Monday, January 30, 2012

WE NEED A MORE MATURE PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE TRAVEL

You know, we keep hearing about these advances in propulsion technology, high-altitude aircraft that can travel Mach 10, ion propulsion systems, plasma propulsion, et cetera, ad infinitum; and the "edutainment" networks keep feeding our kids these fantasies about interstellar space travel, leading kids to think that we'll be zipping around the stars in a century or so.

Those are lies, pie-in-the-sky nonsense.  Truth is that edutainment is conditioning people to perceive Space with terrestrial blinders.  The distances and energy requirements of interstellar travel are so incomprehensibly vast that we're not going to be flitting around the stars in the near or the distant future, either.

Not using four-dimensional propulsion systems, anyway.

Ionic and plasmatic propulsion are still just four-dimensional means of propulsion. It's still just a means of moving through Space... Which is NOT how you travel around a Universe so vast that even Light Speed isn't a meaningful velocity.

To travel interstellar and intergalactic distances within a meaningful time frame (like, well within a Human lifespan), you'd have to travel so fast that you'd never be able to contact those people you left behind. Which means you'd be starting civilization over EVERY TIME you reached a destination.

See what I mean?

Let's say you were able to accelerate to a billion times the speed of light... After two seconds at this speed, the human species that you left behind is EXTINCT. Oops. So YOU'RE IT... You're the sole representative of the Human species, several million years in the future.

Sorry, but that's how Einsteinian Physics works. The faster you travel in Space, the slower you travel in Time. Time Dilation would keep you forever young, but the rest of your species would die off. So you'd have to keep SEEDING Humanity, wherever you traveled.

My point is, four-dimensional Space travel aint gonna work in the long run, I don't care WHAT propulsion system you use.

Ultimately, we're going to abandon four-dimensional space travel — sooner than later, as a matter of fact. So we may never even attempt to build all those wonderfully quaint "starships" such as the USS Enterprise.

More than likely, we'll end up teleporting Doppelgangers of ourselves to far-flung destinations, and by "far-flung" I mean so far away that the USS Enterprise couldn't get there at Warp Ten for a million years.

A technology based on Quantum non-local simultaneity would blow EVERYTHING out of the water, rendering all forms of four-dimensional travel hopelessly obsolete.

ULTRAMUNDANE COMMUNICATIONS: RENDERING SPACE TRAVEL OBSOLETE

If we REALLY want to think outside the box, there's no reason to build these enormously expensive fleets of starships and space stations and all that nonsense.

I mean, our ultimate objective in the Universe is to acquire information. We acquire information from myriad sources. So, if I sit down and illustrate the procedures for fabricating a bronze statue and send that information to you, you could use that information to fabricate a bronze statue. You have acquired the information necessary for building that statue.

That's the driving force of Humanity, okay. Acquiring information and utilizing it to our benefit.

But, then, that's the driving force of Life and Consciousness, as well. We consume information, we extract the information that is beneficial to our survival, and we expel the extraneous bits.

Information is what the Universe is all about.

I contend that if we had an adequate communications system, we'd never have to leave our home planets. We could stay at home and play on the InterGalactiNet, retrieving information from all over the universe without ever leaving home.

And I'll go one step further and say that this communications system ALREADY EXISTS and has existed for hundreds of millions and maybe BILLIONS of years.

I think that our Human minds are in contact with other non-Human intelligences constantly. We interact with our pets on a telepathic level, for example — there is unspoken UNDERSTANDING between humans and animals here on Earth. Yes, there is also MISUNDERSTANDING, for the most part, because we tend to crash into animal environments, unfortunately, without regard for the critters. We don't have the patience and the compassion. So there's a LOT of misunderstanding.

But there are also exquisite and perfect moments of communication between humans and animals, and you know it. Even telepathic communications between humans and animals. It's there. You know it happens.

That's the evidence Quantum communication exists. Yeah, sure, it's anecdotal, but even the stoniest skeptic knows there's something going on. Science is coming to acknowledge the possibility of ultramundane energies... Ultramundane describes those forces that exist outside of our ability to measure them. We ride the crest of these forces in our journey across the Cosmos.

But it's these "ultramundane" forces that we can tap RIGHT NOW using our MINDS to explore the farthest reaches of Creation.

Friday, January 27, 2012

TESLA, ROSWELL & JFK

Why would the Roswell Incident in 1947 affect the technological future of Mankind?  There are those who contend, you know, that we scrambled around a New Mexico ranch in 1947, gathering up pieces of a crashed flying saucer, and that all our technology from 1947 to the present is based upon the twisted debris of a crashed flying saucer.  Not a UFO, but a FLYING DISK.  Hey.  The army identified it.

I mean, I would be more inclined to think that Nikola Tesla was a time traveler who landed in the late 19th Century, inasmuch as his numerous patented inventions — from the Alternating Current Induction Generator to Radio to Fluorescent Lighting to Solid State Logic Gateways and more — completely CHANGED the world so dramatically that they seemed to come from another century.

Yet we know Nikola Tesla's biography, we know when and where he was born, we know his childhood, it's all documented. Same thing with Albert Einstein. Same thing with Max Planck. Same thing with Charles Steinmetz.

These people advanced our knowledge by CENTURIES over what came before, 40 years before Roswell.

Yet conspiracy theorists point to a bunch of debris in a remote field in New Mexico in 1947 as the START of our technological advances in the 20th Century.

That's bogus.

The transistor, for example, was the result of years of research and development — it didn't just pop into existence after Roswell. And LASER technology was being researched in the 1920s and 30s, for petesake, as was stereophonic recording and television.

All of these technologies have demonstrable development paths. None of them just appeared out of thin air.

As I said, the genius that suddenly arose out of the late 19th Century is more amazing than the technological TOYS we developed later in the 20th Century. I mean, Tesla was patenting technology that is the foundation of all our computer technology today — hardware developers are still amazed to find that their "new" creations were already patented back in 1898 by Nikola Tesla.

If there was deliberate time travel interference in the 20th Century, I don't see it back in the 1940s. Now, the 1960s were another matter altogether. It was that decade in which we decided to "go to the moon and do the other things"... And then JFK was assassinated. And then his brother was assassinated. And then we gave up on interplanetary travel, we just GAVE UP on colonizing the Moon.

Somebody didn't want us going to the Moon in the 60s and 70s, I think. They wanted to redirect our interests as a civilization. And that meant assassinating those inspiring figures. Killing ideas. Killing inspiration.

So, yeah, I think we had a glut of Time Travelers in the 60s and 70s. But not in the 1940s.

What I see from the one-hundred-thousand-foot overview is that the sea change in our thinking and technology came in the late 19th Century with the Second Industrial Revolution, from the 1870s through the early 1900s. THAT was like a technological renaissance, with great minds from around the world collaborating to bring these marvelous inventions into existence. It wasn't just a revolution among mathematicians and physicists, it was an industrial engineering revolution, as well.

Look at John Browning. Developed a 45 automatic handgun in 1911 that was so revolutionary, he changed the way firearms were made — the mechanical design of that gun is the same today as it was a hundred years ago, they only make cosmetic adjustments. It was a design for the ages. Browning also designed a revolutionary 9mm handgun in 1922, with just awesome balance and accuracy, and it, too, became an icon among handguns.

Man, can you imagine living back in the late 19th Century, as these mind-boggling technologies started bursting forth upon the world — The telephone, electric lighting, automobiles, airplanes, and much more, all within a span of 40 years?

I mean, the Second Industrial Revolution was a MAJOR break from thousands of years of mundane subsistence existence.

In the overview, it looks like Time Travelers hit us in the mid-to-late 19th Century, rather than the 1940s.  

Or perhaps the Second Industrial Revolution was just a confluence of normal research & development cycles, sort of like all your biorhythms coming together over a period of three glorious days or something.

Well, yeah, I can see that.

But I wasn't suggesting that Time Travelers actually interfered in the Second Industrial Revolution. I was saying that the Second Industrial Revolution, of all periods of technological advance, could be mistaken for Time Travel interference, because the late 19th Century was the REAL BEGINNING of all our modern problems.

I mean... In the 1890s, the middle of the Second Industrial Revolution, there were only 900 million human beings on the entire planet. A mere one hundred years later, there were over 6 BILLION, and the majority of this new herd are dependent on modern medicine and charitable donations.

Without that tenuous scientific and charitable infrastructure — the privileged few supporting the needy MASSES — I'm guessing that 4 billion or so human beings would just die off because they can't fend for themselves. In other words, we've invited waaay too many people to a woefully under-catered party in the last 100 years.

Science made this possible, Science precipitated every dilemma we now face in the world, yes? Overpopulation, atmospheric and hydrospheric pollution, nuclear annihilation, pandemic super-diseases, automated war drones, et cetera, et al, ad infinitum. Science brought this to us.

Yes, of course it did.

Now, Science could try to slither out of responsibility for destroying the world with its usual caveat: Science is just a method of thinking, a fallible but self-correcting method of thought. And who could blame a mere method of thinking, what? Sure, Science is blameless for all these horrors we now face that we never faced in the previous 250,000 years of our existence as a species.

No. Science doesn't get to wash its hands and walk away. It would be too easy to blame all this on Time Travel interference or sinister extraterrestrials or back-engineered alien technology. But our downfall is going to be the result of good old Mankind screwing up and failing to think things through before he acts. And that's where Science is guilty as hell.

In the end, the seething masses are gonna come after the scientists. And it won't be pretty. 

FASTER THAN LIGHT

Beyond all the Einsteinian Light Speed mumbo jumbo, Science is now telling us that it may be possible to communicate information across incomprehensible distances without actually traversing Space, and do it instantaneously.

In real-time.

You realize that, if we can instantaneously transmit Information across Space (and everything is Information), then we could eventually teleport ourselves to any point in the Universe. We could teleport, say, an entire self-sustaining colony to a planet orbiting Vega, 25 Light Years away, as fast as snapping your fingers.

That totally does away with these cumbersome, theatrical starships zipping around the galaxy, pummeling each other in meaningless dogfights.

But why stop there?

If we were so inclined, we could put Human colonies ANYWHERE in the UNIVERSE as easily as spitting out watermelon seeds. That's the implication of instantaneous information transmission.

But check this out... We wouldn't have to actually leave home to do this. See, unlike the Transporter that you see in Star Trek, our Teleporter doesn't disassemble human beings and reassemble them somewhere else.

Star Trek's Transporter implies Matter and Energy traversing Space-Time. That aint happenin'

A non-local synchronized teleporter would read all the information it needed to build YOU, and then it would instantly assemble you out of the available matter at your destination. On the other side of the Universe, if that's your target.

It builds a Doppelganger of you, see?

So now you can explore and colonize to your heart's content, if that's your intention, without leaving home. And the big bonus is that you're telepathically linked to the doppelganger, because your minds are virtually identical and exist in the same string dimension, and another bonus is that either one of you can die or be destroyed and the other can take his place immediately. Ha!

Yes, you're now flirting with immortality, which is one characteristic of godhood; but you're also bilocating, which is another characteristic of gods, appearing in two or more places simultaneously.

But there's another godly aspect of your character now — If you can teleport yourself across the Universe to the most remote destinations, then you can ALSO retrieve information about your destination, bring it back and assemble the destination in your backyard.

So you never had to leave in the first place.

You could lounge on your patio in Aspen and tan by the light of Cygnus X-1 simultaneously.

Which means you're physically manipulating the Cosmos now, and THAT behavior is so far beyond the Civilization scale that you're, well, you're the next in line to God.

See, we're not very far away from intellectual godhood... That's what the Tree of Knowledge story was all about. Yeah, Humans are Gods-in-training. However, it's our lower instincts that will draw out our evolution for millions of years.

We KNOW we're special and deserve better, and we're impatient as hell to achieve our godhood.  Look at all our entertainment — it's all supernatural forces and supernatural characters performing miracles and defeating arch-villains.  We're chomping at the BIT to be God.

Make no mistake, Humans are unique in the Universe. We understand the physics to juggle star clusters, right, but physically we are still burning vegetation for warmth. That's our curse, we're some sort of hybrid of God and animal.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

ONE TINY LITTLE PROBLEM....

 The main problem with Humanity is that we are smart enough to know that Natural Selection is the way Nature works, but we DEFY Natural Selection. Yes?

That's the source of ALL our problems, that we DEFY Natural Selection and we attempt to burden the strong with carrying the weak.

Look at every foreign and domestic problem in the world... It all relates to our attempt to DEFY Natural Selection.

We DEFY Nature. That's our problem.

CROP CIRCLES IN BINARY CODE

While I find crop circle history fascinating, I'm always frustrated with the believers who ask us to accept that the crop circles of the UK are a likely means of communication from non-human intelligence.

It makes no sense whatsoever that an advanced technological intelligence would choose a means of communication that was so easily turned into a three-ring circus by Human "artists"... Face it, Humans turned crop-circle creation into an art contest wherein the designs became more and more elaborate until they were positively LAUGHABLE.

We KNOW that Humans CAN do these things. We KNOW that Humans CONTINUE to do these things, and they do them for their own amusement.

I mean, an intelligent non-human species that has been OBSERVING Human civilization for tens of thousands of years would KNOW that their attempts at crop circle communication could and would be corrupted by mischievous Humans, right?

Right. They may as well be writing astrophysical equations in the sand down at the beach. It's NOT a viable means of communications.

I put it to you that if an intelligent non-human species wanted to communicate with us on a level BEYOND the ability of Humans to corrupt the message, the non-human species would do so in such an extraordinary manner that it was beyond dispute... like engraving a 3000-foot-high cliff-face at Yosemite, and doing so overnight.

There is NOTHING about the "coded messages" in wheat fields that is so extraordinary that Humans couldn't hoax them. Crop circles provide no concrete information that is BEYOND Human imagination and ability. That simple fact negates the other-worldliness of crop circles, as far as I'm concerned.

Why would a non-human intelligence use a MEDIUM of communication that Humans could so easily manipulate to our own ends?

The FACT is that Humans DO create crop circles, even the most elaborate crop circles. Humans CREATED Binary coding. Humans could just as easily create a message intended to frighten and/or mislead the remainder of Humanity.

Crop circles in Binary, therefore, are NOT a viable means of non-human communication.  

By the time non-human intelligence is trying to WARN US of impending doom — using phrases such as "BEWARE" — the free will of the Human species is a moot consideration. A warning is a warning.

Why not just drop flyers over the population? A UFO flying low and dropping propaganda flyers?

There have been instances of fringe-theory mathematical formulae popping up in unlikely places.

Things That Fall Out Of The Sky


The July 25, 1973, edition of the Albany, New York Times Union reported the unusual case of Bob Hill. Hill, the owner of radio station WHRL of North Greenbush, New York, was taking out the station garbage at 4:15 P.M. when he noticed “twirling specks” falling from a distance higher than the station’s 300-ft. transmitter. He followed two of the white objects until they landed in a hayfield. The objects turned out to be two sets of formulas and accompanying graphs, which apparently explained “normalized extinction” and the “incomplete Davis-Greenstein orientation.” No explanation has been made public. The Davis-Greenstein mechanism is used in astrophysics.


The Davis-Greenstein papers were WAY OUT on the fringe of astrophysical theory in 1973. But were the Davis-Greenstein papers of extraterrestrial origin? Unlikely. How they happened to come fluttering down from hundreds of feet in the sky is open to conjecture. But that doesn't mean non-human intelligence was at work.

Just so, a mathematical equation appearing in a crop circle is no indication of extraterrestrial or non-human intelligence at work. We KNOW humans can and do create crop circles. We KNOW humans invented Mathematics. And there is no indication that Mathematical equations exist anywhere else in the Universe except between the ears of Human beings.

Therefore, we can safely assume that mathematical equations in a crop circle are wholly Human creations.

When the nature of the message is a WARNING, it doesn't matter who wants to know and who doesn't. When Paul Revere rode through the Massachusetts townships, shouting "The British Are Coming! Make Haste!" his message fell on the ears of both Patriots and Loyalists, okay?

When the message is a warning, there's no need to parse words — you convey a sense of urgency, and those who heed the warning will heed it.

Don't get me wrong... I know that a certain small percentage of crop circles are the real deal — they're usually simple circles, but the vegetation is energetically deformed from within the stalks, sometimes there are tektites (microscopic meteors) at the scene, and measurable electromagnetic anomalies are recorded at "real" crop circles.

The elaborate, artsy crop circles are invariably hoaxed. Sometimes publicly and proudly hoaxed.

The Doug & Dave crop circles went out the window long ago, right. Those guys I suspect were disinformation agents who attempted to sign their names to something beyond their ken.

There have been crop circles on almost every continent, and the most credible ones (as anomalies) tend to occur where people won't see them, and without the convenient irrigation trails to hide human footprints. I mean, there are crop circles that happen in marshes where Humans can't access, and more recently there have been crop circles discovered out on iced-over lakes.

I think the "real" crop circle phenomenon is a poorly understood energy vortex phenomenon, and there's the possibility that it occurs naturally. I don't think there's any intelligence behind it at all.

There will always be those, however, who try to take credit for the sunrise and who sign their names to the tides.  

Monday, January 23, 2012

MATTER & ENERGY IN TRANSITION

Space-Time is the fabric out of which everything else is made, in varying densities. So, a gas planet is MADE out of Space-Time, and a rocky planet is MADE out of Space-Time, as are stars and black holes and galaxies and everything else. You're just looking at different manifestations of Space-Time, different manifestations of Matter and Energy.

As these manifestations of Matter and Energy gain MASS, they warp the matrix of Space-Time to different degrees. This warp of the fabric of Space-Time can be measured in terms of Gravity.

The problem is that there's not enough VISIBLE MATTER contained in a galaxy to create the amount of Gravity NECESSARY to hold it together as a unit. I mean, Galaxy formation is still a profound mystery to Science.

This is what Science knows about Galaxies — They're huge collections of stars and gas and dust whirling around mysterious centers that they ASSUME are Supermassive Blackholes.

But what came first? The supermassive blackholes, drawing in these rafts of gas and dust over billions of years? Or did the rafts of gas and dust merge out of the void, becoming denser and denser until a supermassive blackhole was formed in the center?

Thing is, even a supermassive blackhole a BILLION TIMES more DENSE than our Sun doesn't warp the fabric of Space-Time ENOUGH to affect the outermost rim of the galaxy. I mean, we're talking about Macro-Gravity working across tens and hundreds of thousands of Light Years. Which is unheard of.

So, the supermassive blackhole has no actual gravitational influence on the rim of the galaxy. Can't be. And the Visible Matter of the Galaxy isn't sufficient to bond the Galaxy together and account for this rotational constant from the center out to the rim.

So WHAT is holding the Galaxy together? It's nothing visible. Astrophysicists speculate that it's Dark Matter. That doesn't mean it's a dark cloud of matter that exists in this Universe. It means it's something with mass that extends into another dimension. It means the galaxies, as we know them, are just the four-dimensional bits that we can see — but they're the tips of icebergs.

The great bulk of the galaxies exist in OTHER dimensions. Like the Fifth Dimension, where the source of Gravity is thought to reside.