Physicists tell us that time is, contrary to perceived wisdom, not an everyday forward motion in a three dimensional space, but an encompassing medium in which we reside. Time has no direction, or every direction in the mathematics that explore the realms beyond our current understanding. The tiny sub atomic stuff that violates the laws of classical physics. Yet forward like a stream to the sea we move.
Moments behind us.
Atoms are our core, they whizz randomly, they vibrate, they change, interchange, they are here.. and there, in fact we are told our atoms have counterparts- an opposite value charge, characteristic, but linked via cosmic strings.
Parallel, an interesting geometric concept, two lines travel forever, and never shall meet.
In the catastrophic last moments approaching the event horizon of a black hole, do these pathways stay illusive to contact. Is this gravitational force powerless to interact on theoretical mathematical geometric states.
Do we have a real world paradigm, that would allow the crazed proponents of ‘mine is an interesting idea_Please publish’ to vindicate in some real sense the complexities that stir the imagination of the average, (in perpetual flux) person.
Was just getting confused.
It is not for me to say about the validity of this, but the animation is nice.
Cycles and Harmonies
The Sun Solar Glow
The Sun is:
- about 4.5 billion years old now.
- Presently somewhere in between an 8 and a 14 year sun spot cycle. (giggle)
What is a billion anyway, is that 100 million, or more?..
It is more, many more, a thousand million, or 109
lots of zeros 1,000,000,000 in truth a very old celestial being, although not that old in comparison with neighbors of similar cosmic origins. The point in all this being that the dynamics of the sun are now increasingly thought to be of influence in the atmosphere and subsequent temperature of this planet.
You know, I was just reading about this possible effect, and that some are beginning to think that ‘it’ might have an influence. Shit me, for not thinking of that.
Now before you get your lawn mowers out, or switch to 4 wheel drive and cruise the sand-dunes, we do have a responsibility.
Nestling in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, 30 miles from the ancient city of Turin, lies the valley of Valchiusella. Peppered with medieval villages, the hillside scenery is certainly picturesque.
But it is deep underground, buried into the ancient rock, that the region’s greatest wonders are concealed.
Original article by Hazel Courteney
The creator of the temples says..
They are to remind people that we are all capable of much more than we realise and that hidden treasures can be found within every one of us once you know how to access them,’ says Falco
We just arrived back last week from a city break in Palma Mallorca, and as well as enjoying the many and varied restaurants and bars the city has a rich historical side. One of the many attractions for visitors is the castle situated at the top of mount Bellver.
The castle unique throughout spain due to it’s circular structure, has three towers integrated into the main structure, and a forth one called the Homenaje, or Homage tower.
The Homage tower separated from the castle by seven meters is now connected by a bridge which was built at a later date.
On the inside the castle has a circular parade ground surrounded by rooms over two levels. On the second floor structured around a gallery with 42 octagonal columns which support ogival arches is the chapel dedicated to Sant Marc.
King Jaume ll of Mallorca ordered the construction in the 14th century. The work was commissioned to Pere Salva.
Looking out now across the harbour at the bustling city it is only a small shift in perception to cast your imagination back into older more turbulent times.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`’Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.’
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Nameless here for evermore.
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
`’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door -
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -
This it is, and nothing more,’
Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
`Sir,’ said I, `or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you’ - here I opened wide the door; -
Darkness there, and nothing more.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, `Lenore!’
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, `Lenore!’
Merely this and nothing more.
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
`Surely,’ said I, `surely that is something at my window lattice;
Let me see then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore -
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; -
‘Tis the wind and nothing more!’
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door -
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door -
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,’ I said, `art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning - little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door -
Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as `Nevermore.’
But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only,
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered - not a feather then he fluttered -
Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have flown before -
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.’
Then the bird said, `Nevermore.’
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
`Doubtless,’ said I, `what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore -
Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore
Of “Never-nevermore.”‘
But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore -
What this grim, ungainly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking `Nevermore.’
This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er,
She shall press, ah, nevermore!
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
`Wretch,’ I cried, `thy God hath lent thee - by these angels he has sent thee
Respite - respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
`Prophet!’ said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! -
Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted -
On this home by horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore -
Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implore!’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
`Prophet!’ said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore -
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels named Lenore?’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
`Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!’ I shrieked upstarting -
`Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - nevermore!
How you got there
Funny how you travel in cyberville, with a search to find above poem I found myself doing another search on “Quoth” and ended up here Navigated to here via random connectedness, and ultimately to here where I spent a good time listing to scientific tunes. Very entertaining.
I should be doing anything else really, but was caught, hooked and thought any that pass this way might like to share the experience.
A big, bright perigee Moon. Right: A lesser apogee Moon
The Moon’s orbit is an ellipse with one side 30,000 miles closer to Earth than the other. The full Moon of Oct. 25-26 is located on the near side, making it appear as much as 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser full Moons we’ve seen earlier in 2007.
In the language of astronomy, the two ends of the Moon’s orbit are called “apogee” and “perigee.” Apogee is the farthest point, perigee the nearest: This week’s full Moon is a “perigee Moon”.
I actually wanted to talk about China’s one year Luna mission.
Chang’e-1, China’s first lunar probe, blasted off on a Long March 3A carrier rocket from the No. 3 launching tower in the Xichang Satellite Launch Center of southwestern Sichuan Province on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. [Photo: CCTV]
Chang’e-1, named after a mythical Chinese goddess who, according to legend, flew to the moon.
Will this one year expedition, providing of course nothing mysteriously goes wrong provide conclusive evidence of the much disputed landing on the lunar surface by the Americans in 1969.
The probe equipped with:
(1) An Optical Imaging System, a CCD Stereo Camera, and an Interferometer Spectrometer Imager. The CCD optical system will use a series of three, 2-dimensional original images of a target area taken before and reconfigure them into a 3-dimensional image of the lunar surface. The Interferometer Spectrometer Imager uses a special camera that is able to obtain images based on the fact that different objects have different spectrum properties. This multi-spectra, remote sensing of the lunar surface will then be integrated into the lunar terrain images obtained through the stereo camera; enabling scientists conduct researches on the properties of regional resources and materials.
(2) A Laser Altimeter will be used to provide complementary data to the elevation data of lunar surface and to refine the lunar surface digital model.
(3) Gamma/X-Ray Spectrometers will be able to obtain the distribution of different elements according to the differences of energy spectra of gamma and X rays emitted by various elements due to cosmic ray excitation, such as the gamma-ray spectra for elements of Th, U and K, and X-ray spectra for elements of Na, S and Ni. The data concerning elements of Fe, Ti, Al and Mg can be obtained through both gamma- and X-ray spectra.
(4) A Microwave Detector that will operate in four different frequency bands will allow different depths of the lunar soil to be penetrated based on the fact that microwave radiation brightness varies through the regolith soil.
(5) A Space Environment Monitoring System consisting of a High-Energy Solar Particle Detector will consist of a small probe that will be launched separately from Chang’e 1 to perform analysis of the space between the Moon and the Earth. Working in the region of 40,000 to 400,000 kilometres (25,000 to 250,000 miles) from the Earth, it will investigate the solar wind and other activities from the Sun.
Chang’e 1 is the first part of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP) conducted under the China National Space Administration (CNSA) — a civilian agency of the People’s Republic of China. The mission also has support from the European Space Agency (ESA), who are providing spacecraft and ground operations support services through ESTRACK (a tracking network comprising of 12 terminals sited at eight stations in five countries), and plans are that the two will work together on future Chang’e missions. The two agencies will also share data and encourage a visitors’ programme so that researchers can learn from each other.
So keep tabs on this one, It is going to be interesting regardless of the findings.
I expect they might pay special attention to this area.
I would like at this point to say I am a believer and expect the findings to confirm that Neil ‘one large leap’ was indeed the first to step foot on an extra terrestrial world. Who Knows..
I was thinking about writing this post when i came across this image.
This image has fallen into the public domain, and can be used by anyone.
Can I claim copyright for a work that has expired?
No, once a work is in the public domain it is available to all. You cannot stop others using the work and you will have no claim to copyright on the work.
The castle pictured above is obviously not a ruin, But I came across it whilst looking for a place to stay, and maybe encounter ghostly manifestations from an earlier period. I saw the pic was no longer copyrighted and thought “TIS MINE THAT”, and went off in pursuit off securing the copyright. No such luck as the above quote explains.. Never mind, Pure and simple ghost hunting it is..
If you know of a good castle, ‘ruin’ in the north uk area, possible camp to stay the night spot, to drink beer be spooked, small controlled fire etc.. Give us a SHOUT
Just experimenting, I have been reading some sample chapters of the Web Design Business Kit by Brendon Sinclair Searched his site Tailored consulting and thought I’d have a crack at his methods.
Hope he appreciates the hot links coming from a google page rank 0 site, you never know he may return the favor.
I think I have mentioned in previous posts that my understanding of how these things work is growing, for my goal through learning and reading, the attainment of knowledge is to rise to the exulted position of planet’s best web designer.
I have recently finished a site for a client, and the site comes up top of google listings for specific searches, such as ‘owners name’. lynsey birchall What she does, being that it is like web design itself practiced by many a specific search for photographic retouching brings no results to the top of google’s searches.
I know it’s all about page linkage and the fact that I am not at this time the planets best web designer is quite irrelevant.
Right the crux of this little situation lies in the fact that I have no resource/access to a google ranked site more than what I have created myself.
Central12.com being a page rank 1, Yeah scream for joy and recognition. I expect my best option will be a site I did some time ago (Needs a revamp) Rachels site
Not as yet checked the ranking, but the site is linked to from the site that produced her albums. DB Studios and Cross Rhythms and one or two other good links.
So in the best interest of everyone involved I try to use the created linkage to its best advantage and share the wealth, and indeed things are beginning to happen, my own exposure over the last 12 months has increased by a %age not huge, but never-the-less we are traveling in the right direction.
Infinity and beyond.. cheers Buzz.
I have often been quite reserved about pics, and publishing them, but have seen sites that do, publish and write regally, and I for one enjoy the perspective of another’s interpretation of what they find interesting. So here goes. Don’t expect classics, just snaps, well meaning as they are they convey no technical expertise and only reflect what I momentarily thought to be of some cosmic importance. This is a moment from Liams birthday at Blackpool Zoo last week, will post some cutesy animal pics soon.
Out in Southport for the evening. Felt like a bloody tourist. Some pics
Check out the being driving the car in the front of photograph.
He definitely saw me. That I saw him you understand.
Luckily the camera captures the true essence of the grey, because to most they appear just like anyone else, but make no mistake.. they are amongst us..
Fortunate to have camera ready. For more info: below.
Our world view has changed dramatically in a relatively short period of time. To cast back one hundred years the existence of the atom in modern scientific circles was not widely accepted.
How strange to imagine folks still wandering around on this spinning mass of rock in space didn’t have any kind of insight to their own structural makeup.
Click Atom pic to visit site where pic was procured.
My understanding is limited, and no doubt will seem primitive to those future folk who sit here when my mortal body decompiles.
I believe through analysis, that my heritage is a combination of Klingon, Vulcan but primarily human, which would account for the inconsistent thought processes, a need to get shit organized, and a complete lack of empathy for any other viewpoint..
So to do some serious thinking here..
Planks constant is where I will begin. For it serves well as a starting, learning point.
The Planck constant (denoted h) is a physical constant that is used to describe the sizes of quanta. It plays a central role in the theory of quantum mechanics, and is named after Max Planck, one of the founders of quantum theory. A closely-related quantity is the reduced Planck constant (also known as Dirac’s constant and denoted ħ, pronounced “h-bar”). The Planck constant is also used in measuring energy emitted as photons, such as in the equation E=hν, where E is energy, h is Planck’s constant, and ν (Greek letter nu) is frequency. The Planck constant and the reduced Planck constant are used to describe quantization, a phenomenon occurring in subatomic particles such as electrons and photons in which certain physical properties occur in fixed amounts rather than assuming a continuous range of possible values.
