Inside the Torus

 

Scientific American has a good article about the toroidal universe at this link:

How Many Holes Does the Universe Have? | Scientific American

I'd reprint it, but they want $550 for the blog reprint now. lol.  As if I can afford that!

Vinegar eels forming a torus

 I ran across an article in Science News this week about the curious discovery that a tiny nematode called vinegar eels (because they swim around in raw vinegar) are able to engage in synchronized swimming when confined to a single water droplet. This synchronization of movement is quite unusual and unexpected. Here's what they look like when this happens:

 Turbatrix aceti, a species of nematode commonly known as vinegar eels, engage in synchronized swimming when confined to a water droplet. photo: ANTON PESHKOV

These vinegar eels coordinate two types of movement, directional motion plus oscillation, to create the torus shape pictured above. Confinement to a globular water droplet is required in order to coordinate these movements, otherwise the tiny nematodes swim by themselves through their liquid mediums.

The toroidal distribution exerts a measurable outward pressure toward the outside of the droplet to keep it from collapsing inward. 

Scientists are puzzled as to how these mindless, primitive organisms can coordinate this complex behavior. Such behavior has been predicted by computer modeling of fluid dynamics, but this is the first example discovered in living organisms.

The original report appears in the journal Soft Matter.

Synchronized oscillations in swarms of nematode Turbatrix aceti

Anton Peshkov,    Sonia McGaffigan and  Alice C. Quillen   

Here is another look at the nematodes in the process of organizing themselves into the torus.

The Great Torus of Jupiter

 After this many years of writing the Simple Explanation blog, what can I say here other than, "Hey! Look at that torus they're calling Jupiter!"  

Scientists have known for a few decades that the upper atmosphere of Jupiter is hundreds of degrees warmer than expected. Now they are offering an explanation that looks suspiciously like another planetary torus has been discovered. 

Using Hawaii's Keck 2 telescope, scientists looked for positively charged hydrogen particles in Jupiter's atmosphere. They found a ring around the north and south poles and particles coming in (they assume) [or going out, I would conjecture], as well as waves of heat cascading down the outside of the planet. Yes, it can be explained by the way they conjecture the mechanism, or could be explained by the Simple Explanation's toroidal core theory of planetary development. The official imagery certainly implies that as a possible mechanism. We'll await further proof at some later date.

Meanwhile, here's the link to the original article.  

Jupiter’s magnetic field lines (blue) steer charged particles in the solar wind toward

the planet’s poles, generating auroras (white) similar to Earth’s. High-altitude winds 

then carry heat (red) from the auroras toward Jupiter’s equator, warming the planet’s 

upper atmosphere, as shown in this artist’s illustration, which overlays a visible 

light image of the planet.

J. O'DONOGHUE/JAXA, HUBBLE/NASA, ESA, A. SIMON, J. SCHMIDT

J. O’Donoghue et al. Global upper-atmospheric heating on Jupiter by the polar aurorae. Nature. Vol. 596, August 5, 2021, p. 54. doi:  10.1038/s41586-021-03706-w.

Our Lovely Milky Way Torus

 Here is a new NASA image of the lovely torus that is our galaxy--

STARS WITH A VIEW  Two newly discovered clusters of stars lie far from the Milky Way’s spiral arms. Planets orbiting these stars might get this view of the galaxy in all its spiraling glory.

R. HURT/ESO/JPL-CALTECH/NASA

Magnetar Image Makes for a Lovely Torus

 I know this blog has many fans of the torus shape. Here's a good-looking magnetar torus and a link to the article that accompanied it from Science News. The article concerns a new theory that those mysterious fast radio bursts and high-energy neutrinos are both thrown off by magnetars--

What? You didn't know that the universe is full of toruses? Read all about it by clicking on this Simple Explanation article.

Magnetars, highly magnetized stellar corpses like the one illustrated here, could be the source of two different cosmic enigmas: fast radio bursts and high-energy neutrinos, a new study suggests.

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Ten-Year Anniversary of A Simple Explanation--New Edition of Book For Sale Now!

You may purchase the new Amazon paperback and Kindle ebook editions here, now.

Ten years ago I turned on my word processor to begin writing a play about a midwife's trial. Instead, the first twenty pages of "A Simple Explanation" poured out onto the screen. 

I had been thinking about these topics for many years. The most important concepts to me at that time were "mud up, spirit down," and "as above, so below." I had also been meditating upon the donut shape known as a "torus" since reading Bentov's "Stalking the Wild Pendulum" in 1979. Finally, the concept of holographs often rolled through my mind--the idea that you can replicate the original wholeness of an object or image by studying a small fragment of the whole. 

I was working as a breakfast chef at my own bed and breakfast, which gave me plenty of time for contemplation while preparing food. 

I had begun to notice and photograph the repetitive interior shape of fruits and vegetables as I dealt with them in the kitchen. At some point I noticed that the seed explosion came from the middle of their shapes, no matter if it was an apple, a tomato, a pepper, or a squash. Once I saw that, I observed that the fruits were variations of the torus shape, and the seeds came from the center, with the stem line going right through these center seeds and extending out the bottom. 

It was a happy day, indeed, when A Simple Explanation presented itself to me. Boom! Everything fell into place on the page with no strain at all on my part, as if my subconscious had already figured it out and now my fingers were receiving the message.

Soon thereafter I established the Simple Explanation blog and essentially developed all of the remaining concepts publicly online. If you are interested in tracing the theory's genesis, you can go back to the first dozen or so postings from the blog's historical timeline, beginning in January of 2010. The blog has been viewed over 270,000 times and I have written and posted well over 300 original articles.

Since that time, I have been gratified to see a number of my scientific hypotheses come true. My original meme-based social theories are also proving to be true, and easier than ever observe nowadays during these times of tremendous social and political upheaval.

Lastly, the "hard problem" of consciousness is not at all hard when viewed through the paradigm-shifting lens of A Simple Explanation. My articles concerning my "Simple Fractal Model of the Conscious Universe" have been viewed over 21,000 times.

This 3rd edition, of "A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything" contains new material not included in the previous editions, including expanded sections on evolutionary theory, reincarnation, and meme theory. There are also examples of the theory applied, so you can see how the Simple Explanation makes even the incomprehensible understandable. 

The 3rd edition is a black and white paperback, available on Amazon for $19.99. There is also a kindle ebook edition in color, if your reader is in color, for only $4.99.

The new edition is now available from Amazon.com in all markets.

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Tomato Quasar and Red Pepper Black Hole

My Spanish blog friend, Jesus, sent these pictures of a tomato looking like a quasar. A remarkable similarity:

Below we have a red bell pepper showing off its beauty, and a nifty black hole at the center of its torus:

Super Massive Structures Tie the Universe Together--Toruses!

The latest discoveries in astronomy continue to uphold the Simple Explanation theory that the universe is comprised of patterns of toroidal energy. For about ten years now, I have been suggesting here on this blog that there are toruses large and small throughout the cosmos. 

Wireframe Torus with Zero Point Center

At large and small scales, these "donuts" or "halos" or "bubbles" produce energy out of their middles, ejecting forces into the space around them and pulling forces back into the black holes at their zero-point centers.

Toroidal forces and flows

When the torus is small, it governs atomic forces, including electromagnetic energy and gravity.

When the torus is large, it both gathers and feeds large astronomical structures with the same electromagnetic forces and gravity.

The "bubbles" and "halos" show where the torus is

Much to my delight, the very latest discoveries that are shaking up the standard cosmological models continue to uphold and strengthen this theory.

Today's article was prompted by the discovery of super-massive structures that appear to tie the entire universe together. Scientists do not know how, but they now must admit that the data shows that a jiggle on one side of the universe causes a corresponding jiggle somewhere else in the universe, as if they were somehow connected by gigantic invisible filaments. 

A series of articles in Vice by science writer Becky Ferreira clearly outlines numerous puzzling phenomena--from super-massive universal structures and energetic galactic bubbles, to the increasing possibility of a closed, spherical universal space as opposed to the standard model of a flat, infinite space. Scientist are both baffled and challenged as they attempt to find a cosmic model to account for these new observations. 

The clues to the solution are already imbedded in the language used to describe their findings, for they all refer to "bubbles," "spheres," "balloons," and "halos." These are other words for the torus shape and dynamics.

All of these puzzles can be explained by picturing the universe as a closed, toroidal system, with a super-massive torus sitting at both the center and enveloping all of space at its outside boundary. Moreover, this super-massive torus has been slowly growing larger (the expanding universe) as energetic forces continue to enter space from the middle. In my Simple Explanation, the big bang occurred at the center of an outflowing black hole, which continues to push matter outward into the closed space of the growing torus that surrounds it.

My theory also suggests the presence of miniscule toruses seeded throughout space, bringing energy and anti-entropic organization at the tiny atomic level.

Whether tiny or gigantic, the toruses look the same and perform the same functions, just at smaller and larger scales.

If you would like to picture this and demonstrate the forces for yourself, you may take an ordinary slinky toy and fasten its two ends into the donut shape of a torus. You will find that when you touch any part of the slinky-torus, the entire structure jiggles. If you push on any wire in the slinky-torus so that it rotates toward the center, the entire slinky-torus rotates toward the center. 

In this slinky-donut model, if you push a wire downward into the center hole, all wires push downward into the center hole, making an inflow of energy, as in a black hole. This inflow direction is the energetic basis of gravity. From the bottom side of this experiment, the wires flow outward and back around the outside of the torus to the top. This outflow direction is the manner by which electromagnetic and other energetic forces are pushed into this universe. The outflow direction is organizational, informative, and anti-entropic. Scale is irrelevant; they are all the same torus. 

You may read my entire series of 30+ toroidal articles by going to the "Topical Index" tab on the Simple Explanation blog and finding the "Toroidal Forces" section. 

You're welcome.

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Here are links to four of Ferreira's articles on this subject: 

There’s Growing Evidence That the Universe Is Connected by Giant Structures

Scientists are finding that galaxies can move with each other across huge distances, and against the predictions of basic cosmological models. The reason why could change everything we think we know about the universe.

NASA Captures Stunning Images of ‘Nuclear Superbubbles’ in an Alien Galaxy

NGC 3079 is spitting out particles that balloon across thousands of light years in space.

NASA Has Found a Weird, Unexplained Boundary in Interstellar Space

Voyager 2 passed through the borderland between the Sun and interstellar space and found something new and puzzling that Voyager 1 missed.

There Might Be a Hidden 'Crisis' in What We Know About the Universe

Scientists think the universe is flat, but new observations suggest that we might actually be living in a gigantic sphere. Whoa.

A Simple Explanation of How Ancient Roman Architects Used Invisibility Cloak Technology

Here's a fascinating reprint from ars Technica concerning the observed similarities between ancient Roman structures and the geometry of electromagnetic cloaking devices. My "Simple" interpretation will appear at the end of this column.

REPRINT:

Study says ancient Romans may have built “invisibility cloaks” into structures

Foundational patterns in Roman theaters resemble electromagnetic cloaking devices.

JENNIFER OUELLETTE - 5/3/2019, 11:43 AM

Roman Colosseum is an oval amphitheatre in the center of the city of Rome. French scientists suggest its structure might have helped protect it from earthquake damage.Alex Livesey/Danehouse/Getty Images)

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• SHARE OScientists are hard at work developing real-world "invisibility cloaks" thanks to a special class of exotic manmade "metamaterials." Now a team of French scientists has suggested in a recent preprint on the physics arXiv that certain ancient Roman structures, like the famous Roman Colosseum, have very similar structural patterns, which may have protected them from damage from earthquakes over the millennia.

Falling within the broader class of photonic band gap materials, a "metamaterial" is technically defined as any material whose microscopic structure can bend light in ways it doesn't normally bend. That property is called an index of refraction, i.e., the ratio between the speed of light in a vacuum and how fast the top of the light wave travels. Natural materials have a positive index of refraction; certain manmade metamaterials—first synthesized in the lab in 2000—have a negativeindex of refraction, meaning they interact with light in such a way as to bend light around even very sharp angles.That's what makes metamaterials so ideal for cloaking applications—any "invisibility cloak" must be able to bend electromagnetic waves around whatever it's supposed to be cloaking. (They are also ideal for making so-called "super lenses" capable of seeing objects at much smaller scales than is possible with natural materials, because they have significantly lower diffraction limits.) Most metamaterials consist of a highly conductive metal like gold or copper, organized in specific shapes and arranged in carefully layered periodic lattice structures. When light passes through the material, it bends around the cloaked object, rendering it "invisible." You can see anything directly behind it but never perceive the object itself.

Top view of a megastructure using periodic arrays of tall buildings as resonators to create a seismic cloaking effect. Stephane Brûlé et al.

Co-author Stephane Brûlé, a civil engineer at a Lyon-based company called Menard, demonstrated the possibility of this kind of large-scale acoustic and seismic cloaking a few years ago with colleagues from the Fresnel Institute in Marseille. The researchers drilled a periodic array of boreholes into topsoil and discovered that sound waves reflected most of their energy back toward the source when they encountered the first two rows of holes. Brûlé noticed a similar foundational structure while on holiday in Autun (a town in central France), thanks to an aerial photograph of the semicircular structure of a Gallo-Roman theater buried under a field.

When Brûlé superimposed a more detailed archaeological photograph of the theater's structure over an image of one of the invisibility cloaking metamaterials he and his Fresnel colleagues had made in the lab, the ancient theater's pillars lined up almost perfectly with the microscopic elements in the metamaterial. He discovered similar overlap with images of the foundational structure of the Roman Colosseum and other, fully enclosed amphitheaters from the same era.

"I doubt that the [Romans] intentionally designed their buildings to be earthquake resistant."

Roman engineers may not have done this deliberately; they could have just been lucky, according to Brûlé. Or they might have noticed over the centuries that certain structures were more resistant to earthquake damage than others and modified their designs accordingly. "Rigorously, we cannot say more for the moment," he told Physics World.

"The introduction of archaeological metamaterials is a fascinating idea," said Greg Gbur, a physicist at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. "I doubt that the builders of structures in that era intentionally designed their buildings to be earthquake resistant, or even that they were able to unconsciously evolve their designs over time to make them more secure—the time scales seem too short. I could imagine, however, that there might be a sort of 'natural selection' that occurred, where megastructures built with inadvertent earthquake cloaking might have survived longer than their counterparts, allowing us to see their remains now."

"There have been a few articles written in the past about the possibility of designing 'seismic cloaks' to protect buildings, but these were all focused on placing subsurface elements around an individual building to guide the waves," said Gbur. "This review illustrates how a well-designed urban area, consisting of multiple buildings, could use the buildings themselves as the elements of the cloak, using them to shield the most important or vulnerable buildings (schools, hospitals) from harm. I had my doubts about the feasibility of really designing practical seismic invisibility cloaks when the research first started coming out, but once again researchers have proven themselves more clever than I could imagine."

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A Simple Explanation of the above article is to point out the obvious fact that this "invisibility cloak" geometry is that of a torus. 

As to the question of whether or not the Roman architects knew about seismic dampening fields, we're talking about the primordial shape of things from the quantum clouds on up. Atomic clouds, magnetic fields, galactic clouds all organize their aggregates into this torus shape.

According to the Simple Explanation cosmology, the torus shape is the actual shape of the container that surrounds our universe's space/time continuum.  It is also the shape of fractal consciousness. As we are all fractal iterations of the Universal Unit of Consciousness, we know this shape deep in our soul.

My guess is that the Colosseum's architect had some sort of creative vision or direct intuition that the stadium needed to be designed "just so." It's likely the shape was conceived as somehow blessed by the architect who transcribed it as if in a dream.

A Simple Explanation of Time

Scientific and philosophical orthodoxies have yet to crack the conundrum of time. There is no agreed-upon consensus regarding the nature of time. Time seems to be connected to space and the things that occupy space--it takes a certain amount of time to go from here to there--but unlike space and matter, time has no attributes. You can't find it anywhere, although it seems to be everywhere. You can't look at it, you can't weigh it. You can't collect it into a container. You can't buy or sell it.

Time seems to be peculiarly subjective. The subjective sense of time varies from person to person and from situation to situation. Sometimes it seems to pass quickly; sometimes it seems to go slowly. Its duration seems to change despite the steady ticking of the clocks that measure what we call its passing. Clocks do not actually measure time itself, but rather how long it takes a thing to go from here to there. 

As previously stated, clocks measure how long it takes something to go from here to there. Imagine if there were no objects and you could somehow observe truly empty space. Where would the time be then? Would there be any sense of time other than eternity? I think not.

In the absence of matter, the first distinction of time passing would be "before" and "after," but only in reference to something occurring or arising in that empty space. The Simple Explanation would say the "before" state of timeless eternity would describe the formless ground state of no-thought consciousness, prior to thought, prior to things. The Simple Explanation calls this initial state the "Metaverse."

The Simple Explanation suggests that pure consciousness then had a thought that unfolded our universe. 

This thought and subsequent universe were immediately encapsulated in the form of a 4-dimensional torus. The toroidal container isolates our familiar 3-D universe from the Metaverse, keeping the Metaverse eternal and uncluttered. 

The Simple Explanation calls this container the "Universal Unit of "Consciousness." 

Within this container, time is born, along with space. "After" is separated from "Before" by "Now."

The thought of our Universal Unit of Consciousness is the formulae for all of creation, for it is a whole and complete subset of the infinite and illimitable Metaverse. 

In the same manner a bucket sitting in the sea holds water indistinguishable from the water that lies outside the bucket, so, too, the Universal Unit of Consciousness holds the infinite within its limited space.

The torus is a rotating figure that continually pushes perfect order into our 3-D space from the perfection that lies outside of it. 

The algorithm of creation enters our space through the portal of "here and now" in a highly ordered state.

The order of creation is this: momentary chaos, then metaversal information, then energy, then highly ordered matter. As matter proceeds away from the portal of here and now it becomes less orderly as the residual entropy of chaos affects it.

The Simple Explanation states that every thing, every piece of "material," comes into our universe with its very own unit of consciousness (UC) that governs the behavior of that piece of matter. From particles on up, every piece of material in our universe "knows" how to do its job because it is a fractal of the universal unit of consciousness, and the universal UC knows all there is to know about creation because it holds all the formulae. 

It is through consciousness and information that our material universe is formed. In the case of an atom, its unit of consciousness (UC) needs to know how to reach out to other atoms and bond to form molecules. Molecules know how to bond to form elements. Organelles know how to bond to form cells. Cells know how to bond to form organs. Organs bond to form creatures. And so on. Each UC only needs to know how to do its own job. 

What's all of this got to do with time? The units of consciousness that enter through the portal of here and now to become the material of our universe not only bring the information they need to fill their material slot and do their jobs, they bring along a finite piece of eternity. This finite bit of eternity is what we experience as time. 

In other words:

Time is the 4-D universal torus pushing eternity through the portal of here and now into our confined 3-D space. 

This bears repeating: 

Time is the 3-D projection of eternity passing through through a hyperspatial torus. 

Now let's revisit the bucket of ocean water analogy: Outside of the bucket lies eternity. The water confined to the bucket is limited. We call the water inside the bucket time. We experience time as a phenomenon of consciousness because consciousness is passing from one location in the bucket's space to the another.

According to the Simple Explanation, the bucket holds our space-time inside a fractal border that can never be breached. Pure consciousness and the vastness of eternity lie just outside the bucket.

Each unit of consciousness passes one-by-one through the portal of here and now, from infinity into space and from eternity into time.

We are essentially units of consciousness, each with our own personal time manifesting along with our physical bodies. Time is subjective because each unit of consciousness is a subject with its own point of view. 

There is no such thing as objective time. Time is always observed through the consciousness of an observer. Time is a manifestation of eternity, observed through consciousness that has been confined to our 3-D space/time continuum.