During only about twenty generations, so many new developments have occurred that the entire temporal order of the Earth was restructured. Increasingly clear distinctions are now made between the past and the future, in terms of increasingly longer spans of time. The history of civilization is much better resolved and a consistent version of that history is being provided by historians all over the world. Not only is it better coordinated between different civilizations and nations, but it extends back farther in time.
Recent archaeological discoveries in Peru and other parts of South America up to five thousand years ago now appear to be consistent with events in Old World for a similar time. This consistency makes it possible to have an equivalent meaningful time sense for human destiny. Whereas once it was necessary either to limit predictions to about one century, or else cast predictions in unimaginable futures such as millions of years, having a consistent 5,000 year history provides a more sensible basis for consciousness that the future, too, is to surely extend into a 5,000 year destiny.
Of course that number is not rigidly set by anything. It has to do with the discovery of many archaeological remnants everywhere in the world, that when radioisotope dated, range to about five thousand years ago. The time that passed from the beginning of human civilization to the attainment of footsteps on the Moon was just a hand of millennia. It is neither unnoticed, nor noticed by all things. One wonders if there is a six and seven attached, those numbers being fundamental atomic numbers in the element carbon, vital to life, and nitrogen, main constituent of the atmosphere and the medium of matters of the spirit.
To have five thousand sensible years in the recent past, and another five thousand years in the future, places the world in the middle of ten thousand years. It makes the idea of planning the world's destiny in terms of the future five thousand years more than merely inviting, convenient, or interesting. The critical issues - nuclear weapons, severity of the human population, destruction of earth's living species, and pollution of the small ecological system of this only planet we have to live on, utterly vital, and five thousand years is neither too long to be impossible to plan for, nor too brief to be a challenging and valuable period of concern.
It is no longer necessary to struggle with ideas like "The God of Millions of Years". To be sure, there probably is a god of such vast reaches of time, because if spirit emerged with life, and life adapts to advantage, then life has evolved god for at least half a billion years. Satellites like LAGEOS, ETALON, STARLETTE and AJISAI are certain to span a hundred thousand years to eternity. Five thousand years is only urban planning for some cities already.
Mankind set out to construct the path to the Moon five thousand years ago, after it was probably devolved on the human species for one or two millennia. Mankind did not know much about the heavens nor the spirits, but knew it had no choice, knew only that it obeyed. Human beings, simply close to stock in understanding, simply began trying to reach the Moon by constructing mountains.
Of course the results were both magnificent for their times, and yet tragic in ways that remain to this day. Especially after the first peaceful, trading civilizations changed into more formally strict civilizations that, though still trading, also imposed more stringent requirements on their peoples - often with force. It happened all over the world - in Egypt, in the Middle East, India, South America, and people toiled and struggled and were broken. Worse, they did not know who compelled them except that those who led them told them, and were probably telling the truth or what they believed was the truth, that the Gods made them do it.
Worse yet were decisions that groups, classes or religions of people who were not contributing to whatever the Gods at the time seemed to want, rapidly enough, were expendable and should be eliminated. That was probably when human beings began to reproduce rapidly, probably by offsetting annual mating cycles and requiring that love was to be a pleasant and enjoyable happy time after work any time of year so that children could be born. The only goal was to reach the Moon and often that goal was obscured by temporal and sometimes brutal causes.
Animal nature is not very bright, and underlies much of that which passes for intelligence in the human species. Believe me, I know.
Now, now a decade into this twenty first century, no excuses remain. There is no need to relegate human beings to brutal toil in order to reach the Moon. There is no need for subhuman or degrading conditions of existence. There is an awful need for prolonged and sustained peace, a peace to which human beings can become accustomed, and a peace during which they can rest and grow confident after five thousand years of war and bloody plunder.
Here is a problem:
If human beings do not prove to the Gods that comprise the half billion and more years of instincts of the Planet,
Who invested the planet's monkeys and men into a ferocious struggle to reach the Moon these past five thousand years,
That the Moon is already attained and that Project Apollo actually took place and the Orion Project is already attained
(Of course it did, we know that for certain in literate rationality, but the instincts of the planet do not know that for certain.)
then,
With the huge payload of nuclear and thermonuclear, bacteriological and chemical warheads waiting and ready in the arsenals,
Some Brutus is likely to end up obeying his interpretation of the Gods, and
The Gods are likely to find the brutes who will obey them, and
Together they will launch another destruction of the world so that
The Gods can make the planet's Monkeys try it again.
That Brutus would make Dr. Strangelove look like a civilized man, even a tree hugger.
To be sure, optimism is optimal, and it is worth appreciating that every state in the world seems to share concern for eliminating all weapons of mass destruction. The recent coming into phase and coherence of world history has made the attainment of space flight so much a signal that the time has come for peace for the entire world, and relief from the ignorant striving for the Moon, that the peace making activity can itself take on a more determined, confident, and stronger role.
Complete nuclear disarmament has not only mercy and justice to recommend it. Right, truth, and the concerted opinions of thousands of workers in every field of work and in every country on the planet are also on the side of disarmament. Only a few profit-seeking groups exploiting and exploited by the imperfections of capitalism which has made money into a false god, remain. They do not have the bulk of good sense, nor even the money, on their side.
No longer shall we wage war amongst ourselves for the unresolved but commanding Heavens, Spirits, Gods and instincts of billions of years for nothing more than flying to the Moon.
Let's all settle down and get several nations onto the Moon in the next few
decades and put an end to war.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
What Now in the Sudden Aftermath of Five Thousand Years?
A great deal of controversy surrounds the question of investing human and industrial capital in colonizing the Moon. The Moon is bleak, airless and waterless and the cost of development is extremely great. Also, it will continue to orbit the Earth for millions or billions of years, so no hurry exists. What human beings do or do not do about the Moon now is important.
It is early in the game, and the investment in Earth itself is exremely important especially in the light of the considerable and substantial problems of poverty, severe population overload, destruction of the natural environment, rapacious consumption of wildlife as food, and the existence of some factor of misconstruction in present economic directions.
It may help to look at this problem as one of the instability and chaos attendant singular events, in this case, the attainment of the Apollo project after five or more thousand years of dedicated construction and war toward that end.
Mathematically, what comes next takes place in a field of envelopes on the time axis. These envelopes have in common that to some extent they consist of
1. A Gaussian distribution around the event of attaining flight to the Moon and determination of what it is;
2. An exponential decay of obsolete developments which either existed before human constructions or were misconstructions from the start;
3. Logarithmic ascents and descents to a norm, of new, useful developments.
4. A curve which resembles the Plank black body energy-wavelength curve. Several markedly temporal events are distinct in history. This curve appears in economics.
5. The first pyramid constructions and the Taoist statistics which emerged about five thousand years ago. These appear to both be divergent branches away from the indigenous Earth.
6. Three thousand years Greeks discovered the ideal and description of the state as Republic. With it came the immediate realization that determination of the nature of light and the action, energy and power constituted a set of paramount goals. It was not until the 1500’s that extensive progress began in these two vital questions.
7. Two thousand years ago many things appeared with the Roman empire, among them estimates of the distance to the Moon; the resurrection of the Republic; the appearance and resurrection of Christ as a humanized integration of the spirit and species of man; first uses of artificial electricity; extensive bridge, aqueducts and roads; and military conquest and settlement of vast amounts of otherwise uncoordinated human civilizations. All this continued for 1500 years.
8. In the Sixteenth Century, the development of the printing press, optics, and several other technological inventions including the steam engine, which heralded vast supplies of energy to free human and other sentient beings from burden of irksome toil. Discovery of the New World - a euphemism that comprehends both the Western Hemisphere (which actually was already inhabited by human beings, so quite discovered) and the Moon as a small airless object orbiting the Earth, and the other planets revealed with telescopes.
9. During the 17th and 18th centuries, mathematics and physics, especially mechanics, emerged strongly along with the Independence of a Constitutional Republic in the United States.
10. In the early 1900's, discovery of the quantum of action and a resulting flood of new understanding of the atom; discovery of the exterior galaxies. The twentieth century also saw the emergence of global war in pursuit of the attainment of the Moon began.
11. Global war, involving massive numbers of deaths, commits the world to the immediate goal of attainment of flight to the Moon; nuclear energy emerges with nuclear reactors and atomic weapons.
12. Actual attainment of the Moon, with the decisive discoveries that it contains no inhabitants, no air, no water, no arable land, no good farmland, no enemies and no friends and that would be the condition for billions of years, apart from what human beings to or make of it. This was accompanied by naive visions of what lay in extremely distant futures, which gave much weight to those who suggested development of the Moon was urgent.
In fact it turned out that about the only thing to do on the Moon is look at Earth, something which can be accomplished by robot cameras at far less expense, and thus sparing resources for the far more productive activity of near Earth orbit. For each of the intervals suggested by the events of the past, there is an interval in the future, of accommodation of those events or of events which transpired since that time of their inception.
Among other things, at the time of the Apollo flights to the Moon, which were the first in all Earth's history, the world was sharply divided into the developed industrial market countries which were largely in Europe and North America. Other great nations were emerging though still imperiled by war and transfiguring revolution. The rest of the world, approximately half its population, lived in primitive conditions of existence and had few technological resources though communications was beginning.
The promise brought by communications itself caused such hurried panic to enforce what it seemed to imply that it resembled an opening day sale at a big department store, with people being trampled to death in the crowds lunging for the new wares. That was trumpeted as "the communist revolution"; meanwhile, others announced that human beings would be turned into robots, docile obedient slaves. Neither was true of course. The social revolutions were largely hasty ill planned moves attempting to match the patient resolution that existed in the Roman construction, Constitution and Republican traditions. It is only to be understood in the future whether the massive wars of the 1900's were necessary or not.
After all, it is possible that if the determination had not been to reach the Moon BEFORE the end of the second millennium, the emerging new millennium could well have invited global apathy and a resolution only to reach the Moon within another thousand years. Or, to leave the attainment itself until AFTER the new millennium, that is, after Y2K, would place the beginning in a shadow, with war having occurred anyway. With the race to reach the Moon prior to Y2K - actually taking place thirty years earlier - the more substantial second series of flights to the Moon can be better understood from the beginning, comprehended by more people who, with better communications, live in better conditions of existence and will likely benefit more directly from the event. Possibly more important, human beings worldwide are likely to perceive that they benefit from the second series of Moon flights.
Instead, technological industries presented the entire population of the Earth with telephones, radio, television, computers and the internet. Most people became, politically, much more moderate-so much so they seemed to be, to visionaries, under some kind of enslaving control. In fact, with communications, entire populations were skimpy turning to the work at hand, to improve the disposition of the world which had been so torn by war, exploitation, mining, rapacious slaughter of sentient beings as food chemicals; and other difficulties.
Eventually long-term human existence on the Moon, Mars and possibly a few other places in the Solar System seem likely. They do not seem to be inevitably permanent at this time, if by permanent is meant millions of years. Within the century, long-term might mean months or years. By the end of the new millennium, long-term could mean lifetimes - centuries and more. It depends on Earth's consensus, whether the planet in its evolutionary context and without the imagined threat of aliens from space, decides it is important or not.
The point about those who proclaim urgency to establish long-term settlement of the Moon and Mars as soon as possible is that the decisions involved do not involve those who live today. They involve those who are to be living when the ideas are considered in the future. IT is timely now, to be preparing the second series of Moon flights. In the initial phases it was believed that 2020 was a good estimate. Yet in the light of understanding and knowledge brought by the Apollo series, there is no mandatory schedule, and the actual date may be earlier, or later, with little difficulty.
For one thing, other nations such as China and the European Union, possibly Russia, India, possibly a South American economic union, are all interested in the ca 2020 Moon flights. The result may be that some collaborate with the United States or with each other, which could mean the Moon would have new footsteps on it sooner. Or other important world activities, such as conservation, may become so important in the judgment of new people, that the project is given lower priority. Perhaps the 'second series' of moon flights will span several decades, and consist of several flights by several different nations representing several different main streams development in human civilization.
In the 1980's, NASA measured the rate at which the Solar System and Earth in it move around the Milky Way Galaxy. Within the great firmament of exterior galaxies exist the three rotating celestial planes - Galactic, Ecliptic, and Equatorial - which define right in an unambigous and clear way.
For an individual person, the requirement is to be right in all three - only one of 2^3, or eight, possibilities exist which is correct and true in all three. That is quite feasible for any responsible planner.
This is an excellent time for deep and true resolution of the situation in which the Earth finds itself. Young people can depend on the remarkably consistent new understanding of history brought by photography and its successor technologies.
It is early in the game, and the investment in Earth itself is exremely important especially in the light of the considerable and substantial problems of poverty, severe population overload, destruction of the natural environment, rapacious consumption of wildlife as food, and the existence of some factor of misconstruction in present economic directions.
It may help to look at this problem as one of the instability and chaos attendant singular events, in this case, the attainment of the Apollo project after five or more thousand years of dedicated construction and war toward that end.
Mathematically, what comes next takes place in a field of envelopes on the time axis. These envelopes have in common that to some extent they consist of
1. A Gaussian distribution around the event of attaining flight to the Moon and determination of what it is;
2. An exponential decay of obsolete developments which either existed before human constructions or were misconstructions from the start;
3. Logarithmic ascents and descents to a norm, of new, useful developments.
4. A curve which resembles the Plank black body energy-wavelength curve. Several markedly temporal events are distinct in history. This curve appears in economics.
5. The first pyramid constructions and the Taoist statistics which emerged about five thousand years ago. These appear to both be divergent branches away from the indigenous Earth.
6. Three thousand years Greeks discovered the ideal and description of the state as Republic. With it came the immediate realization that determination of the nature of light and the action, energy and power constituted a set of paramount goals. It was not until the 1500’s that extensive progress began in these two vital questions.
7. Two thousand years ago many things appeared with the Roman empire, among them estimates of the distance to the Moon; the resurrection of the Republic; the appearance and resurrection of Christ as a humanized integration of the spirit and species of man; first uses of artificial electricity; extensive bridge, aqueducts and roads; and military conquest and settlement of vast amounts of otherwise uncoordinated human civilizations. All this continued for 1500 years.
8. In the Sixteenth Century, the development of the printing press, optics, and several other technological inventions including the steam engine, which heralded vast supplies of energy to free human and other sentient beings from burden of irksome toil. Discovery of the New World - a euphemism that comprehends both the Western Hemisphere (which actually was already inhabited by human beings, so quite discovered) and the Moon as a small airless object orbiting the Earth, and the other planets revealed with telescopes.
9. During the 17th and 18th centuries, mathematics and physics, especially mechanics, emerged strongly along with the Independence of a Constitutional Republic in the United States.
10. In the early 1900's, discovery of the quantum of action and a resulting flood of new understanding of the atom; discovery of the exterior galaxies. The twentieth century also saw the emergence of global war in pursuit of the attainment of the Moon began.
11. Global war, involving massive numbers of deaths, commits the world to the immediate goal of attainment of flight to the Moon; nuclear energy emerges with nuclear reactors and atomic weapons.
12. Actual attainment of the Moon, with the decisive discoveries that it contains no inhabitants, no air, no water, no arable land, no good farmland, no enemies and no friends and that would be the condition for billions of years, apart from what human beings to or make of it. This was accompanied by naive visions of what lay in extremely distant futures, which gave much weight to those who suggested development of the Moon was urgent.
In fact it turned out that about the only thing to do on the Moon is look at Earth, something which can be accomplished by robot cameras at far less expense, and thus sparing resources for the far more productive activity of near Earth orbit. For each of the intervals suggested by the events of the past, there is an interval in the future, of accommodation of those events or of events which transpired since that time of their inception.
Among other things, at the time of the Apollo flights to the Moon, which were the first in all Earth's history, the world was sharply divided into the developed industrial market countries which were largely in Europe and North America. Other great nations were emerging though still imperiled by war and transfiguring revolution. The rest of the world, approximately half its population, lived in primitive conditions of existence and had few technological resources though communications was beginning.
The promise brought by communications itself caused such hurried panic to enforce what it seemed to imply that it resembled an opening day sale at a big department store, with people being trampled to death in the crowds lunging for the new wares. That was trumpeted as "the communist revolution"; meanwhile, others announced that human beings would be turned into robots, docile obedient slaves. Neither was true of course. The social revolutions were largely hasty ill planned moves attempting to match the patient resolution that existed in the Roman construction, Constitution and Republican traditions. It is only to be understood in the future whether the massive wars of the 1900's were necessary or not.
After all, it is possible that if the determination had not been to reach the Moon BEFORE the end of the second millennium, the emerging new millennium could well have invited global apathy and a resolution only to reach the Moon within another thousand years. Or, to leave the attainment itself until AFTER the new millennium, that is, after Y2K, would place the beginning in a shadow, with war having occurred anyway. With the race to reach the Moon prior to Y2K - actually taking place thirty years earlier - the more substantial second series of flights to the Moon can be better understood from the beginning, comprehended by more people who, with better communications, live in better conditions of existence and will likely benefit more directly from the event. Possibly more important, human beings worldwide are likely to perceive that they benefit from the second series of Moon flights.
Instead, technological industries presented the entire population of the Earth with telephones, radio, television, computers and the internet. Most people became, politically, much more moderate-so much so they seemed to be, to visionaries, under some kind of enslaving control. In fact, with communications, entire populations were skimpy turning to the work at hand, to improve the disposition of the world which had been so torn by war, exploitation, mining, rapacious slaughter of sentient beings as food chemicals; and other difficulties.
Eventually long-term human existence on the Moon, Mars and possibly a few other places in the Solar System seem likely. They do not seem to be inevitably permanent at this time, if by permanent is meant millions of years. Within the century, long-term might mean months or years. By the end of the new millennium, long-term could mean lifetimes - centuries and more. It depends on Earth's consensus, whether the planet in its evolutionary context and without the imagined threat of aliens from space, decides it is important or not.
The point about those who proclaim urgency to establish long-term settlement of the Moon and Mars as soon as possible is that the decisions involved do not involve those who live today. They involve those who are to be living when the ideas are considered in the future. IT is timely now, to be preparing the second series of Moon flights. In the initial phases it was believed that 2020 was a good estimate. Yet in the light of understanding and knowledge brought by the Apollo series, there is no mandatory schedule, and the actual date may be earlier, or later, with little difficulty.
For one thing, other nations such as China and the European Union, possibly Russia, India, possibly a South American economic union, are all interested in the ca 2020 Moon flights. The result may be that some collaborate with the United States or with each other, which could mean the Moon would have new footsteps on it sooner. Or other important world activities, such as conservation, may become so important in the judgment of new people, that the project is given lower priority. Perhaps the 'second series' of moon flights will span several decades, and consist of several flights by several different nations representing several different main streams development in human civilization.
In the 1980's, NASA measured the rate at which the Solar System and Earth in it move around the Milky Way Galaxy. Within the great firmament of exterior galaxies exist the three rotating celestial planes - Galactic, Ecliptic, and Equatorial - which define right in an unambigous and clear way.
For an individual person, the requirement is to be right in all three - only one of 2^3, or eight, possibilities exist which is correct and true in all three. That is quite feasible for any responsible planner.
This is an excellent time for deep and true resolution of the situation in which the Earth finds itself. Young people can depend on the remarkably consistent new understanding of history brought by photography and its successor technologies.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
The Magnetism and Electricity of Evolution toward the Moon
The Magnetism and Electricity of Evolution toward the Moon.
The speed of light and the action quantum are far more fundamental and necessary to the peace and stability of the world than are the existing magnitudes of the Henry and the Farad. Both the Henry and the Farad were arbitrarily assigned quantities. They have a relation to the speed of light through an equation in which they appear as a product, but any value could have been assigned to the Henry, as long as the Farad were changed proportionally. Conversely, any value could have been assigned to the Farad, as long as the Henry were changed accordingly.
The conventional but overly specific equation for the speed of light is
v = 1/SQRT(mu*epsilon)
The numerical value of mu was derived from existing knowledge on the basis of the arbitrary magnetic field constant, the Henry. It was found that the electric field constant derived from the Faraday had the relationship shown to the speed of light. As a result, the electric field constant was given a value which would make not only that equation correct, but would justify the value of the Faraday in relation to the Henry. That was obscure enough to establish a claim that the Henry and Faraday are absolutely fundamental. They are not. Any other set of experiments could have been used to construct a measure of magnetic field strength similar in dimension to the dimensions of the Henry, and if it resulted in a different numerical value, an appropriate value could have been assigned to the electric field constant so that the equation would predict the speed of light correctly.
The motion of light is in a space-time topology in which two dimensions are present along with a velocity dimension. This is sometimes called SU(2) X U(1). Dimensions which are equivalently fundamental include those of distance and time. The units humans choose are not the units on which the universe is based, however. The universe is based, in dimensions of length, on certain sizes of things which are mostly atoms and particular wavelengths. It is also based on such things as the magnitudes of electric charges, the masses of atoms, and magnetic constants such as the Bohr magneton.
These are sometimes called fundamental or atomic constants of nature. Arranging atomic constants as fundamentals accessible to all nations is vital. This is the kind of change in our thinking for which Albert Einstein called. The most obvious way of doing this is through the manufacture of popular goods, commonly called consumer goods, which manifestly display atomic constants and are available worldwide. To a great extent this is taking place already, in the manufacture and distribution of such goods as cameras, computers, radios, televisions and telephones.
What must not be forgotten, and the instinctive nature of the human species becomes familiar with these widely available goods, is that they are not merely salable objects manufactured for capitalist profits. Profit is a measure of the success of the selling, and to be sure it is sometimes, even often, abused. But of particular goods being sold, many are essentials for human existence, and many are manifest representations of principles new in the evolution of life on Earth. They must be taken as solutions for peace, and not mistaken as causa bella. To do this brings one more obligation, that of ensuring their assimilation is gauged, its relation to international peace is understood, and appropriate responses to changes in the market include products which are, literally, in the correct place for the next step in negotiating the difficult back-scaling from the conflicted times in the final stages of Earth's five thousand year history of constructed struggle to the Moon.
The Chinese people are currently dominant in the dielectric constant. Perhaps given or ceded to them after the magnetic storms of war that swept Europe in the last century, it is also because they were anciently familiar with the duality of the Yin and Yang, more deeply than Judaeo-Christian culture. Though they did not early on resolve the electric field constants, which do exist, it was easy for them to do so when the industrial revolution began and electricity and magnetism were resolved in common sense. Generally it appears masculine is equated with the dielectric and feminine is equated with the magnetic.
This is strong enough to be noticeable when working with delicate sticky issues such as transparent tape, paper, and clean surfaces. That is probably the origin of the phrase "red tape". To a person familiar with red tape, it is easy, but most of the business world is not and so such issues seriously impede business and other negotiations.
This would be nothing more than a static issue except that the historical resolution of the electric and magnetic field constants was set in 17th and 18th century English and European traditions in which the first thing that took place was the creation of arbitrary standard units for magnetic and electric fields. Principles such as those in physics were at that time named after persons who could be equated with monarchs, princes or theological figures. As a result, a magnetic field constant was named the Henry, and an electric field constant was named the Farad, after Michael Faraday. The Henry of course was equated with several Kings Henry, notoriously Henry VIII who set a large number of things that could not be distinguished from eternal in motion. Faraday's name Michael was at least equitable with the Archangel Michael. I know of that well as my name is Michael. We are not tough politicians and tend to be equated with mica, glass, paper, plastic film and such things.
The real problem is that the implementation of these constants into the real industrial world and urban infrastructures was immediate even though they were chosen with arbitrary magnitudes long before the magnitudes of the speed of light and the action quantum were discovered. Those two latter constants are reshaping physics every day in a process of change that could span 500 or a thousand years if the arbitrary disposition is not nipped in the bud. The reason of course is that the constants were named in England and France and were quickly used as bedrock and pillars of colonialist foreign policy. They were also used to divide East and West along the European midnight, which was constructed as the Prime Meridian. Subsequently, Europe and Russia to the East was put literally in irons and to the West, eventually the Americas, the United States in particular, was put to acting as a kind of Great Meridian engaging in wars on both western and eastern fronts itself.
Examination of empirical results in manufactures in the common domain reveal that the arbitrary magnitudes of the Henry and Farad resulted in the manufacture of very large magnetic devices and very small dielectric or capacitive devices. For a long time motors, transformers and generators were very large, and set on power line poles like the magnetism in the body of Christ. Capacitive devices were almost unknown until the manufacture of synthetic fabrics and plastic films, and then improved rapidly into sophisticated devices such as transistors and digital memory chips. Their future is vast. Capacitor transformers have appeared as large capacitors became possible, and magnetic devices have become smaller. All this change is since the discovery of the two constants c and h, the speed of light and the action quantum. Those two constants are truly vintage research, as the study of the motion of light and the nature of action began thousands of years ago. It was fortuitous, and in part tragic, that the path to the Moon stumbled at the imposition of arbitrary magnitudes for magnetic and electric fields in the Henry and Faraday.
Research reviewing the development of physics during the last four centuries, premised on the speed of light and the action quantum as most fundamental principles, will reveal vast quantities of desirable and feasible change that will provide far more agreeable global terms in which the nations of the world can get along.
The speed of light and the action quantum are far more fundamental and necessary to the peace and stability of the world than are the existing magnitudes of the Henry and the Farad. Both the Henry and the Farad were arbitrarily assigned quantities. They have a relation to the speed of light through an equation in which they appear as a product, but any value could have been assigned to the Henry, as long as the Farad were changed proportionally. Conversely, any value could have been assigned to the Farad, as long as the Henry were changed accordingly.
The conventional but overly specific equation for the speed of light is
v = 1/SQRT(mu*epsilon)
The numerical value of mu was derived from existing knowledge on the basis of the arbitrary magnetic field constant, the Henry. It was found that the electric field constant derived from the Faraday had the relationship shown to the speed of light. As a result, the electric field constant was given a value which would make not only that equation correct, but would justify the value of the Faraday in relation to the Henry. That was obscure enough to establish a claim that the Henry and Faraday are absolutely fundamental. They are not. Any other set of experiments could have been used to construct a measure of magnetic field strength similar in dimension to the dimensions of the Henry, and if it resulted in a different numerical value, an appropriate value could have been assigned to the electric field constant so that the equation would predict the speed of light correctly.
The motion of light is in a space-time topology in which two dimensions are present along with a velocity dimension. This is sometimes called SU(2) X U(1). Dimensions which are equivalently fundamental include those of distance and time. The units humans choose are not the units on which the universe is based, however. The universe is based, in dimensions of length, on certain sizes of things which are mostly atoms and particular wavelengths. It is also based on such things as the magnitudes of electric charges, the masses of atoms, and magnetic constants such as the Bohr magneton.
These are sometimes called fundamental or atomic constants of nature. Arranging atomic constants as fundamentals accessible to all nations is vital. This is the kind of change in our thinking for which Albert Einstein called. The most obvious way of doing this is through the manufacture of popular goods, commonly called consumer goods, which manifestly display atomic constants and are available worldwide. To a great extent this is taking place already, in the manufacture and distribution of such goods as cameras, computers, radios, televisions and telephones.
What must not be forgotten, and the instinctive nature of the human species becomes familiar with these widely available goods, is that they are not merely salable objects manufactured for capitalist profits. Profit is a measure of the success of the selling, and to be sure it is sometimes, even often, abused. But of particular goods being sold, many are essentials for human existence, and many are manifest representations of principles new in the evolution of life on Earth. They must be taken as solutions for peace, and not mistaken as causa bella. To do this brings one more obligation, that of ensuring their assimilation is gauged, its relation to international peace is understood, and appropriate responses to changes in the market include products which are, literally, in the correct place for the next step in negotiating the difficult back-scaling from the conflicted times in the final stages of Earth's five thousand year history of constructed struggle to the Moon.
The Chinese people are currently dominant in the dielectric constant. Perhaps given or ceded to them after the magnetic storms of war that swept Europe in the last century, it is also because they were anciently familiar with the duality of the Yin and Yang, more deeply than Judaeo-Christian culture. Though they did not early on resolve the electric field constants, which do exist, it was easy for them to do so when the industrial revolution began and electricity and magnetism were resolved in common sense. Generally it appears masculine is equated with the dielectric and feminine is equated with the magnetic.
This is strong enough to be noticeable when working with delicate sticky issues such as transparent tape, paper, and clean surfaces. That is probably the origin of the phrase "red tape". To a person familiar with red tape, it is easy, but most of the business world is not and so such issues seriously impede business and other negotiations.
This would be nothing more than a static issue except that the historical resolution of the electric and magnetic field constants was set in 17th and 18th century English and European traditions in which the first thing that took place was the creation of arbitrary standard units for magnetic and electric fields. Principles such as those in physics were at that time named after persons who could be equated with monarchs, princes or theological figures. As a result, a magnetic field constant was named the Henry, and an electric field constant was named the Farad, after Michael Faraday. The Henry of course was equated with several Kings Henry, notoriously Henry VIII who set a large number of things that could not be distinguished from eternal in motion. Faraday's name Michael was at least equitable with the Archangel Michael. I know of that well as my name is Michael. We are not tough politicians and tend to be equated with mica, glass, paper, plastic film and such things.
The real problem is that the implementation of these constants into the real industrial world and urban infrastructures was immediate even though they were chosen with arbitrary magnitudes long before the magnitudes of the speed of light and the action quantum were discovered. Those two latter constants are reshaping physics every day in a process of change that could span 500 or a thousand years if the arbitrary disposition is not nipped in the bud. The reason of course is that the constants were named in England and France and were quickly used as bedrock and pillars of colonialist foreign policy. They were also used to divide East and West along the European midnight, which was constructed as the Prime Meridian. Subsequently, Europe and Russia to the East was put literally in irons and to the West, eventually the Americas, the United States in particular, was put to acting as a kind of Great Meridian engaging in wars on both western and eastern fronts itself.
Examination of empirical results in manufactures in the common domain reveal that the arbitrary magnitudes of the Henry and Farad resulted in the manufacture of very large magnetic devices and very small dielectric or capacitive devices. For a long time motors, transformers and generators were very large, and set on power line poles like the magnetism in the body of Christ. Capacitive devices were almost unknown until the manufacture of synthetic fabrics and plastic films, and then improved rapidly into sophisticated devices such as transistors and digital memory chips. Their future is vast. Capacitor transformers have appeared as large capacitors became possible, and magnetic devices have become smaller. All this change is since the discovery of the two constants c and h, the speed of light and the action quantum. Those two constants are truly vintage research, as the study of the motion of light and the nature of action began thousands of years ago. It was fortuitous, and in part tragic, that the path to the Moon stumbled at the imposition of arbitrary magnitudes for magnetic and electric fields in the Henry and Faraday.
Research reviewing the development of physics during the last four centuries, premised on the speed of light and the action quantum as most fundamental principles, will reveal vast quantities of desirable and feasible change that will provide far more agreeable global terms in which the nations of the world can get along.
Monday, June 8, 2009
THE CONTRADICTIONS
Quantum electrodynamics is the eternal direct link between life and the firmament. Secular scientists dislike that word firmament. Yet theologians are more innocent, honest and true to the entirety of the spiritual world in their concern with the firmament, than with any other relationship to society whether religious or no.
The concept of the firmament has changed greatly as modern astronomy and the physics of relativistic motion became confident of the universe in which all existence takes place. Exceedingly distant and myriad exterior galaxies do move, yet their lateral motion is of only minute significance relative to the celestial sphere at such vast distances. Their motion is constrained by energy losses to small fractions of the speed of light, and the speed with which they move never is much greater than a few hundred kilometers each second. These energy losses are measurable in particle accelerators, and the rapid energy loss with increasing speed makes space-time seem viscous like honey or thick oil.
For this reason the map of galaxies has changed very little in all the past three billion years, the fifteen or twenty galactic cycles, since life began on Earth. It will be essentially the same two hundred fifty million years hence as it is today after the Earth and Solar System have traveled around the Milky Way Galaxy yet another time. Exterior galaxies rarely move in visual relationships to each other more than their own diameters in the two hundred twenty million years of a galactic cycle.
Yet quantum electrodynamics is a difficult time for some of those who see intense energy as being the only liberating factor they can stomach. The most obvious manifestations of quantum electrodynamics in life are in the fine details of life. To be sure, they exist both in the most magnificent of life's competition, where the hawk or falcon plummets down at a hundred miles an hour to sieze a pigeon into its claws with instantaneous stunning force, or where a tarpon leaps out of the sea, if there are any tarpon remaining.
More often, quantum electrodynamics is more readily apparent in small, graceful and delicate phenomena such as hovering butterflies or hummingbirds, grazing animals, flowers the colors of which make the very air resonate with fragrance, the sniffing out of dinner by animals with noses dedicated to their own or their family's dinners, and quiet conversations among human beings not constrained to be on bivouac.
Ancient militaries believed in, depended and insisted on, and hoped that life would consist of energetic triumphs over life forever at all times, for it is the teeth and claws, sharp hard parts and the high potential convex surface gradients of small radius, high intensity Paschen curves, the sharp delineation of time into seconds by which energy changes become catastrophic for the inevitable loser. If militaries knew of anything more delicate, they rarely showed that quality. Competition was always which horn clobbered the other horn, or which tooth devoured the meat, or which claw severed which jugular with greater energy, including energy in high valence or nuclear potentials.
Increasing militarization of the world will inevitably make of all the Earth nothing but claws, stingers, fangs, scales and armor. Militaries care as much about the structure, activity, variety and versatility of life as sharks care about clown fish and the beauty and delicacy of sea fans or the thousand other comical, decorated and intricate structures of the oceans and seas. Sharks sacrificed everything interesting about life except speed, noses and sharp teeth to indulge their voracious stomachs. What you insist on is what you get; eventually it is all you get. That happened to ants, and snakes, sharks. probably to the Tasmanian Devil and every other creature that ended up with only a few monstrous characteristics.
It is not an inevitable of the military mind to be forever ignorant of galactic rotation and the right it presents in coordination with ecliptic and equatorial right. That right can be predicted and an advantage. It may be that military concepts of right are concealed in order to prevent other entities from predicting their actions. Yet not to regulate military power carefully is dangerous to a world this small when weapons are so large. For a military to act in response to civil, economic and human rights that are of benefit to life, even where the action is one of enforcement, is no disgrace and it is within strategists to see to it that military effectiveness is not compromised by enemy knowledge of the rights that are among the goals. That makes it easier to impose win-win situations where an opponent refuses to recognize such possibilities of its own free will.
At the present time the slaughter and "harvesting" of wild sentient beings living species as if they are so much dirt, mineral ore. That kind of ruinously aggressive consumption was made possible with the invention of high energy, high power inanimate machines and high energy processing of any and everything organic fed into it into something edible. It is that kind of rapacious unconcerned aggression that has caused world populations of many species to plummet and many species to disappear forever in extinction. The "harvesting" is not as if anyone was cultivating, tilling or herding the creatures; they were simple natural creatures wild and free.
To be sure, it is possible that only the military will be permitted to solve the problems presented by the tragedy of the commons, including the burgeoning overpopulation of the world by human beings who reproduce in impoverished desperate hope for some better life than that which they can give children. Earth risks making an infestation of the human species. Traditional military approaches are not likely to be of much help in alleviating the rape of wildlife, and militaries hate being classified as plural. They are the teeth and scales of zero sum games.
If human legislation does not begin to take careful account of all three celestial planes of rotational asymmetry, in the context of exterior galactic cosmology, no long-term solutions will come to pass at all. The earth's people will leave galactic rotation unresolved, imagining it has nothing to do with them, and wonder at the slow changes since ancient times in the past, as the human species becomes more narrowly constrained to the few things it sees as greatest of its values, and is suaged into abandoning the many interesting, varied and enjoyable amusements of which none constitutes a dominant interest. You get a few things that you want most and nothing else.
In that case Earth will continue to be dominated by Ancients of Days and Ancients of Years, utterly dumb, blind and ignorant about the possibility of an antiquity true in Galactic right.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration provided, with the Very Large Array, a sufficiently certain, accurate, positive, and deterministic measure of the rate at which the Solar System moves around the Milky Way, often called, and not too inaccurately, Galactic Rotation.
Yet no sign seems to have appeared in any of the world's governments, or its legislative bodies or royal lineages, of any determination of right in terms of Galactic Rotation. Several popular laws absolutely MUST be enacted that can be made world wide, and are sound, certain, determinate and recognizably consistent with not only Constitutional and Universal Human rights, but right as it is known in terms of all these four things
I. The firmament of exterior galaxies;
II. the slow, majestic and historically continuing turning of the Milky Way;
III. the annual, Ecliptic astrological familiar in the calendaring of years;
IV. and the Equatorial daily rotations of the Earth, upon which Universal Human Rights are based.
To be sure, cognoscenti in governments and at the United Nations have since its formation been conscious of exterior galaxies. More is possible. Very large numbers of human beings are quick enough to understand that political, social and other human rights are meaningful not only in the daily rotation demonstrated by the Foucault Pendulum but also the annual motion of the Earth around the Sun, and the geologically slow motion of the entire Solar System with the Earth in tow, around the Milky Way galaxy.
When a piece of legislation that is essentially of positive value and not ridden with pork barrel earmarks comes through which has been graced by specific mention of all three sources of right, cooked perhaps throughout a considerable period of years, or some existing laws that have passed the test of time and can be recognized as consistent with all of those are identified by jurists, then rapid progress is likely to be possible in their light.
Otherwise even going to the Moon again, we are all just going round in circles. And this spinning mote can't do it all.
The concept of the firmament has changed greatly as modern astronomy and the physics of relativistic motion became confident of the universe in which all existence takes place. Exceedingly distant and myriad exterior galaxies do move, yet their lateral motion is of only minute significance relative to the celestial sphere at such vast distances. Their motion is constrained by energy losses to small fractions of the speed of light, and the speed with which they move never is much greater than a few hundred kilometers each second. These energy losses are measurable in particle accelerators, and the rapid energy loss with increasing speed makes space-time seem viscous like honey or thick oil.
For this reason the map of galaxies has changed very little in all the past three billion years, the fifteen or twenty galactic cycles, since life began on Earth. It will be essentially the same two hundred fifty million years hence as it is today after the Earth and Solar System have traveled around the Milky Way Galaxy yet another time. Exterior galaxies rarely move in visual relationships to each other more than their own diameters in the two hundred twenty million years of a galactic cycle.
Yet quantum electrodynamics is a difficult time for some of those who see intense energy as being the only liberating factor they can stomach. The most obvious manifestations of quantum electrodynamics in life are in the fine details of life. To be sure, they exist both in the most magnificent of life's competition, where the hawk or falcon plummets down at a hundred miles an hour to sieze a pigeon into its claws with instantaneous stunning force, or where a tarpon leaps out of the sea, if there are any tarpon remaining.
More often, quantum electrodynamics is more readily apparent in small, graceful and delicate phenomena such as hovering butterflies or hummingbirds, grazing animals, flowers the colors of which make the very air resonate with fragrance, the sniffing out of dinner by animals with noses dedicated to their own or their family's dinners, and quiet conversations among human beings not constrained to be on bivouac.
Ancient militaries believed in, depended and insisted on, and hoped that life would consist of energetic triumphs over life forever at all times, for it is the teeth and claws, sharp hard parts and the high potential convex surface gradients of small radius, high intensity Paschen curves, the sharp delineation of time into seconds by which energy changes become catastrophic for the inevitable loser. If militaries knew of anything more delicate, they rarely showed that quality. Competition was always which horn clobbered the other horn, or which tooth devoured the meat, or which claw severed which jugular with greater energy, including energy in high valence or nuclear potentials.
Increasing militarization of the world will inevitably make of all the Earth nothing but claws, stingers, fangs, scales and armor. Militaries care as much about the structure, activity, variety and versatility of life as sharks care about clown fish and the beauty and delicacy of sea fans or the thousand other comical, decorated and intricate structures of the oceans and seas. Sharks sacrificed everything interesting about life except speed, noses and sharp teeth to indulge their voracious stomachs. What you insist on is what you get; eventually it is all you get. That happened to ants, and snakes, sharks. probably to the Tasmanian Devil and every other creature that ended up with only a few monstrous characteristics.
It is not an inevitable of the military mind to be forever ignorant of galactic rotation and the right it presents in coordination with ecliptic and equatorial right. That right can be predicted and an advantage. It may be that military concepts of right are concealed in order to prevent other entities from predicting their actions. Yet not to regulate military power carefully is dangerous to a world this small when weapons are so large. For a military to act in response to civil, economic and human rights that are of benefit to life, even where the action is one of enforcement, is no disgrace and it is within strategists to see to it that military effectiveness is not compromised by enemy knowledge of the rights that are among the goals. That makes it easier to impose win-win situations where an opponent refuses to recognize such possibilities of its own free will.
At the present time the slaughter and "harvesting" of wild sentient beings living species as if they are so much dirt, mineral ore. That kind of ruinously aggressive consumption was made possible with the invention of high energy, high power inanimate machines and high energy processing of any and everything organic fed into it into something edible. It is that kind of rapacious unconcerned aggression that has caused world populations of many species to plummet and many species to disappear forever in extinction. The "harvesting" is not as if anyone was cultivating, tilling or herding the creatures; they were simple natural creatures wild and free.
To be sure, it is possible that only the military will be permitted to solve the problems presented by the tragedy of the commons, including the burgeoning overpopulation of the world by human beings who reproduce in impoverished desperate hope for some better life than that which they can give children. Earth risks making an infestation of the human species. Traditional military approaches are not likely to be of much help in alleviating the rape of wildlife, and militaries hate being classified as plural. They are the teeth and scales of zero sum games.
If human legislation does not begin to take careful account of all three celestial planes of rotational asymmetry, in the context of exterior galactic cosmology, no long-term solutions will come to pass at all. The earth's people will leave galactic rotation unresolved, imagining it has nothing to do with them, and wonder at the slow changes since ancient times in the past, as the human species becomes more narrowly constrained to the few things it sees as greatest of its values, and is suaged into abandoning the many interesting, varied and enjoyable amusements of which none constitutes a dominant interest. You get a few things that you want most and nothing else.
In that case Earth will continue to be dominated by Ancients of Days and Ancients of Years, utterly dumb, blind and ignorant about the possibility of an antiquity true in Galactic right.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration provided, with the Very Large Array, a sufficiently certain, accurate, positive, and deterministic measure of the rate at which the Solar System moves around the Milky Way, often called, and not too inaccurately, Galactic Rotation.
Yet no sign seems to have appeared in any of the world's governments, or its legislative bodies or royal lineages, of any determination of right in terms of Galactic Rotation. Several popular laws absolutely MUST be enacted that can be made world wide, and are sound, certain, determinate and recognizably consistent with not only Constitutional and Universal Human rights, but right as it is known in terms of all these four things
I. The firmament of exterior galaxies;
II. the slow, majestic and historically continuing turning of the Milky Way;
III. the annual, Ecliptic astrological familiar in the calendaring of years;
IV. and the Equatorial daily rotations of the Earth, upon which Universal Human Rights are based.
To be sure, cognoscenti in governments and at the United Nations have since its formation been conscious of exterior galaxies. More is possible. Very large numbers of human beings are quick enough to understand that political, social and other human rights are meaningful not only in the daily rotation demonstrated by the Foucault Pendulum but also the annual motion of the Earth around the Sun, and the geologically slow motion of the entire Solar System with the Earth in tow, around the Milky Way galaxy.
When a piece of legislation that is essentially of positive value and not ridden with pork barrel earmarks comes through which has been graced by specific mention of all three sources of right, cooked perhaps throughout a considerable period of years, or some existing laws that have passed the test of time and can be recognized as consistent with all of those are identified by jurists, then rapid progress is likely to be possible in their light.
Otherwise even going to the Moon again, we are all just going round in circles. And this spinning mote can't do it all.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
On winding down space exploration and dealing with Earth
Since the telescope was invented, and particularly since rockets and space flight, measurement and gauge of objects apart from Earth has been fast and accurate. It was fast because it was urgent. Understandably, mankind had been concerned about the possible danger to Earth of organisms or even invasion from intelligent species that might inhabit the other planets of the solar system. From ancient time until recently that was a legitimate concern, and so the initial exploration of the solar system was made as quickly, comprehensively and detailed as possible considering the time constraints and formidable technical challenges.
Fortunately, the capability of instruments alone, without manned missions, proved to be far better than had been imagined prior to the development of computers. The result is that the sober and prudently reasonable probability of significant life on any other planet or object in the solar system has been reduced to so close to zero as to make it worth considering as actual zero in the balance of assets and liabilities for the Earth; in the balance of risk and reward; and in the analysis of cost and benefit for deeper concern.
The possibility of micro-organism life has not been ruled out completely, although in the absence of importing such organisms to Earth, that too appears to pose no danger to Earth.
In fact, only a very small number of places in this star system appear to be capable of supporting any life at all, even micro-organisms. This is much smaller number than was thought possible in the 18th century when most of the 1950’s fear or at least serious concern, was raised. The Moon and Mars are likely to be, for a very long time, the only places human beings can actually visit unless manned flights to asteroids or moons of other planets are considered. Mercury and Venus have temperatures forbidding human exploration for centuries, possibly much longer. Phobos and Deimos, the two tiny moons of Mars, are so small and airless they are present essentially no interest. This is also true of every other moon in the solar system except a small number of moons at Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and possibly Neptune. The great gas planets are of literally nebulous concern. Their ten, thirty, 85 and 165-year orbits have been used for a long time in power struggles between and within nations, and these struggles should be stripped bare of deceit for the entire population of Earth.
The cost of much intense further exploration of the solar system is thus rapidly diminishing in comparison with the value that is certain to be attained on serious large scale consensus of what the existing measures of the solar system actually mean for Earth and its peoples.
As long as concern is raised that further space flights of exploration, adventure, and determination of exotic threat from beyond Earth is worrisome, the result will be to dissuade human beings from drawing proper sober, practical conclusions that are already possible and necessary.
Space flight within the solar system will always be possible, but because of its monstrous cost, it should be carefully evaluated on the basis of its necessity, particularly where other more mundane yet vital necessities exist.
Even Earth-orbit flight is being reviewed more carefully, because the number of objects in earth orbit has become so large as to constitute a junk and litter problem, which arose recently in a collision between two satellites. A more conservative approach is welcome in all aspects of space flight, and though the earth-orbit systems have proved their worth in communications, weather and global positioning services which all have returned the cost of their launch, Earth orbit has become sort of a nonrenewable zone that must be allocated carefully to serve the most vital needs.
A nasty hard line only too easy to encounter in this kind of reasoning, is the problem that while the population of human beings already strains the planet and is estimated by some to be beyond the planet’s carrying capacity, some populations are in conditions of famine, plague and violence. This contrast makes Schadenfreude almost unavoidable, and in this context glaukenstucken is almost unavoidable as well.
Yet the simple truth is that procreation is quite capable of going far beyond reason. Examples of plague and infestation are legion, including locusts, frogs, bubonic plague, smallpox and others by the hundreds. Human beings do not want to make of themselves a pestilence on or in a planet which they understand. This is the terrible contradiction of the times.
In other words, while correct conclusions are already possible regarding the solar system, solutions to the problems Earth already faces are not yet attainable without great cost and determined undertaking. More struggles to determine more about the solar system in the vanishing hope of finding significant life on other celestial bodies, and struggles to find other problems from space, are only diverting attention away from serious problems already existing and well known here on Earth. Determination to spend huge sums on space flight at this time can be called a symptom of escapism.
Because of the intensity of Earth’s problems such as population pressures, destruction of Earth’s wild living species with the attendant killing of sentient beings, and other development factors such as the proper long-term evolution of cities, architecture, and human systems, conclusions of this sort are vital.
They should be drawn up among international consultants, probably in cooperation with other responsible organizations, and with the guidance of persons expert in the better doctrines of knowledge available today. This is not, of course, a place where casual reckoning will suffice even though many of the most carefully reasoned conclusions are likely to be common-sense. They will in that case be ever so much more gladly welcomed by the world’s people, and they should be surprising to few.
Good and honest conclusions should be drawn about which factors beyond Earth are likely to remain unchanged for long periods of time, such as millions of years, and which are capable of posing any new situations for Earth. For instance, every sign exists that the Moon and Mars will be essentially unchanging throughout the next two hundred fifty million year Galactic cycle; that the same is true for all the other airless bodies in stable orbits; and that even other bodies such as Jupiter and Saturn, which have thick atmospheres, are not likely to present disruptive events in the foreseeable future, possibly on the galactic time scale as well. In any case, such future events of that kind as exist are not predictable and it will be possible to address them only when they occur.
Much valuable work already exists, on the other hand, regarding those factors in the solar system which, usually because of orbital paths, might pose problems to Earth. The main ones are the Near Earth Objects, for asteroids large and small pose measurable dangers from collisions with Earth. Meteor crater in Arizona is a good example. Development of programs to catalog such objects and determine the danger they present is already well under way, needs continued funding but not seriously strange new paths of research, and is important.
In other words, the accurate determination of what Earth needs to know is already either complete in preliminary yet assuring status, or is ongoing. But it is confused with a great deal of hype, jingoism, speculation, exploitation, graft, boondoggling, advertising, and venture capitalism that is often in not only relentless pursuit of profits, but is callous in its approach to the cultivation of Earth as the only planet that will positively present a sanctuary for life for a long, long time. Principles which conceivably might permit flight to the stars continue to exist only in the imagination, and could be cosmologically forbidding for many generations – possibly many thousands of years, or more. Already it is known that even with fusion powered ion or photon rockets, the mass ratio of a vehicle capable of reaching even the nearest star is extremely far beyond technological feasibility. Whatever science might permit flight to other star systems is not even conceivable yet.
Like a band of travelers finding themselves on a small but habitable island, which walks around it three or four times and swims to a half dozen rocks lying offshore, yet remains reluctant to admit it is where it is for years. Eventually it begins to find that time has passed; its member remain alive and the convincing fact is that they are surviving and more, even managing to make themselves comfortable at the slight cost of discarding much of what they thought were essentials of civilization. Soon they realize they have become much like islanders everywhere since the dawn of time, and will live. Presuming of course only that they are a mixed company.
So it is to be expected that in the light of correct assessment of the situation Earth faces in the solar system and truly expected future, there is to be a general devolution of civilization to some extent. Just what this means is not clear, nor is it clear that the best course will be obvious without a good deal of presentation of the problem to the world or at least to the American public. Yet the world is in desperate need of the best possible determination. What it needs is for good problem-solvers to step forth and speak to the issue. This will include political leaders of experience, honesty, good faith and sound judgment, as well as the testimonies of persons who have been in space.
Fortunately, the latter includes persons of widely diverse range expertise and viewpoint. The dialogue should be international. Even if some player nations insist on maintaining theirs is the only solution, they should take opinions from all the world into account. The primary points of the resulting “planetary doctrine” should be a relatively small number of salient facts, with an emphasis on dealing, in the light of those facts, with several major and intense problems which are already well known.
Known problems probably span the field of all Earth’s eventual problems fairly well. In other words, while problems are certain to arise, they are not often to be of an unusual kind.
Examples of known kinds of problems include weather, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami, violence, economic instability, disease and plague, accident, economic inequality, over population, destruction of the habitat of Earth, the killing of sentient creatures, pollution and others.
Assets should be assessed candidly and realistically as well. This is not unlike the small island scenario. Assets include ancient and traditional technology, some of which already is or may be increasingly returned to prevalent use; new technology, some of which may be kept and developed, others of which may be abandoned; and future technology, of which development should be significantly sustained on the basis of existing need for it.
The existing consciousness of Earth suffers only from too much complexity and an unwillingness to distil the menagerie of ideas toward a comprehensive statement of fact that is not too much a bourgeoning plethora of opinions and represents the essential necessary and sufficient facts that will be considered equally important a hundred or thousand years from now. All the good ideas seem to be flowing already among a vast flood of information from which they are difficult to extract.
Fortunately, the capability of instruments alone, without manned missions, proved to be far better than had been imagined prior to the development of computers. The result is that the sober and prudently reasonable probability of significant life on any other planet or object in the solar system has been reduced to so close to zero as to make it worth considering as actual zero in the balance of assets and liabilities for the Earth; in the balance of risk and reward; and in the analysis of cost and benefit for deeper concern.
The possibility of micro-organism life has not been ruled out completely, although in the absence of importing such organisms to Earth, that too appears to pose no danger to Earth.
In fact, only a very small number of places in this star system appear to be capable of supporting any life at all, even micro-organisms. This is much smaller number than was thought possible in the 18th century when most of the 1950’s fear or at least serious concern, was raised. The Moon and Mars are likely to be, for a very long time, the only places human beings can actually visit unless manned flights to asteroids or moons of other planets are considered. Mercury and Venus have temperatures forbidding human exploration for centuries, possibly much longer. Phobos and Deimos, the two tiny moons of Mars, are so small and airless they are present essentially no interest. This is also true of every other moon in the solar system except a small number of moons at Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and possibly Neptune. The great gas planets are of literally nebulous concern. Their ten, thirty, 85 and 165-year orbits have been used for a long time in power struggles between and within nations, and these struggles should be stripped bare of deceit for the entire population of Earth.
The cost of much intense further exploration of the solar system is thus rapidly diminishing in comparison with the value that is certain to be attained on serious large scale consensus of what the existing measures of the solar system actually mean for Earth and its peoples.
As long as concern is raised that further space flights of exploration, adventure, and determination of exotic threat from beyond Earth is worrisome, the result will be to dissuade human beings from drawing proper sober, practical conclusions that are already possible and necessary.
Space flight within the solar system will always be possible, but because of its monstrous cost, it should be carefully evaluated on the basis of its necessity, particularly where other more mundane yet vital necessities exist.
Even Earth-orbit flight is being reviewed more carefully, because the number of objects in earth orbit has become so large as to constitute a junk and litter problem, which arose recently in a collision between two satellites. A more conservative approach is welcome in all aspects of space flight, and though the earth-orbit systems have proved their worth in communications, weather and global positioning services which all have returned the cost of their launch, Earth orbit has become sort of a nonrenewable zone that must be allocated carefully to serve the most vital needs.
A nasty hard line only too easy to encounter in this kind of reasoning, is the problem that while the population of human beings already strains the planet and is estimated by some to be beyond the planet’s carrying capacity, some populations are in conditions of famine, plague and violence. This contrast makes Schadenfreude almost unavoidable, and in this context glaukenstucken is almost unavoidable as well.
Yet the simple truth is that procreation is quite capable of going far beyond reason. Examples of plague and infestation are legion, including locusts, frogs, bubonic plague, smallpox and others by the hundreds. Human beings do not want to make of themselves a pestilence on or in a planet which they understand. This is the terrible contradiction of the times.
In other words, while correct conclusions are already possible regarding the solar system, solutions to the problems Earth already faces are not yet attainable without great cost and determined undertaking. More struggles to determine more about the solar system in the vanishing hope of finding significant life on other celestial bodies, and struggles to find other problems from space, are only diverting attention away from serious problems already existing and well known here on Earth. Determination to spend huge sums on space flight at this time can be called a symptom of escapism.
Because of the intensity of Earth’s problems such as population pressures, destruction of Earth’s wild living species with the attendant killing of sentient beings, and other development factors such as the proper long-term evolution of cities, architecture, and human systems, conclusions of this sort are vital.
They should be drawn up among international consultants, probably in cooperation with other responsible organizations, and with the guidance of persons expert in the better doctrines of knowledge available today. This is not, of course, a place where casual reckoning will suffice even though many of the most carefully reasoned conclusions are likely to be common-sense. They will in that case be ever so much more gladly welcomed by the world’s people, and they should be surprising to few.
Good and honest conclusions should be drawn about which factors beyond Earth are likely to remain unchanged for long periods of time, such as millions of years, and which are capable of posing any new situations for Earth. For instance, every sign exists that the Moon and Mars will be essentially unchanging throughout the next two hundred fifty million year Galactic cycle; that the same is true for all the other airless bodies in stable orbits; and that even other bodies such as Jupiter and Saturn, which have thick atmospheres, are not likely to present disruptive events in the foreseeable future, possibly on the galactic time scale as well. In any case, such future events of that kind as exist are not predictable and it will be possible to address them only when they occur.
Much valuable work already exists, on the other hand, regarding those factors in the solar system which, usually because of orbital paths, might pose problems to Earth. The main ones are the Near Earth Objects, for asteroids large and small pose measurable dangers from collisions with Earth. Meteor crater in Arizona is a good example. Development of programs to catalog such objects and determine the danger they present is already well under way, needs continued funding but not seriously strange new paths of research, and is important.
In other words, the accurate determination of what Earth needs to know is already either complete in preliminary yet assuring status, or is ongoing. But it is confused with a great deal of hype, jingoism, speculation, exploitation, graft, boondoggling, advertising, and venture capitalism that is often in not only relentless pursuit of profits, but is callous in its approach to the cultivation of Earth as the only planet that will positively present a sanctuary for life for a long, long time. Principles which conceivably might permit flight to the stars continue to exist only in the imagination, and could be cosmologically forbidding for many generations – possibly many thousands of years, or more. Already it is known that even with fusion powered ion or photon rockets, the mass ratio of a vehicle capable of reaching even the nearest star is extremely far beyond technological feasibility. Whatever science might permit flight to other star systems is not even conceivable yet.
Like a band of travelers finding themselves on a small but habitable island, which walks around it three or four times and swims to a half dozen rocks lying offshore, yet remains reluctant to admit it is where it is for years. Eventually it begins to find that time has passed; its member remain alive and the convincing fact is that they are surviving and more, even managing to make themselves comfortable at the slight cost of discarding much of what they thought were essentials of civilization. Soon they realize they have become much like islanders everywhere since the dawn of time, and will live. Presuming of course only that they are a mixed company.
So it is to be expected that in the light of correct assessment of the situation Earth faces in the solar system and truly expected future, there is to be a general devolution of civilization to some extent. Just what this means is not clear, nor is it clear that the best course will be obvious without a good deal of presentation of the problem to the world or at least to the American public. Yet the world is in desperate need of the best possible determination. What it needs is for good problem-solvers to step forth and speak to the issue. This will include political leaders of experience, honesty, good faith and sound judgment, as well as the testimonies of persons who have been in space.
Fortunately, the latter includes persons of widely diverse range expertise and viewpoint. The dialogue should be international. Even if some player nations insist on maintaining theirs is the only solution, they should take opinions from all the world into account. The primary points of the resulting “planetary doctrine” should be a relatively small number of salient facts, with an emphasis on dealing, in the light of those facts, with several major and intense problems which are already well known.
Known problems probably span the field of all Earth’s eventual problems fairly well. In other words, while problems are certain to arise, they are not often to be of an unusual kind.
Examples of known kinds of problems include weather, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami, violence, economic instability, disease and plague, accident, economic inequality, over population, destruction of the habitat of Earth, the killing of sentient creatures, pollution and others.
Assets should be assessed candidly and realistically as well. This is not unlike the small island scenario. Assets include ancient and traditional technology, some of which already is or may be increasingly returned to prevalent use; new technology, some of which may be kept and developed, others of which may be abandoned; and future technology, of which development should be significantly sustained on the basis of existing need for it.
The existing consciousness of Earth suffers only from too much complexity and an unwillingness to distil the menagerie of ideas toward a comprehensive statement of fact that is not too much a bourgeoning plethora of opinions and represents the essential necessary and sufficient facts that will be considered equally important a hundred or thousand years from now. All the good ideas seem to be flowing already among a vast flood of information from which they are difficult to extract.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
EXTERIOR COSMOLOGY A POSSIBLE CAUSE OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
Dear Nick,
This has to do with the red shift equation which I discovered in 1981, twenty two years after learning of the problem in Columbia High School in Richland - the atomic town next to Hanford, Washington. A few weeks after you refreshed for me, doctrine containing the relevant second order partial differential equations.
You may be pleased to know the equation's ten years of presentation on the internet was:
a. Possibly a factor in naming the James Bond movie "Quantum of Solace";
b. Probably led to a television comedy show, "The Big Bang Theory"; and
c. Alluded to on a PBS science show on astronomy earlier this month when it was remarked that "the steady-state theory still has its adherents and they are holding their own".
This equation was led in, its sophisticated adherence to Reed standards of order and University of Washington graduate standards of logic, the realm of those protesting the Big Bang "theory" which we regarded as a political expedient having to do with political, economic, and military expansion throughout the world.
The gridlock has been broken and terrestrial cosmology is now being flooded by native light from the exterior cosmology.
The slow rate of development is not surprising. You mentioned when I was attending Reed that the 1926 discovery of the Schrodinger wave equation was only three years prior to the 1929 stock market crash, and made it obvious the probability of a causal relationship could not be avoided. I recalled that by 1985 when I moved back to Seattle from Aberdeen.
After it was on the internet it was soon clear that even though I could obtain only informal notoriety in personal returns for the equation, it would have eventual effect on the world because minimum action paths from discovery to global assimilation could not be avoided if it were persistently before the public.
I...first put it on the internet at msn.com by 1994, when I moved into this Seattle Housing Authority apartment building. It seemed I was being discouraged in the name of what an only be called a Cold War vestige of national security paranoia, yet I had been so indoctrinated that within two or three years I removed it. With my small income, I could use the money.
Shortly after that, Nico Benschop, an engineer at Phillips Electric in the Netherlands, emailed me asking where it was; he had seen it, wanted to read it again. After he heard it had been removed, he offered to host it at his web site there. That seemed reasonable, a little audacious perhaps but feasible and I agreed. The equation is still there, though most of the document was removed as it was not being read.
Later, about 2000, I could afford an ISP, Eskimo North, and presented the document there, where the first few pages and a table of contents remain, with links to the Eskimo North web site here.
Visitors to both web sites continue, more in Europe where it appears the subject has more popular interest, somewhat less here where, because it is technical, it is regarded as a possible security concern.
The concept of a new power balance in the universe is mentioned in the document.
Now to be less selfish about it, it is necessary to understand that the possibility of a causal relationship between Schrodinger's hydrogen atom wave equation and the great 1929 stock market crash is a matter of scientific necessity. That is, if integrity is to rule in the sciences, it is vital to admit that the wave equation is among the possible causes of economic regression to evolutionary scale activity. If integrity is to rule today, this author must admit that the discovery of an equation which fits the cosmological phenomenon of the Hubble Red Shift could be among the causes of economic recession today. At first the economic ripples seemed amusing. They are not, now.
The equation suggests that all energy approaching Earth in the field of light-like radiation is slowly changing as it approaches and passes our planet. When it arrives, it is at the wavelength, frequency, etc. that is observed here.
An equivalent to that statement can be made for each of the five other proportional variables of energy, momentum, wavenumber, wavetime, and frequency. To be complete, they are presented below for ENERGY, WAVELENGTH, FREQUENCY, WAVENUMBER, MOMENTUM, and WAVETIME
These are the only six variables in the wave, besides phase. There are only two constants:
a. The speed of light c has two dimensions, distance and time; it is the ratio of distance to time, x/t where x is a measure of distance, as, meters or miles, and t is a measure of time, as, seconds or years. Radar traffic police are familiar users of this constant.
The speed of light can also be expressed as the product of wavelength and frequency. That makes wavelength of the fundamental quantities in the cosmology of life, and although wavelength is quite variable, certain specific wavelengths appear in quantum transitions which are essential fundamentals of molecular species, hence, of living species. In living organisms, the measure of length is the length of the organism, and frequency is a sensitive variable to organisms both because of their molecular frequencies and those associated with their size. This relates human activity to quantum activity, and quantum activity is a major part of the world of amoebas, germs, and viruses.
In other words, it is possible the continued progress in understanding the world of light-like radiation and its relationship to living organisms, is beginning to require that human beings respond on a quantum scale to their environment. That fits, with the extreme production of containers, such as bottled water and every other kind of box, carton, jug, can, and barrel. In this activity, phase is one of the phenomenon which has direct impact on members of living species, including human. To make it short, modern physics and discoveries in astronomy have phased the human species.
b. The action quantum h has four dimensions, of which two are distance, one is an energy equivalent in classical mechanics to a mass through the equation E = m c^2, and the other is time or its inverse, frequency. This is a common source of confusion; in nature, frequency and energy have a constant ratio, and certain other measures have the same ratio. That ratio is called the action quantum. It is like a liter container for fluids; it can come in many different shapes such as a long thin tube; a cube, a parallelepiped, pyramid, sphere, or any of the various shapes of the familiar liter plastic water bottles.
I. ENERGY All light-like approaching Earth from space comes from higher energy than observed here, and as it passes and recedes from Earth its energy continues to slowly diminish.
II. WAVELENGTH All light-like approaching Earth from space comes from shorter wavelength than observed here, and as it passes and recedes from Earth its wavelength continues to slowly increase.
III. FREQUENCY All light-like approaching Earth from space comes from higher frequency than observed here, and as it passes and recedes from Earth its frequency continues to slowly decrease.
IV. WAVENUMBER All light-like approaching Earth from space comes from greater wavenumber than observed here, and as it passes and recedes from Earth its wavenumber continues to slowly diminish.
V. MOMENTUM All light-like approaching Earth from space comes from greater momentum than observed here, and as it passes and recedes from Earth its momentum continues to slowly increase.
VI. WAVETIME All light-like approaching Earth from space comes from shorter wavetime than observed here, and as it passes and recedes from Earth its wavetime continues to slowly increase.
That's the situation; the whole world is being phased by light. It always was, only now the exterior firmament is eternal for sure, because those distant galaxies will not significantly change position more than their own diameters during the entire coming orbit of the Solar System around the Milky Way - 250 million years of future. It's the same firmament that theologians have always known is of vital importance in the forms of the developing young in the womb. That's why the Schrodinger wave equation had such massive impact within a few years after its 1926 discovery, and why the Hubble Red Shift equation is having such massive impact now.
This has to do with the red shift equation which I discovered in 1981, twenty two years after learning of the problem in Columbia High School in Richland - the atomic town next to Hanford, Washington. A few weeks after you refreshed for me, doctrine containing the relevant second order partial differential equations.
You may be pleased to know the equation's ten years of presentation on the internet was:
a. Possibly a factor in naming the James Bond movie "Quantum of Solace";
b. Probably led to a television comedy show, "The Big Bang Theory"; and
c. Alluded to on a PBS science show on astronomy earlier this month when it was remarked that "the steady-state theory still has its adherents and they are holding their own".
This equation was led in, its sophisticated adherence to Reed standards of order and University of Washington graduate standards of logic, the realm of those protesting the Big Bang "theory" which we regarded as a political expedient having to do with political, economic, and military expansion throughout the world.
The gridlock has been broken and terrestrial cosmology is now being flooded by native light from the exterior cosmology.
The slow rate of development is not surprising. You mentioned when I was attending Reed that the 1926 discovery of the Schrodinger wave equation was only three years prior to the 1929 stock market crash, and made it obvious the probability of a causal relationship could not be avoided. I recalled that by 1985 when I moved back to Seattle from Aberdeen.
After it was on the internet it was soon clear that even though I could obtain only informal notoriety in personal returns for the equation, it would have eventual effect on the world because minimum action paths from discovery to global assimilation could not be avoided if it were persistently before the public.
I...first put it on the internet at msn.com by 1994, when I moved into this Seattle Housing Authority apartment building. It seemed I was being discouraged in the name of what an only be called a Cold War vestige of national security paranoia, yet I had been so indoctrinated that within two or three years I removed it. With my small income, I could use the money.
Shortly after that, Nico Benschop, an engineer at Phillips Electric in the Netherlands, emailed me asking where it was; he had seen it, wanted to read it again. After he heard it had been removed, he offered to host it at his web site there. That seemed reasonable, a little audacious perhaps but feasible and I agreed. The equation is still there, though most of the document was removed as it was not being read.
Later, about 2000, I could afford an ISP, Eskimo North, and presented the document there, where the first few pages and a table of contents remain, with links to the Eskimo North web site here.
Visitors to both web sites continue, more in Europe where it appears the subject has more popular interest, somewhat less here where, because it is technical, it is regarded as a possible security concern.
The concept of a new power balance in the universe is mentioned in the document.
Now to be less selfish about it, it is necessary to understand that the possibility of a causal relationship between Schrodinger's hydrogen atom wave equation and the great 1929 stock market crash is a matter of scientific necessity. That is, if integrity is to rule in the sciences, it is vital to admit that the wave equation is among the possible causes of economic regression to evolutionary scale activity. If integrity is to rule today, this author must admit that the discovery of an equation which fits the cosmological phenomenon of the Hubble Red Shift could be among the causes of economic recession today. At first the economic ripples seemed amusing. They are not, now.
The equation suggests that all energy approaching Earth in the field of light-like radiation is slowly changing as it approaches and passes our planet. When it arrives, it is at the wavelength, frequency, etc. that is observed here.
An equivalent to that statement can be made for each of the five other proportional variables of energy, momentum, wavenumber, wavetime, and frequency. To be complete, they are presented below for ENERGY, WAVELENGTH, FREQUENCY, WAVENUMBER, MOMENTUM, and WAVETIME
These are the only six variables in the wave, besides phase. There are only two constants:
a. The speed of light c has two dimensions, distance and time; it is the ratio of distance to time, x/t where x is a measure of distance, as, meters or miles, and t is a measure of time, as, seconds or years. Radar traffic police are familiar users of this constant.
The speed of light can also be expressed as the product of wavelength and frequency. That makes wavelength of the fundamental quantities in the cosmology of life, and although wavelength is quite variable, certain specific wavelengths appear in quantum transitions which are essential fundamentals of molecular species, hence, of living species. In living organisms, the measure of length is the length of the organism, and frequency is a sensitive variable to organisms both because of their molecular frequencies and those associated with their size. This relates human activity to quantum activity, and quantum activity is a major part of the world of amoebas, germs, and viruses.
In other words, it is possible the continued progress in understanding the world of light-like radiation and its relationship to living organisms, is beginning to require that human beings respond on a quantum scale to their environment. That fits, with the extreme production of containers, such as bottled water and every other kind of box, carton, jug, can, and barrel. In this activity, phase is one of the phenomenon which has direct impact on members of living species, including human. To make it short, modern physics and discoveries in astronomy have phased the human species.
b. The action quantum h has four dimensions, of which two are distance, one is an energy equivalent in classical mechanics to a mass through the equation E = m c^2, and the other is time or its inverse, frequency. This is a common source of confusion; in nature, frequency and energy have a constant ratio, and certain other measures have the same ratio. That ratio is called the action quantum. It is like a liter container for fluids; it can come in many different shapes such as a long thin tube; a cube, a parallelepiped, pyramid, sphere, or any of the various shapes of the familiar liter plastic water bottles.
I. ENERGY All light-like approaching Earth from space comes from higher energy than observed here, and as it passes and recedes from Earth its energy continues to slowly diminish.
II. WAVELENGTH All light-like approaching Earth from space comes from shorter wavelength than observed here, and as it passes and recedes from Earth its wavelength continues to slowly increase.
III. FREQUENCY All light-like approaching Earth from space comes from higher frequency than observed here, and as it passes and recedes from Earth its frequency continues to slowly decrease.
IV. WAVENUMBER All light-like approaching Earth from space comes from greater wavenumber than observed here, and as it passes and recedes from Earth its wavenumber continues to slowly diminish.
V. MOMENTUM All light-like approaching Earth from space comes from greater momentum than observed here, and as it passes and recedes from Earth its momentum continues to slowly increase.
VI. WAVETIME All light-like approaching Earth from space comes from shorter wavetime than observed here, and as it passes and recedes from Earth its wavetime continues to slowly increase.
That's the situation; the whole world is being phased by light. It always was, only now the exterior firmament is eternal for sure, because those distant galaxies will not significantly change position more than their own diameters during the entire coming orbit of the Solar System around the Milky Way - 250 million years of future. It's the same firmament that theologians have always known is of vital importance in the forms of the developing young in the womb. That's why the Schrodinger wave equation had such massive impact within a few years after its 1926 discovery, and why the Hubble Red Shift equation is having such massive impact now.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
SYMBIOTIC SILICON AND CARBON
Carbon and Silicon in symbiosis under the entropic principle of information.
Human beings are the agents of change.
As is well known, carbon is a fundamental element in all known life on Earth, from microbes to elephants and whales and of course we human beings. Carbon is a tetravalent element, in that it has four electrons near its surface which can play roles as an ion in both acidic and alkaline chemicals as well as organic molecules that can be extended infinitely.
Silicon, like carbon, is a tetravalent element, although its ionization potentials are so high it does not easily form polymer chains. As a result, there are few species in the earth in which silicon plays any known significant role at all. The few species that use silicon in nature use it as a structural object, rather like a brick or paving stone, and some other species actually use small stones either to armor their shells, or as grinding stones in the gizzards and craws of some reptiles and birds.
But something new happened when human beings began to chip and flake flint into tools such as knives, spear points, and other sharp tools, and sandstone into grinding surfaces. Even more, when fire was tamed from wildfires to campfires and the firing of clay pots was discovered in some flash of inspiration, silicon was becoming a richly rewarding element to play and work with. Those discoveries are from some millions of years ago. Much more recently, the use of drawings, hieroglyphs, images, pictures and written languages created a distinctly different kind of relationship between the great cosmology in which the Earth existed, and the whole ensemble of carbon, plants and animals, human beings, fire, and silicon.
It is in this ensemble of all these things, that silicon is in a symbiotic relationship with carbon. The ensemble could be more properly described as a polybiotic relationship containing carbon and silicon, and that is a matter of terminology more properly in the domain of lexicographers.
About five thousand years ago a divergence took place, in which human development began to progress like a river flowing around an island in that river.
The most well known in the West is when the Scorpion King was founding the first Egyptian dynasty and constructing sandstone architectures that included not only houses but pyramids. The details are important though not here and they are richly intriguing history. One detail though seems formative. Emerging civilization in Egypt required wielding the executive power to accomplish architectural goals. In other words, those dynasties became willing to kill to get the job done. That is probably why the Scorpion King was shown with a scorpion floating above his head, and he was shown holding a club. The bug took the blame, for it is a lethal and ancient instinct quite familiar with the sand and its silicon.
Less well known was the emergence among Chinese Taoists, who were traditional philosophers primarily patriarchal in motive. They wanted to try a new approach, but one which did not question the way of nature, which they saw as the path or progression of Heaven. To them, all activities by human beings should be in the Order of Heaven.
The problem was that using sheer chance in deciding whether to take a left or right path where one might have a tiger, as might happen by tossing a coin, did not have a particularly good record in avoiding tigers.
However, the Chinese had developed writing and it was proving to be valuable. The approach taken by Taoists was to introduce an element between the use of chance and the natural world. By casting lots, the traveler would choose a passage in what was literally a primitive survival manual. Doing so made him refer to the far more subtle and energetically sensitive media of written words, and that made it far more likely the serious person would perceive more clearly what it was that made the possible choices different.
This technique is in use in survival training. If one is lost in the wilderness, it is best to read the manual, and if no specific problem is immediate, choose a passage or a few at random. There are likely to be periods of time when, trapped in the wilderness, a few moments might not present any particular threat or necessity, but can be used to familiarize with the general approach to survival. Reading English has that same sensitivity to energy that was so important to the early Taoists.
That's why one of the things that make it possible to deal well with money is an understanding of the writings in economics.
Since mankind began to work silicon, it has become one of the most intriguing, fascinating, and productive of developments in history. Human beings follow order, and the order of Heaven now comprehends a possibility of wielding silicon as efficiently as carbon or any other element, in the grandest and most comprehensive and noble of goals as well as in activities of local and temporal importance. Enthusiasm is high, and cement is cheap. Now our nation has vast plains and fields covered with cement, concrete, and rocks.
The problem can be more correctly understood if it is taken into account that entropy can be put on the right hand side of the equation as a prime mover, because in the case of the emergence of silicon, entropy is just that. Processes that affect and move silicon are the entropic, ordering, and chaos-reducing process of putting information into play in writings of dreams, plans, designs, knowledge, business, finance and other particulars of the processes of moving silicon from amorphous low order high entropy, chaotic masses in the Earth, into structured, high order, low entropy forms in human constructions. The result is essentially similar to patterns in crystallization, which may be exothermic or endothermic in that it may heat energy or absorb it. Either can be a driving gradient.
This conclusion requires understanding that the entropy with which information is measured is a statistical quantity and it is fundamentally indistinct from the entropy in thermodynamic phenomena. As a result, it is most useful to understand thermodynamics as a field of statistical activity rather than through any other approach. Understanding of the purely mathematical interpretation of thermodynamics is becoming more complete and should lead to the same conclusions.
A few examples of the way human constructions transform relatively chaotic nature into ordered forms will be useful here.
Immense quantities of earth and its living plants and animals, including sentient beings, are transformed into fundamental dimensions of the action.
These dimensions are mass, length, area, frequency, velocity, momentum, energy and a few others.
Some of these processes reduce millions of tons of the Earth into slag in order to find a few kilograms of diamonds or gold.
Vast masses of chaotic rock, ore and earth are transformed each year into millions of tons of iron, aluminum, copper, zinc, and other pure elements or compounds such as cement and fertilizer. Mass is a fundamental dimension of the non-radiation forms of the action.
Each year million of miles of wire, rope, yarn, thread, flexible tubing, and other length goods are produced, by transforming the finite earth and its scarce living biosphere. Length is a fundamental subdimension of the action.
Each year millions of tons of material are consumed to produce sheets and areas of plasterboard, plywood, linoleum, carpet, roofing, window glass, sheet steel, screen, cardboard, paper, Formica and other laminates, and endless acres of highway and airport surface. Area is a fundamental subdimension of the action.
Millions of British Thermal Units, Horsepower-hours, and kilowatt-hours of energy are produced each year from either dynamic, potentially renewable resources such as wind, water and tides, or burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas. Energy is an external dimension of the action, and occurs also in radiation from stars and hot lava.
Huge quantities of traffic flow along roads, through the air, across the ocean, and along rails, which are practically designed to be examples of momentum - masses moving at velocities. These range from tiny bullets to cars, trucks, airplanes, ships, and railroad trains, Momentum is a fundamental subdimension of the action.
Vast quantities of frequency are pumped out each year by transmitters of radio and television signals as well as lamps and other specialized emitters of radiation throughout the spectrum. Frequency is a fundamental subdimension of the action.
Putting the emergence of silicon's symbiotic relationship to carbon together with the reduction of the planet to fundamental forms of the action, one sees a vital and essential need to have this scenario understood as a consequence of trying to interpret the entire cosmology as a subdomain of the constructions that have occurred since ancient Egypt. For five thousand years the western human cultures have been engaged in a colossal, coarse, and titanic misconstruction. The dynasties formed a pattern of boom and bust, each boom cycle containing a hell-bent- for-leather stampede toward dreamed-of and imaginary goals, with no other trammel than the exhaustion of the people, their resources, and the Earth.
At the present time, the slaughter of wildlife, the sentient beings of the oceans and land, is the currently being exhausted resource that seems likely to be the only possible cause of this dynasty's misconstruction.
Reaching the Moon was one of the goals, and it was an important goal that may be thought of as justifying the slaughter of sentient beings throughout the world, but because the Moon was attained, and it is not necessary to kill many sentient beings to reach the moon, the slaughter of seals, tuna, cod, herring, salmon, elephants and many other organisms is unconscionable and cannot be justified. Sadly, this concern does not seem likely to be respected by those who slaughter the world's wildlife.
Instead, this period of time in Earth's history is likely to be viewed as dominated by a species, which to be sure attained spaceflight, but at the cost of reducing itself to an infestation, with which the planet can, in the long run, do without. Malthusian or not, it has too much truth to ignore, for the evidence is in the piles of dead fish and mammals in every grocery store and supermarket, and these marketing forms are increasing with the population.
Look at tanks. One of the attainments of World War II was to litter the sands of Egypt and the Sudan with rusting iron tanks, like so many Martian bodies, when all that was really wanted was a safe spaceflight to Mars and return with some of that rusty red soil. Why on Earth is anybody driving around in a tank nowadays? Is it to force the planet Mars upon the populace, or through some amateurish conjuring, perhaps magically cause Mars to appear on Earth? Or they are driving around on the Earth like Diemos and Phobos, demons and fear, the two moons of Mars as that devolved planet became embedded in the Earth's gravitational configuration in human concepts.
Human beings are the agents of change.
As is well known, carbon is a fundamental element in all known life on Earth, from microbes to elephants and whales and of course we human beings. Carbon is a tetravalent element, in that it has four electrons near its surface which can play roles as an ion in both acidic and alkaline chemicals as well as organic molecules that can be extended infinitely.
Silicon, like carbon, is a tetravalent element, although its ionization potentials are so high it does not easily form polymer chains. As a result, there are few species in the earth in which silicon plays any known significant role at all. The few species that use silicon in nature use it as a structural object, rather like a brick or paving stone, and some other species actually use small stones either to armor their shells, or as grinding stones in the gizzards and craws of some reptiles and birds.
But something new happened when human beings began to chip and flake flint into tools such as knives, spear points, and other sharp tools, and sandstone into grinding surfaces. Even more, when fire was tamed from wildfires to campfires and the firing of clay pots was discovered in some flash of inspiration, silicon was becoming a richly rewarding element to play and work with. Those discoveries are from some millions of years ago. Much more recently, the use of drawings, hieroglyphs, images, pictures and written languages created a distinctly different kind of relationship between the great cosmology in which the Earth existed, and the whole ensemble of carbon, plants and animals, human beings, fire, and silicon.
It is in this ensemble of all these things, that silicon is in a symbiotic relationship with carbon. The ensemble could be more properly described as a polybiotic relationship containing carbon and silicon, and that is a matter of terminology more properly in the domain of lexicographers.
About five thousand years ago a divergence took place, in which human development began to progress like a river flowing around an island in that river.
The most well known in the West is when the Scorpion King was founding the first Egyptian dynasty and constructing sandstone architectures that included not only houses but pyramids. The details are important though not here and they are richly intriguing history. One detail though seems formative. Emerging civilization in Egypt required wielding the executive power to accomplish architectural goals. In other words, those dynasties became willing to kill to get the job done. That is probably why the Scorpion King was shown with a scorpion floating above his head, and he was shown holding a club. The bug took the blame, for it is a lethal and ancient instinct quite familiar with the sand and its silicon.
Less well known was the emergence among Chinese Taoists, who were traditional philosophers primarily patriarchal in motive. They wanted to try a new approach, but one which did not question the way of nature, which they saw as the path or progression of Heaven. To them, all activities by human beings should be in the Order of Heaven.
The problem was that using sheer chance in deciding whether to take a left or right path where one might have a tiger, as might happen by tossing a coin, did not have a particularly good record in avoiding tigers.
However, the Chinese had developed writing and it was proving to be valuable. The approach taken by Taoists was to introduce an element between the use of chance and the natural world. By casting lots, the traveler would choose a passage in what was literally a primitive survival manual. Doing so made him refer to the far more subtle and energetically sensitive media of written words, and that made it far more likely the serious person would perceive more clearly what it was that made the possible choices different.
This technique is in use in survival training. If one is lost in the wilderness, it is best to read the manual, and if no specific problem is immediate, choose a passage or a few at random. There are likely to be periods of time when, trapped in the wilderness, a few moments might not present any particular threat or necessity, but can be used to familiarize with the general approach to survival. Reading English has that same sensitivity to energy that was so important to the early Taoists.
That's why one of the things that make it possible to deal well with money is an understanding of the writings in economics.
Since mankind began to work silicon, it has become one of the most intriguing, fascinating, and productive of developments in history. Human beings follow order, and the order of Heaven now comprehends a possibility of wielding silicon as efficiently as carbon or any other element, in the grandest and most comprehensive and noble of goals as well as in activities of local and temporal importance. Enthusiasm is high, and cement is cheap. Now our nation has vast plains and fields covered with cement, concrete, and rocks.
The problem can be more correctly understood if it is taken into account that entropy can be put on the right hand side of the equation as a prime mover, because in the case of the emergence of silicon, entropy is just that. Processes that affect and move silicon are the entropic, ordering, and chaos-reducing process of putting information into play in writings of dreams, plans, designs, knowledge, business, finance and other particulars of the processes of moving silicon from amorphous low order high entropy, chaotic masses in the Earth, into structured, high order, low entropy forms in human constructions. The result is essentially similar to patterns in crystallization, which may be exothermic or endothermic in that it may heat energy or absorb it. Either can be a driving gradient.
This conclusion requires understanding that the entropy with which information is measured is a statistical quantity and it is fundamentally indistinct from the entropy in thermodynamic phenomena. As a result, it is most useful to understand thermodynamics as a field of statistical activity rather than through any other approach. Understanding of the purely mathematical interpretation of thermodynamics is becoming more complete and should lead to the same conclusions.
A few examples of the way human constructions transform relatively chaotic nature into ordered forms will be useful here.
Immense quantities of earth and its living plants and animals, including sentient beings, are transformed into fundamental dimensions of the action.
These dimensions are mass, length, area, frequency, velocity, momentum, energy and a few others.
Some of these processes reduce millions of tons of the Earth into slag in order to find a few kilograms of diamonds or gold.
Vast masses of chaotic rock, ore and earth are transformed each year into millions of tons of iron, aluminum, copper, zinc, and other pure elements or compounds such as cement and fertilizer. Mass is a fundamental dimension of the non-radiation forms of the action.
Each year million of miles of wire, rope, yarn, thread, flexible tubing, and other length goods are produced, by transforming the finite earth and its scarce living biosphere. Length is a fundamental subdimension of the action.
Each year millions of tons of material are consumed to produce sheets and areas of plasterboard, plywood, linoleum, carpet, roofing, window glass, sheet steel, screen, cardboard, paper, Formica and other laminates, and endless acres of highway and airport surface. Area is a fundamental subdimension of the action.
Millions of British Thermal Units, Horsepower-hours, and kilowatt-hours of energy are produced each year from either dynamic, potentially renewable resources such as wind, water and tides, or burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas. Energy is an external dimension of the action, and occurs also in radiation from stars and hot lava.
Huge quantities of traffic flow along roads, through the air, across the ocean, and along rails, which are practically designed to be examples of momentum - masses moving at velocities. These range from tiny bullets to cars, trucks, airplanes, ships, and railroad trains, Momentum is a fundamental subdimension of the action.
Vast quantities of frequency are pumped out each year by transmitters of radio and television signals as well as lamps and other specialized emitters of radiation throughout the spectrum. Frequency is a fundamental subdimension of the action.
Putting the emergence of silicon's symbiotic relationship to carbon together with the reduction of the planet to fundamental forms of the action, one sees a vital and essential need to have this scenario understood as a consequence of trying to interpret the entire cosmology as a subdomain of the constructions that have occurred since ancient Egypt. For five thousand years the western human cultures have been engaged in a colossal, coarse, and titanic misconstruction. The dynasties formed a pattern of boom and bust, each boom cycle containing a hell-bent- for-leather stampede toward dreamed-of and imaginary goals, with no other trammel than the exhaustion of the people, their resources, and the Earth.
At the present time, the slaughter of wildlife, the sentient beings of the oceans and land, is the currently being exhausted resource that seems likely to be the only possible cause of this dynasty's misconstruction.
Reaching the Moon was one of the goals, and it was an important goal that may be thought of as justifying the slaughter of sentient beings throughout the world, but because the Moon was attained, and it is not necessary to kill many sentient beings to reach the moon, the slaughter of seals, tuna, cod, herring, salmon, elephants and many other organisms is unconscionable and cannot be justified. Sadly, this concern does not seem likely to be respected by those who slaughter the world's wildlife.
Instead, this period of time in Earth's history is likely to be viewed as dominated by a species, which to be sure attained spaceflight, but at the cost of reducing itself to an infestation, with which the planet can, in the long run, do without. Malthusian or not, it has too much truth to ignore, for the evidence is in the piles of dead fish and mammals in every grocery store and supermarket, and these marketing forms are increasing with the population.
Look at tanks. One of the attainments of World War II was to litter the sands of Egypt and the Sudan with rusting iron tanks, like so many Martian bodies, when all that was really wanted was a safe spaceflight to Mars and return with some of that rusty red soil. Why on Earth is anybody driving around in a tank nowadays? Is it to force the planet Mars upon the populace, or through some amateurish conjuring, perhaps magically cause Mars to appear on Earth? Or they are driving around on the Earth like Diemos and Phobos, demons and fear, the two moons of Mars as that devolved planet became embedded in the Earth's gravitational configuration in human concepts.
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