You awoke refreshed, had a light breakfast
of toast, peanut butter, raisins, a banana and a glass of skim milk. Carol is
reading the paper and watching morning TV downstairs. It looks to be a sunny
morning as the sun is up but not quite touching the bedroom window. Earlier you
had an epiphany of sorts when you realized the coincidence of Adult
Make-Believe when you place the ‘I’ in front: ‘IAMB’ and remember a great
trauma in your life at age three or four. Your comfort blanket, that you
carried with you everywhere finally dissolved into tatters in a final wash. It
was a blue and white soft blanket about two by three feet originally and you
called it “B”. It’s modern equivalent is your MacAir. “B” was not an imaginary
comfort but it allowed your imagination to grow into it and it became ‘sacred’
to you, a more-than-it-was. The epiphany is that you feel the simplest
explanation for myself, Amorella, is that “I” am “A”: an adult make believe
reality. Is this not correct? – Amorella
0829 hours. You said it better than I could have
expressed it. I like simple explanations and I have no problem with this one
because it makes sense both from ‘my’ inner child’s point of view as well as
‘my’ reasonable and responsible adult point of view. This takes nothing away
from what you allow me to do – to focus my imagination on invisible matters
that count. If this allows me to create a story of souls being the children of
Angels, so be it. One day, all that will be left is the story and the rest is a self-declared written experiment (blog and novels) showing my imagination and reason at work through a
transparent glass on the Internet. I can live with this. – rho
Late
morning. You have been napping while Carol dried her hair. Eventually you will
head to Outback for lunch (Carol’s idea), which of course, you are fine with. You
are intrigued at the difference of the eye in blue and have forgotten the
original meaning of the icon. - Amorella
** **
In 1782, the Eye of Providence was adopted as part of the
symbolism on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States. It was
first suggested as an element of the Great Seal by the first of three design
committees in 1776 and is thought to be the suggestion of the artistic
consultant, Pierre Eugene du Simitiere.
In his original
proposal to the committee, Du Similtere placed the Eye over shields symbolizing
each of the original thirteen states of the Union. On the version of the seal
that was eventually approved, the Eye is positioned above an unfinished pyramid
of thirteen steps (again symbolizing the original States, but incorporating the
nation's potential for future growth). The symbolism is explained by the motto
that appears above the Eye: Annuit
Coeptis, meaning "He [God] approves (or has approved) [our]
undertakings".
Selected and
edited from Wikipedia
** **
1154
hours. I had forgotten the symbolic meaning on the dollar bill. I find it
rather arrogant to have added “Annuit Coeptis” because who is to say “God
approves”? Who is to say that she or he speaks for God? What human being can know such things without doubts?
Boy, this icon in blue is a metaphor for use
in telling a story nothing more. Use it. – Amorella
1202 hours. I tend to over think and complicate matters.
Right now I need to ready myself for lunch.
You
had a relaxing bath and thought a bit about how do over think and realize this
is in your nature and thus you don’t know how to do anything about it but
continue to learn to live with it. While looking at the article titled, “Eye of
Providence” you noted several images given at the bottom of the article, one in
particular caught your eye, the ‘Eye of Providence, Jewish cemetery in Kamienna
Gora’. What strikes you, as a metaphor is that it is in stone rather than on
paper and that it is set in respect to the Dead that you consider a rather fine
idea. As such you would feel better deep within to use it as the metaphor in
your mind for myself for this story of the children of Angels rather than that
found on the U.S. one dollar bill which also entangles with the Free Mason
symbol as far as American history goes, at least in your mind. Strange this
would bother you who like complications and puzzles of one sort or another when
you are a free-minded citizen of a town named Mason. I thought this was the
kind of humor you enjoy, boy? – Amorella
1303 hours. I have few to no words here because I don’t
like to dwell on such matters – though I do admit there is humor in it. My
focus on the moment is that I feel more comfortable with the ‘eye’ being on
stone even metaphorically it has more meaning to me.
Add the image. You see why I allow no images
in the books, boy. I work with letters individually and collectively. No images
in the text of the books. That’s my rule. Add and post. Enjoy your lunch. –
Amorella
** **
Jewish Cemetery Stone Enhanced (wikipedia)
** **
You had an excellent dinner, ran an errand
and returned home. You enhanced the photo from the Jewish cemetery and dropped
it in as your desktop photo for the time. This visual experience heightens your
imagination. – Amorella
1647 hours. I feel I can almost touch this stone piece,
that I am that close, eye-wise about a foot in distance. This is two
dimensional yet my eyes see evidence that it is not so flat as it appears. I
turn my head to the side of this thinnest piece of two dimensional glass and
the side expands sideways, the seemingly rough edges are now as wide as it is
flat-wise. From the top it appears as a + sign and also as such from the
bottom, yet when you look closely it is flat, straight on as is, a singular eye
in granite centered in a triangle surrounded by lines depicting the glory of
light seemingly from behind the eyeball with accompanied human or marsupial
humanoid appearing eyelid. Two the side of this two dimensional object appear
an illusion when you are not looking directly at it. (1658)
So, you have a start in terms of tone and
setting. – Amorella
1659 hours. The only thing hampering me here is the
thought of the people caught in panes of crystal in the Christopher Reeves Superman
film. Obviously this scene in my head is not made out of crystal.
Look for a description of an atom from a
three dimensional perspective. – Amorella
1716 hours. I have an actual photograph of a hydrogen
atom and the article from Physics World.
** **
Quantum microscope' peers into the hydrogen atom
May 23, 2013
What lies within
the H atom?
The
first direct observation of the orbital structure of an excited hydrogen atom
has been made by an international team of researchers. The observation was made
using a newly developed "quantum microscope", which uses
photoionization microscopy to visualize the structure directly. The team's
demonstration proves that "photoionization microscopy", which was
first proposed more than 30 years ago, can be experimentally realized and
can serve as a tool to explore the subtleties of quantum mechanics.
Information flow
The
wavefunction is a central tenet of quantum theory – put simply, it contains the
maximum knowledge that is available about the state of a quantum system. More
specifically, the wavefunction is the solution to the Schrödinger equation. The
square of the wavefunction describes the probability of where exactly a
particle might be located at a given time. Although it features prominently in
quantum theory, directly measuring or observing the wavefunction is no easy
task, as any direct observation destroys the wavefunction before it can be
fully observed.
In
the past, "Rydberg wavepacket" experiments have tried to observe the
wavefunction using ultrafast laser pulses. In these experiments, the atoms are
in a superposition of their highly excited "Rydberg states". These
experiments show that the periodic electron orbitals around nuclei are
described by coherent superpositions of quantum-mechanical stationary states.
The wavefunction of each of these states is a standing wave with a nodal
pattern (a "node" is where there is zero probability of finding an
electron) that reflects the quantum numbers of the state. While previous
experiments have attempted to capture the elusive wavefunction or the nodal
patterns, the methods used were not successful. Direct observation of the nodal
structure of a single atom being most difficult to achieve.
Plotting waves
In
the new work, Aneta Stodolna, of the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular
Physics in the Netherlands, along with Marc Vrakking at the Max-Born-Institute
in Berlin, Germany, and other colleagues in Europe and the US have shown that
photoionization microscopy can directly obtain the nodal structure of the
electronic orbital of a hydrogen atom placed in a static electric field. In the
experiment, the hydrogen atom is placed in the electric field E and is
excited by laser pulses. The ionized electron escapes from the atom and follows
a particular trajectory to the detector – a dual microchannel plate (MCP)
detector – that is perpendicular to the field itself. Given that there are many
such trajectories that reach the same point on the detector, interference
patterns can be observed, which the team magnify by a factor of more than
20,000 using an electrostatic zoom lens. The interference pattern directly
reflects the nodal structure of the wavefunction. The experiments were carried
out with both resonant ionization involving a Rydberg state and non-resonant
ionization.
The
team chose the hydrogen atom thanks to its unique properties. "These
[hydrogen atoms] are very peculiar...as hydrogen has only one electron, which
interacts with the nucleus via a purely Coulombic interaction, it has a
particular structure when we place it in a DC electric field," says
Vrakking. He goes on to explain that thanks to its single-electron status,
hydrogen's wavefunction can be written as the product of two wavefunctions,
which describe how it changes as a function of two coordinates – the so-called
parabolic coordinates. That is, the Hamiltonian of the hydrogen atom (in an
external electric field) describes a splitting of its energy levels, which is
known as the "Stark effect". More importantly, though, this
"Stark Hamiltonian" is exactly separable in terms of the two
parabolic coordinates, which are linear combinations of the distance of the
electron from the hydrogen nucleus r and the displacement of the
electron along the electric-field axis z.
Vrakking
told physicsworld.com that the shape of the two parabolic wavefunctions
is therefore "completely independent of the strength of the field, and so
it is invariable – it stays the same as the electron travels for more than half
a metre in the experiment – all the way from where the ionization occurs up to
the 2D detector". This, he explains, is crucial to scaling up the spatial
distribution to magnify the nodal patterns to millimetre-scale dimensions,
where they can be observed with the naked eye on the 2D detector and recorded
with a camera system. "What you see on the detector is what exists in the
atom," he says. The group observed several hundreds of thousands of
ionization events to obtain the results, with the same preparation of the
wavefunction for each.
What lies within
The
figure at the top of this article shows the team's main result – the raw camera
data for four measurements, where the hydrogen atoms were excited to states
with zero, one, two and three nodes in the wavefunction for one of the
parabolic coordinates. "If you look at the measured projections on the
detector, you can easily recognize the nodes, and see their radial, ring-like
structure," says Vrakking.
He
also points out the "striking difference" between images recorded
following resonant excitation and images recorded following non-resonant
excitation – this is seen in the image to the right, where a comparison is
given between a measurement taken for one resonant and two non-resonant nodes.
Images (A) and (C) were taken after non-resonant ionization, while for the central
image, (B), the laser was tuned to a resonance with two nodes in the
wavefunction. For the resonant ionization, the outermost ring extends
significantly further radially, compared with the other two images – something
that could be explained by a special kind of tunnelling effect taking place.
Vrakking
says that the ultimate goal of the research was to study and visualize the
hydrogen atom. Future experiments may look at how the atom would react within a
magnetic field, study time-resolved electron dynamics, investigate holographic
interference microscopy and perhaps even observe molecules using
photoionization microscopy.
Helium under the microscope
Currently,
however, the researchers are studying and analysing a helium atom using
photoionization microscopy, and a paper on this will be published in the coming
months. "As there are two electrons in a helium atom, we are getting some
very interesting information," says Vrakking. He says that while in some
aspects the responses of the helium atom are very similar to that of hydrogen,
there are also some major differences. "Although one of the helium
electrons is very tightly bound to the nucleus, and the other one is very
highly excited, we can see that the electrons know of each other's existence
and that they 'talk to each other'," says Vrakking, explaining that this
could allow the team to "see" entanglement of the electrons.
The research is published in Physical Review
Letters.
Selected and edited from - http://physicsworldDOTcom/cws/article/news/2013/may/23/quantum-microscope-peers-into-the-hydrogen-atom
** **
1723
hours. Articles and photos such as this blow my mind and imagination.
Good. Let it rest in your head. Something
useful here will make itself known. Later. Post. - Amorella
Almost time for bed, boy. You and Carol had
a good evening, she finished her book and you found the four pack of the
Indiana Jones films in Blu Ray at Target at the VOA Centre this evening. You
both watched the frame by frame completely reworked original film until digital
and blu ray, tonight. It looks and sounds like a film made today. You had
cereal and popcorn while watching. - Amorella
2258 Hours. I find myself mesmerized by the enhanced
photograph of the ‘eye’ at the Jewish cemetery. It is a work of art and almost
three-dimensional to observe, quite surreal, almost phantasmagorical or even
chimerical. Now there are a couple of words I don’t use very often.
Define both. – Amorella
** **
phantasmagorical
– adjective
phantasmagorical landscapes:
dreamlike, psychedelic,
kaleidoscopic, surreal, unreal, hallucinatory, fantastic, fantastical,
chimerical.
Selected from
Oxford-American software
**
chimerical – adjective
1
:
existing only as the product of unchecked imagination :
fantastically visionary or improbable
2
: given to fantastic
schemes
Selected from Merriam-Webster
online
** **
Phantasmagorical precedes chimerical and
your specific meaning of chimerical is ‘fantastically visionary’. This is
because the photograph is enhanced and close up and fills the desktop screen,
so your mind gets lost in the minute details while you are thinking of the
image as a whole piece of art. It thus secretly appears to you as a sacred and
mystical illusion in your mind. Do you agree? – Amorella
2322 hours. How do you construct your observation? I
read it as if it is as true as your words, yet the words are not from me
because I am too close to my inner self to work such a construction. This is a
very odd observation in itself, but yes, I agree this is exactly as I
‘see/read’ the object in my mind. In every sense of the word this observation
separates ‘you, the Amorella’ from me, Richard. Yet, I remain of sound mind and
more important to me, free to my own thoughts as you are free to yours. (2327)
Post. Welcome to the New Year, boy, 2015 by
your calendar. – Amorella
2328 hours. What is your calendar, Amorella?
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