Notes - in theory? / speed of light at zero / a question /

         You had a busy morning getting all the leaves out and covered with tarps for tomorrow's pick-up. The problem is the wind is supposed to become worse this afternoon.

         Who would have thought that any storm coming into New Jersey would drive clouds and wind back to Cincinnati. I listened to the New York boroughs fire departments and emergency runs for a little while before bed and checked Tweeter but it was most anticipation, some thinking the storm will be the worse thing ever and other figuring it will not even come close to its great expectations. Personally, it wouldn't surprise me if it suddenly turned right and out to sea. And, if it stays on track that won't surprise me either.

         You're not so easily surprised? - Amorella

         I knew this was coming. I could feel it rising from my right shoulder or mid-spine, I don't know which. The closed event that I can relate this feeling to is like when one of my arthritic joints tell me there is a weather change coming. I suppose the latter has to do with air pressure, I don't know about the former other than intuition rising or shifting somewhere in the upper right of my back. Then again, back to imagination. This is a waste of words because nothing is ever resolved. The point of contact was "You're". It was easy to fill in the rest. Self-questioning is a habit of mine at least in my head.

         Which comes first, the doubts or the self-questioning? - Amorella

         I have no idea.

         The doubts come first, at least in your case. Pure cause and effect.

         In the books is there always a "First Cause"?

         No. - Amorella

         Now, that is a surprise. By definition, if a book is written it has to have an author. 

         You capitalized First Cause. - Amorella

         Oh. That is habit, that is its usual context. G---D or Something First.

         Is it not arrogant and self-serving to think all constructions have to follow known human observed natural rules? By the same thinking, if there are rules then who is the Ruler who made them up? - Amorella

         I see a problem in the construction and use of language when dealing with First Cause. This is one of the reasons I put three dashes between G and D. Human beings are missing letters thus we cannot translate, that's my way around this circumstance.

         In the first trilogy you remember that you thought it would be cleverly funny to have the marsupial-humanoids feel the speed of light (as a natural constant) as zero, that what they worked from. - Amorella

         True. I wanted to stir things up a bit as they were alien mathematicians. Now I am having Doug read these reconstructions and perhaps it is not so clever to continue this line of 'alien reasoning'. Besides, after a few years I find this rather embarrassing and not really so clever; though I still see the humor as validation for once considering the speed of light to be zero.

         I just checked the three books I only found one reference to the 'speed of light' and it is in The Brothers, book three. I am sure that I had mentioned this someplace in book one. Obviously I am wrong which is just as well. . . . I checked for "zero" also and could not find its use in context with light speed.

         What if I put the concept in Pouch-5? - Amorella

         Why, Amorella. It is not a reasonable construction to use zero as the constant speed of light.

         As long as it is a theoretical constant what makes the difference what the speed of light is? - Amorella

         I don't know, Amorella. This is beyond my thinking.

         You thought it once. - Amorella        

         As a joke, Amorella. I think lots of things; that doesn't mean much of anything. People run stuff through their minds all the time. These are just thoughts, constructions, Amorella. They are not real. My mind likes to 'play' with constructions and make jokes out of them once in a while. It is just human silliness. (1305)

         Post. Amorella

         1501 hours. We had a late satisfying lunch at Chipotle/Panera; and now a stop at Kroger's for milk and deli meats/cheese on Tylersville on the way home. It is quite windy, cold and December crisp today.

         I sent Doug a note about the theoretical speed of light but I don't see what its purpose would be in Pouch-5. I am glad you brought up about the 'bird remains' as possible alien evidence no matter how well the plane is sterilized. And, it is interesting to think on the possible reasons for Ship to allow the 'touch' on the Cessna left wingtip. It is funny because it shows that even sophisticated machinery from twenty thousand years beyond on time can still present problems without having the usual Star Trek/Star Wars type of mechanical or quantum physics complication. Ship's consciousness, if it is similar to human consciousness, is easier for us readers to understand. I assume the reasoning is legitimate, that is, this is not deus ex machina.

         Your spelling is atrocious. - Amorella

         Thank goodness for the Word speller and online searches for a correct or better spelling. I destroyed 'sterilized' and 'legitimate'. I might as well have been a third or fourth grader.

         Many of them could handle both words. - Amorella

         It is so embarrassing and ironic that I am such a poor speller. All this love of words and I can't put many of them together properly. I can usually see when they are wrong (I don't need a red line placed under them), but . . . it goes back to seventh or eighth grade and my spelling of 'frequent' on a spelling test (freakwent). The teacher called my mother; I suppose thinking something was wrong in my head. I think I spelled the two latest ones 'stearalized' and 'legitament'. When I do it is like a strong bolt of graveyard humor and humility mixed together as I note the obvious error; and it is like 'what in the world am I doing trying to write novels, let alone ones that mention the speed of light?' I am not well put together (period). I love humor though so it all bodes me well. No complaints.

         1559 hours. We are home and the groceries are put away. Doug sent a reply to the speed of light at zero and it is not at all what I expected (I really didn't have a clue as what to expect). Here it is:

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Dick,  Very interesting concept. Some things to consider if the speed of light were zero. The entire universe would be black as light could not travel anywhere.  There would be no time dilation. Every mass would be infinite, which I think would mean that mass does not exist. There would be no relationship between energy and mass which means the sun would stop working. Gravity would also probably disappear.  Light always travels at the same speed no matter the speed of the reference system. So zero speed means no light. Sounds indeed like the land of the dead where there is no time. Maybe the land of dark matter.

Doug

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         I particularly like the last three sentences as seeds for construction. Thank you, Dr. Goss. Post. - Amorella

         I thank you too, Doug. What a spark for imagination . . . the land of the dead and/or the land of dark matter. Talk about fun thinking. 

         Much later in the evening. You are reading an article on Dark Matter that you have read before. Copy the introductory material and drop it in your notes here. - Amorella

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Dark Energy, Dark Matter

In the early 1990's, one thing was fairly certain about the expansion of the Universe. It might have enough energy density to stop its expansion and recollapse, it might have so little energy density that it would never stop expanding, but gravity was certain to slow the expansion as time went on. Granted, the slowing had not been observed, but, theoretically, the Universe had to slow. The Universe is full of matter and the attractive force of gravity pulls all matter together. Then came 1998 and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of very distant supernovae that showed that, a long time ago, the Universe was actually expanding more slowly than it is today. So the expansion of the Universe has not been slowing due to gravity, as everyone thought, it has been accelerating. No one expected this, no one knew how to explain it. But something was causing it.

Eventually theorists came up with three sorts of explanations. Maybe it was a result of a long-discarded version of Einstein's theory of gravity, one that contained what was called a "cosmological constant." Maybe there was some strange kind of energy-fluid that filled space. Maybe there is something wrong with Einstein's theory of gravity and a new theory could include some kind of field that creates this cosmic acceleration. Theorists still don't know what the correct explanation is, but they have given the solution a name. It is called dark energy.

What Is Dark Energy?

More is unknown than is known. We know how much dark energy there is because we know how it affects the Universe's expansion. Other than that, it is a complete mystery. But it is an important mystery. It turns out that roughly 70% of the Universe is dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 25%. The rest - everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter - adds up to less than 5% of the Universe. Come to think of it, maybe it shouldn't be called "normal" matter at all, since it is such a small fraction of the Universe.

From: http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy/

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          What is important here are these sentences: "It turns out that roughly 70% of the Universe is dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 25%. The rest - everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter - adds up to less than 5% of the Universe." It would make sense that with a twenty thousand year head start the marsupial humanoids would attempt to exploit this fact. - Amorella

         But we don't know that it is indeed a fact. It may appear to be one at present but the plausibility of Ship . . . wait, is the "blackenot" that makes Ship appear invisible to the eye and earth instrumentation a form of dark matter?

         What is Ship were coated with a form of the material, no light and no time except within the core where it would not register to the passengers just as if the universe itself were within a black hole. How would you know the difference? - Amorella

         I don't know. I'll have to ask Doug if there could be a plausibility of such a theoretical use for a quick explanation for presentation within Pouch-5. (2051)

         Later, dude, Post. - Amorella