I wasn't anticipating having the origens of the Big Bang explained in a plausable manner when this day began. So - - did "God" do it? Did God set the whole thing off - - this so called "most unique that's ever happened in cosmological history? I read the rest of the article on Black Holes I had missed. This author revived a variation of my previously discarded ‘perpetual falling machine” theory where we ourselves came from what used to be a “singular event” Black Hole and it answers the riddle of how we “got the matter in a singular place” to begin with. We were just waiting for a critical mass, I suppose before some thermonuclear reaction on steroids occurred. In the past I have tended not to buy the “singularity” theory since NO time or space theory can explain a Black Hole since- - once again “They have left the Universe”. Hence it’s also silly to say that Black Holes contain either a finite amount of space or a limited amount of matter, since we have no way of knowing how long matter has been “falling into them” and that trash receptacle could be about three billion years overdo for emptying. It also goes against my pet theory of how multiple universes have the commonality of all being created at once at the same time and the “same space” as far as we dare even employ such a confining term. And as that TV show from whenever stated “dimensions did not EXIST then so that every event was a NEW event not connected or related to any other event. And since it was an event not relatable to any other event, it had to be it's own, new dimension. It would thus follow that if TODAY there could be some event not relatable IN ANY WAY to ANY OTHER event - - the axiom would be true that at that point you would have moved into another, new dimension. It's like George Washington as President. Everything he did set a precedent. There was no formated space as we know it. You may remember from previous posts that at its inception the Universe was so HOT that many bozons such as the Higgs bozon - - hadn't had an oppertunity to form yet. And it took “Time” (another misnomer) for various events to “accumulate” a commonality to them where you could say for sure that one event followed another, much as I mentioned in a recent blog posting. Another theory which mankind instinctively applies to Black Holes is that they are like a window blown out on a high flying jet airliner and are thus “gigantic sucking machines”. The Magazine makes clear this is a false analogy and that if our Sun for instance, were to be transformed into a Black Hole, nothing would change about the orbits of the earth and all the other planets. Of course again this assumes two things I’m not accepting. First that there is a limited, measurable amount of matter in a Black Hole, almost as if we could weigh it, and the second is that - - Black Hole gravity is just the same of ordinary gravity. But as I stressed in the previous posting- - I don’t believe this is the case at all. But the message here is “Even the mysterious - - has physical limits.” Some people I'm sure would love to have some convenient Black Hole to put all of their "expired sins" in. A place that's not too far away but hides quickly out of sight so that even You can no longer see it. (Selah) Chuck Swendoll once said "We reap in a different form than expected, and in a different season". So the Black Holes are "planted" with or without the vacuum cleaner quality of sucking out everything in their paths - - and then the "harvest" comes in another season and in another form. You have all of this "singularity" of matter - - - there for periods that defy Time measurement - - and then one day there is the trigger point - - and the whole thing just explodes.
WE MAY WELL HAVE JUST CELEBRATED OUR LAST AFFLUENT CHRISTMAS IN AMERICA
If this headline scares you, remember in mid summer of 2007 when I headed a blog posting "These are the good old days" as though we'd look back on the summer of 2007 as some mystic panacia we'd be longing to get back to? Well, as the material below explains- - sometimes EVENTS make the President more than the Man makes the President. Ronald Reagan owes our era of wealth in the 'eighties (which wasn't all that impressive if you look at the cold statistics anyhow) we don't owe that to conservative triumph, but more to the Federal Reserve, and to explode the federal deficets, but most importantly of all - - to the fact that oil was discovered in places like the North Sea and Alaska, which made abondont energy at a reasonable price - - doable. And as such the economy as a whole benefited.
As unemployment topped 10%, the January 1975 cover of Ramparts magazine blared:The End of Affluence: The Last Christmas in America. (TLCIA)
The government responded to the high unemployment, rampant inflation and rising budget deficits by manipulating data to mask the politically inconvenient realities of inflation, unemployment and deficits by playing with Social Security Trust Funds, inflation data, etc.–games it continues to play to cloak reality from the media-numbed public. The economic stagnation, despite various stock market rallies and false starts, essentially lasted 10 years, from 1973 to 1982.
The malaise had a happy ending: huge new oil fields were discovered in Alaska, the North Sea, West Africa and elsewhere, ushering in a renewed era of cheap, abundant petroleum. President Reagan re-set Social Security for a generation and introduced a lower taxes, higher permanent deficits ideology that is now accepted as the only possible way to sustain the Status Quo: deficits don’t matter, even when they reach the trillions, because our good friends the Gulf Oil Exporters and Asian exporters will buy all our debt forever and ever, keeping interest low forever and ever.
(And if they drop the ball, then the Federal Reserve prints money and buys trillions of dollars of Treasury bonds. Sweet! We don’t need any external buyers, just the Federal Reserve creating money out of thin air.) Then the U.S. created and launched two revolutionary technologies which both created new wealth around the globe: the personal computer (microprocessor and cheap RAM) and the Internet (TCP/IP, Ethernet, and the commercialization of Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web with free browsers) spawning the generation-long boom of the 1980s and 90s.
Those “saves from stagnation” were one-offs; there will be no more supergiant energy finds, nor any equivalents of the Internet expansion cycle. When the wheels inevitably fell off the Internet/tech boom in 2000, the U.S. did not create a new engine of wealth: it opted instead for a devilishly insidious simulacrum of wealth: debt which rose at an exponential rate throughout the economy.
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