragedy. Those merely appearing at any one time as having suffered catastrophic losses are an outrage, and the accumulated list of destroyed species in the hundreds. Many of these species are by now extinct or doomed to extinction, and will not appear again on Earth, ever.

The idea that some redeeming good in the universe must be dedicated to saving mankind is insufferably destructive with its abnegation of human responsibility for the planet. There is nothing preventing the human race from destroying the entire biosphere on Earth, except for the possibility that human war might be better.

If it goes badly, then human overpopulation continues until little remains except the human infestation, the human pestilence, the human plague, the human swarm; the killing of sentient beings as if they are dirt, the cooking with heat fire everything that moves or dreams on the earth, are all likely to continue until planet Earth look like Jupiter's moon Io and with not much left to show for it.

Several species have been around the galaxy three times, many others, twice. Human beings have not been in existence so much as a tenth of one time around the galaxy. If human beings take responsibility for what the sum total of all human beings do, we can perpetuate the heavenly place Earth already was for a billion years and more. Certain absolutely tough, difficult decisions would have to take place in order to do that. These decisions are forever.

Factors Implied by Global Recession

I. Global economic recession appears to be an inevitable unification of modern economic systems into one world-wide pattern. This was made evident by extensive publicity given to multi-national cooperation among economic systems, banking and financial institutions, and governments. Several factors were illuminated by the coordinated activity- some of which could be causes of confusion. The intensity of world change is staggering, and cannot be confused with the mere bewilderment of youth as they take their places in the population, or with political change of hands from generation to generation. World communication is both partly a cause of the rapid change and a means of alleviating its distress.

II. New discoveries transformed human concepts of the nature of the world during the past five centuries. Events of the last century were even more energetically world changing. The period culminated with the Y2K arrival of the third millennium.

III. Technology, including agriculture, manufactures, transportation and communications has put the entire world into a process of renovation and cashiers every discerned error in the construction that had occurred during the last five thousand years. Extensive human development that was millions of years in the making is simply being bulldozed down as not merely inferior, but positively irrelevant to modern concepts of human good. This is ad hoc, everywhere, and no particular organization is evident. Meanwhile, some known human cultures in the past are being reawakened as peoples. No one entity plans this worldwide activity, but it can be perceived as related and consequential.

IV. Two different, important lines of development have become evident: 1) the Egyptian path of massive, executed sandstone and eventually concrete structures; and 2) the Asian Taoist interpretation of nature, which sought the Way through contemplation of seasons that left most human constructions simple. Each was successful in many ways, difficult in others. Both are being re-evaluated now because most of their differences are moot under new, comprehensive concepts of many kinds. Other lines of ancient development may come to light.

V. Despite its brevity and almost theatrically illusory spectacle, the first flights to the Moon-the Apollo series-was a success and returned convincing photos of Earth that confirmed the world view for essentially every person on the planet. The 2020 planned Orion series of flights to the Moon will validate and confirm the Apollo flights. It will bring into play important international and multicultural groups of visitors to the Moon which will do a great deal to moderate and unify human concepts. It will is likely to be anticlimactic for many, world-changing for others.

VI. Preparation for the Orion moon flights obscures the fact that at this time most of the historical human constructions (and misconstructions) of the world are being totally demolished in an irregular way that is not visible part of a single pattern of events. Yet one pattern emerged since the 1890's discovery of galaxies; it brought an understanding that the Milky Way Galaxy resembles a hurricane. Some constructions now being raised are already destined to be obsolete problems within a century. World change now has become metamorphosis, like that described by Ovid regarding Rome - only a thousand times more extensive and intense.

VII. Like a hurricane, with its storm-lull-storm pattern, galactic rotation is a devolution of a titanic vortex onto the Earth's processes. It caused a pattern of war-depression-war in the early 1900's, and appears to be devolving again upon the Earth now. The prolonged war in the Middle East has been followed by the current recession. If this is not handled with understanding, another period of war will follow the recession.

VIII. Public knowledge of the importance of galactic rotation from authorities charged with being responsible for national and world understanding would be valuable. One one side of the giant Milky Way whirlpool, exterior galaxies are coming into view; on the other side, galaxies are being obscured. The change is implacable, never ceasing, never reversing. The angle between the Galactic Center and the Andromeda Galaxy slowly increases. Facts such as these do not seem useful to a perplexed world coming from amateurs; the public needs more substantial assurance, from media, or government.

Silicon emerges now as Calcium and Carbon emerged aeons ago

Silicon emerging

Silicon was tried by some forms of ancient life on Earth which still survive today. Silicon was worked on since primordial times in diatoms and somewhat later in Equisetum. Recently discovered were certain siliceous sponges, the HEXACTINOSIDAN sponges in reefs of British Columbia. They too are very ancient. In all of these, silicon is used only as a structural element. Rudimentarily, dinosaurs used rocks in their craws - gizzards - to help masticate food. Certain organisms like caddis fly larvae coat their shells with sand, gluing it into a stick substance they secrete for that purpose.

Human beings made fundamental breakthroughs in working silicon-bearing substances to the element itself through breaking rocks and shaping pieces into stone tools and weapons, as well as through the use of fire which permitted the firing of clays into vessels. From that time on development of silicon has progressed, in evolutionary time scales, rapidly. Clays evolved into concrete and cement and ceramics into glass, permitted impressive new constructions.

Silicon development became very rapid resulting in the highways and computers that exist today, and its future is vast and likely to continue hundreds of millions of years.

Logic started a few thousand years ago and was refined, along with language, into binary digital information languages. The 256 byte 8-bit character language maps well onto English and other languages with small character sets and 16 and 32-bit character sets were developed for Chinese and related languages. It was proved that it is always possible to map any language onto a binary character set. By now, silicon and digital are almost synonymous with reasoning, information, logic and knowledge. Logic has emerged well beyond the classical or orthodox forms of reasoning premised usually on classicism and religion. By now, logic's theorem provers have discovered new extensions of logic, and such devices as CYC have actually discovered new truths, such as that democratic and parliamentary societies tend to be monotheistic.

One of the dimensions by which information is measured is entropy. It is a statistical quantity that is related to the same statistics in which thermodynamics measures heat in the equation S = -dQ/T. That means the influence of a database tends to become fuzzy when its concept is stretched into the thermal environment. On the other hand, thermostatically regulated office and house interiors have largely freed human beings from variations in temperature.

Consider a large digital database. Whether it represents truth or not may be at first unknown or undecided. If it is a hot database containing millions of active names and financial account numbers or other sensitive information is is generally taken to be true. If it is random pictures or digitized photos, its truth value has somewhat less intensity. If it is the fiction library that has been put into the database it is of less certain truth value, although fiction has a place in describing social scenarios in vague but often usefully relevant allusion. If it is weather forecasts it can be important, sensitive, critical information about the future. And so on.

In rotation three celestial planes are dominant in the exterior cosmological firmament. Notice the use of the theological word "firmament" here: it seems to fit the needs of theology well, theology was completely unperturbed as if to say, "Well, thank you, at last science has given us a clue" and theology deals with spiritual matters which have to do with important and powerful family reproduction, social tenets, moral law and other human values and it does not like to be wrong in terms of centuries. The exterior object firmament seems ideal, for those distant galaxies are not to change their positions relative to each other more than, typically, their own diameters in an entire 220-million year cyclic motion the Sun, Solar System and Earth in its orbit around the Milky Way galaxy. The calculation is simple, based on the speed of light, the typical size of a galaxy, and the maximum speeds galaxies typically move which is a few hundred kilometers each second.

The three celestial planes are

the Equatorial Plane of rotation of the Milky Way Galaxy around which the Solar System moves once in each 220 million years;

the Ecliptic Plane of Revolution of the Earth in its annual or yearly orbit around the Sun as a member of the Solar System; and

the Equatorial Plane of the Earth as it rotates once each day on its axis - the polar axis which commonly is referred to Polaris, the North Star.

Once the exterior object firmament and these three planes are comprehended, it is possible to ascertain right in terms familiar both to politically governing bodies and to scientists alike. These planes determine one or more aspects of the relation of the quantized phenomenon of spin to nuclear, atomic, electronic, molecular and chemical activity in every event on Earth. And that includes in the species called Diatoms, Equisetum, and the Siliceous Sponges as well as every other wilderness plant and animal that uses silicon. In addition, these celestial planes and the cyclic motion by which they affect spin, influence also decisions made by human beings using handwritten, typed, printed, and communicated information, both that created by human beings, and that created by computers.

In particular, information stored in silicon structures is now in a universal cosmology of firmamet and right which is already occupied by ancient living organisms. Information created by human beings is now slowly devolving into silicon-based organisms throughout the world. That truth will be with us for the next million years, ten or a hundred million years - essentially, for the next galactic rotation.

If concrete is forever, can we expect our conclusions and alarm and concern about the fragility of the planet under the onslaught of rampant growth to remain meaningful until the planet has had time to protect itself?

Because the siliceous diatoms and sponges are ancient species, their species are among the resonant modes of Earth's dynamic spectrum. Creating information, and particular, knowing what it is and storing it in or near silicon-based computing systems, is essentially plugging the entropy dimension of the information into the same entropy dimension of the spectra of siliceous organisms.

Now officially, human beings are the only organisms that can translate specific meanings from stored databases. Yet these databases are written in binary languages and they tend to devolve by halves upon the natural Earth. The sex and survival-oriented concepts of the organisms are especially sensitive. They tend to align along major distinctions sustained by information stored in the internet and the immense numbers of computers throughout the world. If a database contains extensive information about the condition of the world, the most important distinctions made by the database become terms of rapport with it, and in accomodating the existence of the database, diatoms and sponges simply accomodate those distinctions. Yet those distinctions contain aspects that are significant in the existence of diatoms and sponges.

Elemental cosmology

There is a concept called 'elemental cosmology' and there is a newer, finer resolution of cosmology into distinct, specific elements. The atomic spectra are exactly what is used to resolve the cosmology for any particular element. The iron spectrum quickly reveals a powerful magnetic field in terrestrial - human! - environments, and the existence of a terrestrial magnetic field was eventually resolved in the iron spectrum. This was shown through flights of magnetometers throughout the solar system to extend far beyond the atmosphere of just this one planet.

Specific elemental cosmologies

Different specific cosmologies for the different elements are discovered through different paths. For instance, the germanium cosmology is not yet even surmised, being conjured here out of the hat containing the table of the elements. Yet some other cosmologies are glaring, such as those of ancient carbon and calcium. Carbon was a component of the atmosphere since billions of years ago, so the existence of a carbon entropy shell around the Earth was not known until recently when it became the subject of a debate about 'dark matter'. The carbon cosmology is still not being surveyed scientifically, and dark matter is assumed to exist throughout the universe instead of locally, around this planet. The emergence of life billions of years ago began the process of creating the entropic 'space charge' or better yet, an 'order field' similar to crystal fields around crystals. Life's use of carbon caused an order field in the specific element carbon, which can be surveyed in carbon's atomic spectrum. Eventually, carbon precipited out of the atmosphere in much the same way as calcium precipitated out of the oceans into limestone.

Carbon and calcium cosmologies

So there were two ancient specific elemental cosmologies - a carbon cosmology, which is a crystal field around the living biosphere, and a calcium cosmology, another crystal field around the specifically ordered deposits of relatively pure calcium. That calcium cosmology might be called a calcium carbonate cosmology, leading to the surmise there are specific molecular cosmologies around the Earth.

But, given the existence of two elements which anciently settled out of chaos into ordered forms and resulted in order fields around the Earth, it must be recognized that the element silicon has wrought its time, and is now precipitating out of the chaos into relatively ordered forms in cement and concrete, as well as into less massive yet more highly purified and exquisitely ordered forms in semiconductor products - computers. Silicon is now in the process of saturating the planet Earth with a silicon cosmology. There are signs this precipitation and cosmology formation will be more extensive and dynamic, more highly order-driven, than any other in the planet's history. Plants and animals did not know they were to be creating an order cosmology based on the roles of elemental carbon in life chemistry and the role of calcium carbonate in the construction of shells, bones and teeth.

Silicon cosmology

The few organisms that tried to use silicon actively were not numerous, and did not command enough mass or energy to create a distinct planetary sphere in the spectrum of that element. Now, however, silicon is in extensive use. Human beings now know there is an order field being created around the earth as a result of the precipitation - by human beings who act as transfer and facilitating agents - of silicon in concrete and pure silicon ingots and their products - architectural structures and highways, and computers and other technological devices. Human beings are now participating in the reconception of planet Earth in terms of another element - silicon - and a planetary spectral sphere is coming into existence in terms of that element.

Silicon cosmology is destined to be eternal around Earth.

Architectural constructions are likely destined to be regarded as crude and gigantic approximations to objects - eventually to be living silicon based systems - which are living, much smaller, and aggressive in the way that plants and shellfish are aggressive at the VERY LEAST. The work of millions of human beings in silicon-based concrete city structures, each of which is a crystal form in that it has unit cells - offices and rooms on the various floors - in which are several nucleating devices - illumination, communication, information processing, transportation and other systems - and each of which contains some functional agent such as a machine or a human being. The results will be metamorphic, and the timeline of this process can be seen to extend along the geodetic timeline of LAGEOS, ETALON, AJISAI and STARLETTE.

At the present time, a few of the more obvious and alarming scenarios have been portrayed in the media fiction. Science fiction has envisioned, for instance, a robot space probe (Voyager) returning having evolved into a superbot bent on destroying the meddling carbon life forms (humans). Of course the plot is foiled.

More likely, though metamorphic, the transformations will be more like the invention of, first, shells by clams and oysters, then movable shells on things that crawl. Computers are being carried around (Blackberry and celphones), are talking to each other (server-client systems), are predicting weather, and sheduling events which shape human destinies (transportation, voting, mass gatherings, and reservation systems for transportation, accomodation, dining, and stock replacement. Autonomous aircraft now fly around and conduct surveillance, bombing raids, and undersea observations. The silicon evolution is upon the Earth, and is going its way. It will not be stopped, for there is no practical way to stop it. If one person refuses to cooperate, another person will. If one human group refuses to cooperate, another human group will, for silicon rewards those who cooperate in the evolution of itself as a fundamental form of life based on silicon.

It is in this cosmology that silicon carbide is a hard compound. Terrestrial life is almost certain to be dominated by silicon and carbon together. This dominance is a part of, and equivalent to, the economics of silicon in both cement and semiconductor production and their associated industries, construction, transportation and technology.

Evolution and Economic Change in the Current Recession

Millions of years of what? Money is a form in evolving process.

Evolution is the dynamic pattern and habit of change. The emergence of powerful evolving systems like constructions, money, technology and manufacturing have brought the human species into a new relationship with the rotation of the Milky Way Galaxy. In ancient times that rotation was not distinguished from the influence of seasons and the Sun and Moon. Now, galactic rotation exists at a measured rate, and woe betide the person or organization that forgets it never goes backward, never stops, and influences everything on earth in molecular, atomic and subatomic ways.

On the scale of evolutionary time - that is, the time comprehended by diversification in species - the human species is, at the outset, an changing, relatively young species. It became radically distinct from other animals only around 12 million years ago, changed a good deal since then, and only with the last few ten thousand years began a determined course toward constructionist and technological society. Since the profound successes five or six thousand years ago of the earth pyramid builders in the Middle East and the development of Taoist concepts of order in Asian, progress has been swift.

The difference at first between the two was that the pyramid builders began to use the execution of human beings as a preliminary to further action such as construction and war. This was only rendered into more modern, civil forms after thousands of years of struggle in which theology and law were not distinct much of the time. Taoism, on the other hand, attempted to derive little or no significant advantage in its comprehension of the natural world from the killing of human beings. That abhorrent practice was not used to advantage in the field of war except to eliminate enemies, and in political society, the light shed by executions was almost entirely dominated by the continuing realm and otherwise was used to terrify subject populations.

Modern concepts of evolution are sophisticated and describe well, according to various statistical tests, even the evolution discovered in the fossil record, of plants and animals that disappeared millions of years before human beings existed. By now, human evolution primarily consists of constructions, technologies and organization and not changes in human form. Houses, roads, buildings, bridges and other forms in architecture are strikingly similar in appearance throughout the world, and their design is a matter of constant scrutiny, reconsideration and improvement. Most of the energy invested by plants and animals into struggling with their world and the uncomprehending assimilation of order from that struggle into their own forms and behaviors, was inefficient. Human beings, however, have carefully distinguished and resolved their actions and expenditures of energy into different techniques and practices.

The result is that human beings have shifted evolution away from themselves into their works. The construction of shelters has led to modern housing design and the works of architects, planners and builders. Small hand-worked farms have emerged into modern business scale agricultural land development complete with infrastructures of transportation, storage, food processing, redistribution and retail of refined foods and prepackaged meals like noodle soup. The working of hides and hand woven fabrics has become industrial production of textiles and large scale largely automatic manufacture of clothing carefully designed to fit the human form. Transportation has changed from walking and riding on animals or boating on waters, to immense road and highway systems, vast numbers of motor vehicles along with airplanes and ships. Communication has changed from talking and shouting, to telegraph, telephone, motion picture, television, radio, and internet systems that link the whole world with instantaneous distribution of information, some of it translated by machines into every language on the planet. Money is an evolving system itself. The evolution of money went by fits and starts, devaluation and the complete disappearance of some moneys with replacement by new, then the appearance of checking and banking, credit and debit cards being an interesting case, and eventually into the virtual disappearance of the cash economy and utter dominance by credit economy.

Debit and credit cards are interesting because at first they were thought to be necessarily distinct because the were believed to emerge from two different classes of human beings. This was abandoned when classless society, undifferentiated into small exclusive privileged classes such as royalty and classes of the most numerous population usually called commoners. Debit and credit cards quickly became rather obviously indistinct, when debit cards evolved overdraft protection, and certain penalties such as interest rate increases continued to exist in credit card systems.

Unless it is recognized how deeply money systems are embedded in the evolutionary process, it will be difficult to predict its vagaries of inflation and paroxysms of recessions and depressions. One important point is that as with natural evolution, galactic rotation is significant. It is the very context of evolution. A specific time rate and direction is associated even with extremely long periods of time such as millions of years. To refer to millions of years as if it is a transcendent concept is no longer meaningful where it must be understood correctly; millions of years in the past? Millions of years in the future? Millions of years centered around the present year?

The Third Wheel of Justice, Slow Extra Fine

Galactic rotation is ancient even in geological terms. It has influenced life on earth well over the half billion years since multicelled organisms emerged. Life was influenced involuntarily, though. Only now have human beings begun to take it into account. It's influence is deep in the atoms and molecules of life.

One of the idealistic hopes of the economic system is that new gadgets and other new technology will save the economic system, when in fact the real trouble is that excesses of the industrial market system - the well known ravaging of natural resources, slaughter of vast quantities of wildlife as if it is merely mineral deposits, excess human population, and toxic poisons in the environment, have all caught up with the entirety of human civilization. It is impossible to ignore their impact high and low, and impossible to reverse many of the consequences.

Particularly - and I didn't discover this - the recent discovery of the exterior object galaxies that comprise exactly what was meant by the ancient theologians as the 'firmament' brought understanding of the nature of the Milky Way Galaxy, that it rotates, never stops and never reverses, and that it was figurative during the last three orbits of the Sun, Solar System and Earth around the Milky Way galaxy during the last 700 million years.

Human abuse of Earth's natural balances, of individual with individual, species with species, industry with wildlife, human hunger with edible species, has caught the economies of civilization in imbalances that can only be righted by reference to the cosmology in each detail of civilization's economies.

Nature understands the processes by which species survive or go extinct through one-on-one competition between individuals, but no such comprehensive understanding exists of industrial market economies. The rotation of the Galaxy is the slowest of the wheels of justice and is the one most recently brought into the great court of evolution in which human beings now plead. It's a very slow milling wheel, and it sifts and grinds exceedingly fine, down to the spin coupling in bonds between the atoms of molecules.

Now, when a proposal for releasing the public moneys for a for a new project, details with which it must be justified are molecular.

When strategies are deliberated on policies toward ocean mammals, molecular bonds must be taken into account.

When land is taken into corporate management, the disposition of its forests, wildlife, and minerals must face molecular inquiry.

Now, when funds are granted industry for the continued production of high energy products like vehicles, the molecular structures of highways, vehicles, people, wildlife and the environment must be taken into account.

That's why this recession may last a long time; certain aspects of it may never end, for the molecular grind is just beginning to reach resolution. The Galaxy slices all life with the symmetries associated with chirals, electronic spin, bond angles, resonance, spectral terms, species differentiation, the nature of the One insofar as it means One Organism, One Species, One Planet, and many other topological, physical, mathematical, chemical, organic and environmental details.

There is no way to get out of it. For industrial market economies to work properly, they must work right. People who go to stores must do things right - balance their accounts, pay their bills, drive their car or walk or ride to the store, select their food to match their dietary requirements, keep the house warm, dry and safe, be civil to each other, obey the laws. All of these factors are, it is hoped, designed right. Yet it is a sure bet that almost all were designed with utter indifference to galactic rotation before the exterior galaxies were discovered around 1880. The only people who had any sense of it were pregnant women, and they could only adapt as best they could sense it.

Measurements were made of galactic rotation, most recently by NASA, and it was found to be about six milliarcseconds each year, or six arc seconds in a thousand years. Human beings now preserve ancient traditions since five thousand years ago. Six milliarcseconds is not much for a whole year. How about 24 milliarcseconds in for years? That touches on national elections.

In a day the galaxy rotates 16 microarcseconds, or one microarcseconds in an hour and a half. That seems to be an impossibly small angle, but it shows up in molecules and blood circulation, and can be perceived in taste. Get it wrong, and things gradually become bitter, bitter. Get it right, and the flavors are sweet.

If the proper decisions are not made during this recession, it will be only slowly resolved, and will end in some bitter factors, the depth of which will be deeply divisive of human society. If the proper decisions are made, or taken from the stars and skies and galaxies, they may imply some serious powerful mandatory changes, that will come about only through strong government. It could mean drastically curtailing the transportation industries, changes in the nature of housing and changes in the nature of work, employment and agriculture.

Facing recession with foreknowledge

At this time, 2008, facing the onset of economic recession and the possibility that it may be deep is much the same in some ways as the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression that followed it, and at the same time, some VERY important differences obtain. This time, there need be no war to go to the Moon.

There are no New Earths on Earth. None of the other planets are good farmland. Stay home even in your dreams.

Differences that can already be readily identified include

1. In 1936, Flight to the Moon was only in the unknown future, and every dynasty since Cheops compelled human beings onward to accomplish that at all cost.

In 2008, flight to the Moon is past accomplishment, and well recorded. If it is not past mastery, that can be attained in 2030 or 2050 if necessary. It won't be never.

Someday the great-grandkids will go to the Moon again if we don't now.

2. Communications is very different now, with solid written information available to anyone anywhere on the earth, in the city or in the country, from anywhere else on earth.

Best information about how to survive and stay healthy and strong as economic times worsen, even if they become very strangely primitive, is quickly assembled and distributed on the Internet. Vitally, people anywhere can search for what they need to know. They do not need to schedule
an expensive trip to a distant county or state courthouse to obtain information. People can and do readily share tips on how to store food, insulate the house, and live more carefully, staying clean at lower cost, and other vital tactics.

At this time, one of the dreams is that people will in fact be able to not only survive, but thrive, while residing in their homes. Presumably, agribusiness scale farming will continue.

Other factors about thriving at home include simply adapting to the practice of considering, as time passes, what to do in the near future - in the next few days, or weeks, or months.

Making these slow decisions was always a part of farm life and it can become a valuable practice of human society throughout large tracts of residential housing.

If the old economic system collapses, it will be because something better looms in the future, perhaps distantly. It is not the goal of housing to evict people from their homes. Houses were build for people to live in them, and people residing in their homes should not be forced or required or tricked into leaving them just because the world economic system collapses. Perhaps the landlords have to take the hit; this would have to be governed civilly, and mercifully, but a landlord might just be out of a job and in the same position as his householders are - in a house and little better.

Perhaps occupying a home would become a matter of proper legal filing, and perhaps a small fee to cover the administration by city, county and state government jurisdictions of who lives in what house.

Perhaps other costs would be utilities - water, electricity, garbage, roads, street assessments, insurance and school levies , but not horribly huge mortgage or rent payments every month.

If that is true, the usual mortgage package - consisting of from an inch to a foot or several feet of papers thick - would have to be redesigned from the ground up by professional information theorists, logicians, and programmers. Housing paperwork by now has centuries of ancient practices that began in feudal times, using phrases that date back to Rome, but they often contain redundant terms and the filing regimes are not coordinated. For instance, the title clerk or homeowner has to write or type his name and address in those documents, and they go to dozens of different offices that provide the doctrine of ownership throughout the land.

Modern logic can simplify the administrative procedures that have been necessary since ancient times - even worse, since the typewriter - greatly. The redesign of housing ownership should be undertaken with great attention to economies of scale, because the ownership or occupancy package will be coordinating information that allocates millions of houses to millions of people in thousands of jurisdictions in thousands of counties and dozens of states. It is not a task that will take only a year or two by some money-balance software manufacturer. It would need to be a major project of government.

As for now, we can face the ensuing recession and the potential for a prolonged depression with the knowledge that we can communicate readily, and we can remember what worked and what failed about the long recovery during the 1930's. This time, there need be no war to go to the Moon.

More importantly, we should abandon the science fiction ideas of going to other planets - "New Earths" - if we run out of resources or ruin this one. There's no chance of it. Only two other objects in the solar system exist with any acreage on which a person can stand up. Neither has enough air to breathe, neither has water in significance except at truly horrendous cost, and neither is as survivable as a house on Earth. No other object in the solar system has the comforts of a house on Earth or the arable crop-yielding capacity of land on Earth.

Dynasties, slavery and money

Dynasties were human constructions so large they became naturalized phenomena in secular evolutionary development. Secular evolutionary development was the rate at which evolution took place - glacially slow, like molasses in January for half a billion years.

The pyramids changed all that. The pyramids - which sprouted all over the earth around the equators - were and still are durable, crystal-like forms constructed of massive stone blocks and were large as mountains to many creatures and human beings too. They were presented obviously a fundamentally ordered, non-chaotic principle in their forms. They changed the instincts of every creature that became transfixed by the new shapes.

The dynamics of human civilization - and, led by human beings, of the activities of many other species - were altered by the pyramids. These new forms spanned great distances, relativistically large distances so that even though the principles of modern relativity were unknown, those attributes of living organisms that were inherently limited by relativity, such as size and speed, were challenged by the new constructions. Why were they different from the world which had always existed?

To human beings during the time in which the pyramids were being construction, it was clear where they came from. It was not necessarily clear to those who toiled why they were different, but they knew the construction was by human beings and they lived under a regime that decreed it was because of human beings they were built.

Lesser works were often constructed after the largest of the pyramids had been dragged into existence. Yet the smaller constructions, whatever they were, did not span as much time in their completion, and so it would be a common experience that the pyramids had existed long before a worker and the ancestors he knew had lived; he would do some kind of work whether it was in the fields or towns; and after he had passed and his children and perhaps his children's children came into being, any project he was working on would be completed, and then it would be understood that the Pyramids which had preceded their construction were destined to exist in the future as well. There would be a resting phase, a lapse during which society would retreat to agriculture and it is almost certain that some protested what they saw as 'decay' while others welcomed the resting phase, called 'hiatus' as a chance to recover virtue, strength, peace, nature, instinct, resonance with life, and other valued qualities of tranquility.

It gradually came to pass that after several such cycles of dynasty and hiatus, that different kinds of rulers existed from one hiatus, or as we would call it, 'period of development' and another. These periods of development existed as separate periods of a kind of rule that was for several cycles familiar in kind. Yet as time passed, differences appeared in the forms of rule in the periods of dynastic activity. In some there were pharaohs, in others, kings, in others, emperors. Different patterns of dynasty and hiatus appeared also in different parts of the world. As a result, the general pattern of emerging thought, determination, planning, construction, culmination, cresting or triumph or dominance, flourish, and finally a period in which it was understood that something had come to pass while yet another future was beginning to precipitate, crystallize, catalyze and emerge within the old.

The idea became persistent that "dynasty" is kind of a durable container in which one or another form of society, rule, government, or civilization exists; and these may include any of several different powerful, highly respected forms: theologies, autocracies, empires, kingdoms, democracies, principalities, sheikdoms, and communism as well as others not mentioned here, perhaps others not yet dreamed, come into existence, endure for a long or short time, and then pass.

Given the vast span of natural history, it is at once valuable to be entirely optimistic about human destiny and at the same time see that many things in human activity evolve visibly - slowly or rapidly they appear; some leave vestiges or parts that endure much longer, some of their aspects disappear quickly. In time, those longest lived become sufficient to sustain civilization in themselves, and the nature of civilization becomes longer-term.

At the present time, the Earth has just completed one long dynastic goal - to reach the moon. Other goals have been completed, such as domestication of animals and a naturalized yet governed agriculture, water distribution, voting, money, medicine, flight and other transportation, communications and so on. It is not quite known yet, with the attainment of the Moon being completed, what is now to transpire. Perhaps the constructions necessary to reach the moon are to be viewed as awkward, groping and significantly preternatural diversions from the destiny the planet is inevitably to pursue as time passes with the Moon having footsteps upon it. In that case, it can be expected that important changes are to occur, as the planet reviews itself, takes stock, and devolves what it devolves.

Bearing in mind the number of casualties in war and the losses of nonhuman life, that is certainly possible. It is easy to imagine, now after the face, easier ways to have reached the Moon. For instance the nature of truth is now known not to require human life with which to determine the "moment of truth". Thus it could have been concluded long ago that even with fiery rockets, it is never necessary to burn human beings or other living organisms to fly to the Moon. The origin of the error is not clear; it may have occurred in pre-Cambrian seas with the evolution of cephalopods, the octopuses and squids that use momentum conservation as a form of propulsion.

Slavery is another matter. Entirely alongside in evolution, slavery was ancient, practiced at least by ants. Slavery was not a sup rise in ancient Egypt, and it need not and should not be pretended that the conditions of labor were extremely harsh and constraining. Neither were they a sup rise. With no knowledge about any other kind of cooperative large scale work, simple illiterate human beings would not have protested. How could they? That set the pattern of labor for thousands of years. Yet the cost of slavery was always high. Slaves had to be fed and housed, though the societies were probably not far from assuming that anybody, even a slave, would find some place to shelter even if it was a hovel - as long as it was not the master's house.

Money was unknown, and so it was necessary to keep slaves. Breaking them in was essential and might involve years. Slaves were not easily traded where barter was the only form of commerce, so that trading slaves was not something one did frequently. They had to be kept, as well - that is, retained, constrained or in some other way prevented from leaving or, if they did go, they had to be persuaded to return. Slave societies had their grotesque forms of expertise.

What seems to have emerged is that the development of increasingly sophisticated economic activity gradually led to the realization of hired labor. This obviously spanned a great deal of time - thousands of years. The very earliest coins were rare and hand-made; only the wealthy and powerful had them and in part they were wealthy and powerful because they controlled the means of producing and keeping money. That is a serious problem today even as distributed forms of economic activity are being rapidly improved.

It seems to be distinctly money that was the key and catalyst to the overseas transport of human beings as slaves. Freed of barter, or using a mixed barter and money pattern of trade activity, it was no longer necessary for the buyer of a slave to be given on the spot an agreed upon quantity of other goods. Slaves could be taken from Africa in return for - what? Were they taken by sheer power? Not mostly. They were taken in return for manufactured goods - iron pots, knives and spears; guns; alcohol; cloth manufactured goods and so on. The slaves could be transported to another place, which at that time included the Americas, and they could be paid for with what was produced in the Americas. Those goods were then transported to Europe, and the shipping costs incurred by the shipping company cleared at the bank with money. Money could then be used to purchase more goods that could be taken to Africa and used to buy slaves. That grisly cycle is important to mention occasionally because it helps weather slavery down into oblivion, like recovering a little more sanity by recalling a painful event to release the distorted energy for something more useful like happiness.

Money and its accounting, substance, keeping, distribution and use, have increased in sophistication, completeness, closure, extent, value and quality in fits and starts since seashells and beads were the only money. It was about the time of Rome that money reached a distinctly transcendental quality. After the first millennium, money was rapidly equated with writing, literature and hence with authority. Money became controlled by abstracted authority, and the contests for power between kingdoms and other powers for authority, including especially authority over money, are important parts of history. The eventual sophistication of money became nearly Godlike, and it is not surprising that the dollar bill depicts the Eye of God floating over a Pyramid.

This is deep stuff. The pyramids at once held transfixed the natural eye, the eye of Nature's God which would have occurred as soon as the Pyramids were recognized as the same as mountains in their size and massive structure, yet different in that they presented a human-originated civil and structural order that is far from nature's relatively chaotic and unprincipled order. For instance the pyramids do not have S-shaped winding river channels running down their sides. That was the condition of the pyramids six thousand years ago.

Yet the dollar presents something else: the Eye of God by now has become the eye of One God - the monotheistic God which, or rather who, was discovered in Egypt of about 2,000 B.C., four thousand years ago, was forgotten in the tumult of pre-authoritarian society, and was remembered in the Roman Empire - as under Marcus Aurelius - and then reaffirmed in 1,000 A.D. when the Roman Authority with its extensively written Latin literature had easily spanned and lived a thousand years. The sixteenth century begs desperately to be mentioned and will in time, but by the time of the American Revolution in the eighteenth century, the 1776 engraved in Roman numerals at the bottom of the pyramid with the Eye of God on it clearly meant that it was the Eye of the One God - the One True God, that is now comprehended in modern theology throughout the world.

Not only is that number, MCMLXVII in Roman Numerals a positive definite representation of counting units one by one, it is in its inverse a definition, spanning over a thousand years, of what the idea of One means. The continuous literate and authoritarian record of civilization, to however far back in history it can be traced, asserts and provides for mankind and for the planet Earth (space aliens or no) a determinate kind of ordering of temporal events that stands alongside calendars and clocks as the time domain now, of evolution in Earth's future.

Now it is true that important political instruments in history have condemned slavery, but the problem emerging now is that empires and other political forms are able to extract heartbreaking toil and distraction from human beings who are perfectly capable of living in freedom and liberty, by the simple device of ensuring that everybody is free to use money, and then by sampling statistics, determining what people will buy or sell in return for their labor and toil.

Human beings are blessedly simple creatures, who would live in blissful happiness if they were merely free. Yet money makes it possible for those who control it to statistically enslave a sufficient number of workers, so that a regime's sometimes demonic toil can be accomplished without actually keeping the slave as a captive. If a person is willing to keep a job, whether he is happy or not is no longer the determinant. A sufficient amount of money can purchase his time and if he quits, another person can be found to work that shift.

These are exciting times. By now, robots are being sold by the millions, designed mostly to perform the very acts that were the most degrading and dehumanizing - sandblasting rust off steel, spray painting or working in sewers. Robots have saved and rescued thousands or more workers who were put to those nauseating, toxic, deafening environments. It is time for labor to present the grateful side of its stand for robots; that would be a serious contribution to robot development of a kind that will truly free human beings from enslavement.

Except, of course, by robots.

Ancient Dynasty Industrially Processing Planet Earth

In the long run, a few great, serious problems exist which can be identified at the present time.

These include Reduction of the planet to FUNDAMENTAL FORMS OF THE ACTION and the consequent EXTERMINATION OF ALL LIFE except the beings that manufacture and operate the machines which conduct that extermination and a few other life forms that constitute their food. Living organisms, including SENTIENT BEINGS, are converted to inanimate hash by the millions of tons each years. Wildlife and domesticated animals are treated like a mineral deposit.

It is not clear that the ancient dynasties did not inadvertently put the human race to converting the Earth to radiation. More likely it was not anciently understood, that a difference exists between converting the Earth to radiation, and harmless and beneficial assimilation of the mass-energy equation by living organisms, including people.

The form of the dynasties that began six thousand years ago and have continued to this day have been based on massive constructions with an emphasis on four, quartering and other such arrangements of 2+2, 2*2, and 2^2. It seems to have begun with the three Great Pyramids. They were only the constructionist representation of the fundamental importance of 'four' on Earth.

Earth is in a solar system with two large objects, the Sun and Jupiter, that together dominate the solar system's mass, and orbit a massless point in space outside the surface of the Sun. This creates quadrupole moment in the Solar System, and that is mainly the reason why there are four distinctly largest planets around the very largest of which orbit four distinctly largest moons.

It is also the reason why tetrapod organisms dominate the vertebrates, the important largest class of living animals, of which the human species simply happens to have learned to walk upright, think, and use its hands well.

Four-ness subsequently led to some more recent problems. One of them is the pyramids; three are sufficient to suggest even to the smallest mind (being as they are made of huge rectilinear sandstone blocks) the number 4.

The four-ness of everything in human civilization is one of the results. It eventually led to a quartering of the action into its familiar four dimensions, where the [ ] square brackets mean that the quantities within them are dimensions, not quantities, measures or amounts.

[ACTION] = [MASS]*[LENGTH]*[LENGTH]*[FREQUENCY]

After three thousand years of inquiry, light was reduced to speed, and to some kind of constant. They became two different problems. The speed of light was estimated in many different ways, and is a rich, interesting history that started with sheer guesswork, progressed with estimates of its limits based on the timing of certain moons of distant planets, and ended with counting the number of ticks of good fast clocks while light traveled to a mirror and back. The speed of light was named just that, and it is symbolized with a c.

The remaining constant was eventually quartered - divided into four different parts. You can bet that the first thing assumed was that light consists of three different things, not four. The techniques of triage (when things are really tough) and quartering (when they are not, as in habitation) are very familiar. Its discovery is equally fascinating. The constant was named "quantum" and its symbol is h.

That's why an important brand of sugar which digests to practically pure energy, is called "C&H".
For as many years as mankind worked, he was a toiling brute and enslaved animals into beasts of burden, until finally power was harnessed from nature in various ways. Wind in sails and later in windmills and water in water wheels began to improve the situation.

Then heat engines, such as the steam and internal combustion engine, electric motor and so on freed man from domesticated animals and being a beast of burden himself, but also freed his works from the burdens of conscience.

The latter liberty was a real tragedy. It has resulted in a reduction of the Earth into the four fundamental dimensions of action, which constitutes half of light's friendly attributes.

By now millions of tons-that's MILLIONS, i.e. 1,000,000 multiplied many times-over of Earth's living, sentient beings are processed by machines -conscienceless, unconscionable inanimate machines, whose only consciences are their owners, into so much industrial products like they are inanimate mineral ores or dirt.

Moreover, much of the resulting corpses and much of the earth itself is also being transformed into the fundamental dimensions of the action - that action of light. Can it be, that the ancient dynasties put mankind to an attempt to transform the entire Earth into light? One good way to do that is to convert it entirely into energy, as in a nuclear mass-energy transformation. Perhaps there are processes in the universe, by which relatively small planets which are not stars, do not have to be stars, suddenly annihilate into light and light-like radiation such as the entire photoelectric spectrum.

Perhaps some of what are called nova, supernova or gamma ray bursts are not stars at all-it would not take many-are small objects like planets, that suddenly turn into energy. Why? That is not known; it is only conjectured that within the vast universe, dangers exist that are as yet unknown, while we human beings are busily transforming the Earth into vast quantities shaped like the fundamental dimensions of the action.

These fundamental dimensions are mass, length and frequency and their inner products which are mainly speed, area and momentum.

MASS, LENGTH, FREQUENCY, SPEED, AREA AND MOMENTUM

Let's examine these one by one.

MASS: The Earth and its sentient beings are reduced to MASS in millions of tons each year of cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and fish, as well as iron ore (which is even named 'pig iron'), aluminum, coal, cement, and other refined substances from mineral deposits of the Earth.

The Earth is being consumed by the unconscionable machine that is thought to be run by a conscience- bearing operator who works because he must live and is paid to do the work and if he won't do it there is someone on the next shift who will.

"Have dominion over the Earth, and cherish it." Yeah, right.

The same ravenously gluttonous eye looks with stuffed cheeks at the Moon and at Mars thinking of what minerals might lie under the surfaces of those planets.

LENGTH is produced in millions of miles of rope, yarn, twine, pipe, rod, girder, wire, nylon, sisal, polyethylene, and other substances.

FREQUENCY is produced in are produced continually at every frequency that can be named, throughout the electric field spectrum. Gamma and X-rays, ultraviolet, visible and infrared light, millimeter, meter and 'micro'-waves, short and long wave radio waves, VLF waves are all neatly ruled, which is a saving grace, and pumped to the space and a few terrestrial listeners, in everything from microwatt to megawatts and gigawatts from portable telephones to radio and television transmitters all over the world.

SPEED is velocity with no direction known. Everybody loves speed. Fast tennis shoes on kids, fast bicycles, fast cars, fast boats, faster airplanes, faster yet jet, even faster rockets, fast bullets, fast company... Hurry, get up! Get busy! Faster!

AREA is simply length*length, as in square meters. The Earth, our only planet and lovely home, is being transformed into sheets of steel, sheet aluminum, sheets of plywood, glass windows, cardboard, wallboard, carpets, linoleum, ceramic tile, asphalt, concrete and cement roadways, fishing nets, sailcloth, paint layers, cloth, fabric, textiles and so on. This is in millions of square meters each year - square feet, square yards, acres and hectares, square kilometers and square miles as well.

MOMENTUM is another subset of the dimensions of action. Rarely mentioned explicitly, high momentum systems are constructed in huge or fast (or both) important vehicles: railroad trains, ships, airplanes and space rockets, bullets and other projectiles are forms of momentum. Particularly requiring determination are the causes of great streams of highway traffic, which constitute vast momentum and in total action, quantities yet to be estimated.

ENERGY is an exterior form; it is not by itself comprehended within the dimensions of action alone. Rather, an additional and second factor of frequency must be incorporated into action, and the result is Energy:

[ENERGY]=[MASS]*[LENGTH^2]*[FREQUENCY^2]

This is simple, and it has the additional quality that Energy has its own Mass equivalence, from the famous (and productive) Einstein equation for that equivalence - the "E = m * c^2" equation. So, we are transforming the world into action, in which vast fossil carbon and hydrocarbon deposits are being dug up out of the ground to create energy, which is very close to the dimensions of action, and which has its own mass equivalence.

It is POSSIBLE human beings are trying to recover the original relationship between mass and energy, and then incorporate the mass-energy equivalence into the forms of life itself. It IS after all possible to do that; just consider the food energy you consume, and its mass equivalence. It is possible to substitute or displace to some extent in this equation. Just what this implies is not yet clear. The presumption is that life can be improved in some way by taking the mass-energy equivalence into account. This means assuming that the energy of the food you eat and are, has some E=m*c^2 relationship to the mass you eat and are.

So you consume, say, 1500 Calories a day, and your weight is thus and so. How does THAT energy fit into THAT mass? In the experience of this person, scientist, the first time I considered that, the mass and energy went off in the plane of their mutual equivalence, it all seemed to disappear quickly. That was years and years ago. People who live and work near atomic energy are familiar with it. Revamping life on earth in terms of the mass-energy equivalence and in terms, too, of the speed of light, the quantum and certain other physical laws recently discovered, seems to be more in the path of the future evolution of mankind and life on Earth, than does systematic destruction of the planet and reduction of its living organisms to inanimate material.

It is NOT FAIR and NOT JUST to accuse persons who are concerned with such monstrous misconstruction, of fundamentalism. The entire planet's industrial might is determinedly, using machines, reducing the Earth and life on it to the whole range from high order low entropy forms to utterly chaotic, randomized rubble. Destroying the Earth, by being ignorant parts of some kind of evolved surrounding regime that is the result of evolution taking up the Dynastic form, is error. Not protesting it.

Reduction of the Earth to a fourth part was begun with three great Pyramids as if they were three of the four largest planets. Yet we do not even know whether the goal of the world's industries is to make that fourth part good, or merciful, or a garden, or habitable, too ordered for life or too chaotic for life. We have no idea whether dynasty's undefined fourth quarter will have any wildlife, any large animals, any Bluefin Tuna, Atlantic Cod, Alaska Herring, songbirds in it. It's not at all clear whether any of the hundreds of species on the Endangered Species list is viewed by Dynasty with alarm, or whether Dynasty has the capacity for conscience regarding the dozens or hundreds of species that have already been extinguished by the callous, insensate hand of the human so slavishly and statistically serving it.

Recession is Caused by Matters of Vital Necessity

Recession, if it comes, should not be regarded as entirely an unmixed curse. There are serious advantages to be gained by a stronger-than- usual period of moderation. This is not escapism. For six thousand years the entire world has been on a bird and dog struggle to reach the Moon - depicted in the famous Egyptian painting of bird-headed men sailing a winged boat to the great orbs in the sky ahead. Moreover this was merely the rational depiction of the intended journey, for the moon compelled direction throughout all the billion years in the history of life on Earth with the influence of the tides.

Instead of taking an uncontrolled hiatus as devolved between Egyptian dynasties, the world at present has the leadership and communications to understand what would be gained through such a period of rest, and how to winnow it away from the agony of struggle and belief that it is nothing but uncontrollable misery. Capitalism's marvelous success came at a price - that of unleashing species as information in economic currency and the untrammeled power of machines - and it revealed that aggression can make itself a part of any endeavor. A period of quiet would help resolve some of these complex issues.

This is similar to the way workmen take a break when they know they have not yet reached the point of such exhausting that they takes on an increasing risk of accident. That kind of planning is a part of every job definition involving risk and danger. Every labor union fights for the right to take that break. Certainly the intensity of world economic activity does involve danger.

In a planned hiatus it would be among the responsibilities taken on to determine the essential industries, business, and activities, and then deregulate, devolve or, if necessary, enforce shutdowns of industries that are of such intensely aggressive development that they are stretching rational justification in the present stage of development of civilization's progress.

As for the 'stage of civilization' it is appropriate to believe that the essentials of world development will endure many thousands of years - food, housing and other shelter, clothing, and moderated forms of education, transportation, and the mining of coal, oil and other minerals. The world would be devolving its industry with the intention that it shall provide good environments for children, perhaps for several generations, without the massively aggressive industrially driven consumer purchases and military's aggressive conglomeration of vast numbers of excessive weapons of mass destruction of which the United States already owns a vast number.

Certain events have already taken place in the right direction. Deregulation of airplanes, iron and steel, clothing and textiles, banking and the destruction of nerve gas stockpiles have already taken place.

The new participation by government in ownership in banking is a much needed step because of its very moderation. However, it does not address some of the most bloated kinds of development such as transportation. It's well known the transportation industry has a great deal of power in government today. This should be curtailed. Perhaps it would be a good step equivalent to that taken in banking and finance, if government insisted on taking a percent - say twelve percent (12%) - of fossil fuel industrial stocks. Why twelve? That pointed number is aimed at the atomic weight of carbon, which is (except for certain scarce isotopes) twelve. Don't let that technical detail derail the importance of showing at least some sign of positive conscious intention for human intervention in over development before collapse becomes unrestrained.

A hiatus, since the Apollo flights to the Moon and subsequence success was achieved, is not merely desirable. It is inevitable, and the present recessionary trend is its positive manifestation, its most logical form, and, if the panic is removed, a good idea the time of which came before anybody knew it was coming. The Chinese character for Crisis is composed of two other characters; Danger and Opportunity. The military's senseless habit of overcoming danger with blind faith and massive destructiveness was learned through thousands of years of primitive brutality in which soldiers were nothing more than expendable peasants that could be made angry and armed. That was part of the realm that named the marvelously successful Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and it came to a good thing. Perhaps it ended the time when the Pentagon is utterly blind to danger no matter what it costs.

As for the space projects, most now planned are well designed, but it can be announced that projects beyond earth's orbit, and perhaps the Moon and Mars, will be viewed with considerable jaundice. Those outer planets will not change in another hundred million years and no hurry is indicated. Projects toward them are frightfully expensive and very misleading to the public (some of which is hungry) waiting with bated breath for space aliens to be discovered so that the military can prove its existence and overkill capability was ever justified.

Far too much of military armaments and space exploration is still pseudo-justified at great cost to sensible leaderships resources which can find better use in human activities that do some earthly good for people.

Earth observation satellites would be given high priority - surveillance of weather, volcanic activity, flooding, storms, croplands, minerals, wildlife, pollution, temperature and other factors is already highly developed and should not be touched. It is relatively cheap for what it does, especially compared with idiotic manned flights to Mars. Even returning to the Moon is an extravagance, though it has been justified somewhat by the illusion that the Apollo success has been drifting into Myth and no longer commands the respect of the planet. However, the Apollo flights were successful in fact and they did change the Earth's concepts - even wild primitive concepts - a good deal. More change will occur with the second series. The next series of Moon flights is also good because it will include as great a variety of people as possible.

Volcano and earthquake prediction systems are also supremely good projects and should be continued. They are not costly.

But the world must bite the transportation dilemma head-on. Take a bite of the approaching hood ornaments. The present transportation system is NOT a sustainable economic factor.

The world population problem must also be addressed with more courage. Invite more people who don't have children to lend their understanding of what makes life happy that is not ever more children. Courageously address the solution in the public media, of limiting children. The conflict that will ensnare with certain religions like the Mormon church should be made enlightening. Address the possibility - simply make it known that it might be possible - of limiting ownership of motor vehicles. Just who, and how many, and where - all that needs to be gone over with a fine tooth global extensive media discussion for years before the really good solutions come to light.

Destruction of the world's wild species is something being imposed on this lonely planet without regard to the fact that it is almost instantaneous in the span of time in which wildlife have been, and will continue to be, important to the human species. Compare it with a million years: the massive, vast, overwhelming and monstrously violent slaughter of the world's wildlife began with the invention of firearms and machines like steam and internal combustion. It has gone unabated and insensate since then because the two entities being pitted against each other are MACHINES AS SPECIES, and the wildlife as wild species even if sentient beings, and they are purely helpless against the machines, powerless to fend against the destruction of their existence. Extinction is forever.

Already, human beings no longer resonate with each other in the spectra of hundreds of extinct species. Human beings almost cannot recognize life's resonance with each other at all. It has been narrowed to specific terms defined by machines such as radio, television, portable telephone, and permitted conversations in permitted languages. It is almost certain that human depression is a real consequence of the concrete, steel and machines; the regimentation and authority imposed on every and all kinds of activity; the rampant, endless slaughter of wildlife; the constant stream of death emerging as animals are murdered on the roads and highways; the bizarre theaters that supposedly define human consciousness; and other factors that would be truly absurd if they were not so fascist and destructive.

Recession, if it comes to extensive economic collapse, should be regarded as not entirely an unmixed curse. Much good will come of doing some planning as if it was caused by absolutely
vital factors that mankind is not at liberty to refuse.

Contemporary Economics in the Long Run

It takes facing some of the grim truths to see the fields of extensive good that exist in nature. Concepts are sometimes divided not by mountains or seas but by hedges, creeks or ditches partly avoided through nothing more than habit.

Whether catastrophically or not, economic and financial systems are in immense change that should be foreseen more effectively. Electric eels established electricity a hundred million years ago, and recently human beings launched stone tools, fire, ceramics, houses and sanctuaries, writing, energy-using inanimate machines and in substantially greater depth than ever before, silicon.

Knowing the enemy as confusion and unanticipated events, and knowing oneself (the economic and financial systems) are, as always, most-important assets in winning.

Fortunately, vigilance in America is high in every measure. World economic stability increases continuously, yet technology is extremely new, almost instantaneous on the evolutionary scene. This must be understood better.

By now the distribution of money resembles the distribution of that ancient vital necessity, water. Each has its own well known but distinct problems. Just as with water, money is volatile. Reservoirs must be covered or at least guarded or fenced and watched with vigilance lest they be poisoned. Just so, financial systems must be both in detail and in large, protected with vigilance lest they be deceived.

Printing inflationary fiat money is temptingly easy. After all, mathematical progressions in the numerical integers, even if divided into pennies, are potentially infinite. If we can have a trillion dollar economy, why not a quadrillion? $10^18? $10^23? $ 10^34? $10^81?

That was one of the symptoms of the German Reich. Deutschmarks were being carried in wheelbarrows, and used as wallpaper. A dollar bill is not an electron, yet a coulomb of electric charge is only 1.6^19 electrons - a mere 16 million trillion. 16 gigagig electrons. That's where Zimbabwe is going now- toward physical reality the hard way. Is the dollar doing that?

Whatever currency units exchange, must eventually be faced by their makers. To this end, the uses of money must be understood. How does it change the universe to exchange a basket of fish, for a basket of wheat? a barrel of wine for a cartload of bricks? Assume two different instances of economic activity using substantial items in trade, with the sole difference that the net outcome in one instance occurs solely through barter, and the other instance occurs using value exchange tokens.

The same general outcome exists as in the half billion years of natural competition: everything is eventually winnowed to the finest scales of existence - molecules and elemental atoms. If money is used and the finest of details is not faced by planners, then eventually the economic system is drawn to a halt, until the details are reconciled. Not merely the pennies, but the molecular consequences of economic activity attained whether using money or not, dollars or pennies, pounds, lira, ren or yen.

Quantum electrodynamics is anchored in the relatively motionless exterior galaxies - actually in the space-time between them. Quantum electrodynamics dictates that human activity take the nitty-gritty quantum detail of everything we do into account. Count your atomic charges.

Yes, count.

Another was the appearance of extensive databases on human beings, which could be mined for the selection of distinct classes. Today massive databases exist on the American population, all waiting for a 'moment' of some kind.

Such dedication once existed to fly to the Moon in inadequately designed rocket ships, that the Nazis had 3,000 of them constructed, hidden in caves in the mountains of Germany by the time the war ended, and was already using them in war. The English Channel was the first rocket test range for moon rockets, and populous London was the test target. Grimly, it was never necessary to burn any persons to go to the Moon. Philosophers did not know the scale of the universe makes us feel infinitely tiny, yet human beings are not atoms.

Germany had prison camps. (America is now almost croaking under vast numbers of prisons.)

Germany's borders were sealed and dangerous to cross. The United States borders are under such increased control that many persons fear to travel to even Canada or Mexico. I have my Enhanced Driver License, though it has an RFID that automatically files me in a massive national database if I cross a border.

Fortunately some of the worst atrocities have been corrected.

German excesses were constructed on misinterpretation of the unknown future, in which the entire world would be one economy, one United Nations, one Universal Right, one whole planet of people enthralled with flights to the moon and planets and even stars. Yet Germany was a nation of human beings, just as every nation is now.

When the United States is in flight to the Moon sometime in the 2020's the entire world will be united in ways we cannot anticipate well, or even dream. Many events which seem they might be terrible problems that must be fended with guns and guards, fences and prisons, won't be problems at all, but blessings.

Racial integration was once anticipated badly, and thought to forebode terrible problems. Now it is widely known as a blessing, and does not even need to be disguised. I ride the bus, and see people of all races crowded together, the place is smelly, there are crude people singing rough songs or cursing, and everybody is mumbling.

Yet crowding seems to be another incorrectly anticipated development, and in that light the people are being angels, happy to can be together. They are neighbors, going to their homes in neighborhoods. Perhaps the transportation systems of the 2020's will merely dwarf the transportation systems of today. Impossible to imagine, it is unknown, and fear of the unknown crowds us into uncomfortable conditions (or worse) that one day will be understood as having been never necessary at all.

Futures which cannot be imagined well should not be advanced upon with such haste they result in not knowing what one is about. If it was not possible for the nation so survived the financial "crisis" that occurred last week without massive central-bank distributions of cash, in time it will be just that. Next time events will not be so surprising, nor cause such economic agitation.

A good thing too. Sadly, one can already see people planning how to control the next catastrophe so they can cash in on the monetary glut.

Michael Lewis
Seattle

Atomic Spectra, Solar Spectra and Life on Earth

RECOMMEND ADMINISTRATIVE LONG-TERM STUDY

It is my recommendation that studies be encouraged regarding the nature, logic, modes and energies of wild primitive logic, from the very earliest appearance of quadrature in this star system along the secular evolutionary world-line of life and its relation to human civilization. I know your time is busy.

PERIOD OF STUDY

The following is a result of over twenty years of consciously observing, in the social context, the implications of many of these terms by this author. To the best of this person's knowledge, all these factors are discernable and can be observed by other persons as well though they will be perceived in an individual order.

MY FEAR

My fear is that identifiable raw primordial factors, that affect the actions of the human species, slowly emerge in the world continually, including in and around the United States. These dangers must become the subject of concern in the government. I think the United States is slowly and repeatedly being quartered.

QUARTERING BEYOND MY OWN SELF INTEREST

This is not merely my own quartering in my blessedly safe public housing apartment.

DEEP HOT STUFF

This is fairly deep in the legislative mass. This author does not know of specific, substantial events that could be reported as human activity. Instead, what he finds is what natural history unveils in Atomic Energy spectra in contrast with the Sun's spectrum.

THE AUTHOR IS ON YOUR SIDE

Submitting what information one has is a claim to be a friend, not a foe, but of course my correspondent can remain unconvinced, deeming it insignificant. In this theater the source of aggressive competition does not pay much - fleas and roaches, disease and dog bites are the only terms. Those only prove primitive competition can bite. Terms in the evolutionary time scale can be revealed as news by atomic spectra which appear in the light of the distinctly colored newspaper of the Sun's Fraunhofer spectrum.

TIME AND ENERGY: ATOMIC ENERGY LEVELS AND SOLAR SPECTRA

The factors described here are difficult to see and it requires time to understand them if one does not already. They are slow to be perceived, because they appear in energy spectra ("Atomic Energy Levels" by Charlotte Moore, United States Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, NSRDS-NBS 35, LOC 75-609945) which the author has studies since around 1982. NBS now has excellent and better spectra on the NIST web site at http://www.nist.gov/srd/nsrds.htm .

COMPARISON OF ENERGY LEVELS WITH SUN'S SPECTRUM

These terms are studied in comparison with, or relative to, the solar absorption spectrum known as the Fraunhofer Spectrum. That spectrum is better observed now, See Gibson's "The Quiet Sun" by NASA. A recent, far better spectrum by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), is at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000815.html

GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE AND ENERGY-TIME CONJUGACY

Evolution since a billion years ago proceeded under these elements and in these energy spectra. Energy in particular, because quantum mechanics correctly (meaning very accurately, everywhere, every time) describes how energy is conjugate with time. The appearance of primitive, even primordial competition and aggression can be observed in these terms.

ORGANIC ELEMENT SPECTRA

Simply use the organic elements Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Calcium and several others - now silicon - to follow activity on Earth. Particularly C1 and C2, N1 and N2, O1 and O2. All can be followed up to high potential bonding in organisms, and oxygen can be followed up to O6 in ice.

LEGISLATIVE DEPTH; RECOMMEND ASSISTANT DIGEST DOCUMENT The result is fairly deep in the legislative mass and somewhat alarming. Its preliminary reading should be given to an assistant, who knows the needs of your organization best. In addition your assistant's digest will be is more competent than this rambling, scattered writer's composition.

PERSISTENCE OF POGROMS IN HISTORY Pogroms appear too persistently in history to ignore similarities between the 1917 Communist revolution in Russia, the 1927 emergence of the Nazi regime in Germany and the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.

PRIMORDIAL COMPETITION SLOWLY EMERGING

The most conservative interpretation this citizen has is that primordial competition of the kind described below is emerging in South and Central America and that it is likely to break out in those places before it appears in the United States.

UNITED STATES NOT IMMUNE

However, the United States is not immune. It exists in land which is the sparse human inhabitants were quickly suppressed, but the issue which seems to underlie pogroms of the kind described emerge, not from human issues alone, but from the native issues -- the plant and animal wildlife which underlie the human species. War on plants and animals, such as clear cutting (such as the Clearing of the Highlands in the British Isles) and decimation of the bison and control of populations of many other species, is not enough to prevent raw competition from merging with the human population. The prevalence of animal totems suggests one path. Lions, elks, moose, panthers, beavers, wildcats, alligators and many other large animals include carnivorous, exceedingly ancient and primitive predators.

ABSORPTION OF TERMS OF PRIMITIVE COMPETITION

These competitive instincts are absorbed in scholastic, financial, corporate, military and other competition. Primitive competition is sophisticated enough to be highly valued in corporate headquarters, for only one example. By now, logic from primordial competition can be found in computer software and in aggressive, autonomous robot killing machines with a very long lead time into the future.

SAVAGE NAMES

Military system and civilian vehicle names include many derived from the peoples still referred to in the U.S. Declaration of Independence as "merciless Indian savages" - names and totems and animals such as Apache, Cherokee, Navaho, Eagle, Barracuda and Stingray.

SIMILARITIES IN GERMANY AND CAMBODIA

The similarity with what emerged in Germany is only because European civilization arose from the Roman Empire. That is why the United States is seeing the emergence of potentials that resemble BOTH Germany and Cambodia. If the United States had been settled by Chinese, for instance, or Russians, then primordial aggression and primordial competition would be emerging in the avenues, arteries, and veins of those cultures. If the United States had remained sparsely settled, more, but smaller pogroms would have occurred, as the small tribes eliminated their weak and offensive.

DIVIDE AND QUARTER

As for those who are targeted, the usual dichotomy and quartering of nature holds:

The weak are counted as among those less likely to be protected at extremes. By itself, that is not a condemnation, but life is hard.

The offensive and weak are more heavily condemned, perhaps imprisoned, beaten, or worse.

The strange and peculiar are viewed with alarm, and thus enjoy less food and worse shelter, or worse, segregated.

Those who are actually evil according to the mores and laws of the day, are at least identified, perhaps punished, perhaps worse.

MODERN UNDESIRABLES

Many categories can be identified in modern human societies as well. Religious convictions cause punishments to be inflicted on some. Marriage laws are peculiar and harsh in some places. The insane are more heavily discriminated in certain countries, less so in others. In Arab countries life was so harsh that thieves lose their hands. In the United States, several different kinds of offenders have been distinctly identified -- child and woman molesters, drug addicts, Jews, gays, atheists, communists, etc.

APPEARANCES IN TODAY'S MEDIA

It is possible already to see the general quarter in which those are all being loosely and informally classified, but which as yet is unlabeled. Among the left can be found informal groups which spill the beans readily, for instance at the "Zombie Survival and Defense Wiki" ( http://www.zombiesurvivalwiki.com/ ) which is extremely bizarre. The offending groups or classes are merely loosely described as "zombies", which is perhaps in the predictive tense as in "That rat's already a dead man" or the movie "Dead Man Walking" (under the sea). It is an approach by the aggressive which denies the temporal order of their target, and so labels the target in advance with their goal, its death. The Goths are a similar cult. Both are not themselves the primordial cause of the increase in primitive potentials for violence: that comes from the entire base of the biosphere.

THE ARAB OCEAN

It was notable that when the United States invaded Iraq, the Arab concept of the ocean was unleashed downstream from the American people; for a few moments it seemed there was ocean all around, but it soon passed and is now merely a humidity.

AGGRESSIVE HUMAN ACTIVITY MAY OR MAY NOT BE PRECEDENT

Again, those who are actively aggressive now may, OR MAY NOT, invoke and employ ancient primordial animal instincts. At the same time, living plant and animal instincts of the world are ongoing activity, and comprise a current of evolutionary competition which tries to emerge in any creature which takes up competitive instincts wherever it can find them. But these are when times are good.

ANTIQUITY OF POGROMS

Pogroms have been a plague of evil since human civilization began, and a secular, not religious scenario exists. They are notorious in the history of Central America, existed in the United States Southwest, and took place in many other places in the world. It is a fair bet the occurred in biblical antiquity and the ancient Middle East as there are several descriptions in the Bible. At first I thought the descriptions in Numbers, Judges, Kings and other books in the King James Bible, as well as in secular history such as Caesar's Commentaries, were perhaps fables or exaggeration... Now they do not appear to be.

SOPHISTICATION OF PRIMITIVE NONHUMAN COMPETITION

Raw primitive competition lies at every interaction between living organisms in nature. The competition emerges, arising wherever it finds any of several kinds of places in the world above it. One of these is aggression, as in armed conflict already existing. Another is abstracted competition as in economics. Race is a frequent causa bella. Competition in nature is refined, sophisticated beyond average belief. Wild predators have been bred by their relationships to prey on herds with specific attack strategies including encouraging, negotiating with the herd to persuade it to winnow out a weak, young, old, sick or other straggler. Wild competition is one on one, eat or be eaten, and ranges from the molecular competition of virus and cell to giant claws and fangs; traps, surprise, stealth, pursuit, poison, toxin, venom, explosives, electrocution, deliberate infection, webs, glues and adhesives, and the treachery of laying eggs in still living victims.

FUNDAMENTAL COMPETITION IN NATURE CLEAN AND DIRTY

Those are the kinds of instincts that in wild nature exist even in healthy clean forests. When they are under shabby floorboards or dark and spider infested lightless basements, there danger exists of which the nation should be informed. The author found himself in such conditions for a time, before taking refuge with Seattle Housing Authority, and is composing this in an SHA apartment where he has lived over fourteen years.

WILD COMPETITION NEGOTIATES BOTH WIN-WIN AND ZERO SUM TERMS

Wild predatory competition also seeks such negotiations in the roots underlying human relationships with instinct, especially instinct imported from other lands in which wildlife and habitat consist of species distinct from the native wildlife in the United States. Freshly imported instinct does not engender quickly, and as a result its ancient instincts for peace, which certainly exist alongside ancient instincts of predation, do not become strong. But predation is fast. This factor is not surprising even in Cambodia, where the outbreak of pogrom was in a land that was inhabited since ancient times by all the populations involved in the transgression -- both victims and victors alike.

HUMAN GROUPS BOTH DRAW UPON, AND ARE IMPELLED BY, WILD INSTINCTS

These compel human groups most aggressively determined to survive and thrive to dominate in order to be secure. Thus, human groups wield competition drawn from wild natural competition and predation. That predation, of carnivore upon herds or groups most often of herbivores, is more primitive but it communicates to the fleeing herd several messages that were destined to lead the herd to an abstract competition for supremacy within itself. Thus, herds accept the relentless logic of tolerating some predation because the predator relents when the herd casts out a weakling. Predators accept the idea that they depend on the herd, and so predator reproduction is stiffly limited by the severity of competition for mates.

FLEEING ALSO THE UNDESIRABLE

Animals fleeing in a herd usually ran fast enough to cause the weak, young, sick and old to be left behind, and these became the more usual prey animals for predatory carnivores. It was not lost upon the stronger that the slower had been taken. They lived because they drew on everything they had, including instincts that were more than merely those which they had learned in their own lives. Instincts became attuned transcendent, and organisms flee or fight with instincts that span many generations - far longer than the lifetime of the individual organism itself.

ANCIENT INSTINCT TO SACRIFICE OR ABANDON WEAK A HUMAN POTENTIAL

For human beings, danger arises when the human population realizes even faintly that it can profit by rejecting the weak, sick and old early in the chase. It became instinct to do that, through millions of years of adaptation. Adaptation took place forever among many different fields of interest and many different species and types of competition all through the time and places when organisms existed. In the aftermath of war are remembered (Schindler's List), benevolent self-sacrificing actions by heroes to save as many as possible of the rejected, afflicted, condemned and targeted.

PREPARATION IS EXTENSIVE AND SECRET; OUTBREAK IS SUDDEN AND VIOLENT

But in the initial phases of a war, which Sun-Tsu calls "The gradual opening of deceit" or "All war is based on deceit" the deceit is extensive, and violence does not emerge until many secret premises are set. The emergence of violence is rapid and overwhelming and few have the resources to understand and take action. That was extremely obvious in Germany's sudden actions. The Cambodian story is not well enough understood yet by the American people, although Public Broadcasting, PBS, had one good show on it as observed in retrospect by survivors.

QUARTERING AND MORE QUARTERING; QUARTERING CUBED

Almost anything of value in nature eventually quarters the organisms that use or participate in it, until it resolves the better and worse, and the living and the dead. This is certain to have occurred with the predation by carnivores upon herds, and it is certain to have occurred within herds. They had only to resolve the difference between living and dying, and strong and weak, to prefer a course which rejected the weak. As a rule they were tolerated when no predation was about, but the weak were last to get food and water, and the last to mate or the first to become effectively sterile and sexually incompetent. Herd animals are familiar with each other and they compete amongst themselves so that the herd knows which among it are leaders, which are strong followers, and which are weak and best to cast out to danger.

PRIMORDIAL ORIGIN OF QUARTERING

THE BARYCENTRIC STAR SYSTEM

The imbalance arises mainly from Jupiter, which causes the gravitational center of mass of the solar system to be outside the surface of the Sun. In other words, the Earth's orbit is not exactly centered on the Sun, even taking its elliptical shape into consideration. The Earth orbits wherever the balance is between Jupiter and the Sun, and it is never inside the visible surface of the Sun. Jupiter, the most massive accretion in the early stages of formation of the planets, must have begun forming earlier, and the quadrupole moment caused Jupiter to have four distinctly largest moons. Not only that - the quadrupole moment is so important in physics that it caused the entire Solar System to have four distinctly largest planets. Jupiter's vast mass separated the barycenter from the Sun early in the formation of the system, and once that was distinct from the Sun, four distinctly largest planets were inevitable.

TETRAPODS AND QUADRUPEDS

Four became an important number in the evolution of life on this planet in the solar system because of the quadrupole moment of this particular star system. Tetrapods are the four-limbed creatures that dominate the planet, and that includes human and a few other beings that stand on, fly or swim with two of them. Quadrupeds, including human beings on all fours, do not necessarily know of the barycenter of the solar system, but it causes the integer IV, 4, four to be an important factor in evolution. Just so, four distinctly largest extensions of the forms of metazoan creatures was inevitable.

HUMAN SOCIETY UNDERLAIN BY COMPETITION, NOT CHAOS

Human society is underlain by these same instincts. The gradual quartering of any flourishing, prosperous civilization is inevitable. Whether human beings can attain a durable, stable pattern of dealing with this is not known. It has not been controlled, stabilized or defeated yet.