Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Process Note: The Albion Inn is in escrow
Our bed and breakfast here in Ashland, Oregon, has found a buyer and entered escrow. If the deal continues forward, we'll be vacating here October 15th.
Our first plan is to travel around a bit in the motorhome with the husband, dogs, and cats, stopping at bookstores along the way. I'm working on a lecture series of The Simple Explanation and hope to expound upon it to anyone who will listen. Stay tuned for further developments. Meanwhile, if your bookstore or group would like to invite me to speak, I'm ready.
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Torus Videos from Cyd's Kitchen
The fruit and vegetables are great examples of toruses and toroidal flow. Here are a couple of short videos I shot in the kitchen this week. Enjoy!
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
A Simple Explanation of the "Hot Bubble" Around Our Galaxy
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| The galactic X-ray background is superimposed on an image of infrared sources in this image. The X-rays (white contour lines) were detected by NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. White knots show very bright X-ray sources, mostly from black hole and neutron stars. | NASA/RXTE-COBE/Revnivtsev et al |
I've been developing the Simple Explanation's cosmology for five years now, here at the Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything blog. I'm happy to report to you that the various assertions made by the Simple Explanation continue to be upheld by recent scientific discoveries. Now and then I pass these along to you so you can see the Simple Explanation's utility in understanding science.
The image above is a side view of the Milky Way galaxy, showing the galactic X-ray background in red and a number of bright, white X-ray knots. The accompanying article, reprinted below, describes how the red bubble surrounding the plane of the Milky Way was recently proven to exist.
The Simple Explanation not only predicted this bubble, but further claims there is a bubble surrounding every object in the universe. Conventional astronomers believe the galaxy predated the bubble and that the bubble was created from an extremely powerful explosion near the center of the Milky Way. The Simple Explanation, on the other hand, thinks they've gotten the cart before the horse. According to the Simple Explanation, since its inception, the universe has been riddled with toroidal-shaped vortices of electromagnetic energy. It is the pre-existing torus that pulls particles together to form galaxies, stars, planets, and you-name-it. The gravitational disturbances predate the celestial bodies, they are not the result or by-product of the bodies, but the other way around.
I'd be surprised if astronomers don't find these bubbles everywhere they look, once they begin looking for them. I'll further predict for you right now that the bubbles will be found to be associated with the strange alignment of galactic axes already noted throughout the universe.
Here's the reprint from today's Huffington Post Science blog, by Joseph Castro:
There's an eerie glow that fills the sky but is visible only to X-ray detectors, and now, scientists have discovered the sources of it.
About 60 percent of the mysterious glow, called the "diffuse X-ray background," comes from X-ray-emitting hot gas located within a large cavity of space that extends out more than 300 light-years from the sun, new research shows. The rest of the glow comes from phenomena within the solar system.
The finding may help scientists better understand the local environment around the sun, researchers say.
Scientists discovered the diffuse X-ray background more than 50 years ago. They later determined that the high-energy X-rays with energies higher than 1 kiloelectronvolt (keV) come from the active cores of other galaxies, but the origin of the low-energy X-rays (0.25 keV) has long been debated. [Strange & Shining: Photos of Mysterious Night Lights]
Initially, astronomers thought the low-energy X-rays in the sky must originate outside the solar system, from a very hot cavity of gas dubbed the "local hot bubble," which likely formed from a supernova explosion that occurred 10 million to 20 million years ago. But in the late 1990s, researchers discovered a phenomenon called the solar-wind charge exchange, which produces 0.25 keV X-rays within the solar system.
Many scientists believed this new X-ray source could explain all of the diffuse X-ray background, thus casting doubt on whether the local hot bubble really exists. "Whether the sun is surrounded by a big bubble or not makes a big difference for our understanding of the structure of the local region of our galaxy," said Massimiliano Galeazzi, a physicist at the University of Miami and lead author of the new study, published yesterday (July 27) in the journal Nature.
Galeazzi and his colleagues set out to see if the sky's low-energy X-rays came from sources inside or outside of the solar system. "Basically, what we needed to find was a way to identify one source from the other," Galeazzi told Live Science. "What is something that is particular to the solar-wind charge exchange to separate it from the local bubble emission?"
The sun produces a continuous stream of charged particles called the solar wind. When these particles collide with hydrogen and helium atoms in the solar system, the atoms absorb the electrons and release X-rays — this is the solar-wind charge exchange. But unlike with the local hot bubble, there is a seasonal variation to the X-rays produced from the solar-wind charge exchange.
As the sun moves through the galaxy, hydrogen and helium atoms from the interstellar medium — the region of space between star systems — enter the solar system. The helium atoms form a kind of high-density tail, or trailing cone behind the sun, from the movement. This results in a correspondingly higher X-ray production from the solar wind. During December, Earth is downstream of this tail; by analyzing the X-ray production of the cone, scientists can determine how much the solar-wind charge exchange contributes to the overall diffuse X-ray background that's recorded by an all-sky survey of X-rays.
To analyze the signature of the tail, Galeazzi needed a special X-ray detector not used in traditional satellites. He and his colleagues refurbished and modernized a detector last used in the 1970s to map the soft X-ray sky, and used a rocket to launch it into Earth's atmosphere for 5 minutes.
They compared their data with old readings from the now-defunct ROSAT satellite, which produced an all-sky map of 0.25 keV X-rays in the 1990s. They found that the solar-wind charge exchange contributed about 40 percent of the X-rays in the ROSAT survey.
"The rest must come from the local bubble," Galeazzi said. "What is important is that we now know that within the galaxy, these bubbles exist, and they contribute to the structure of our local region in the galaxy."
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Process Report
At the start of our off-season I promised plenty of blog articles. That didn't happen to the extent I had anticipated. Ah well. My husband retired in December and now I find my spare time occupied with tandem activities rather than contemplation and writing.
We bought a motorhome, for example, and travelled with the cats and dogs for three weeks this winter.
The bed and breakfast is for sale, so even bigger changes are coming as we decide what's next. I'm trusting the universal UC to keep this Simple Explanation ball rolling. I'll be as interested as you in where it all winds up.
I recently gave a book talk at a bookstore in Roseburg, Oregon. Had a small but delightful crowd. They told me about Marko Rodin's toroidal geometry. Gary and I are looking at his math system now. Any of you have familiarity with it?
Onward and upward!
cyd
We bought a motorhome, for example, and travelled with the cats and dogs for three weeks this winter.
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| Cyd and Gary's mini-Winnebago 31' motorhome. Plenty of room for people, dogs, and cats. |
I recently gave a book talk at a bookstore in Roseburg, Oregon. Had a small but delightful crowd. They told me about Marko Rodin's toroidal geometry. Gary and I are looking at his math system now. Any of you have familiarity with it?
Onward and upward!
cyd
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
New Gravitational Waves Discovery Refuted by New Analyses
Ah well. The Gravitational Waves Discovery has been refuted by new analyses that say the data can be explained by the confounding effects of galactic dust. I'll reprint the refutation article so you can read it for yourself. Here is a reprint of the blog post that disputes the findings:
The article below has been refuted, although my Simple Explanation cosmology is unaffected by the news. So you can skip this part of the original article if you want to and go to the Simple Explanation at the end.
I'm pretty excited about this new gravitational wave discovery. On St. Patrick's Day, astronomers working from an observatory at the earth's South Pole announced they had captured the first clear images of gravitational waves that were generated a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.
Simply put, astronomers have previously been able to "look back in time" by looking as far outward into space as possible. Here's what that means. Light waves travel at 186,000 miles per second. When you trace a light beam back to its original light source--a star, for example--you are seeing its emitting source as it looked when it sent the light beams forth, all those miles and years ago. Using telescopes at the South Pole, astronomers have looked to the edge of the universe and have been able to see back to the very first light beams generated by the Big Bang. These photons that are hitting the telescopes were generated about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. That's pretty exciting in itself.
But the big news is that scientists have now been able to see the effects of gravitational waves upon the earliest light beams--from before light beams even existed. Looking to the farthest edge of space and examining what is called the "cosmic microwave background," a kind of background noise left over from the Big Bang, astronomers have seen the impressions of polarized wave forms impressing themselves upon the newly born light rays, wave forms which must have preceded visible light and originated, not 380,000 years ago, but 10 to the minus 35 seconds, also known as a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second. Not only have they seen the visual patterns of these polarized pressures exerting themselves upon the very first light rays, they have been able to measure their size and their energy, as well as the size of the space that surrounded them. Here's the image:
One of the most fabulous things about the measurements is that the waves are very tiny, small enough to be quantum scale. At this point in the beginning of time, the universe was expanding rapidly from the size of a single point to about the size of a small grapefruit. Theorists say it now looks as though those tiny quantum-sized pressure waves are the quantum parents of the cosmologically super-galactic gravitational waves predicted by relativity theory.
The quantum-sized gravitational waves are the physical proof linking quantum mechanics with the very large scale space dealt with in Einstein's general relativity. These two scales have been mathematically difficult to write into a single, unified theory. This newest finding of quantum-sized gravitational waves proves the universe of the very small and the very large comes from the same actual space and time and both contain the same basic forces, therefore the very small and very large must be fully compatible and able to be expressed in a single, unified theory.
This news is currently awaiting verification by another source. If proved true, this is the discovery of a lifetime, one that mathematicians and physicists have been seeking since Einstein. Cosmologists admit their confusion in the face of this news. The Standard Model needs amending to accommodate new findings concerning the universe. Primarily, it is time to figure out how gravitational waves could have propagated outward from the Big Bang--what propelled them in the first place? What exactly is it that "Banged"? And how does gravity turn from a repulsive outward force to an attractive force?
The Simple Explanation of Gravitational Waves:
Please have a second look at the Simple Explanation's unified cosmological theory. I am happy to report to you that my theory continues to hold up as all of this new data comes in. The news is not upsetting this applecart the way it is upsetting mainstream cosmologists. Yes, I realize the Simple Explanation vocabulary doesn't sound particularly scientific, but if you can get beyond the language to the mechanism, you will see that this physics works. From the Simple Explanation book:
"Particles rush into our universe from the zero point field at the center, exploding outward, filling our universe from the middle. The outer fractal membrane presses inward to contain the energy exploding outward. Matter flows outward from the middle, repulsed by the energy streaming into the universe from the center, and coherence presses inward from the outer universal boundary."
This chalk drawing represents the way that an inwardly imploding force (like gravity) becomes an outward exploding force (like the Big Bang), and vice versa. Imagine that the outside skin of the figure above not only presses inward on the blue interior, but it attracts others toward itself, as it would if it were a graviton particle. Add a toroidal circulatory flow, as represented by the white arrows, flowing upward from the equator and over the lip into the funnel of the singularity. Can you imagine these forces in motion? Now get this, all of the force associated with the outside skin of the torus is concentrated down from the area of the exterior of the figure to a singularity at the tip of the inward funnel. If you are able to visualize this along with me, you will understand the extreme pressure of that type of concentration.
In the Simple Explanation's model, the pressures exerted at the middle take a little hyperspatial twist there at the middle and explode outward into the interior of the torus. Here is the source of the Bang, as all that pressure pushes into our space-time continuum.
The Simple Explanation cosmology proposes that this primordial toroidal twist arising out of the singularity is the source of the Big Bang. This toroidal pattern has imprinted itself throughout our universe. It's my expectation that the theory of everything will be found to involve toroidal forces affecting all known relationships, from ordinary matter and energetic exchanges, to dark matter and dark energy.
The astronomers who earlier this year announced that they had
evidence of primordial gravitational waves jumped the gun, two independent
analyses suggest.
The papers, published on the arXiv preprint repository, propose
that the original analysis did not properly account for the confounding effects
of galactic dust. Although further observations may yet confirm the findings,
independent researchers now say they no longer think that the original data
constituted significant evidence.
"Based on what we
know right now, we have no evidence for or against gravitational waves," says
Uros Seljak, a cosmologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and
co-author of one of the latest studies.
Astronomers using the BICEP2 radio teleÂscope at the South Pole
announced in March that they had found a faint twisting pattern in the
polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the radiation left over
from the Big Bang. This pattern, they said, was evidence for primordial
gravitational waves ripples in the fabric of space-time generated in the
Universe's first moments. The findings were widely hailed as confirmation of
the theory of cosmic inflation, which holds that the cosmos ballooned in size
during the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
But the new analyses
suggest that the twisting patterns in the CMB polarization could just as easily
beaccounted for by dust in
the Milky Way.
The papers follow a presentation three weeks ago by Raphael
Flauger, a theoretical physicist at New York University and the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton, who re-examined a map of galactic dust used by
BICEP2. Flauger concluded that the BICEP2 researchers had probably
underestimated the fraction of polarization caused by dust in the map, which
was compiled from data from the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft.
Flauger says that when the dust is fully accounted for, the signal that can be attributed
to gravitational waves either vanishes or is greatly diminished.
"I had thought that the [BICEP2] result was very
secure," said Alan Guth, the cosmologist who first proposed the inflation
concept in 1980, after learning about Flauger's talk. "Now the situation
has changed," added Guth, who works at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in Cambridge.
The BICEP2 researchers have argued that the Planck map figured
in only one of the six models that they used to examine the role of dust. But
in a paper posted to the arXiv server on 28 May, Flauger and his co-authors
David Spergel and Colin Hill, both of Princeton University in New Jersey, say
that the five other models are based on a low estimate between 3.5% and 5% of
the fraction of total polarization caused by galactic dust. Extrapolation from
a more detailed map, released last month by the Planck team, suggests that the
fraction is closer to 815%, Spergel explains.
With those updated numbers, he says,there's no evidence for the
detection of gravitational waves. But a final determination cannot be made
until a more precise dust map, expected to be released by the Planck team in
October, is available, he adds.
In the other analysis, Seljak and Michael Mortonson, a
cosmologist also at the University of California, Berkeley, re-examined BICEP2
data on how the polarization signal varies with the frequency of the microwaves
it detects. The BICEP2 team had checked its results against data recorded at
lower frequency by an older telescope, BICEP1. They found that the intensity of
polarization did not change from one frequency to the other in the way expected
if it were caused by dust, and concluded that the data favoured gravitational
waves over dust by an 11-to-1 margin.
But Seljak and Mortonson say that the BICEP2 analysis did not
exclude data on small spatial scales, or fractions of degrees of the sky. That
is a problem, Seljak says, because on these small scales, gravitational lensing
in which the path of light bends around massive objects exactly mimics the
twisting polarization pattern that gravitational waves imprint on larger
spatial scales.
Accounting for lensing,the primordial gravity-wave signal is
preferred to dust with odds of less than two to one in other words, not
significant odds at all, says Seljak.
BICEP2 co-leader James Bock, a physicist at the California
Institute of Technology in Pasadena, says that although his group's main paper
has been revised based on many referee comments and resubmitted for
publication, the evidence for gravitational waves is certainly not being
retracted. The BICEP2 results are basically unchanged, he says.
Further observations may yet see the cosmic ripples emerge from
the dust. It is possible that forthcoming data from several observatories
including the Keck Array, a telescope at the South Pole built by the BICEP2
teamand the Planck team's full-sky map of CMB polarization will confirm that a
signal is there, although perhaps not as strong as first suggested.
This story originally appeared in Nature News.
The article below has been refuted, although my Simple Explanation cosmology is unaffected by the news. So you can skip this part of the original article if you want to and go to the Simple Explanation at the end.
I'm pretty excited about this new gravitational wave discovery. On St. Patrick's Day, astronomers working from an observatory at the earth's South Pole announced they had captured the first clear images of gravitational waves that were generated a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.
Simply put, astronomers have previously been able to "look back in time" by looking as far outward into space as possible. Here's what that means. Light waves travel at 186,000 miles per second. When you trace a light beam back to its original light source--a star, for example--you are seeing its emitting source as it looked when it sent the light beams forth, all those miles and years ago. Using telescopes at the South Pole, astronomers have looked to the edge of the universe and have been able to see back to the very first light beams generated by the Big Bang. These photons that are hitting the telescopes were generated about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. That's pretty exciting in itself.
But the big news is that scientists have now been able to see the effects of gravitational waves upon the earliest light beams--from before light beams even existed. Looking to the farthest edge of space and examining what is called the "cosmic microwave background," a kind of background noise left over from the Big Bang, astronomers have seen the impressions of polarized wave forms impressing themselves upon the newly born light rays, wave forms which must have preceded visible light and originated, not 380,000 years ago, but 10 to the minus 35 seconds, also known as a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second. Not only have they seen the visual patterns of these polarized pressures exerting themselves upon the very first light rays, they have been able to measure their size and their energy, as well as the size of the space that surrounded them. Here's the image:
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Gravitational waves from inflation generate a faint but distinctive twisting pattern in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background, known as a "curl" or B-mode pattern. For the density fluctuations that generate most of the polarization of the CMB, this part of the primordial pattern is exactly zero. Shown here is the actual B-mode pattern observed with the BICEP2 telescope, which is consistent with the pattern predicted for primordial gravitational waves. The line segments show the polarization strength and orientation at different spots on the sky. The red and blue shading shows the degree of clockwise and anti-clockwise twisting of this B-mode pattern. CREDIT: BICEP2 Collaboration
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The quantum-sized gravitational waves are the physical proof linking quantum mechanics with the very large scale space dealt with in Einstein's general relativity. These two scales have been mathematically difficult to write into a single, unified theory. This newest finding of quantum-sized gravitational waves proves the universe of the very small and the very large comes from the same actual space and time and both contain the same basic forces, therefore the very small and very large must be fully compatible and able to be expressed in a single, unified theory.
This news is currently awaiting verification by another source. If proved true, this is the discovery of a lifetime, one that mathematicians and physicists have been seeking since Einstein. Cosmologists admit their confusion in the face of this news. The Standard Model needs amending to accommodate new findings concerning the universe. Primarily, it is time to figure out how gravitational waves could have propagated outward from the Big Bang--what propelled them in the first place? What exactly is it that "Banged"? And how does gravity turn from a repulsive outward force to an attractive force?
The Simple Explanation of Gravitational Waves:
Please have a second look at the Simple Explanation's unified cosmological theory. I am happy to report to you that my theory continues to hold up as all of this new data comes in. The news is not upsetting this applecart the way it is upsetting mainstream cosmologists. Yes, I realize the Simple Explanation vocabulary doesn't sound particularly scientific, but if you can get beyond the language to the mechanism, you will see that this physics works. From the Simple Explanation book:
"Particles rush into our universe from the zero point field at the center, exploding outward, filling our universe from the middle. The outer fractal membrane presses inward to contain the energy exploding outward. Matter flows outward from the middle, repulsed by the energy streaming into the universe from the center, and coherence presses inward from the outer universal boundary."
This chalk drawing represents the way that an inwardly imploding force (like gravity) becomes an outward exploding force (like the Big Bang), and vice versa. Imagine that the outside skin of the figure above not only presses inward on the blue interior, but it attracts others toward itself, as it would if it were a graviton particle. Add a toroidal circulatory flow, as represented by the white arrows, flowing upward from the equator and over the lip into the funnel of the singularity. Can you imagine these forces in motion? Now get this, all of the force associated with the outside skin of the torus is concentrated down from the area of the exterior of the figure to a singularity at the tip of the inward funnel. If you are able to visualize this along with me, you will understand the extreme pressure of that type of concentration.
In the Simple Explanation's model, the pressures exerted at the middle take a little hyperspatial twist there at the middle and explode outward into the interior of the torus. Here is the source of the Bang, as all that pressure pushes into our space-time continuum.
The Simple Explanation cosmology proposes that this primordial toroidal twist arising out of the singularity is the source of the Big Bang. This toroidal pattern has imprinted itself throughout our universe. It's my expectation that the theory of everything will be found to involve toroidal forces affecting all known relationships, from ordinary matter and energetic exchanges, to dark matter and dark energy.
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Nested Rainbow Slinky Torus
Wow. Here's a pretty torus sculpture Gary and I just created.
Step one involves bending the Slinky around into a torus and securing the torus with a plastic connector. Figured that part out about a year ago.
This morning we took three different-sized Slinky's and stacked them.
There is a third Slinky nested inside the center. From the top it looks very much like a flower.
Here's a very cool one-minute video that shows all three Slinky's.
You would think that the Slinky toruses would have a difficult time nesting into each other, but the opposite is the case. It threaded itself perfectly as it clicked easily into place. You try it!
I put the camera up against the outside Slinky and it looks like you're inside a giant torus! Magical!
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| Nested rainbow Slinky torus |
This morning we took three different-sized Slinky's and stacked them.
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| Sorry this is sideways--can't get the darned picture to stay flipped! |
Then we pushed the top two Slinky's down into the large rainbow-colored Slinky. Voila! Triple nested Slinky torus!
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| Nested Slinky torus sculpture by Cyd and Gary Ropp |
Here's a very cool one-minute video that shows all three Slinky's.
You would think that the Slinky toruses would have a difficult time nesting into each other, but the opposite is the case. It threaded itself perfectly as it clicked easily into place. You try it!
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| Three nested slinky's from the top. |
Thursday, December 19, 2013
A Simple Explanation of Seth and the Responsibility Assumption Doctrine
In 1963,
American psychic Jane Roberts began dictating a series of seance sessions to
her husband that continued until her death in 1984. Roberts believed she was “channeling”
a dis-incorporated spirit from another dimension, known as Seth.The resulting dictated
manuscripts are known as the Seth Material. According to Wikipedia, the Seth
Material forms one of the cornerstones of modern “New Age” philosophy, and all
New Age philosophers promote one or another of Seth’s declarations.
I admit to not having read any of the Seth Material prior to preparing for this blog article. Furthermore, I can safely state that the Simple Explanation is NOT derivative in any sense from New Age materials of any sort. My own flavor of the Christian meme bundle forbids dabbling in the New Age. The Simple Explanation is solely derived from original source ancient manuscripts such as the Bible and the Tao te Ching, up-to-the-minute scientific discoveries, and whatever academic studies a bachelor’s in science, two master’s degrees, and a doctorate in philosophy have exposed me to.
The natural outgrowth of this philosphy is the doctrine of Responsibility Assumption. This sense of responsibility goes far beyond the usual meaning of personal responsibility. In this Seth doctrine:
I admit to not having read any of the Seth Material prior to preparing for this blog article. Furthermore, I can safely state that the Simple Explanation is NOT derivative in any sense from New Age materials of any sort. My own flavor of the Christian meme bundle forbids dabbling in the New Age. The Simple Explanation is solely derived from original source ancient manuscripts such as the Bible and the Tao te Ching, up-to-the-minute scientific discoveries, and whatever academic studies a bachelor’s in science, two master’s degrees, and a doctorate in philosophy have exposed me to.
So, here’s what
a fresh reading of the Seth Material shows me. From Wikipedia:
The Seth Material says that all individuals create their
own circumstances and experiences within the shared earthly environment,
similar to the doctrine of responsibility assumption. This concept is expressed in the phrase "you create
your own reality",[20] which may have originated with the
Seth readings. The inner self, or inner ego, is responsible for the
construction and maintenance of the individual's physical body and immediate
physical environment, and the unfolding of events is determined by the expectations,
attitudes and beliefs of the outer ego, that portion of the self that human
beings know as themselves.[18] "If you want to change your
world, you must first change your thoughts, expectations, and beliefs."[27] Or, more succinctly: "You get
what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule"[28] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Material
The Seth Material
claims that there is no objective reality that is not a projection of the
individual’s mind. The tree you see is literally projected from your mind’s
eye; it is not the tree being received into your eye’s sensors but the other
way around. You don't "hear" the thunder; your audio nerves make the thunder:
Nerve impulses travel outward from the body, along invisible
pathways, in much the same manner that they travel within the body. These
pathways are carriers of telepathic thoughts, impulses, and desires containing
all the codified data necessary for translating any thought or image into
physical actuality, altering seemingly objective events.
This telepathy operates constantly at an
"automatic" or subconscious level, providing communication to back up
sensory data. Telepathy is the glue that holds the physical universe in
position, so that you can agree on the existence and properties of objects. In
one respect, your body and all physical objects go flying out in all directions
from the inner core of the whole self. The physical environment is, therefore,
as much a part of you as your own body. What seems to be a
perception, an objective concrete event independent from you, is instead the
materialization of your own emotions, energy and mental environment. (http://sethquotes.paradisenow.net/seth_excerpts_part_iii.html)
The natural outgrowth of this philosphy is the doctrine of Responsibility Assumption. This sense of responsibility goes far beyond the usual meaning of personal responsibility. In this Seth doctrine:
You must watch the pictures that you paint with your
imagination... ...your environment and the conditions of your life at any given
time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. You form physical
materializations of these realities within your own mind.
If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health, or desperate
loneliness, these will be automatically materialized, for these thoughts
themselves bring about the conditions that will give them reality in physical
terms. If you would have good health, then you must imagine this as vividly as
in fear you imagine the opposite.
You create your own difficulties. This is true for each
individual. The inner psychological state is projected outward, gaining
physical reality - and this regardless of the nature of the psychological
state....The rules apply to everyone. You can use them for your own benefit and
change your own conditions once you realize what they are. http://sethquotes.paradisenow.net/seth_excerpts_part_iii.html
This doctrine forms
the foundation for the popular New Age book, A Course in Miracles. But I usually
see people interpret Responsibility Assumption in a way not intended by Seth.
For, according to the Seth Material, you not only create the positive and
negative opportunities in your life, there really is no life beyond your
imagination. The Seth Material likens reality to one’s dreams. We all accept that the objects and people in our dreams are constructions and projections of our mind, playing out in the theatre of sleep. Seth said reality is exactly the
same—nothing but a projection of our senses onto a nothingness, giving us the
illusion of material existance.
In contrast, the
Simple Explanation theory posits a universal medium of consciousness as the
ether within which our physical manifestation floats. In my theory, there is aphysical reality we all share, arising directly from the universal mind, which I call the Universal Unit of Consciousness. So in that sense, matter is a
projection of mind, but the BIG MIND we all share, thus we can also share a
consensual reality. It seems to me that if one took Seth precisely, people would be totally
isolated in their private material universes, with others being projections of
themselves rather than stand-alone entities. Sounds lonely.
The Simple
Explanation says that each Unit of Consciousness is an emergent property of the
newly formed matter or aggregation of matter. Each UC is a fractal chip off the
Universal UC’s block, with all possible consciousness inherent thereto. Each UC
carries the formula of the universe, but it only manifests the piece of the
formula important to this particular life of which it is a part. So
theoretically a sub-atomic particle does indeed carry the DNA for Jill Smith in
New York, but it only manifests the quark pattern of spin up or spin down. The
formula’s manifestation is not mindful—i.e. even humans with all their capacity
for human thought do not control autonomic processes of their organism. The organs do their jobs without any oversight from my Egoic thought. The
quark just naturally manifests the appropriate action needed to spin up or spin
down. It doesn’t think about it, so a brain is irrelevant to the equation.
Here’s how the Seth
Material puts it:
The inner self has a virtually infinite reservoir from which
to draw knowledge and experience. All kinds of choices are available, and the
diversity of physical matter is a reflection of this deep source and variety.
(http://sethquotes.paradisenow.net/seth_excerpts_part_iii.html)
(http://sethquotes.paradisenow.net/seth_excerpts_part_iii.html)
On that, we agree.
But where Seth uses the vessel of human consciousness as the Creator, the Simple Explanation spreads
that infinite reservoir of knowledge out to the entirety of Creation. Creation
could, indeed, be called a projection of consciousness, but the Simple Explanation attributes
the act of Creating to Everything created, not just to human minds. And each
created thing is creator of only its personal domain, not Everything Else. I am
in charge of making decisions related to my own human life only; each other entity is
in charge of making decisions related to its own life, whether it’s a quark, a
photon, a molecule, a cell, or a dog. It’s a complex web of interrelated material
projections at every possible level of aggregation. Entities are occasionally given the opportunity to prove they carry more information than their original manifestation needed, such as when a stem cell is prodded into becoming a different sort of cell, or an annihilated particle becomes other things.
Consciousness is not a by-product of the brain. Consciousness is the ground state of being. Maybe this short youtube video will help your understanding.
Thought is something
else entirely. Ruminative thinking is a by-product of the Ego. And the Ego is a
by-product of the physical aggregation of the matter that makes up anything. A
rock does not have much of an Ego, because its aggregation of minerals doesn’t
need to do much thinking. Life is not defined by thought. If it were, then
micro-cephalic humans or people in comas wouldn’t qualify as alive.
So, when people call
objects “living,” they are generally referring to the attributes of
carbon-based life forms. And all of those life forms exhibit what could be
called thought, albeit tiny, highly-constrained thoughts in the simplest
single-celled entities. The more complex the carbon-based aggregate is, the
greater its need for independent decision-making, and the greater its capacity
for “thought.” Still though, the thoughts are not really necessary for
survival. The bacteria doesn’t have to think, “boy, i’m really hungry!” It only
has to acquire nutrition at the earliest opportunity, and it can do that with
blindfolds on.
When you think about
it, our human lives proceed largely on autopilot. You have the autonomic
functions of our organism going on outside of thinking (breathing, food
acquisition, waste elimination, etc.); you also have most of life’s daily cultural
routines going on without much thought. Do you
consciously savor each bite of your food or how to cut with a knife? Do you have to decide to brush
your teeth or how to take a bath? Do you pay attention to each action of your
driving? ...hands on the wheel at 10 and 2, now turn 42 degrees left, now
straighten the wheel, now step on the gas pedal slowly, increasing pressure.... No. You just drive and maybe chat with your
passenger or listen to the radio, and expect that simple consciousness and the body will take care of the details until thought is needed.
The Simple
Explanation of the Seth Material is that these represent a particular meme
bundle “channeled” from the transpersonal field. The author, Jane Roberts, believed
the Seth entity existed independently of her personal mind. The Simple
Exlanation is that Seth could represent a discorporate Ego attached to this
particular collection of memes, “living” on the non-material plane. The meme
bundle exists separately from Seth, but the Seth personality is all about that
bundle.
Having said that, it
is my personal belief that just because an entity exists in a different plane
doesn’t make everything they say correct. They could be less deluded than I am,
or they could be more deluded. Discorporation does not necessarily equal truth
or wisdom. It depends on the entity involved,
just as it does here on the material plane. Yes, the enlightened few
may be less deluded after or between lives. But some Egos cling to their meme
bundles, right or wrong, even after death. Personally, I think Seth got a lot of things right, but it also misses the mark on the subject of consensual reality. This is why "magic" is so hard to make happen--there are other variables out there in this reality we all share above and beyond my personal will and wanting. I am not, after all, The Creator of the entire Universe. I'm just a co-creator, along with everybody and everything else. That is why we all have to pull together to help the entire ecology of which we are a part. We can't just sit and wish.
Monday, December 9, 2013
NASA Illustrates Galactic Plane in Super Massive Black Hole--It's a Torus!
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| Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss |
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| Torus pole runs up and down the funnels, torus plane cuts the torus in two horizontally. Chalk drawing by Cyd Ropp |
Here's another NASA illustration of a black hole. You can see they are imagining the torus. See how the torus looks like the torus in the chalk drawing above?
In the following illustration and its accompanying description, NASA mentions the associated torus of dust.
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Chandra X-Ray Observatory provided this composite X-ray (blue and green) and optical (red) image of the active galaxy NGC 1068 showing gas blowing away in a high-speed wind from the vicinity of a central supermassive black hole. Regions of intense star formation in the inner spiral arms of the galaxy are highlighted by both optical and x-ray emissions. A doughnut shaped cloud of cool gas and dust surrounding the black hole, known as the torus, appears as the elongated white spot . It has a mass of about 5 million suns and is estimated to extend from within a few light years of the black hole out to about 300 light years.
NASA Identifier: MSFC-0301628 Read more: http://www.dvidshub.net/image/751601/wind-and-reflections-black-hole-galaxy-ngc-1068#.UqYWwtiA200#ixzz2n0UCgvND The difference between the way science currently thinks of these toruses and the way I think of them is this: astronomers think the torus is a by-product of the black holes, whereas I think the black hole vortices are the funnels of the torus shape. It's a cart-before-the-horse situation. A "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" situation. In other words, I am suggesting the dust clouds, the galactic planes, and the black holes vortices are really associated with the torus, which is the primordial shape. The black hole is the center of the torus. The vortices are the torus funnels. The galactic plane is the toroidal plane, and that is precisely why the matter accumulates there.
Do you see what I'm saying?
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Saturn's Hexagonal Flow -- Science News Repost
Saturn’s six-sided cloud pattern gets a close look
SUPER SWIRL A sharp boundary defines the six-sided cloud pattern that spans about 30,000 kilometers across Saturn’s north pole, as seen in this new false-color image from the Cassini spacecraft. Hampton, SSI, JPL-Caltech/NASA
Saturn’s strange six-sided cloud pattern has gotten its day in the sun.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped the highest-resolution images to date of the planet’s hexagonal jet stream, which fuels swirling, cloudy storms at the planet’s north pole. Because of recent changes in Saturn’s tilt that allowed the sun to shine on the region, astronomers were able to get a better view and understanding of the roughly 30,000-kilometer-wide cloud structure.
Using colored filters, the Cassini team identified large particles, shown in pink, swirling in the planet’s lower atmosphere. Large particles at higher altitudes appear green, and tiny particles higher in the atmosphere appear blue. Those tiny particles define the sharp boundary of the hexagonal jet stream.
While the geometric shape of Saturn’s jet stream seems odd, its existence is not. Earth’s jet stream also forms cloud swirls around the North Pole. However, “Earth is basically really messy,” said Cassini team member Kunio Sayanagi of Hampton University in Virginia during a Google Hangout by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on December 4.
Air currents on Earth jumble up clouds by blowing over continents, mountains and oceans. But gaseous Saturn is free of solid ground, so the six-sided cloud structure persists and has probably been there for decades, possibly centuries.
Citations
Jet Propulsion Laboratory News. NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon. Published online December 4, 2013.
Further Reading
A. Grant. Cassini photo puts Earth in perspective. Science News. Vol. 184, August 24, 2013, p. 8.
I knew the top photo reminded me of something. It's these star-shaped gravity waves that were produced at the micro-level. Here is another example of a very small gravity phenomenon behaving like a very large gravity phenomenon. They can both be seen as examples of toroidal flow at different scales. These gravity waves were produced in circular containers that constrained their outer edges. The pole and the geometric forms arose spontaneously during a micro-shaking experiment.
Take a look at this bell pepper I was using at breakfast this morning. The petals around its north pole are hexagonal like Saturn's North Pole. Isn't that funny? It has something to do with toroidal shapes. I've often used pictures of fruits and vegetables to illustrate tori in nature. Perhaps this hexagonal shape is a fundamental shape thrown off by the toroidal flow.
The distribution of stars in the along the pink zones looks like the same pattern of the straight-sided hexagon surrounding a pole, as is the green part of the pepper, and the hexagonal pattern around the North Pole of Saturn. Not only that, but you can see that its outside bubble-shaped clouds resembles the bulging walls of the bell pepper as well as the bubbles lying outside the hexagonal shape in the gravity wave in the upper picture.
I'm suggesting that the reason these patterns repeat far and wide is that they are basic toroidal flow dynamics. Their presence implies the torus pattern underlying their assemblages.
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| Star-shaped gravity waves |
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| Bell pepper displays same hexagonal shape around its north pole as the hexagon that surrounds Saturn's North Pole. |
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| NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Crab Nebula, 2013 |
Now take a look at the Crab Nebula. Do you see the bright pink hexagonal ring? I've highlighted the lines I'm talking about in the picture below.
The distribution of stars in the along the pink zones looks like the same pattern of the straight-sided hexagon surrounding a pole, as is the green part of the pepper, and the hexagonal pattern around the North Pole of Saturn. Not only that, but you can see that its outside bubble-shaped clouds resembles the bulging walls of the bell pepper as well as the bubbles lying outside the hexagonal shape in the gravity wave in the upper picture.
I'm suggesting that the reason these patterns repeat far and wide is that they are basic toroidal flow dynamics. Their presence implies the torus pattern underlying their assemblages.
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