After Dark

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Professor Taboo

Milky Way in clear skies in remote America

When the sun’s light completely recedes, I bet you had no idea that with your naked eyes or a pair of inexpensive binoculars you can gaze upon constellations, nebulas, star clusters, planets, double stars, and even one galaxy that is only two million light-years away. With summer approaching many might be traveling west to our National Parks where very little to no extraneous light washes out the splendor of our night-time cosmos. This post is Part One of a three-part series. Check back later for part two.

Our moon is one of the brightest objects to gaze, however, there are many others. Our surrounding atmosphere has several phenomena and all the planets can be seen with the naked eye or binoculars except Pluto. Asteroids, meteors, and comets can be detected as well. And even further away you can spot star clusters, nebulas, and constellations including that one galaxy 2-million light-years away. Yet, most star-gazers do not realize there is a nightly twilight phenomena which is closer than our moon. It is closer than our own atmosphere. It is Earth’s shadow.

Just as the Sun sets look opposite of it (easterly) close on the horizon. Within minutes you will start to see a dark blue band begin to rise just above the horizon. This is when the band is darkest. As it starts to move upward, it will fade, until it disappears into the night sky at the ending of twilight. This dark band marks the edge of the shadow of Earth’s horizon. Red light from our Sun illuminates our atmosphere above the band. The band is blue due to the blue part of sunlight which has been scattered into the shadow by dust particles. If you see Earth’s shadow vividly, then there is little dust or humidity in the air.

We are of course inside the Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way is approximately 80,000 to 100,000 light-years across! Our Sun rests 30,000 to 35,000 light-years from the center. There are more than 1,000 clusters of stars within our galaxy, all of which are easily visible with binoculars. Beyond the Milky Way is a bunch of empty space, and then a lot more galaxies. The Milky Way is part of a group of galaxies called the Local Group and the flagship of this group is the Great Andromeda Galaxy. The Andromeda Galaxy is so large and massive that it is the only galaxy we can see with the naked eye. Out beyond our Local Group are more clusters of galaxies, as many as you could ever count in 50 lifetimes! In fact, it makes no difference what direction you look with whatever size telescope you view, all you can see are galaxy upon galaxies.

Stargazing Basics

One or three nights of viewing the night sky will not turn you into an expert astronomer. However, there are four basic principles to help you and your fellow sky troopers understand what you’re viewing in the after hours.

BRIGHTNESS The brightness of a particular star is measured by its magnitude. Its magnitude is governed by how bright it actually is and how far away it is from Earth. The brightest star in our night sky, Sirius, shines at a magnitude of 1.4, but its actual brightness is much less. It is less because it is very close to Earth, just a mere 8.2 light-years away. How exactly is magnitude determined? It depends on your location. If you are inside or near a large city, your 22 visible stars will be only a 1-magnitude or brighter. On average, stars of the 2nd magnitude are actually 2.5 times dimmer than those of the 1st magnitude, and so on down the line. In a moderately dark sky, you can view stars of about the 5th magnitude. On super dark nights (no moon) we can most likely find 6th and 7th magnitude stars (see table above).

COLOR A star’s color can reveal a lot about its nature. Generally speaking, the more blue a star appears, the hotter it is, and the redder it is, the cooler it is. We typically do not see stars easily with our naked eye, but the colors are a lot more obvious through binoculars. And kids see star colors a lot better than adults.

EVERYTHING’S MOVING It takes at least 15 minutes for our eyes to adjust to the darkness. During that time, pick the brightest object you can see near one of the horizons. Take note of its position relative to a tall tree, mountaintop, or building. Once your eyes have adjusted, notice the object is moving up if you’re looking east, down if you’re looking west, or mostly left to right if you’re looking south.

DISTANCE Because outer space is so unimaginably vast, it makes little sense to measure distances in miles or kilometers. Instead, astronomers use how far the speed of light travels in an amount of time. The Moon is about 240,000 miles away, but astronomers say it is 1 1/3 light-seconds away. Our Sun is 93,000,000 miles away, but 500 light-seconds, or 8 1/2 light-minutes away. When Jupiter is closest to Earth, it is 35 light-minutes away; in other words, when its reflection reaches us we are seeing 35 minutes into Jupiter’s past. Now here is a mind-blower: astronomers have determined that our Universe is approximately 13.8 billion years old. What this means is we cannot see any further than 13.8 billion light years beyond Earth, because the light from whatever’s farther out hasn’t had time to reach our eyes yet!

Celestial Assembly

Looking up into the night sky it seems as if everything is painted onto an enormous black sphere that’s far away. Astronomers call this the celestial sphere and find positions on it in similar ways we denote positions here on Earth. There is a celestial equator too, just like the Earth’s equator but projected up onto the celestial sphere.

Seasonal Big Dipper. Image courtesy of burro.astr.cwru.edu

As mentioned earlier, objects appearing to move in the sky from night to night (or, in the case of meteors and man-made satellites, a lot faster), are all inside our Solar System. To us, our Sun appears to move across the sky along a line we call the ecliptic. This term is used because eclipses of the Sun and Moon are related to this line. Tomorrow evening April 25th, 2013 there is a partial lunar eclipse. Since the nine planets all move in nearly the same plane as the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, they too appear to move about the night sky near the ecliptic. This is why on star maps they include the ecliptic as the narrow yellow belt.

Most modern astronomers do not use identifiable constellations such as the Big Dipper or Little Dipper to locate objects. There are 88 recognized constellations that divide up the sky, many of which we never see here in the United States. They are too far south. Here in the northern hemisphere there is about 25% of the sky that is invisible to us. For example, Americans cannot see the Southern Cross. Only people close to the equator in tropical latitudes in the northern hemisphere can view the Southern Cross for a few brief hours during winter and spring. Conversely, for viewers in places like Australia, they never see the northernmost 25% of our sky or the Big and Little Dippers which Ferris-wheel around Polaris, the North Star.

Cassiopeia as seen by naked eye

Just as southern constellations never rise above our horizon, others never set. Even when the day’s Sun is drowning out the stars, there are constellations which despite the season never vanish. These are called circumpolar constellations. As seen in the image above, the Big Dipper is always visible to us in the northern hemisphere 24/7. During the Fall it is just above the horizon and in Spring highest above the horizon. For thousands of years ancient travelers of both land and sea used these circumpolar anchors to guide their way. They too used the “dippers” to orient themselves, but often they included the constellation Cassiopeia. Cassiopeia is always opposite the Big Dipper and is noted for its “W” shape.

Most all of the constellations tell a story, a mythical story of the ancients. This is why so many are fond of astronomy and stargazing: you can impress your friends with stories of gods and goddesses behaving badly or saving mankind.

Well before the time of TV and video games, ancient cultures had to find their amusement wherever they could. These myths, given by the stars to mankind, were most definitely the plots and schemes of the first “soap operas.” Because most of Earth’s landmass lies in the northern hemisphere, the southern constellations represent scientific tools which seafaring navigators used. And, of course, the 12 constellations that hug our ecliptic are the signs of the zodiac in astrology.

Some constellation figures like the Egyptian Orion, are fairly convenient to recognize, and others are simply “gap-fillers.” And despite those old stories reminding us of a bunch of angry child-like behaving deities, they are fun to share and find in the night sky. They connect us to our distant past. And if your friends, spouse or romantic lover isn’t that impressed by your vast knowledge of the sky, these cultural backgrounds are certainly justification for learning the constellations. No one should presume they can actually trace out a “reclining virgin” (aroused for an evening) when you are looking at the constellation Virgo! One must know what you are looking at and how to find it if you are to be a true romantic lover!

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In Part Two of this series, I will give a quick guide to the remarkable celestial shows and events arriving between 2013 and 2015. Grab your drinks, popcorn, lounge-chairs, and stargazing buddy. It’s going to be quite a show!

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Connectivity — The New Paradigm

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Professor Taboo

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus

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For those who are awake, the cosmos is One.

— Heraclitus c. 475-455 BCE

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We are all connected. The last four words of the previous article in this series (from Connectivity — Back to Physics Class). “We are all connected.” What do you think that really means? Let us explore this question by first asking some other questions.

Why is the telegraph and Morse code not in use anymore? At the time of its discovery, communication was taking place slowly. Over long distances it sometimes took weeks or months to reach its intended eyes or ears. With the advent of the telegraph that all changed, for the better. Why is the Geocentric model of our solar system no longer in use? At the time of its formulation, every day and night the sun, stars, moon, and visible planets appeared to revolve around the Earth, so it followed that the Earth was the center of everything. Navigating the vast seas could be done precisely with this model and seafaring trade captains and sailors soon realized they actually would not fall off the edge of a flat Earth or limited seas.

The telegraph and Geocentrism both served mankind well and seemingly true, so why abandon them? These old paradigms were no longer useful because humanity, more specifically human ingenuity, research, successful experimentation and modified hypothesi were able to flourish and discover they simply were untrue. A closer look at these two historical events, however, reveals that one was widely embraced in a short period while the other took 1,200 years. Imagine where this world would be had the Authorities of Truth and Death lost their mass appeal when Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler first presented the right Universe?

Heraclitus is often considered one of the founders of Metaphysics and perhaps to an extent Quantum physics. Going against the mainstream of his contemporaries, he said “You cannot step into the same river twice, for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you.” For the time, his claims were radical and challenged the establishment. Another fascinating philosophy of Heraclitus was that of observer upon the nature of opposites. It was his belief in the “unity of opposites”. One cannot exist without the other, especially from the standpoint of the observer. This type of debate, speculation, and reformation was welcomed right up into the early 4th century C.E. when everything changed.

Exclusivity: The Old Paradigm

From about 2000 BCE to 400 C.E. commonly known as the Classical Era, there were two fundamental belief systems competing for the hearts and minds of mankind. These opposing groups have been described in religious and historical texts in different forms. One group taught doctrines of unity and wholeness of the world and cosmos. The other taught doctrines of separation, classes or a caste system, and depravity. The former embraces a multiverse where existence is simultaneous in parallel coexisting dimensions. The latter embraces a universe, or monoverse if you will, where existence is dependent on another “force” and we control or have little influence upon it. One is a participator/activator, the other is merely an observer/receptor. Care to guess which group won out? A few other fundamental sub-groups spawned from this system as well, amplifying the divisions and destruction upon humanity.

Exclusivity, or elitism, has been one of humanity’s worst undercover killers. This lethal or potentially lethal mentality stems from a belief-framework of separation — separation from each other, or separation from creation/creator. This mentality is sometimes subtle in where or how it exists, so allow me to elaborate.

Intolerance of differing beliefs or lifestyles is always accompanied by harmful action. How many various examples of intolerance do we witness today? How many various examples can we recall throughout recent or ancient history (Sept. 11th, 2001 and The Trail of Tears of the Cherokee nation to name just two)? Don’t be fooled. Merely considering followers of other religions to hold invalid beliefs, considering them “lost” or deluded, or assessing their behavior as immoral or heretical is nothing more than exclusivism.

If you are in the least hyper-sensitive about your personal communal religious beliefs, then you may consider stopping here and read no further. I am going to point out specific passages in the Christian New Testament that clearly promote exclusivism, and potential-probable intolerance. Keep in mind that anyone can find these underlying teachings in many of the world’s major religions; the Christian New Testament is one example and not being singled out. But for most of Western Civilization — the birthplace of modern Quantum Mechanics — it must be pointed out as no longer useful.

The Apostle Peter, one of Christendom’s major icons, preaches exclusivism unequivocally:

“Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole… Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”— Acts 4:10-12

There are perhaps three ways to interpret this passage. One, conservative Christian ministers and apologists accept this passage for face value. All non-Christians will after death be unsaved from the expected/accepted eternal damnation of a place called Hell. These verses have inspired missionaries, through hope and fear, to go into pagan non-Christian corners of the world to win converts. The passage implies not only eternal punishment for non-Christian believers, but more profoundly an intolerant God of any other belief systems.

Apostles Peter and Paul – the two most revered contributors to the Christian New Testament

Second, many religious liberals might reject such a literal interpretation of the passage. They could argue that a baby born in India or Arabia has a very likely chance of becoming a non-Christian adult — in other words, a Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh. In modern Israel the chances of a baby becoming Jewish are around 99% not Christian. According to the Apostle Peter and the Christian New Testament, trusting Jesus as Lord and Savior as the only route to eternal bliss, then a very large majority of the earth’s population will remain unsaved. After their death, they will be tortured in Hell for all eternity without hope of mercy, for the simple reason that they followed the religion of their parents and community. Many Christian liberals consider such a destiny to be incompatible with the concept of a loving and just God.

Thirdly, the Roman Catholic Church today takes a more moderate position on the matter: even though followers of non-Christian faiths do not accept Jesus Christ as their Savior, it is possible for them to receive salvation by following their own religion. However, this “new” mercy (presumably handed down from God to the Pope and his holiest bishops) does not extend to individuals who have been raised as agnostics or atheists, or have converted to unGodly beliefs such as agnosticism or atheism. To say it another way, those who do not conform at a minimum to a monotheistic tradition such as Judaism, Christianity, or Islam will suffer eternal damnation.

The Apostle Paul teaches just as much exclusivity as Peter. Paul wrote that Gentiles worshipped devils. Today, those would be called Satanists, Black or White witches, occultists, or wiccans.

“But I say, that the things which Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.”— I Corinthians 10: 20-21

Paul makes it clear that the Gods and Goddesses of other religions are actually demons. Christians are to completely isolate themselves from non-Christians, not even dine at the same dinner tables. “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?” (II Corinthians 6: 14). Paul requires his followers to separate from “unbelievers“. He teaches his weak-willed followers to avoid close relationships with non-Christians. He implies that non-Christians are automatically unrighteous. He associates Christianity with “light” and all other religions with “darkness“. Paul teaches that duality cannot coexist. The Apostle Paul would be laughed at among modern quantum physicists.

“…ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.”— I Thessalonians 2: 14-16

Paul apparently has a tendency for anti-Semitism. He clearly blames the Jews for murdering Jesus. Christian theologians today and Roman historians alike, feel that Jews had little to do with Jesus’ execution. Jesus’ aggravated assaults in the Jerusalem temple, and verbal abuse toward the Jewish priests would have been considered an act of insurrection by Roman authorities, and made him eligible for Roman crucifixion. This falls in line, according to modern Roman scholars, with the Apostle Paul being previously well acquainted in Roman society, even a Roman citizen with all its amenities, prior to meeting Jesus on the road to Damascus.

There are several other clear indications that the Christian New Testament supports exclusivity.

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” — John 14: 6

“As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” — Galatians 1: 9

“While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision which believed [i.e. the Jewish Christians] were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.” — Acts 10: 44-45

“And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision with him, saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.” — Acts 11: 1-3

The first passage above (John 14: 6), it has been one of the main biblical passages of all Christendom used to devalue non-Christian religions or belief systems. Its meaning and implications cannot be misunderstood in the least: the only way to eternal bliss both here in this life or the next is through belief in Jesus and his teachings from the canonical Christian New Testament. In the second passage (Galatians 1: 9), Paul simply curses any teachings that deviate from his own. What many amateur Christians are unaware is that during the first two centuries C.E. (or in Catholic terms A.D.) there were three main Christian movements. This should be no surprise at all to modern inquisitors of faith-choices. Try to count all the various types of Catholic or Protestant churches available today, and you will spend the better part of a year or more researching their differences! In 1st and 2nd century Jerusalem though, there were the Pauline Christians, who were pitted against the Gnostic Christians, and Jewish Christians, and any others. More often than not, a city in that part of the Roman empire would have three or more Christian groups, each teaching very different doctrines. Paul obviously proclaims not only HIS version of Jesus, but just as much his Graeco-Roman background.

In the third passage above (Acts 10: 44-45), Peter is publicly speaking to a mixed group of Jewish Christians and intrigued Gentiles. A number of the Gentiles were “filled with the Holy Spirit.” Jewish Christians were bothered by this because they felt the message was strictly for them. They viewed Jesus’ teachings were merely a reform movement within Judaism, and not pertinent for non-Jews. With the last passage (Acts 11: 1-3), some Jewish Christians argued with Peter for associating with non-Jews and eating with them, which was common during the time. Before the Graeco-Roman teachings of Paul became mainstream in 325 C.E., Jewish Christians viewed Jesus’ reformations as teachings for them only. Peter persuades many of them that it is the will of the Holy Spirit to also reform the Gentiles. Nonetheless, the seven New Testament passages I have shared here are only a small portion of the many, many passages throughout the entire Bible — Old and New Testaments — that promotes separation among mankind, or elitism, or exclusion from creation/Creator.

Connectivity — The New Paradigm…Finally!

2008 World Literacy Map

Fortunately, with the help of modern quantum physics and unified field theory, the old paradigms are seeing their last decades. This is more evident as the world’s cultures and nations gradually become more literate and can grasp, at least in basic terms or better, what these collective physicists and scientists are proving. Examine the world literacy map (left). It shows that much of the population is educated. As this rate continues to rise over time, barring the militant illiterate regions exterminating much of humanity’s rise to mental and spiritual brilliance, the outcome will be that mankind requires a completely new framework of unity, of oneness, not separation. Let me be more precise; not religious separation.

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge. — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (1994)

You may think that Carl Sagan’s revelation is far-fetched. Yet, already many renown scholars of mathematics and quantum physicists are in agreement: the existence of a web of energy connecting our physical world and our bodies to everything in the universe/multiverse suggests an entire overhaul of life as we have perceived it the last sixteen centuries. John A. Wheeler, a theoretical physicist at Princeton University and colleague of Albert Einstein, is credited for mentoring some of America’s most accomplished scientists of quantum mechanics today. Einstein believed that mankind had little influence on our environment, on our universe as a whole and that we were simply spectators. However, the late John Wheeler and his protegés today offer a radical departure from Einstein’s commonly held system. “We are participators…” Wheeler explains, “in bringing into being not only the near and here but the far away and long ago. We are in this sense, participators in bringing about something of the universe in the distant past and if we have one explanation for what’s happening in the distant past why should we need more?” Light (or the energy of light) travels to our eyes and skin by billions of interacting particles between us and our Sun, or light bulbs, or fires, whatever the source. If Wheeler is correct, then we are each creators of our reality and as we understand our world, the 7 billion inhabitants on this planet collectively manifest life itself! Quantum physics is supporting Wheeler’s idea too.

Are things able to travel faster than the speed of light, and can they be in two places at once? And if things have this ability, what about us?

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In addition to proving a unified field, an energy web connecting everything, quantum research is showing that the connections exist BECAUSE of us! We are not some creation out of an invisible force’s boredom or loneliness. Indeed, the fact that the quantum discoveries show we can use our connectedness consciously hands us the key to open the door to the same power that drives the whole universe/multiverse. Let that sink in for a moment. Put another way, because of our direct connection to inner and outer space, our oneness living inside you, me, and every single being on this planet, we have a direct line…no, we are a vital part of the same force that creates everything from atoms to the DNA of existence itself. Therefore, in ways that we are only now realizing, we find that not only are we inseparable with all life and human beings, and what we see, but also with everything that has ever been, as well as things which are yet to happen! Do you need a moment to fathom that? Do you understand that what we are experiencing now is the result of events that have already occurred in a realm of the multiverse we cannot even see? Yes indeed, these are the discoveries over the last 2-3 years in quantum physics.

The ramifications of these discoveries are huge, and undermine so many centuries of tradition, myth, and legend. As the evidence mounts and the quantum discoveries continue, all of mankind will finally be forced to toss out the Medieval Dark Age paradigms once and for all. The telegraph and Geocentric model will no longer serve, if you will, any purpose for our modern needs. Hence, the defunct orthodoxy of the nature of existence: who we are, what we are, what we need for the “beyond” will finally, and long over due, be matched with reality and how the multiverse/universe and creation truly function. What an awe-inspiring exciting future that holds for ALL OF US….not just a “special” few.

Like it or not, you, me, and every single soul on this earth are intimately connected; not all separate, exclusive, or élite. I dare say the only difference is our freedom of creativity, ingenuity, and altruistic philanthropy to “spread the wealth” of true existence. We are very much connected. What a wonderful breath of fresh air this is!

Connectivity — Back to Physics Class

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Professor Taboo

I will attempt to put in simple terms (from my blog Connectivity — Part 2) what Quantum Superposition, Entanglement, and Bose-Einstein Condensates mean to the average person on the streets. At least that is my hope. My apologies if I am unsuccessful, but in my brain and soul what is taking place in the fields of paranormal investigations within law-enforcement, as well as research by investigators at haunted locations around the world, the gap between Quantum Field physicists and their remarkable discoveries, and that of common “ghost” investigators…is closing with every passing year. This is most exciting! What pleases me more is that it is being done without religious orthodoxy — indeed it cannot be done within the confines of traditional religious orthodoxy. Creativity and discovery — one of mankind’s most powerful gifts — cannot be realized when a system of conformity forbids it. Breaking free from centuries of stifling religious chains-of-superstition, Nobel Prize scientists and research are making exciting progress! Indeed, they are unlocking The Nature of the Universe!

Through these following short videos I will point out one spectrum of uniformity — in Quantum Mechanics called the Unified Field — that is not visible to our naked eye, but is quite real nonetheless.

Sub-atomic particles can never be destroyed or reduced into nothingness according to the classical Law of Conservation of Matter. Objects merely change form after certain chemical or nuclear reactions in a closed or sealed air-tight system. From the studies of modern chemistry and physics came nuclear physics: the nature, interaction, and building blocks of atomic nuclei. Beginning at the nuclear and atomic levels, scientists have developed laws and theories explaining why and how the nature of life behaves. The two videos you just watched showed that by some seemingly invisible force, particles moved or joined into intelligent symmetrical and elliptical shapes based on the intensity or energy created.

It is well-known how easily electric currents travel through water. Sound travels through water the same way. What is probably less understood is how any type of energy transports from one point to another. But first, what is going on with sound? Sound is a mechanical wave form resulting from disturbed atomic particles vibrating back and forth within some type of solid, liquid, or gas medium. The human ear can audibly detect these waves only within a specific frequency range of 20 Hz – 20,000 Hz (pitch resolution), also determined by intensity (expressed in decibel), and atmospheric pressure (expressed in vibrations of one-tenth of an atomic diameter). Frequencies below 20 Hz are usually felt and not heard if the number of disturbed atomic particles are large enough (amplitude). Frequencies above 20,000 Hz can sometimes be detected by infants, toddlers, or young children due to their youthful uncontaminated eardrums. Much of what we perceive through our senses, e.g. sight, sound, touch, even smell, is vibrational movement or disturbance that our senses capture.

Frequency Wavelength Chart – Click to enlarge

Even though our ears and eyes are very sensitive to nature’s waveforms, we actually perceive a very tiny range of the full spectrum of known vibrations; or that is to say, the full range of disturbances in atomic particles generated by forces of energy. Light travels on the electromagnetic spectrum; a much larger range of frequencies (see Frequency Chart) than our sound range. As you can see in the Frequency Chart, our senses are only able to perceive vibrations between 34,000 and 64,000 waves to the inch. Detecting other vibrations outside this range requires special high-tech equipment like FLIR cameras (Forward Looking InfraRed) or electromagnetic indicators (e.g. EMF detector) that are capable of taking us and our perceived world and glimpse the Aetheric world. But are machines the only means into the aetheric? Was there an aetheric vibrating world in existence prior to our technological advances? Have vibrational disturbances through mediums such as solids, liquids, and gases, even vacuums been taking place all along on higher and lower frequencies our eyes, ears, skin, and noses are not attuned to?

Nuclear physics and Quantum mechanics are showing compellingly that the entire Universe is indeed one massive medium with vibrations going on simultaneously (Entanglement) on all frequencies all the time. On the subatomic level, electrons, protons, and neutrons are constantly interacting. Some repel each other, some attract each other to form a new molecule, and some coexist. And the space between these interacting or disturbed particles is on a 10 to the minus 8 centimeters scale; plenty of space for wild interactions! These nonstop interactions are taking place now, even between objects, and have done so since the birth of the Universe. Our human bodies exist in only one small part of the true full spectrum of Inner space (the nuclear level) and Outer space. But every bit of it connects. With that said, what does it also say about the potential of our human brain? Or better yet, what does it mean for a soul? The following video clip Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, airing on the Science Channel, explains how our thoughts influence our immediate space around us and into the eternal memory bank of the Universe.

The third video clip postulated water having memory. If that is true as Quantum science is supporting, what does it imply about the air around us as shown in the first two video clips? And given that no nuclear particle is ever completely destroyed into nothingness, how does a perpetual infinite memory bank impact those around us? On other frequencies beyond our very limited powers of observation, how much is seen or not seen, and remembered, forever? What if even our most secret thoughts were secret in illusion only, but available to anyone at anytime, including as it is happening? That approaches pre-detection or recognitions doesn’t it? That is essentially what Quantum physicists call Superposition…as I understand it. Since vibrations cause movement, and on the atomic and nuclear scales movement causes energy and temperatures, now is good time to explain Bose-Einstein Condensates.

Most of us know that when certain gas molecules join together forming a liquid, it is called condensation. For example with a frosted mug placed on the table, eventually a wet ring forms at the base; it happens because energy in the surrounding warm air is lost. Gases are very excited energized atoms. Liquids are less energized and solids are the least energized with only electronic movement within the atoms. Bose-Einstein Condensates represent the congealing of very cold atomic particles right before absolute zero (Kelvin scale) stops everything; or that is to say a group of atoms take up the same space with all the same qualities forming a super atom.

It may still seem abstract at this point but what modern physics has revealed is that beyond our classical Newtonian-Empedoclesian laws of nature, those laws completely collapse on the atomic and subatomic levels. Over that threshold an entirely different world of laws exist. And don’t be too hasty to slap a catch-all title to that Aether world. When I say the ancient laws of nature completely collapse, included are most of the ancient myths of all the world’s religions.

What has our return to physics class told us? In the brief time that I have probably crudely explained over this post and the previous two posts on Connectivity, one point needs understanding: our human body, our brain, our soul are very much connected not only with our immediate surroundings but equally so with this planet, everyone on it, and this Universe. Space or time does not separate our existence from anyone or anything. Think about that for a moment.

Before moving on to my next blog on Connectivity — The New Paradigm, the following video clip can perhaps put everything in a more understandable framework. It is from the 2004 series What the Bleep Do We Know – Down the Rabbit Hole.

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To continue to the next post of the series, click Connectivity — The New Paradigm .

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Connectivity — Part 2

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Professor Taboo

Albert Einstein tried to join the fundamental forces of nature to the accepted laws of elemental particles under one simplified framework called the Unified Field. Between the 1940’s and the 1970’s several scientific fields were successfully joined into one single model: James Maxwell’s electromagnetism was translated into mathematical terms called quantum mechanics; Niels Bohr and Richard Feynman, along with Einstein consolidated the behavior of matter and energy on molecular, atomic and sub-atomic levels into Quantum Physics. It was an age of great scientific discovery and newer challenges, primarily how to incorporate gravity into Quantum Mechanics and Physics.

Generational macro-to-micro perspective of a quark — click on the diagram for a grade school level explanation.

Experiments in particle acceleration, i.e. breaking down atoms into smaller sub-atomic particles by literally crashing them together, revealed seemingly more unqualifyable mechanics. Yet after decades of watching these experiments, physicists began seeing patterns or family groups of sub-atomic particles. In our science classes we learned that elements were made up of various atomic combinations. Within the individual atoms we learned they in turn were made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons. By 1968 physicists discovered yet another generation of particles: the Quarks. These sub-parts of protons and neutrons, six types exactly, exist within the nuclei of atoms. Therefore, with the spinning electrons, neutrinos (created via radioactivity), the six different quarks, and photons (the basic unit of light), scientists and physicists have found a “new” 4-Part Standard Model joining quantum mechanics, quantum physics, and yes, gravity. Mr. Einstein would be at the edge of his seat, right? Has the Unified Field finally moved from theory to Universal law? Not so fast.

For the last half century our most powerful sub-atomic microscopes and particle accelerators found the quarks. Now the questions are what hold these four basic components together? How are things solid or grouped together? What intelligence is behind the behavior of everything inside us, everything on our planet, our moon, our solar system and everything between and beyond? Well, modern physicists are pretty sure it’s a unique energy organizer. What can’t be explained yet is why there are vast weight-ranges, or mass from these seemingly infinite random forms of energy or intelligent interaction when protons and neutrons smash together.

Theoretical physicist Peter Higgs of Edinburgh University

Enter the Higgs Phenomena (Peter Higgs). Higgs postulates that there is a sub/sub-atomic field throughout everything and touching everything. When certain particles interact with this field, that interaction determines the mass of those particles, like our own bodies or other objects of form. More specifically, Higgs predicts that a matching particle will produce a constant-connector or force carrier (like light given off from photons), termed the Higgs Boson. Physicists think this Higgs Boson will be discovered and measured in a larger particle accelerator than previously constructed at Fermilab near Chicago, IL; which is 3.9 miles in circumference and capable of pushing particles of protons near the speed of light. But their accelerator is neither long enough nor powerful enough to crack-open the Universe’s last common denominator.

Near Geneva, Switzerland the European Organization for Nuclear Research (known as CERN) has built just such a mega-mammoth. The Large Hadron Collider is 17 miles in circumference and in 2009 and 2010 accelerated protons almost four times faster than Fermilab, but is designed to smash particles over 7-times faster or with 7-trillion electron volts. However, due to the enormous amounts of artificial energy required to push particles upwards to the speed of light and greater distances, the CERN’S LHC will not be ready for full-power colliding until 2014.

FermiLab Particle Accelerator outside of Chicago, IL

Detailed explanation of these future experiments and the plethora of scientific terms, theoretical experiments, laws, and their formulas goes beyond the scope of this already bloating two-part article. However, if you get a wild hair to exercise your brain and expand your knowledge in quantum physics, I urge you to do so, beginning with a few of these mentioned theories and scientists. But physicists now know that we must move beyond classical Empedoclesian and Newtonian laws of nature which have governed our understanding of matter, gravity, time and space for 2 or 3,000 centuries. At the scale of the Unified Field (or Higgs Boson) there is no other choice but to go outside classical intuitions.

Here is where things get abstractly bizarre, at least for me. Conceptually or theoretically this is where scientists are at today: macroscopic bodies/entities are in multiple positions simultaneously (around thousands or more) on the nuclear scale of the Unified Field called Quantum Superposition. They may also be connected over unbelievable distances called Entanglement. And more intriguingly, they can be congealed into one quantum state (e.g. our own bodies) governed by one wave function called, interestingly enough: Bose-Einstein Condensates, slightly touched on in Part 1 of this article with Dr. Emoto’s findings via waveforms.

The 17-mile CERN Particle Accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. The synchrotron sits 574 ft beneath the surface.

Due to the depth of this subject and need to do it justice while not sacrificing meaning, I will continue this pseudo-brief topic in the third article: Connectivity – Back to Physics Class.

Meanwhile, for an excellent in-depth elaboration of the topics and terms covered in these two articles/blogs, watch the 8-part series: Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. Another such resource is the two-part series: What the Bleep Do We Know!? Then the second: What the Bleep Do We Know!? Down the Rabbit Hole!

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Connectivity — Part 1

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Professor Taboo

Since 325 CE with the Greco-Romanization of Jewish Christians and 622 CE with followers of Muhammad (Islam) unifying in Yathrib (now considered Mecca), centuries perhaps millenniums of mankind’s natural connection to the spirit-world began being severed. Up until those two particular dates in time, earth’s populations had a plethora of spiritual exercises and belief systems that often connected them purposely and intimately to their ancestral history; to their living dead. To mankind’s detriment these very real gifts and abilities to connect to the non-physical, to the quantum field, were systematically exterminated by oppressive religions. Fortunately, and for the sake of thousands upon thousands of suffering families today, these ancient gifts and methods are still alive and well, and gradually finding their way back to their natural wide-spread acceptance in Western and Middle Eastern cultures. I hope to be a small part of that rebirth with this post and my Blog.

Child psychologist Dr. Lisa Miller and an associate professor in Psychology and Education at Columbia University (Miller’s webpage at Columbia) has spent her clinical and teaching career advocating the reacceptance of paranormal gifts in American adolescents at risk for social ostracization by their peers and family members. The Columbia University page explains that:

Cultures outside the U.S. – notably China and Mexico – embrace experiences such as visits from ancestor spirits and derive important psychological benefits from them. In the U.S., however, Miller says, such experiences “are not supported by a system of meaning or an understanding of reality that’s widespread in our culture.”

The work of Dr. Miller is seen on the A&E television series Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal where she and partner Chip Coffey, a well-known psychic himself, travel the country helping countless adolescents understand, accept, and then use their extraordinary gifts and not fear them, be labeled crazy, or worse…be treated as demonic vessels by religious zealots. “Often children are quite depressed and confused by their experiences – not by the experience itself,” Miller explains “…but by the feedback they’ve gotten, whether in their own families or in the school setting.” In one particular episode, the Miller-Coffey team helped three separate kids who didn’t know how to sort out their experiences. Consequently, the three had become behavioral problems in their homes and schools. Miller’s work helps stave off dangerous conditions of depression, substance abuse or dependence they would otherwise fall victim or use to cope. Coffey and Miller were able to guide the three to the family of a son missing since 2001. With their psychic abilities they brought closure and peace to the victimized family that local law enforcement or forensics could not have relieved.

Sadly or happily, depending on your frame of reference, adolescents are not the only age group wrongly defined by the American mainstream. Adults with psychic-paranormal experiences can face the same type of societal ridicule. The good news is — if I may borrow the popular church phrase — that over the last couple of decade’s law enforcement across the country have begun using psychic investigators to revitalize cold cases with remarkable success. Gale St. John, Nancy Myer, Sue Nicholson, Valerie Morrison, Nancy Weber, Noreen Renier, Phil Jordan, Etta Smith, Annette Martin, Pascarella Downey, Laurie McQuary, Lauren Thibodeau, and the list could go on for several more pages but these named psychics have helped either break open cold cases or significantly contributed to the arrest and conviction of many missing or murdered people. For the skeptics out there, many of these psychic investigators work for free or by donations only. The scientific understanding behind these gifted paranormal experts possibly lies in the quickly progressing field of Quantum Mechanics.

Positive vs. Negative crystals

Many of us learned in high school chemistry classes about the Law of Conservation of Mass/Matter. Developed in the mid-18th century by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier and contemporaries, this law states that elemental particles making up a solid, liquid, or gas are never lost or never created, but they can be rearranged. When water boils, for example, if boiled long enough all the water will change into gas. If all that rising gas were kept completely contained, the container of gas would weigh exactly the same as the original container of water. It is the weight or volume of elements that never change despite their “new” forms.

Water has been the medium of Japanese photographer Dr. Masaru Emoto and his impressionable droplets. Between Emoto and John Zimmerman, PhD of the Bio-Electro-Magnetic Institute their experiments have shown that our brain and body organs send electromagnetic waves measurable in water. In Emoto’s microscopic photographs (seen above) he captures the difference between frozen water crystals surrounded by positive energy such as beautiful music, emotions of love or gratitude or happy thoughts, while also capturing frozen crystals surrounded by negative energy, i.e. the opposite of the aforementioned energy forms. The difference between the frozen crystals is stunning. The positively surrounded crystals clearly exhibit symmetry, balance, and relative beauty compared to the negatively surrounded crystals. Additionally, and to Emoto’s credit, the Backster Effect collaborates this theorem: that plants or living species which have no apparent brain can also transmit electromagnetic waves. Further reading of Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose’s findings is also well worth expanding one’s understanding of wave form.

Something physicists are attempting to understand is a theory Einstein tried to prove called the Uniform Field. If this theory proves to be true or valid, it would be the field that connects all sub-atomic waves without requiring any constants of nature being present. Make sense? Yeah, I will try to elaborate further in the next blog: Connectivity — Part 2.

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