Context of the Universal Widget

Reading for 18 minutes from my science fiction novel (available free in ebook at lulu.com/garycgibson) on the context of the Universal Widget in cosmology and spacetime. Voice over intermittent Alaska video.

An Excellent Accordion (poem)

When a builder of metaphors

brought time and space together

decorating dreams with temporal ocean waves

spinning strings of infinite dimensions

like cat's cradles

that was a show

If every Universe is an excellent accordion

compact as a singularity

in the beginning

where modge panc-mind plans of God

said ‘let there be light’

From the center moving wherewithal

sparks of expansion may grow

like polkas and frescoes over expanses

of compact dots of space and time weathering

360 degrees of notation

the singularity of information

nearly nothingness centered in-itself

as potential symphonies still unsounded

are blues and polkas unbounded

-flickering dreams unfounded

except in ordination  of God

Destinations of Multiverse

metaphors being more than nothingness

whild spacetime expands every place

reaching into every possible Universe

stretching filaments of structure everywhere

music of  spheres, of stars,

of worlds that’d never been

gave a disconformal, conformal pace

built lighter, and heavier, than air

In the midst upon a roundish world

appeared fallen mankind with sin unfurled

eradicating nature for lusty simple goals

of loutish immorality fancy interiors swole

swinish nature to kill the spirit

twas never possible that none would jeer it

save for the elect whom with grace that were saved

Information arisen from nothing becomes complexity

virtually simplifies existence like chords

Isaac Newton pondered and Einstein knew

information stretched with Shannon entropy

is a thin cloud

The Word never created or destroyed

recycles pasts of providence

with black holes penultimates waiting return

unto the one with all complexity in simplest form

from nothing to everything to nothingness

everything that was drawn out like manifest wealth

actualized as diamonds

find transitions to dust

discovering present, future, past

Metaphorical red shifts when chords dissipate energy

crunching colors like rivers running down

-when the extent of spacetime returns through itself

to end infinite, unbound

signpost information returns to nothingness

slipping away like diminishing tsunami ripples in darkness

decreasing as the Lord increases

eternal light for-others

an excellent accordion

fades its tunes

into new song.

Creation; Adam Eve- Tree of Knowledge WCF (video)

Blog post with eight minutes of video, seventeen minutes of audio. Voice over Alaska images



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Q9WCF Theology/ Multiverse (video)

Another blog comment about the Westminster Standards specifically question nine, six days of creation and the level 4 Multiverse. Voice over Alaska images

Theology, Multiverse & Wavefunction (video)

A blog comment on multiverse and the wavefunction from a theological point of view.

On Six 'Literal Days' of Creation and General Relativity

I think some might miscategorize my point of view on creation as 'theistic evolution'. It is true that I was an early writer on various flavours of that sort of inquiry-In fact I believe there is still some of that in 'Creation and Cosmos; The Literal Values of Genesis', however I have moved away from that toward a more God-centered theological paradigm, abandoning to a certain extent, much of the effort to translate God's nature and works of the Word into terms of natural philosophy. Natural philosophy and the natural world may be held to reflect God's glory, and the second of the Gerstner lectures on the WCF say that all know God through nature yet cannot be saved through that knowledge (although God through Jeremiah said that everyone knows him yet they forget who he is), yet as I pointed out in my paper inclusive of multiverse theory-a MUT (Math Universe Theory) paradigm wherein the Universe is at its heart a field of purely abstract mathematical points, would fail to recognize the Holy Spirit as issuing that field and the points, if they existed, implicitly-it just isn't possible to overcome the contingent being limits that are comparable I suppose to the philosophical criterion of solipsism.

Six literal days though is itself a human-based paradigm of natural law and understanding when it implicitly defines what a 'day' is so far as it has a space-time definition such as those used by people of the 2nd millennium B.C. They had the same meaning of 'day' perhaps in common understanding as people of the modern world, yet they did not understand the nature of spacetime as do modern people familiar with General and Special Relativity. Genesis uses the word 'day' instead of the phrase 'literal day'. A day with an adjective attached is not as general as that of a day without. That sort of day has a specialized meaning. A Jewish day of the period when Jesus was crucified ended at a certain hour (and began at a certain hour)...those hours differ from daylight savings time or standard time in the U.S.A.

Some of course, alternatively define day largely in its opposition to night. Look for the Lord while it is still light and so forth. The Lord is the light in the darkness. One may use the word 'day' as a time period in which light exists rather than darkness, or as a period of hours such as the 24 of the Babylonian hour (I believe that's a Babylonian number). Regardless, spacetime has different values for time at different locations and rates of travel. Except for Jesus Christ I think it unlikely that God has ever been subject to Earth-surface spacetime paradigm confines. People very much want to live in a Universe where time is the same all over. Newton presumed that. He thought that if it is 1 pm in England the same time exists at Proxima Centauri several light years distant, and he would have been wrong in that assumption.

If the people of the Westminster Confession had believed the world was flat yet had said the whole world is under God's power, I would have pointed out the error in the first opinion and the truth of the second. The writers of the WCF just agreed with "a. Gen. 1:31. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was
very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."

That is, they did not define what a day is other than to say 'six literal days'. Here it is in question 9 of the shorter catechism; "Q. 9. What is the work of creation?
A. The work of creation is, God’s making all things of nothing,
by the word of his power, z in the space of six days, and all very good. a"

page 17, chapter 4 WCF "1. It pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, a for the manifestation of the glory of his eternal power, wisdom, and goodness, b in the beginning, to create, or make of nothing, the world, and all things therein whether visible or invisible, in the space of six days; and all very good. c"

The WCF people were not dummies. They were very bright people. They wrote in such a way that they reflected scripture throughout-hence they did not ossify the meanings of terms with erroneous science of their time. I think it a mistake to decide that the WCF writers need to be in Theory of Relativity for they never in fact wrote in such a way as to support that.

People in the U.S.A. are accustomed to going beyond scripture and the WCF and supplying their own 'literal values' that just preclude General and Special Relativity spacetime criteria that have probably always been true. That truth is applicable even to the six days of creation paradigm, except that God is prior to spacetime and relativty itself-and no once can calculate anything about that.

I believe that wrong creation and end times opinion of the Christian Church does much to damage the number of people that will be converts around the world, and that it is a mistake to insist to people in Africa, Asia and Latin America that the Bible is in contradiction to natural philosophy when it isn't. The Bible creation paradigm transcends natural philosophy rather than contradicting it.

Forced Labor/Media-Fire Dangers In Washington State

Reports from the state of Washington said that convict labor is being exploited to extinguish the wild blazes. States that have very high minimum wages for insiders also seem to have abundant cheap labor supply castes to do the dirty work.

In the modern American economy young men and women need computer skills and good lungs rather than damaged lungs, strained backs and even brain damage from excess smoke inhalation. It would be difficult to prove that fighting forest fires is an improvement for one’s health.

I would guess that not all of the young men (? a chauvinist selection) fighting the fires are violent criminal thugs that enjoy fighting fires and swigging good whiskey if they can. Some are probably non-violent drug offenders that might get crushed discs under the loads of heavy equipment or exhaust their health in futility regarding upward social mobility on southern style prison road gangs. Anything so politicians can get free work in their budgets; anything so a corrupt establishment can segregate themselves from non-paid and dangerous field work. People should be paid at least the highest minimum wage in the U.S.A. to extinguish the blazes, and the criminal convicts should be given reasonable job-training and not be trained to be involved in the fire-pyromaniac-firefighter cycle of combustion. If prisoners must go on field trips it should be as forced-laborers protecting wealthy homes from nature.

If one considers the environmental expansion of desertification and hot air that support wildfire increase as fueled by human global warming gasses, fire control to is reduced with the killing of wildlife and largest mass extinction in dozens of millions of years that is also human caused. With an abundance of wildlife the underbrush gets eaten and fires don’t start so quickly. Shoddy state game management practices work against the shifting ecosystem adaptation of wildlife to work with the biota in a way that reduces wildfire. It is also necessary to have large predators as natural health managers of the ungulate population and the way the wealthy expand housing developments and scoff at natural environmental law, the predatory managers are the first to be killed and stuffed. Really. it is all sort of creeping farce in progress over several dozens of years. It does make interesting news media reports though.

President Obama to Visit Alaska- A Stop at Homeless Shelter?

When President Obama visits Alaska August 28-September 2nd he is likely to have a busy schedule, yet I hope he has time to visit the very crowded Anchorage homeless shelter and Bean's cafe that serves food to the homeless. Of course the President should take care about catching pneumonia there-a late director of Bean's named Crockett perished from that illness two or three years ago.  

The St. Francis Shelter is usually very crowded. When Senator Sullivan was mayor of Anchorage he outlawed sleeping in city parks so the homeless were forced in to the shelter where they slept shoulder to shoulder on the floor-some having already contracted cases of frostbite. Perhaps the President could stimulate construction of a another shelter, though land, paradoxically, is tight in Anchorage.

http://www.ktva.com/flight-restrictions-planned-for-four-alaska-cities-during-obamas-visit-332/

America and the Global Economic Outlook from the Bottom Up

Viewed from the lowest rung of the economic bell the U.S. economy seems disconnected from steady ground. It seems to be on intermediate range shaky ground. The national labor supply has shrank to the lowest number of employed since 1977 thereby shrinking the unemployment statistics in a rather illusory picture of health. The nation's public debt surpassed 18 trillion dollars. The Federal Reserve has bought up all of the bad debt from Wall Street's 2008 debacle while providing free money to the wealthiest banks with zero-interest loans that let banks lend four or five dollars more or less minted out of thin air for each dollar the Fed gives them.

That money has gone into buying up all of the homes lost by Americans in 2008-2009 so they now belong to the Corporate world. Corporations can invest the Federal cash infusion in Chinese investments, and with China devaluing its yuan, can now buy more Chinese shares. China wants to slow its own economic growth a little because of over-production capacity-especially as Americans don't have much money except for the rich and talk radio hosts generally.

The entire policy is rather shaky and definitely not ecological economics. There are no candidates running with solid understanding of what ecological economic is. Maybe Amory Lovins should be hired as a political consultant by someone-or people that have written textbooks on ecological economics.

With oil at 40 dollars a barrel the economic should be racing along creating 300,000 jobs a month. Oil might not have been priced this low since the 1960s. Probably it will be used in the third world engines to deforest and accelerate dirty SUV exhaust and make that portion of the economy grow around the world to buy cheap Chines product. That is not a good direction for human life on Earth environmental security prospects obviously-yet their is no leadership on the political scene, and the Democrats are completely fake on environmental economics doing just enough to get some environmental votes with executive policy that is reversible and is does not address the ecological economics reform required of the U.S. economy anyway.

Female Rangers Hit the Ground-Female Draft Registration Next?

Two West Point graduates that are female passed the Army Ranger school and broke the chauvinist bar keeping women out of combat occupations on the ground. One must wonder if the next chauvinist bar to fall won't be draft registration in order that emancipation of women to be grunts won't soon follow.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trailblazing-female-soldiers-graduate-from-ranger-school/

When feminine grunts can train their kids to pilot mini-flying drones then true family unity in war will have been achieved. The Obama administration is sure liberating things.