In my post to this thread on Sunday 18th July 2004 I wrote,
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I believe that recognition of the
Beta-aether will inevitably lead
to the collapse of the quantum,...
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The advantage of contemplating the collapse of civilization
as we know it is that one can dream about the shape of post-war
reconstruction. One can for example speculate on the true
nature of electric and magnetic fields/fleids/fluids/fluxes/flows.
In a hierarchical system the same pattern appears at all levels
though one has to be able to distinguish between the substance
and the accidents in order to see it.
Now one important pattern which appears at the level of man is
that of the water cycle. Water vapour rises, condenses, falls
as rain upon the place beneath.
I see magnetism and electricity at prime candidates for the posts
of water vapour and rain at their scale of activity.
But, of course, the water cycle is driven by an external source
of energy, of radiation, to wit, the sun.
What possible source of energy, of radiation could be driving
the EM cycle.
Well,
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http://calspace.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/ita/04_1.shtml
There are two privileged lines in the sky. One is the
familiar ecliptic, the path traveled by the Sun. It is the
image of our orbit around the central star, as seen from
the Earth, against the stars. The Moon travels not far
from this path and it even occasionally eclipses the Sun,
and sometimes the Earth's shadow falls on the Moon.
Likewise, the main planets stay fairly close to this line
in the sky. We see that the orbits of the planets tend to
lie in the same plane and this plane is close to that of
Earth's orbit.
The other privileged line is the one centered on the Milky
Way. While the name of the first line ("ecliptic")
suggests a function (the line where eclipses occur), the
name "Milky Way" suggests nothing useful other than general
milky appearance (the name is derived from a Greek fairy
tale involving a goddess and her milk). After telescopes
became commonplace, following the efforts of Galileo, it
was soon realized that the Milky Way is an unusually dense
collection of stars, all lined up. Where it is dark, it
was found, dust clouds block the light of stars behind. In
essence, we are looking at the main plane of an enormous
aggregation of stars, and we are right in the middle of it.
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So whatever comprises the central entity of our galaxy would seem
to be a not unreasonable candidate for the source of radiation which
drives the EM cycle.
And if such an entity should be a "black hole"
"No problemo" as Bart might say. 8-)
Coz as a foremost authority on black holes suggests,
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3913145.stm
Stephen Hawking has put forward a new theory
that changes the way scientists view black holes,
saying he was wrong about them in the past.
The physicist told a conference on gravitation in
Dublin that he has revised his belief that black
holes destroy everything that falls on them.
He now believes that black holes may allow
information to get out.
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......in spades. 8-)
Cheers
Grimer
