Late dusk. You have
not been on your MacAir hardly at all today. You and Carol took a walk
partially around the lakes at Pine Hill in the morning, then took a drive to
McD's near Kings Island, chatted and watched the traffic go by while sitting in
the shade drinking a large diet Coke with light ice. Carol had a medium sugar
free iced vanilla coffee. Heading home you drove around the neighborhood
looking at everyone's flowers and happened to see Gary Popplewell out washing
his new topless sports jeep. You both stopped to chat as you had not seen him
since he finally retired from Mason High after forty-two years of service to
the district. You taught all four of his kids who are all married with kids.
Gary and Teresa have eight grandchildren, if you count the one who is on the
way. Gary mentioned going to Tommy's for lunch and asked Carol too but she
declined. While at Tommy's you saw another colleague, Tim Keaton, who had been
an assistant principal while you were teaching, and his friend Bill. Tim
retired in June. You ended up spending the early afternoon at what was once
Tommy's Bar, now it goes under another name, Win, Place and Show on Rt. 42 near
Sharonville. Once home a short nap then Carol requested a trip to Graeter's for
a treat. You finally checked your email by stopping at McD's lot on Tylersville
(west of Graeters) to check your email. Home for left over spaghetti pie for
supper, the news, and then two shows, "Crossing Lines" and "King
and Maxwell". Kim
called and you and Carol had a long newsy chat and here it is later than you
suspected.
2216
hours. Doug had some interesting things to say today about energy and spirits.
I am glad I did not work on the discussion in Brothers 20 yet.
Let's
go through Doug's emails and we'll see what comes up. - Amorella
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Note One:
Dick, I have been thinking about the
properties of the photon. The photon has no rest mass. It does not exist when
at rest. When it is created it travels instantaneously at the speed of
light. The speed of light is a
constant. Since velocity equals acceleration times time it appears that at
creation a photon must experience infinite acceleration. Since it has no rest
mass I guess this is okay. Just interesting that singularities seem to be
everywhere in the math we use to describe the laws of physics. Basically a
singularity says we do not know what is
happening when it occurs. Fortunately for
us things work in spite of our lack of knowledge how.
Doug
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Note Two:
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/PoyntingVector.html
Dick, this equation describes how photons
carry energy.
Doug
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My Note:
Doug,
Also interesting. So, I wonder then,
how could a spirit carry energy? (or, something else again, akin to energy)
Dick
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Note
Three:
Dick, not only might a spirit carry energy but it
probably carries information, i.e. knowledge as well and it appears that it
must have memory. So I think it might act like a modulated stream of photons (remember
radio waves are photons also and they carry information). I am not sure if a
spirit can have new thoughts or memories. If the spirit is electromagnetic like
our brain waves are, then the Poynting vector will work for them too. Remember
that scientists are now reading our thoughts with signatures of the signals
generated by firing neurons.
Doug
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You are attempting to assimilate this
information too quickly. It has been a busy day and you are tired. What we
are looking for here for the book focuses on Doug's comment: "If the
spirit is electromagnetic like our brain waves are, then the Poynting vector
will work for them too."
Before, you asked if the spirit
carries energy or something akin to energy? Doug says that if it carries
energy then it probably carries information -- that the spirit might be as a
stream of photons (as radio waves). In a sense you are still in the same area
as the similar characteristics in light and thought.
We don't have to solve this now; we want
to bring this into the conversation. We'll let Robert bring this up and Cyndi
respond. Then Connie and then Richard. (What is the spirit composed of?) We
can have a 'string' theory by the next chapter. - Amorella
2309 hours. Amorella you are out of
my territory here. I don't see how string theory can connect to a spirit's possible non-mass
'composition of energy, knowledge and memory'.
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