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Humancafe
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 10:31 pm:   

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Much had been written over the past decade, and while these forums are to be archived (as read only Dec. 21, 2008) into 'safekeeping' until reopened, please leave your comments here. You may refer to existing threads with links, or have your say as you wish. All ideas are welcome, respectful of others. Formatting instructions may help better express your comments. We have tapped into the mind of the world, through the World Wide Web, a human cafe, and from it comes something wonderful. And while these forums are closed, their ideas live on. Your postscripts will determine how and when these forums will reopen in the future. Enjoy! There's a lot here, with more to come. It's a long Millennium project, all part of our planet Earth's Emergence.

PostScripts is now open - no password needed to post here - or to the GuestBook.
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Humancafe
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 10:51 pm:   

Welcome Guests to Humancafe!

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Please sign this Guest Book, if you're visiting and want to leave a comment, where are you from?

Or just say 'Hi!'

Also see PostScripts - no password needed to post here.
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Worldcafe map
Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 10:27 am:   

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Click map to see who's where visiting Humancafe forums

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(This may not be working, since I know last few days since setup viewers had visited from Europe and Canada, but they did not show, sorry.)

...Weellll... since this is not working on this forum format, tell us what country you're from! :-)
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Big WWW
Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 09:13 pm:   

How many web sites are there in the WWW? Over 70 million sites as of 2005, and over 20 billion pages. This is big!
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/sizeofweb.html
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Celsia
Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 10:38 am:   

Ivanetto, I did visit the forum and saw the map for visitor location. Did they mark my visit?

It is a nice tool if it works.

Ciao

C.
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Math tutorial
Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 10:41 am:   

Math.com: tutorial and practice, calculators and examples: http://www.math.com/students/practice.html

For those who once learned math and forgot, or never learned math and want to, if reading some of the science stuff written here. :-)
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6ff
Posted on Sunday, August 03, 2008 - 11:45 am:   

postscripts to the aliens...


6ff ps to 'letters to aliens'

1. most of us have two forelegs and two hindlegs with five digits, but some like crabs and insects have six or more, and humans don't usually walk on their forelegs.

2. we love to watch earth's beautiful sunrise and sunsets, nightowls love sunsets, earlybirds love sunrise.

3. we humans like to laugh but quarrel too, other animals quarrel too, so must be laughing at us.

4. our humor can be slapstick or slick and cool, often cynical, but those who laugh at clowns clobbering each other take offense if cool humor is directed at them.

5. simple people think they must explain things to those who know more than they do.

6. nice people love their pets and animals, bad people abuse them, primitive people still eat them.

7. we have beautiful rivers and oceans, but some turned them into sewers while others are cleaning them up.

8. we all have some religion, worshipping our deity with love, and art or dance, but others fear their deity and forbid laughter or punish any who disobey, sometimes with death.

9. our children are loved usually, but at times abused, but we no longer eat them.

10. we still kill each other in wars, but we also save whales and lions from extinction, including our own.

11. we have learned to use reason, as our technological progress proves, but many fear reason and obey blindly, because reason is not taught to them.

12. much of our plant life is a beautiful green of the planet, but not all, and some life is invisible to the eye, though it is as old as our world.

13. flowers give us joy and keep bees and birds busy, as they turn their faces to our sun.

14. we have learned to govern ourselves as free men and women, but not all believe in this and lament their freedoms, so some are still slaves.

15. we have taken small steps to venture into space, and leave our planet with our space ships, but we sent humans only to our moon, so there is much more we would like to do.

16. boys and girls like each other, often but not always get married and have children, and even love each other.

17. we love beautiful things, obey the truth, but are still lost in confusion of which is which.

18. we are still evolving, like all life on earth, yet it is a universal law all life must die.

19. the stars in the night sky have been a wonder to us for a very long time.

20. all our great cities have a main street that is its heart, for new york it is fifth avenue, but all have this by another name.

21. we are proud of our cathedrals and great temples, beautiful buildings and parks, all the works or human hands and minds and hearts.


Who is You? what are you like, or love and fear? why are our governments afraid of you?
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anon
Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2008 - 01:55 pm:   

The trouble with "Dialogue with a Muslim" ( http://www.humancafe.com/discus/messages/6/30.html?1148054581 ) is that while modern human beings glean truths from the study of reality, reasonable concepts and principles, the antiquated Muslim mind seeks its truths through the sayings of an ancient man who said everything in the universe is through his Allah, as he described it. Modern society is based on agreed up laws, while Sharia society is based on laws arrived at by consultation. This on the surface appears to be the same thing, except in laws of agreements between human beings there is room for evolution and adjustments to better serve society and its individuals, while in Islamic laws there is no room for change or challenge of the status quo. In fact, if anyone tries to challenge these laws of Allah they face terrible punishments, even death, such as death by stoning or for apostasy, or homosexuality. The problem with Islam is it cannot change to adapt to modern scientific times.

The only possible solution is to highlight in the Quran passages that are valid for today's work, while obscuring passages that are no longer validated (ie, 9:5, 9:29; 4:34; 8:111 etc). It can be in large print vs. small print, or red letter vs. black, or however they will modify it, but this is what is necessary to make "consultation" in Islam equivalent to modern "laws of agreements." Otherwise, it remains antiquated and dangerous ideology in today's modern world of equality and free men and women. Sharia in its present form is dangerous to our freedoms, because it represses the mind from a scientific understanding of reality and humanity.

anon
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anon
Posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 - 09:49 am:   

Scientific 'truths' by a religious minded person, for example:

http://www.humancafe.com/discus/messages/6/30.html#POST557

Let us agree to the theory of evolution that it supports the survival of the fittest. In the absence of intervention by God Almighty the fittest could be identified say at time t by looking at the properties of the survivors of time t’ where t’>t. In other words, we let the simulation of evolution run freely, look back in time and define the fittest conditions leading to survival.

Now let us look at the why after considering the building of the first boat. From http://www.searchtruth.com/chapter_display.php?chapter=11&translator=2&mac= we quote Verses 36 – 43 both inclusive:
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11:36 It was revealed to Noah: "None of thy people will believe except those who have believed already! So grieve no longer over their (evil) deeds.
11:37 "But construct an Ark under Our eyes and Our inspiration, and address Me no (further) on behalf of those who are in sin: for they are about to be overwhelmed (in the Flood)."
11:38 Forthwith he (starts) constructing the Ark: Every time that the chiefs of his people passed by him, they threw ridicule on him. He said: "If ye ridicule us now, we (in our turn) can look down on you with ridicule likewise!
11:39 "But soon will ye know who it is on whom will descend a penalty that will cover them with shame,- on whom will be unloosed a penalty lasting:" ...etc etc...


So what is presented as 'scientific' reasoning is really story telling about some ancient piece of fiction to define evolutionary theory. How do concepts and principles apply? No disparaging Mohideen's faith, but to call it scientific reasoning is pure nonsense, a clear case of 21st century rubbing the 7th, where Muslim scientific evolution was clearly left behind. That is the trouble with Islam and pious Muslims, that they are left behind... This is their Last Days.

anon
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6ff
Posted on Sunday, August 24, 2008 - 09:27 am:   

Einstein's universe or Humancafe-Alexander's universe?

In the PostScripts, Aprl. 7, 2007, it says:

"Post Script - on deep space gravity having Newton's G 6 orders of magnitude higher than in our solar system - some thoughts on the immense implications."

So is it Einstein's universe where relativistic gravity travels at c, all information travels at c, and gravity is a mystery at universal constant G? Or is it Alexander's universe where gravity potential is instantaneous, all light is entangled cosmically, and Newton's G is a variable, potentially to be manipulated? Will the Real universe please stand up!

6ff
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amnon/truth vs coercion
Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 09:51 pm:   

Coercion vs. Agreements

Coercion works only while it is able to sow fear, to terrorize, to cow people into submission with threats of punishments, and coercions to force you to surrender against your will.

Agreements work because they are supported by reasonable understanding of reality, by reasonable expectations of what can be agreed upon voluntarily, what is honest and true, what is reasonable for a free person to accept of their own free will.

So coercion works because it is empowered by us humans, when we submit to it; while agreements work because of what is true without coercion. Which is more reasonable? Which more true? Which one would you choose of your own free will?

There is the trouble with sharia vs. a free society, that sharia is coercion empowered by men, while freedom is agreed upon by men, empowered with the truth.

Think about it: WE empower coercion! Don't empower it and be free, then you are empowered by the truth.

Is it any wonder jihad is coercive, same as its ultimate goal of sharia? They are pure coercion!

Man vs. truth, but the truth will always win. Is this not the same as Man vs. God? We know which will win!

But here is the real difference: Man made laws to support agreement between men, honest agreements, that we choose of our own free will, these laws are supported by the truth of the universe. But laws defined by one man, or any group of men, allegedly from God that demand that we submit to them in humble surrender or be punished with coercion, these laws are supported only be fear of punishment, which is slavery, and unsupported by freedom of conscience, freedom of thought, etc. Is it any wonder people desire a free society and escape from coercive societies? It is as natural as our belief in God!

Do not submit to coercion, do not surrender your soul to false religion based on coercions, and be a free human being in the truth, because it is the truth that sets you free.

Amnon
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Ivan/amnon free
Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 09:34 am:   


quote:

Think about it: WE empower coercion! Don't empower it and be free, then you are empowered by the truth.



This is the 'end game' of the Last of Days?

Well said Amnon. Do not empower coercion, and you are free.

Ivan
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ps: read all of Fjordman's essay on Science and Religion, supportive of above.
Also in EU from WorldNetDaily: No new mosques.
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anon
Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 07:46 pm:   

911 for big US banks -- who's killing major financial institutions?

Is there a pattern here? 180px-Lehman_Brothers_Times_Square_by_David_Shankbone.jpg Lehman tower in NY

1. Sept. 8, 2008: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac go under. The US 'rescue' was worthless, leaving investors who believed it with zero.

2. Sept. 15: Lehman Brothers collapses. Chapter 11 bankruptcy leaves investors with zero.

3. Sept. 22: ????? Who's next? AIG (American International Group) may be on the rocks, if they fail to come up with $75 billion within 24 hours... Who's next?

Why are these margin calls and defaults coming in rapid succession? Who's behind them, the overnight securities downgrades, the failed response by government regulatory agencies, the make believe 'rescues' that leave investors with Zero?

Follow the trail of those margin calls, failed repo agreements, and see who pulled the string that unravelled the world capital system, and follow the trail some more, to where the oil stinks of petrodollars, and then follow the trail some more... You will be surprised who launched the new 911 seven years after the first. Same story, but now when the planes hit the bank towers, they will burn with a new fury of failed markets and destroyed investors... crashing all the way down to Ground Zero.

Somebody wants to take us down. And they don't have a face.

anon
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anon
Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 08:52 am:   

The markets rally, but THERE WILL BE BLOOD.

anon
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nymous
Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - 09:04 am:   

Star sized failure?

I wonder if every living star system with at least one planet supporting advanced life, where at some point its species of intelligent life will reach the technological evolutionary threshold, there will be an event which will decide whether that star is successful in producing post microbial life, or failed. If failed, some mechanism or human intervention will make it blow up with cataclysmic force destroying all its advanced life.

Why did I think of this strange thought? I don't know... Maybe it was reading science fiction, or all possible science scenarios, or this story: Cosmic explosion is most distant ever seen
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14775-cosmic-explosion-is-most-distant-e ver-seen.html

How classic if stars explode as a record of their pass-fail of its life produced rather than simply running out of fuel. Intelligent life may be the wish of every living star system, but not all make it. The cosmically sad lesson may be if they fail, they commit star sized suicide.

nymous
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anon
Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 09:14 pm:   

It ain't finished 'till it's finished, more oversight needed and progress reports, needs work.

Wall St rescue plan 'needs work' - BBC News

quote:

The plan, as it was first proposed last week, would broadly help relieve finance firms of their "toxic" bad debt in the form of complex financial instruments backed by sub-prime mortgages that many holders can no longer pay off.



Not exactly right, this is not "Wall Street rescue" but mortgage banking and 'credit-default swaps' financial rescue, to re-institute controls abandoned a decade ago on this potentially volatile market. Derivatives worked to increase 'liquidity' in the capital markets while there was stability, but they proved far less than robust when the sh*t hit the fan, when house prices dropped.

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How Main street will benefit - Bill Gross op-ed


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The extreme measures are extended government guarantees and the formation of an RTC-like holding company housed within the Treasury. Critics call this a bailout of Wall Street; in fact, it is anything but. I estimate the average price of distressed mortgages that pass from "troubled financial institutions" to the Treasury at auction will be 65 cents on the dollar, representing a loss of one-third of the original purchase price to the seller, and a prospective yield of 10 to 15 percent to the Treasury. Financed at 3 to 4 percent via the sale of Treasury bonds, the Treasury will therefore be in a position to earn a positive carry or yield spread of at least 7 to 8 percent. Calls for appropriate oversight of this auction process are more than justified.



Warehouse it until markets come back to normalcy, then gradually sell it off is what is being proposed. Buy it at 65 cents on the dollar, with a double digit yield, and sell it for near par while collecting interest. It's a plan not too different from what credit card companies do to 'insure' themselves against default, by charging a higher premium. It might work. The 'politics' can take a rest and step aside. There is work to be done, historically significant work, that will affect the whole world's financial well being and make it more robust than it had ever been.

US Financial Bailout (2008)

anon
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humancafe eds.
Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 - 07:49 pm:   

But hasn't this mortgage mess been brewing a long time!?

See Humancafe forums posts at: Avoiding foreclosure - banking crisis by Mohideen Ibramsha

It goes back to March 2007, or earlier, it's still with us today. Maybe this weekend a Resolution by congress? It can be done. Leadership is what is needed now. A market broken cannot heal itself, if it is under attack from those who would bring it down. Wiser heads must prevail to avoid the United States of 'Democratic Socialism'. Functioning markets reflecting the values of human agreements is a better way. Fix it.

Fixing it will require an awareness that markets cannot be abused. In a Mechanism of Exchange it says:

quote:

An efficient market system does not have to be an arena of many participants in perfect competition. That is a myth. On the contrary, it takes only two to agree on a price; a market is in fact most competitive where there are the least number of participants. Then, the trading environment is not crowded by competitors because there is no benefit from their being there; the prevailing price of exchange is optimum and cannot be improved upon; there is no advantage to be gained from it. A discrepancy in price creates its own competition; it does not have to be artificially maintained as a guard against market inefficiency; it needs only the freedom to be allowed to work as a system of mutual agreements.
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So, for markets to be efficient, they do not have to be composed of many participants, but they do have to be free from coercion. A market in which exchange is restricted, because entry is prohibited or because the costs of exchange are too great, is a market in which will not be reflected the greatest price efficiency. When free from this coercion, whether or not the price then reflected is optimum will be determined by whether or not the conditions of exchange are then optimum. If there is undue risk, such as from theft or currency instability or from confiscatory measures, then the price will also reflect the concern for this risk; the price mark up will be higher as insurance compensating for this risk. Then, if the price so arrived at appears to be less than optimum, it is only a reflection of conditions as they then are; the market cannot be improved upon if the conditions of exchange are negative. Exchange by agreement, when free from coercion, only reflects the state of things as they are between individuals. It is the property of free markets that, when allowed to work efficiently, they always reflect things as they are; if these conditions are constructive and unrestrictive, then they reflect efficiently our human effort and productivity; if they are negative and coercive, plagued by undue risk and by disregard for the rights of the individual, then they reflect human inefficiency as forced from coerced labor. If we are not pleased with our results, the blame does not rest with the exchange mechanism; a free market reflects only human agreements.



Fix the market mechanism itself, and then the markets can fix themselves, but not before.

Editors, Humancafe
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amnon
Posted on Thursday, October 02, 2008 - 08:50 pm:   

Opinion vs truth as Morality.

Moralizing, or morality, even if held as true by many, is subjective in nature, so it is merely their opinion on what they personally or collectively think is what 'right vs wrong'. It is merely their opinions.

Avoid this trap of morality, but stick to the facts, the truth of the matter. The facts, the truth, is a natural morality, because it is what is true. Objective facts trump subjective morality every time. Truth wins out is the best 'morality'.

amnon
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Ivan/objective morality
Posted on Thursday, October 02, 2008 - 10:23 pm:   

Objective morality?

If I understand you, Amnon, you are saying that people are free to agree or disagree, and as long as they deal with each other truthfully with facts, they are free to form their own morality as it applies to themselves? This could work only as it applies to consenting adults, and no one may judge them on moral grounds if, and only if, it affects no one else's rights. (For example, what they do in the bedroom, of their own free will.) But any actions based on truth or facts that affects others (I'm thinking racism or other bigotry) then such acts become amoral of necessity, even if they are based on facts as perceived. In the end, it is all a matter of opinion, when it affects others, and the agreements or disagreements between people are always a matter of opinion. That said, I must agree with your "Objective facts trump subjective morality every time," in that it is nobody else's business to impose their own (subjective) version of morality on others, when they are consenting adults. That is in effect a definition of our freedoms, that we are moral beings in our own right as long as we are truthful with ourselves and others. Thanks for this input, and please correct me if I misunderstand.

Ivan
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amnon
Posted on Friday, October 03, 2008 - 12:54 am:   

Morality is seductive. It gives you the illusion of differentiating right from wrong, but it is really just a group opinion with the force of law, whether right or wrong. At the end of the day, it is the power of the group that decides right from wrong, not inherently the true justice of the matter.

In a court of law it is the force of reason and factual evidence that sways judgment, ideally, though in modern courts this may not always be the case... plea bargaining, slick lawyers, money. But in morality it is the force of group psychology, what they had subjectively accepted as morally 'right'. It may not be just, nor intelligent, but once morality takes on legal status, it can overpower all sense of reason. An example is the Salem witch trials.... or Sharia in the neo-Eastern world.

You get the picture. When that happens, the public becomes seduced, and rational reason and freedom are lost. Therefore, it is morally wrong to accept the seductive powers of "morality", if you get my drift. Stick to the facts, and let people find their own way. That is the best morality, in my humble opinion, the only workable 'morality' for a freedom and justice and truth based society. By this we had excelled over all other societies. I hope we are not seduced to lose it.

In a secularized world, when there is justice, morality is redundant. Stick to the facts.

amnon
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Eds.
Posted on Sunday, October 05, 2008 - 04:54 pm:   

NOTE TO SPAMMERS RE:


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To all who visit this site, please do not click on anything these spammers leave here, since they may be infected. Advise caution, they are NOT WELCOME here. All their posts are deleted.

Editors, Humancafe
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Ivan/human being
Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 09:14 pm:   

Be your full human Being.

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Vega goddess

You are a human being, not an economic unit or political unit, but a conscious feeling thinking human being.

In community you are respectful of other beings, reciprocally, to help each other reach those dreams in life, our loves and hopes. Do your best, you can do no more, and be mindful of that cosmic dream that is Who you are.

As a full human Being you are connected to a whole universe of Life. In those inner dreams who define You, be true.

Ivan
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anon
Posted on Friday, October 10, 2008 - 09:35 pm:   

There'll be hell to pay.

The markets failed to rally after Treasury and there was blood, with hell's attack on our financials.
They promised a second 911 in seven years, they delivered it. Oil now must crash, hard.

They failed, and "we will drink their milkshake," for there will be blood... theirs.

anon
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Carol T.
Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 07:56 pm:   

Happy Halloween! Bubble bubble witches trouble...

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Witching you the very best Halloween! :-) "I will drink your milkshake."
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Ivan/how big universe?
Posted From: 69.228.46.27
Posted on Sunday, November 02, 2008 - 07:33 pm:   

How big is the universe, really?

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Video - A Mandelbrot the size of the known universe
3 min 30 sec - www.youtube.com
Also see video: Cosmic Super Zoom for scale of the universe from quarks to billions of galaxies.

I had this thought while out walk-jogging this afternoon after a morning rain in the lovely cloud filled sunlight. How big is it? Think of it, if there is no space expansion because the Hubble redshift is an artifact of deep space high gravity (for all the dust and gasses there, with Newton's G some 5 orders of magnitude greater than here), then the visible universe is actually smaller than we think. Those very distant stars and galaxies light years away from us may actually be closer than we think. Now, if it were only possible to find a way to accelerate without limits of chemical rocket propulsions, say at the same rate as gravity accelerates in deep space (5 or more orders of magnitude greater than Earth's G), would it not be possible to visit the stars? Once we get to that point in physics were this is possible, beyond the Einstein limit of v=c, we may discover that not only our Milky Way is achievable, but perhaps even other nearby galaxies, in time. Humans have a destiny in the stars, I believe this. Someday in some distant future we will look out the porthole to see this: Our galaxy in 3D.

Well, that was a thought, not necessarily scientific but more philosophical in scope. Why not a universe much smaller than we think? Can we actually get there? I think we will. And when we do, once we get past lightspeed c, looking out the window it will look like those Mandelbrot fractals, looking into infinity. The miraculous images in the above video (click image above) may be what we will see at above light speed. What a light show it will be!

Ivan
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Ivan/be grateful
Posted From: 71.128.164.19
Posted on Saturday, November 08, 2008 - 12:11 am:   

Scroll down and watch the video and you will never complain about your life again!

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http://www.youtube..com/watch?v=2I0DRk8dFjI

(sent to me via email by my friend Alan)
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Celsia
Posted From: 71.128.75.201
Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 11:03 pm:   

Sleeping puppies, live feed.

http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/4/viewer.45.swf?cid=317016

(sent via email by Celsia)
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Annon - A New ERA
Posted From: 71.235.242.174
Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 11:33 am:   

A New ERA has dawned with the fall of the Republican Party. Linked via the internet thousands of people coordinated the downfall of the Republican Party that lead this nation to the brink of a military and economic disaster the scale of which boggles the mind.

Obama used the internet to reach millions of small donors whose small contributions raised collectively hundreds of millions of dollars.

Osama Bin Ladden used the internet to create and command and control a Global Terrorist Network fueled by millions in untraceable funds transfered using an low tech Arab money transfer system.

In the United States, a master criminal genius used the Internet and various ploys to nearly banckrupt several insurance companies a few years ago.

In the recent campaign internet information releases were used by a grass roots democratic oriented organization to very effectively damage the Republican front runners.

What all of the above shows us that it is possible to change the world and impact organizations through the use the internet and timed and coordinated releases of information, rummors and false facts.

Now take that capability and gave it to a genius, trained in psychological warfare, covert operations, cryptography, computer science, agent network handling, religion and poltical science, with complete knowlege of every classified program in the world. Is it not possible that such a genius coordinated the fall of the Republicans?

If we are open to that and look at the analytic results of some work in geometry posted here, we find that work exceeds the capability of current software programs to effectively calculate its degree of precision. Manual analysis of that work, invovling a few thousand seperate equations, would tend to support this premise.

Now if we look at the history of that genius and his war record, including his training to run agent networks spanning most of Europe during the Cold War, with no Blackburies or technological support and couple that to his ability maintain a 3.8 GPA, while working 60 plus hours a week, where he was responsible for directly coordinating the operations of 38 people while he simultaneously fused data from over 12 different databases and handled several different communications devices on less than 4 hours of sleep a night for 48 consequative months
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Gulf War Illness Proven
Posted From: 71.235.242.174
Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 - 04:18 pm:   

A Congressionally mandated committee has found that Gulf War Illness is real. In the fight for the truth, one man stood at the front of this illness and despite all rose against it. With the aid of modern medicine and advanced treatments he was able to overcome the effects of a 1200 times normal dossage of Neurotoxin.

For those that scoffed and laughed The Congress of the United States now free from Republican Control has spoken the truth.

Let those who suffered and died in the interim rest easy knowing the truth has finally come out.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081117/ts_nm/us_usa_health_gulfwar
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Ivan/Thanksgiving
Posted From: 69.236.23.87
Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 12:43 pm:   

HAPPY THANKSGIVING - to all around the world.

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Painting of "The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth" By Jennie A. Brownscombe

We have much to be thankful for, when the Founding Fathers - a short time after the first arrivals to these American shores - saw a vision of freedom for all humanity equally. We who cherish and preserve these freedoms wish the same universally for all humanity. Though we Americans may not be perfect in our conduct, our desire for a better life for the world is as much a part of our higher culture as the right of each individual human being to enjoy his or her life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, as a God given right. Today Thanksgiving is largely a secular holiday; we should not forget that its origin is a thanks to God, that our early Pilgrims arrived safely on these shores. And then we built the greatest nation in freedom on Earth. Enjoy the bounties of good will and prosperity these freedoms have brought. May it spread to the whole world.

A special thanks to all our brave men and women who, today and through history, have fought to preserve our God given freedoms.

Thank you.

Ivan
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George
Posted From: 207.200.116.204
Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 03:06 pm:   

My prayers and thoughts go to Obama on this Thanksgiving day, whom we are blessed to have during these unique times. May his confidence, intellect, optimism and strength lead to a spiritual prosperity for all Americans that we have not seen in a long time.

Peace,
George
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One on one love
Posted on Saturday, December 06, 2008 - 03:22 pm:   

One on one works, given a chance.

See: Polyandry and Polygamy, are they fair?

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Ivan
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Ivan/talk to spirit
Posted on Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 12:58 pm:   

Talking to your spirit.

It should not take a mini-stroke to hear your spirit or talk to him-her, should it? In my case, it was what happened this mid-week, where my clock stopped the old ways to a new kind of rebirth and introspection. I cannot be who I was before, so must accept change.

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Leonardo Da Vinci's double vision

I was lucky, and though I write this with some fine-motor difficulty, my mind was spared greater dysfunction. My fingers on the right hand feel numb, as does the right side of my body from head to toe, all tingling like. But I can walk, my speech almost normal (slurred at times) is intelligible, and my double-vision has mostly corrected itself in the past 24 hours, though I would not dare drive for now. The medical staff at the stroke center in east wing of Hoag Hospital were wonderful, truly professional and caring souls, deserving of the title they earned "Center of Excellence." While under observation and tested with a battery of blood drawing, wired monitors, speech and coordination tests (how do you spell WORLD backwards?) all of which showed my mind was okay, but my motor skills partially impaired. I have some trouble walking, though the fact that I can is a miracle of sorts. Most hospital medical staff thought me very lucky and something miraculous that my lower left lobe mini-thrombosis visible in the MRI did no more damage; they feel I should heal in time, with the greatest progress within 30 days, slower progress after that. Big life change in my habits, like no more cigars, watch sugar levels (got a test kit), and lower cholesterol, all so important. To think two weeks ago I was climbing mountains in the desert; now I must go slow to rebuild. Work will have to wait, my affairs handled capably by my business partners, Adam and staff. And in a way, did my spirit already know all this, where some months ago I was planning to put Humancafe forums on hold? We talk to our spirit all the time, unknowingly, while the spirit talks to us in a much bigger picture than we can understand. Also I am midway in process of proof reading Scriptorium for publication next month and feel it important to do the task at hand. But I was lucky and given a second chance to change my life habits for the better, and hopefully live a long and productive life again.

Thanks to my wonderful wife and dear friends who insisted I go to hospital with given symptoms, of which I was in denial; specially kind thanks to Cinzia and Anthony for insisting on overruling me and take me to ER. And thanks also to the wonderful Hoag staff for all their caring attention, they were truly wonderful souls who made me appreciate mine. We should talk to our spirit more frequently, and listen. God bless.


Ivan
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damned cosmology
Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 11:48 am:   

Damned cosmology?'

Do you realize that if the universe is NOT made of a UNIVERSAL constant gravity, and if Newton's G is not a constant, then the universe cannot be "isotropic and homogenous"? So what happens to all modern day Cosmology?

This is a follow up of the above linked Postcript Saturday, April 07, 2007, which references an earlier comment:

quote:

The implications of this are actually immense. First of all, the fact that Newton's gravity as modified by Einstein's General Relativity should NOT be a universal constant is already damaging to much of current astrophysical theory, both in deep space and for our solar system. Second, the fact that the Pioneer Anomaly approximates the Hubble constant is telling us something more fundamental about how we figured out cosmic light redshift using GR as a model for Doppler space expansion. Einstein's GR may have skewed our thinking that 'space-time' is curved to create a gravitational effect.



Now what? If the universe is all variable Newton's G, doesn't this damn to hell all present day cosmology?

That what this means for the future of cosmology as understood now.
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Ivan/gas giant atmosphere
Posted on Thursday, January 01, 2009 - 11:25 pm:   

How crisp atmospheric shells for gas giants are formed:

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Saturn ... Four Years On, December 30, 2008 -Cassini-Huygens

This is a followup to the above, and earlier posted (June 15, 2007) Connecting all the dots on gravity in a variable G thread.

What if the outer boundaries of large gas giants' atmosphere shells are merely a product of how gas volume condenses in a much higher Newton's G in outer solar system (i.e., ~5G for Jupiter, ~9.5G for Saturn), so that the crisp edge of the outer atmosphere is a totally natural phenomenon, in the same way a crisp edge to our Earth's oceans is normal for water? This would indicate perhaps that at higher G atmospheres in a large body (which orbits within a higher G solar region) will naturally 'clump' together molecules of gas as we see on the gas giants.

Interesting, if the variable G is responsible for this unique atmospheric condition. It should also be evident on Uranus and Neptune, but less so on the large moons like Titan or Europa, where their atmospheres should not end with such a crisp edge as their larger parent planets, due to their smaller mass... Or perhaps not, that they too would show greater atmospheric density at the marging...? Something to look for in future solar planetary missions, I think.

More on this NASA/JPL ESA image from Space.com: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/081230-saturn-rings-images.html

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Ivan/egg black holes?
Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2009 - 01:23 pm:   

Which came first, Black Hole or the Galaxy?

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Black holes are thought to exist at the cores of most galaxies


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Generally, the mass of a black hole was observed to be about 1,000th that of the mass of the surrounding galactic bulge.
This constant ratio indicated an "interactive relationship" between the black hole and the bulge, say the researchers. But it was not clear whether one grew before the other, or whether they grew together.
...
"We finally have been able to measure black-hole and bulge masses in several galaxies seen as they were in the first billion years after the Big Bang," said co-author Fabian Walter of the Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, Germany.
"The evidence suggests that the constant ratio seen [in nearby galaxies] may not hold in the early Universe."



This is a measurement error when peering at light 13 billion light years distant, where distortions show up. In fact, it is quite certain the Black Hole centers and the surrounding Galaxies started simultaneously. Per Axiomatic Equation, Black-Holes are Galaxy mass interactive of necessity.

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Universal intelligence
Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2009 - 12:23 pm:   

Universal Computer -the Cosmos

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Torus using cellular automata

The Universe is more than four-dimensional space time, it is a giant super-computing machine so infinitely complex it can calculate living things in action.

This is the real meaning of "infinite interrelationships", it is more than a Cartesian geometric system of space, three space dimensions with time added as a fourth.

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The Comos of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; Universe as Fractal "interstellar doillies"-Life is Art

The Universal Computer is a cosmic Cartesian system of Time on one axis, and ALL of reality on the other axis, so one can freeze any one frame and see All the cosmic reality as One interrelated Whole; or slide along the time axis to see All the inter-playing parts working together as One.

A way to imagine the reality axis is to think of all things as an interrelated matrix, from subatomic particles to great galaxy clusters, as connected in some cellular-automata fashion combined with fractals, and you begin to get an inkling of what this looks like. Except it's better, it can create Life.

That is the true Cosmic Universal Computer: where the matrix of All Reality interacts infinitely and infinitessimally along both the Time axis and the Reality axis, into a fractal-automata Totality able to redefine itself as Life.

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A Universe of Life - God (shaped like brain) giving life to Adam - Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel

Now, That is Intelligence!
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JASZZ - is it real?
Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 02:30 pm:   

Is Planetary Energy based Spin Real?

This is a recap of earlier posts on JASZZ spin: http://www.humancafe.com/discus/messages/70/145.html


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By Ivan A. on Saturday, August 7, 2004 - 01:14 am:
JASZZ SPIN, phase 6: ZPH and Spin Ratios, the Final Element: 

Let us recap what had been done thus far, though we had not reached a conclusion. In advance, I think a conclusive ratio for spin based on planetary black-body heat and orbital Energy is doable. So this is the final phase where we will seek that element that will complete the relationships we are seeking. 

...
SR / (P orbital days / 365) ÷ P spin = ZPH planet

Planetary spin is divided by Earth's 365 in order to bring it in line with Earth's spin of 1 day, so that all planets's spins will be as a multiple, or fraction, of Earth days.

In this manner, all the planets are now aligned both in terms of Venus, which has an essentially "zero" spin (though this will be adjust for the 245 days of spin versus 244 days of orbit), and then further adjusted for Earth's 365 orbital period, so that all planetary spin is established in Earth days. The complication for this equation started with relating Kelvin temperatures to Watts per meter squared, and now further complicated by taking Venus and Earth's relationship, thus the equation looks the way it does. Now, taking SR values from table below, let us compute Spin Ratio in terms of Venus into actual Earth spin days, which yields ZPH:
MERCURY: 1.043 / (88/365) ÷ 58.8 = 0.0736 ZPH
VENUS: 0.996 / (244/365) ÷ 244 = 0.006 ZPH
EARTH: 2.316 / (365/365) ÷ 1 = 2.316 ZPH
MARS: 3.69 / 1.81 ÷ 1.03 = 1.973 ZPH

What this means is that if ZPH tends towards zero, it is fairly balanced in terms of its interior heat and exterior solar energy. The higher ZPH, the greater is the planet's interior heat to its orbital energy environment, as it is expressed by solar irradiance. So Earth and Mars are relatively 'hot' planets, both with good spin, though of different temperatures since they inhabit different energy regions (Mars's is cooler than Earth's); whereas Mercury is cooler, slower spin, in relation to its solar irradiance; and Venus is almost totally balanced within its solar energy environment, hence almost no spin. Now, let us turn to the gas giants:
JUPITER: 11.67 / (4329/365) ÷ 0.415 = 2.371 ZPH
SATURN: 21.15 / 29.46 ÷ 0.445 = 1.613 ZPH
URANUS: 44.18 / 84 ÷ 0.718 = 0.732 ZPH
NEPTUNE: 70.27 / 165 ÷ 0.673 = 0.633 ZPH

PLUTO: ~75.66 / 248 ÷ 6.3 = ~0.0484 ZPH

Notice how 'hot' the gas giants are, especially Jupiter and Saturn, where they more approximate the internal heat ratio to orbital relative solar irradiance of Earth and Mars, and hence have fairly high spins. Pluto's internal temperature may be higher than estimated, since it has a higher relative spin, so that the resulting SR is off. The gas giants's Kelvin temperatures may be understimated as well, since their relative spins are greater than the SR results above.



Then later this was again reconsidered. But is it real?

quote:

By Ivan A. on Wednesday, March 2, 2005 - 10:57 pm:
SPIN RATIOS CURVE SOLVED: 

Though calculations for planetary Spin Ratios vs. Kelvin heat and Energy are rough, there was a pattern that occurred with fair consistency which seems to put calculated SR and actual SR' (see chart below) within some sort of curve. This lead to 'shelve' it for a long time, until now. I think I solved what this curve represents.
...
In the original, August 7, 2004, I had theorized in words:

"Planetary Kelvin heat divided by planetary orbital Energy (to establish raw ratio between the two); divided by the ratio of Venus Kelvin to Venus orbital Energy (to establish Venus as a base with "zero" spin); which was multiplied by the Planetary Kelvin over Venus Kelvin (to establish a common measure of black-body temperatures in relation to zero-spin); which yields the Spin Ratio (SR as per 'phase 5' above)."

In equation form, the above looks like this, where P = planet, E = orbital Energy, for either the planet 'p' or Venus 'v', and K = Kelvin:

(Kp / Ep) ÷ (Kv / Ev) x (Kp / Kv) = SR

Note, this is the same as above: (PK^2/ VK^2) * (VE/ PE) = ZPH SR

This is the same as above, except I also divided the result by the square-root of planet distance AU from the Sun; this was to compensate for the theorized change in orbital region's G, where it grows at rate of 1G per 1 AU, though this may need revision (if the Equivalence Principle applies to a variable G). The equation used is still incomplete, where I then had said:
"Spin Ratio divided by the ratio of planet's full orbital days divided by Earth's orbital days (365); this value is divided by the planetary spin (expressed in Earth days); which yields a ZPH factor.

However, this came under criticism for having the "planetary spin" inside the equation seeking a planetary spin ratio, so is not valid. In retrospect, I agree with this criticism, so aim to find a way to express planetary spin ratio without using relative spin to Earth's 1 day; though I should adjust the above ZPZ SR for orbital periods, which means to adjust each value for planet's orbital period vs. Earth's 365 days, spin ratio adjusted (times orbital Newton's G to align for inertial mass Equivalence, per Axiomatic):

Mercury: 1.667 SR ÷ 0.24 orbital period = 6.95 SRa times the "squared value of G" at orbital region (x 0.152 = 1.056)
Venus: 1.178 ÷ 0.615 = 1.92 (x 0.518 = 0.995)
Earth: 2.32 ÷ 1 = 2.32 (x 1 = 2.32)
Mars*: 3.178 ÷ 1.881 = 1.69 (x 2.25 = 3.80)
Jupiter: 5.71 ÷ 11.86 = 0.48 (x 27 = 12.98)
Saturn: 6.865 ÷ 29.66 = 0.23 (x 90.25 = 20.76)
Uranus: 10.37 ÷ 84.23 = 0.12 (x 368.6 = 44.24)
Neptune: 12.65 ÷ 164.79 = 0.077 (x 900 = 69.3)

What is intriguing is that the resulting SRa values are virtually the same as worked out on August 1, 2004 (Jaszz Spin phase 5), where these numbers climbed in the same proportion as shown here. The higher the ratio, the greater the spin expected, though this is not what happens, so these numbers are inconclusive. However, once those values were adjusted for relative spin by dividing those SRa values by ratios of planetary spin vs. Earth's one day spin, they immediately fell into place. I then wrote (Jaszz Spin phase 6):
In this manner, all the planets are now aligned both in terms of Venus, which has an essentially "zero" spin (though this will be adjust for the 245 days of spin versus 244 days of orbit), and then further adjusted for Earth's 365 orbital period, so that all planetary spin is established in Earth days. The complication for this equation started with relating Kelvin temperatures to Watts per meter squared, and now further complicated by taking Venus and Earth's relationship, thus the equation looks the way it does. Now, taking SR values from table below, let us compute Spin Ratio in terms of Venus into actual Earth spin days, which yields ZPH:

MERCURY: 1.043 / (88/365) ÷ 58.8 = 0.0736 ZPH
VENUS: 0.996 / (244/365) ÷ (-)244 = -0.006 ZPH (edited for minus sign)
EARTH: 2.316 / (365/365) ÷ 1 = 2.316 ZPH
MARS*: 3.69 / 1.88 ÷ 1.03 = 1.963 ZPH (edited arithmetic error)

What this means is that if ZPH tends towards zero, it is fairly balanced in terms of its interior heat and exterior solar energy. The higher ZPH, the greater is the planet's interior heat to its orbital energy environment, as it is expressed by solar irradiance. So Earth and Mars are relatively 'hot' planets, both with good spin, though of different temperatures since they inhabit different energy regions (Mars's is cooler than Earth's); whereas Mercury is cooler, slower spin, in relation to its solar irradiance; and Venus is almost totally balanced within its solar energy environment, hence almost no spin. Now, let us turn to the gas giants:

JUPITER: 11.67 / (4329/365) ÷ 0.415 = 2.371 ZPH
SATURN: 21.15 / 29.46 ÷ 0.445 = 1.613 ZPH
URANUS: 44.18 / 84 ÷ 0.718 = 0.732 ZPH
NEPTUNE: 70.27 / 165 ÷ 0.673 = 0.633 ZPH


quote:

So we are back to where we started four years ago, but what does it mean? Back then, when I divided Earth's SRa by these ZPH values, the numbers fell into place for relative spin ratios (See Sept. 25, 2004), but not until March 2, 2005 was this issue "resolved":

So I've been thinking... Here is what happens when the ratio of actual SR' divided by calculated SR is compared. Notice how this then compares with the square root of AU, far right:
AU Kelvin heat Planet spin Earth days calculated SR actual SR' ratio SR'/SR sqrt AU


0.39 442K Mercury 58.8 0.0736 0.0394 0.535 0.624
0.72 231.7K Venus -245-0.0060.0059 0.983 0.85
1.0 254.3K Earth -1-2.316 2.316 1.00 1.00
1.52 210.1K Mars* 1.03 1.963 2.40 1.223 1.225
5.2110K Jupiter 0.4152.371 5.541 2.38 2.28
9.581.1K Saturn 0.445 1.68 5.204 3.10 3.08
19.2 58.1K Uranus 0.7180.732 3.226 4.40 4.38
3046.6K Neptune 0.673 0.633 3.441 5.44 5.48

And so we come full circle, where the square-root of AU (which is same as square-root of G at AU), drives the numbers to show planetary spin. (I cannot vouch for anything of real value here, because I may be double-counting?) What I wanted to show by this re-examination is that using a different approach, the same ratios for planetary spin come out only, and only when, the variable G is invoked, but I cannot claim I understand this.

To sum up, here is what happened: I took the original equation for ZPH SR and multiplied it by square-root of AU (G) and got a rising ratio SR, that when I multiplied by square G so got ratio SRa, which approximates the original steeply rising values; in effect, the square-root G and squared G both interact; but when ratios of planetary orbit and spin (adjusted for Earth's) were applied, the resulting ZPH ratios became a function of square-root AU (G) to give us an approximation of actual planetary spin ratios (vs. Earth's) in the final analysis.

So is there a significant relationship between planetary spin and orbital energy vs. Kelvin black-body heat? Only when a variable G is taken into effect. Otherwise, the answer would be "no", not without G per Equivalence.

These results of comparing ratio of actual to calculated planetary Spin match up fairly well, within 10-15% error (except Pluto), of the square root of AU distances from the Sun. The two curves match up pretty well. What can it mean?

A few days ago, Feb. 27, 2005, I posted Earth's kg. vs. planetary kg., and came up with a similar problem where the square root relationship of (G'/G)] was needed to bring the Earth's kilograms in line with local planetary kilograms, in order to adjust proton mass for local G conditions. This worked out fairly well, and it so happens that the square root of G differentials also approximates closely the square root of AU distances (where delta G is ~7E-11 per AU).

So this is but another function of adjustment planetary Spin must undergo, if G is variable, to fit the curve of how it calculates in Kelvin heat vs. Energy for each orbit. Though this was a complicated process, it could no doubt be simplified further into an equation, which then yields the Spin Ratios for the planets in terms of their interior black-body Kelvin heat and their orbit's total solar Energy. For Earth, it is always a ratio of 1, with E = 9E+16 Joules. Of course, it is a different E for each planet, with different Spin Ratios, which dove tails nicely into the variable Newton's G 'proportional' hypothesis.

Now, to figure a more simplified equation to explain Spin Ratios. Also, I suspect that the Axiomatic Equation can be used to explain planetary acceleration in orbit at the perihelion, and deceleration at the aphelion, but haven't done the work yet. Would need to calculate these using Newton's orbital: GM = Rv^2. The same principle applies for distant inertial mass as a function of either (G'/G)F = ma, where kg. must be adjusted for different G. Or perhaps the square root will be what actually is needed, still don't know...


But is any of this real, or is it false reasoning? The appeal of an energy-engine driving planetary spin is appealing, if it were true!

See more on this here: Zero-point Planetary Spin reexamined and
Planet spin ratios anomaly, revisited
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Ivan/Jaszz's good
Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 03:59 pm:   


quote:

But is any of this real, or is it false reasoning? The appeal of an energy-engine driving planetary spin is appealing, if it were true!



Admittedly, my whole reasoning process is totally convoluted, and in my present state of ill health (where my brain feels like filled with cotton) I am in no position to refute it. Nor am I able to simplify. But stop and think about it simply: Take SPH calculated SR (per above) and multiply it by the square root of AU (per G equivalence- variable G -where G grows at rate of 1G per 1 AU per Axiomatic), and you come up pretty close to the real planetary spin ratio figured in Earth days.

For example: Saturn's calculated SR = 1.68; square root AU=3.08; multiplied=5.174 (vs. actual SR=5.204). This is based on how "actual SR" was calculated: (Earth's ZPH SR 2.316) ÷ (planet's spin in Earth days) = actual SR'. See March 2, 2005 (scroll down): "Spin Ratio Curve Solved" post.

Somethin's a happennin' no? :-)

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G non-uniform
Posted on Friday, January 23, 2009 - 01:41 pm:   

Dark flow: Proof of another universe?


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Kashlinsky and his team collected a catalogue of close to 800 clusters, using telescopes that captured the X-rays emitted by the ionised gas within them. They then looked at the CMB at those locations, using images snapped by NASA's WMAP satellite. What they found shocked them. Galaxy clusters are expected to wander randomly through their particular region of space, because matter is distributed in uneven clumps, creating local gravitational fields that tug on them. Over large scales, however, matter is assumed to be spread evenly, so on these scales the clusters should coast along with space as it expands. What's more, everything in the standard model of cosmology suggests that the universe should look pretty much the same in all directions.



But what if the universe is not the same in all directions? What if the large scale distortions are problems of measuring light over intergalactic distances? What if light on the cosmic horizon is redshifted beyond meaningful observations? What if these theories are all cosmologists' fairy tales created by an abysmally poor understanding of universal gravity 'clumping' together at much higher G in deep cold space? What if the universe is not 'isotropic and homnogenous' as assumed? Why should it be?


quote:

Predictions of the motion of galaxy clusters based on the conventional model assume matter is evenly distributed throughout space on very large scales. Pietronero and Sylos Labini claim analysis of the distributions of galaxies and galaxy clusters throughout the sky shows that this is not true, and that at large scales matter is like a fractal. If that is the case, the gravitational field throughout the universe would also be irregular and could lead to the effects Kashlinsky observed.



It only makes sense that gravity G is non-uniform.
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Agnostic gods
Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 12:33 pm:   

The Cosmology Pantheon - an agnostic view.

Modern cosmology is built around the presumed origin of the universe at the time of the superinflation Big Bang some 13.7 billion years ago, now expanded into a universe some 45 billion light years across, all of which is predicated upon the assumption that distant cosmic light is redshifted due to a Doppler-like expansion of space. This scenario of cosmology is so well accepted today by the astrophysical community, that now it is also a common belief system of the general lay population, such as the above Edge of the Universe article illustrates. We have come to believe through scientific reasoning, through myriad scientific tests, and through a large consortium of the best scientific minds that this model of the Big Bang universe is correct, and if anyone argues contrarily the effort will be thwarted at multiple levels from ridicule to publishing shunning to cut of research funding to loss of career possibilities to being shunted into a fringe pseudo-science corner. In effect, go against the common scientific and popular dogma of the cosmological belief system of today, and you are out, branded a heretic, and sent into scientific exile.

We laugh at out ancient Greco-Roman ancestors for believing in a pantheon of gods who ruled by their whims of passion and caprice the whole of existence, especially of human affairs in the world. These same ancestors who invented reason and polemics, who built great monuments and conquered their known world, nevertheless believed their simplistic interpretation of a universe as a pantheon of gods, so obviously not science. The common people were led to believe that the emperor himself was a god, or at least a 'son of god', and they should worship at the temple dedicated to him for favors, as was done for the other gods. We today no longer see religion in this kind of worship, though the religious idea of dogma is still very present in these modern times. But our pantheon of gods has changed, into something more like this:

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  • Zeus is Big-Bang
  • Hera is Space-Expansion
  • Apollo is Light-c
  • Athena is Inflation
  • Aphrodite is Universal-Gravity G
  • Hermes is Light-Redshift
  • Poseidon is Energy-Conservation
  • Einstein-relativity is Heracles
  • Feynman is Dionysus, etc.

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To the common people, as well as to the priests of cosmology and modern physics, this pantheon of gods is tantamount to dogma. But dogma has an unfortunate side effect, in that it overrides reason. One can mix up any of the above gods with mega-religion gods, such as presented by Moses, Abraham, Jesus, Shiva, Mohammed, Baha-u-Allah, etc., and they come up as a similar pantheon of 'gods' for which the common people will morally act upon their belief-systems. At its most sinister, some people today will kill others in the name of their personal dogmas, or their god, to prove theirs is the superior religion to all others. In the scientific pantheon there is no comparable murder, but there are subtle forces to re-enforce the common belief system to insure the dogma is inviolate. The only defense again dogma and its aggression against reason is the truth. Truth is what the Science pantheon-of-gods may have forgotten in the fantastic fairy-tales of modern cosmology. As a cosmology agnostic I am amused. We do not truly understand astrophysics today, but in our conceits only think we do.

There is no Hades, same as there is no Hell, nor Paradise of Heaven, these are all human inventions to control the masses into submission of belief in the priestly religions of the ancients. Only the pantheon of gods had changed. Today's pantheon is Scientifically 'proven' Cosmology of an expanding space and Big Bang inflation origin. How absurd, as silly as Hell and Heaven, but it has a mass appeal to the simplistic minds of true believers. It is a way to control the masses in what they believe and do. But is it real? Is dogma based 'reality' true? No, it is all a fine fiction.

The ancient gods must be laughing.
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Mr. President...
Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 01:02 pm:   

Mr. President... Mr. President!

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Obama: "My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy" - Huffington Post

quote:

I do think that it is impossible for us to think only in terms of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not think in terms of what's happening with Syria or Iran or Lebanon or Afghanistan and Pakistan. These things are interrelated. And what I've said, and I think Hillary Clinton has expressed this in her confirmation, is that if we are looking at the region as a whole and communicating a message to the Arab world and the Muslim world, that we are ready to initiate a new partnership based on mutual respect and mutual interest, then I think that we can make significant progress.



Good luck Mr. President... "mutual respect" may be much harder than you think.
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Gettysburg address
Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 01:31 pm:   

THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."


US President Abraham Lincoln, delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War
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Mr. President 2
Posted on Thursday, February 05, 2009 - 11:19 am:   

Mr. President! .. 2

From the Boston Globe "Obama's charm offensive and the global jihad"


quote:

Even more troubling is Obama's seeming cluelessness about US-Muslim history.

"The same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago - there's no reason why we can't restore that," he said on Al-Arabiya.

Well, let's see. Twenty years ago, American hostages were being tortured by their Hezbollah captors in Beirut and hundreds of grief-stricken families were in mourning for their loved ones, murdered by Libyan terrorists as they flew home for Christmas on Pan Am Flight 103. Thirty years ago, the Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in Iran, proclaimed America "the Great Satan," and inspired his acolytes to storm the US embassy and hold scores of Americans hostage. That same year Islamist mobs destroyed the US embassies in Pakistan and Libya, and staged anti-American riots in other countries.


Read it all.

Mr. President! Please wake up from your Carterisian slumber. We are at war.
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Peace only if...
Posted on Thursday, February 05, 2009 - 12:56 pm:   

From the above article:

"Ever since taking office two weeks ago, Obama has been at pains to proclaim a change in US-Muslim relations. In his inaugural address he invited "the Muslim world" to embark on "a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect."

Taking measured step towards peace by offering an olive branch to the enemy can be a viable strategy if, and only if, it is offered with the a priori understanding that the enemy's rejection of peace, answered with renewed belligerence instead, will only validate future forceful actions against such an enemy in response to their ill will. President Obama is right to offer an open hand to Iran, but in this case the response from Iran with its clenched fist of escalating demands and belligerence will force him to respond with force, decisive force, against the Iranian mullah regime.

Sometimes "mutual respect" is earned the hard way.
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Loukianos
Posted on Sunday, February 08, 2009 - 11:02 am:   

:-O SPAM TAGGER
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Say what?
Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 12:23 pm:   

That's what is said, unfortunately (for all good Muslims of the world) in their book.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024800.php
Is Geert Wilders inconsistent in calling for banning the Qur'an and defending free speech?
http://www.groepwilders.com/website/details.aspx?ID=44

"Madam Speaker, I acknowledge that there are people who call themselves Muslims and who respect our laws. My party, the Freedom Party, has nothing against such people, of course. However, the Koran does have something against them. For it is stated in the Koran in Sura 2, verse 85, that those believers who do not believe in everything the Koran states will be humiliated and receive the severest punishment; which means that they will roast in Hell. In other words, people who call themselves Muslims but who do not believe, for example, in Sura 9, verse 30 [actually 9:29], which states that Jews and Christians must be fought, or, for example, in Sura 5, verse 38, which states that the hand of a thief must be cut off, such people will be humiliated and roast in Hell. Note that it is not me who is making this up. All this can be found in the Koran. The Koran also states that Muslims who believe in only part of the Koran are in fact apostates, and we know what has to happen to apostates. They have to be killed.

Madam Speaker, the Koran is a book that incites to violence. I remind the House that the distribution of such texts is unlawful according to Article 132 of our Penal Code. In addition, the Koran incites to hatred and calls for murder and mayhem. The distribution of such texts is made punishable by Article 137(e). The Koran is therefore a highly dangerous book; a book which is completely against our legal order and our democratic institutions. In this light, it is an absolute necessity that the Koran be banned for the defence and reinforcement of our civilisation and our constitutional state. I shall propose a second-reading motion to that effect."

Does freedom of speech allow for banning of books? Only if they incite others to coerce, to do violence, murder, crimes against humanity, segregation based on race or gender, inequality, treason, harsh and unusual punishments, to steal and deceive, or otherwise degrades human beings into slavery or hatreds, or death; then "freedom of speech" must be preserved by restricting the damage such a book incites others to do. Perhaps "banned" is too harsh, but to severely restrict its public circulation as a "hate book" should be admissible.

Read it all.
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Disappearing space
Posted on Friday, February 13, 2009 - 12:21 pm:   

'Disappearing' space over the maximum 'cosmic event horizon'?

In theory, the limits of the visible universe are expanding away from us at an increasingly rapid rate with distance. In the above article, "Dark Flow", it gives the proposition the universe has expanded out to about 45 billion light years at its furthest theoretical dimensions before merging into another (theoretical) universe, or 'verses. This maximum distance is also what we can see with our instrumentation today, light from some 13.7 billion light years ago, which marks the origin of the Big Bang inflation period.

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According to the Big Bang model, the universe expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand today; The Hubble Ultra Deep Field showcases galaxies from an ancient era when the universe was younger, denser, and warmer according to the Big Bang theory.

Now I propose this maximum visibility with modern telescopes at any given energy wavelength, from gamma-ray to infrared, even long radio waves, will reach a limit that, given any chosen wavelength of observation, will over time show the 'edges' of the universe disappearing for the observer. I would call this the maximum "cosmic event horizon" of space. This is where galaxies now imaged would gradually fade over time into invisibility because they are expanding away from us at a very rapid rate, if observed at the same wavelength over time. Therefore, whether over fifty years or a hundred years (modern astronomy is only about 500 years old), or longer, if the universe is in fact expanding as modern astrophysics theorizes; something we cannot measure in any way except line-of-sight (we cannot measure expansion laterally); then those maximum cosmic images going over the 'event horizon' of expanding space should 'disappear' from view. The challenge is if these maximum cosmic event horizon images are not disappearing, or not fading in luminosity, then it would indicate that perhaps the universe is not expanding as modern cosmology concludes, which alternately puts the whole Big Bang at risk. Then cosmic redshift would be forced to be from other causes than space expansion.

Will it be possible to study past records of most distant objects, or more recent Hubble images at some point in the future to see if they had faded over the "cosmic event horizon", or not? That is the challenge to modern astronomy, to either prove or disprove, or falsify, the proposition of 'disappearing' space. Therefore, those most distant galaxies which are the most redshifted, if the universe is expanding per current cosmological models, then they should be the first ones to show fading or disappearing over time.

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Large scale structure of the cosmos at near-infrared

How long will it take to go over the cosmic event horizon, if it exists? Will it prove modern cosmological theory, or disprove it? What would it mean for the Newton G constant, if space is not expanding but G is variable instead?

Many questions and answers will ride on this test... See HUBBLE ULTRA DEEP FIELD 3D video (4 mins)... Awesome.
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cosmic edge 2
Posted on Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 12:58 pm:   

ExpandingConfusion: common misconceptions of cosmological horizons and the superluminal expansion of the universe.

by TamaraM. Davis & CharlesH. Lineweaver

http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0310808v2


quote:

Probably the most common misconceptions surround the expansion of the Universe at distances beyond which Hubble’s law (vrec = H D: recession velocity = Hubble’s constant × distance) predicts recession velocities faster than the speed of light [Appendix B: 1–8],...



It's not that easy!

See illustrations in above paper on pg. 3 & 11 to get a feel.
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Dr. Who?
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 12:37 am:   

The Woo-woo Universe of Dr. Who.

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Dr. Who's Time-machine TARDIS

We know that the expanding universe based on Einstein's General Relativity metrics dates back about 13.7 billion years, the alleged Big Bang, and has to date expanded to about 45 billion light years in all directions. This is elementary astrophysics as now accepted by both serious scientists and pop culture writers. So it is no surprise to have the science fiction character of Dr. Who travel in his police call booth to various parts of the universe in both space and time. After all, Einstein's relativistic theories made that immanently possible. So what's wrong with that?

Referring to the above questions of Disappearing Space at the edge of the visible universe, it creates an interesting Dr. Who like scenario where the very earliest portion of cosmic existence, during just 'before' the fraction of time known as Cosmic Inflation, when the super hot universe was still a tiny ball and time had not yet been created. In essence, Time, or more specifically relativistic Proper Time, was still zero. Today, some 13.7 billion years later, that same Time and Space is visible to us as the CMB on the cosmic horizon, though this is still not the true proper Time Zero of the Big Bang; that would be the 'over the horizon' cosmic edge of the universe, some 45 billion light years away. But that 'edge of the cosmos' horizon is 'superliminal' and beyond our ability to observe with present astronomical instruments, it must remain essentially invisible to us. If you were, in the Dr. Who manner, able to travel to that cosmic edge, per Einstein's relativity, you would be in Proper Time zero, and proper space zero, or in effect, on the edge of space and time. Looking towards the inflated universe, such as it is 13.7 billion years later, you would see "into the future" of proper time and space; this is where we are now. Looking around the immediate police call box of your Dr. Who time machine, you would be looking at zero time; the space around you none of the galaxies had yet formed, so you are looking also at near-zero space, that universe not yet completed just after Inflation. But this zero space-time causes a minor problem for Dr. Who's traveler: To see into the future, you can only look into the universe from proper time zero, and to get to the present 13.7 billion years later, it can only exist at the universe's center, which had not yet been created. From proper time zero, now is 'superliminal'; conversely, from 13.7 billions years later 'now', time zero is superliminal also, so invisible. Once light speed c is achieved, where space is expanding at c or higher, then all observations from our proper time ceases, and any observation on the 'event horizon' of invisibility is 'frozen' in time. So any change is invisible from both! We cannot observe, due to relativistic factors, what is happening on the edge of the cosmos, because any change there is invisible to us. Now, that's a mega-conundrum for Dr. Who in his TARDIS: Did it really happen?

So if you are in the TARDIS today, 13. 7 billion years after the Big Bang, and you look as far as possible in any direction of space, you are necessarily looking back in "time" towards proper time zero, though you cannot see it. From the other direction, at proper time zero, you can see the "present" proper time, 13.7 billion years later, but only by looking into the center of the physical universe where we happen to live now. But this creates another mega-conundrum which violates the Copernican principle, because the "center of the universe" is the present proper time, which happens to be exactly where we are. Any other physical part of this universe, from proper time 13.7 billion years to proper time zero, is of necessity somewhere in between here and 45 billion light years away. Which means, of course, that no other part of the universe can be proper time 13.7 billion years "present" except here, since all other observable phenomena in any direction are backwards in time, all the way back to the CMB, and still further back to the Big Bang zero proper time at the edge of the universe. Can we see that far back? No, we can only see somewhere in between here and subliminal light, not superliminal. But the universe is not infinite. Therefore, nor can we really be the "center of the universe" in proper time, unless we violate the Copernican principle, or make the universe infinite. Oddly, from proper time zero, all of the universe is 'fixed' forever at zero time, that makes it woo-woo, at best. In fact, the Dr. Who cum Einstein relativistic space expansion Big Bang universe becomes highly suspect, even unlikely, though relativistically correct.

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Hubble image shows an infant galaxy forming nearby, which means this happened very recently on the cosmological timescale. This is evidence that the Universe is not quite finished with galaxy formation yet.

Are we finished yet? Helloo? Dr. Who?
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Habeas Mentem 1956
Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 11:40 am:   

HABEAS MENTEM revisited, 1956

"Creative Health and the Principle of
Habeas Mentem" by FILLMORE H. SANFORD, Ph.D.
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/46/2/139

This may have been the first use of this term meaning "man has a right to his own mind."

Aldous Huxley used the term in his Brave New World Revisited, 1958
http://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/index.html

This is follow up for this post: Man in All that Is (Habeas Mentem), 1986
http://www.humancafe.com/discus/messages/1177/1751.html?1235242559#POST5194
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CC/ Earth breathing
Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 01:22 pm:   

The Breathing Earth, as seen second by second, in births and deaths.

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Co2 emissions, birth rate & death rate simulation © David Bleja 2006-2008

Click image and scroll down for more info.
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Who?
Posted on Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 10:51 am:   

Three steps to understanding habeas mentem: to have a mind

  • interrelationship is the language of infinity
  • identity is the language of mind
  • infinity of mind is Who I Am

These are the soul of Habeas Mentem

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The soul in a funerary slab, Turkey, 800 BC

Who am I?
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Who am 2?
Posted on Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 06:55 pm:   


quote:

Who am I?



Does this hark back to the biblical "I am who I am?"

i.e,"I am that I am" in Hebraic tradition?

Who are we? We choose the answer, with the mind.
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Who's time?
Posted on Monday, March 02, 2009 - 12:26 pm:   

It's all about Time. :-)

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If time is so relativity dilated that it essentially stands still, is it still Time? Or is it an artifact of light so relativistically dilated that it essentially stands still? It can't be both, must be one or the other, or else Time as a definition stops working.

On the SMBH event horizon where gravity is so great as to fully dilate light waves into standing still for the observer, does not mean of necessity that the same thing has happened to Time at the event horizon. Yes, it may 'appear' it is standing still, for the observer, but time is still time, and the ticking of the clock has not stopped because light is relativistically dilated. It is what happens to light, or vibrating cesium atoms, at the event horizon; and to call Time by the same label defeats the purpose of measuring time. Why bother? Is it not better, and more true, to simply measure wavelength as seen by the observer, such as witnessed in a strong gravitational field stretching-redshifting light; while relativistic Time is merely a clever parlor word trick?

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Who's Time are we talking about? Oh yeah, I forgot, Uncle Albert's proper Time, like at a black hole horizon where it is being sucked back gravitationally into standing still. Like when asked about Relativity Time, where does the definition of Time switch from a rythmic tick-tock to a stretchable elasticity adapted to light speed c? Is Time merely a question of semantics?

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Woo-woo Dr. Who?
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GeoGebra paper online
Posted on Saturday, March 14, 2009 - 02:04 pm:   

New GeoGebra paper now formally online at Deentech.com: Geogebra as research aid

This is a continuation of earlier entries regarding "squaring the circle", where geometric algebra was first introduced here, and illustrated here. What has become of this is the cooperative efforts of Mohideen Ibramsha, Edward Chesky, and Ivan Alexander, in the paper listed above.

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Algebraic geometry - Wiki

From the paper:


quote:

"Notwithstanding the importance of algebra, mass literacy in algebra is lacking. Marya D [3] gives the following explanation.

When industrialization was taking place, universal literacy became important for progress. What “literacy” meant for math, back then, was basic arithmetic. Now it looks like the civilization needs, among other things, mass algebraic literacy to progress and to solve its problems. Governments have been working toward that goal, by their usual means (influencing school curricula). Despite this mass algebra instruction, we don’t see mass algebraic literacy.

I think one of the reasons why we don’t see mass algebraic literacy is that algebra isn’t viewed as something you MESS with. Kids doodle or compose texts for their myspace, but they don’t MAKE (construct, create, build) any algebra entities, ever."


How true, and may this geometric-algebra, or GeoGebra online, become the venue for new learning, to create and build into the future.

(Submitted via email by Mohideen Ibramsha, thanks. Ivan)

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