It’s time to break our chains.
- The Paranormal: A New Science of the 21st Century; by Philip J. Imbrogno, author & collaborator of a plethora of books such as ‘Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings’ (Amazon US & UK), & most recently ‘Interdimensional Universe: The New Science of UFOs, Paranormal Phenomena and Otherdimensional Beings’ (Amazon US & UK).
- Another one back from the dead, this time an Indian stampede victim. A sign that the End Times is nigh?
- Forget the Hollow-Earth theories. How about a Hollow Moon?
- Milky Way’s Dark Matter ‘clumpier’ than thought. I can almost see Michael H’s big grin with this one.
- Our pal Mr. 'Bad-As' tronomer looks at the space ambitions of the two candidates for the U.S. presidential election. That is, if they can beat this new contender.
- Pimp my SETI@Home!
- Scientists say Martian soil is *not* as life-friendly as they thought. IMO that might depend on your definition of “Life”.
- NASA denies briefing Whitehouse about life on Mars discovery. Which is of course a sure sign that Bush is planning to bomb the Martians…
- Admiral says: ”I never looked for UFO data. And I did not have sex with that woman”… Oh, wait!
- Oregon man catches possible UFO on video. I think it’s just Rick doing one of his OBE pranks.
- Then again, maybe the UFO was Bigfoot’s ride, since the hirsute giant has also been recently seen prowling the Oregonian woods.
- Michael Shermer demands: “Show me the body”. I don’t know whether he’s referring to Bigfoot or Jimmy Hoffa though.
- The Skeptibunkie´s Meme: "Nothing But Grainy Blurry Photos. . ."; by the Queen of the UFO blogs, Regan Lee.
- 08/08/08 is not only the inauguration day of the Olympics, but *also* the inauguration of Galactic Freedom Day.
- 4000-year-old Canaanite warrior found in Lebanon dig. Poor chap was never relieved of his post since the war with the Hebrews.
- Mark Lehner tells of his life with the Sphinx. Grailer Furries might find this pretty kinky ;-)
- The Poles say Auschwitz is falling into ruins. Should we preserve it indefinitely, like the Pyramids of Giza?
- Batman and the War on Terror. Yes, I’m a fanboy, so sue me!!
- What the Anthrax targets tell us about the Anthrax Terrorist.
- Will the U.S. have a droid Army? Better yet: Will it have a droid President?
- Plan Mexico and the US-Funded Militarization of Mexico. Luckily for me I’ve been practicing for this scenario, so Bring it Gringos! :-P
A toast of Tequila for Rick, Kat & Greg (Salud!)
Quote of the Day:
"Quite an experience, to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave."
Replicant "Roy Batty" (Rutger Hauer) in ‘Blade Runner’
I'd might as well grin, Red
Beats crying!
The best thing about dark matter is that it can be whatever you want it to be . . . it's kind of like the imaginary playmate we all had as little kids, but this one gets billions of dollars of funding.
While the mainstream wonders what's going on with WIMPS ("So far, though many teams have been looking for WIMP particles, no one has conclusively detected them"), the heretics occasionally point out things like the appearance of fractal distribution to scales up to 100 light years across.
The mainstream response to these observations is predictible: "Many cosmologists find fault with their analysis, largely because a fractal matter distribution out to such huge scales undermines the standard model of cosmology. According to the accepted story of cosmic evolution, there simply hasn't been enough time since the big bang nearly 14 billion years ago for gravity to build up such large structures."
Got that everyone? - we don't like it because it doesn't fit our standard model!
I would so love to be around in five hundred years, if for nothing more than to be the fly on the wall listening in on the astronomers of the future, openly laughing that our best and brightest cosmologists actually thought the weakest fundamental force (gravity) was responsible for galactic organization. We're going to be looked upon in a similar light to the flat earth people are today.
And that does make me grin!
let us be honest
To be honest, we have to see that dark matter and dark energy are accounting terms. They are not magic thingies. They are numbers that say how much the standard model is inaccurate, compared to current observations and measurements.
I have my own guesses about this, why the standard model is wrong about these things. But these are only guesses, and I do not have a better model.
I find it funny that the people who cannot even explain how things work here, in the local neighborhood, are now acting so superior.
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It is not how fast you go
it is when you get there.
Is that what they are?
To be honest, we have to see that dark matter and dark energy are accounting terms. They are not magic thingies. They are numbers that say how much the standard model is inaccurate, compared to current observations and measurements.
If this is the case, then the standard model is off by 96%.
That's pretty close.
My best guess (and that's all that it is) is that we will someday learn that it is electric currents in plasma that drives the growth of the cosmos on massive scales. We'll also learn that stars are not self-contained nuclear furnaces, but are also fueled by electrical currents, and thus have an entirely indeterminate life span. The entire cosmos will be seen as one giant interconnected circuit, with characteristics strongly reminiscent of a living organism: continually growing, probably in a fractal pattern, on ridiculous time scales.
That's my guess, but first we have to prove that dark matter and dark energy don't exist, even though each is nothing more than a mathematical construct created to prop up the accepted standard model, and without which the standard model would be falsified.
I'd bet serious dollars that the majority of the scientists who are engaged in chasing these ghosts are quite opposed to work like Dean Radin's on the grounds that it's . . . pseudoscience.
percentage
I'm not sure about the 96%, but even if the number is only 60%, this casts serious doubt on the underlying theory.
Just the fact that the theory doesn't work without dark energy is a big problem.
My personal guess is that what we call "constants" are not constant. They may vary, depending on where you are and when it was. These constants could be a function of something we have not considered. The main suspect, to me, is the gravitational constant.
But that is only a wild guess of course.
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It is not how fast you go
it is when you get there.
Fear is the Mind Killer.
Thanks for the Bladerunner quote. Most of us are slaves, and I don't count myself out of thee equation. But knowing does help to lighten the chains, and find the key...