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Showing posts with label physics. Show all posts
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31.5.21

What's Your Vector, Victor?

There are essentially two ways to move something in any given direction: increase the pressure behind it, or decrease the pressure in front of it.  In physics, the direction (space) and speed of motion (time) combined are known as the "vector".

At it's most basic level, the Universe works on the "suck and blow" method.  You can suck on something to draw it towards you, or blow on it to move it away from you.  In all cases, the vector of  motion is relative to "you".  Away from "me" is towards "you".  The concept of "speed" really has no meaning.  There is only the rate of positional change relative to "you" and "me".  After all, if "you" and "me" are moving at the same speed in the same direction (vector), then we appear stationary to each other.  Think of sitting next to each other in a car.  We are both travelling on the same vector, and so appear to be motionless relative to each other.

Fun, right?

Everything in the Universe is in motion, and it got that way by either being sucked or blown.

Some folks call this the "carrot and the stick" theory of Universe.  The carrot draws you towards itself (reduces pressure in front of you), and the stick pushes you away from it (increases pressure behind you).  Same thing, different analogy.  I prefer "suck and blow," because it's more fun!

So anyway, how does this relate to the global situation and the "vector" of humanity?  And the price of tea in China, for that matter?

Essentially, if something is in motion, then something else is either sucking or blowing to make it move.  Once we figure out who/what is sucking, and who/what is blowing, all we have to do is determine the vector, and the motivation will be clear.  

For instance, if you want to change a political power structure, you create a power vacuum (suck), and increase funding to particular elements (blow).  The motive and goal are the vector, or space and time.  If we know the direction of the vector, the motive will reveal itself, and the suckers and blowers will be obvious.

To really grasp this visualization, go back and read my theory on opinions.  Vectors and ideas exist in three dimensions, just like the entire Universe.  Everyone and everything is trying to lure us or force us onto certain courses (vectors) and into certain mindsets (ideas).  They suck us or blow us in an effort to affect changes in our vectors.

So give us some examples of the Suck-Blow Theory, I hear you ask.  Very well, as you wish.

Advertising sucks,  It attempts to draw you to a product or service to complete a sale.  Marketing, on the other hand, blows.  It models your likes, dislikes and behaviors to find what motivates you and uses it against you to steer you towards a group of products and services, where the advertising can suck you in.

Government sucks.  It attempts to lure us with perceived benefits.  Taxes, on the other hand, blow.  They force us to participate in government whether we want it or not.

Love sucks.  We are drawn to someone by their attributes that we think will make good children.  Hormones blow.  They compel us to find someone to love, whether we want kids or not.

Gravity sucks, rockets blow.  Tornadoes suck, fans blow.  Tides suck and blow, depending on the time of day.  Hamburgers and lotto tickets to lure unsuspecting victims to get vaccinated suck, while mandatory vaccines blow.  Carrots suck, while sticks blow.

The more you think about it, the more you realize the entire Universe is a giant sucking sound, and it really blows.

All the forces around us are either pushing us in particular vectors, or creating a vacuum in front of us to lure us in a particular direction by reducing opposing pressure.  Either way, we are constantly being dragged or shoved one way or another, whether by other humans or Nature herself.  We are all sucked or blown by different things at different times of our lives, but at no time in this materium are we completely free from external forces.  We are constantly being sucked and blown, and there's not a damn thing we can do about it.

It's a rather compelling concept and I'm glad I thought of it.  By writing this all out, I am attempting to suck you into my point of view, and the various social media posts I did linking this article were a gentle blow to get you here to read it.  Perhaps you have more examples of sucking and blowing that you'd like to share with us in the comments.  For that, I will blow you to the bottom of the page and the comment box.  I am also placing my crypto addresses below in an attempt to suck some coin out of your purse and into mine for this amazing and tantalizing insight into the Grand Workings of the Cosmos.

So really, there is no racism, or prejudice, or bigotry.  The world is just full of people who suck us or blow us, and our vector is just the result of our motion through space and time as a result of being sucked and blown by others.  In the end, it's out of our hands.

Love sucks.  Hate blows.

Kind of poetic, don't you think?

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18.3.21

Insanity Goes Viral

Introductory Thoughts

 



In 1953, playwright Arthur Miller released his magnum opus, called "The Crucible".  It was a commentary on the zeitgeist of its time, using the Salem witch hunts to highlight the hysteria of the McCarthy era.

The play showed a group of Puritan girls who used fear of the supernatural to get revenge on someone they didn't like.  The hysteria grew, people were hung and shunned, and it reached the point that anyone who questioned the insanity was immediately suspect of being a part of the Coven.

Seventy years later, the play is apropos once again, only this time, it's not witches or Commies, it's a virus.  Furthermore, it's no longer a community or a nation, it's a global phenomenon that defies rationality and requires nothing more than the pronunciations of a handful of "experts" to feed it.

Like supernatural scriers or self-appointed patriots, we now have scientists in the role of the clergy, waving their sheepskins at us while breathless copyreaders tell us what amazing experts the lab-coated priests are.

But let's you and I engage in a little critical thinking.  I know, I know...it's very out of fashion these days, but maybe - just maybe - if you and I think clearly, it'll rub off on the hypnotized masses and bring a little sanity back to the world..

 Immune Response


It is necessary to clarify terms, since the Geezer Media seem incapable of doing any research and happily confuse terms to keep us all baffled by their bullshit.  The term SARS-COV-2 is the name of a "new" or "novel" virus in the Corona family.  COVID-19 is the term applied to a set of symptoms attributed to the SARS-COV-2 virus.

It is also important to note that viruses do not cause disease.  This is a common and possibly dangerous misconception.  Like allergies, one person may be completely devastated by ragweed pollen, but another could snort a rail of the stuff like Peruvian Marching Powder and have no ill effects. In fact, most people have thousands of viruses in their bodies at any given time, and they are generally benign and occasionally even beneficial.

Like allergies, folks who are susceptible to certain viruses have malfunctioning or overenthusiastic immune systems whose "off" switches are defective.  The immune system releases the usual responses to foreign particles, but the release keeps going and causing harmful effects.  

All of this immune activity is primarily regulated by T-cells. T-cells are like traffic cops who show up to accidents, clear away crowds, assess the situation, and call the ambulance, tow trucks - or the coroner.  When the mess is cleaned up, they write up the report, which forms the basis for insurance pay-outs and statistical analysis for decades to come.  This is where vaccines come in, but we'll get to that shortly.

One type of immune response that many of us are familiar with is histamines.  Histamines get released, causing the mucus membranes to pump out fluid, but the chemical that stops the process fails and we get upper respiratory issues like stuffy noses, coughs, ichy eyes, etc.  In the same way, cytokines get released, causing certain tissues to swell up, but the "off" switch doesn't get triggered, and thus the cytokine storm.  Swelling from cytokines restricts the flow of lumph, blood and oxygen, and when out of control causes a myriad of issues on its own.

Although the immune system is obviously far more complex than this brief simplification, if any part of the system fails or goes off the rails, we get sick.  The virus didn't "cause" that, the body's response did, and the body's response is regulated with vitamins, minerals and various drugs like antihistamines.

Vitamins and minerals are an essential part of every good breakfast for a reason.  They are the building blocks of all the other systems.  Imagine having a fleet of first responders, but no fuel, poor maintenance, or a crew of EMTs who are all on annual leave at the same time.  If you are deficient in any of the key chemicals, then your immune system won't create enough of a vital response - including on-off switches - and you get sick.

Extraordinary Coinciedences


There are hundreds of thousands of types of viruses, and new ones are being discovered all the time.  Of that literal zoo of viruses, there are hundreds of distinct kinds of corona viruses, which are among the largest by size known.  Of those hundreds of types, only seven are known to relate to diseases in humans and they all cause more or less the same thing: the Common Cold.

Viruses tend to cause problems with specific species of animals.  Horse viruses rarely infect cats.  Plant viruses rarely infect bacteria.  Bat viruses are not known to cause immune responses in humans...until now.  Each type of virus has a set of keys that only start the immune response in certain species.  They don't normally pick up a new set of keys, or so it has been since life began.

In recent years, the lab-coated meddlers have been monkeying around with viruses.  Some of it is pure curiosity, but most of it is geared towards military applications.  Though widely banned and frowned upon, the usual suspects continue to mix and match viral keys and genetic material to find a way to make the enemy sick while having a magic potion to keep their own troops healthy.  A poison is no good if you don't have an antidote for yourself.

One of the labs that likes to play god with viruses is called the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), in southern China.   WIV was working with the National Institute of Health (NIH), run by one Anthony Fauci, as well as several major universities in the US, and received significant funding and technolgy to pursue certain virus research that Americans didn't want done in their back yard.

On October 18, 2019, in New York City, the Center for Health Security (CFHS), of Johns Hopkins University, along with the World Economic Forum (WEF) and (of course) the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation brought a bunch of folks from different disciplines together to game out a global virus pandemic, called Event 201, including various responses, consequences and opportunities such a scenario provided.  

That exact same day, October 18, 2019, the 2019 Military World Games (MWG), a kind of olympics for traned killers, were held in Wuhan.  There were more than 10,000 participants from over 100 countries, and it was the largest such event ever held, and the first held in China.

By extraordinary coincidence, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 occurred in Wuhan, China, precisely one month to the day after the Event 201 meeting in New York and the Military World Games in Wuhan.  The new COVID-19 disease was finally reported to the World Health Organization on December 31, 2019, and by January 17, 2020, cases were reported in Washington state and other locations around the world.  It was just three months - to the day - from Event 201 and the MWG in Wuhan, where the WIV is located, to global awareness of a "new" disease.  The global shut downs and quarantines began the following month and continue now a year later, almost to the letter following the Event 201 playbook, which itself seems to invoke many of the stipulations of the Green New Deal and Agenda 21, along with the WEF's Great Reset.

Extraordinary.

SARS-COV-19 Virus


Corona viruses prefer the mucus membranes in humans, which include the sinuses, mouth, throat, and lungs - though seemingly avoid the intestinal tract, presumably because stomach acid dissolves them.  When the body detects any of these seven types of human corona virus, it reacts by pumping out mucus and swelling those tissues (histamines and cytokines), while raise the ambient temperature in an effort to both flush and cook the viruses into submission.

For the most part, we encounter these viruses all the time, and they are flushed with a sneeze or a cough.  Occasionally, the sheer number of virus particles overwhelm the usual reflexes, referred to as viral loading, and burrow into the flesh, causing the body to react with what is essentially an allergic response.  Cytokines flood the body's systems, causing wide-spread swelling and release of T-cells.  The T-cells reconnoiter the situation and signal back-up based on perceived threat.  The result is what we affectionately call the Common Cold.  This is precisely the same chain of events that we call allergies, the only difference being the cause.  Either way, we feel like shit and call in sick.

One big problem with this response is that raising the temperature and swelling the tissues provides a nice warm, wet environment for bacteria, which are the real culprits in terms of deaths from COVID019.  The bacteria are aided and abetted by the fact that the body is busy focusing on the viruses and forgets to attack the bacteria.  We call this an "opportunistic infection".  Parasites, which are also ubiquitous like bacteria and viruses, also get a free ride while the body is otherwise distracted..

None of this is possible if sufficient amounts of certain vitamins and minerals are present, but we'll get to that in a bit.

According to reports that have tried to measure the overall diameter of the SARS-COV-2 virus, the results vary from 50nm to 140nm.  It is listed as an mRNA positive virus, meaning it has a single strand of nucleotides, rather than the double-stranded helix of DNA.  The virus' genome contains slightly less than 30,000 nucleotides, which it pastes into the host cell DNA to turn the cell into a factory making the various proteins that make up the virus' envelope, as well as generating more of the mRNA strands to stuff in the envelopes.  Viruses are not "alive," so they cannot reproduce themselves.  They high-jack resources in our cells to do the work for them.

What makes the SARS-COV-2 virus particularly unique is it seems to have the ability to mutate rapidly, and to jump species with relative ease.  These are not skills found in "normal" viruses.

The SARS-COV-2 virus shares about 97% of its genome with the RaTG13 virus found in a particular species of bat in remote western China.  SARS-COV-2 also demonstrates a remarkable ability to mutate quickly and form variants faster than the body can adjust, or corporations can produce "vaccines".  The usual Common Cold viruses have always jumbled up their protein envelopes, making it almost impossible to generate immunity or to create an effective vaccine, but this new variety puts this skill into hyper-drive.

There is some speculation that SARS-COV-2 may be jumping back and forth between domestic animals and humans, with symptoms in all species.  If true, this would be the first recorded incident of this type of transmission.

Any given type of virus might be expected to mutate >1% over millennia or longer, but for the SARS-COV-2 virus to mutate 3%, and pick up several new skills almost overnight implies something - or someone - mucking about with the mRNA strand.  Some folks believe patented genetic segments owned by Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx could provide these new skills if pasted into the bat virus.

PCR Tests


One of the most ubiquitous symbols of the COVID-19 pandemic is the Rapid Polymerase Chain Reaction Test, or rPCR test in common parlance.  It is also the least understood part of the show, which can be both dangerous and expensive.

The PCR test is not a diagnostic tool.  It doesn't know or care whether the bits of RNA and DNA it picks up belong to viruses or dinosaurs.  It's sole purpose is to detect genetic material and make as many copies of it as you need, depending on the number of cycles you set it to run.  For this reason, PCR tests are commonly used in laboratories to create quantities of genetic samples sufficient for other tests.  It is an amplifier and nothing else.

One common use of PCR tests is for crime scene forensics.  A detective swabs a piece of evidence, then runs the sample through the PCR kit, thus creating sufficient genetic material for DNA tests and analyses.  The PCR does not generate any results by itself.  It simply creates enough of a sample for use in other tests.

The size of the sample a PCR generates depends on the number of cycles it is set to run.  A major issue with this is that the higher the cycles, the more errors it generates.  Previously, the WHO recommended 45 cycles when testing for SARS-COV-2, but this results in an error rate over 90%.  It literally makes a handful of RNA nucleotides (out of 30,000) appear as if the subject is shedding viruses like pecan tree pollen, even if the person doesn't have a single complete virus in their body.  WHO recently recommended reducing the cycle rate to 35, and global "case" rates began falling precipitously.

Not only are PCR tests useless for diagnosing SARS-COV-2 infections, used incorrectly, as they generally are, they produce false positives that could lead to people being isolated and treated for something they don't have.  This practice must be adjusted or ended soon, before more people are hurt by it.


Masks


Let's get the obvious out of the way - you could hold your hand over your nose and mouth and achieve the same degree of safety as wearing a mask

The best way to prove to yourself that a mask is useless is burn a piece of paper or strike a match.  If you can smell the smoke, your mask is useless again viruses.  Molecules we perceive as odors are absolutely gargantuan compared to any given virus.  If you can smell an odor with a mask on, then you are essentially trying to block a SmartCar while letting a freight train slide past. 

Gaseous Oxygen has a molecular diameter of 120 picometers, and gaseous Carbon Dioxide, at 232 picometers, should pass through an N95 mask without much effort.  One picometer equals 0.001 nanometer.  Remember this as we plow forth.  Also remember that masks do not discriminate between incoming and outgoing, so anything you breathe out is just as likely to be trapped as anything coming in.  Thus, if you already have a virus, the mask will concentrate it at your nose and mouth, and will virtually guarantee your virus load exceeds common sense.

Surgical masks were designed to keep the surgeon's skin flakes, boogers, snot, and drool from dropping into a patient's gaping wound.  Combined with hair nets, gloves and vigorous hand-washing, the practice lowered surgical infections dramatically; however, they do little or nothing out here in the real world.

If you work with drywall, or a lot of wood dust, or live in Beijing, a mask may stop a good amount of particulates from entering your sinuses, mouth, throat and lungs.  Outside of those specific conditions, they are pretty much useless.

N95 masks are said to filter out 95% of particles less than 300nm, but this rating assumes a perfect seal around the nose and mouth, and does not have anything to do with protecting the eyes.  Furthermore, masks are only effective when one does not pinch, pull or adjust them with contaminated hands, which most people do on a regular basis throughout the day.  For instance, if you yawn, cough or sneeze, the mask will generally slide off the nose and/or chin, allowing virus particles in through gaps, and then more when you readjust the mask.  Even in a perfect situation, an N95 mask will still allow 5% or more virus particles to pass.

People who die from SARS-COV-2 do not die from anything the virus does.  The generally die from bacterial pneumonia.  The bacteria take advantage of a weakened immune system and the body's responses to the virus,c causing the lung lining to swell and release copious amounts of mucus, thus "drowning" the patient in their own juices. 

The most common cause of baterial pneumonia is the pneumococcus bacterium, a gram-positive critter ranging in size from 0.5 micrometers to 1.25 micrometers.  One micrometer equals 1,000 nanometers, so N95 masks that block most anything larger than 300 nanometers actually horde these bacteria directly in front of your nose and mouth, almost guaranteeing that you will succumb to bacterial disease long before the COVID-19 gets you.

Vaccines, Therapies & Prevention


Let's begin with vaccines.
The medical definition of a vaccine is the injection of dead or inactive viruses to stimulate a reaction by the immunie system to provide immunity to the recipient.

The legal definition of vaccine is more or less the same as the medical one, but it makes little difference, since vaccine manufacturers are broadly protected from product liability, either by actual law or contractual separation as a condition of any sales.

While the Russian Sputnik V and the Chinese CoronaVac are supposedly real vaccines, the Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca jabs are not.  The latter are in fact a form of gene therapy that uses virus protein envelopes to invade cells and deliver RNA "edits" for your DNA.  The edits supposedly force your cells to mimic the effects of the virus, which in turn keeps your immune system on hyperalert - presumably forever if you continue to get jabs in the future.  Essentially, they are setting the recipient up for severe allergies, though no one is really sure what will set them off.

To be fully informed of what the gene therapy "vaccines" are really doing, you really need to listen to this interview with Dr. Sherri Tenpenny.

Frankly, the average person has no way to assess whether any vaccine functions as described, nor do we have any assurance that the vaccines do more good than harm.  As the saying goes, a patient never dies in surgery, always in recovery.  Information on side-effects is sketchy and in any case, the manufacturers are given virtual immunity from product liability.

Furthermore, most of us don't have the tools to analyze the compositions and functions of vaccines, and the methods and contents are generally proprietary and not published.  Thus, we have no way to prove what we are told about the vaccines, and no way to hold manufacturers liable for anything that goes wrong. The same is true for any of the drugs now coming to market as therapies.

In other words, we just have to take their word for it.

Gene editing using viral vectors has been around for some time.  In the early 1990s, I was involved with documenting tests of this technology for use in cancer treatment.

Virus protein envelopes containing an "updated" p53 wild gene were injected into cancer tumors in an effort to "turn off" the mutated gene and shut down cancer cells.  There was some immediate success, but unfortunately, my grant ran out before I could document long-term results, so I cannot say what the outcome was.  The linked paper is co-authored by two of the doctors I worked with.

I mention the foregoing because that is precisely the technology being used in many of the so-called SARS-COV-2 "vaccines".  I find this particularly alarming because the folks I talk to that have received or want to receive those jabs are completely uninformed and unaware of what they are getting.  This is a gross violation of the Nuremberg Protocols, and given the manufacturers' immunity from liability, millions of people are exposing themselves to great risk without being properly informed of what they are doing.

As far as therapies go, Remdesivir is the one most heralded by the Geezer Media and WHO types.  It comes with a steep price tag and questionable efficacy.  Given that it is freshly patented, it only has one manufacturer and is likely generating a decent profit.

There are, in fact, many antiviral drugs on the market, designed to work against a range of viruses like herpes, influenza and others.  They are all rather expensive and come with a number of provisos and exceptions.

There are two legacy drugs that have been shown to be quite effective, but are no longer patented and are quite cheap and widely available (or at least were before efforts to hide them and price them out of the market).  Both have been around for the better part of a century and have a wide range of uses, including antiviral.

Quinine, like acetylsalicylic acid, is one of the oldest therapeutic drugs known to humans.  Derived from cinchona trees in Peru, it works by chemically eating holes in viruses, bacteria and parasites.  The holes facilitate zinc and the body's defenses inside the critters to kill them.  Modern compounds like chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) reduce the unpleasant side effects of pure quinine, while maintaining its efficacy.  A 2009 study by the National Institute of Health (NIH), run by Anthony Fauci at the time, found that CQ is highly effective in treating corona viruses.

Ivermectin was discovered in 1975, and has since become on the go-to drugs for all things parasitic.  You can rub it on your skin for lice and scabies, or swallow it for worms, amoeba and other nasty critters.  It is used for both humans and domestic animals and the WHO says it is an indispensable addition to your medicine cabinet.  Dr. Pierre Kory testified before a US Senate hearing that ivermectin has almost miraculous effect on COVID-19, as both a treatment and a preventative.  

In Indonesia, the price of the drug has shot up in the last year, from $2/10 pills, to $20/10 pills.  HCQ was about $5/10 caps, but was summarily confiscated by officialdom and is now impossible to find.

Regardless of all other considerations, it pays to keep your immune system in peak condition.  Vaccines supposedly work by exposing the body to weakened viruses to stimulate the immune response.  One can achieve the same effect by constant low-level exposure to pathogens in daily life.  Attempting to avoid exposure reduces the number and amounts or pathogens we regularly ingest, thus the immune system does not maintain a level of antigens and makes us vulnerable when we encounter a heavy load of them.

Equally as important is maintaining a healthy supply of the materials the body needs to fight off infections.  These vitamins and minerals are used by the body in thousands of different processes that aid immunity, digestion, cell division, and a whole host of other physical and chemical reactions.  

The most important for building and regulating the immune system are B6, C and D3.  There are common and relatively cheap supplements for all three.  Of the metals iron, zinc, calcium, potassium, and magnesium are essential, and supplements are also easy to find.

For my own regimen, I place a tablet of B6 under my tongue when I feel a cytokine storm coming on (sinus congestion, low-grade fever, dry cough).  It works in about 30 minutes.  I have taken 5 grams to 6 grams per day of Vitamin C for many years.  I get at least one hour of direct sunlight every day and supplement my D3 with 5,000 IU/day.  I take 20mg of zinc twice a week, using the soluble tablets so I can hold some under my tongue for a minute or two.  My diet provides plenty of iron, calcium and magnesium, but if I start to get mucle cramps, I supplement with magnesium and they go away in a day or so.  Being of Irish descent, I have to limit my iron and calcium because my body stores it quite well.  You should research this for your own body type.  As for potassium, I eat a lot of bananas.

I don't remember the last time I had the flu, and if I do get a cold, it is usually over in less than a day.  I also have no allergies that I know of, and after 60 years, I imagine I would have found some by nowI also don't get bacterial or parasitic infections, though i am susceptible to fungal infections. Still working on that one.

Miscellany


When this whole mess started, my wife and I went immediately to DefCon5.  If we had to go out, we undressed on the porch, put the clothes in a bag and washed them immediately.  There was little information and the Geezer Media made it sound like we were heading for Contagion or The Omega Man.  I know a lot more now, and I am not afraid of the virus.  It looks to me like everything the 'experts" recommend is the exact opposite of what clear-thinking people should do.

Just like Dr. Mom always said, get plenty of sunshine and fresh air, and eat a healthy diet.

 It's always interesting, at least to me, to examine the origins of words.  They tell us a lot about the deeper meanings and intentions of the terms we use everyday in casual and unthinking ways.  One prime example is looking up the deeper meaning of the word government, but I digress.

The word corona comes from Latin meaning "crown".  We often encounter this word when referring to the brilliant edges of the Sun, or the arteries that lay across the heart.  In the case of the SARS-COV-2 virus, it refers to the shapes of the proteins that stick out from the virus' envelope.  They appear to form a crown around this or any of the thousands of types of corona viruses.

The word virus is quite strange.  It is a Latin word that means "poisonous substance".  In essence, corona virus means "poisonous crown".  I can't help but make all kinds of associations with this thought.  One could think of it as the signature of the party that unleashed it upon the world.

What I find truly intriguing were all the articles comparing the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in Aries (still on-going and now with Venus too) to the Christmas Star, a phenomenon noted in the Gospels as signalling the birth of a Great King. Talmudists will certainly recognize this configuration, and it makes one wonder if the "poisonous crown" is a symbolic gesture for the coming of the new Great King.

Conclusions


As we have seen, the entire COVID-19 pandemic is a complete and horrific hoax.  There is no real danger from the virus if your are reasonably healthy and maintain good levels of vitamins and minerals.

The symbolism of a "poisonous crown" coming along as a particular set of astrological events occur signifying the birth of a Great King is a very strange set of coincidences.  Regardless of whether you or I believe in that nonsense, there are certainly a group of self-appointed elites who do.

It seems pretty apparent that the SARS-COV-2 was modified or created in the WIV, and was part of a coordinated effort to institute an agenda by scaring the piss out of the entire world.  In New York, a group of meddling "experts" from different fields planned the "pandemic" and global shut-down, while in Wuhan, the virus was unleashed during the MWG, and allowed to spread as much as possible before the WHO was "notified" of possible cases.  There are far too many convenient coincidences for this mess to be accidental, much less natural.

Regardless of whether the "vaccines" currently proffered actually work in the short term, no one can tell you with any certainly what the long-term outcomes will be.  Most are not vaccines as we have come to know them, but are gene therapy terhnologies that are stil in their infancy.  Traditional vaccines have an 80-year highly questionable reputation, but the new tech has no such multi-generational record.

Masks are so useless as to be less effective than painting a barrier on your face.  They are theater.  They are props in a vast cynical farce designed to make you think you are safe, without actually doing anything to BE safe.  You are far better off with a vitamin and mineral supplement regimen, and a few hours of direct sunlight and quality sleep, than anything offered by the Geezer Media and their corporate minions.

To get through this insanity, do what Mom, and Granma, and Great-grandma always taught us (this is by no means "medical advice," just generational Common Sense):

  1. Get plenty of direct sunlight on your naked skin;
  2. Get plenty of fresh air, breathing from your abdomen and not your chest;
  3. Eat plenty of red meat for the high zinc levels;
  4. Take a quinine or ivermectin tablet once in a while to beat off the baddies;
  5. Eat lots of dark green leafy vegitables;
  6. Supplement with B6, C, D3, and E;
  7. Feed a cold, starve a fever;
  8. And if you get sick, get plenty of rest, drink lots of fluids, and have Mom send over some of her Magic Chicken Soup.

PS - My friend Chris, after reading this article, brought to my attention a long-term study on allergies in a region called Karelia that is split between Russia and Finland.  The results are not only very interesting, they speak directly to one of my themes here.   The study seems to support the proposal that the modern, sterile, sedentary lifestyle and lifetime vaccine regimen is causing people to be more susceptible to germs and allergens, rather than the other way.

22.3.18

The Dream Merchant

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There once was a man with incredible insight into fools. Douglas Adams noted in his book, "Mostly Harmless," that "[a] common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

Someone else, whose name is quite difficult to find said, "Who is the greater fool? The fool or the fool who follows him?"

I have stated on several occasions that Albert Einstein was a complete idiot, but by the common wisdom, we must admit that Stephen Hawking was an even greater idiot for blindly following Einstein. The incredible hero worship surrounding Hawking's death is, or would be amusing if it weren't so foolish.

Imagine, if you will, that once upon a time, there was nothing. No, not empty space, just...um, Nothing. In the center of Nothing was an infinitely tiny, infinitely hot, inifinitely dense balloon that just all the sudden blew itself up. Keep in mind that despite having all these "infinite" PHYSICAL characteristics, it was as much Nothing as the Nothing it didn't inhabit, and like all balloons I've ever seen, it blew itself up with Nothing to become Something (i.e. - the Universe).

This balloon blew itself up between 13 and 14 billion years ago, and we have spent an astronomical amount of money trying to see the light from this event, even though no one seems to know how we got in front of the light so we could be in position to see it. And since we don't seem to be able to see it, then there must have been a celestial Dark Ages where no light existed, even though it existed when the balloon blew itself up, and it existed after the Dark Ages.

Now, this Balloon is floating somewhere in the middle of Nothing, and there are possibly many other balloons around it, though the only proof of that is some numerical wizardry performed by Einstein and Hawking. There are three possibilities for this Balloon: k=1; k=0, and k=-1. In human speak, this translates to a balloon that will expand forever, one that remain exactly as it is forever, and one that is/will contract back to Nothing and presumably blow itself back up again. Inside this balloon, there are things we can't explain without resorting to electricity and magnetism, so the scientidiots invented Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Dark Matter because galaxies don't spin the way Hawking's numbers do, and Dark Energy because scientidiots think the balloon is expanding faster the further away it gets from Earth.

Never mind that both of these things have been completely debunked by their own tools in the past three years.

Now, since the Universe doesn't use electricity and magnetism, unlike every piece of technology humankind has devised, we apparently need Black Holes. Now, you may not know this, but there are four kinds of Black Holes, two of which are named after Stephen Hawking, not because he found them, but because he manipulated magical symbols, glyphs and ciphers in a way no one else had thought to do.

These Black Holes are "Settled Science," even though there is no such thing, and despite the fact that the "evidence" we have for them is the radiation they give off, even though their gravity is infinite and they absorb everything around them, including all radiation of every kind. Also, ignore the fact that Black Hole calculations require assuming only ONE MASS in the entire Universe. I don't know about you, but I do know I exist and I am standing on a rock, so that is at least two masses I am fairly sure about.

These scientidiots didn't like the fact that you can't divide something by nothing, so they called it infinity, which is not a number. No problem, since the square-root of -1 is "i", right? If you get the impression that Cosmology is inventing the rules of the game as you go along to ensure that you win, you're getting the right idea.

Yes, this Hawking feller was a genius, I tell ya. He could explain gravity using gravity. He could conjure infinity out of nothing. He could create Black Holes where none existed.

Don't get me wrong. Hawking managed to survive 50 years longer than other scientidiots ever though he would with his disease, and he managed to befuddle so many people with his wizarding skills that he finagled a fairly comfortable lifestyle for himself and breathless sainthood upon his death. I can respect a good scam, while condemning the desire and ability to scam so many gullible people.

Hawking managed to turn Dark Ages, Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Black Holes into money, and that's no small feat. He was able to take circular arguments and make them look like they led somewhere. He was able to conjure Universes out of Nothing and make it seem plausible. Plausible, that is, until you start picking at the scabs and looking at the festering assumptions underneath.

Yes, Stephen Hawking was a genius, all right, but not in the way most people think of him. He was a Master Scientidiot, and we can concede a certain amount of congratulations for his skill at bamboozling. As someone put it to me years ago, there are bullshitters and bullshit artists. Hawking was most certainly in the latter category.

And he did it by overcoming a fairly significant handicap, but one has to wonder how much leeway he was given for that one fact.

Mathematical wizardry has its place in telling us what is possible, but at some point you have to look up from the ciphering and see what is probable. I will grant that looking up was not an easy task for Hawking, but at some point in his 50-year career as a scientidiot, one imagines that he should have tried.

It is not enough to say you follow a greater fool. Reality, no matter how much we try, is an immutable fact that cannot be ciphered away, nor can facts be created by books full of dancing symbols.

Maps are useful tools, when they are correct, but they can also lead you off a cliff if you don't look up to check reality once in a while.

Hawking, like Einstein before him, was a map-maker who got carried away with his fanciful designs. He forgot to check the lay of the land once in a while, and for that he can be faulted without diminishing the artistry of his skills. After all, Picasso never called himself a portrait artist, and to their credit, neither did the glitterati.

Let's give Hawking credit for what he achieved, but let's be a little less breathless and gullible about what his achievements actually were.

20.6.16

Hogwash And Fodder

Oh boy, here we go again.

Yes!  For the second time ever, a bunch of amorphous "scientists" have discovered something that doesn't exist, caused by something else that doesn't exist.  And the information is presented as a fait accompli, there can be no question.

According to the article, this "discovery" is confirmed, without having published a single paper, passed peer review, or even having confirmed the underlying assumptions that gave birth to the idea.  Even worse, older articles crow that this "discovery" proves Einstein's Theory of Relativity, even though Einstein never explained gravity, didn't like the idea of gravitational waves and rejected the whole thing as "spooky."

Here's the problem: no one has ever seen a black hole; they only exist in mathematical constructs.  Furthermore, no one has a clue how or why gravity works, much less that it is a function of some mysterious substance called "space-time."  Thus, without proof of the existence of black holes and without understanding even the most basic aspects of gravity, we can "discover" waves in "space-time" created by imaginary objects merging with each other.  And the articles even come with nifty animations, as if someone has actually seen these things.

If you are a product on 20th century education, as I am, you were taught that space is swarming with black holes.  Movies like Interstellar, The Black Hole and Event Horizon feed this myth, to the point that nearly all of us believe these things exist, because when was the last time you read the theories and proofs for black holes?  That's what I thought.

There are four theories concerning the creation and existence of black holes.  All four of them state that the Universe contains only one mass - the black hole.  In other words, a black hole universe can only contain one black hole and nothing else.  Yes, that's right, if a black hole exists, then all four theories state that nothing else - including us - exists.

Since we obviously exist, then black holes cannot.  Simple reasoning.

Now, if black holes do not exist, then gravity waves propagated by two of them colliding cannot exist.  First, there cannot be two black holes, according to theory.  Second, they cannot collide.  Third, gravity waves cannot propagate from them colliding.

We haven't even gotten to the part about gravity.  Thing is, no one understands gravity.  You know the picture of a ball sitting on a rubber sheet?  That is a circular argument, because it needs gravity to pull the ball down to make a dent in the rubber sheet.  Gravity creates gravity.  HUH?

Go watch this video and see if you can make sense out of gravitational theory when you are done.  Hell, even Newton couldn't do it, or wouldn't, take your pick.

So, now we've shot some big holes in black holes and gravity.  How about these gravity waves?

The devices used to "detect" these waves are called LIGO.  There is one in Washington State and one in Louisiana.  That's roughly 2,000 miles apart (x1.6...you do the math for kilometers).  Now these waves supposedly travel at the "speed of light" (another BS thing).  However, the waves arrived at the two LIGO machines a couple of microseconds apart.  So, waves travelling a billion light years (and spreading out the whole way) and travelling at the "speed of light" arrive at Washington and Louisiana at different times?  Sorry, that blows the whole argument right there.

Go watch this video to destroy the whole argument.

There are some heavy hitters on the side of skepticism, and these guys have names, unlike the "scientists" who report the "discovery."  This is not a bunch of cranks (like me) pointing out that this is all bullshit to justify the ungodly sums of money being spent on these massive toys, like LIGO.

So, no black holes, no gravity waves, no "space-time" medium, and something that no one understand (gravity).  Does it sound to you like gravity waves have been "discovered?"

These toys may have found something, but it is not what is being reported, and in fact, I suspect no one really understands what was found, if anything.

What is certain is that these reports of definitive "discoveries" are open to wildly different interpretations and that the assumptions underlying the conclusions are completely vacuous.  Not only is the quality of science reporting a load of manure, but the whole underpinnings of modern physics are based on mathematical constructs being presented as facts with no supporting proof.

That's right, folks, it's time to go back to the chalk board.

9.4.16

INTERVIEW: Joseph P. Farrell on Radio Far Side

Among the writers and researchers studying what is euphemistically called "alternative history" (which means don't look any further because we don't want you to know the truth), Dr. Joseph P. Farrell is one of the stand-outs.  His books are meticulously researched and footnoted, and unlike many people in this realm, he lets you know when he is delivering facts, and when he is speculating upon them.

Dr. Farrell has published over two dozen books that span the last 3.2 million years of human history and the nature and composition of the Universe, as well as humanity's attempts to contain and control Nature - for better or worse.  Armed with a Doctorate in Patristics from the University of Oxford, Dr. Farrell applies a wide range of knowledge and disciplines to the questions of who and what our species is.

In this interview, we explore Dr. Farrell's concept of the Topological Metaphor, a way of describing philosophical concepts in mathematical terms.  This Metaphor affects our notions of the Universe and its construction, music theory, esoteric and occult practices, and even banking and finance.  It is a wide ranging conversation exploring the primal link between our past and our future.



For additional information:

Giza Death Star: http://gizadeathstar.com/
Trinity Origins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity
Richard Casarro Triptych: http://www.richardcassaro.com/tag/tri...
The Number 3: http://mysticalnumbers.com/number-3/

25.3.16

Let's Get Physical

When you think about it, there are no such things as dimensions, and we do not live in three, four and any number of dimensions.  There are only measurements and coordinates.

There is nothing that exists that is not three dimensional.  Whether it is a cell, a molecule, an atom, an electron, a quark, lepton, gluon, muon, tauon, boson, whatever, they all have height, length and width.  There is no such thing as a one or two dimensional object.  Nothing can exist without a measurement in all three directions, even if the measurement is Planck's Length.  According to theory, nothing smaller than Planck's Length can be measured, therefore nothing can exist beyond it.

If nothing can exist without all three dimensions, then to label the measurements as dimensions is meaningless, since they cannot be extracted from one another.  Mathematical abstractions don't count.  To use an hypothetical one-dimensional 'point' in space may be useful in theoretical calculations, but in the real Universe, there is no such thing.  If you remove all but one dimension from an object, it ceaases to exist.  Mind games, such as Flatland are fun to explore as mental calisthenics, but in our reality, these are only abstractions.

When we come to time, we are in far greater trouble to call this a dimension.  With the first three, we can point in the direction of their vectors.  We can measure them with objective instruments.  We can move freely among them.  But with time, none of these properties exist.

Time is nothing more than our arbitrary means of separating past, present and future.  A clock is not an objective measuring device.  No matter how accurate it is, the settings and readings are arbitrarily set by someone at some random starting point.  Time has no vector.  You cannot point in the direction of time.  And if time is relative, then it most certainly is not a real thing in our real Universe.

A day is not an objective measure.  It is a measure of Earth's position/coordinates in space from when the Sun is overhead to when it is overhead again.  A year is nothing more than measuring Earth's coordinates in space from an arbitrary point until the Earth returns to that point again.  The numbers we assign to those concepts can and do vary all the time, and they are not the same elsewhere in the Universe.  A Martian day is nearly an hour longer than on Earth, and a Venusian day is longer than its year.  A year on Pluto has not passed since the American Revolution.

Conversely, kilometer on Earth would be the same on Mars, or anywhere else in the Universe, but time is subjective.  As Father Einstein himself observed, when you go to the carnival with a beautiful girl, and hour seems like a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove, a minute seems like an hour.  You cannot go in the direction of the future, then change your mind and go back to the past.  The concept of time is truly meaningless, while space is full of fixed points.

When it comes down to it, time is nothing more than measurements of distances traveled: the rotations and orbits of masses in space.  If you could completely stop an object's motion, time would cease to exist for it, since there would be no way to measure it passing except with subjective and arbitrary devices like clocks.  The only way time could exist for the stopped object is to measure changing distances to some other object.  Therefore, time is nothing more than movement along one of the spacial axes/dimensions.

At this point, we have dismissed time as a dimension.  That is a meaningless concept.  When it comes to spacial dimensions, one cannot be separated from the other; no coordinate can ever be zero because for something to exist, it must have coordinates in three dimensions.  As for higher spacial dimensions, they may exist, but if you read Flatland (link above) you will realize that we can never experience them, much less point in their directions.  They are meaningless in a real world.

To further beat home the point, modern physics has speculated endlessly on something called "space-time" for the past century, as if there is proof that this imaginary fabric of the Universe actually exists.  It doesn't.  It is a fabrication of Relativity Theory in order to visualize something being warped by gravity.  In this concept, gravity is not a force but a result of objects falling into rubber sheets.

In fact, there is no "space-time."  The Universe is a vast collection of coordinates filled with a 'foam' of neutrinos, akin to stem cells of reality, which are the being the building blocks of all we perceive.  Gravity is nothing more than a complex form of static electricity, pushing and pulling on objects like magnetic poles - like repel, opposites attract.

The Universe is really quite simple and comprehensible if you strip away all the mythical and mystical mumbo-jumbo that has formed a scum on the pond of clear thinking these past 100 years.  You can experience the Universal fundamentals by strumming a guitar, watch waves at the beach, playing with magnets, or sticking you finger in a light socket.  Everything else is little more than an attempt to mystify us mortals, thus requiring a priesthood of scientists to interpret Life's Great Secrets for us.  In other words, nothing more than a new religion.

When we strip away all the magical incantations and mystical mathematics that the Einseinian priesthood has foisted on us, we find the the Universe is conceptually and functionally simple and pure.  Vibrations, electricity and magnetism explain all we can experience, and all of it can be measured objectively in all parts of the Universe.

It's time taxpayers demand an end to the "grant money trough."  It's not that I oppose scientific inquiry, or supporting real science, but the system currently in place is nothing more than a means of political control over science to maintain the accepted mythology at the expense of real understanding.  Taxpayers have shouldered the burden of massive boondoggles, such as LHC and other billion-dollar scams to find things that don't exist.  If experiments cannot be translated into technology that improves humanity's lot, then stop throwing huge bales of tax money at them.  A Higgs boson or a Gravity Wave (neither of which exist) will not result in any usable information that can transform our daily lives.

It's time we stop worshipping "authority."  Neil DeGrsse Tyson has no more idea what he is talking about than you do.  We must realize that each of us has the sense and ability to understand the Universe.  It's just a matter of opening our minds.

16.8.13

Time On My Hands

Time is one of the most enduring staples of science fiction.  How we experience time, what time is and whether time can be toyed with has long been one of the deepest ponders of humanity.  And walking hand-in-hand with time is the nature of the Universe.  Are there multiple Universes?  Can we enter or experience those other Universes?  Does anything we do affect the number, size or nature of other Universes?  You can easily get lost in these sorts of thoughts.

How we experience time is obviously relative.  As Albert Einstein himself explained it, "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity."  Time is a fluid in which we are drowning, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, but always sinking.

Then there's the whole issue of probability and possibility.  Something can be possible without being probably, but rarely can something be probable without being possible.  As Sherlock Holmes said, "Once you have eliminated the impossible, what remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

In modern physics, as misguided and limited as it is, there is a mainstream theory of multiple Universes that states that the so-called Big Bang may have happened multiple times, and that there is a hyper-verse that looks something like a bubble bath with millions of bubbles all crowding each other.  Whether it is possible to communicate between these bubbles is still hotly debated.

An alternative concept, though not generally taken seriously by mainstream physics (which gives it far more credibility in my book) is the multi-verse concept.  This theory posits that there are as many Universes as there are choices.  Every time you face a choice between A, B or C, you create a reality in which you experience A, but two alternate Universes are created in which you chose B or C.  Furthermore, this process is repeated for every single living being that makes choices at every point within the Universe.

In other words, there are infinite numbers of Universes and more are being created all the time.

The classic Time Paradox thought experiment says that you travel back in time.  You kill your grandfather, thus you can not possibly exist, and yet you do.  Have you changed the conditions of the current Universe, or have you created an alternate Universe?

One of the finest stories along the lines of the first concept is Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder.  A hunter travels back in time to kill a T. Rex, but panics and leaves the proscribed path, killing a butterfly in the process.  When the party returns to the present, language has changed.  People have changed.  And history has changed.  This story inspired Michael Crichton to write Jurassic Park.  Well worth a Saturday in bed.

Along the lines of the second option, Robert Heinlein penned his classic The Number of the Beast.  Inspired by E. R. Burroughs' Barsoom series, the characters travel through multiple embedded Universes encoded in the "number of the beast" (666) that include Universes created by fiction writers, not just choices.  Lots of nudity and gratuitous sex.  You'll love it!

Really, though, what is time?  Supposedly we can't see the future, yet in very mainstream and accepted physical theory, time is a double cone extending into the future and the past, and we should be able to see both time zones with equal clarity given the proper tools.  In other words, given the correct tool and knowing where to look, we should be able to see Earth at anytime in the past or future.  General Relativity and Light Theory demand it.

Equally possible is the ability to adjust our perception and thus enter any number of multiple embedded Universes.  All it takes is learning the 'trick' to turning just so in order to do it.

The first theory states that there is only one time line and that any change to it affects everything from that point into the future.  Think of this as the 'railroad' theory.  You start in Chicago and go to New York.  If you change any conditions on the rail, you can jam the train or change its destination.  The changes are irrevocable, though you can always return to the point of origin and try again by adjusting the conditions of the rail.

The second theory states that you board the train in Chicago and along the way, if conditions change, you create multiple trains that do different things depending on how those conditions affect the train's path.  It's possible to experience all possible outcomes, though maybe not at once.

So where does all this leave us?

We know for a fact that where we are at this very moment is the result of an incomprehensible number of choices, options and decisions spanning all of time, however much that is.  We also know that any and every choice, option and decision we take now will profoundly affect our lives and have a ripple effect across time and space, even if we aren't aware of all the consequences.  Think about that the next time you kill a cockroach.

What all this boils down to is, what is time?  Is it a physical phenomenon and one day we will discover chronitons, particles of time?  Or is it a dimension that we perceive, like height, width and depth?  Or is it a construct of our minds, like a clothesline on which we hang our exeriences to dry into memories and give historians gainful employment?

If you were given the chance to go back in your life and change one decision, would you do it?  Would you take the risk on what ripples that would make in your present?  Or do you see it as an opportunity to jump into an alternate reality at that particular junction that wouldn't affect anything in this particular reality?

The beauty of this particular ponder is that it allows us to ask a very simple question - what if - and then explore all sorts of different possibilities.

What's really fun is that your concept of time shows you how limited your concept of 'god' is.  If time is an unalterable arrow, then your 'god' is very limited.  On the other hand, if time is as dynamic and pliable as water, then your 'god' is unlimited.  How's that for a mind-bender?

At any rate, the next time someone asks you, "What time is it?"  Give them the response, "Sidereal or synodic?"  Watch their expression.  Maybe I'll even do a YouTube series of people's reactions.  Fun idea.

Worst case scenario, just burst into Jim Croce lyrics:
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go
Through time with

8.7.12

I Am What I Am

What is consciousness?

This is one of those Sunday ponders to twist your noodle in a knot.  Science, and especially physics, will never find the Grand Unified Theory of Everything until it can come up with a formula that explains how atoms, molecules and chemical soups can generate a very simple statement: I am.

For all our self-congratulatory technology, our robots and computers and kitchen appliances, we can't create one fundamental thing: self-awareness.  Oh sure, we can teach machines to run and dance and hold conversations that seem spontaneous, but at the very foundation of these creations, there is nothing by algorithms and calculations.  We can simulate consciousness to varying degrees of eye-poppingness, but ultimately, we can't cause it.

The basic problem is our understanding of the Universe.  We like to strut around talking about quantum mechanics and string theories, but in reality we always bump into, what we used to call in fortran programming, do-loops.  All our efforts end up chasing their own tails, with things like 'black holes' resulting from mathematical dead-ends, where math fails and all the rules get thrown out the window.

Nowhere in all our wizardry does the math reach a point where the individual pops into existence.  And here's the real noodle bake...is everything we think we know being created by our own expectations of finding it?  In other words, did we find the Higgs boson because we created the environment in which it could exist?

Here's the fundamental problem with current particle physics.  We calculate that a certain particle must exist in order for the solutions to be valid.  We set up experiments to find those things.  Thus, we have created the things by establishing the right environment for them to be found.  In other words, these are completely reflexive exercises.

Another example is the periodic table.  In nature, we only find elements up to uranium.  After that, they are all man-made, and most don't exist for more than a millisecond or two before crumbling into more mundane pieces.  Everything from #93 to #120 (and beyond) is simply us tinkering with what is, not finding some aspect of reality.

Another problem with things like CERN and other particle smashers is that we are artificially creating things that are not found by themselves in Nature.  It's as if we are accelerating two panes of glass to near the speed of light and then smashing them into each other.  Then we pick up the pieces and try to extrapolate the whys and wherefores of how the glass was made and what purpose it served by sifting through the pieces.  Are we really finding things that are there, or are we creating them in an artificial environment that doesn't exist in the 'wild'?

According to some theories of the Universe, we will ultimately build a telescope so powerful that we will eventually see the back of our head.  In the other direction, we will finally find that the most minute processes of the Universe are little more than fractal echoes of the macro world.  Ultimately, we are looking in the wrong places for the wrong things, because none of what we have or will find answers the basic question at the heart of all science...who am I?

When Moses asked the Burning Bush, "Who is it that I should tell them sent me?"  The Voice responded, "Ahjeh asher ahyeh."  I am who I am, tell them "I am" sent you.  Basically, Moses was talking to himself, for if we repeat the phrase, either to ourself or to others, we are saying that "I am" is the penultimate meaning and force of Creation.  In other words, we come full circle back to our own consciousness and our understanding of our individual place in the Universe.

All of the machines and computations and sub-atomic particles and proto-galaxies mean absolutely nothing until we can answer one simple question, "Who is 'I am'?"  Until we can answer with certainty what it is that causes us to be able to look at ourselves and call ourselves 'individual', then all the rest is just icing with no cake.

Once we understand consciousness, all the rest will fall into place.  Bigger, better telescopes won't find it.  More powerful microscopes won't find it.  More massive particle smashers won't uncover it.  These efforts will always end up back where we started with n/0, a mathematical absurdity...a 'black hole'.

There is a logic to all of this.  We sense it from the moment we can say, "I am."  We know there is a reason and structure to everything around us, but we can't put our finger on it.  We have come upon a puzzle with infinite pieces and we are smashing it to bits trying to figure how and why it made a picture when it was all assembled.  It's a futile, empty exercise whose results are always more pieces, but still no understanding of how they all came together in the first place.

The foundation of all science is the question, "Who is 'I am'?"  Yet, it is the proverbial elephant in the living room that everyone knows about but refuses to acknowledge.  All our hubris over finding bosons and leptons and fermions does nothing to solve the Great Riddle.  It doesn't even bring us closer to defining the question, much less the answer.  The nature of the Universe will remain an elusive prize until we start to ask the right questions.  Sure, we can make wildly speculative statements like, "Cogito ergo sum," but what is the sum of sum?

How is it we can say "I am"?  What is the nature and cause of consciousness?  What's more, does the Universe exist because we are aware of it?  Or do we exist because the Universe is aware of us?

The answers to those questions are not found in bosons, they are found in the logical absurdities that no one wants to deal with.  We paper over those absurdities and refuse to look them in the Eye.  Yet it is when we contemplate infinity that we start to ask the right questions.

Two thousand five hundred years ago, the Buddha answered all the questions that quantum physics is just now rediscovering, and he did it with pure reason and logic.  He didn't need atom smashers and supercomputers.  He only needed to stare into the Abyss of consciousness and the rest became self-evident. Whether it's Buddha's cosmic foam or quantum physics' flux, that is where we will find the answer to Creation itself, because Creation doesn't exist without 'I am'.

I think, therefore 'I am'.

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Today's Sunday funnies is a classic Darwin Award from 1999.  Since we're on the topic of absurdities, I thought this one fit just perfectly.  The more I picture it, the funnier it gets...


A fellow from Michigan buys himself a brand-new $30,000 Jeep Grand Cherokee for Christmas. He goes down to his favorite bar and celebrates by tossing down a few too many brews with his buddies. In one of those male-bonding rituals, five of them decide to take his new vehicle for a test drive on a duck hunting expedition. They load up the Jeep with the dog, the guns, the decoys, and the beer, and head out to a nearby lake.
Now, it's the dead of winter, and of course the lake is frozen, so they need to make a hole in the ice to create a natural landing area for the ducks and decoys. It is common practice in Michigan to drive your vehicle out onto the frozen lake, and it is also common (if slightly illegal) to make a hole in the ice using dynamite. Our fellows have nothing to worry about on that score, because one member of the party works for a construction team, and happens to have brought some dynamite along. The stick has a short 20-second fuse.
The group is ready for some action. They're all set up. Their shotguns are loaded with duck pellets, and they have beer, warm clothes and a hunting dog. Still chugging down a seemingly bottomless supply of six-packs, the group considers how to safely dynamite a hole through the ice. One of these rocket scientists points out that the dynamite should explode at a location far from where they are standing. Another notes the risk of slipping on the ice when running away from a burning fuse. So they eventually settle on a plan to light the fuse and throw the dynamite out onto the ice.
There is a bit of contention over who has the best throwing arm, and eventually the owner of the Jeep wins that honor. Once that question is settled, he walks about 20 feet further out onto the ice and holds the stick of dynamite at the ready while one of his companions lights the fuse with a Zippo. As soon as he hears the fuse sizzle, he hurls it across the ice at a great velocity and runs in the other direction.
Unfortunately, a member of another species spots his master's arm motions and comes to an instinctive decision. Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the vehicle, the beer, the guns and the dog? Yes, the dog: a trained Black Labrador, born and bred for retrieving, especially things thrown by his owner. As soon as the stick leaves his hand, the dog sprints across the ice, hell-bent on wrapping his jaws around the enticing stick-shaped object.
Five frantic fellows immediately begin hollering at the dog, trying to get him to stop chasing the dynamite. Their cries fall on deaf ears. Before you know it, the retriever is headed back to his owner, proudly carrying the stick of dynamite with the burning 20-second fuse. The group continues to yell and wave their arms while the happy dog trots towards them. In a desperate act, its master grabs his shotgun and fires at his own dog.
The gun is loaded with duck shot, and confuses the dog more than it hurts him. Bewildered, he continues towards his master, who shoots at man's best friend again. Finally comprehending that his owner has become insane, the dog runs for cover with his tail between his legs. And the nearest cover is right under the brand-new Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Boom! The dog and the Jeep are blown to bits, and sink to the bottom of the lake, leaving a large ice hole in their wake. The stranded men stand staring at the water with stupid looks on their faces, and the owner of the Jeep is left to explain the misadventure to his insurance company. Needless to say, they determined that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal use of explosives is not covered under their policy, and the owner is still making $400 monthly payments on his brand-new Jeep at the bottom of the lake.

17.6.11

Physics And The Art Of Sun Tea

Going to show my age here, but what the hell?

Remember going to the five-n-dime as a kid and buying those balsa wood airplanes?  The ones with the big rubber band that made the propeller spin.  After you destroyed the plane, you could use the rubber band to snap your brother on the rump.  OK, hold that thought.

Now, for those who think that the sun has no influence on Earth’s climate, which if you listen to NASA you might, let’s do a couple of experiments.

First, get a big glass jar with a lid and fill it with water.  You’ll want to start this in the morning.  Put a couple of those big tea bags inside and seal it.  Now, place it in a nice sunny spot while we go off on some adventures.

Next, we climb aboard the new LFS private jet.  You know, the new Airbus transparent plane that would make Wonder Woman green with envy.  Now that we’re at cruising altitude, you’ll notice that we occasionally run into some turbulence, where the plane bounces up and down.  That’s because, as the sun warms the surface of the Earth for 12 hours a day, the surface air warms and starts to rise.  As it does, it creates a vacuum that’s filled with cold air from higher altitudes sinking.  This creates a convection current.  That one we just flew through is only one of thousands all across the sun-facing side of the Earth.  Those currents, among other things, create wind, which we use to fly balsa wood airplanes and kites.

OK, now we’re landed in Chile, despite the dire warnings about volcanic ash.  I want you to run back to the toilet and flush.  That’s all, just flush.  Notice how that pretty blue liquid swirls around in a clockwise direction?  Great!  Now we’ll head back north.  Good, now here in Europe, where the entire EU is collapsing before our eyes, I want you to run back and flush again.  Notice how the blue stuff swirls in a counter-clockwise direction?  Excellent!

That’s called the Coriolis Effect.  It’s what causes ocean currents and north-south trains to wear one side of the tracks more than the other.  It drives cyclones and anti-cyclones alike.
So, now we come back to the house and check on the tea.  It’s not finished yet, but notice how the dark tea is sliding down one side of the jar, while the clear water is climbing up the other side.  And since we’re on the equator here at LFS world headquarters, go ahead and flush the toilet one more time.  Did you see that?  The water went straight down without swirling at all.

See?  This physics stuff is really fun, isn’t it?
Why all this running around and making tea?  Because, what happens is the sun warms both the air and the oceans, causing convection currents.  Then, the Coriolis effect creates streams like the Gulf Stream current in the North Atlantic and the jet stream in the upper atmosphere.  Those streams carry the sun’s energy, in the form of heat, and distribute it around the globe in a fairly even way, so that we all experience a pretty narrow range of temperatures across the face of the Earth.

The Gulf Stream swirls around the Gulf of Mexico, picking up the nice warm water, and then carries across the Atlantic, where it releases the heat when the current slams into the west coast of Europe.  Though it’s not a lot, it’s enough to keep the permafrost out of the Queen’s Wheaties.

Back to our rubber band airplane.  Go ahead, wind it up.  Watch the rubber band as you go.  It twists up more and more, getting tighter and tighter, then…POP!  It gets one of those big knots in it, then another and another.

The ends of the rubber band are the north and south poles of the sun.  As the sun spins, its magnetic field gets wound up tighter and tighter, until…POP!  A sunspot appears, then another and another.  This goes on for about 11 years until the magnetic field turns completely inside out, and the poles reverse, clearing all the stress in the system, until the next cycle begins.  Just like letting go of the propeller on our plane and letting the stored energy out of the rubber band.  After roughly 22 years, the poles have reversed twice, so that north is back at north again.

For the past 20 or 30 years, the sun has been wildly active, spewing out tons of plasma and radiation, called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs.  They carry huge amounts of energy at blinding speed out to the far reaches of the solar system.  As a consequence of this very active period, there has been global warming on virtually every planet in the solar system. 

The oxygen levels have jumped in Venus’ atmosphere.  Mars’ polar caps have been receding at an alarming rate.  Huge new storms have appeared on Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus.  Even Pluto’s rather thin atmosphere, which at this point in its orbit usually freezes and falls to the ground, is still hanging in there.

On Earth, we’ve noted some warmer general temperatures, some polar melting and more powerful and frequent storms.  Algore and the Alarmists have tried their damnedest to convince us that it’s our fault, so they could tax us for carbon, which they don’t seem to notice is what life itself is made on, at least on Earth.  Or maybe they did notice, and the whole point was to put a tax on the biosphere itself.  Also, 0.039% of our atmosphere is carbon dioxide, so a fraction of a percent here of there really doesn’t make a whole lot of difference.  Mars’ atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide, and it’s damn cold.  So Algore can jump off a cliff.

Anyway, I digress…

The other day, NASA came out with an announcement that there are signs the sun’s magnetic poles may not turn inside out this time around.  In fact, the whole cycle may slip into neutral for a while, if all the data points are right.  In fact, there are three discreet signs that all point towards a less active period for the sun, and that’s not good.  “Scientists” are saying it could even be the beginning of another Maunder Minimum.
Between the years 1650 and 1700, the sun spot cycle (knots in the rubber band) came to a screaming halt.  What does this concern us?  Well, it seems that the Maunder, Sporer and Wolf minima have corresponded perfectly with a drop in the global average temperature.  Also, the recently passed active period, as well as past maxima have lined up perfectly with generally warmer phases in global temperatures.

At the time of the Maunder Minimum, there was a phenomenon known as The Little Ice Age, which came directly on the heels of the Medieval Warm Period.  In other words, an extended period of increased sunspots corresponded with warmer global temperatures, followed by a period of almost no sunspots, when Europe, Russia and North America experienced incredibly cold, long winters.

Many spots=palm trees in England and record harvests, no spots=famine and freezing to death
Algore can take a hike at this point.  We don’t need him any more.  This is a pattern that has repeated throughout the past 400 years that records can be correlated.

If we are heading into a period of reduced solar activity, then the amount of heating on Earth will lead to cooler air and oceans.  That, in turn, will slow down the convection and ocean currents, which will cause overall colder temperatures, reduced harvests and greater reliance on fuels, such as petroleum, to keep warm…at least until you die of starvation. 

It would also cause the El Niño/La Niña cycle, which is basically warm water sloshing back and forth between Asia and South America, to slow, and even stop.  This would cause devastating droughts in some areas, and equally nasty flooding in others.

If the sun does indeed quiet down, and especially if it reaches the extremes recorded during the Maunder Minimum, then we could be in deep trouble.

One of the biggest fallacies of the whole global warming farce was that we would all bake to death.  First of all, warmer temps would have caused more evaporation from the oceans and poles, which would have increased rainfall and the amount of fresh water available.  It would have also increased harvests and gone a long way to restoring rain forests.  All beneficial to life as we know it.  People don’t catch colds when it warm, right?

On the other hand, if we head into a mini ice age, food production will drop, overall humidity will decrease, more fresh water will get locked up as polar ice, and it will take vastly more energy to keep warm.

What are some of the proposed causes of the Mini Ice Age?
“Several causes have been proposed: cyclical lows in solar radiation, heightened volcanic activity, changes in the ocean circulation, an inherent variability in global climate, or decreases in the human population.” – Wikipedia, The Little Ice Age

Ocean currents, sunspots, volcanoes, and…decreased human population?!  You mean all this crazy talk about reducing the population could actually cause the world to freeze in the dark?  Hahahahaha!  What a bunch of loonies those warmists are.

Let’s try another thought experiment here.  Suppose we have the technology and research to lead us to believe that another mini ice age (or worse) is coming.  How would we react, given unlimited resources to make it happen?

First, we would need to store up supplies, like seed, food and other necessities.  Then, we would set out to lock up as much oil as we could get our hands on, even if it meant starting a half-dozen wars and crashing the economy in the process.  We would have to distract the masses by making them look in the wrong direction so they wouldn’t compete with our preparations, or panic in the streets.
The Little Ice Age by anthropology professor Brian Fagan of the University of California at Santa Barbara, tells of the plight of European peasants during the 1300 to 1850 chill: famines, hypothermia, bread riots, and the rise of despotic leaders brutalizing an increasingly dispirited peasantry. In the late 17th century, writes Fagan, agriculture had dropped off so dramatically that "Alpine villagers lived on bread made from ground nutshells mixed with barley and oat flour." [33] Historian Wolfgang Behringer has linked intensive witch-hunting episodes in Europe to agricultural failures during the Little Ice Age.” – Wikipedia, Little Ice Age

Sound familiar?

On the other hand, the Medieval Warm Period went hand-in-hand with the Great Age of Exploration, the Renaissance and some of the most enlightened social and political thinking our civilization has every produced.

Little Ice Age=starvation/death/despotism, Medieval Warm Period=Renaissance/exploration/expansion

I’m just sayin’…

Wow!  That tea is hot, just from the sun’s rays!  Here, let me add a little sugar and some ice, and…VIOLA!  Some delicious physics!  Don’t worry, Algore and the Warmidiots tell us the sun has nothing to do with our climate, and by extension, our civilization.  So, just relax, drink your sun tea and rest assured that everything is j-u-s-t-f-i-n-e.

See you next time!  And don’t get sun burn!
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As an aside, if you want to study ocean currents, you need to drop markers of some sort into the water.  Color dye is one way, but is hard to see, when the background is completely black.  The best way is to use radioactive or chemical markers that can easily be traced, even by remote satellite.

What's this?!  Last year, BP dumped millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf Stream, and this year, Fukushima is dumping untold millions of gallons of radioactive water into one of the key northern Pacific currents.

Hmmm...now if you can dump these markers into the water and call them accidents, so that you can get around things like the EPA, wouldn't that be helpful?  And we can map these currents long-term to see how they are changing as the sun's output decreases.

Just a thought...