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.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
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.
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.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
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?
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?
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
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.
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.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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.
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.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
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.
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.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
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.
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.
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