Change is in the details
Waxing philosophical on ZPE and the divine architecture of hidden reality this weekend (aren't all vortexians?) ... Item ... the day-to-day practice of earth-bound Architecture can tell us more about reality than is evident from graceful lines and soaring spaces. God is in the details, --attributed to the architect Mies van der Rohe contrast that with The devils is in the details, --attributed to the architect Buckminster Fuller Both views are correct in their own way, and the two are not really antithetical any more than are gender differences (OK maybe that's not such a good example of the point I am trying to make) but many dualities are demonstrative of the janus-like visage and the self-same-ness of ostensibly contradictory identities . Item. This should come as no surprise to anyone who has studied the science of Chaos. After all, self-organization and extropy often coalesce from the chasm of randomness by means of a polarity-seed - a tiny bit attraction and repulsion, a tentative bifurcation expanding into the butterfly effect and the famous Lorentz attractor. Therefore, it can be said that emergent dualities are the very sine-qua-non of extropy. Mirrored-contrast, as is seen in opposites is ubiquitous below the surface of reality, and there is a very good reason for that in the vacuum of space, wherein lies the original duality - the grand-daddy of them all, the epo pair. Aha, once again, it all gets back to the epo. We see this basic similarity-of-extremes reflected everywhere in life - specially in religion, science and government. Were the Catholic popes of the inquisition any less consumed with evil than the godless Stalin, for instance? There is no doubt that many cops would be crooks if they couldn't be cops. But roles can switch in mid stream, and north become south (as will likely happen on Gaia soon). But this probably cannot happen when one polar extreme looses its extropy potential and becomes so doused with entropy as to be intransigent - as in the profound pig-headedness of the modern-day Luddites like Bob Park and his ilk, which are in contrast to the brilliant and open-minded horizons of eminent scientists like Brian Josephson and the late Julian Schwinger. Item. What are architects trying to tell us that transcends beautiful spaces? It is not *just* that both the grandest constructions projects depends for their success on a plethora of seemingly insignificant components. But it is also that getting the details right can create the emergent property from simplicity itself. When one is able to reiterate enough simple tasks like the tiny off-on switches of digital electronics, then a beautiful picture can emerge on a computer screen. Or, as Bucky Fuller also opined on many occasions, The whole becomes far greater than the sum of its parts. Chaos theory was a big thing on the pop-sci scene almost two decades ago, following James Glieck's book (1987) which precipitated a trend that is ongoing today. Are there any lessons to be had there for the vortex Zepmeister (the tamer of the west-wind aether) either in Chaos or in the properly organizing the details, which can be interpreted here to mean imposing an intelligent structure on a spatial geometry of a few nanometers? Perhaps... (and finally getting to the point). The story which precipitated this flight into philosophical fancy and endless rambling can be found at: http://www.physorg.com/news2996.html If is kind of the nano-version of the old tuning-fork scheme. You remember, the old Keely talk about when one excited tuning fork, placed in a room of hundreds of thousands of resonant tuning forks, would cause all the other forks to resonate to a similar intensity, thus multiplying the energy expressed by this assemblage into mechanical overunity. In the case of the team of Boston University physicists, led by Pritiraj Mohanty (thank Vishnu for foreign-born engineers), who developed the nanomechanical oscillator mentioned in the reference above, which set a record at for mechanical vibration of 1.49 gHz, when pushed to the limit. In this case, God is in the details. I find it immensely interesting, in reading the particulars, that the technique works at very **cold** temperature, not hot, and that the vibration in the vicinity of a spectrum where this particular observer is on record as expecting to finding OU - which is 1.42 Ghz. Are we getting closer to ZPE coherence, step-by-step and in fits-and-pieces? More later. Looks like I'm almost out of threadbare idioms for today... Jones ... the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are often the ones who do. -- from Think Different, an Apple Computer Ad
RE: Arie De Geus
Rereading the translation this morning, I wonder if the device he is describing is a vacuum tube with permanent magnet and electromagnet elements. One can easily imagine seeing pipe spiral trajectories of the ballistic electrons given the right applied fields. Here's another grant, this one in 'Murica. Abstract of US4204799 A horizontal wind powered electrical generator is disclosed in which a horizontal reaction turbine is disposed within an augmentor cowling which extends downwind of the turbine. First stage curved stator blades interconnect the augmentor with the turbine cowling, and secondary stator blades are spaced downwind from said primary stator blades to extend inwardly from the augmentor to terminate short of the turbine cowling. These secondary stator blades have a greater angle of departure than the primary stator blades to increase the rotational velocity of the air at the expense of its axial velocity while permitting the axial velocity of the air moving inwardly of the secondary stator blades to be undiminished. A venturi-structured diffusor is carried by said augmentor in a downwind position to lower the pressure generally and assist the action of the secondary stator blades. -Original Message- From: Grimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 3:03 AM To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Subject: RE: Arie De Geus At 12:08 am 26-02-05 -0500, Keith wrote: Thanks Frank, With God as his co-pilot, he can not fail. I seem to remember another Jesuit saying, It is better to ask forgiveness than permission but I could be paraphrasing. More from Arie De Geus; this one seems to have been granted. You'll forgive the artificial Portugese-English x-lation. Any idea what this could be? Well, I'm quite happy to speculate. ;-) I would guess that AMDG has realised magnetic flux lines are not all the same. They are not the Euclidean lines as commonly depicted but are tiny jet streams which have a certain finite diameter. Presumably the diameter of the permanent magnets and the electro magnets are different. Lets say that the electro magnets have flux tube diameters in the pico range and permanent magnets have flux tube diameters in the zepto range. By combining the two in the way he does it would appear that one can develop considerable strain energy in the magnetic field. After all, a normal magnetic field is simply the difference between the fields of electrons pointing in one direction and electrons pointing in the opposite direction so the possibility of complex fields has always been there. What is new is the idea of scale. This seems to suggest, for example, that the magnetic fields produced by coils having different diameters of wire are in fact different in fineness, albeit equal in magnitude. In the light of the discovery of such phenomena as electron clustering this is not really so surprising. It is simply a question of extropy, or as AMDG might put it, Holy Orders. G Cheers Frank Grimer
Re: Practical application for BLP technology
Original Message - From: thomas malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:03 AM I contacted snip I suggested using hydrinos to harden the interior of cannon barrels. snip.. I find it odd that BLP ignored me. Odd? Not at all. If Dr. Mills has done his homework it's already been thought of. Vince
Re: Change is in the details DVC
- Original Message - Perhaps you have followed Chaplin's link to Glastonbury and the mystical significance of that weird Vesica Pisces And way beyond there, Frank And speaking of religious symbolism, there are a few observers not necessarily from the New Age, who imagine that many features of reality could be loose (or not so loose) metaphors - encoded by either the light-side or the dark-side (trickster) to awaken certain seers, as group consciousness evolves. Perhaps they are just meme-splices. Anyway, this persistent imagery was undoubtedly part of the attraction of The Da Vinci Code... Movie forthcoming, starring Tom Hanks. It will be a blockbuster, for sure. Book is addictive for the first 200 pages but on re-read it is almost silly in its use of contrived coincidence and layered, plagiarized BS. This is the kind of novel that always makes you feel violated and manipulated, perhaps months after reading (but definitely enjoying the first read) later realizing what ridiculous liberties were taken, at the expense of some fairly crass entertainment. Nevertheless, I wish I had thought of it first, after reading Michael Baigent's Holy Blood, Holy Grail ( with Henry Lincoln Richard Leigh) many years ago, which is essentially what Dan Brown did. His other novels range from poor to terrible. He is probably one of the luckiest writers alive today IMO, in the sense of going so far on so little talent. And yet, this assessment does not mean that I didn't enjoy the first read and even recommend it to others. ...and will probably see the movie many times, if it is decent. In December, the National Geographic channel carried a special about the (borrowed) contention in DVC that Mary Magdalene was really the wife of Jesus. Brown mentions the Vesica and the more common symbol for Jesus, which appears in icon form on millions of bumpers across middle America as a fish shape, and in other less-proselytizing parts of the US as a fish with legs, and a Darwinian smirk. The shape (at 90 degree rotation) is obviously reminiscent of female genitalia, and that is what seems always to be glossed over in these accounts of its popularity as a symbol. If you turn the fish symbol for Christ on its side you essentially have a Vesica Pisces - it is a part of Sacred Geometry, but not any more so than many other shapes and ratios - BTW the fourth image here is interesting for its OU imagery, perhaps: http://www.crystalinks.com/sg.html Biblical Scholars say there is little justification in most of the DVC claims, especially in Dan Brown's not-so-tacit conclusion that Mary Magdalene was really the wife of a less-than-divine Jesus, had a child by him and their descendants walk among us today. What else do you expect them to say? According to Brown's (plagiaristic) accounting of Baigent et al., the truth was suppressed by the Catholic Church, except in its strange worship of the other Mary (for which there is a total of about three sentences in the NT to justify this) but handed down through centuries by a secret society, the Piory of Sion, that included Leonardo da Vinci, and about every other famous European. In the National Geographic Channel documentary, Unlocking Da Vinci's Code: The Full Story, the surprisingly reclusive author talks about his controversial theory... hey, give us a break, Dan, its NOT yours except in your wildest dreams. He says I began as a skeptic.Right, and I began as a single cell, so what? Within microseconds, we were both on our way to gobbling up whatever resources were available, and you kept right on going. He continues, As I started researching The Da Vinci Code, I really thought I would disprove a lot of this theory about Mary Magdalene and holy blood and all of that. I became a believer. - it should be added, a believer without giving much credit to his sources. which maybe OK on the internet but not when you are hauling in $50 million bucks based on capitalizing on someone else's sensationalism. I expect either some lawsuits out of this, or at least some under-the-table payoffs by the film companies, probably already taken care of. Many experts concede that the Church suppressed many early Christian writings that may have differed from the official version of events described in the highly edited Bible we have now. They also contend that Mary Magdalene, while not married to Jesus, was probably a lot closer than the Church is comfotable with. Were not the apostles driven into a jealous rage when Jesus kissed her on the lips? Surprised that one got through. Back then, that kiss meant one heck of a lot more than it does today. She has been depicted as a prostitute, though there is no evidence in the Bible for that - and it is probably part of the internecine politics of making the other Mary, the chosen and official Pagan Goddess substitue, that is into the Queen-Being, as it were. Hey, this is as natural and magical as birth itself - that humans personify the
Re: Change is in the details DVC
At 01:57 pm 26-02-05 -0800, you wrote: - Original Message - Perhaps you have followed Chaplin's link to Glastonbury and the mystical significance of that weird Vesica Pisces And way beyond there, Frank snip Jones Two congregants considering a religious vocation were having a conversation. What is similar about the Jesuit and Dominican Orders? one asked. The other replied, Well, they were both founded by Spaniards -- St. Dominic for the Dominicans, and St. Ignatius of Loyola for the Jesuits. They were also both founded to combat heresy -- the Dominicans to fight the Albigensians, and the Jesuits to fight the Protestants. What is different about the Jesuit and Dominican Orders? Met any Albigensians lately? LOL - 8-) That's a good one Monsieur Flambeau - I'll have to remember that for my school reunion. ;-) Frank
A cause celebre?
A mainstream CF researcher asked Ed Storms and I to tone down or remove the Manifesto we posted on Thursday, THE DOE LIES! I asked Mel Miles whether he thinks it is over the top. He replied with a very depressing message. He says he understands why traditionally minded academic researchers may feel this is excessive, but he thinks the Manifesto is justified, and he agrees we should leave it. He also said the university stands by him, and would like him to work on CF full time. They have even agreed to release him from teaching. But without funding the project cannot begin. Miles has been looking for funding for years. He even considered going to China. He feels the DoE was his last chance. He is old, and he will probably retire for good now. He yearns to do another CF experiment, but he has no way to do it. I have a feeling we -- the people who support CF -- should try to make this a cause celebre. Perhaps this time the public will see that the opposition has gone too far. Ed I are trying to stir up the public with out bold red headline, but so far the response has been lukewarm. 150 copies of the Manifesto have been downloaded. I am not sure what we should do, or what we can can do. But I have a sense that Mel is a perfect poster boy (as the dreadful modern cliche has it). Consider: The University supports him, and is willing to let him do research full time. He has a stellar record. He is old; this is his last chance. As for what else we can do . . . Does anyone here have suggestions? If there are steps that cost a few thousand dollars I would be willing to pay for them. The most effective steps probably will not cost much. Here are few ideas: Expand the headlines and the document. Call upon the readers here and at LENR-CANR to speak up, contact their Congressmen, contact reporters. Of course we have all done this sort of thing before, but we have seldom had such a clear-cut injustice, and such a straightforward, reasonable demand. I think people will see that we are not asking for much. We want the government to give a research grant to a scientist that the government itself nominated at Distinguished Fellow. If that is not a reasonable, sensible demand, what is? Perhaps we could purchase advertising on Google. Not sure what, but whenever anyone types cold fusion, or energy we could have small ad come up saying: THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY BROKE ITS PROMISE WE DEMAND FUNDING FOR COLD FUSION NOW THE LAST CHANCE FOR ONE OF AMERICA'S LEADING SCIENTISTS [Link to LENR-CANR.org] Putting an ad like that in newspapers would be terribly expensive, but perhaps Google would be cheaper. I do not know. If thousands, or tens of thousands, of people read the manifesto (and the HTML pages), and they contacted the authorities, perhaps it would have an effect. Other CF researchers would prefer we do this quietly, behind the scenes, the polite academic old-school way. Ed I feel that the time for that has passed. - Jed
OFF TOPIC: Vesica Piscis addenda
...or, in Gnostic understanding, was Christianity originally a Pythagorean off-shoot? One more thing about this particular religious symbol which I forgot to mention, for those who enjoy religious symbolism, Gnostic mythology and codes ... and thankfully do not have to risk incurring the wrath of the Benedictines ;-) Some have interpreted the Vesica Piscis as evidence of the Gnostic contention that Jesus, his disciples, and the sect he belonged to was a Pythagorean sect instead of an Essene or other Jewish offshoot group (there is much debate as to which sect), but this Pythagorean connection would be highly doubtful, had not thousands died believing it, and had not Jesus' brother James and others who took up his cause (Paul) been practicing Jews. Most of the Gnostics slaughtered and burned at the stake for believing in the Pythagorean connection being the aforementioned Albigensians. Had Jesus spoken Greek, however, instead of Aramaic, it would be a closer call as brothers often do take separate spiritual paths. So far as I can tell, there is some, but little good evidence that Jesus spoke Greek, or if there is clear evidence, it is buried in some catacomb under Rome that was missed in Angels and Demons, along with the Gospel of Mary. http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/archives/greek-2/msg00315.html According to St. John, who was Greek, but is not believed to a contemporary, Jesus performed his first public miracle at a wedding feast in Cana, when he turned water into wine (John 2:1-11). Side note similarly, earlier Greek myth had Dionysus turning water into wine at his own wedding to Ariadne . Also in John, Jesus miraculously helped Peter and other disciples catch a large number of fish at the Sea of Galilee -- 153 fish, to be precise (John 21 : 11). Note: Christianity originally first turned up in all the exact places where Pythagorean sects were predominant (so called Asia minor), leading some to think it spread through this vector initially, before Paul and Peter took charge and spread it to Rome. The great mathematician Pythagoras, according to his disciples - which sects had been spreading for 500 years or so before Jesus, also performed this very same supernatural feat with fish. Since far more ancient times, the original fish story has been part of a mathematical ratio called the measure of the fish, which produces the mystical symbol of the vesica piscis (or pisces). This is the Icthus, or sign of the fish, which of course, is still widely used today as a symbol of Christianity. Icthus is a Greek word long associated with the Pythagoreans for hundreds of years prior to Jesus. Pythagoras' disciples established religious communities throughout the Greek world and some of them were in Galilee. All were vegetarians but ate fish. The number 12 was a common theme. Men and women were admitted equally, they took vows of celibacy and all possessions were held in common. Oil was used in the rites. Celibacy was defined somewhat differently than we do today - basically it meant no commitment to a single individual, what we would call a romantic commitment. All wore white robes. Pythagoras himself was reputed to have worked many miracles of healing, including reviving several dead people. He was said to be the son of a god, Apollo, and born of a mortal mother, who was called Parthenesis, which means virgin. The word Parthenon is a temple dedicated to a virgin, often her name is Athena, but she is also called Madonna. Like the great vegetarian miracle worker Pythagoras, Jesus is strangely associated with fish, but not only real fish, rather an allegorical code to explain a deep mystical relationships. The Pythagoreans had a diagram of 2 intersecting circles, one above, one below, with the circumference of one touching the center of the other. The 2 circles represented the spiritual and the material domains. The transcendental region where the circles intersect resembles a fish shape-exactly as used as the symbol for Christianity. The Pythagoreans even gave this symbol its latinized name, vesica piscis. The ratio of the height of this fish symbol to its length is 153 : 265, which is the *nearest whole number ratio to the square root of 3* (1.732 ...) and the controlling ratio of the equilateral triangle. Anyway, remember that key symbolic number =153. Now the stories of both Pythagoras and Jesus have them telling disciple fishermen - who have failed to catch fish all day, to now cast their nets again. Miraculously, the nets come in full. Pythagoras was said to have correctly predicted the exact number of fish caught but the mystic number is not revealed, after all it is a Gnostic story. But in the Gospel story of Jesus the number of fish caught is given by St. John, a Greek, as exactly 153. Coincidence? Dan Brown missed his chance in Angels Demons (don't waste your time with that one) but the NT book of John is my favorite by far, and if some new Dead Sea Scroll should turn up with you-know-who speaking
Re: a cause celebre'
Jed, There is a lot of research money out there in the " non profit foundation sector". Interesting in they are looking at " matching" grants. Find a few bucks that some private industry groups will pledge and the foundations will match or sometimes provide up to 5:1 or 10:1 matching. They usually want the research funneled to a particular University.. but.. thats a sell. Let me know at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will approachseveral foundationsin Houston and have our company sponsor some seed money. I will need the name of the University working with Mel. As we say down here...lets dont talk about in anymore..lets do it! Jed.. get it done!! Richard Blank Bkgrd.gif
RE: A cause celebre?
Feb. 26, 2005 Vortex, I see Miles is making a presentation at the March APS meeting.so is Miley and others well known to him. I presume Miles is salaried at the current university and they are generous enough to give a free hand in CF experimentation.. Perhaps he can get a paid leave of absence to pursue CF work. If so, he could join Miley or others as a visiting professor and he could contribute his expertise. Perhaps he could make the contacts at the March APS meeting. Remember Miley just received a large grant ($100 K) from the New Energy Foundation that took over Infinite Energy. I would think Miles could make a proposal to enable him to pursue his CF ideas together with laboratories involved with CF. This way foundation funds will not be wasted in duplicate facilities. The New Energy Foundation should undertake a larger profile campaign (fight) for CF while they solicit tax deductible donations for their non profit efforts. -ak- [Original Message] From: Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/26/2005 3:11:02 PM Subject: A cause celebre? A mainstream CF researcher asked Ed Storms and I to tone down or remove the Manifesto we posted on Thursday, THE DOE LIES! I asked Mel Miles whether he thinks it is over the top. He replied with a very depressing message. He says he understands why traditionally minded academic researchers may feel this is excessive, but he thinks the Manifesto is justified, and he agrees we should leave it. He also said the university stands by him, and would like him to work on CF full time. They have even agreed to release him from teaching. But without funding the project cannot begin. Miles has been looking for funding for years. He even considered going to China. He feels the DoE was his last chance. He is old, and he will probably retire for good now. He yearns to do another CF experiment, but he has no way to do it. I have a feeling we -- the people who support CF -- should try to make this a cause celebre. Perhaps this time the public will see that the opposition has gone too far. Ed I are trying to stir up the public with out bold red headline, but so far the response has been lukewarm. 150 copies of the Manifesto have been downloaded. I am not sure what we should do, or what we can can do. But I have a sense that Mel is a perfect poster boy (as the dreadful modern cliche has it). Consider: The University supports him, and is willing to let him do research full time. He has a stellar record. He is old; this is his last chance. As for what else we can do . . . Does anyone here have suggestions? If there are steps that cost a few thousand dollars I would be willing to pay for them. The most effective steps probably will not cost much. Here are few ideas: Expand the headlines and the document. Call upon the readers here and at LENR-CANR to speak up, contact their Congressmen, contact reporters. Of course we have all done this sort of thing before, but we have seldom had such a clear-cut injustice, and such a straightforward, reasonable demand. I think people will see that we are not asking for much. We want the government to give a research grant to a scientist that the government itself nominated at Distinguished Fellow. If that is not a reasonable, sensible demand, what is? Perhaps we could purchase advertising on Google. Not sure what, but whenever anyone types cold fusion, or energy we could have small ad come up saying: THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY BROKE ITS PROMISE WE DEMAND FUNDING FOR COLD FUSION NOW THE LAST CHANCE FOR ONE OF AMERICA'S LEADING SCIENTISTS [Link to LENR-CANR.org] Putting an ad like that in newspapers would be terribly expensive, but perhaps Google would be cheaper. I do not know. If thousands, or tens of thousands, of people read the manifesto (and the HTML pages), and they contacted the authorities, perhaps it would have an effect. Other CF researchers would prefer we do this quietly, behind the scenes, the polite academic old-school way. Ed I feel that the time for that has passed. - Jed
