I want this to be a relatively condensed compendium of the various faces of time, as I know them. This will be a collection of divided topics which the reader should discover turn out to be related to each other in discrete if not miraculous ways, oh yeah. So, bear with the seeming disjointedness of it all.

( First, I want to touch on the essential fallacy of reason... )

Out there in the universe, on a grand scale, things look ( Read more... )

Because of limitations in my own memory, and record-keeping, and LiveJournal, it gets really difficult to keep theme-post series running along. I start some series about time, or how we process information, and then it loses steam, as I lay in bed for a few more days, looking at the ceiling ( Read more... )

The great throng of ignorant people often think that I am sarcastic. In fact, I have, for years, made a conscious effort NOT to be, or to appear, sarcastic. Indeed, this has been my life's great struggle. But, when you're up against the ignorant throng, then nothing you can do to convince them to get their TP brains out of the collective gutter ( Read more... )

When a bolt of lightning zaps the earth and sky, it is trying to reconcile two different static forces, and so it forms a kind of line, which nevertheless also branches naturally, like a tree. But, the static electricity in the earth, or in the clouds, does not flow in a line, or go zap. It seethes like the sea, it blinks and crinkles discretely, ( Read more... )

The issues of, "Alt Right", and, "Fake News," were used by the Clinton DNC to shift attentiojn from Wikileaks to the alternative media.  (The mental war with Russia was also a diversion, which was concocted over years, and will continue to be used to trip up Trump.  But at least Russia won't necessarilly go to war with us, since Clinton was not ( Read more... )

An 8-dimensional model of the universe - (play)
An 8-dimensional model of the universe - (transcript)

Supersymmetry’s absence: Lack of new particles suggests need to consider new theories

Gaps in band of stars on the outskirts of the Milky Way could reveal secrets of dark matter

A Theory of Everything: Humorist Emily Levine riffs on science and ( Read more... )

This is yet the latest linky theme post; forgive my indulgence, all ya wee popes.  So.
Put on your Indiana Jones' hats and jump in!  Ecno evil ylno uoY.  Right?


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Me, myself and I, were unable to listen to Earthfiles, last night, on Coast-to-Coast, due to baggage. However, I did read the long Ellis article in Discover Magazine, which I have been wanting to post about. I also have a series starting about TIME. And, even though I can't hear the audio, I suggest you consider listening to this, in preparation ( Read more... )

All information contains emotion, and all emotion contains information. Like electricity and magnetism, they are two abiding forces at different ends of one continuum. "How could information contain emotion?" This is so because all information is a property of observation, and so consciousness. Observation is a dynamic, two-way street. All ( Read more... )