Say that in
the beginning there may have been eight Universes compacted together
at a particular point after their useful life spans were completed
and matter was distributed to a low energy state of maximum entropy.
In the gravitational compaction process eight Universes with their
numerous dimensions were reduced to four irreducible dimensions
compacted
with mass and then energy into a singularity. If
extra universes exist and they draw together with gravity sometimes,
one wonders how their dimensions integrate; interesting to consider.
American issues of Christianity, cosmology, politics, ecosphere, philosophy, contemporary history etc
4/22/18
4/21/18
4/20/18
The Outer Rim [fiction]
The Outer Rim ©2018 Garrison Clifford Gibson
There
are galaxies such as the Silky Way that have existed in various forms
since near the inception of the Universe. Some of the stars; fewer
than 30%, are remnants of that early age when the Universe was less
than a half billion years old. Red dwarf stars burn slowly and fade
away at a pace less than the time required for the black hole called
Sagittarius A would need to consume all of the remaining stars of the
galaxy.
The
Silky Way resembles in form, a starfish with four main tentacles and
a few lesser that are irregularly structured with fractals of
millions of stars about which most often orbit planets from gas
giants to small rocky worlds. Sagittarius A is like a mouth at the
center of the tentacles drawing its arms back into itself for
destruction. That is, it is a masochistic self-hating nihilist
bringing about its own destruction, though it may well be that it
envisions itself as a kind of auto-immune disorder that will
transform all normal mass into something else, something greater,
after it consumes and annihilates everything that exists. In some
ways a black hole is a role model for the Aristarch class of human.
Because
of Newton’s inverse square law of gravity regarding distance and
force, or better put in terms of Einstein’s curvature of space
expressed in general relativity, the spiral arms of the Silky Way
swirl around the horrendous hungry mouth at the center of the
wonderful whirlpool drawing every bit of matter in the galaxy to
destruction; it is a predictable wheel of fortune with a predestined
end; unless the galaxy is lucky enough to be disrupted by collision
with another galaxy drifting into its path bring millions of stars in
wrenching whipsaws tossed into reorganize like anarchic union
remnants placing themselves in new alignments of convenience. Yet
destiny may slingshot individual stars into extreme orbits beyond the
edge of the galaxy, and even through the galactic halo into the
darkness of true intergalactic space.
Humanity's
search for sentient alien life had existed for several thousand years
already and none of that was ever found, for a simple reason.
Sentient life forms that were smart enough to reach beyond their own
biological nursery soon realized that the primary role of primitive
life that is the consumption of other life for its energy and
tastiness made concealment of their awakened intelligence from other
advanced species a priority if they were to survive. The latent
characteristics of all biological life may not disappear when it
achieved an advanced form of intelligence.
Species
that gambled with their existence and broadcast their development
loud and clear for the galaxy and Universe to encounter were soon
snuffed as rival sentient beings. Sometimes they were actually
consumed as new species of ate on alien menus. Sometimes the newly
awakened species camouflaged their presence from the Universe and had
a good chance for survival. Though the Universe appeared devoid of
alien, sentient life, it was not. Many lived within double-hulled
spheres surrounding red dwarf stars that burned at 4000 degrees
Fahrenheit for eleven trillion years- fairly cheap and sustainable
batteries for warming worlds.
4/14/18
Internet Poles
While researching
how the nation can replace fossil fuel burners of people idling suvs
in parking lots using the Internet with comparatively harmless
electric vehicles a.s.a.p. I chanced upon the thought of unleashing
Earth’s magnetic field to carry digital Internet bits.
Yet the poles
reverse sometimes. The north pole tomb of St John Paul 2 goes south
exchanged with the south pole tomb of Duke Meiszko 1.
4/12/18
After Darwin the Deluge
Philosophy
changed after Darwin published his book on evolution named On
the Origin of Species.
Wegener’s discovery of plate tectonics and the expanding awareness
of the size and scale of the Universe with construction of larger and
larger telescopes coincided with the 20th
century advances in biological learning and changed the way people
look at the world. Philosophy also changed while theology was
challenged. By the start of the third millennium human social
sciences and history were viewed as of decreased importance; surface
activities of bioforms on an insignificant planet in a remote part of
the galactic habitation zone of a spiral galaxy itself just a speck
of sand amidst billions of galaxies. The scale of science and its
effect upon human thinking tended to dwarf the interest in
philosophical works such as G.W.F. Hegel had developed in his tome
The
Phenomenology of Spirit
[1807].
German romanticism and its existential regard for the individual in
society shadowed the increasing epistemological theoretical drift
toward relativism and subjectivism as meaning became detached from
traditional philosophical and theological attachment because of the
power of evolution and cosmology developing together as a great
empirical truth.
Philosophers and
historians continued to work of course, even as they kept one eye
upward toward the Hubble image captures of 12 to 13 billion year old
starlight from what was considered to be near the beginning of the
Universe give or take a half a billion years. Philosophers such as
C.S. Pierce developed semiotic works about symbols. Frege and other
advanced symbolic logic onward from Aristotle’s classical along
with the mathematical of Leibniz and advance of progress of logic.
The Vienna Circle of philosophers led the way with others such as
Wittgenstein in the field of the philosophy of logic and its
intersection with the meaning of language, the epistemology of
cognition and eventually analytic philosophy. W.V.O Quine not only
developed analytic philosophy investigating words and their meaning
as Platonic essents or forms with real or nominal values, he
investigated the relationship of words to objects, from which one may
readily consider the nature of objects for-themselves as members
cohering within a continuum of quantum field phenomena; solid state
physics. Quantum physics parallel the rise of Darwinist evolution
ideas in cosmology and biology and reinforced the tendency of many to
regard life as virtually phenomenal to an extent found in Buddhism.
The appearance of so
many strong new influences on human thought of a circumspective,
philosophical kind was a challenge to philosophers to respond to the
new material with new ideas. Some philosophers became echoes of the
Darwinian science as philosophers of science. Some theologians choose
to ignore the field entirely and focus just upon scripture, and that
was reasonable enough except as it rendered them unable to consider
how the Bible relates to the new understanding of the empirical world
or to provide meaningful Christian apologetics regarding it.
Darwinian evolution
philosophy in the world became eventually a popular with such
strength that it conquered political leadership in Europe and in much
of the entertainment and broadcast media spanning the globe. Business
found it generally acceptable as it enabled fortune 500 leaders to
dismiss moral concerns more readily and better put on the blinders of
business to externalities and to focus on profits wheresoever that
leads.
The
rise of abstract expressionism in the arts from impressionism to
cubism and beyond reflected the advance of epistemological and
linguistic relativism and subjectivism. Paradoxically people could
look at the images of the vast Universe and even consider it as part
of a great Multiverse and find it meaningless with just their own
experience of it as meaningful, at least for-themselves. Subjectivism
and relativism was reflected in reductionism in every field even unto
the quantum level, and time and being as mass were phenomenal events
perceived locally without any sort of transcendent value of such a
nature that similar events could be occurring in an infinite number
of Universes. Philosophers too seemed to have been taken up in some
instances with the Darwinian power of evolution finding little enough
in humanity except as it might evolve too, and tragically losing the
capacity to keep a concept of God as a Supreme being of power and
capacity larger than a Multiverse. Darwinism as universal evolution
seemed to have no place for the Bible in it. And that is where this
book of mine is concerned. I take another opinion about it. God
probably can create a Multiverse like a zillion angels as it were, on
the head of a pin.
Britain's Godless Leaders
With the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 Britain set out upon the long downward course of evolution of Christianity. Christianity declined first amidst Protestants and Non-Conformists only later followed by Catholics who did rather well after the collapse of Protestant Christianity.
Still, as many as 48% of Britishers claim to be Christians. Their leadership however is generally faithless and has one of the largest number of atheists in Europe. Part of the reason that the more educated classes take up Darwin's evolution text as their new gospel is of course the obvious desire to avoid moral concerns about concentrating wealth and power. In effect they have signed off on Marx's judgement that religion is the opiate of the masses, although in the U.S.A. presently real opiates are of epidemic scale.
There is an historical lag between deep philosophical examination of issues regarding religion in the masses that cannot be concerned with such affairs. They tend to look toward their leaders for good opinion to follow. If the leaders are rather airheads as they often are (General Hindenberg of Germany bragged that he had never read a book in his life), and cannot learn good opinion, then the people as well may be badly informed. In the United States Democrat party atheist militancy has saturated politics such that they too have given up Christian faith to a large extent as well as the political paradigm of the founders in preference for evolution.
It is not that Darwinian evolution is necessarily false or that Christians must claim it is so. Instead the problem is that evolution is just one hypothetical way of considering ontology and a Universe that may be a Multiverse. Evolution theory does not require that Christianity be falsified, it is the case the unphilosophically minded people with a hatred of Christianity wish it to be the case that Christianity and God must be wrong ideas if evolution is to be true.
One might compare Evolution theory to a computer operating system and people as bits of data within it that have discovered the architectural principles of the operating system. Some wish that to mean that no other operating system could exist or be dual booted within a computer. Yet it may be that the operating system exists within a greater operating system itself, or that the operating system functions as a holographical and optical system made of photons that haven't anything at all to do with computer hardware-perhaps they are unintended beams of light cast on the shadow f a cave that work logically because of nothing more than a great coincidence in nature, or maybe some clever kid made hand signals in front of a laser beam that generated the effect of an operating system...etc
God transcends anything in physics in a way larger than the way the Higgs field is prior to and transcends any particle-waves within it comprising the solid-state Universe. People in fact misunderstand what time is commonly; it is an emergent characteristic of the phase changes of particle-waves within the Higgs field and is local.
God may have created the Universe in seven seconds fully evolved, much less seven days or 13.2 billion years. The Universe could be said to have been created in under a second with an explosion of energy followed by an inflation, yet no one really knows that for sure nor what caused it. There are a zillion theoretical courses and those may nicely fit within the Chinese puzzle box criteria of greater containing causes. It is fun and profitable to be authoritative yet being accurate is also important.
There are many ways to interpret the Bible too that don't run into obvious Biblical contradictions. Even John 5:39-47 has a parable from Jesus that mentions hell, yet today there are many Christian leaders in denial of that, of of course they are also in denial about the need to reform to become a priesthood of believers.
King James version-
Still, as many as 48% of Britishers claim to be Christians. Their leadership however is generally faithless and has one of the largest number of atheists in Europe. Part of the reason that the more educated classes take up Darwin's evolution text as their new gospel is of course the obvious desire to avoid moral concerns about concentrating wealth and power. In effect they have signed off on Marx's judgement that religion is the opiate of the masses, although in the U.S.A. presently real opiates are of epidemic scale.
There is an historical lag between deep philosophical examination of issues regarding religion in the masses that cannot be concerned with such affairs. They tend to look toward their leaders for good opinion to follow. If the leaders are rather airheads as they often are (General Hindenberg of Germany bragged that he had never read a book in his life), and cannot learn good opinion, then the people as well may be badly informed. In the United States Democrat party atheist militancy has saturated politics such that they too have given up Christian faith to a large extent as well as the political paradigm of the founders in preference for evolution.
It is not that Darwinian evolution is necessarily false or that Christians must claim it is so. Instead the problem is that evolution is just one hypothetical way of considering ontology and a Universe that may be a Multiverse. Evolution theory does not require that Christianity be falsified, it is the case the unphilosophically minded people with a hatred of Christianity wish it to be the case that Christianity and God must be wrong ideas if evolution is to be true.
One might compare Evolution theory to a computer operating system and people as bits of data within it that have discovered the architectural principles of the operating system. Some wish that to mean that no other operating system could exist or be dual booted within a computer. Yet it may be that the operating system exists within a greater operating system itself, or that the operating system functions as a holographical and optical system made of photons that haven't anything at all to do with computer hardware-perhaps they are unintended beams of light cast on the shadow f a cave that work logically because of nothing more than a great coincidence in nature, or maybe some clever kid made hand signals in front of a laser beam that generated the effect of an operating system...etc
God transcends anything in physics in a way larger than the way the Higgs field is prior to and transcends any particle-waves within it comprising the solid-state Universe. People in fact misunderstand what time is commonly; it is an emergent characteristic of the phase changes of particle-waves within the Higgs field and is local.
God may have created the Universe in seven seconds fully evolved, much less seven days or 13.2 billion years. The Universe could be said to have been created in under a second with an explosion of energy followed by an inflation, yet no one really knows that for sure nor what caused it. There are a zillion theoretical courses and those may nicely fit within the Chinese puzzle box criteria of greater containing causes. It is fun and profitable to be authoritative yet being accurate is also important.
There are many ways to interpret the Bible too that don't run into obvious Biblical contradictions. Even John 5:39-47 has a parable from Jesus that mentions hell, yet today there are many Christian leaders in denial of that, of of course they are also in denial about the need to reform to become a priesthood of believers.
King James version-
"19There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 20And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. 26And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. 27Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: 28For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.29Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 30And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. 31And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."
Because theologians are specialized they tend to lag far behind development of philosophical investigations examining cosmology and scripture. Cosmological-Biblical hermeneutic requires substantial learning that would not be professionally supported, and atheists tend to discard any way of thinking that would determine that Christianity is not necessarily in conflict with cosmology and evolution.
Vishy Anand- World Rapid Chess Champ- faster with age
Chess
games are played with various time formats. Classical chess games of
more than 90 minutes, rapid chess games (of 20 minutes) and blitz
chess (of five minutes) are the major categories of competition for
world titles. This year the world rapid chess championship was won by
the top active elder pro chess player Vishwanathan Anand of India.
Chess on-line is a
rapidly expanding recreational activity. Lichess, Chess.com, Chess24
and Chesstempo and Chess All-Stars are a few of the web sites with
free chess game playing.
Some of the younger
pro chess players have received professional chess instruction from a
very early age-even three years old, and parents have paid as much as
$25,000 a year for chess instruction for their progeny hoping that
they will become top professional chess players.
Skeptics may say that
pro chess is a meaningless recreational activity contributing nothing
more than pro tic tac toe of benefit to benefit humanity; I won’t
argue the point. It isn’t farming yet it is a good mind activity
for the elderly far better than sitting in a darkened room watching
television.
Yet
chess as an Internet on-line activity has a darker side of age and
sex discrimination trash talking. Chess playing does not compel one
to get off-board life experience or maturity. One can be a chess punk
with a bad attitude. Some use chess like trolls to try to victimize
opponents with predatory names and comments. The best remedy is to
beat them unemotionally and ignore the whimpering comments of
perverse losers.
The youth dominated
sport on-line is simply a factor of the recent proliferation of the
Internet world wide. Present youth have been able to play on-line
chess games for nearly 20 years and the opportunities for free chess
learning have increased too, with innumerable videos and pgn game
libraries enabling players to watch chess games of openings and
matches of the past five-hundred years. There is a lot of trash
talking on on-line chess games, and because the present generation
has had so much computer assisted learning they have tended to
believe that chess like physics is an activity where the very young
are best. Vishy Anand as world rapid champion since
28 December has
sort of upset that notion.
One of the primary
reasons for the advantage of younger chess players at the highest
level is that there are more of them and they have all studied the
games of the champion in detail while the champion hasn’t been able
to study the games of so many younger players in equal detail. It is
something like a pyramid where one studies the people above that are
fewer in number as one rises, while the guy or gal on top has to
study the games of all of those rising, and that is quite a different
challenge.
Vishy Anand was the
world classical champion follow Garry Kasparov's retirement. Kasparov
was best at all three major time controls of chess and when he seemed
to be slipping, quit. Anand had been around a very long time before
he got his moment to become world classical champion and took it with
a special selection match in Rio that determined the vacated world
championship title holder. Though he only defended the title a couple
of times he never stopped playing after losing the title.
Anand is a very tough
player that deserved the title as much as Tigran Petrosian or another
of the Soviet chess champs that held the title for just a short time.
Not every player is a Kasparov, Karpov, Steinitz, Lasker etc that
were at the top for a very long time. After losing the title to
Magnus Carlsen the present aging classical chess champ, Anand had the
will to win the candidates tournament and play a rematch with
Carlsen. Winning the candidates tournament is no easy feat. The
former world number two player Levon Aronian who is one of the
highest rated chess players in history tried five times and failed.
Anand gets credit for going back to win the candidates tourney.
After playing and
losing twice to Carlson in the world classical championship Anand may
have decided not to waste time trying again. He did not make the
2018 candidates tournament field. Instead he may have prepared for
the rapid chess competition and ended up being World Champion. That
is remarkable considering his age and shows his determination and
strategy for to winning.
Occasionally people
wish that Garry Kasparov would return to the chess arena as he did in
2017 briefly in a match in St. Louis. If Kasparov were to focus on
just one chess time control such as rapid or blitz and entered
numerous competitions he probably would be a contender for a world
title in his 50s. If narrowly focused apparently one can continue
winning chess to old age if one has the desire to do so.
I
didn’t play a
first complete
chess game until age 57 and made fair progress at blitz chess
discovering that the major problem is just Internet speed and time
delays that can create quite a disadvantage. My blitz high score of
1430 was hit a couple of years ago in a public library in Oklahoma
that had good Internet speed. Riding a bike around the nation looking
for work and playing on-line chess sometimes isn’t the quickest way
to advance yet blitz chess is something like ping pong with complex
vector spaces and trajectories with 16 balls instead of just one.
It’s a good way to relax and to exercise the mind, off-road.
Mcshane vs Anand rd 7 world rapid chess championship 27 Dec 2017
Cold Wet Chrome in Gray Sky
If
one cannot recall the sight
of
sounds rippling upon time waves
when
ideas of ever become never being still
born
dreams flying clocks tightly saved
winding
down
Then it is found
something right left
disappeared
for thousands of nights
in
world’s shadow of power echoes laughing
a
way particles past present and future
so
much greater and lesser than neither
being
and nothingness or
space
and rhymes about it
with
lists of plans sown in earthly furrows
for
people that for a time held the plows
to
sharp lines taken by the rains since
erased
mornings and yesterday’s produce
building
tosses sprouted as ground cover
plant
structures for others
that
wouldn’t know so many simultaneous memories
from
origins to finite ends
with
red technicolor notes of the surreal
like
the Multiverse resting on pinpoint.
Jim Crowe's Gender Segregated Toilets
The
city of Anchorage has itself experienced the Jim Crowe system of
toilet segregation for some time. Men and women are sexually
segregated, perhaps to engender some sort of supremacist and
inferioricist social control. Frankly, toilets are agents of social
conditioning.
American potty
training for the moral equivalent of racial segregation based on
gender begins very early. Ending sexually segregated toilets can
evolve, just as tax rates may be evolved to higher and lower levels
by the Congress who will act according to the desire of the rich.
In
some nations men and women don’t have segregated toilets with
special mens only and womens only eliminators. People that aren’t
lucky enough to have water-closet toilets may just poop in a trench
or piss on a wall even during torrential ranges or desert storms.
They have not had the social opportunity to evolve specially gender
segregated human waste elimination facilities.
Americans can of
course liberate their public bowel and political movements by ending
segregated toilets. That may require some great amount of
architectural design and creativity. Maybe all people could use
sit-down toilettes or stand-up toilets as they prefer. Already women
have been given the opportunity to purchase stand-up appliances that
enable them to urinate without squatting or sitting down. Individual
stand-up urinals could have screens so workmen would not need to have
their appliance shaped like a penis bigger than those of males
stand-ups.
Individual entrances
and exits to the waste removal staging area where full-bladdered
people strutting and fretting their hours without relief or
challenged to liberate their solid waste urgently could replace the
girl’s club or boys club atmosphere that trans-gender people want
to be able to eliminate at will on either side they choose.
Innovating architecture and waste removal design meets resistance
from those segregationists that want women to feel inferior about not
hanging with the guys segregated in female-only relief facilities.
Advertisers running ads deprecatory to women in men-only toilet clubs
may resist too simply because of tradition and profit margin.
Architects and waste removal engineers may experience the redesign of
toilets of mind-boggling complexity yet change may slowly occur with
constructive engagement of new facilities that let men and women sit
equally on microwave or incinerate waterless toilets as they choose
to stand up or sit down as the case may be.
The President and U.S. Energy Greatness
The
President and U.S. Energy Greatness
For President Trump
to make progress toward making American energy great again he shall
want to establish solar power production across the land so far as to
enable most buildings to go off the grid of global collectivist
corporatism that Americans pay rent to for life. Solar power and free
electrons from the star of God’s creative brilliance is the way to
outlast cycles of oil price and supply swings. .
The President has not
been a leader in advancing solar power to the roofs and exterior
walls of the nation’s buildings where it should be a top energy
producer, in daylight hours, for much of the land. Electricity
produced on the spot from solar photons hasn’t got a down side, and
it would save a fortune on expensive copper wiring used in so many
structures as levels could produce abundant energy for l.e.d.
lighting and office machines. The President knows construction and
buildings and could move the nation to the front of production of
independent energy from solar and fuel cell electron production
on-site.
Though Sect. Of
Energy Pruitt lowered the bar recently on fuel mileage requirements
because it was too high for aged oil policies desired by Eco-yippees,
solar energy and electric cars including electrical power lines
embedded in concrete Interstate highways for in-line recharging,
could have brought the nation to a position of even less reliance on
foreign sources of oil.
For
the nation to be great in producing more energy cleanly than it ever
has before, the production and installation of solar cells must be
synergized with the transition to electric powered cars and I suppose
hydrogen too (if enough pressure can be put on water to make
something of a metallic diamond out of it. Actually I have no idea
about how hydrogen metal is made, yet I wonder what happens when one
puts water under 10,000 p.s.i. of pressure (I suppose scientists
already know the answer to that)). America cannot be great again if
it just follows OPEC economics and relies on ancient transport
theories more than a century old as if the nation were a museum etc.
The President has
chosen to give the American solar panel industry some help by putting
a tariff on cheap foreign imports yet that doesn’t go nearly far
enough to advance the nation into off-grid energy independence
leadership in sustainable clean energy production.
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