Sleeping on a Mattress vs. Sleeping on the Ground

I had an opportunity to write an article on the topic of how the mattress one selects can influence one's quality of sleep. Sleep quality is very important for WashingtoniD.C. insiders, so I wanted to commend sleeping on the ground as well.

I have slept on the ground for several years in Alaska and learned that one tends to belch turning to one's left rather than to one's right. I believe the stomach isn't symmetrical so that is a gravity channel phenomenon. Sleeping on the ground lets one feel every sort of vibration and earthquake travelling through the muskeg or dirt. One discerns the difference between the short earth waves, the back and forth jigglers and the ocean-like longer length waves. Earth tremors and an important and relaxing benefit of sleeping on the ground.

The opportunities for encounters with nature and wildlife are greater sleeping on the ground that on a mattress as well. One discovers the eagles are out and about early and late singing their calls through the forest, and occasionally one may have a bear, porcupine or adverse humans approach one's sleeping site to enliven the time. These features of sleep are absent from the mattress placed indoors-though one has the advantage of stepping down to earth from the mattress rather than getting up from it-especially important when the weather is inclement or cold enough to remain below freezing all day.

The perfect sleeper indoors may dream of paper clips and provisions for the condo. The ground sleeper tends to remain alert for danger, falling trees (last year in Wasilla there were so many of the freeze dried things crashing about that even the moose must have taken notice), moose kicking the tent sharing a winter trail, large clumps of snow falling to crush the tent from trees, or in Colorado,Texas or Florida occasional high winds flattening the tent like their hurricane cousins. Sleeping through the approach and passing of Hurricane Wilma years ago was informative.

Why would any politician choose to sleep on a comfortable mattress instead of the ground?

Actual Dimensions; Fewer Than All Possible Dimensions?

One might wonder what dimensions are made of. It would be a tautology to define them as made of either mass or energy-things that are contained in dimensions or at least provide color content so that one might 'see' the otherwise transparent directions.

Mass and energy existing in dimensions even in a basic form such as strings or membranes ought not to be able to flow into dimensions that do not exist. One might tie a complex string knot in a finite number of dimensions, yet unless the nature of dimensions is that they can be infinite in number, their should be a limit to the number of dimensions a knot of mass and energy can take.

One must wonder if the number of dimensions any given universe might exploit is driven upward through cosmic evolution to the maximum number of dimensions possible, or if the number of dimemnsions that are possible for mass and energy to take is fated to be fewer than the potential number of dimensions that can exist potentially. One might ask if the potential number of dimensions that might exist must be the same as the number of dimensions that actually exist in the absence of mass or energy.

The obvious question though is; can larger meta-dimensions that surpass all possible universes in their contingent dimensions be anything besides omnipresent in relation to the contingent dimensions of mass-energy Universes?

September 26, 1983; Close Call for Nuclear Wipeout

September the 26th 1983 was an interesting day. Evidently the first world was within six minutes of being incinerated in a global thermonuclear war. The event in a Soviet military facility that day is recounted in a book named 'The Dead Hand' by David Hoffman. Yes it does read as well as a basic action adventure novel.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/15/AR2010011501387.html

Evidently the Soviets like their U.S. counterparts had less than 12 minutes from warning of opposition force attack to make a decision to launch a retaliatory strike. Since the U.S.A. had 1000 ballistic missiles in Minuteman silos pointed at the Soviet Union and they only need 35 minutes to reach their targets the balance of the nuclear scythe of the respective nations was precarious.

Soviet satellites watched the U.S.A. and the computers processing the data made a mistake signaling a U.S. launch. Some Soviet officer named Petrov had to make the decision to advise Chairman Andropov if the attack was real or not. Andropov had little time to decide to wipe out Washington D.C., Boston and N.P.R. forever before Pravada, Tass and Izvestia were also incinerated. Petrov trusting his gut that the super-computers processing the data were wrong said the attack signal was wrong. His choice stopped the unprovoked Soviet missile retaliatory strike. There are many other interesting stories in 'The Dead Hand'.

With computer viruses existing on the Internet one might wonder if someone might launch the missiles by remote control one day. Well, it's an interesting world with innumerable weapons of mass destruction in the hands of people that don't even know what sex they are supposed to function with much less balance a budget and have full employment and a recovering ecosphere.

Obama Term 1: Four Years of Extended Tax Cuts, Five Trillion More Debt and Four More Years of Guantanamo Bay

President Obama has a plan for the nation, or at least for a re-election campaign- renew cheer-leading for Bush era tax cuts excluding the wealthy with a snowball's chance in hell of passing through Congress. That would let the President cave in at the last minute again in return for peanuts for his Chicago supporters and possibly the gay union to include the rich in tax cuts for another two years. The cost of another Obama Administration term would be at least another 5 trillion dollars of public debt. The national unemployment rate has remained above 8% and may get worse if any of several economic dangers arise including global warming events.

Long ago when Barrack Obama was a young lad growing up in Indonesia and later Hawaii, the Democratic Party was a realistic advocate for the economic rights of the poor. Democratic leaders were not sycophants signing off on tax cuts for the rich now and then. Neither did they demote the interests of the poor and regard them as illegal aliens or first generation American Hispanics prevalently. Democratic administrations were not drunk on the champagne of celebrity and glitter of stars and globalism; they were able individuals with a sober view of national interests and practiced real-politick post-World War Two that brought about the rise of prosperity of all classes of Americans.

The Soviet Union formed during the lead up to the First World War. Since the U.S.A. made its wrong decision a century ago to invest in foreign wars the need to battle against political situations of its own creation has been a recurrent theme of political class. That unaffordable policy ought to stop, as should abortion of the health of the world ecosphere yet the President has no apparent capacity to escape from a political economy of cephalic idiocy put upon him by his Rasputin Cohort of Advising bankers seeking to just concentrate wealth as bankers occupationally do.

The President might have mentioned the heresy of making banks non-profit institutions and been convicted of impeachable offenses of course, yet he hasn't taken even simple steps to reduce unemployment such as halting all illegal immigration so the labor market can tighten up and wages rise in the U.S.A.

Because the broadcast media is owned by the rich with the Gay Pride C.N.N. and M.S.N.B.C. on the left and Rush Limbaugh on the right the non-party political system seems a fact with idiotic, unreformed market economics plundering social reality nationally and globally the usual advocate for elevation of short term profits to the front of the political agenda.

Rush Limbaugh mentioned that the poor receiving food stamps haven't enough pain. Pain is some sort of incentive that people require to look for work in Mr. Limbaugh's view. Some of his ideas are a big pain for-others of course, yet it is the fact that he hasn't any meaningful competition that allows him to concentrate wealth and bespeak road apples of ignorance on environmental affairs.

Without reform of the broadcast media such that all Americans can have a time slice on a local frequency via the Internet the concentration of political power through the corruption of the rich owning the broadcast spectrum isn't likely to change. President Obama hasn't taken a step in that necessary direction either. He seems to be contemplating how to add another five or ten trillion dollars of public debt for the next generation to struggle with if he can get re-elected.

Lagrange Point Global Cooling Product Hypotheses

There are many ideas for installing sunlight filters to reduce global heating on Earth. Some would place various filters or sunscreens at Lagrange points in the Earth-Moon system where they would be stationary. I would like to add the suggestion that constructing mirrors and polarizing filter screen adjustable units on the moon for easier low-gravity launch into orbit with lower per unit lift cost reach Lagrange Point 1 might be a cost-feasible approach if the construction on the moon is made with automatic robotic 'factories' built on Earth for delivery to the moon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point

There are probably innumerable ways of making cad/cam jet-sprayed mirrors on the Moon using lunar materials. An electromagnetic linear mass driver would launch the mirrors off the moon as independent components for assembly at the Lagrange point snapping in to place. The polarizing filtration should allow whatever spectrum of light wavelength in quantatively and qualitatively adjustably as science requires for appropriate reducttion of temperature. This should of course only be used as a last resort, yet of course it would still take a dedicated production program to ready ahead of time.

If the global heating problem is eventually solved by eliminating the surfeit of greenhouse gas emissions, the mirrors out to be moved and relocated for use as a very large reflector space telescope.

image credit: N.A.S.A. Lagrange Points Sun-Earth System with Gravity Field

President Obama Failed to Reach for the Stars

Reading through Jeff Sach's 'Commonwealth' on global challenges one discovers simple paradigmatic appraisals of the world's major challenges regarding demographics, environment and poverty and feasible approaches for solving them. President Obama has failed to nuse the bully pulpit of the Presidency the past four years to educate Americans on several basic points-and they need to know if federal foreign and domestic policy is to ever change from the same old, same old.

The population of Africa is expected to more than double from one billion 2.2 billion by 2050 while Asia's will increase by 1.3 billion. Europe and Russia's population will decrease from 713 million to 630 million appx. Italy's present 1.3 per family rate of population decrease would bring the present population of 58 billion downward by the year 2300 to 600,000 people. Evidently, and hopefully perhaps, population nexplosions can change to poulation implosions reducing population without war, plague or famine.

Most future wars are expected to be in the regions of high populkation growth and poverty, With prosperity the population growth halts and perhaps eventually reverses. Because of heterosexual facts no genetic loss need occurs with population reduction, and the infusing of the human genome may create a genetically rich human population on Earth stabilizing at whatever number is desirable.

Inn a way the demographic growth and war on the environment is a kind o9f battle of the bulge that humanity can win. Poverty needs to be eliminated and full employment occur within a rational free market with competent government. Fossil fuels generate 29 Gigatons of CO2  annually and deforestation seven. With smarter people, better politicians educating the public and a recovering ecosystem stopping loss of existing species humanity has hope that nit can remain alive and reach for the stars.

Weak Job CreationPerformance/Loss of habitat Area for Endangered Species

The dismal job creation rate of the Obama administration is of course a consequence of the social environment. The economy is not an ossified practico-inert structure that functions automatically and from which Americans must merely equally harvest the output. Politically the two parties seem to regard it as such with the results being weak job creation performance.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-added-80k-jobs-in-june-unemployment-remains-82percent/2012/07/06/gJQAP9WhRW_story.html

It is possible to create a positive social environment with full employment for Americans and a good ecosystem recovering from a couple centuries of over-use and abuse yet the blind consumption/greed is good way of viewing politics and life reinforced by the broadcast media isn't likely to move in that direction. Necessarily therefor it is the poor and the ecosystem-the commons and life on Earth beyond the yuppie mirrors and gold-plated bathroom fixtures that take a beating.

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/07/protected-habitat-shrunk-for-us-.html?rss=1

Creation and Cosmos - The Literal Values of Genesis 2nd Edition

Happily I released an epub second edition of Creation and Cosmos - The Literal Values of Genesis today at my lulu book store http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/garycgibson

The second edition has much new and improved content over the first that was published in 2005. I liked that edition yet it didn't convert well to epub format. I was able to get a lot of cosmology and philosophy read since 2005 that helped reshape the book.

Epub books are really fairly cool. They have an index that is something like a hyper-text outline that takes the reader to each section of the book. One can download a free epub reader from Adobe. 

The book is available today only at my bookstore-it will be a few weeks before it is available elsewhere.

The Anti-Free Enterprise Effect of Corporate Collectives

In the time of Adam Smith and the Founders of the United States-the 18th century, there were few large non-governmental organizations. In the present era vast corporate conglomerates wield extreme political influence and are essentially antithetical to democracy based on individual rights and competition.

Consider the parable of the Pro Basketball League with a team being regarded as a corporation for illustrative purposes. Each team has a cap upon the number of players that can compete on the floor at one time at five. What if there was no limit on the number of people a basketball team or corporation could hire and play in the game?

The Chicago Bulls with a strong budget might hire 100 strong, tall men to their team to play next year. Because the Bulls are strong and numerous and since the Dayton Doppelgangers can only afford two players the Bulls win each year brushing aside the Celtics and Miami Heat. Investors pour cash into the Bulls and soon the City of Chicago is the entire team although they can't fit on the basketball court at one time. The Dutch Harbor Destroyers have trouble affording enough players to beat Chicago, so the Bulls increase in power and number winning several championships in a row. Without a limit on the number of players or employees a corporation can have at a reasonable number such as 5000, free enterprise competition fades away into a memory with the preferred locations and advantages of global concentrated power buying up everything and even prostitute-broadcasters to kiss their rears extolling the virtues of large corporations.

A simple reform of capitalism and corporatism to promote free enterprise, competition and rectification of individualism in business would cap the number of employees of a corporation at 5000 and the number of corporations an individual could invest in at just three. Microsoft instead of having a preferred location in the software world able to displace through size and power select competition would need to excel through plain intellectual excellence.  Like the 2012 Miami Heat a corporation would need to win through individual excellence of its players, coaches and training rather than dominate a market through gross large scale and political influence.


In pre-Columbian North America just before colonization the most popular Aboriginal sport was a war-like game crossed between field hockey and rugby in which anything was fair except murder. Many died of course getting punched, kicked and hit with sticks. It was a decadent era in which the more refined sport of javelin hurling at a rolling puck on a fine clay court had been lost with the fall of Cohokia. The logic of global Corporate expansion and decrease of government competence is to move toward the vast, unregulated sport of anarchy ball war before falling under corporate-communist global tyranny by a few elite representatives.

Large multi-national corporations decrease competition and corrupt local politics. Politicians are bought and paid for by multi-nationals and environmental and social agendas are corrupted in favor of the powerful. Broadcast media outlets are owned by concentrated wealth and power while politicians are unwilling to reform federal law to reallocate wavelengths for democratic, local podcast citizen use.

Corporations are after all just phenomenal large collectives of people not dissimilar to large Soviet collectives. One might read Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason' and get a clue about the phenomenal nature of social collectives such as corporations and communes. Governing a nation of individuals with a free enterprise ethos and rationally regulated corporations advancing ideas creatively and taking market share through superior creativity would be far less expensive and corrupted than as in the present era. The founders would have been quite concerned about the influence of huge non-governmental organizations and their anisotropic political influence upon public affairs.

Media Belief In 'God Particle' Between Rock and Hard Place

A Higgs Particle is one of the bosun class of elementary particles and appears or condenses when the Higgs Field is over-excited. The particle quickly decays into hadrons and electrons. Some high-tech neo-pagan media swags call the hypothetical particle 'The God Particle'. Also known as the Higgs Particle after its theoretical physics progenitor (something like the mother of the god particle), the medialosophical ramifications of the expected announcement on the 4th of July of the very probably, almost for-sure inferential evidence of the existence of the 'God Particle' at the European C.E.R.N. facility will be a kind of larger sky-rocketing of certainty that there is a basic particle that in some way emerged or emerges from a basic Higgs Field.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson

A Higgs particle appearing from a quantum Higgs Field brings one to wonder about its relationship to dimensions, quarks, strings, membranes and time. One wonders how an entire field emerges with space-time isotropy to experience local anisotropy and energetic precipitation. Actually the Higgs Particle if discovered raises more questions than it solves philosophically speaking. It might be better regarded as a demi-urge particle, or of some less than absolute particle even if it was or is common at some point in the history of space-time. Not even the Higgs Field should be regarded as a 'God Field' except in the sense that the Creator issued everything that exists at some point or in some way, even if it can't be pointed to in any particular particle.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/02/us-usa-higgs-idUSBRE8610RK20120702