what's going on and on and on, from void to smudge to diamond...: Rich Murray 2012.06.06
Eternal Exponential Expansion of Science http://www.rationalskepticism.org/post1342135.html#p1342135 Thank you Chrisw, for your reasonable consideration. I often, as an informal hobby, note all the surprises about C, carbon, the sequence of facts, definitions, paradigms, since I first watched matches and kerosene lattern wicks turn into charcoal in our rented farmhouse in the pines of Fannett, east Texas, NE of Galveston, from July 1941-- summer, 1945: coal, pencil "lead", diamond, graphite, carbohydrate plants and foods, carbon dioxide, smoke, oil, gasoline, greese, Vaseline, hydrocarbons, the endless pantheon of organic chemistry, benzine ring, DNA, RNA, proteins, exhalation, carbon monoxide toxicity, alcohol in all its permutations as drink and drug, rocket exhaust specific impulse, V-2 rocket, nuclear structure, isotopes, C-14 dating, C-13 for biological studies, pure isotopes, C-14 from hydrogen bomb tests causing worldwide cancers, high pressure studies to ever higher densities for every decade to find and use carbon allotropes, odd and even nuclear parity in C nuclei isotopes, C nuclei beams, methane microwave maser and then CO2 infrared lasers, interstellar and intergalactic C, C deep in the core of Earth and large planets, a carbon nuclear resonance vital to the carbon nuclear energy cycle in the Sun, carbon via the Big Bang, carbon gases essential to allow the first H and He clouds to cool down by infrared radiation from their quantum molecular vibrations and rotations and so allowing the first stars, solar systems, supernovae, and black holes leading to at least one planet warm enough with the CO2 solar heat retention process to have oceans and carbon polymers evolving into the appearance in awareness in your and my awareness-being as these very little black and white le t t e r marks quickly cognized as subtle and complex meaning conveying patterns of subjectively experienced ever evolving understandings including the possibility and eventual personal experience of unexpected higher dimensional phases of conscious awareness -- while in our daily dream, buckyballs of all kinds, spheres, rods, ovoids, the last ten years carbon nanotubes incredibly strong and light, longer and longer until we have the Space Elevator, and now 2D graphene in all its permutations for physics, a host of quantum effects, simulation of cosmological theories, ultra capable molecular scale quantum computers with photons in carbon nanotubes (not electrons in wires) or quantum spin devices in 3D crystal volumes, superconducting at room temperature, extending Moore's Law for many more decades, with all the exponential ramifications for humans suddenly moving in mile scale high altitude solar powered air ships, big as ocean liners, spiraling safely and gently with electric ion drives to orbit within a week, then extending the ellipse of the orbit to orbit the Moon, Mars, the entire volume around the Sun, creating solar system size telescope arrays, harvesting asteroids for water, metals, and, yes, carbon -- and this is merely what one age 69 geek is capable of saying on 2012.06.06, online since December 1995 -- note that cosmology now necessitates 10 space dimensions and 1 "time" dimension -- while basic concepts about causality, space, time, energy, mass are being derived from more primitive and fundamental comprehensions, like Smolin's Loop Quantum Gravity and a variety of others, while now it's, ha-ha, possible that the metauniverse is infinitely fractal in all possible patterns of basic physics, "carbons", dimensions of spaces and times, life forms, and modes of awareness-being, which is here this very mo m e n t.. . . . . . And, since January, 1999, I've been a layman volunteer information activist on the Net, providing 1,650 long, detailed, civil, conscientious reviews of aspartame toxicity, aspartam...@yahoogroups.com , which turns out to be the toxicity of its 11% methanol (smallest organic carbon molecule), which is turned, in humans only, into formaldehyde by the ADH1 enzyme right inside the cells of many tissues, starting many diseases from Alzheimer's to multiple sclerosis, later cancers, and birth defects spina bifida, autism, and Asperger's. within mutual service, Rich
