Sub-Atomic or Supervelocity Universe, Part I

It's sort of one of those chicken or the egg discussions. For those of you unfamiliar with a "chicken or the egg" situation, I will briefly explain. It's a rhetorical question where you ask someone which came first; basically did the existence of the egg lead to the existence of the chicken or did the existence of the chicken lead to the existence of the egg? And by rhetorical I mean that it is not meant to be answered. However, logically (since a chicken exists and we have an understanding of evolution) the only way a chicken could have come to walk the Earth is if it was born, and chickens are hatched from eggs,,, so ultimately the egg had to exist first. But honestly this doesn't really help the point of my Blog, I just wanted to explain the "chicken or the egg" situation.

What came first, the sub-atomic size or the speed faster than c? I'll admit, I'm getting pretty out there with this one. In fact I'm mildly sure that none of what I'm discussing here exists in any text books or on any other web-pages,,, so it might as well be considered fiction. However, I don't think this is fiction and I truly do hold these thoughts as completely possible so humor me on this one. The stuff you will find in text books and on other web pages is: when an object nears the speed c, it nears a mass equal to zero. For example if a 12 inch ruler is traveling at 9/10 the speed of c, it would appear to be only 6 inches,,, and after the ruler was traveling 10/10 the speed of c (or c), it would appear to be 0 inches long. So if I combine this with my previous investigation of photons, a photon fits this expectation of being something that has zero mass and travels faster than c. My "chicken or the egg" question is, what came first, "the photon's speed which would have a result of making the photon have a mass of zero?,,, OR the photon's mass of zero allows it to travel at a speed faster than c?" This is completely rhetorical since we can't tangibly examine a photon. Perhaps if we could stop a photon and see what it was like at a velocity equal to zero, we could measure its mass and formulate an answer. Unfortunately we are not quite there yet, and we can't fully define what a photon is. How does this result in another Universe different from our own? Part II.

Philosophical Physics Set I

Plato might have had it more right than he knew when he wrote the Allegory of the Cave. I would highly advise anyone, with some free time, to read the Allegory of the Cave (Book VII of Plato's best-known work, The Republic). In summation, the story is how regular people are only aware of what they are told or the information that they are fed. The philosopher or the scholar are the ones that break free of the shadows and interpretations to see the real world and in turn escape the cave and, even though dealing with the truth is more difficult and painful, continue to live outside of the cave. It really is a very awesome and powerful metaphor of how we deal with the world around us. Escaping the cave in Plato's story is more of a mental liberation to learn and understand the world around us. However, escaping the cave doesn't mean we are completely free to experience the universe. Subsequent to our escape we are now confined to a planet that circles a star in a space with seemingly never-ending boundaries, and we are only equipped with a limited set of senses.

When exploring the reality of the universe we need to remove ourselves from the planet Earth and not limit ourselves to the common senses. Much of Einstein's ideas defy what we experience from day to day, and he makes that very clear in his papers. He is often explaining his ideas twice, under real world expectations and in theoretical terms (mainly because he deals with things that travel near to the speed of c, and we don't experience things that move that fast). The elephant in the room is, does it even matter to study it if it only theoretically exists? We can't experience this in our everyday lives so why waste our time? I do not agree, if we are okay with binding our bodies to the earth then we are simply ignorant Earthlings, there must be more for us out there.

Okay, Or Is It?

I basically took a week off from Massconceptions, but I wanted to post this to give you something to think about. "Okay" is a grand massconcept of the American culture. We actually have no concrete explanation of "okay"s origins and the whole thing may remain to be a mystery forever. I suggest you read the Wikipedia article on "okay" and submerse yourself into the mystery that is,,, OKAY.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay
The proven and not so proven history of the term is absolutely amazing. A classic massconception.

Infinite Education

Infinity is not very easy for earthlings to understand. We seem to have an O.K. time dealing with numbers being infinite. For example thinking of a really really big number and then just adding 1 to it,,, or adding 1 million to it and making it that much larger. A very special number in math is pi, and it is a number that continues on with an infinite number of decimal places,,, as far as we can tell. We seem fine with that idea and infinity in the case of numbers is widely accepted. Einstein popularized the fact that both Time and Space were not absolute but infinite. Most earthlings seem fine with accepting this on the basis that Einstein is really smart and knows more than them. I would like to spend a little time on explaining the facts on infinite Space and Time; actually it is pretty much easier to take in and grasp than you might think.
Let's start with the easy one you already seem to understand; numbers are infinite. The reason this is so easy is because when we use numbers we can always add 1 on to any number we already know and then add 1 on to the result of that number and so on. That example doesn't work as well with Space or Time; you can add 1 second onto any minute that just passed but how will that help prove that time is infinite? To prove that both Space and Time are infinite we will have to use another method to visualize how numbers are infinite. When anything is considered infinite it is both infinitely large and infinitely small. The small end of infinity is often overlooked. So lets take a number and start dividing it by 2 (or in half). You can grab a calculator if you like because the result will be exponentially small.
So 100 divided by 2 is 50.
50 divided by 2 is 25.
25 divided by 2 is 12.5.
12.5 divided by 2 is 6.25.
Keep dividing by 2 and you get to a number less than 1 (0.78125). Depending on the calculator you will soon reach a number that looks like this, 7.62939453125E-4 (or, 7.62939453125 x 10^-4,,, OR, .000762939453125). Ultimately you will continue to see numbers with more zeros between the decimal and the first number other than zero, or larger and larger negative numbers at the end of the number,,, however you will NEVER reach zero. This is a trait of infinity; no matter how many times you halve something it will never reach a zero amount of that something.
If we earthlings can accept that for numbers we will have a much easier time proving that Space and Time are in fact infinite as well. For those who don't know, space is measured in distance or length or volume et cetera. So let's say we take the distance of 100cm and we start dividing it by 2, we would get 50cm. Do you see where this is going? Ultimately we will result in distances that are very small (relatively to 100cm) but will never reach a distance that is zero; hence distance (or Space) is infinite. Time is pretty much just the same story with different units; take the time of 100secs and start dividing it by 2 and so on and you will also never reach zero. Hence there is an infinite amount of time in 100secs.
The massconception is that we are slaves to our units of measurement. We understand 1 meter because it is about an arm's length. We understand 24 hours because it is the time it takes for the Earth to make 1 full rotation on its axis. A Second means nothing if the Earth isn't associated with its current behavior around the Sun, a Second is just a lump of Time. Our measurements are the only way we can really understand and capture Space and Time, and all of our measurements are relative to the tangible universe around us. If the Earth stopped spinning and slowly started drifting into the Sun and all earthlings burned up would Time stop? The answer is most definitely NO. It's similar to the pre-Copernicus model of the universe where the Earth is the center of the solar system, earthlings just assume the universe revolves around them and it really truly is difficult to break our self-centered-ness.
So why does this even matter, you might ask? Well if both Space and Time are infinite then the distance between two atoms is just as important as the distance between two planets and everything in between. Earthlings must understand Time and Space without units before being able to understand a universe. I will use infinite Space and Time later in exploring the Sub-Atomic Universe (or "Supervelocity Universe").

Healthy Body: Exercise the Environment

First Blog of 2008, let's hope it changes the world.
So the other day I was sitting at my local BART station waiting for a friend. After talking with my friend Sara I notice this gentleman rushing into the station's courtyard. He's dressed in some tight bicycle shorts and a tank top,,, honestly he looked a little silly for just being out and about, but not too silly for the gym. I watched him as he rushed through the courtyard. I figured he was in a rush to make his train, but then noticed he was picking up a good handful of trash on his way to the terminal. Then I noticed he kept rushing and picking up more armfuls of trash and smashed them into the trash can. He continued this for almost 10 minutes, speeding from loose wrapper to trash can; squatting and sprinting every chance he got. Then he just ran off when the place was completely clean! Totally rad.
So I didn't get to talk to the gentleman or discuss what he was actually doing, but I have a hypothesis and I plan on making it a new part of my everyday workout.
So I don't go to gyms, in fact I believe in the use of gyms less and less all the time. What happens at the gym?,,, able bodied humans go there to tone their bodies, get in shape, be healthy, and/or build their muscles. And what is the gain? A healthy body, ripped pectorals or an increased self esteem. Seems pretty vain, seems like a waste, and I'm not really into it. What I got from this quick gentleman in bicycle shorts was the idea that getting a workout and cleaning up the environment was not only possible but free and rather un-vain (considering the way he was dressed).
Basically this man ran or jogged to the BART station (perhaps 15 minutes away from where he lives), this would have raised his heart rate long enough to benefit from an aerobic workout. Once he was at the BART station he kept his speed up (keeping his heart rate up), and started squatting and sprinting from wrapper to wrapper. He would also smash his arm-loads of trash into the waste baskets. Then he ran off either to go home or to another destination for another clean up/workout! Understandably, this isn't a solution if you desire huge muscles, you could only achieve this from intense weight training. But if large muscles are what you want I would suggest you stop the gym and get a labor intensive job like construction, moving crew or landscaping. I hate seeing some dude from Google with big 'ol arms,,, so fake so vain.
So man in bicycle shorts, you are a genius and I salute you. I wish there were more of you out there. I'm working on it.
Don't join a gym for your New Year's resolution, do something good for your body and the environment instead. Adjust your lifestyle and help the planet we live in, doesn't get much better than that. Happy New Year.