Mid-morning. You and Carol have some chores
and errands to do today. You also need to buy some cinnamon capsules and begin
taking them. Carol bought a new cereal with cinnamon on top of shredded wheat
squares which you like very much for breakfast and it appears to help keep your
glucose levels down. Carol wants to drive to Mariemont today as she and Ann F.
have Blue Ash Retired Teachers’ luncheon at a small cafe in Mariemont tomorrow.
Perhaps lunch at Marx Bagels today. Exercises today also. – Amorella
0927 hours. I need to get going this
morning, but it is such a dreary morning with rain earlier and this afternoon
and tonight and tomorrow too. Fingers and toes are feeling the weather change.
Weather forecasting is one of the benefits of arthritis. Really, it is.
0939
hours. I am checking my email and I have an interest article sent to me by
Doug. Here is an excerpt that I am delighted to see because it reinforces my
sense of how important honesty is in relationship to being dead in a fiction
and possibly in real life as far as that goes.
** **
Ancient Tomb Unearthed In Egypt Had Its Own
Pyramid, Archaeologists Say
LiveScience | by
Owen Jarus
Posted: 03/31/2014 1:46 pm
EDT Updated: 03/31/2014 1:59 pm EDT
A Jasper treasure
One of the most interesting artifacts the
team found was a heart amulet, made of red and green jasper. The hard stone
amulet was broken into three pieces.
"It's a beautiful object and possibly
one of the best carved examples of these very rare type of amulets," Cahail
said. "It was probably on the chest of one of the deceased individuals and
there probably would have been some sort of necklaces and
gold and things like that."
The purpose of this heart-shaped amulet was
probably related to spells from the Book of the Dead that tell the heart of the
deceased not to lie. The ancient Egyptians believed that, after death, their
hearts would be put on a scale and weighed against a feather representing
ma'at, an Egyptian concept that includes truth and justice. If their heart
weighed the same or less they could obtain eternal life, but if it weighed more
they were destroyed.
"Essentially, your heart and your good deeds
and everything that you've done in your life is weighed against the measure of
truth," Cahail said.
Excerpt from - http://www.huffingtonpost-dot-com/2014/03/31/ancient-tomb-egypt .
. .
** **
It is strange that you would use an
unearthed fact in an article to reinforce fiction as far as the Dead are
concerned. The Merlyn books are fiction, boy and will remain so. That is part
of the joke. – Amorella
0948 hours. Of course they are. I know
this. I see a little wiggle room for embedded dark humor in the process. That
gives the books an air of plausibility anyway. Like you have said, no one
knows - conjecture. But the Living
enjoy the wondering. I personally cannot image the Dead wondering about much of
anything. Besides, I don’t know. I respect the Dead and let it go at that.
Talking to an Angel directly (hypothetically) would make little difference.
What else would I say but what comes to mind?
In here you would also say what comes to
heartansoul, whether you believed it or not. There’s the real rub, huh, boy,
whether you believed it or not. – Amorella
0955 hours. Now, this is the real
humor. I like this concept very much – you would say it as if you had a
heartansoulanmind whether you believed you had one or not. That is an existential
piece of work if there ever was one. We have to use this someplace. It is
essential to the point of view. Very funny. I think an Angel would find this a
fine piece of humor.
In the books, I agree. We will make use of
it. Drop it in Thunder. – Amorella
But I am talking about humans and
Angels not First Spirits and Angels. (1001)
Mid-morning. You and Carol have some chores
and errands to do today. You also need to buy some cinnamon capsules and begin
taking them. Carol bought a new cereal with cinnamon on top of shredded wheat
squares which you like very much for breakfast and it appears to help keep your
glucose levels down. Carol wants to drive to Mariemont today as she and Ann F.
have Blue Ash Retired Teachers’ luncheon at a small cafe in Mariemont tomorrow.
Perhaps lunch at Marx Bagels today. Exercises today also. – Amorella
0927 hours. I need to get going this
morning, but it is such a dreary morning with rain earlier and this afternoon
and tonight and tomorrow too. Fingers and toes are feeling the weather change.
Weather forecasting is one of the benefits of arthritis. Really, it is.
0939
hours. I am checking my email and I have an interest article sent to me by
Doug. Here is an excerpt that I am delighted to see because it reinforces my
sense of how important honesty is in relationship to being dead in a fiction
and possibly in real life as far as that goes.
** **
Ancient Tomb Unearthed In Egypt Had Its Own
Pyramid, Archaeologists Say
LiveScience | by
Owen Jarus
Posted: 03/31/2014 1:46 pm
EDT Updated: 03/31/2014 1:59 pm EDT
A Jasper treasure
One of the most interesting artifacts the
team found was a heart amulet, made of red and green jasper. The hard stone
amulet was broken into three pieces.
"It's a beautiful object and possibly
one of the best carved examples of these very rare type of amulets," Cahail
said. "It was probably on the chest of one of the deceased individuals and
there probably would have been some sort of necklaces and
gold and things like that."
The purpose of this heart-shaped amulet was
probably related to spells from the Book of the Dead that tell the heart of the
deceased not to lie. The ancient Egyptians believed that, after death, their
hearts would be put on a scale and weighed against a feather representing
ma'at, an Egyptian concept that includes truth and justice. If their heart
weighed the same or less they could obtain eternal life, but if it weighed more
they were destroyed.
"Essentially, your heart and your good deeds
and everything that you've done in your life is weighed against the measure of
truth," Cahail said.
From - http://www.huffingtonpost-dot-com/2014/03/31/ancient-tomb-egypt
. . .
** **
It is strange that you would use an
unearthed fact in an article to reinforce fiction as far as the Dead are
concerned. The Merlyn books are fiction, boy and will remain so. That is part
of the joke. – Amorella
0948 hours. Of course they are. I know
this. I see a little wiggle room for embedded dark humor in the process. That
gives the books an air of plausibility anyway. Like you have said, no one
knows - conjecture. But the Living
enjoy the wondering. I personally cannot image the Dead wondering about much of
anything. Besides, I don’t know. I respect the Dead and let it go at that.
Talking to an Angel directly (hypothetically) would make little difference.
What else would I say but what comes to mind?
In here you would also say what comes to
heartansoul, whether you believed it or not. There’s the real rub, huh, boy,
whether you believed it or not. – Amorella
0955 hours. Now, this is the real
humor. I like this concept very much – you would say it as if you had a
heartansoulanmind whether you believed you had one or not. That is an
existential piece of work if there ever was one. We have to use this someplace.
It is essential to the point of view. Very funny. I think an Angel would find
this a fine piece of humor.
In the books, I agree. We will make use of
it. Drop it in Thunder. – Amorella
But I am talking about humans and
Angels not First Spirits and Angels. (1001)
Later,
boy. Post. - Amorella
You did your forty minutes of exercises and
afterwards you updated ‘Thunder’ going back to 28 March deleting material not
relevant to the subject. Doug has another subject online as you noticed
earlier. As we go through this more slowly I will underline useful to the books
information. - Amorella
** **
Multiverse Debate
Heats Up In Wake Of Gravitational Wave Finding
| by
Clara Moskowitz
Posted: 03/31/2014 9:40 am EDT
Updated: 03/31/2014 9:59 am EDT
The multiverse multiverse
is one of the most divisive topics in physics, and it just became more so. The
major announcement last week of evidence for primordial
ripples in spacetime has bolstered a cosmological theory called
inflation, and with it, some say, the idea that our universe is one of many
universes floating like bubbles in a glass of champagne. Critics of the
multiverse hypothesis claim that the idea is untestable—barely even
science. But with evidence for inflation theory building up, the multiverse
debate is coming to a head.
The big news last week came from the
Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization 2 (BICEP2) experiment
at the South Pole, which saw imprints in the cosmic microwave background—the
oldest light in the universe, dating from shortly after the big bang—that
appear to have been caused by gravitational waves rippling through the fabric
of spacetime in the early universe. The finding was heralded as a huge
breakthrough, although physicists say confirmation from other experiments will
be needed to corroborate the results.
If verified, these
gravitational waves would be direct evidence for the theory of inflation, which suggests the
universe expanded exponentially in the first fraction of a nanosecond after it
was born. If inflation occurred, it would explain many features of our
universe, such as the fact that it appears to be fairly smooth, with matter
spread evenly in all directions (early inflation would have stretched out any
irregularities in the universe).
Inflation might also mean that what we
consider the universe—the expanse of everything we could see with the most
perfect telescopes—is just one small corner of space, a pocket where inflation
stopped and allowed matter to condense, galaxies and stars to form, and life to
evolve. Elsewhere, beyond the observable universe, spacetime may still be
inflating, with other “bubble” universes forming whenever inflation stops in
one location.
This picture is called eternal inflation. “Most inflationary
models, almost all, predict that inflation should become eternal,” says Alan
Guth, a theoretical physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), who first predicted
inflation in 1980.
If the BICEP2 results end up proving
inflation occurred, then the multiverse may
be part of the bargain. “I think the multiverse is a natural
consequence of inflation ideas,” says theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek, also
at MIT. “If you can start one universe form a very small seed, then other
universes could also grow from small seeds. There doesn’t seem to be anything
unique about the event we call the big bang. It is a reproducible event that
could and would happen again, and again, and again.”
If that is true, it
could help explain why our universe seems so special. The mass of the electron,
for example, appears to be completely random—this value is not predicted by any
known physics. And yet if the electron were any heavier or lighter than it is,
atoms could not form, galaxies would be impossible, and life would not exist.
The same goes for many other constants of nature, especially the cosmological
constant—the theorized, but unverified, source of the so-called dark energy
that is propelling the acceleration of the expansion of the universe. If the
cosmological constant were different, and dark energy was more or less
powerful, the universe would be drastically altered. and life as we know it
wouldn’t be possible.
If our universe is the only one in existence, then
we need some explanation for why it seems so fine-tuned for us to exist. If it
is but one of many, however, then maybe each has different parameters,
different constants, and one universe just happened to arrive at the values
that enabled life.
“We live in this part of the universe because we can
live there, not because the whole universe is built for our benefit,” says
Stanford University physicist Andrei Linde, one of the main authors of
inflation theory and the multiverse hypothesis. This idea, called the anthropic
principle, is satisfying to some, and maddening to others.
“That story
gives a very neat and self-consistent picture,” Guth says. But many find the
anthropic principle and the multiverse distasteful. “The multiverse functions
here as an all-purpose excuse for not being able to explain anything about
particle physics,” mathematician Peter Woit at Columbia University wrote in a blog post responding to BICEP2 reactions. “I
consider such a view to be ‘giving up’ on finding a true scientific explanation,”
says Princeton University theoretical physicist Paul Steinhardt.
In
addition to seeing the multiverse idea—and the anthropic principle it
enables—as a cop-out, skeptics charge that it is impossible to test, because
theory predicts other bubble universes would be permanently out of reach and
unobservable. “Literally, anything can happen and does happen infinitely many
times,” Steinhardt says. “This makes the theory totally unpredictive or,
equivalently, unfalsifiable.”
An untestable idea is by definition
unscientific, because science relies on verifying predictions through
experimentation. Proponents of the multiverse idea, however, say it is so
inextricable with some theories, including inflation, that evidence for one is
evidence for the other.
“Once we have experimental proof that the
cosmological constant is real, and we have experimental proof of inflationary
cosmology, then suddenly we have something which I firmly believe is
experimental evidence in favor of the multiverse,” Linde says. “Those people
who say the theory of the multiverse does not have any experimental
confirmation have not paid enough attention.”
Whether the BICEP2
results represent a piece of such confirmation is a point of contention between
the pro- and anti-multiverse factions. “The BICEP2 discovery should cause
dismay among multiverse skeptics—at least in this particular universe,” MIT
physicist Max Tegmark wrote in a guest blog
for Scientific American.
Doubters, of course, vehemently
disagree. “Perhaps there is a part of the multiverse in which the #BICEP2
results provide evidence for a multiverse, but I don't think we live there,”
Peter Coles, a theoretical cosmologist at the University of Sussex in England, wrote on Twitter.
And
many physicists are agnostic about what, if anything, the BICEP2 results have
to say about the multiverse. “The multiverse is an idea for how the
inflationary period that gave rise to our universe may have come about,” says
Marc Kamionkowski, professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins
University. “This particular measurement doesn’t shed any direct light on
that.”
Ultimately, neither side of the debate is likely to concede
defeat any time soon. But one faction at least is claiming a small victory
from last week’s news. “The more we move in this way, the more seriously we
should take the possibility of eternal inflation and the multiverse,” Linde
says, “and the idea that our universe is not just one cosmic balloon but a
fractal of balloons producing new balloons producing new balloons forever.”
From -
http://www.huffingtonpost –dot - com/2014/03/31/multiverse-gravitational-waves
** **
You are getting
ready to run errands and have lunch. Later, dude. Post. - Amorella
1240 hours. Thank you Doug for sending me the material. Awesome.
You had lunch at Marx Bagels on Kenwood in
Blue Ash, stopped at the bank and Dick’s Sporting Goods. Presently Carol is on
page 87 of Cook’s Cure and you are ready to tackle a bit more of Thunder. –
Amorella
1443 hours. I am. Does First Spirit
scatter the poetic devices and reason and intellect?
I was. Yes. It seems the arts and
sciences have to be distributed some way.
Theoretical First Spirit is going to
distribute these values to whom? – Amorella
These aren’t values are they?
What are they? – Amorella
Values are associated with morals. I
need to look at a definition. Amorella I am not the best person in the world to
set up this kind of novel or concepts. I run out of vocabulary and obviously I
become confused and I am not terribly bright. This sort of thing taxes my
brain. I know what values are but in this situation I am not sure of anything
actually.
** **
value –
noun
1 houses
exceeding $250,000 in value: price,
cost, worth; market price, monetary value, face
value.
2 the
value of adequate preparation cannot be understated:
worth, usefulness,
advantage, benefit, gain, profit, good, help, merit, helpfulness, avail;
importance, significance.
3 society's
values are passed on to us as children: principles,
ethics, moral code, morals, standards, code of
behavior.
From – Oxford-American
software
** **
In here all values have a cost. For
instance, what can be gained by a course in philosophy?
1500 hours. The only thing I can think
of is usefulness. Actually it is the only thing that is important about
mathematics, science and philosophy is usefulness in survival of the individual
and the group. Even the poetic devices are useful in music of language
communication but not nearly so much so as grammar.
You stop to pick dead skin from your healing
hand surgeries. – Amorella
1508 hours. This is because this kind
of abstract thinking makes my head hurt. So I stop.
This is because you cannot image Before in
any other way, a philosophical abstraction. – Amorella
into existence as part of the process
of the Making an Angel that is of no actual size or dimension. Okay. That’s
about it. (1525)
Time for a break, young man. More later. –
Amorella
1551 hours. Home. Carol is doing the
laundry and wants me to watch a TV show or two with her. I’m tired anyway. I
have no imagination.
You had carrots and veggie dip for supper;
Carol had left over soup. You watched “Person of Interest” and “Intelligence”
as well as NBC News. – Amorella
2113 hours. I read over what has been
posted for the last couple of days and found errors that I corrected. I also
realize I am mixing up a fictional Angel with the Theoretical First Spirit. In
here do you have a word to use for Angel(s) that would separate one or more
from Spirits?
You are no less tired than you were earlier.
– Amorella
I am interested. What causes the First
Spirit to exist?
It is a matter of Form and Function. –
Amorella
2119 hours. Form is first.
You need an analogy or metaphor here.
Nothing seeps into space and both are altered by time. It is changed just as a
person is changed by meeting a new person who will become a life-long friend.
The change is within nothing and space-and-time. The letter in nothing become
as common as space and time just as an individual’s consciousness is altered by
the consciousnesses of friends. Once nothing exists within space and time it is
altered by the consciousness of separation. Both the consciousness of space and
time are also raised by the ‘appearance’ of nothing. By raising consciousness
nothing becomes a form unlike space and time. - Amorella
Think
of consciousness as a chemical agent. At a later time this would become evolve
as hydrogen and oxygen. The same story as nothing becoming a form only it is
seen as a chemical process that continues to evolve because it rubs, let’s say,
against space-and-time. The root of the tree of universes begins with neither a
bang nor a whimper. It begins with seepage of nothing into space-and-time where
nothing and space and time are both seemingly forever altered. - Amorella
2149 hours. How then how does the
Theoretical First Spirit take form?
It does not. – Amorella
Why?
TFS does not take form because it is altered
by Nothing seeping into Space-and-Time. The reaction is the opposite; the
Spirit becomes less than the altering of Nothing into a common nothing. As such
Spirit is raised by the experience. Adjustments must be made. Again, just as
adjustments have to be made with two or more people live together under the
same roof. This same Spirit once raised to its own point of consciousness, as
it were, it becomes the Theoretical First Spirit. – Amorella
2200 hours. In this sense of tone then
beings of higher consciousness continue to act out the basic action of Nothing
seeping into Space-and-Time.
Yes, we are keeping this simple because that
is what it is. Think of this rooting from the altered Nothing into
space-and-time as the evolutionary growth of the altered nothing into eventual
matter. Nothing is what it once was. As the Tree of Universes grows, the Spirit
seeps up the tree like sap and this causes buds to grow and as the buds pop and
flower the universe comes into light and all within is altered and evolves into
something else again. This is very similar to the social evolution of being of
higher consciousness. Form becomes function and rules separate one from the
other. Most everyone wants their own space in their own time. Nothing can ever
go back to what it was just as people can never stay as children. It is a rule.
There is not too much essential difference between the consciousness of Nature
and human consciousness. People are Nature. – Amorella
2215 hours. I am going to have to
think on this. What I like immediately is that the tone of this story is themed
in understanding and not knowledge. I like this very much.
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