The Proof is in the Pudding

And now back to my Blog.  With all the traveling I have been doing, to meetings and such, it has been difficult to get back to even a weekly rhythm on the blog.  So I decided to kick back and catch up on some reading.   My favorite, of course, is Michio Kaku and his book on "Parallel Worlds".  He is capable of making physics clear without the horrible mathematics that goes along with it usually.  His basic approach is through 'string theory' but he discusses all the classical approaches as well.


 Shifra Henndie in her blurb today quoted Einstein who said "the significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them".  And the point is that Michio takes us to a level of thought higher than the questions we posed in the first place.  Of course, Scientists are funny in that they steadfastly deny the existance of God but yet cannot tell  us how the big bang came about.  And for that matter, what was there before the big bang.  But they are working on it.


That brought my mind around to belief.  Belief requires proof to become knowledge.  So we can now add another one of those instances where a concept can be expressed as a mathematical equation. Or, if you will, Knowledge = Belief + Proof.  So then Belief = Knowledge - Proof.  Wow.. this is similar to one that I discussed earlier in the year.  That is... Attitude = Opinion + Experience.  And I think you can see the similarities between these two equations so that an understanding of the terms is easy..  So Experience is like Proof, Opinion is like Belief and Attitude is like Knowledge.   And that with a $1.29
will get you a cup of coffee and a donut of your choice.... I believe.  I hope(golly is this another one?) that next week I can show you how this plays out diagrammatically and how it fits in with our old favorite..."The Secret".

Time Waits For No One

Seventy nine years ago, on this day, a new entity appeared that was named Richard Charles DeGeiso.  And I am amazed at how many people sent emails, birthday cards, comments on FaceBook and the like to wish me a happy birthday as I prepare to enter the eighth decade.  I suppose that qualifies me as a wise person(or is it wise guy?).  But on the other hand I very rarely get feedback on the comments I make about the things that intrigued me as I passed along the way for most of the twentieth century and now at least some of the twenty first.

Dialogue is quite important to our existence as sentient humans probably because it lets us know that there is at least one other that shares the planet with us.  It is the sharing that is important.  The sharing of resources and possessions represents concepts that are entirely beyond those of certain animals. We can share many things with the animal kingdom, but the ability to conceptualize, the ability to visualize and create abstractions seems to be beyond that of animals.

So with this new-found realization that I, as a member of the human race, could visualize abstractions and whatever, I decided to sign up for the insights of the Kabbalah.  The Kabbalah for those who didn't know has its roots in Jewish mysticism and is said to hold the secrets of the plan that God had for the creation of our world, our universe.  Now that is something that every 79 year old guy should really do to keep him off the streets.  Soooo every Tuesday afternoon I will get my Kabbalah instruction in time for comment on the usual Thursday, Friday when I get around to writing my Blog.  The Walrus could have something to say about the wisdom of the Kabbalah from here on in.  With true passion if it works out or with tongue in cheek if it doesn't.

A Meeting of Minds

I read an article in Science News about the technique of combining the computing power of computers around the world which were idle or asleep.  The way this works, for those of you that don't know, you can "donate" the computing power of your personal computer or laptop for that matter to be combined with gazillions of other computers to process data from a specific source.  In this case the data was from the radio telescope at Arecibo which searches the sky in the very long wavelength region for things like supernovas, quasars and the like.  They were able to find a  pulsar which had not been known before.  This body spins around at the amazing rate of once every 41 seconds.

But this is not what intrigued me.  I wondered about the pooling of so many different computers(sustitute intelligences) and the fantastic results that occurred.  And I got to supposing that perhaps there might come a day when all of  us humans could vibrate at a frequency which would allow us to set aside our individual differences and pool our talents and experiences in such a way.  Would this be the true "Golden Age"?  Perhaps this is what this program is showing us.  The project for this is called Einstein@home .   For the original article check out http://www.sciencenews.org/  september 11, 2010

The time has come the walrussez to speak of strings and things

Last night I watched a program on the Discovery channel about the little Big man, Stephan Hawking,  and of course this centered around the Big Bang, Black Holes and the Theory of Everything.  It seems that the next level in scientific thought beyond Relativity, beyond Quantum Physics is String Theory.  And it seems that the latest thinking is that String Theory will lead to an equation.. one equation.. which will describe everything.  That will allow us to predict anything and everything  and according to Hawking we have no need for the concept of God.    Whoa fellows, haven't we come full circle here?  Up until Relativity and Quantum Mechanics wasn't it God who predetermined everything?  Wasn't it the will of God that made things happen or not?  Now you are telling us that a single mathematical equation will do the same thing.  From that I get that the future is still predictable and predetermined.

I can relate more to the Quantum people who insist on the uncertainty of things.  Because here when and if they do find that magic equation there may still be the slightest probability of something beyond our understanding that allows for our greatest salvation and that is HOPE and the faith that we can beat the odds for a better outcome than PREDICTED. 

One thing in that tv program that was interesting was the example of the infinitesimal small size of the strings.  In describing the size of a string, the example was used that a string would be about as small to us as we are to the universe at large.  I like that annalogy because of its suggestiveness that we are Strings in the overall scheme of things and we all vibrate to our own individual frequency.  When the vibration from one string is the same as that of some other then that creates resonance and energy can flow betwen the two...  Wow what would happen if all the strings vibrated at the same frequency in unison.  That would create an inmeasurable amount of energy and perhaps another Big Bang and we start all over again.  But that is science fiction not science.....  or is it?