whew! got that one out of the gate... Here's another example, closer to what I'm really doing in life...
Murray's Law: Eternal Exponential Expansion of Science: CSICON, Rich Murray 1997.04.05 2001.06.22 2008.06.04 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rmforall/message/76 Rich Murray April 5 1997 CSICON Communion for the Subjective Investigation of Claims of the Normal Room For All 1943 Otowi Road Santa Fe, NM 87505 [email protected] 505-501-2298 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rmforall/ Murray's Law: Eternal Exponential Expansion of Science Millennia of worldwide commonsense traditions have culminated in a recent few centuries of exponential scientific work. Since 1660, the number of scientists has grown from about 100 to about 10,000,000. Likewise, the volume of accumulated scientific literature, both doubling unstoppably every twenty years, rather like Mickey Mouse's hordes of relentlessly marching brooms in Disney's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". This global orchestration of thought and practice has been firmly founded on certain principles, rarely questioned and widely held to be unquestionable. Experience is held to be entirely based on and derived from a basic reality, itself "external" to experience: physical, or more abstractly, time-space-energy. This base reality is universally assumed to be impersonal, consistent, orderly, lawful, causal, uniform, single, measurable, describable and communicable, continuous, contiguous, inherently simple, and based on a small set of unchangeable (in themselves) logical-mathematical operations. Therefore this reality can be modeled and predicted by the self-qualifying global society of scientists, based solely on communication by the external senses. In short, the primary reality, and its derivative, conscious experience, are absolutely normal. The primary image of this paradigm is that of the machine, or the modern embodiment, the computer: well-defined elements interacting in three-dimensional space along a single one-way track of causality to produce utterly normal results, however marvelous, varied, valuable, or unpredictable they may be in practice. This towering structure of established normality paradoxically both hides and makes even more significant any hints of "nonnormality". Hitherto, "anomalies", such as random variations in offspring, the fogging of sealed photographic plates by uranium ore, or slight static in sensitive radios, have become mere fodder for the assimilation program of science, leading to vast extensions of the range of the normal, including evolution, quantum mechanics, and the Big Bang. "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated"-- the implacable marching song of the Borg juggernaut. Willem of Occam proclaimed, "Thou shalt not multiply entities needlessly." Indeed, hordes of angels, demons, ghosts, spirits, influences, and innate qualities have been relegated to that final dustbin of our race's mythic heritage, children's Saturday morning cartoons. Mature minds, entranced by ever more lofty and subtle theoretical visions, fed feasts of observation and experimentation on every level, constrained by principles of parsimony, generality, and elegance, have exuberantly, soberly created in a mere century: at the ever tapering tail of the dragon, atoms that are .999999 empty space, said empty space as a fully occupied negative energy sea of prodigious density, with incessant particle pair production-annihilation within that good old vacuum, the equivalence of mass and energy, the relativistic variation of observed time, with irreducible randomness, fuzziness, discontinuity, and, feh!, nonlocality at the very core of reality, the weird phenomena of superconductivity and superfluidity, the ever fecund boson-fermion zoo of baryons, mesons, quarks, gluons, neutrinos, WIMPs, gravitons, Higg's, magnetic monopoles, and their antis, and their superpartners, all cascading into actuality as infinitesimal loops or membranes vibrating within that most spacious crystal of abstraction, E8XE8 Group (The Monster) Symmetry, while now 7 additional dimensions of space are parsimoniously mandated. Whew! meanwhile, at the ever bigger end of said dragon, suddenly the galaxy!, sprinkled with pulsars and quasars, oh!, then an expanding universe of galaxies, salted with gamma-ray bursters, oh!, that all sprang into being as a space-time bubble with zero total energy as an infinitesimal quantum vacuum fluctuation in "something", oh!, our bubble of galaxies extends 10E+25 further than the present observable size after 13.7 billion years expansion (that's 10E+75 greater volume, folks), oh!, might be untold zillions of universe bubbles, forever disconnected, each with unique intrinsic properties, effervescing cheerily within "something", just the facts, Mam, heh, heh. Funny what the principle of parsimony leads to... gee whiz, I near forgot, black holes, them's weird nuff, huh? Lot of 'em, too, all sizes! Oops, they evaporate! Blow up too! Wow! Gravitation radiation, anyone? We can plain see gravitational lensing! How about cosmic string and cosmic texture, frozen phase changes in space-time itself? remember, if it ain't prohibited, it mandatory. Yep! (Is anything really prohibited?) . I'm not complaining. It's surely wonderful. We taxpayers are getting our money's worth, and then some. But do you see any sign of convergence? Any saturation? Any deceleration? In empirical fact, isn't what we see in a mere hundred years an unstoppably exponential avalanche of proliferation of creative subtleties? Isn't the most obvious outcome for the next century a continuation of this inexhaustibly creative weaving of this coat of many colors, worlds within worlds, without end, without any possible end, not in a hundred billion years of sentient evolution, not ever, forever? Isn't this, ahem, trend, amen, the primary observational fact of the whole hundred years? I say so. I hereby dignify this empirical law by a suitable appellation: Murray's Law: In the overall exponential evolution of the scientific process, the scale of reality available for consideration and the diversity and subtlety of its entities and interactions all increase exponentially, forever. In 1660, the linear grid of Cartesian coordinates comprised the primary paradigm for scientific reality. On its empty black and white board Newton drew alike the falling apple, the orbiting Moon. Now, the archetypal image is the Mandelbrot Set, brilliantly and arbitrarily colored, forever inexhaustible in timeless infinity of subtle detail. ******************************************************* On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Rich Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Steven Vincent Johnson, this is my third try at starting a > reply to your compassionate suggestions, having shut down and > restarted my Windows Vista MSi laptop after the first try vanished > after 20 minutes, while the second try lasted only a minute -- > sometimes too many web pages and things are open at once, overloading > the 4 GB RAM -- so first, proof that I give detailed, original, > emphatic critical asseys - essays - I says -- > > lame LENR H-Ni run report by Sergio Focardi and Francesco Piantelli, 9 > pages, Il Nuovo Cimento, November 1998 -- recent news: Rich Murray > 2011.08.20 > > > lame LENR H-Ni run report by Sergio Focardi and Francesco Piantelli, 9 > pages, Il Nuovo Cimento, November 1998 -- recent news: Rich Murray > 2011.08.20 > > http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/08/lame-lenr-h-ni-run-report-by-sergio.html > > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/94 > > ______________________________________________ > > > [ summary of critique: > science that purports to establish a notable percentage increase in > excess heat as a reproducible anomaly, as reported herein, is very > lacking re many critical details and shows lack of common sense > consideration of reasonable complications -- as usual in LENR > research, an enthusiastic team created a "black" witch's cauldron, > full of impurities, sealed and invisible to detailed observation > during months of cooking in H2 gas at high temperatures. > > Probably, corrosion opened up additional conducting paths, reducing > the total electrical resistance fed by the constant voltage power > supply, increasing the total input electric power via increased > current flow, which increased ordinary electric heat effects in > complex ways within the black box. > > So far, the surge of enticing, but vague, thin, and variable > information follows the pattern of the Rossi debacle in 2010-2011... ] > > [ search http://www.lenr-canr.org/ Piantelli > to get 5 pages of items that include many full text papers ] > > > http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/FocardiSlargeexces.pdf 10 pages > > [ more ... ] > > so, I'll send this, now, before it, too, flickers back into the zero > point fluctuations... > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:12 AM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Rick sez: >> >>> I am captivated by [Cude's] exceptional >>> lucidity of mind -- soon, he will give the Defkalion delusion an >>> equally exquisite shave >> >> Your personal objectivity on these matters is something to behold, as what >> appears to be your undying faith in the infallibility of your heroes. >> >> Rich, have you considered the possibility of simply sticking to and >> expressing your own personal observations & opinions (warts and all) instead >> of constantly bolstering your current opinions/ideology with incessant >> product endorsements of the perceived unapproachable qualities of your >> favorite heroes? >> >> Personally, I would be much more interested in listening to why YOU >> PERSONALLY feel skeptical of Rossi and the whole CF shebang. If you want >> people to listen and seriously ponder what you have to say, I would suggest >> expressing WHY you personally feel skeptical on such matters. To put it >> bluntly, I could give a rat's ass about being subjected to yet another >> product endorsement of the perceived qualities of someone else's favorite >> hero. Shoot! You've seemed to have even endorsed me on several occasions >> when I go off on another one of my eccentric rants... and while I ought to >> feel a sense of gratitude for your occasional expressed admiration, the >> truth of the matter is: the last thing I need in my life is hero worship. >> It's been my experience that anyone perceived as the quintessential hero for >> today can just as easily be demoted to the role of a villain for tomorrow. >> >> All this hero worship... You seem to set yourself up to be disappointed, >> over and over. But then... perhaps that's one of the major lessons you have >> set yourself up to experience in this life-time. It's a doozey of a lesson >> too! >> >> Have a happy Turkey day. >> >> Regards, >> Steven Vincent Johnson >> www.OrionWorks.com >> www.zazzle.com/orionworks >> >> >
