Telepathy Part II

Part I brings me to the belief that we have been developing our telepathic abilities for millions of years now.  Today our ability to see and hear are incredibly advanced.  We have spent many years working out equations on how both of these systems work, these discoveries are used to create the incredible picture quality of our modern TVs and the spectacular sound quality of our music and films.  And to think all these calculations are basically done on autopilot in our own minds.

To hear the voice of the person standing next to you first the sound has to be made.  The person's mind sends electrical signals through the nervous system to make the larynx function in just a way in which the air we are standing in is disrupted by a specific vibration that makes it from the person's mouth to your ears.  Your ears are designed to collect these vibrations and turn them from mechanical energy into electrical energy and send a very precise signal to a very specific center in your brain.  This area of your brain will register the signal and decode it to be the message, "hello."  And that happens all the time and as far as we are concerned we don't even flinch at having to decode the vibrations from our neighbors' larynx, we just know it.  Yet scientists and audio technicians have spent hundreds of years to figure out what our mind knows instinctively.

Our ability to read what people write to us might even be more amazing.  First we need the person next to you to write or draw something on a piece of paper, then light from the Sun or a nearby lamp reflects off the paper and into your eyes.  Your eye has receptors called rods and cones in it, these will recognize the very narrow range of visible light and turn the minute waves from mechanical energy into electrical signals which are sent from the retina to the sections of your brain responsible for vision.  This signal is decoded in these sections of the brain then distributed to other parts of the brain (our memory) to decipher the signals as a word we know or an image we recognize.  All this happens in the blink of an eye.  Our video cameras are getting pretty good at mimicking this task, but that technology is just about 100 years old, this is all very new to humans.  But for our brains this is old news, a child's game.

Telepathy is here, we use it everyday.  This blog is a perfect example.  I am allowing people with similar interests as me to read my thoughts.  You are being allowed to see what's on my mind.  Unfortunately many people lie and are deceptive with the things they say and write,,, so the truth is often very difficult to attain.  I promise you, I am not a liar.  I might be wrong about stuff but I do not think I am lying, this is the truth as I have come to understand it.  I would imagine if you read enough of my writings perhaps you would become skilled enough to predict other things about me.  Or at very least gain enough insite to predict what I might write about next.  So, can you guess?

Telepathy Part I

Telepathy is defined as:

"tele meaning 'distant' and patheia meaning 'to be affected by',,, describes the purported transfer of information on thoughts between individuals by means other than the five classical senses (Sight, Hearing, Taste, Smell, Touch)"

This seems awfully limiting. The only way I can envision this strict form of telepathy ever happening will be with the advancements of technology. Cell phones are getting smaller and smaller, perhaps one day they will just be implanted in our brains at a certain age.  In the future when you start going to school a brain-cell phone will be required along with certain shots and vaccines. Then we will have this ability to do everything that our cell phones do today but enclosed in our minds. It will only take some time for hackers to access the conversations you are having with your brain-cell phones. I guess this will be most like true telepathy? And one step further, maybe the hackers will one day be able to access your entire mind database without you even needing to make a call? So even this far off ability is pushing the strict limitations of the above definition of telepathy.

What I mean is, receiving cell reception in our minds isn't much different from using our ears to hear words or our eyes to see text or body language. Cell phone reception travels in waves just like light and sound, but our body does not have a biological receptor to receive these waves. Visible light, which we use to see and read, holds a very particular section of the electromagnetic spectrum, about 700nm to about 450nm. Sound waves like the ones we use to hear the human voice are found in the 20Hz to about 20KHz range (about the wavelength of 10Mm [Mega meters] in the electromagnetic spectrum). The cell phones we use function in a couple different sections of spectrum around the 1m wave length. The reality is, every form of communication we have is due to the manipulation of the electromagnetic spectrum: light waves, sound waves, cell phone waves. Even touch is probably measurable as a very slow and large wave. Human beings are probably a part of a slow and large wave; large objects like our planet, Sun and even black holes are all a part of extremely slow gigantic waves (relatively).

So the definition above is strictly requiring telepathy to be done by means other than the five classical senses, or as we just discovered by means other than the manipulation of the electromagnetic spectrum. And quite honestly, I think just about everything can somehow fit into the electromagnetic spectrum,,, except for perhaps magic. Then I guess telepathy is no more than a parlor trick, a slight of hand where a range of the electromagnetic spectrum is used unknown to the common folks.

Perhaps we need a better definition of telepathy which doesn't keep such a strangle hold on the use of non-electromagnetic spectrum?

Sub-Atomic or Supervelocity Universe, Part III (stay tuned,,,)

I need to grow up a little bit before I can finish this series.  Expect to see a real Part III in the next year or two.  It's been a year since I wrote the last two,,, not sure if I'm still on the same page with myself.  Stay tuned.

I missed my blog.

Sub-Atomic or Supervelocity Universe, Part II

In a previous post I stated that "there must be more for us out there." Actually, maybe we are missing that there is more for us in there. Just because our ability to observe and measure anything past the inner cellular level is limited to the technology we have at hand, we tend to forget that Space is infinite. Even though we can't observe at such a small focus doesn't mean we shouldn't be interested in such minute levels of Space,,, and more importantly Space is infinite so even though it is minute relative to a human's niche in Space, it is not minute relative to Space in general. Relative to humans: atoms are small and galaxies are large. While a human can sort of gauge the size of a galaxy (we know how long a mile is, a light year is a shit load of miles, and a galaxy is a shit load of light years across), we have a really hard time gauging the size of an atom (a trillionth of a mile just doesn't mean anything to a human let alone a trillion trillionths of a mile). 

We know that millions of atoms help to form more familiar objects like pillows and bendy-straws, but our familiarity with those tangible items do not help us better understand the atom,,, so we are stuck, waiting for scientists to develop a more advanced scope to capture a peak at what these atoms are doing. Currently everything we know about the atom (much like the Allegory of the Cave) is how things built of atoms behave under certain conditions, much like studying an object by only being able to observe the object's shadow.  A shadow could be the energy change in an object due to a chamical reaction.

We're kind of in the dark here, but technological advancements are turning on the lights one by one. Ultimately we really need to stop overlooking the reality that the Space you can cup in your hands is just as important as the Space that is our Milky Way Galaxy. In our tangible universe, there are a couple limiting attributes: first limit is the speed c, second limit is the mass ZERO. But we can observe the "shadows" of things with speed c and mass 0. We are seeing the shadows of items in another universe, and my next post will try to define some of the things that exist in the Sub-atomic (Supervelocity) Universe, and define some of their attributes. Could we ever enter this particular other universe?