Nearing
noon, local time. You just completed forty-five minutes of exercises and Monday
and Tuesday you completed forty minutes worth of exercises. Earlier you began
reading the newest issue of Popular Science for its pure fun and pleasure. One
of the articles makes you wonder if you can draw a connection between two
particles being drawn into a theoretical black hole and one drifting out while
the other partner falling in, and whether the one on the outside picks up a new
partner while the one on the inside thinking he’s still attached to his old
partner through quantum mechanics and entanglement. What if the old partner
never knows he is not partnered because somehow he still is; while the other
particle outside gains and new partner not realizing he still has the old one,
so he has two partners but one unknown to the other two who are outside. –
Amorella
1158
hours. I’m glad you constructed that Amorella. I do wonder if I can draw a
metaphysical connection of sorts in an analogy. The article is “Death by Black
Hole” on page 38 of the April issue. The article has to do with The Information
Paradox.
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The Information Paradox. The current debate revolves around how black holes handle entangled
particles – entities whose properties are quantum mechanically linked – when
one of them falls across an event horizon. It is akin to considering a human’s
fate, but more intriguing to physicists. You can think of the particles as a
pair of dice where one is rolled, the other magically rolls itself so the sum
of the two is always seven. Each particle can only be linked this way to a
single partner – physicists call them monogamous.”
Popular Science, “Death by Black Hole”, April,
2015, pp. 38-39.
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What you are asking here is that if the soul
is conscious of the heartanmind it has received and that if it is possible that
the soul can hold two heartsanminds rather than one and not realize this. Or,
is it possible that the heartanmind is not so conscious of the soul to know
whether it is embedded in two souls at the same time? I feel you do not know
which it is yourself but you are momentarily puzzled by the concept(s) either
way. – Amorella
1215 hours. I think it is the latter; I am confused by the concept
either way.
Cereal
for lunch and errands were run. Tomorrow you have to make a quick trip to see
Andy in Worthington about papers for taxes that you misplaced. You might see
Kim for lunch before heading back. You just noted a BBC article on the DNA of
Celts. You decided to post it on your FB page but don’t see any relevance to
here. Drop it in anyway then post. – Amorella
1808 hours. The DNA from the other day does have relevance as far as I
am concerned – we all came from the same roots so my writing about any humans
from any place on the planet works towards my own authenticity.
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18 March 2015 Last updated at 14:00 ET
DNA study shows Celts are not a unique genetic group
By Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent, BBC News
A DNA study
of Britons has shown that genetically there is not a unique Celtic group of
people in the UK.
According to
the data, those of Celtic ancestry in Scotland and Cornwall are more similar to
the English than they are to other Celtic groups.
The study
also describes distinct genetic differences across the UK, which reflect
regional identities.
And it shows
that the invading Anglo Saxons did not wipe out the Britons of 1,500 years ago,
but mixed with them.
I had assumed that there was a uniform Celtic fringe from
Cornwall through to Wales into Scotland - and this has very definitely not been
the case”
Prof Mark Robinson
Oxford University
The
individuals included had all four of their grandparents living close to each
other in a rural area.
This
selection criterion enabled the researchers, led from Oxford University, to
filter out 20th-Century immigration and to peer back to migration patterns more
than 1,000 years ago.
Striking similarities
According to
Prof Peter Donnelly who co-led the study, the results show that although there
is not a single Celtic group, there is a genetic basis for regional identities
in the UK.
"Many
of the genetic clusters we see in the west and north are similar to the tribal
groupings and kingdoms around, and just after, the time of the Saxon invasion,
suggesting these kingdoms maintained a regional identity for many years,"
he told BBC News.
Prof
Donnelly and his colleagues compared genetic patterns now with the map of
Britain in about AD 600, after the Anglo Saxons had arrived from what is now
southern Denmark and Northern Germany. By then, they occupied much of central
and southern England.
"We see
striking similarities between the genetic patterns we see now and some of these
regional identities and kingdoms we see in AD 60, and we think some of that may
well be remnants of the groupings that existed then," he explained.
A map of
different genetic groupings reveals subtle but distinct differences between
those sampled in West Yorkshire and the rest of the country.
There is
also a marked division between the people of Cornwall and Devon that almost
exactly matches the county border. And the People of Devon are distinct again
to those from neighbouring Dorset.
The Wellcome
Trust-funded study, which is part of the People of the British Isles Research
Project, also found that people in the north of England are genetically more
similar to people in Scotland than they are to those in the south of England.
It also
finds that people in North and South Wales are more different from each other
than the English are from the Scots; and that there are two genetic groupings
in Northern Ireland.
Prof Mark
Robinson, an archaeologist who works with Prof Donnelly at Oxford University,
said he was "very surprised" that Celtic groups in Cornwall, Wales,
Northern Ireland and Scotland had such different genetic patterns.
"I had
assumed at the very early stages of the project that there was going to be this
uniform Celtic fringe extending from Cornwall through to Wales into Scotland.
And this has very definitely not been the case," he told BBC News.
We did not find a single genetic group corresponding to the
Celtic traditions in the western fringes of Britain”
Prof Peter Donnelly
Oxford University
The
researchers did see distinct genetic groups within those regions but those
groups were quite different from each other, according to Prof Donnelly.
"Although
people from Cornwall have a Celtic heritage, genetically they are much, much
more similar to the people elsewhere in England than they are to the Welsh for
example," said Prof Donnelly.
"People
in South Wales are also quite different genetically to people in north Wales,
who are both different in turn to the Scots. We did not find a single genetic
group corresponding to the Celtic traditions in the western fringes of
Britain."
Into the Dark Ages
The finding
is the first genetic evidence to confirm what some archaeologists have long
been arguing: that Celts represent a tradition or culture rather than a genetic
or racial grouping.
Prof Robinson
noted that the results also shed light on what happened during Britain's Dark
Ages, in the years between AD 400 and AD 600, after the Romans left.
Towns were
abandoned; the language over much of what became England changed (to Anglo
Saxon, which became English); pottery styles altered; so too even the cereals
that were grown, following the arrival of people from the base of the southwest
Danish peninsula and northwestern Germany (the Anglo Saxons).
Some
historians and archaeologists had wondered whether these changes occurred as a
result of the Saxons entirely replacing the existing population as they moved
westwards. That might have happened if the Saxons introduced disease, for
example.
Others
researchers suggested that the existing population simply dropped their old
ways and adopted the Saxon way of life.
The new
analysis shows a modest level of Saxon DNA, suggesting that the native British
populations lived alongside each other and intermingled with the Anglo Saxons
to become the English.
There is
some evidence in the study that intermingling did not happen immediately
following the Saxons' arrival, but occurred at least 100 years later. This
suggests that Britons and Saxons had separate communities to begin with, and
then over time they began to merge.
Northern Irish groupings
This may
well be one of the first instances where genetics has been used to clear up
historical controversy.
The study
seems to confirm the view that Celts retained their identity in western and
northern areas of England where the regions were incorporated into Anglo Saxon
territory by conquest.
But what
could account for the variation in the DNA of those of Celtic ancestry in
Cornwall, Wales and Scotland? Time would be one possibility, according to Prof
Donnelly.
"If
groups have been separated for a period of time, they will diverge genetically
so some of the differences we see genetically are the result of those kinds of
effects," he said.
The study
also notes that there are two genetic groupings in Northern Ireland: one of
which also contains individuals across the sea in western Scotland and the
Highlands; the other contains individuals in southern Scotland and southern
England.
The former
appears to reflect the kingdom of Dalriada 1,500 years ago; the other probably
represents the settlers of the Ulster Plantations.
And in
Orkney, the study finds clear evidence of Norwegian DNA, as might be expected
from the Viking settlement of the Islands.
Interestingly,
it persists at fairly low levels, suggesting that the Vikings and the existing
populations coexisted and intermingled more than people had expected - in the
way that occurred with the Anglo Saxons.
The Viking
armies that laid waste to parts of England, and for a while ruled what became
known as the Danelaw, left little if any genetic trace, confirming that their
success was due to their military prowess rather than large-scale population
movement.
Likewise,
the Norman conquest of England did not leave any genetic evidence.
Selected and edited from BBC
today
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You had chicken and brown rice for supper
and watched last night’s two-hour season conclusion of “Rossetti and Isles” and
then NBC News. – Amorella
2119 hours. I have trimmed Brothers 9 to 815 words but I’ll have to
think on ‘the sticking point’ aspect of the segment.
You updated your genealogical software to
Ancestry from Reunion in this chapter. You kept the fictional names of the intact
with the original but slimmed down the description. You are debating the use of
real street names but I don’t see a problem with it. Riverton is a sense of old
Westerville and we want to keep it that way. – Amorella
2126 hours. Those street names are already in print in the Merlyn’s Mind
trilogy. I can’t remember the name of the fictional cemetery and college name
and am too lazy to look it up. Pretty bad. I’m tired.
Close the writing shop. Relax with some
music before bed. Post. – Amorella
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