Mid-morning. You are at Joseph Toyota on Colerain
having Carol’s car twenty thousand mile service done. You are wondering about
Doug’s comment yesterday:
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‘If the soul is our essence it may be quantum mechanical in nature,
which would allow many contradicting thoughts and feelings to exist at the same
time.’ – Doug Goss
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Let’s look at this quantum physics in
this way --
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New knowledge about the
remarkable properties of black holes
Dec
11, 2012
In theoretical physics you
can have different planes that behave like black holes and they are called
black branes. When black branes are folded into multiple dimensions they form a
'blackfold', which new research shows has a relationship between gravity and
fluid mechanics and solid-state physics. Credit: Credit: Artist impression by
Merete Rasmussen
Black holes are surrounded
by many mysteries, but now researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among
others, have come up with new groundbreaking theories that can explain several
of their properties. The research shows that black holes have properties that
resemble the dynamics of both solids and liquids. The results are published in
the prestigious scientific journal, Physical Review Letters.
Black holes are extremely
compact objects in the universe. They are so compact that they generate an
incredibly strong gravitational pull and everything that comes
near them is swallowed up. Not even light can escape, so light that hits a
black hole will not be reflected, but will be entirely absorbed, as a result,
they cannot be seen and we call them black holes.
"But black holes are
not completely black, because we know that they emit radiation
and there are indications that the radiation is thermal, i.e. it has a
temperature," explains Niels Obers, a professor of theoretical particle
physics and cosmology at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of
Copenhagen.
Multiple dimensions
Researchers know that the
black holes are very compact, but they do not know what their quantum
properties are. Niels Obers works with theoretical modelling to
better understand the physics of black holes. He explains that you can look at
a black hole like a particle. A particle has in principle no dimensions. It is
a point. If you give a particle an extra dimension, it becomes a string. If you
give the string an extra dimension, it becomes a plane. Physicists
call such a plane a 'brane' (the word 'brane' is related to 'membrane' from the
biological
world).
"In string
theory, you can have different branes, including planes that behave
like black holes, which we call black branes. The black branes are thermal,
that is to say, they have a temperature and are dynamical objects. When black
branes are folded into multiple dimensions, they form a 'blackfold',"
explains Niels Obers, who worked out this new way of looking at black branes with
associate professor in theoretical physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, Troels
Harmark, back in 2009.
New breakthrough
Niels Obers and his two
doctoral students Jay Armas and Jakob Gath have now made a new breakthrough in
the description of the physics of black holes based on the theories of the
black branes and blackfolds,
"The black branes are
hydro-dynamic objects, that is to say that they have the properties
of a liquid. We have now discovered that black branes also have properties,
which can be explained in terms of solids. They can behave like elastic
material when we bend them," explains Jay Armas.
He explains that when the
black branes are bent and folded into a blackfold, a so-called piezoelectric
effect (electricity that occurs due to pressure) is created. This new effect
can be understood as a slightly bent and charged black string with a greater
concentration of electric charge on the innermost side in relation to the
outermost side. This produces two electrically charged poles on the black
strings. Black
holes are predicted by Einstein's theory of gravity. This means that
there is a very surprising relationship between gravity and fluid mechanics and
solid-state physics.
"With these new
theories, we expect to be able to explain other black hole phenomena, and we
expect to be able to better understand the physical properties of neutron
stars. We also expect to gain a greater understanding of the so-called particle
theories, which are, for example, relevant for understanding the
quark-gluon-plasma in the primordial universe," explains Niels Obers.
From – physDOTorg/ news/2012-12-knowledge-remarkable-properties-black-holes.html
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Essence
In
philosophy, essence is the attribute or set of attributes that make an
entity or substance what it fundamentally is, and which it has by necessity,
and without which it loses its identity. Essence is contrasted with accident: a
property that the entity or substance has contingency, without which the
substance can still retain its identity. The concept originates with Aristotle,
who used the Greek expression to ti ên einai (τὸ τί ἦν εἶναι, literally
meaning "the what it was to be" and corresponding to the scholastic
term quiddy) or sometimes the shorter phrase to ti esti (τὸ τί ἐστι,
literally meaning "the what it is" and corresponding to the
scholastic term haecceity) for the same idea. This phrase presented such
difficulties for its Latin translators that they coined the word essentia
(English "essence") to represent the whole expression. For Aristotle
and his scholastic followers, the notion of essence is closely linked to that
of definition (ὁρισμός horismos). . .
.
Existentialism was coined by Jean-Paul Sartre’s statement that for human
beings "existence precedes essences.” In as much as "essence" is
a cornerstone of all metaphysical philosophy and of Rationalism, Sartre's
statement was a repudiation of the philosophical system that had come before
him (and, in particular, that of Husserl, Hegel and Heidegger). Instead of
"is-ness" generating "actuality," he argued that existence
and actuality come first, and the essence is derived afterward. For Kierkegaard,
it is the individual person who is the supreme moral entity, and the personal,
subjective aspects of human life that are the most important; also, for
Kierkegaard all of this had religious implications.
From - Wikipedia
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1137
hours. Home. Obviously, I am turning away from Sartre’s statement that “Existence
precedes essences” unless that is, from a human perspective this would always
be the case because consciousness of essences could not exit before existence
of consciousness. This does not mean (at least to me) that essence
cannot exist without human involvement or interaction.
1318
hours. I have been reading about the “metaphysics of quantum mechanics” and am
uncomfortable with this line of thought because the focus is on metaphysics and
not physics.
1635
hours. I have found nothing usable in an hour or so of online research (nothing
more than I recently already posted).
Carol sprained her left knee this morning
and you both decided on a Subway lunch (she didn’t have to get out of the car)
and you drove to Rahe Park along the Little Miami for a picnic. Afterwards you
helped Carol gather groceries from Kroger’s on Mason-Montgomery Road. This took
more work than you imagined it would because she was using the cart to lean on
and you forgot your cane. – Amorella
1641 hours. We both appeared a bit older than we are at
the grocery today.
1828
hours. A new February issue of Popular Science arrived today and one of
the focuses is on alien-like life. Two bacterium mentioned are Shewanella
oneidensis and Geobacter metallireducens. Both use electricity to generate
metabolic activity. This makes me wonder of I can use the idea of the soul
using the spiritual energy of the heart and mind for metabolic activity, that
is the soul would grow with the food of consciousness and the higher the
consciousness the greater the metabolic energy created.
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Shewanella oneidensis is a bacterium which can reduce poisonous heavy metal and can
live in both environments with or without oxygen. This proteobacterium was
first isolated from Lake Oneida, NY in 1988, which is where the name is derived
from. This species is referred to as Shewanella oneidensis MR-1,
indicating "manganese reducing", a special feature of this particular
organism. It is a very common misconception to think that MR-1 refers to
"metal-reducing" instead of the original intended
"manganese-reducing" named by Professor Kenneth H. Nealson, who first
isolated Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. Shewanella oneidensis is a
facultative bacterium, capable of surviving and proliferating in both aerobic
and anaerobic conditions. The special interest in S. oneidensis MR-1
revolves around its behavior in an anaerobic environment contaminated by heavy
metals such as iron, lead; perhaps even uranium. Some experiments suggest it
may reduce ionic mercury to elemental mercury. Cellular respiration for these
bacteria is not restricted to heavy metals though; the bacteria can also target
sulfates, nitrates and chromates when grown anaerobically.
From Wikipedia
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Geobacter is a genus of proteobacteria. Geobacter are an anaerobic
respieration bacterial species which have capabilities that make them useful in
bioremediation. The geobacter was found to be the first organism with the
ability to oxidize organic compounds and metals, including iron, radioactive
metals and petroleum compounds into environmentally benign carbon dioxide while
using iron oxide or other available metals as electron acceptor.
From
Wikipedia
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Ask Doug what he thinks of your hypothesis
on heart and mind energy (consciousness and higher consciousness) for the soul
to grow. Post. - Amorella
1903 hours. I get excited about such ideas as these then wane on them the next day or so. It is interesting though. It appears to have plausibility to me as an analogy, at least as far as the books go.
You
watched much of the Presidential Address and received a positive note from
Doug. Add and post. – Amorella
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Dick, I am impressed
with your blog and the work and research that you put in it. As to your hypothesis on heart and mind energy (consciousness and
higher consciousness) for the soul to grow, I would have to say that many monks
of all faiths would agree that heart and mind energy
lead to self enlightenment and a development of the soul.
Great job. Doug
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2215
hours. Doug provides me an added light into the mind and the heart. I am ever
appreciative and thankful for his long and lasting friendship. 
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