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.
Monday, June 8, 2009
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.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Evolution and God
In early time in the Earth billions of years ago chemical molecules through millions of years at a time flocculated into larger chemicals, some of which if broken apart, would grow into larger molecules of the same chemicals. These persisted, because the mere fragments were the seeds that grew into their progeny.
Immense stretches of time passed, millions of years at a time. Certain molecules grew tougher, and more persistent. They became virus-like, and did not break randomly, but at distinct places in distinct sizes, because by doing that, they lasted longer and were more likely to reproduce in the same way. They did not magically intend that; their eventual progeny were the result of those which, randomly, were the more stable survivors among myriad other kinds were not so stable, and which disappeared rapidly.
Stability is survival. God was substantial in the emergence of order from randomness and chance. God emerged from among the very molecules which were the ultimate precursors of life. God was with life all the way since molecules. To a molecule, God was manifested in at least the protective environment sustained by other molecules like oneself. Survival was improved with others like oneself; survival is good. Since ancient times when all life was still only molecules, God is good. The primitive origins of dreams emerged as the field of resonance around the particular spectra of molecules, perceptible, that is influential, in the quietest of times, when the most sensitive flexibility of a molecule could respond to the collection of resonance which surrounded itself.
Entropy, the randomness into which energy could be lost, was an important principle. Molecules which could conserve the energy of their forms, and not lose it to randomness, were among those more likely to reproduce to form.
Gradually, viruses as centers of activity accreted outer membranes a quarter or half wavelength of light away from themselves because at those distances certain resonance favored the accumulation of materials like themselves, and these were the precursors of the membranes which define cells. And so God became formally visible.
Collective dreams emerged. An organism among other organisms like itself, in quiet circumstances, would resonate with the field created by all its neighbors.
For billions of years, single celled organisms were all there were. They are called monera, now that the word exists, the word with which this is written.
Then the monera learned not to break apart completely, but to remain together. For a time, there were two-celled organisms. Then there were three-celled organisms, then four-celled organisms and suddenly many-celled organisms began to emerged, and still God was with organisms. Always, an organism itself faintly represented God in self- resonance, and harmony would be assuring.
Monera began to reproduce as multicelled organisms, called metazoa, from three to perhaps eight galactic cycles ago.
Most importantly, when organisms of a kind were numerous, their collective resonance would be most assuring to an individual organism that had lost the Way.
Species emerged, because some organisms had one resonance spectrum, and other species had a different resonance spectrum. Yet they were never infinitely different; there were superficial differences, and somewhat deeper differences, then more substantial differences, and fundamental differences, and finally such fundamental differences that the two organisms were of greatly different sizes and shapes.
Superficial differences could be tolerated.
Somewhat deeper differences could lead to distinct aversion.
More substantial differences could lead to competition for resources and mating.
Fundamental differences could lead to predator-and-prey relationships.
Extremely substantial, fundamental differences could lead to parasite-host, or organism-disease relationships.
Some organisms, which were plants, were not motile, but simply grew where they happened, or floated and only drawn by the ancient waters. They dream, though faintly, because they cannot move in response to their dreams.
Some of these survived at the water's edge, and gradually became able to survive being dry briefly. They were able to endure being dry briefly, because they were the ones who persisted in reproducing after they had been dry for a time. It is difficult to say, whether success was or was not entirely planned. Perhaps it just happened, that some succeeded, and so it looks like it was planned, but they just accidentally succeeded in surviving, and the very survival itself was the selection rule by which those that would survive would be more likely to survive again.
Animals in the seas dreamed, in that their resonance with themselves and with each other enhanced their survival.
Many things came to pass. Organisms developed eyes, and nerves, feelers, fins, claws and shells in the oceans. Organisms crawled out of the shallows onto the land, first by being stranded there by the tides. Their survival was possible, and those that became most adept at surviving the varied circumstances caused by tides learned to emerge from the waters of the seas for a moment, then for a time, then for days and finally forever, to spend all their lives on the land.
Eventually both plants and animals literally infested the land as well as the seas. Myriad kinds of life, from molecules - which were still abundant and varied and notoriously persistent, to single celled creatures, to plants and walking creatures, gradually became established all over the Earth.
These events spanned many tours around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, at 250 million years each cycle. Actually the duration of time was somewhat longer in the beginning, but just how much is not yet measured. Perhaps when life began, it was 350 million years, and the cycle became shorter as time passed, so that now it is 220 million years according to the best available measurements now.
Animals dream, sometimes deliberately and intensely, seeking resonance from others, or carefully rearranging the resonance which remain from the day. One seeking the resonant fields of others may seek only those of one's own kind of animal.
In prehistoric times, after the dinosaurs had fallen and the mammals which had emerged under them began to dominate the earth, there emerged early monkeys.
The early monkeys were not human beings, not people, not men. They did not use particularly articulated words; like modern monkeys, they screamed and hooted, cried and called, but these were not words. There was no written language, only a few different kinds of scent markings, and he evidence of their feeding from broken plants, and their passing by spoor.
All animals dreamed. The myriad animals dreamed dreams of monkeys. Some dreamed that monkeys should be smart, so that went into the stew. Some dreamed that monkeys should have pincers, yet others dreamed of claws, and still others of prehensile appendages. The distinct emerged in dreams, and so monkeys have fingers, and claws. Some animals contributed hearing and others vision. Animals which had tails dreamed monkeys should have tails, and so monkeys have tails. Connecting intelligence to fingers was difficult, and for along time it was not known which way signals moved from brains to limbs, so for a long time the tail was prehensile. It was somehow related to the spoor but just how was for a very long time not clear.
And then Man was dreamed, for monkeys began to understand how to signal at a thought which finger should move where, and their fingers became connected with more than their mere stomachs and digestion. The monkeys dreamed dreams of Man, and so, rooting that dreams in the dreams of all life, Man became inevitable.
Thought was connected to the hand. And so God, which was the sum of all dreaming, planning, hoping and believing, made Man, the money with his mind connected to his hands.
Now just imagine what chance your dreams have, after you have killed all the other animals that would have helped you substantiate your fleeting dreams of flying to the stars.
In the early days before Men, wild animals were the chorus of dreamers, who provided the vague but powerful basis for dreams and thoughts of progeny to be. Just so, Native Peoples in every continent know stories about Fox, and Buffalo, and Crow, and Eagle, Elephant and Giraffe because these stories came to them in dreams shared by all life with Men.
Go back to the small farms with the domesticated animals such as sheep and goats have contributed dreams to families since animals were first kept. Nowadays, the cat and dog often appear in dreams, and some say they share the dreams of their masters. But you won't go to the stars with only the dreams of a few chosen pets, if all the wild animal beings of the Earth, and many of the Plants of the Earth that support the animals, is destroyed.
Immense stretches of time passed, millions of years at a time. Certain molecules grew tougher, and more persistent. They became virus-like, and did not break randomly, but at distinct places in distinct sizes, because by doing that, they lasted longer and were more likely to reproduce in the same way. They did not magically intend that; their eventual progeny were the result of those which, randomly, were the more stable survivors among myriad other kinds were not so stable, and which disappeared rapidly.
Stability is survival. God was substantial in the emergence of order from randomness and chance. God emerged from among the very molecules which were the ultimate precursors of life. God was with life all the way since molecules. To a molecule, God was manifested in at least the protective environment sustained by other molecules like oneself. Survival was improved with others like oneself; survival is good. Since ancient times when all life was still only molecules, God is good. The primitive origins of dreams emerged as the field of resonance around the particular spectra of molecules, perceptible, that is influential, in the quietest of times, when the most sensitive flexibility of a molecule could respond to the collection of resonance which surrounded itself.
Entropy, the randomness into which energy could be lost, was an important principle. Molecules which could conserve the energy of their forms, and not lose it to randomness, were among those more likely to reproduce to form.
Gradually, viruses as centers of activity accreted outer membranes a quarter or half wavelength of light away from themselves because at those distances certain resonance favored the accumulation of materials like themselves, and these were the precursors of the membranes which define cells. And so God became formally visible.
Collective dreams emerged. An organism among other organisms like itself, in quiet circumstances, would resonate with the field created by all its neighbors.
For billions of years, single celled organisms were all there were. They are called monera, now that the word exists, the word with which this is written.
Then the monera learned not to break apart completely, but to remain together. For a time, there were two-celled organisms. Then there were three-celled organisms, then four-celled organisms and suddenly many-celled organisms began to emerged, and still God was with organisms. Always, an organism itself faintly represented God in self- resonance, and harmony would be assuring.
Monera began to reproduce as multicelled organisms, called metazoa, from three to perhaps eight galactic cycles ago.
Most importantly, when organisms of a kind were numerous, their collective resonance would be most assuring to an individual organism that had lost the Way.
Species emerged, because some organisms had one resonance spectrum, and other species had a different resonance spectrum. Yet they were never infinitely different; there were superficial differences, and somewhat deeper differences, then more substantial differences, and fundamental differences, and finally such fundamental differences that the two organisms were of greatly different sizes and shapes.
Superficial differences could be tolerated.
Somewhat deeper differences could lead to distinct aversion.
More substantial differences could lead to competition for resources and mating.
Fundamental differences could lead to predator-and-prey relationships.
Extremely substantial, fundamental differences could lead to parasite-host, or organism-disease relationships.
Some organisms, which were plants, were not motile, but simply grew where they happened, or floated and only drawn by the ancient waters. They dream, though faintly, because they cannot move in response to their dreams.
Some of these survived at the water's edge, and gradually became able to survive being dry briefly. They were able to endure being dry briefly, because they were the ones who persisted in reproducing after they had been dry for a time. It is difficult to say, whether success was or was not entirely planned. Perhaps it just happened, that some succeeded, and so it looks like it was planned, but they just accidentally succeeded in surviving, and the very survival itself was the selection rule by which those that would survive would be more likely to survive again.
Animals in the seas dreamed, in that their resonance with themselves and with each other enhanced their survival.
Many things came to pass. Organisms developed eyes, and nerves, feelers, fins, claws and shells in the oceans. Organisms crawled out of the shallows onto the land, first by being stranded there by the tides. Their survival was possible, and those that became most adept at surviving the varied circumstances caused by tides learned to emerge from the waters of the seas for a moment, then for a time, then for days and finally forever, to spend all their lives on the land.
Eventually both plants and animals literally infested the land as well as the seas. Myriad kinds of life, from molecules - which were still abundant and varied and notoriously persistent, to single celled creatures, to plants and walking creatures, gradually became established all over the Earth.
These events spanned many tours around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, at 250 million years each cycle. Actually the duration of time was somewhat longer in the beginning, but just how much is not yet measured. Perhaps when life began, it was 350 million years, and the cycle became shorter as time passed, so that now it is 220 million years according to the best available measurements now.
Animals dream, sometimes deliberately and intensely, seeking resonance from others, or carefully rearranging the resonance which remain from the day. One seeking the resonant fields of others may seek only those of one's own kind of animal.
In prehistoric times, after the dinosaurs had fallen and the mammals which had emerged under them began to dominate the earth, there emerged early monkeys.
The early monkeys were not human beings, not people, not men. They did not use particularly articulated words; like modern monkeys, they screamed and hooted, cried and called, but these were not words. There was no written language, only a few different kinds of scent markings, and he evidence of their feeding from broken plants, and their passing by spoor.
All animals dreamed. The myriad animals dreamed dreams of monkeys. Some dreamed that monkeys should be smart, so that went into the stew. Some dreamed that monkeys should have pincers, yet others dreamed of claws, and still others of prehensile appendages. The distinct emerged in dreams, and so monkeys have fingers, and claws. Some animals contributed hearing and others vision. Animals which had tails dreamed monkeys should have tails, and so monkeys have tails. Connecting intelligence to fingers was difficult, and for along time it was not known which way signals moved from brains to limbs, so for a long time the tail was prehensile. It was somehow related to the spoor but just how was for a very long time not clear.
And then Man was dreamed, for monkeys began to understand how to signal at a thought which finger should move where, and their fingers became connected with more than their mere stomachs and digestion. The monkeys dreamed dreams of Man, and so, rooting that dreams in the dreams of all life, Man became inevitable.
Thought was connected to the hand. And so God, which was the sum of all dreaming, planning, hoping and believing, made Man, the money with his mind connected to his hands.
Now just imagine what chance your dreams have, after you have killed all the other animals that would have helped you substantiate your fleeting dreams of flying to the stars.
In the early days before Men, wild animals were the chorus of dreamers, who provided the vague but powerful basis for dreams and thoughts of progeny to be. Just so, Native Peoples in every continent know stories about Fox, and Buffalo, and Crow, and Eagle, Elephant and Giraffe because these stories came to them in dreams shared by all life with Men.
Go back to the small farms with the domesticated animals such as sheep and goats have contributed dreams to families since animals were first kept. Nowadays, the cat and dog often appear in dreams, and some say they share the dreams of their masters. But you won't go to the stars with only the dreams of a few chosen pets, if all the wild animal beings of the Earth, and many of the Plants of the Earth that support the animals, is destroyed.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Hard Times and Deeply Distressing Fundamental Issues
I believe the economic downturn is a sign of a massive global devolution of technological industries in the manufacturing and construction sectors. This devolution is because the whole development reached a critical stage in its size and connectivity, and can no longer avoid eternal factors such as the exterior celestial firmament of distant galaxies, the rotation of the Milky Way galaxy, the annual orbit of the Earth around the Sun, and of course the Earth's rotation.
During most of the opening two or three centuries of technological development, most of the time daily and annual concepts of right were absolutely sufficient to undertake huge constructions such as cities, bridges, tunnels, and highways. Newer technologies such as communications, including television, internet and portable telephone systems, were able to make do with greater use of the annual concepts of right. But in almost no case was it necessary, except occasionally on a local scale, for an industry to check itself against galactic right, and then it was only for a technical detail such as in the sciences where quantum spin is a factor.
By now, the concentration of problems has also become urgent and simply stark. Overpopulation, emphasis on employment that does not deal with such mundane things as food, shelter and clothing, the relentless machine-driven slaughter of wildlife that does the same thing to wild things now as machine guns and mustard gas did in the First World War, and other factors conspire to create a resounding rejection of certain excesses in the human construction.
These agonizingly intense raw factors are masked by spending time carefully examining secondary problems like tax rates and economic soundness of mortgage and manufacturing industries. The simple fact is that life is turning away from several factors that consume much that is of value, despoil much other that is of value, and produce a remarkable large quantity of inessential things such as extremely sophisticated consumer goods, lavish entertainment budgets, and exceedingly expensive skyscrapers, while not placing a completely dedicated concern onto the security of production of necessary, essential things like food and housing and making certain these essentials are available in the necessary and sufficient quantities whatever else comes to pass.
The upshot is that this economic recession could continue as collapse for another decade, while people muddle around trying to create works that fit the concept which is to eventually become stable throughout the earth as the planet's destiny. If it is in the future that, for instance, lavish consumer goods are simply neglected much, much more than is now anticipated, then that kind of industry is simply destined to fail utterly. Of course that may not be; it is known that lavish consumer goods existed during the Roman Empire. On the other hand there were long periods of relatively mundane, essential existence and its concomitant dedicated to fundamental necessities, throughout extensive regions in the world, and lavish consumer goods were simply not in vogue, not even as popular as they had been among those who could afford them. Tastes change.
In tastes at the present time certain flavors are almost unmentionable, though decency compels they be declared increasingly often. Two of these are bitterness and hunger. The bitterness comes from unnecessary death, both human and animal, and the hunger is among its causes. So also are the slaughter of both domesticated animals and wildlife. Overpopulation is a bitter mistake, and so are the worst standards of living. There may be no way for ANY of the world's people to avoid any of these stark simple realities, with the terrible implications of the truth they comprise.
It seems likely that the vast glut of motor vehicles is to be eventually also understood as a serious, great, evolutionary mistake, a misconstruction of almost immense magnitude. If it may be thought that the present economic downturn presents some hard questions, just consider what kind of questions may emerge from a serious reduction in automobile traffic. How will people combine the necessity of working close to home, with the existing separation of work locations from house, shelter and home? We don't know.
Telecommuting was greeted with great enthusiasm, and rightly so. Telecommuting provides part of the real answer, the real solution, to exactly that problem. The only difficulty is that it is being ignored, and it is only part of the solution. The other part of the solution is to find ways with which human beings can secure food, clothing and other income, while remaining generally close to their homes, and without creating a huge transportation glut on the roads each day just because engines make it callously possible.
So the problem is, that telecommuting provides too little, too late, of only a small part of exactly the kind of solutions necessary. That small part is exceptionally new stuff, new capabilities, but it is almost inevitable that considerable amounts of other new stuff and new capabilities will be necessary before the world reaches a state of sufferable stability in which periodic catastrophic economic collapse does not recur too often for dignity. Telecommuting is absolutely wonderful new stuff wherever it is sufficient, but it's only sufficient in a relatively small part of the economy, and in almost no case is it close the fundamental production of food, clothing and housing.
Another idea that was too little, too late, of exactly something right, is the pea-patch garden patches created under some city jurisdictions. These are an important attempt to create an agricultural base that is distributed throughout populous regions. Much more development of this approach is vital.
Bicycling is considered a valuable and viable form of transportation primarily among those who bicycle. Very few who depend on cars for most or all of their transportation are willing to admit there may be good reason for 'suffering' bike riding.
This is like dieting. If one does not diet or fast occasionally, then one is constantly replenishing current activity supplies by eating food, and this prevents a person from drawing on deep stores of energy and fat. The result is that the person who does not savor any hunger is usually sick with decomposing old fat.
The present construction is somewhat like that. Modern constructions last a long time, and they become corrupt within before they are past their useful lifetimes if they were completely flushed of old occupancy and renewed or replaced. Old buildings are things that cannot be adapted to when they become stale or insufferable. They depend on renewing superficial aspects, such as shops and stores, while retaining sometimes increasingly obsolete frame, foundation, utility connections and energy technology.
Some of the approaches to the economic downturn include renovating or replacing old constructions. Yet if it is not taken into account how important this is, the result will be that not enough old structures are replaced.
There is one other terrible danger which can emerge from an economic collapse: violence as frustrated, often hungry or homeless persons who identify or misidentify some particular group as the cause of their plights, and gain enough power to cause a nation real grief.
The consequence of not dealing with the hard and difficult questions correctly is that often very wrong solutions emerge from the earth as random or sporadic violence.
So what does "correctly" mean? At the very least, a modern sophisticated look at what worked and what did not work in the 1930's depression must be undertaken. The solutions that worked must be made into extensively distributed information on the internet, and new equivalent solutions that work must be devised, proposed, and tried.
Television, the internet, portable telephones and other technology has a good role to play in communicating facts as they appear.
Another possible solution that is only beginning to surface, though many are repulsed by it, is that millions of houses were constructed which are very large for the single family dwellings for which they are zoned. On television are shown people facing eviction from their homes, because they cannot remain in them when their income falls, yet they cannot take in boarders, share their house with another family, or share the house of a family next door because of zoning. This is likely to come to a head sometime down the road if the downturn continues; it has already resulted in people refusing to leave, and some action to help prevent the necessity, while in other cases they are forced to.
Questions like this need deep good judgement that is not always best in the hands of persons who profit by less effective but more lucrative capital aggression.
During most of the opening two or three centuries of technological development, most of the time daily and annual concepts of right were absolutely sufficient to undertake huge constructions such as cities, bridges, tunnels, and highways. Newer technologies such as communications, including television, internet and portable telephone systems, were able to make do with greater use of the annual concepts of right. But in almost no case was it necessary, except occasionally on a local scale, for an industry to check itself against galactic right, and then it was only for a technical detail such as in the sciences where quantum spin is a factor.
By now, the concentration of problems has also become urgent and simply stark. Overpopulation, emphasis on employment that does not deal with such mundane things as food, shelter and clothing, the relentless machine-driven slaughter of wildlife that does the same thing to wild things now as machine guns and mustard gas did in the First World War, and other factors conspire to create a resounding rejection of certain excesses in the human construction.
These agonizingly intense raw factors are masked by spending time carefully examining secondary problems like tax rates and economic soundness of mortgage and manufacturing industries. The simple fact is that life is turning away from several factors that consume much that is of value, despoil much other that is of value, and produce a remarkable large quantity of inessential things such as extremely sophisticated consumer goods, lavish entertainment budgets, and exceedingly expensive skyscrapers, while not placing a completely dedicated concern onto the security of production of necessary, essential things like food and housing and making certain these essentials are available in the necessary and sufficient quantities whatever else comes to pass.
The upshot is that this economic recession could continue as collapse for another decade, while people muddle around trying to create works that fit the concept which is to eventually become stable throughout the earth as the planet's destiny. If it is in the future that, for instance, lavish consumer goods are simply neglected much, much more than is now anticipated, then that kind of industry is simply destined to fail utterly. Of course that may not be; it is known that lavish consumer goods existed during the Roman Empire. On the other hand there were long periods of relatively mundane, essential existence and its concomitant dedicated to fundamental necessities, throughout extensive regions in the world, and lavish consumer goods were simply not in vogue, not even as popular as they had been among those who could afford them. Tastes change.
In tastes at the present time certain flavors are almost unmentionable, though decency compels they be declared increasingly often. Two of these are bitterness and hunger. The bitterness comes from unnecessary death, both human and animal, and the hunger is among its causes. So also are the slaughter of both domesticated animals and wildlife. Overpopulation is a bitter mistake, and so are the worst standards of living. There may be no way for ANY of the world's people to avoid any of these stark simple realities, with the terrible implications of the truth they comprise.
It seems likely that the vast glut of motor vehicles is to be eventually also understood as a serious, great, evolutionary mistake, a misconstruction of almost immense magnitude. If it may be thought that the present economic downturn presents some hard questions, just consider what kind of questions may emerge from a serious reduction in automobile traffic. How will people combine the necessity of working close to home, with the existing separation of work locations from house, shelter and home? We don't know.
Telecommuting was greeted with great enthusiasm, and rightly so. Telecommuting provides part of the real answer, the real solution, to exactly that problem. The only difficulty is that it is being ignored, and it is only part of the solution. The other part of the solution is to find ways with which human beings can secure food, clothing and other income, while remaining generally close to their homes, and without creating a huge transportation glut on the roads each day just because engines make it callously possible.
So the problem is, that telecommuting provides too little, too late, of only a small part of exactly the kind of solutions necessary. That small part is exceptionally new stuff, new capabilities, but it is almost inevitable that considerable amounts of other new stuff and new capabilities will be necessary before the world reaches a state of sufferable stability in which periodic catastrophic economic collapse does not recur too often for dignity. Telecommuting is absolutely wonderful new stuff wherever it is sufficient, but it's only sufficient in a relatively small part of the economy, and in almost no case is it close the fundamental production of food, clothing and housing.
Another idea that was too little, too late, of exactly something right, is the pea-patch garden patches created under some city jurisdictions. These are an important attempt to create an agricultural base that is distributed throughout populous regions. Much more development of this approach is vital.
Bicycling is considered a valuable and viable form of transportation primarily among those who bicycle. Very few who depend on cars for most or all of their transportation are willing to admit there may be good reason for 'suffering' bike riding.
This is like dieting. If one does not diet or fast occasionally, then one is constantly replenishing current activity supplies by eating food, and this prevents a person from drawing on deep stores of energy and fat. The result is that the person who does not savor any hunger is usually sick with decomposing old fat.
The present construction is somewhat like that. Modern constructions last a long time, and they become corrupt within before they are past their useful lifetimes if they were completely flushed of old occupancy and renewed or replaced. Old buildings are things that cannot be adapted to when they become stale or insufferable. They depend on renewing superficial aspects, such as shops and stores, while retaining sometimes increasingly obsolete frame, foundation, utility connections and energy technology.
Some of the approaches to the economic downturn include renovating or replacing old constructions. Yet if it is not taken into account how important this is, the result will be that not enough old structures are replaced.
There is one other terrible danger which can emerge from an economic collapse: violence as frustrated, often hungry or homeless persons who identify or misidentify some particular group as the cause of their plights, and gain enough power to cause a nation real grief.
The consequence of not dealing with the hard and difficult questions correctly is that often very wrong solutions emerge from the earth as random or sporadic violence.
So what does "correctly" mean? At the very least, a modern sophisticated look at what worked and what did not work in the 1930's depression must be undertaken. The solutions that worked must be made into extensively distributed information on the internet, and new equivalent solutions that work must be devised, proposed, and tried.
Television, the internet, portable telephones and other technology has a good role to play in communicating facts as they appear.
Another possible solution that is only beginning to surface, though many are repulsed by it, is that millions of houses were constructed which are very large for the single family dwellings for which they are zoned. On television are shown people facing eviction from their homes, because they cannot remain in them when their income falls, yet they cannot take in boarders, share their house with another family, or share the house of a family next door because of zoning. This is likely to come to a head sometime down the road if the downturn continues; it has already resulted in people refusing to leave, and some action to help prevent the necessity, while in other cases they are forced to.
Questions like this need deep good judgement that is not always best in the hands of persons who profit by less effective but more lucrative capital aggression.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Ugly Fundamental Physical Truth
Neglect of the physical dimensions of natural phenomena is among the causes of some errors which cause the current persistent worldwide misconstruction.
For instance, life's motive appears to be closely related to the growth of crystals. This arises from the nature of genetic material in cell nuclei which, composed of long sequences of molecules arranged in regular sequences, exhibits crystalline order. It is the crystal arrangement of atoms that allows genetic molecules the extra dimensionality that arises from nuclear resonance.
Nuclei of stable atoms have what one would call a great extension in the time domain. They are always at the very smallest magnitudes of length and distance. The trade-off between distance and time, implicit in the motion of light, and constrained to the short distances of the nuclear scale, is why the nuclear time domain is so extended. This extension into the time dimension is brought to the surface, and into living organisms, in crystal resonance, and the fields of crystals thus have considerable extension in the time domain. That is why life is intrigued with time.
Human beings fancy immortality, and dream of it, built pyramids to struggle for it, yet kill the Sequoia and Redwoods that have attained much more of it than we already. Humans fancy numbers, but algae have attained them - yet humans mindlessly insist on it for themselves, never counting that the fundamental dimensions of size mean something in that argument.
Life is a nuclear phenomenon, that displays its variety and activity from the physical dimensions of space, time and order which exist in atomic nuclei. It is not easy to create a world of variety, beauty and intelligence. It takes billion of years. Saying that the Earth was "made" by somebody's Daddy a few thousand years ago is philosophically a criminal act that should be punished by law. We as human beings have responsibility not for a world which Daddy can fix for us every time we break something. We have a responsibility for a world that evolved in no other way than through billions of years of time. Life on Earth is a precious antique heirloom, not a triviality bestowed for the purpose of his popularity by some pharaoh, emperor or king.
However, crystals also have other attributes, properties, and qualities and they demonstrate other phenomena. One of them is growth. Crystals are well known for the way they grow when in solutions that contain the particles of which they construct themselves. Crystals differ greatly in their hardness, and some excellent examples exists of solutions in which two different kinds of crystals can grow in the same solution.
When two crystals of different hardness are grown in the same solution, the harder, tougher crystal literally crashes through the softer, yielding object disrupting its structure and pushing it out of the way. That is exactly why living organisms are at tooth and claw in nature: they are compelled by the very crystalline nature of genetic material, to grow and, when they encounter each other, the tougher organism wins.
Reproducing and increasing in number or in sheer physical size, the harder organism usually wins. This pattern is as fundamental as ice breaking rocks and sidewalks. It is a pattern well known in the military sciences.
That is why the human overpopulation problem is going to be very difficult to solve, and why it won't yield to superficial reasons. That is why it is already known as a tough problem that is going to require tough decisions.
Yet thinking only of winning is not going to solve the problem of overpopulation of the planet. That will result only in a planet overpopulated with tough, hard people who have killed and eaten everything that makes life interesting on Earth.
This too is a problem fraught with fundamental absolutes. Until mankind tamed fire and began to use it for cooking, organisms ate each other alive and kicking, or recently killed in one-on-one competition, leaving the scraps and remains to organisms that had adapted to scavenging. Some organisms fared better than others; by being tougher, or faster, or better concealed, they could resist attack.
The human development of fire in cooking made it possible to eat anything that lived and call it food. By now we can eat every kind of organism on the planet, and the malicious, murderous slaughter of wildlife for that purpose demonstrates it with revealing clarity. The number of sentient beings in bewildering variety of species that have been savagely reaped or mined like so much plant material or dirt is mind-numbing in the scale of its tragedy. Those merely appearing at any one time as having suffered catastrophic losses are an outrage, and the accumulated list of destroyed species in the hundreds. Many of these species are by now extinct or doomed to extinction, and will not appear again on Earth, ever.
The idea that some redeeming good in the universe must be dedicated to saving mankind is insufferably destructive with its abnegation of human responsibility for the planet. There is nothing preventing the human race from destroying the entire biosphere on Earth, except for the possibility that human war might be better.
If it goes badly, then human overpopulation continues until little remains except the human infestation, the human pestilence, the human plague, the human swarm; the killing of sentient beings as if they are dirt, the cooking with heat fire everything that moves or dreams on the earth, are all likely to continue until planet Earth look like Jupiter's moon Io and with not much left to show for it.
Several species have been around the galaxy three times, many others, twice. Human beings have not been in existence so much as a tenth of one time around the galaxy. If human beings take responsibility for what the sum total of all human beings do, we can perpetuate the heavenly place Earth already was for a billion years and more. Certain absolutely tough, difficult decisions would have to take place in order to do that. These decisions are forever.
For instance, life's motive appears to be closely related to the growth of crystals. This arises from the nature of genetic material in cell nuclei which, composed of long sequences of molecules arranged in regular sequences, exhibits crystalline order. It is the crystal arrangement of atoms that allows genetic molecules the extra dimensionality that arises from nuclear resonance.
Nuclei of stable atoms have what one would call a great extension in the time domain. They are always at the very smallest magnitudes of length and distance. The trade-off between distance and time, implicit in the motion of light, and constrained to the short distances of the nuclear scale, is why the nuclear time domain is so extended. This extension into the time dimension is brought to the surface, and into living organisms, in crystal resonance, and the fields of crystals thus have considerable extension in the time domain. That is why life is intrigued with time.
Human beings fancy immortality, and dream of it, built pyramids to struggle for it, yet kill the Sequoia and Redwoods that have attained much more of it than we already. Humans fancy numbers, but algae have attained them - yet humans mindlessly insist on it for themselves, never counting that the fundamental dimensions of size mean something in that argument.
Life is a nuclear phenomenon, that displays its variety and activity from the physical dimensions of space, time and order which exist in atomic nuclei. It is not easy to create a world of variety, beauty and intelligence. It takes billion of years. Saying that the Earth was "made" by somebody's Daddy a few thousand years ago is philosophically a criminal act that should be punished by law. We as human beings have responsibility not for a world which Daddy can fix for us every time we break something. We have a responsibility for a world that evolved in no other way than through billions of years of time. Life on Earth is a precious antique heirloom, not a triviality bestowed for the purpose of his popularity by some pharaoh, emperor or king.
However, crystals also have other attributes, properties, and qualities and they demonstrate other phenomena. One of them is growth. Crystals are well known for the way they grow when in solutions that contain the particles of which they construct themselves. Crystals differ greatly in their hardness, and some excellent examples exists of solutions in which two different kinds of crystals can grow in the same solution.
When two crystals of different hardness are grown in the same solution, the harder, tougher crystal literally crashes through the softer, yielding object disrupting its structure and pushing it out of the way. That is exactly why living organisms are at tooth and claw in nature: they are compelled by the very crystalline nature of genetic material, to grow and, when they encounter each other, the tougher organism wins.
Reproducing and increasing in number or in sheer physical size, the harder organism usually wins. This pattern is as fundamental as ice breaking rocks and sidewalks. It is a pattern well known in the military sciences.
That is why the human overpopulation problem is going to be very difficult to solve, and why it won't yield to superficial reasons. That is why it is already known as a tough problem that is going to require tough decisions.
Yet thinking only of winning is not going to solve the problem of overpopulation of the planet. That will result only in a planet overpopulated with tough, hard people who have killed and eaten everything that makes life interesting on Earth.
This too is a problem fraught with fundamental absolutes. Until mankind tamed fire and began to use it for cooking, organisms ate each other alive and kicking, or recently killed in one-on-one competition, leaving the scraps and remains to organisms that had adapted to scavenging. Some organisms fared better than others; by being tougher, or faster, or better concealed, they could resist attack.
The human development of fire in cooking made it possible to eat anything that lived and call it food. By now we can eat every kind of organism on the planet, and the malicious, murderous slaughter of wildlife for that purpose demonstrates it with revealing clarity. The number of sentient beings in bewildering variety of species that have been savagely reaped or mined like so much plant material or dirt is mind-numbing in the scale of its tragedy. Those merely appearing at any one time as having suffered catastrophic losses are an outrage, and the accumulated list of destroyed species in the hundreds. Many of these species are by now extinct or doomed to extinction, and will not appear again on Earth, ever.
The idea that some redeeming good in the universe must be dedicated to saving mankind is insufferably destructive with its abnegation of human responsibility for the planet. There is nothing preventing the human race from destroying the entire biosphere on Earth, except for the possibility that human war might be better.
If it goes badly, then human overpopulation continues until little remains except the human infestation, the human pestilence, the human plague, the human swarm; the killing of sentient beings as if they are dirt, the cooking with heat fire everything that moves or dreams on the earth, are all likely to continue until planet Earth look like Jupiter's moon Io and with not much left to show for it.
Several species have been around the galaxy three times, many others, twice. Human beings have not been in existence so much as a tenth of one time around the galaxy. If human beings take responsibility for what the sum total of all human beings do, we can perpetuate the heavenly place Earth already was for a billion years and more. Certain absolutely tough, difficult decisions would have to take place in order to do that. These decisions are forever.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Factors Implied by Global Recession
I. Global economic recession appears to be an inevitable unification of modern economic systems into one world-wide pattern. This was made evident by extensive publicity given to multi-national cooperation among economic systems, banking and financial institutions, and governments. Several factors were illuminated by the coordinated activity- some of which could be causes of confusion. The intensity of world change is staggering, and cannot be confused with the mere bewilderment of youth as they take their places in the population, or with political change of hands from generation to generation. World communication is both partly a cause of the rapid change and a means of alleviating its distress.
II. New discoveries transformed human concepts of the nature of the world during the past five centuries. Events of the last century were even more energetically world changing. The period culminated with the Y2K arrival of the third millennium.
III. Technology, including agriculture, manufactures, transportation and communications has put the entire world into a process of renovation and cashiers every discerned error in the construction that had occurred during the last five thousand years. Extensive human development that was millions of years in the making is simply being bulldozed down as not merely inferior, but positively irrelevant to modern concepts of human good. This is ad hoc, everywhere, and no particular organization is evident. Meanwhile, some known human cultures in the past are being reawakened as peoples. No one entity plans this worldwide activity, but it can be perceived as related and consequential.
IV. Two different, important lines of development have become evident: 1) the Egyptian path of massive, executed sandstone and eventually concrete structures; and 2) the Asian Taoist interpretation of nature, which sought the Way through contemplation of seasons that left most human constructions simple. Each was successful in many ways, difficult in others. Both are being re-evaluated now because most of their differences are moot under new, comprehensive concepts of many kinds. Other lines of ancient development may come to light.
V. Despite its brevity and almost theatrically illusory spectacle, the first flights to the Moon-the Apollo series-was a success and returned convincing photos of Earth that confirmed the world view for essentially every person on the planet. The 2020 planned Orion series of flights to the Moon will validate and confirm the Apollo flights. It will bring into play important international and multicultural groups of visitors to the Moon which will do a great deal to moderate and unify human concepts. It will is likely to be anticlimactic for many, world-changing for others.
VI. Preparation for the Orion moon flights obscures the fact that at this time most of the historical human constructions (and misconstructions) of the world are being totally demolished in an irregular way that is not visible part of a single pattern of events. Yet one pattern emerged since the 1890's discovery of galaxies; it brought an understanding that the Milky Way Galaxy resembles a hurricane. Some constructions now being raised are already destined to be obsolete problems within a century. World change now has become metamorphosis, like that described by Ovid regarding Rome - only a thousand times more extensive and intense.
VII. Like a hurricane, with its storm-lull-storm pattern, galactic rotation is a devolution of a titanic vortex onto the Earth's processes. It caused a pattern of war-depression-war in the early 1900's, and appears to be devolving again upon the Earth now. The prolonged war in the Middle East has been followed by the current recession. If this is not handled with understanding, another period of war will follow the recession.
VIII. Public knowledge of the importance of galactic rotation from authorities charged with being responsible for national and world understanding would be valuable. One one side of the giant Milky Way whirlpool, exterior galaxies are coming into view; on the other side, galaxies are being obscured. The change is implacable, never ceasing, never reversing. The angle between the Galactic Center and the Andromeda Galaxy slowly increases. Facts such as these do not seem useful to a perplexed world coming from amateurs; the public needs more substantial assurance, from media, or government.
II. New discoveries transformed human concepts of the nature of the world during the past five centuries. Events of the last century were even more energetically world changing. The period culminated with the Y2K arrival of the third millennium.
III. Technology, including agriculture, manufactures, transportation and communications has put the entire world into a process of renovation and cashiers every discerned error in the construction that had occurred during the last five thousand years. Extensive human development that was millions of years in the making is simply being bulldozed down as not merely inferior, but positively irrelevant to modern concepts of human good. This is ad hoc, everywhere, and no particular organization is evident. Meanwhile, some known human cultures in the past are being reawakened as peoples. No one entity plans this worldwide activity, but it can be perceived as related and consequential.
IV. Two different, important lines of development have become evident: 1) the Egyptian path of massive, executed sandstone and eventually concrete structures; and 2) the Asian Taoist interpretation of nature, which sought the Way through contemplation of seasons that left most human constructions simple. Each was successful in many ways, difficult in others. Both are being re-evaluated now because most of their differences are moot under new, comprehensive concepts of many kinds. Other lines of ancient development may come to light.
V. Despite its brevity and almost theatrically illusory spectacle, the first flights to the Moon-the Apollo series-was a success and returned convincing photos of Earth that confirmed the world view for essentially every person on the planet. The 2020 planned Orion series of flights to the Moon will validate and confirm the Apollo flights. It will bring into play important international and multicultural groups of visitors to the Moon which will do a great deal to moderate and unify human concepts. It will is likely to be anticlimactic for many, world-changing for others.
VI. Preparation for the Orion moon flights obscures the fact that at this time most of the historical human constructions (and misconstructions) of the world are being totally demolished in an irregular way that is not visible part of a single pattern of events. Yet one pattern emerged since the 1890's discovery of galaxies; it brought an understanding that the Milky Way Galaxy resembles a hurricane. Some constructions now being raised are already destined to be obsolete problems within a century. World change now has become metamorphosis, like that described by Ovid regarding Rome - only a thousand times more extensive and intense.
VII. Like a hurricane, with its storm-lull-storm pattern, galactic rotation is a devolution of a titanic vortex onto the Earth's processes. It caused a pattern of war-depression-war in the early 1900's, and appears to be devolving again upon the Earth now. The prolonged war in the Middle East has been followed by the current recession. If this is not handled with understanding, another period of war will follow the recession.
VIII. Public knowledge of the importance of galactic rotation from authorities charged with being responsible for national and world understanding would be valuable. One one side of the giant Milky Way whirlpool, exterior galaxies are coming into view; on the other side, galaxies are being obscured. The change is implacable, never ceasing, never reversing. The angle between the Galactic Center and the Andromeda Galaxy slowly increases. Facts such as these do not seem useful to a perplexed world coming from amateurs; the public needs more substantial assurance, from media, or government.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Silicon emerges now as Calcium and Carbon emerged aeons ago
Silicon emerging
Silicon was tried by some forms of ancient life on Earth which still survive today. Silicon was worked on since primordial times in diatoms and somewhat later in Equisetum. Recently discovered were certain siliceous sponges, the HEXACTINOSIDAN sponges in reefs of British Columbia. They too are very ancient. In all of these, silicon is used only as a structural element. Rudimentarily, dinosaurs used rocks in their craws - gizzards - to help masticate food. Certain organisms like caddis fly larvae coat their shells with sand, gluing it into a stick substance they secrete for that purpose.
Human beings made fundamental breakthroughs in working silicon-bearing substances to the element itself through breaking rocks and shaping pieces into stone tools and weapons, as well as through the use of fire which permitted the firing of clays into vessels. From that time on development of silicon has progressed, in evolutionary time scales, rapidly. Clays evolved into concrete and cement and ceramics into glass, permitted impressive new constructions.
Silicon development became very rapid resulting in the highways and computers that exist today, and its future is vast and likely to continue hundreds of millions of years.
Logic started a few thousand years ago and was refined, along with language, into binary digital information languages. The 256 byte 8-bit character language maps well onto English and other languages with small character sets and 16 and 32-bit character sets were developed for Chinese and related languages. It was proved that it is always possible to map any language onto a binary character set. By now, silicon and digital are almost synonymous with reasoning, information, logic and knowledge. Logic has emerged well beyond the classical or orthodox forms of reasoning premised usually on classicism and religion. By now, logic's theorem provers have discovered new extensions of logic, and such devices as CYC have actually discovered new truths, such as that democratic and parliamentary societies tend to be monotheistic.
One of the dimensions by which information is measured is entropy. It is a statistical quantity that is related to the same statistics in which thermodynamics measures heat in the equation S = -dQ/T. That means the influence of a database tends to become fuzzy when its concept is stretched into the thermal environment. On the other hand, thermostatically regulated office and house interiors have largely freed human beings from variations in temperature.
Consider a large digital database. Whether it represents truth or not may be at first unknown or undecided. If it is a hot database containing millions of active names and financial account numbers or other sensitive information is is generally taken to be true. If it is random pictures or digitized photos, its truth value has somewhat less intensity. If it is the fiction library that has been put into the database it is of less certain truth value, although fiction has a place in describing social scenarios in vague but often usefully relevant allusion. If it is weather forecasts it can be important, sensitive, critical information about the future. And so on.
In rotation three celestial planes are dominant in the exterior cosmological firmament. Notice the use of the theological word "firmament" here: it seems to fit the needs of theology well, theology was completely unperturbed as if to say, "Well, thank you, at last science has given us a clue" and theology deals with spiritual matters which have to do with important and powerful family reproduction, social tenets, moral law and other human values and it does not like to be wrong in terms of centuries. The exterior object firmament seems ideal, for those distant galaxies are not to change their positions relative to each other more than, typically, their own diameters in an entire 220-million year cyclic motion the Sun, Solar System and Earth in its orbit around the Milky Way galaxy. The calculation is simple, based on the speed of light, the typical size of a galaxy, and the maximum speeds galaxies typically move which is a few hundred kilometers each second.
The three celestial planes are
the Equatorial Plane of rotation of the Milky Way Galaxy around which the Solar System moves once in each 220 million years;
the Ecliptic Plane of Revolution of the Earth in its annual or yearly orbit around the Sun as a member of the Solar System; and
the Equatorial Plane of the Earth as it rotates once each day on its axis - the polar axis which commonly is referred to Polaris, the North Star.
Once the exterior object firmament and these three planes are comprehended, it is possible to ascertain right in terms familiar both to politically governing bodies and to scientists alike. These planes determine one or more aspects of the relation of the quantized phenomenon of spin to nuclear, atomic, electronic, molecular and chemical activity in every event on Earth. And that includes in the species called Diatoms, Equisetum, and the Siliceous Sponges as well as every other wilderness plant and animal that uses silicon. In addition, these celestial planes and the cyclic motion by which they affect spin, influence also decisions made by human beings using handwritten, typed, printed, and communicated information, both that created by human beings, and that created by computers.
In particular, information stored in silicon structures is now in a universal cosmology of firmamet and right which is already occupied by ancient living organisms. Information created by human beings is now slowly devolving into silicon-based organisms throughout the world. That truth will be with us for the next million years, ten or a hundred million years - essentially, for the next galactic rotation.
If concrete is forever, can we expect our conclusions and alarm and concern about the fragility of the planet under the onslaught of rampant growth to remain meaningful until the planet has had time to protect itself?
Because the siliceous diatoms and sponges are ancient species, their species are among the resonant modes of Earth's dynamic spectrum. Creating information, and particular, knowing what it is and storing it in or near silicon-based computing systems, is essentially plugging the entropy dimension of the information into the same entropy dimension of the spectra of siliceous organisms.
Now officially, human beings are the only organisms that can translate specific meanings from stored databases. Yet these databases are written in binary languages and they tend to devolve by halves upon the natural Earth. The sex and survival-oriented concepts of the organisms are especially sensitive. They tend to align along major distinctions sustained by information stored in the internet and the immense numbers of computers throughout the world. If a database contains extensive information about the condition of the world, the most important distinctions made by the database become terms of rapport with it, and in accomodating the existence of the database, diatoms and sponges simply accomodate those distinctions. Yet those distinctions contain aspects that are significant in the existence of diatoms and sponges.
Elemental cosmology
There is a concept called 'elemental cosmology' and there is a newer, finer resolution of cosmology into distinct, specific elements. The atomic spectra are exactly what is used to resolve the cosmology for any particular element. The iron spectrum quickly reveals a powerful magnetic field in terrestrial - human! - environments, and the existence of a terrestrial magnetic field was eventually resolved in the iron spectrum. This was shown through flights of magnetometers throughout the solar system to extend far beyond the atmosphere of just this one planet.
Specific elemental cosmologies
Different specific cosmologies for the different elements are discovered through different paths. For instance, the germanium cosmology is not yet even surmised, being conjured here out of the hat containing the table of the elements. Yet some other cosmologies are glaring, such as those of ancient carbon and calcium. Carbon was a component of the atmosphere since billions of years ago, so the existence of a carbon entropy shell around the Earth was not known until recently when it became the subject of a debate about 'dark matter'. The carbon cosmology is still not being surveyed scientifically, and dark matter is assumed to exist throughout the universe instead of locally, around this planet. The emergence of life billions of years ago began the process of creating the entropic 'space charge' or better yet, an 'order field' similar to crystal fields around crystals. Life's use of carbon caused an order field in the specific element carbon, which can be surveyed in carbon's atomic spectrum. Eventually, carbon precipited out of the atmosphere in much the same way as calcium precipitated out of the oceans into limestone.
Carbon and calcium cosmologies
So there were two ancient specific elemental cosmologies - a carbon cosmology, which is a crystal field around the living biosphere, and a calcium cosmology, another crystal field around the specifically ordered deposits of relatively pure calcium. That calcium cosmology might be called a calcium carbonate cosmology, leading to the surmise there are specific molecular cosmologies around the Earth.
But, given the existence of two elements which anciently settled out of chaos into ordered forms and resulted in order fields around the Earth, it must be recognized that the element silicon has wrought its time, and is now precipitating out of the chaos into relatively ordered forms in cement and concrete, as well as into less massive yet more highly purified and exquisitely ordered forms in semiconductor products - computers. Silicon is now in the process of saturating the planet Earth with a silicon cosmology. There are signs this precipitation and cosmology formation will be more extensive and dynamic, more highly order-driven, than any other in the planet's history. Plants and animals did not know they were to be creating an order cosmology based on the roles of elemental carbon in life chemistry and the role of calcium carbonate in the construction of shells, bones and teeth.
Silicon cosmology
The few organisms that tried to use silicon actively were not numerous, and did not command enough mass or energy to create a distinct planetary sphere in the spectrum of that element. Now, however, silicon is in extensive use. Human beings now know there is an order field being created around the earth as a result of the precipitation - by human beings who act as transfer and facilitating agents - of silicon in concrete and pure silicon ingots and their products - architectural structures and highways, and computers and other technological devices. Human beings are now participating in the reconception of planet Earth in terms of another element - silicon - and a planetary spectral sphere is coming into existence in terms of that element.
Silicon cosmology is destined to be eternal around Earth.
Architectural constructions are likely destined to be regarded as crude and gigantic approximations to objects - eventually to be living silicon based systems - which are living, much smaller, and aggressive in the way that plants and shellfish are aggressive at the VERY LEAST. The work of millions of human beings in silicon-based concrete city structures, each of which is a crystal form in that it has unit cells - offices and rooms on the various floors - in which are several nucleating devices - illumination, communication, information processing, transportation and other systems - and each of which contains some functional agent such as a machine or a human being. The results will be metamorphic, and the timeline of this process can be seen to extend along the geodetic timeline of LAGEOS, ETALON, AJISAI and STARLETTE.
At the present time, a few of the more obvious and alarming scenarios have been portrayed in the media fiction. Science fiction has envisioned, for instance, a robot space probe (Voyager) returning having evolved into a superbot bent on destroying the meddling carbon life forms (humans). Of course the plot is foiled.
More likely, though metamorphic, the transformations will be more like the invention of, first, shells by clams and oysters, then movable shells on things that crawl. Computers are being carried around (Blackberry and celphones), are talking to each other (server-client systems), are predicting weather, and sheduling events which shape human destinies (transportation, voting, mass gatherings, and reservation systems for transportation, accomodation, dining, and stock replacement. Autonomous aircraft now fly around and conduct surveillance, bombing raids, and undersea observations. The silicon evolution is upon the Earth, and is going its way. It will not be stopped, for there is no practical way to stop it. If one person refuses to cooperate, another person will. If one human group refuses to cooperate, another human group will, for silicon rewards those who cooperate in the evolution of itself as a fundamental form of life based on silicon.
It is in this cosmology that silicon carbide is a hard compound. Terrestrial life is almost certain to be dominated by silicon and carbon together. This dominance is a part of, and equivalent to, the economics of silicon in both cement and semiconductor production and their associated industries, construction, transportation and technology.
Silicon was tried by some forms of ancient life on Earth which still survive today. Silicon was worked on since primordial times in diatoms and somewhat later in Equisetum. Recently discovered were certain siliceous sponges, the HEXACTINOSIDAN sponges in reefs of British Columbia. They too are very ancient. In all of these, silicon is used only as a structural element. Rudimentarily, dinosaurs used rocks in their craws - gizzards - to help masticate food. Certain organisms like caddis fly larvae coat their shells with sand, gluing it into a stick substance they secrete for that purpose.
Human beings made fundamental breakthroughs in working silicon-bearing substances to the element itself through breaking rocks and shaping pieces into stone tools and weapons, as well as through the use of fire which permitted the firing of clays into vessels. From that time on development of silicon has progressed, in evolutionary time scales, rapidly. Clays evolved into concrete and cement and ceramics into glass, permitted impressive new constructions.
Silicon development became very rapid resulting in the highways and computers that exist today, and its future is vast and likely to continue hundreds of millions of years.
Logic started a few thousand years ago and was refined, along with language, into binary digital information languages. The 256 byte 8-bit character language maps well onto English and other languages with small character sets and 16 and 32-bit character sets were developed for Chinese and related languages. It was proved that it is always possible to map any language onto a binary character set. By now, silicon and digital are almost synonymous with reasoning, information, logic and knowledge. Logic has emerged well beyond the classical or orthodox forms of reasoning premised usually on classicism and religion. By now, logic's theorem provers have discovered new extensions of logic, and such devices as CYC have actually discovered new truths, such as that democratic and parliamentary societies tend to be monotheistic.
One of the dimensions by which information is measured is entropy. It is a statistical quantity that is related to the same statistics in which thermodynamics measures heat in the equation S = -dQ/T. That means the influence of a database tends to become fuzzy when its concept is stretched into the thermal environment. On the other hand, thermostatically regulated office and house interiors have largely freed human beings from variations in temperature.
Consider a large digital database. Whether it represents truth or not may be at first unknown or undecided. If it is a hot database containing millions of active names and financial account numbers or other sensitive information is is generally taken to be true. If it is random pictures or digitized photos, its truth value has somewhat less intensity. If it is the fiction library that has been put into the database it is of less certain truth value, although fiction has a place in describing social scenarios in vague but often usefully relevant allusion. If it is weather forecasts it can be important, sensitive, critical information about the future. And so on.
In rotation three celestial planes are dominant in the exterior cosmological firmament. Notice the use of the theological word "firmament" here: it seems to fit the needs of theology well, theology was completely unperturbed as if to say, "Well, thank you, at last science has given us a clue" and theology deals with spiritual matters which have to do with important and powerful family reproduction, social tenets, moral law and other human values and it does not like to be wrong in terms of centuries. The exterior object firmament seems ideal, for those distant galaxies are not to change their positions relative to each other more than, typically, their own diameters in an entire 220-million year cyclic motion the Sun, Solar System and Earth in its orbit around the Milky Way galaxy. The calculation is simple, based on the speed of light, the typical size of a galaxy, and the maximum speeds galaxies typically move which is a few hundred kilometers each second.
The three celestial planes are
the Equatorial Plane of rotation of the Milky Way Galaxy around which the Solar System moves once in each 220 million years;
the Ecliptic Plane of Revolution of the Earth in its annual or yearly orbit around the Sun as a member of the Solar System; and
the Equatorial Plane of the Earth as it rotates once each day on its axis - the polar axis which commonly is referred to Polaris, the North Star.
Once the exterior object firmament and these three planes are comprehended, it is possible to ascertain right in terms familiar both to politically governing bodies and to scientists alike. These planes determine one or more aspects of the relation of the quantized phenomenon of spin to nuclear, atomic, electronic, molecular and chemical activity in every event on Earth. And that includes in the species called Diatoms, Equisetum, and the Siliceous Sponges as well as every other wilderness plant and animal that uses silicon. In addition, these celestial planes and the cyclic motion by which they affect spin, influence also decisions made by human beings using handwritten, typed, printed, and communicated information, both that created by human beings, and that created by computers.
In particular, information stored in silicon structures is now in a universal cosmology of firmamet and right which is already occupied by ancient living organisms. Information created by human beings is now slowly devolving into silicon-based organisms throughout the world. That truth will be with us for the next million years, ten or a hundred million years - essentially, for the next galactic rotation.
If concrete is forever, can we expect our conclusions and alarm and concern about the fragility of the planet under the onslaught of rampant growth to remain meaningful until the planet has had time to protect itself?
Because the siliceous diatoms and sponges are ancient species, their species are among the resonant modes of Earth's dynamic spectrum. Creating information, and particular, knowing what it is and storing it in or near silicon-based computing systems, is essentially plugging the entropy dimension of the information into the same entropy dimension of the spectra of siliceous organisms.
Now officially, human beings are the only organisms that can translate specific meanings from stored databases. Yet these databases are written in binary languages and they tend to devolve by halves upon the natural Earth. The sex and survival-oriented concepts of the organisms are especially sensitive. They tend to align along major distinctions sustained by information stored in the internet and the immense numbers of computers throughout the world. If a database contains extensive information about the condition of the world, the most important distinctions made by the database become terms of rapport with it, and in accomodating the existence of the database, diatoms and sponges simply accomodate those distinctions. Yet those distinctions contain aspects that are significant in the existence of diatoms and sponges.
Elemental cosmology
There is a concept called 'elemental cosmology' and there is a newer, finer resolution of cosmology into distinct, specific elements. The atomic spectra are exactly what is used to resolve the cosmology for any particular element. The iron spectrum quickly reveals a powerful magnetic field in terrestrial - human! - environments, and the existence of a terrestrial magnetic field was eventually resolved in the iron spectrum. This was shown through flights of magnetometers throughout the solar system to extend far beyond the atmosphere of just this one planet.
Specific elemental cosmologies
Different specific cosmologies for the different elements are discovered through different paths. For instance, the germanium cosmology is not yet even surmised, being conjured here out of the hat containing the table of the elements. Yet some other cosmologies are glaring, such as those of ancient carbon and calcium. Carbon was a component of the atmosphere since billions of years ago, so the existence of a carbon entropy shell around the Earth was not known until recently when it became the subject of a debate about 'dark matter'. The carbon cosmology is still not being surveyed scientifically, and dark matter is assumed to exist throughout the universe instead of locally, around this planet. The emergence of life billions of years ago began the process of creating the entropic 'space charge' or better yet, an 'order field' similar to crystal fields around crystals. Life's use of carbon caused an order field in the specific element carbon, which can be surveyed in carbon's atomic spectrum. Eventually, carbon precipited out of the atmosphere in much the same way as calcium precipitated out of the oceans into limestone.
Carbon and calcium cosmologies
So there were two ancient specific elemental cosmologies - a carbon cosmology, which is a crystal field around the living biosphere, and a calcium cosmology, another crystal field around the specifically ordered deposits of relatively pure calcium. That calcium cosmology might be called a calcium carbonate cosmology, leading to the surmise there are specific molecular cosmologies around the Earth.
But, given the existence of two elements which anciently settled out of chaos into ordered forms and resulted in order fields around the Earth, it must be recognized that the element silicon has wrought its time, and is now precipitating out of the chaos into relatively ordered forms in cement and concrete, as well as into less massive yet more highly purified and exquisitely ordered forms in semiconductor products - computers. Silicon is now in the process of saturating the planet Earth with a silicon cosmology. There are signs this precipitation and cosmology formation will be more extensive and dynamic, more highly order-driven, than any other in the planet's history. Plants and animals did not know they were to be creating an order cosmology based on the roles of elemental carbon in life chemistry and the role of calcium carbonate in the construction of shells, bones and teeth.
Silicon cosmology
The few organisms that tried to use silicon actively were not numerous, and did not command enough mass or energy to create a distinct planetary sphere in the spectrum of that element. Now, however, silicon is in extensive use. Human beings now know there is an order field being created around the earth as a result of the precipitation - by human beings who act as transfer and facilitating agents - of silicon in concrete and pure silicon ingots and their products - architectural structures and highways, and computers and other technological devices. Human beings are now participating in the reconception of planet Earth in terms of another element - silicon - and a planetary spectral sphere is coming into existence in terms of that element.
Silicon cosmology is destined to be eternal around Earth.
Architectural constructions are likely destined to be regarded as crude and gigantic approximations to objects - eventually to be living silicon based systems - which are living, much smaller, and aggressive in the way that plants and shellfish are aggressive at the VERY LEAST. The work of millions of human beings in silicon-based concrete city structures, each of which is a crystal form in that it has unit cells - offices and rooms on the various floors - in which are several nucleating devices - illumination, communication, information processing, transportation and other systems - and each of which contains some functional agent such as a machine or a human being. The results will be metamorphic, and the timeline of this process can be seen to extend along the geodetic timeline of LAGEOS, ETALON, AJISAI and STARLETTE.
At the present time, a few of the more obvious and alarming scenarios have been portrayed in the media fiction. Science fiction has envisioned, for instance, a robot space probe (Voyager) returning having evolved into a superbot bent on destroying the meddling carbon life forms (humans). Of course the plot is foiled.
More likely, though metamorphic, the transformations will be more like the invention of, first, shells by clams and oysters, then movable shells on things that crawl. Computers are being carried around (Blackberry and celphones), are talking to each other (server-client systems), are predicting weather, and sheduling events which shape human destinies (transportation, voting, mass gatherings, and reservation systems for transportation, accomodation, dining, and stock replacement. Autonomous aircraft now fly around and conduct surveillance, bombing raids, and undersea observations. The silicon evolution is upon the Earth, and is going its way. It will not be stopped, for there is no practical way to stop it. If one person refuses to cooperate, another person will. If one human group refuses to cooperate, another human group will, for silicon rewards those who cooperate in the evolution of itself as a fundamental form of life based on silicon.
It is in this cosmology that silicon carbide is a hard compound. Terrestrial life is almost certain to be dominated by silicon and carbon together. This dominance is a part of, and equivalent to, the economics of silicon in both cement and semiconductor production and their associated industries, construction, transportation and technology.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Evolution and Economic Change in the Current Recession
Millions of years of what? Money is a form in evolving process.
Evolution is the dynamic pattern and habit of change. The emergence of powerful evolving systems like constructions, money, technology and manufacturing have brought the human species into a new relationship with the rotation of the Milky Way Galaxy. In ancient times that rotation was not distinguished from the influence of seasons and the Sun and Moon. Now, galactic rotation exists at a measured rate, and woe betide the person or organization that forgets it never goes backward, never stops, and influences everything on earth in molecular, atomic and subatomic ways.
On the scale of evolutionary time - that is, the time comprehended by diversification in species - the human species is, at the outset, an changing, relatively young species. It became radically distinct from other animals only around 12 million years ago, changed a good deal since then, and only with the last few ten thousand years began a determined course toward constructionist and technological society. Since the profound successes five or six thousand years ago of the earth pyramid builders in the Middle East and the development of Taoist concepts of order in Asian, progress has been swift.
The difference at first between the two was that the pyramid builders began to use the execution of human beings as a preliminary to further action such as construction and war. This was only rendered into more modern, civil forms after thousands of years of struggle in which theology and law were not distinct much of the time. Taoism, on the other hand, attempted to derive little or no significant advantage in its comprehension of the natural world from the killing of human beings. That abhorrent practice was not used to advantage in the field of war except to eliminate enemies, and in political society, the light shed by executions was almost entirely dominated by the continuing realm and otherwise was used to terrify subject populations.
Modern concepts of evolution are sophisticated and describe well, according to various statistical tests, even the evolution discovered in the fossil record, of plants and animals that disappeared millions of years before human beings existed. By now, human evolution primarily consists of constructions, technologies and organization and not changes in human form. Houses, roads, buildings, bridges and other forms in architecture are strikingly similar in appearance throughout the world, and their design is a matter of constant scrutiny, reconsideration and improvement. Most of the energy invested by plants and animals into struggling with their world and the uncomprehending assimilation of order from that struggle into their own forms and behaviors, was inefficient. Human beings, however, have carefully distinguished and resolved their actions and expenditures of energy into different techniques and practices.
The result is that human beings have shifted evolution away from themselves into their works. The construction of shelters has led to modern housing design and the works of architects, planners and builders. Small hand-worked farms have emerged into modern business scale agricultural land development complete with infrastructures of transportation, storage, food processing, redistribution and retail of refined foods and prepackaged meals like noodle soup. The working of hides and hand woven fabrics has become industrial production of textiles and large scale largely automatic manufacture of clothing carefully designed to fit the human form. Transportation has changed from walking and riding on animals or boating on waters, to immense road and highway systems, vast numbers of motor vehicles along with airplanes and ships. Communication has changed from talking and shouting, to telegraph, telephone, motion picture, television, radio, and internet systems that link the whole world with instantaneous distribution of information, some of it translated by machines into every language on the planet. Money is an evolving system itself. The evolution of money went by fits and starts, devaluation and the complete disappearance of some moneys with replacement by new, then the appearance of checking and banking, credit and debit cards being an interesting case, and eventually into the virtual disappearance of the cash economy and utter dominance by credit economy.
Debit and credit cards are interesting because at first they were thought to be necessarily distinct because the were believed to emerge from two different classes of human beings. This was abandoned when classless society, undifferentiated into small exclusive privileged classes such as royalty and classes of the most numerous population usually called commoners. Debit and credit cards quickly became rather obviously indistinct, when debit cards evolved overdraft protection, and certain penalties such as interest rate increases continued to exist in credit card systems.
Unless it is recognized how deeply money systems are embedded in the evolutionary process, it will be difficult to predict its vagaries of inflation and paroxysms of recessions and depressions. One important point is that as with natural evolution, galactic rotation is significant. It is the very context of evolution. A specific time rate and direction is associated even with extremely long periods of time such as millions of years. To refer to millions of years as if it is a transcendent concept is no longer meaningful where it must be understood correctly; millions of years in the past? Millions of years in the future? Millions of years centered around the present year?
Evolution is the dynamic pattern and habit of change. The emergence of powerful evolving systems like constructions, money, technology and manufacturing have brought the human species into a new relationship with the rotation of the Milky Way Galaxy. In ancient times that rotation was not distinguished from the influence of seasons and the Sun and Moon. Now, galactic rotation exists at a measured rate, and woe betide the person or organization that forgets it never goes backward, never stops, and influences everything on earth in molecular, atomic and subatomic ways.
On the scale of evolutionary time - that is, the time comprehended by diversification in species - the human species is, at the outset, an changing, relatively young species. It became radically distinct from other animals only around 12 million years ago, changed a good deal since then, and only with the last few ten thousand years began a determined course toward constructionist and technological society. Since the profound successes five or six thousand years ago of the earth pyramid builders in the Middle East and the development of Taoist concepts of order in Asian, progress has been swift.
The difference at first between the two was that the pyramid builders began to use the execution of human beings as a preliminary to further action such as construction and war. This was only rendered into more modern, civil forms after thousands of years of struggle in which theology and law were not distinct much of the time. Taoism, on the other hand, attempted to derive little or no significant advantage in its comprehension of the natural world from the killing of human beings. That abhorrent practice was not used to advantage in the field of war except to eliminate enemies, and in political society, the light shed by executions was almost entirely dominated by the continuing realm and otherwise was used to terrify subject populations.
Modern concepts of evolution are sophisticated and describe well, according to various statistical tests, even the evolution discovered in the fossil record, of plants and animals that disappeared millions of years before human beings existed. By now, human evolution primarily consists of constructions, technologies and organization and not changes in human form. Houses, roads, buildings, bridges and other forms in architecture are strikingly similar in appearance throughout the world, and their design is a matter of constant scrutiny, reconsideration and improvement. Most of the energy invested by plants and animals into struggling with their world and the uncomprehending assimilation of order from that struggle into their own forms and behaviors, was inefficient. Human beings, however, have carefully distinguished and resolved their actions and expenditures of energy into different techniques and practices.
The result is that human beings have shifted evolution away from themselves into their works. The construction of shelters has led to modern housing design and the works of architects, planners and builders. Small hand-worked farms have emerged into modern business scale agricultural land development complete with infrastructures of transportation, storage, food processing, redistribution and retail of refined foods and prepackaged meals like noodle soup. The working of hides and hand woven fabrics has become industrial production of textiles and large scale largely automatic manufacture of clothing carefully designed to fit the human form. Transportation has changed from walking and riding on animals or boating on waters, to immense road and highway systems, vast numbers of motor vehicles along with airplanes and ships. Communication has changed from talking and shouting, to telegraph, telephone, motion picture, television, radio, and internet systems that link the whole world with instantaneous distribution of information, some of it translated by machines into every language on the planet. Money is an evolving system itself. The evolution of money went by fits and starts, devaluation and the complete disappearance of some moneys with replacement by new, then the appearance of checking and banking, credit and debit cards being an interesting case, and eventually into the virtual disappearance of the cash economy and utter dominance by credit economy.
Debit and credit cards are interesting because at first they were thought to be necessarily distinct because the were believed to emerge from two different classes of human beings. This was abandoned when classless society, undifferentiated into small exclusive privileged classes such as royalty and classes of the most numerous population usually called commoners. Debit and credit cards quickly became rather obviously indistinct, when debit cards evolved overdraft protection, and certain penalties such as interest rate increases continued to exist in credit card systems.
Unless it is recognized how deeply money systems are embedded in the evolutionary process, it will be difficult to predict its vagaries of inflation and paroxysms of recessions and depressions. One important point is that as with natural evolution, galactic rotation is significant. It is the very context of evolution. A specific time rate and direction is associated even with extremely long periods of time such as millions of years. To refer to millions of years as if it is a transcendent concept is no longer meaningful where it must be understood correctly; millions of years in the past? Millions of years in the future? Millions of years centered around the present year?
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
The Third Wheel of Justice, Slow Extra Fine
Galactic rotation is ancient even in geological terms. It has influenced life on earth well over the half billion years since multicelled organisms emerged. Life was influenced involuntarily, though. Only now have human beings begun to take it into account. It's influence is deep in the atoms and molecules of life.
One of the idealistic hopes of the economic system is that new gadgets and other new technology will save the economic system, when in fact the real trouble is that excesses of the industrial market system - the well known ravaging of natural resources, slaughter of vast quantities of wildlife as if it is merely mineral deposits, excess human population, and toxic poisons in the environment, have all caught up with the entirety of human civilization. It is impossible to ignore their impact high and low, and impossible to reverse many of the consequences.
Particularly - and I didn't discover this - the recent discovery of the exterior object galaxies that comprise exactly what was meant by the ancient theologians as the 'firmament' brought understanding of the nature of the Milky Way Galaxy, that it rotates, never stops and never reverses, and that it was figurative during the last three orbits of the Sun, Solar System and Earth around the Milky Way galaxy during the last 700 million years.
Human abuse of Earth's natural balances, of individual with individual, species with species, industry with wildlife, human hunger with edible species, has caught the economies of civilization in imbalances that can only be righted by reference to the cosmology in each detail of civilization's economies.
Nature understands the processes by which species survive or go extinct through one-on-one competition between individuals, but no such comprehensive understanding exists of industrial market economies. The rotation of the Galaxy is the slowest of the wheels of justice and is the one most recently brought into the great court of evolution in which human beings now plead. It's a very slow milling wheel, and it sifts and grinds exceedingly fine, down to the spin coupling in bonds between the atoms of molecules.
Now, when a proposal for releasing the public moneys for a for a new project, details with which it must be justified are molecular.
When strategies are deliberated on policies toward ocean mammals, molecular bonds must be taken into account.
When land is taken into corporate management, the disposition of its forests, wildlife, and minerals must face molecular inquiry.
Now, when funds are granted industry for the continued production of high energy products like vehicles, the molecular structures of highways, vehicles, people, wildlife and the environment must be taken into account.
That's why this recession may last a long time; certain aspects of it may never end, for the molecular grind is just beginning to reach resolution. The Galaxy slices all life with the symmetries associated with chirals, electronic spin, bond angles, resonance, spectral terms, species differentiation, the nature of the One insofar as it means One Organism, One Species, One Planet, and many other topological, physical, mathematical, chemical, organic and environmental details.
There is no way to get out of it. For industrial market economies to work properly, they must work right. People who go to stores must do things right - balance their accounts, pay their bills, drive their car or walk or ride to the store, select their food to match their dietary requirements, keep the house warm, dry and safe, be civil to each other, obey the laws. All of these factors are, it is hoped, designed right. Yet it is a sure bet that almost all were designed with utter indifference to galactic rotation before the exterior galaxies were discovered around 1880. The only people who had any sense of it were pregnant women, and they could only adapt as best they could sense it.
Measurements were made of galactic rotation, most recently by NASA, and it was found to be about six milliarcseconds each year, or six arc seconds in a thousand years. Human beings now preserve ancient traditions since five thousand years ago. Six milliarcseconds is not much for a whole year. How about 24 milliarcseconds in for years? That touches on national elections.
In a day the galaxy rotates 16 microarcseconds, or one microarcseconds in an hour and a half. That seems to be an impossibly small angle, but it shows up in molecules and blood circulation, and can be perceived in taste. Get it wrong, and things gradually become bitter, bitter. Get it right, and the flavors are sweet.
If the proper decisions are not made during this recession, it will be only slowly resolved, and will end in some bitter factors, the depth of which will be deeply divisive of human society. If the proper decisions are made, or taken from the stars and skies and galaxies, they may imply some serious powerful mandatory changes, that will come about only through strong government. It could mean drastically curtailing the transportation industries, changes in the nature of housing and changes in the nature of work, employment and agriculture.
One of the idealistic hopes of the economic system is that new gadgets and other new technology will save the economic system, when in fact the real trouble is that excesses of the industrial market system - the well known ravaging of natural resources, slaughter of vast quantities of wildlife as if it is merely mineral deposits, excess human population, and toxic poisons in the environment, have all caught up with the entirety of human civilization. It is impossible to ignore their impact high and low, and impossible to reverse many of the consequences.
Particularly - and I didn't discover this - the recent discovery of the exterior object galaxies that comprise exactly what was meant by the ancient theologians as the 'firmament' brought understanding of the nature of the Milky Way Galaxy, that it rotates, never stops and never reverses, and that it was figurative during the last three orbits of the Sun, Solar System and Earth around the Milky Way galaxy during the last 700 million years.
Human abuse of Earth's natural balances, of individual with individual, species with species, industry with wildlife, human hunger with edible species, has caught the economies of civilization in imbalances that can only be righted by reference to the cosmology in each detail of civilization's economies.
Nature understands the processes by which species survive or go extinct through one-on-one competition between individuals, but no such comprehensive understanding exists of industrial market economies. The rotation of the Galaxy is the slowest of the wheels of justice and is the one most recently brought into the great court of evolution in which human beings now plead. It's a very slow milling wheel, and it sifts and grinds exceedingly fine, down to the spin coupling in bonds between the atoms of molecules.
Now, when a proposal for releasing the public moneys for a for a new project, details with which it must be justified are molecular.
When strategies are deliberated on policies toward ocean mammals, molecular bonds must be taken into account.
When land is taken into corporate management, the disposition of its forests, wildlife, and minerals must face molecular inquiry.
Now, when funds are granted industry for the continued production of high energy products like vehicles, the molecular structures of highways, vehicles, people, wildlife and the environment must be taken into account.
That's why this recession may last a long time; certain aspects of it may never end, for the molecular grind is just beginning to reach resolution. The Galaxy slices all life with the symmetries associated with chirals, electronic spin, bond angles, resonance, spectral terms, species differentiation, the nature of the One insofar as it means One Organism, One Species, One Planet, and many other topological, physical, mathematical, chemical, organic and environmental details.
There is no way to get out of it. For industrial market economies to work properly, they must work right. People who go to stores must do things right - balance their accounts, pay their bills, drive their car or walk or ride to the store, select their food to match their dietary requirements, keep the house warm, dry and safe, be civil to each other, obey the laws. All of these factors are, it is hoped, designed right. Yet it is a sure bet that almost all were designed with utter indifference to galactic rotation before the exterior galaxies were discovered around 1880. The only people who had any sense of it were pregnant women, and they could only adapt as best they could sense it.
Measurements were made of galactic rotation, most recently by NASA, and it was found to be about six milliarcseconds each year, or six arc seconds in a thousand years. Human beings now preserve ancient traditions since five thousand years ago. Six milliarcseconds is not much for a whole year. How about 24 milliarcseconds in for years? That touches on national elections.
In a day the galaxy rotates 16 microarcseconds, or one microarcseconds in an hour and a half. That seems to be an impossibly small angle, but it shows up in molecules and blood circulation, and can be perceived in taste. Get it wrong, and things gradually become bitter, bitter. Get it right, and the flavors are sweet.
If the proper decisions are not made during this recession, it will be only slowly resolved, and will end in some bitter factors, the depth of which will be deeply divisive of human society. If the proper decisions are made, or taken from the stars and skies and galaxies, they may imply some serious powerful mandatory changes, that will come about only through strong government. It could mean drastically curtailing the transportation industries, changes in the nature of housing and changes in the nature of work, employment and agriculture.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Facing recession with foreknowledge
At this time, 2008, facing the onset of economic recession and the possibility that it may be deep is much the same in some ways as the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression that followed it, and at the same time, some VERY important differences obtain. This time, there need be no war to go to the Moon.
There are no New Earths on Earth. None of the other planets are good farmland. Stay home even in your dreams.
Differences that can already be readily identified include
1. In 1936, Flight to the Moon was only in the unknown future, and every dynasty since Cheops compelled human beings onward to accomplish that at all cost.
In 2008, flight to the Moon is past accomplishment, and well recorded. If it is not past mastery, that can be attained in 2030 or 2050 if necessary. It won't be never.
Someday the great-grandkids will go to the Moon again if we don't now.
2. Communications is very different now, with solid written information available to anyone anywhere on the earth, in the city or in the country, from anywhere else on earth.
Best information about how to survive and stay healthy and strong as economic times worsen, even if they become very strangely primitive, is quickly assembled and distributed on the Internet. Vitally, people anywhere can search for what they need to know. They do not need to schedule
an expensive trip to a distant county or state courthouse to obtain information. People can and do readily share tips on how to store food, insulate the house, and live more carefully, staying clean at lower cost, and other vital tactics.
At this time, one of the dreams is that people will in fact be able to not only survive, but thrive, while residing in their homes. Presumably, agribusiness scale farming will continue.
Other factors about thriving at home include simply adapting to the practice of considering, as time passes, what to do in the near future - in the next few days, or weeks, or months.
Making these slow decisions was always a part of farm life and it can become a valuable practice of human society throughout large tracts of residential housing.
If the old economic system collapses, it will be because something better looms in the future, perhaps distantly. It is not the goal of housing to evict people from their homes. Houses were build for people to live in them, and people residing in their homes should not be forced or required or tricked into leaving them just because the world economic system collapses. Perhaps the landlords have to take the hit; this would have to be governed civilly, and mercifully, but a landlord might just be out of a job and in the same position as his householders are - in a house and little better.
Perhaps occupying a home would become a matter of proper legal filing, and perhaps a small fee to cover the administration by city, county and state government jurisdictions of who lives in what house.
Perhaps other costs would be utilities - water, electricity, garbage, roads, street assessments, insurance and school levies , but not horribly huge mortgage or rent payments every month.
If that is true, the usual mortgage package - consisting of from an inch to a foot or several feet of papers thick - would have to be redesigned from the ground up by professional information theorists, logicians, and programmers. Housing paperwork by now has centuries of ancient practices that began in feudal times, using phrases that date back to Rome, but they often contain redundant terms and the filing regimes are not coordinated. For instance, the title clerk or homeowner has to write or type his name and address in those documents, and they go to dozens of different offices that provide the doctrine of ownership throughout the land.
Modern logic can simplify the administrative procedures that have been necessary since ancient times - even worse, since the typewriter - greatly. The redesign of housing ownership should be undertaken with great attention to economies of scale, because the ownership or occupancy package will be coordinating information that allocates millions of houses to millions of people in thousands of jurisdictions in thousands of counties and dozens of states. It is not a task that will take only a year or two by some money-balance software manufacturer. It would need to be a major project of government.
As for now, we can face the ensuing recession and the potential for a prolonged depression with the knowledge that we can communicate readily, and we can remember what worked and what failed about the long recovery during the 1930's. This time, there need be no war to go to the Moon.
More importantly, we should abandon the science fiction ideas of going to other planets - "New Earths" - if we run out of resources or ruin this one. There's no chance of it. Only two other objects in the solar system exist with any acreage on which a person can stand up. Neither has enough air to breathe, neither has water in significance except at truly horrendous cost, and neither is as survivable as a house on Earth. No other object in the solar system has the comforts of a house on Earth or the arable crop-yielding capacity of land on Earth.
There are no New Earths on Earth. None of the other planets are good farmland. Stay home even in your dreams.
Differences that can already be readily identified include
1. In 1936, Flight to the Moon was only in the unknown future, and every dynasty since Cheops compelled human beings onward to accomplish that at all cost.
In 2008, flight to the Moon is past accomplishment, and well recorded. If it is not past mastery, that can be attained in 2030 or 2050 if necessary. It won't be never.
Someday the great-grandkids will go to the Moon again if we don't now.
2. Communications is very different now, with solid written information available to anyone anywhere on the earth, in the city or in the country, from anywhere else on earth.
Best information about how to survive and stay healthy and strong as economic times worsen, even if they become very strangely primitive, is quickly assembled and distributed on the Internet. Vitally, people anywhere can search for what they need to know. They do not need to schedule
an expensive trip to a distant county or state courthouse to obtain information. People can and do readily share tips on how to store food, insulate the house, and live more carefully, staying clean at lower cost, and other vital tactics.
At this time, one of the dreams is that people will in fact be able to not only survive, but thrive, while residing in their homes. Presumably, agribusiness scale farming will continue.
Other factors about thriving at home include simply adapting to the practice of considering, as time passes, what to do in the near future - in the next few days, or weeks, or months.
Making these slow decisions was always a part of farm life and it can become a valuable practice of human society throughout large tracts of residential housing.
If the old economic system collapses, it will be because something better looms in the future, perhaps distantly. It is not the goal of housing to evict people from their homes. Houses were build for people to live in them, and people residing in their homes should not be forced or required or tricked into leaving them just because the world economic system collapses. Perhaps the landlords have to take the hit; this would have to be governed civilly, and mercifully, but a landlord might just be out of a job and in the same position as his householders are - in a house and little better.
Perhaps occupying a home would become a matter of proper legal filing, and perhaps a small fee to cover the administration by city, county and state government jurisdictions of who lives in what house.
Perhaps other costs would be utilities - water, electricity, garbage, roads, street assessments, insurance and school levies , but not horribly huge mortgage or rent payments every month.
If that is true, the usual mortgage package - consisting of from an inch to a foot or several feet of papers thick - would have to be redesigned from the ground up by professional information theorists, logicians, and programmers. Housing paperwork by now has centuries of ancient practices that began in feudal times, using phrases that date back to Rome, but they often contain redundant terms and the filing regimes are not coordinated. For instance, the title clerk or homeowner has to write or type his name and address in those documents, and they go to dozens of different offices that provide the doctrine of ownership throughout the land.
Modern logic can simplify the administrative procedures that have been necessary since ancient times - even worse, since the typewriter - greatly. The redesign of housing ownership should be undertaken with great attention to economies of scale, because the ownership or occupancy package will be coordinating information that allocates millions of houses to millions of people in thousands of jurisdictions in thousands of counties and dozens of states. It is not a task that will take only a year or two by some money-balance software manufacturer. It would need to be a major project of government.
As for now, we can face the ensuing recession and the potential for a prolonged depression with the knowledge that we can communicate readily, and we can remember what worked and what failed about the long recovery during the 1930's. This time, there need be no war to go to the Moon.
More importantly, we should abandon the science fiction ideas of going to other planets - "New Earths" - if we run out of resources or ruin this one. There's no chance of it. Only two other objects in the solar system exist with any acreage on which a person can stand up. Neither has enough air to breathe, neither has water in significance except at truly horrendous cost, and neither is as survivable as a house on Earth. No other object in the solar system has the comforts of a house on Earth or the arable crop-yielding capacity of land on Earth.
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