Extra Terrestrial Life Forms, Part I

I recently watched a series of videos on YouTube of an episode of Larry King Live with Bill Nye shooting down a bunch of UFO believers and followers.  I wanted to make this blog post in support of Bill Nye's skepticism.  Bill's main point is that all the evidence we have shows the proof that unidentified things are seen and reported, to make the jump that these unidentified objects and recorded images are otherworldly is pretty drastic.  

It brings to mind the belief in faeries.  A long time ago faeries were considered the unexplainable trouble makers, causing all kinds of mischief while our backs were turned.  An example would be: let's say you lived in the forest and you just finished your laundry, you hung it to dry and while it was drying you decided to take a walk.  When you get back from your walk to gather up all the dry linens you find they have been strewn about the forest and dragged through the mud.  Who did this?!  There is no one else around; you know this because you were left in charge for the day.  Well, there could be a couple explanations.  One, the wind picked up and after tugging on the hung linens for a few minutes they were ripped from the branches and fell in the mud.  Or two, maybe a wild animal came through and pulled the linens down and drug them through the mud as it was scared away by you returning.  The problem with both of these explanations is that they require that the story include that the linens were unattended or poorly hung.

Since you don't want to get in trouble for leaving the linens unattended, you decide to say this happened while your back was turned.  But an animal wouldn't come through with you so close by, and if the wind was blowing hard you should have been close enough to catch things before they got to the mud.  The result is to make up something impossible.  Faeries were often described in these kind of situations.  Not only do they fit the bill, something mischievous happened in an impossible circumstance,,, but who doesn't want to hear more proof about something that would be amazing like faeries.  

Faeries and extra terrestrial visitors on Earth are very desirable.  (The biggest reason why magic shows work is because the audience wants magic to be real.)  Even if you don't believe in either, the existence of these things would be very cool?  We all wish for these things to be true.  Watching the men that were up against Bill Nye on Larry King Live, I saw some guys with a really good story.  We love having good stories, these guys' story got them on Larry King Live 40 years after the event took place, that's a pretty good story.  The second half of the program features a PHD in Physics who is the author of a book about UFOs and the Director of a film about UFOs.  Both capitol driven media based on stories similar to the old men from the first half.  When you have something to sell for $29.99 you get a little protective of the subject matter, you have income to worry about.  I support Bill Nye, there is a universe of possibilities for these sightings, why does extra terrestrial life have to be the obvious answer?

Part II, my theory for the possibility of extra terrestrial life.

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?

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.