Afternoon. Light snow today. You spent the
morning doing next to nothing and enjoying it. You also treated your left thigh
to heat and low massage, a very warm bath with the bubbler, and put on a pain
meds coating. You are feeling somewhat better but it hurts to sit down and get
up because of that leg. Overall, at least presently, you feel better now than
you did this time yesterday. Lunch is ready. - Amorella
1440 hours. We had left over
sauerkraut and pork with new mixed veggies and it tasted quite good, as good as
when we had it on Sunday. The snow is picking up.
You were thinking about using colors to show
levels while sitting in the tub earlier. You also wondered if quantum mechanical
- sub atomic-like matter could help illustrate a lack of physical substance.
You were thinking about the puddle with ever undefined edges would be seen only
on vertical, a single, straight line ending at two points. You thought of the
soul as straight lined also but horizontal; back to colors, you would want Soki
to show the colors representing particular degrees of something that might
correspond to something intellectual or a particular kind or substance of
sharing rather than emotion. - Amorella
1452 hours. I was going to
ask you these things because I just remembered I thought something in the bath
but couldn't remember what it was. Your comments are what it was. This is a very
odd experience to go from a nothing memory to the memory just like that in no
transference of a sense of time -- it is as "I am here." I am not
here." Basically at once; like the electron that appears and disappears around
its nucleus. I found these two articles to wind (where useful and reasonable)
into my present thinking.
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The Physics of Consciousness by Evan Harris
Walker makes a great case for consciousness as a property of electrons 'quantum
tunneling' through the brain. If you haven't heard of quantum tunneling, this
is where the electrons in atoms are all the time blipping out in one location
and blipping back in at another location without ever crossing the space in
between. You probably know it as a 'quantum leap.'
This means that the particles in every atom of your body are
disappearing and reappearing all the time. This is not just a wild theory.
Quantum tunneling has been verified many times experimentally and is a known
fact, though not many people really understand that this is how reality
actually works. Bits and pieces of us are literally disappearing and
reappearing all the time, only at a speed much faster than we are able to
perceive. The truth is we're just not all here.
So where do these particles of us go? The Schwartzschild
quantum lattice theory suggests that they go through tiny 'black holes'
perforating space, passing through into some other dimension and then
returning, something like a sewing machine. According to Walker, our
consciousness is a result of this quantum stitching process, emerging as
quantum interactions in the "cleft" of neural synapses that "collapse
the wavefunction vector" many times a second to create self-awareness.
Consciousness and "will" are then defined as electrons tunneling in
and out of our space-time and bouncing back and forth inside our skull as a
standing wave while skipping across our brain's neural net to convert
possibility into reality. The choices for what will be real is made between the
quantum of time the electrons disappear and reappear.
This means that mind or consciousness itself is not physical.
Only the hosting hardware of our brain - a carbon-12 and salt water resonator -
is physical. From this it seems that consciousness can be defined as 1) an
electrical current that is only about half here, 2) our brain is a quantum
antenna that resonates in the space lattice like a crystal to transceive and
focus the consciousness current and 3) our body is a robotic extension designed
to sustain and respond to this electrical 'stream of consciousness.' In other
words, we are a puppet being operated remotely using electricity as wires!
The vastness of space (as described in my Ultra Deep Field
post) in no way diminishes the importance of consciousness or life. Electrons
are by definition eternal, since energy is neither created nor destroyed, and
entangled with all space since the moment of creation. Some part of who we are
-- the 'will', 'passion' or 'soul' -- is thus eternal and spread throughout the
entire universe as well, though what this means for our 'eternal identity'
remains difficult to determine. The Physics of Consciousness is an excellent
book and, I think, complementary to my book describing the harmonic physics
behind perception (the physical process prior to consciousness).
One last point: Since electricity is everywhere, isn't
intelligence everywhere? And wouldn't God be electricity?
Selected and
edited from -Physics of Consciousness
22/08/09 10:21 Filed in: Physics
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New Behavior of Exotic
Antimatter Particle Seen at Giant Atom Smasher
By Clara Moskowitz | March 28, 2011 10:04am ET
A rare particle
containing equal parts weird antimatter and normal matter has popped up in
experiments at the world's largest particle accelerator.
Scientists recently
observed new behavior of this particle, called a B meson, at the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) atom smasher, a 17-mile long (27-km) underground ring at the
CERN laboratory near Geneva. B mesons are made up of one quark (the building
block of protons and neutrons) and one anti-quark, which is the antimatter
partner to the quark. [The Strangest Little Things in Nature]
All normal particles are thought to have antimatter
partner particles with the same mass but opposite charge. When matter and
antimatter meet, the two annihilate each other. Scientists think the universe
started out with equal amounts of both, but most of the antimatter was
destroyed by matter, and whatever surplus of matter remained is what makes up
the universe we know today. The question of why the universe started out with
more matter than antimatter has haunted physicists for years.
But even regular neutrinos are a little befuddling. Neutrinos
come in three types, or flavors: electron, muon and tau. For each of these,
there is an antimatter partner particle (the electron antineutrino, the muon
antineutrino and the tau antineutrino) with equal mass but opposite charge.
For years, all neutrinos were thought to weigh nothing at
all, but recently scientists discovered they do have some mass, though it's
less than one-millionth that of an electron. This mass, in fact, enables an
especially bizarre habit neutrinos have of changing from one type to another, a
phenomenon called neutrino oscillations. [Wacky Physics: The Coolest Little
Particles in Nature]
Detectors in mountains
The new findings come from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino
Experiment, which tracked electron antineutrinos created by the nuclear
reactors of the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group in southeastern China.
These reactors produce millions of quadrillions of electron
antineutrinos every second, which generally pass through regular matter,
including the reactor walls and adjacent mountains, without interacting or
colliding at all. However, six specially created neutrino detectors buried in
the mountains at various distances were able to catch some of these particles
before they could get away.
The researchers counted how many electron antineutrinos were
captured at farther distances compared with closer detectors to determine how
many of them had disappeared by transforming into other types of antineutrinos.
The observations allowed the researchers to calculate a long-sought term (theta
one-three, or θ13) in the equations that describe these neutrino oscillations.
Theta one-three is what's called a mixing angle, and is one
of three that describe the various transformations between the three types of
neutrinos and antineutrinos. The other two mixing angles had previously been
calculated, so the new discovery helps fill in a missing piece of the neutrino
puzzle.
"This is a new type of neutrino oscillation, and it is
surprisingly large," Yifang Wang of China's Institute of High Energy
Physics, the co-spokesperson and Chinese project manager of the Daya Bay
experiment, said in a statement. "Our precise measurement will complete
the understanding of the neutrino oscillation and pave the way for the future
understanding of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe."
The finding offers the hope of helping answer one of the
universe's most baffling questions: Why is everything made of matter, and not
antimatter?
A universe of matter
Scientists think the universe started out with equal types of
matter and antimatter, but they destroyed each other. For some reason, a small
amount of matter survived to become the galaxies, stars and planets we find
today.
One of scientists' best guesses about why matter prevailed in
this tug-of-war is that it behaves differently and decays more slowly than
antimatter. To explain why that might be the case, physicists are studying rare
particle events — such as neutrino oscillations — in search of any differences
in the rates of these between matter and antimatter.
"The result is very exciting, because it essentially
allows us to compare neutrino and antineutrino oscillations in the future and
see how different they are and hopefully have an answer to the question, 'Why
do we exist?'" said the experiment's co-spokesperson Kam-Biu Luk, a professor
of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a faculty scientist
at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The new findings are reported in a paper submitted to the
journal Physical Review Letters.
B mesons, which have both antimatter and matter packed inside
them, were thought to have been common just after the Big Bang theorized to
have created our universe, but are now thought not to occur in nature.
Scientists can create them, and other exotic particles, only in energetic
collisions in particle accelerators like LHC.
However, B mesons aren't stable, and once created, they decay
quickly into other particles. Researchers led by Sheldon Stone, a physicist at
Syracuse University, have now observed a new kind of decay process of the B
meson that had been previously theorized but never before seen. The discovery
was made using an experiment at LHC called LHCb (which stands for "Large
Hadron Collider beauty").
"Our experiment is set up to measure the decays of B
mesons," Stone told LiveScience. "We discovered some new and
interesting decay modes of B mesons, which hadn't ever been seen before."
In this case, the B mesons decayed by a different process,
and created different end products, than previous research has measured. That
was partly enabled by the increased energy of the collisions at LHC compared
with other atom smashers; the more energy, the more particles are produced, and
the more particles, the greater the chances of finding rare events like these,
Stone said.
Studying this different behavior of B mesons could shed light
on the ultimate question of antimatter.
"When the universe was created in the Big Bang about 14
billion years ago, the number of particles and antiparticles was the
same," Stone said. "One of the major questions that we really don't
know the answer to is why are there particles around now and not antiparticles.
By studying the differences we can learn maybe what the physics is behind that
difference."
Stone and his collaborators reported their findings in two
papers published in the March 28 issue of the journal Physics Letters B.
Selected and edited from -- http://www.livescience.com/13430-lhc-antimatter-particle-physics.html
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Dusk. You and Carol shovel two inches of
snow from the driveway and the walk-to-the-porch after a treat at Graeter's and
an errand to Kroger's. Post. - Amorella
1734 hours. I'll have to
read over these articles another time or two but I see plausible use as
concepts in the story.
We'll take this a little at a time, boy.
After all you are the writer of sorts; we can't have the reader hanging up on
these things. - Amorella
1738 hours. I don't think
too much about the reader.
Who would have thought? - Amorella
1739 hours. Back in the late
seventies or early eighties a colleague at Indian Hill gave me an article about
writing and it said you either write for an audience or you write for yourself
and let those interested read it for themselves or not. That's how I remember
it. I think it was one of the art teachers who gave me the article. I used to
have it around, probably in a pile of notes in boxes in the basement.
This obviously is the case; however, Soki
is by his nature, a sharer and for authenticities' sake he will write to share
to human readers. What do you think? - Amorella
1746 hours. I hadn't thought
about the readers. I don't really care too much about them. I mean I appreciate
the few that read the blog from time to time. I do, but as far as the books are
concerned -- most people are not interested in things I am interested in, it
has been this way most of my life and I don't have a problem with it. I don't
expect a lot of readers. People like what they like. -- I guess I don't care
though, if it adds the authenticity of the character that's fine with me. I
don't want to write anything that doesn't have authenticity. That would be a
deep set dishonesty in self. I will have none of that if I have a choice. I'll
see how this goes. Plenty of time before making final decisions on publishing
or not. - rho
You watched the news and "NCIS". Carol is upstairs reading and you are planning on going up early. Tomorrow afternoon you and Carol are going up to Kim and Paul's for the weekend. Owen's birthday party is Saturday. Next Thursday you are planning on returning to Kim and Paul's to have lunch with Fritz (if possible) then gather with your high school classmates for supper in Westerville before returning home Friday morning. Post. - Amorella
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