Some Truths to Meditate On

All right, those of you expecting to read about the events of yesterday at the family gathering, we are pushing that off to the next file. I will just say that I regard yesterday as a very successful outing and leave it to you Jimmy Carter freaks to deduce just what I mean by that. What I’d like to discuss are some truths to meditate on right now. The first truth is “If you are a Liberal Democrat, Hillary Clinton is your Candidate”. Obama is no Jack Kennedy. What Jack Kennedy said with utter certitude and forthrightness in his speech, Obama says haltingly, riddled with doubt, as if he were reading a tele-prompter. There is no doubt if you want to “Get the liberal democratic agenda done” then Hillary is your girl. She has the capacities and experience to push what she wants through congress. Of course Obama apparently misspoke at last week’s San Francisco gathering in a closed speech not for public consumption. He said that people in Pennsylvania were backward and provincial. They’ve lived in the same area for hundreds of years and they are an older population. If you saw “The Deer Hunter” you know they “cling to” such tried virtues as God and Guns and are for tighter regulation of immigration, especially when they likely haven’t met any aliens. I in myself don’t see any problem in Obama’s remarks and would advise the people in the Pennsylvania heart land to “get over it” and come into the 21^st. Century. But of course Hillary and Mc Cain swoop down like vultures to capitalize on Obama’s remarks.

We’re Searching for Something

That has Already Found Us

I hope that stays centered. This quote is one Mark Campbell often used and it’s from the “American Prayer” album. The whole idea is that God and the future is out there and our “discovering” him or it doesn’t change the reality of what was already there. I heard Joel Olsteen’s speech today about flowers from ashes and the resurrection experience in your life. If, as we’ve said, the future “isn’t already baked into the cake” it isn’t going to happen. Jesus Christ on his show today referred to one caller I didn’t hear who apparently spoke on Science. Here is another truth: Religion has no need of Science and Science has no need of Religion. Let me give an example to illustrate each truth. Religion is like somebody from a savage backward tribe where they survive from stealing things they need from their neighbors. If you show such a backwards tribesman a barrel full of money he’s going to see a bunch of pieces of paper with funny writing on them that might be useful to burn in a pinch instead of fuel if he got cold, but otherwise would have no value to him. If he wants food or a gun he can steal that directly. The idea of an intrinsic value of money is lost on him. In terms of science and religion I would like you to meditate on the truth “The bounds and dimensions you see in this universe are governed by your inability to approach the speed of light”. Some may say that black holes exist. For a pure Einsteinian such a question is meaningless because in his closed universe system, Black Holes CAN’T exist. There is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to prove they existed even if they DID. For instance in a donut shaped universe- - whatever matter is in the hole of the donut doesn’t matter, just like shrubbery outside the bounds of a miniature golf course doesn’t matter. Neither can something outside a close universe system affect anything that is IN the closed system, be it by gravity or by any other means. There is no "inferential" information manifest. It is a proposition you have to take entirely on faith.

A Salute to Neil Asphenal

For you sensitive types who don’t like certain content appearing in my blogs, consider this Fair Warning. Apparently Neil was a roadie employee for the Beatles as far back as 1962 with Mal Evans being hired on as assistant roadie- - later and Neil was promoted to other key Beatle tasks. Neil stuck up for Pete Best when Brian fired him face to face from the group. Pete had functioned as a managerial person for the group and Brian was taking over these tasks. Mona Best couldn’t be to happy Pete was let go. Neil in later years was in charge of things like Beatle re-releases such as CD’s and the Anthology Series and only quit his job in 2006 when illness was taking its toll, and he died on March 24^th. 2008. The Federation has always liked Neil. It was about 25 years ago when Harrison, I believe, was dissing Neil saying “Some of these people like Neil Asphenol have been around us so long they think they are Beatles themselves”. The Federation came down hard on this statement saying how indispensable Neil was. Neil now is “with George and Mal Evans”. I asked the Federation why they didn’t inform me that Neil had died and they said, “We did, sort of. We said that the number 32 you had in a blog signified death, and you responded sarcastically, “Yeah- - Right! If anybody dies in the next few days I’ll let you know” (me talking back to them) I also asked why they didn’t inform me that George Harrison was with the Federation and they said “Well, the only reason why we even let you know about John Lennon is because of your favorable association with Stewart Sutcliffe”. This isn’t even accurate. The real reason I suspect is that relation between the Federation and the Romulans has deteriorated markedly in the past year or so and John and Stewart and I are all Romulans. They also told me today “You really aren’t that important now”. Then they began talking about how its important to be loyal to employees and how Bill Clinton shouldn’t have let Mark Penn go because he never did anything disloyal- - “. I can’t disagree more with this assertion. Mark Penn was damaging the campaign and the public image badly with his activities.

Four Things To Remember About the Theory of Relativity

Here are four things to keep in mind to help “keep things in perspective” when you hear Einstein discussed. I was going to mention them to Dianne and Wendy yesterday but it never quite came up in the conversation. If you’re out there, you know who you are. “Hi, how’s it going?” The first great truth is “The nature mass is governed by the nature of the Time it occupies. If you increase or decrease the speed at which we are traveling through the fourth dimension, mass has to increase or decrease to keep “all other things equal” as they say. This has nothing to do with the Theory itself but is deducable by ordinary Newtonian physics. I bring you back to Clark Kent doing those fast dashes in the Smallville episodes. The next Truth to keep in mind is that infinity is a real number used in science and it’s quite possible to go beyond infinity and when you do you “Go Negative”. I offer you two examples: One is in optics when it comes to real and apparent images. The other is “tangent waves” used in graphing circular trigometric functions. You get those “S” saves that spike low and then flatten and then spike high and then reform low again. (Excel will graph this) The third great truth is that the nature of space surrounding an object is determined by the nature of the atomic particle matter that makes it up. What this means, simply, is that you can only have negative matter in negative space. People talk about the “Positron” and how it is created. However the positron seems little more than an abstract creation if you read the material, and hasn’t been used to synthesize “anti-matter”. If anti-matter existed in this Universe it would have profound implications for space travel. The fourth truth is that it’s best to think of Accelerat-ING matter rather than Accelerat-ED matter. What this means is that all that weird stuff that happens to space and time only happens when matter is Changing in its Inertia. This occurs in a cyclotron when particles are put under enormous gravity field stress. (going around in a big circle) It’s this gravity field that alters space and time, rather than a static inertial speed close to that of light. Is everybody clear?