tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2904623895466942252024-03-08T02:40:10.258-08:00OtterWriterussotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240697229473787570noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290462389546694225.post-69874598488037141282011-11-09T22:40:00.000-08:002011-11-09T22:57:44.040-08:00Connections<div><div align="center"><font size="5">Connections<br /></font><br />The binding of existence<br /><br />This is a story, built upon knowledge, intuition, and speculation. In the end, it is built upon some known theoretically successfully tested truths, and some unknowns conveyed in a formula that I consider trumps any objections – as we ponder the scope of existence. First we know of existence, by way of our self-awareness, coupled with scientific knowledge. Second by way of the unknowns i.e., “Infinity”, that must incongruously play with us (self-aware-finite creatures), in some connected manner. </div><div align="center"><br />This Second irascibly indefinable thing called “Infinity”, simply stumps our “finite” minds every time, when we attempt to figure out its mathematical infinities. As it must. As if it did not stump our efforts to understand it, it would become defined, and anything defined, is “Finite.”. So we have an absolute conundrum that operates our existence. But we are still connected, in a union, both finite and infinite, through the known attributes we have scientifically tested to be true. As without “Infinity”, there can be no “Finite.” And remember Infinity, has no bounds, no time, no space, no beginning and no end. </div><div align="center"><br /> This is plainly contrary to finite logic, but Infinity simply is contrary. Always has been. And always will be. But it is also the very milk of our very finite existences… We are Connected… Our actions matter, as I will soon explain – in summary.<br /><br />INFINITY: Irascible and fundamentally a necessary fickle fact. An argument that no mathematics or thought equation can defend against… To challenge this premise is to supersede infinity’s very nature. It will never ever happen.</div><div align="center"><br />Therefore we are circumscribed to live within, the physics - largely of Newtonian and Einstein’s mathematics. I would caution to note: that these finite mathematics are subject to change that currently work fairly well for our finite existence as we mathematically calculate how to penetrate and maneuver the Stars, or add 2 plus 2 to equal 4. But they do not work to unravel Quantum Mechanics (in total), and the cache of oddities, such as “Superposition’s”, whereby subatomic particles are in several places at one time, until they are interrupted by measurement. Or do these current finite mathematics explain “Entanglement”, which allows for two subatomic elements to be millions of miles apart, however if one changes its state of “spin” or “electrical” charge the other particle millions of miles away responds instantly. Yes, this violates the concept of the speed of light as the fasted method of action in the Universe.</div><div align="center"><br />As Einstein called “Entanglement” Spooky, but none the less real. This seemingly violates the speed of light. But hold on, the Speed of Light travels, Entanglement implies “Connection”. Or what is known as Local action. </div><div align="center"><br />Space is the key to this thought equation. Since space is “Infinite” to the “Finite” Observer. Space in this context is also in union with waves – as well as particles. However waves may connect all things instantly, just as waves may allow for “Superposition’s.” </div><div align="center"><br />The answer is simply that: This makes us both Local and Non-Local at the same time. Waves and or theoretical “Strings” perhaps in some union – connect our space and possibly time in ways we do not fully comprehend. If true, our infinite extended connections are observed from a finite realm only. It might be important to note here: That simply no distance is allowed in an Infinite realm, as infinity is immune to classification, therefore it is all things and no things at the same time. Make sense? It usually should not, as finite logic has a difficult time with this both intuitively and implicitly mathematically. Make sense yet?</div><div align="center"><br />Probably not, as this means that “Everything is Nothing and Nothing is Everything.” Hence there are no real “infinites” to calculate in an Infinite realm. But this last statement is a clear oxymoron, as it should be, as infinity does not have mathematics or anything defined based in or of it. As this would imply a finite realm. It is simply infinite, and does not apply to our finite realm of mathematics.</div><div align="center"><br /> Mathematics is purely the purview of the finite.</div><div align="center"><br /> When I said there are really no infinities in the infinite realm. I meant it. But to us, within the finite realm or finite conscious state, as observers, Infinities are what - infinity, space and time are made of. Once again, the ultimate and infinite conundrum. However, how does this allow for the stuff of existence, such as “us”, or cars, and trees and so on to exist? Well we do need infinity to have a finite realm, as I said.</div><div align="center"><br />That is the puzzle? That must never be answered technically, nor can it, again from a finite perspective or finite observer. This mind trap we are caught in trying to view infinity - would seem to drive one mad to think that Infinity, Space and Time have no beginning or an end. </div><div align="center"><br />But get use to it. </div><div align="center"><br /> Infinity is indelible. Terms like “time” and “space” are non-words to describe Infinity correctly, as Infinity never had a beginning or an end. The space and time word terms we use within the realm of Infinities definition, or lack thereof, could not and do not exist. Unlike the finite world, which has an Alpha and Omega. (Dust to Dust, Evolution, and Space to move to, and a length of Time that life gives us to observe. </div><div align="center"><br />And – That is that… </div><div align="center"><br />We are here by way of connections of an indefinable Infinity, which has always been, and will always be. Make no mistake about it. This will provide us and others forever to give sentiency a journey to discover anew. New science from physics to health, coupled with new modes of life, new cultures to come. Save an Asteroid impacting the Earth, or a Super-Volcano taking us to our end of time as sentient beings. But others will arise, no doubt by way of times finite arrow.<br />The finite with a beginning and end is necessary, to find hope. Just imagine living for eternity without end. That proposition, would invoke a person to lose goals, have no new hopes, and actually impart a crazy madness of hopelessness. As you would be in the ultimate Trap, or Jail forever, if self-aware. What would be the point? One would ask themselves… And therefore, Life and Death, are necessary.</div><div align="center"><br />Dust to Dust and then perhaps? Take your best shot at a faithful guess! The options are many, the realities may be few. No one really knows. No one…<br />Plainly beyond us, the Infinite and Finite will ebb and flow, and new existences will arise through an endless connection to everything for all time…<br /></div><div align="center">Essential Points: </div><div align="center"><br />1. The Science is: That Infinity is incomprehensible to any complete understanding and, the Finite is limited to understanding all things, perhaps itself and certainly infinity. The connection between the finite and the infinite operate as if Everything is Nothing and Nothing is Everything… Have fun with that analogy! As for me, it holds true, as it confirms to me that cognitive logic eventually meets the illogic of Infinity. This lets us clearly know we will never actually know honestly and truthfully the great questions of life: As to know “ALL” or “Truth” would be to actually define a place and a time, which can only be finite. And that would defy the rules of Infinity, which cannot be technically ever defined. Otherwise it is no longer infinite; it would then become as a mere canvas with parameters. And Infinity is incomprehensible. End of Story – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow… In other words Forever!<br /><br />2. The Moral is: That Legacies matter. Build a good one. The Butterfly Effect is always on… And that is what really matters.<br /><br />All the best in our journey’s, Russ Otter</div><div align="center"> </div></div>russotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240697229473787570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290462389546694225.post-11664448520337418832011-08-26T20:40:00.000-07:002011-10-16T15:55:28.155-07:00What is Existence?What is Existence?<br />(How to improve it…)<br /><br />Well Get in Line… This question seems to trump everyone, when we try to grasp, what actually is beyond our reach… As keep in mind we are finite sentient beings, with a limited capability to understand “Everything.” Did not our so-called God, state in replete terms that to try to understand him was futile, and beyond our ability? If you are a person of ideological faith, you would be wise to take note… <br /><br />If you believe you can understand existence through faith, superstition, mythology, mathematics or the physics of Relativity, Space-Time, Momentum space, quantum or Phase Space, String Theory or just by simply unifying the four known forces: Again – Get in a Very Long Line, one in which you will contribute to the discussion and produce some often positive results, but will miss asking the right question. And that question is fundamental to understanding, to truth, to ad infinitum fact, that you will never as a finite being or even an infinite being, if such a thing were possible, have the capability to Understand the answer to this Question: What is Existence? Beyond the intuitive knowledge that you will never know, save for your common sense that it is real, just as you experience pain, and joy.<br /><br />That simple.<br /><br />And to review all of the models that attempt to assume they may find the “Theory of Everything”, is a pondering, that will bear fruit, just as a whittler improves at his craft through the years, but the whittler will never reach perfection. But the fruit, the beauty of the Rainbow, not the end pot of gold, is the true gold or reward - that will improve our lives, balanced with a single guideline as we forever scientifically discover, and that guideline is the “Golden Rule.”<br /><br />Unify these elements (Knowledge/Golden Rule), and we will treat ourselves and others better, far beyond any leader, potentate or politician’s wanting chatter.<br /><br />And by the way, this should raise an eyebrow or two: The four known forces are already “unified.” Yet we have missed the core of that issue: Gravities “Variability” or the relative nature of Gravity. Once this is more fully understood, the four-forces will be unified on paper, but it will not change our understanding of the universe or of our existence. Unity or Unification of Existence must be of a combining the Infinite with the Finite, and that is, as I have said for years - is a twain that shall never meet.” They will co-exist as they must to provide the balance to existence itself, but they are as separate as separate can be. One is “Limited” and One is “Omniscient”. One has an Alpha and an Omega, and One has no Alpha or Omega. One is comprehensible and one is forever non-comprehensible.<br /><br />If you were able to transcend from the finite to the infinite, you would no longer have knowledge, ego, hope, joy, pain or suffering, as these are all based on definitions which have limits, and the infinite has no limits. In fact the infinite may be all of the things I have mentioned, but you would never have the awareness to know it, as that would define you as an entity, and to be an entity, would make you by definition “Finite.” This conundrum, this paradox is the power of existence and its reality, that will defy all attempts to define existence, as once defined, it hence becomes finite. That is a thought equation that will never be trumped.<br /><br />So the quest for the “Theory of Everything”, while I consider critical and essential to better our everyday finite life, is not a realistic prize that has an end. It is a prize by those who are committed to the journey and what that journey produces for all of us - along the way.<br /><br />So I say: Here – Here !!!: to Knowledge, as Knowledge has unlocked the world from many a mythological torment, and brought us forward into the honest fruits of our minds better natures and to a better life and into the light of truth.<br /><br />Just because we must acknowledge many fragmented and miss-guided efforts in our experience to learn, we only better ourselves through humility in that process, coupled with the knowledge gained; as our commitment is strengthened as the fabric of the truly caring and strength of character is born as we continue to whittle away. For to give up in the pursuit of knowledge is to give up on goodness, is to give up on what some might call - a so-called God. I harbor no ill-will to the motivations of knowledge, as long as they are balanced with that single issue I raised before, the Golden Rule.<br /><br />Please never give up. For once we do, we give in and let the tyrants of truth, and the ideologues of ancient times who selfishly ran the world, rear their heads again. That is where we came from, and shame on anyone not willing to introspectively move forward – always… And put the attributes and attitudes of children behind us, as now we are adults and should behave as such...<br /><br />Today we see a resurgence of such ideological faith based neophytes detracting us away from knowledge, causing heinous harm to themselves and others by blowing themselves up in the name of Allah or God for a cause or causes for which all rationality is lost, and completely devoid of the “Golden Rule.” We must through knowledge and the unity that technology can manifest put an end to this horror. No Government, Individual, Religion or Culture, should be allowed to trump the Golden Rule, and the intrinsic nature of goodness for their culture. If they do, they should be institutionalized to protect the rest of the world from misguided horror and harm. This should be a global principle to protect the unprotected.<br /><br />Just imagine, if someday these so-called ideological vultures who prey on the poor and ignorant - to do their evil deeds, where met by people with an education, who had the advanced science that provided universal “Energy” to run their homes and shelters. I dare say these vultures would meet a more unified and decent world, with greater equality and means to defeat these demagogues of truth. Education and technology would unite these heretofore improvised in spirit, purpose, and provide a decent means of living to unify with others more fairly and it would limit the power of selfish leaders. Knowledge, education, technology on a ubiquitous level will change this world. It will not be done with guns, bombs or politicians. It will be done with Science and the practical caring for others. And I will say it again: The Golden Rule, that is at the core of nearly all religions, but has been manipulated by many selfish clergy, monks and mullah’s. This is the world we are in today: We are today, so advanced and mature from our cruel past and yet still so selfish and corrupt in so many parts of the world. Science can stop this cruelty. To that end I am going to suggest some hopes for the future through the improvement of Science, as I continue review the of “What is Existence?”<br /><br />It is critical to note that the “Four known Forces” (Electromagnetic, Gravity, Weak, Strong) seem to drive so much conversation and interest as the missing link, has appeared to be, “Quantum Gravity.” However, take it from me! I disagree as I have already stated! Big surprise: Let me explain why one more time, In brief:<br /><br />Gravity is Variable or Relative, even though it is considered the weakest of all the four forces. <br />In other words at the quantum level it is supremely weak, and possibly impacted as well by the force of quarks, protons, electrons, dark energy and dark matter, and the list goes on. Given its extreme weakness it is superseded by other forces at work. <br />However move Gravity to the arena of a Black Hole and it currently from what we understand today supersedes every other force. It is so strong, not even a photon or light can theoretically escape.<br /><br />In summary: Due to the variability of the strength of gravity based on its environment, it is unified with the other 3 forces. <br />Fundamental is the points I have already made about the Infinite and the Finite above as well. We need to grasp this central issue as well, to understand that the term “Unification” is a vagary, as something’s will be unified and other things will simply not be. There are known’ s and there are forever going to be unknowns. To assume beyond this premise - spends some wasted mental energy…<br /><br />Now to close this essay on “What is Existence”, as I have said the pursuit of knowledge is at the core of changing our existence for the better. So I would like to end with a subject based on that issue. So my second subject relates to “Smart Energy Now”, of which I have written about before. But I am going to share it again, to hopefully find some traction, and the right people to move this forward.<br /><br />Here is an outline of some of the reasons why – along with some brief details:<br /><br />Smart Energy Now…<br /><br />Natural Forces in nature provide multiple endless Energy models, without expending fossil fuels. Is anyone willing to work with me, who has a physics background?<br /><br />What will it accomplish?<br /><br />Evolution on a monumental scale. Migrating from a fossil fuel world to an automated world devoid of expending fossil fuels. It will overnight, in unbounded terms, provide universal energy to the entire world, not just the industrialized nations or emerging nations. It will provide a unifying playing field for the people of all nations to find more common options in which to better communicate and improve our common understanding and standard of living.<br /><br />Note: Even I believe these ideas sound as if I have a large dose of megalomania lodged into my grey matter, but it simply needs to be tested and moved forward. Even if I am only 90% correct, it could change energy production as we currently understand it today.<br /><br />Why is it important?<br /><br />To improve life, to advance conservation of precious fossil fuels for other uses. To change the world and provide it with greater possibilities. To liberate. As well as dramatically control carbon emissions from the planet, coupled with enabling universal energy to all individuals or societies who either require or desire it.<br /><br />What are the anticipated outcomes?<br /><br />Virtually near- free recycled-energy and or regenerated energy, provided by the current clean and robust elements of energy, such as “gravity”, “electrostatics”, “magnetism”. And all that implies.<br /><br />What will be its enduring impact?<br /><br />Forever alter the social structures and thereby the social requirements of the world. In other words energy provided on an equal playing field for all people will in effect tie us all closer together in function and in equal choices. It would theoretically replace monopolies and cartel’s with freedom. As well as being groundbreaking for all of physics, and all sciences in general.<br /><br />Further Project Description:<br /><br />This project began with me as a child, trying to figure out how to automatically run my tricycle and my little green army jeep that required peddling a wheel or armature bar to turn the wheels. I was obviously a lazy kid that did not desire to labor too much – taking too much physical laboring to peddle thru the sidewalks and streets – in my youthful days!<br /><br />I remember constructing the concept, using magnets, and then let the idea fade as I entered school and grew-up as a young man going to school and then on to my working career. Just before I retired, I was still intrigued by the idea, and began to construct the project in my garage, with some success. However I soon realized I needed a physics partner with a background in electronics, especially electrostatics and the mathematics to aid in the assumptions as well as scribe in the language of science – the calculated results.<br /><br />And as I knew that would take some higher levels of mathematical language, certainly beyond my expertise.<br /><br />These multiple ideas of automatic energy, from my youth that I mused about, once detailed will give away the intellectual property, to anyone with a hint of conceptual capability. I am very willing to give the intellectual property away, but would like to work on the project.<br /><br />In simple terms, you may think it violates the fundamental thermodynamic entropy theology, which we have all been indoctrinated with.<br /><br />By the way I consider thermodynamic science more a theology and manifest scotoma in our lexicon, rather than a fact. In my own humble opinion physics is incalculable, and to rely on definitions, is to limit physics or existence itself. Neither have limits, therefore – in my puny assumptive world – Physics is forever a living definition, as well as a fixed proof. Much as “Infinity is both sides of the same coin – at once.”<br /><br />Therefore I will fundamentally argue that thermodynamic entropy is relative for “like” for “like” kinetic actions: which will diminish “force”, as it today properly outlines.<br /><br />However if you change the “Like for Like” concepts when generating energy, you change the rules by which “thermodynamic entropy” was developed. In other words, If you use two dimensions to generate kinetic energy, complemented in equal response to one dimension, generating its own energy. You alter or augment the output energy produces. Hence the “like for like” action = reaction is modified and the results are not like for like. Action can multiply Re-action. This provides for a gear ratio that augments energy output using natural forces. As well as other forces (fossil fuels too.)<br /><br />This process using natural forces, such as Electrostatics, Magnetism and Gravity, among other natural stores of energy in a form which is non-relative or in other words using a differential gear –ratio that trumps lost energy. This does so by way of leveraging opposite dimensions and gravity. Thus it changes the scientific or theological rules that constricted the methods used to define generic thermodynamics. In other words thermodynamics becomes truly dynamic, rather than static.<br /><br />My clumsy written formulas: ( See D, G, 1D, CM, etc. definitions in “Bold” below )1. Electrostatics created by: D² + G in Linear 1D = CM2. M+ (+ & -) + G = CM * Note, Electrostatics could be included to augment output.3. Combination of both formula’s to leverage ultimate energy output potential.<br /><br />D = Dimensions G = Gravity CM = Continuous Motion E= Electrostatics 1D = 1 Dimension<br /><br />Simply stated: It combines linear and non-linear actions to produce energy that is continuous.<br /><br />NOTE: Two basic methods: 1. G&E (Gravity & Electrostatics) 2. M+G (Magnetism & Gravity)<br /><br />Stated in another fashion, there are 2 forms of possible methods: 1) independent of electrostatics which uses Gravity and Magnetism) and 2 with the use of electrostatics in combined ways to achieve natural energy from natural forces:1. Form: A Uses Dimensions x 2 (Down and Side to Side) run by Gravity (Non-Linear) generating electrostatics combined with a linear (Up) Dimension.<br /><br />This Linear and non-linear interaction provides the mechanisms to create a gear ratio that multiplies itself. Hence you gain continuous motion which could then provide for heat and other outputs to generate endless energy.2. Form: B Uses both positive and negative Magnetism in graduated powers, to direct motion in an upward direction opposing gravity, and then uses electrostatics captured in the downward thrust to leverage additional energy, and then re-deployed again and again by magnetism alone in an upward motion.<br /><br />Note, the “electromagnetism” is not necessary, but a natural benefit that should be leveraged from the simple process of motion ( That both Gravity and Motion provide for).Variations of these forms of operations are dependent on mechanical engineering.<br /><br />Additionally, electrostatics can be enhanced by using a circular glass ball for instance, with other internal triboelectric materials to augment the energy produced beyond the direct gravity effects of tribolelectic stimulus, using for example a Teflon tube and a glass ball.<br /><br />These two materials: 1) “Glass” and 2)”Teflon” are near opposites for electron transfer on the triboelectric scale, which generate electrostatics. The electrostatics would be captured within a capacitor for electric generation.<br /><br />NOTE: I use the term “continuous motion”, vs. “perpetual motion”, since all mechanical matter decomposes (wears out). Perpetual is generally an accurate statement, save matter decay; for which at that point – motion ceases.<br /><br />Thermodynamics fundamentally proposes that you cannot squeeze blood from a turnip. Or in other words, energy depletes, and will not sustain itself. But if you change the mechanical genetics of the turnip, you can. Metaphorically, and practically that can be accomplished when Energy and Matter are merged together in a completely clean and virtually innocuous manner.<br /><br />Simply you apply 3 dimensional forces in a manner which leverages 2 dimensions against or in complement to 1 dimension. Nature working at its best. That Simple.<br /><br />With the “continuous motion” of matter, then heat or additional motion receptors can be activated generating excess energy, superseding the level of energy required to generate this continuous motion of matter. Thus continuous energy is produced by way of natural forces: (Gravity / Magnetism / Electrostatics).<br /><br />Sounds highly improbable – given current thinking, but intellectually it is quite plausible. Again, my goal is to work with a lab of scientist’s to pursue this objective, as I have outlined above. It may seem obscure, but once I share the simple mechanics of this idea, I hope you will find it of interest and most importantly possible.<br /><br />If it is possible, the world changes. I know it sounds in large part to be more than just a bit delusional, but even if we leverage 90% of this potential, we succeed beyond what exists today and provide for the clean and necessary energy the world depends upon.<br /><br />Ultimate objectives and gains:<br /><br />Secondarily this project, if actualized, would certainly secure a Nobel Prize, due to its unique utilization of “continuous motion” and would therefore support the investment returns to the philanthropists and scientists involved.<br /><br />Foremost it will be “humanity changing” for the good. Providing a leap in the advance of science and living standards for the people of this world. It will expedite the integration of humanity buy tying us together via sources of energy necessary to improve communication and common living standards that would better integrate the world.<br /><br />Coupled with the saving of fossil fuels for other uses, combined with less pollution. And in that process it would hopefully improve understanding and common cause among us all, rather than living with the continuing social divides that hinder those decent objectives.<br /><br />In sharing these thoughts on the potentials for energy production with new methodologies, it is my objective to hopefully find someone seriously interested to pursue these ideas.<br /><br />Simply and profoundly that is my end goal. These concepts are actually basic, and the mechanics I have in mind to build a working model, would not be difficult given access to scientists in the area of physics, and electrostatics’ along with some very common materials.<br /><br />Summary:<br /><br />We exist because of the concept called a “Paradox.” Paradoxes have no answers, they can never be broken. They are the infinite fuel of existence itself.<br /><br />Combined with Knowledge, we change the world, we change Existence…<br /><br />Thanks for listening, Russ Otter <br />Posted by russotter at 8:39 PM 0 commentsrussotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240697229473787570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290462389546694225.post-78400251590889265552011-08-25T15:11:00.001-07:002011-08-25T15:11:51.253-07:00Physics Issues, that raise eyebrows…Physics Issues, that raise eyebrows…
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<br />By Russ Otter
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<br />There is a broad and engaging article on "Existentialism (July 23-29) in New Scientist Magazine. It is a well put together series of articles. However, I would like to make a few points, that seem to elude conversation, almost as if we have assumed what we really cannot know to be true, save intuition.
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<br />I want to identify in the next few items below some physics issues that could use some further review and commitment too, as we look for the Holy Grail of Physics… Knowledge that will propel us into a future whereby we are enabled to treat each other much better. These issues are often by passed, but are important to move closer to the truth of existence.
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<br />Number 1 Issue: In an article: [Ref[1] Alan Guth, makes a statement that is brilliant:
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<br />Paraphrasing: "Maybe Something is Nothing." This is the balance of the Cosmos, which will continue to stand the test of time, but never find its final proof, as Infinity will always curtail that reality. Please additionally read my article “Everything is Nothing and Nothing is Everything”, as in truth, the Big Bang Universe is no more than a mere spec in the scheme of space and time, even smaller than a planck’s smallest known size. Just as “Entanglement” and “Superposition’s” trump all Space and Time, and the Classical Physics hails as ultimate truth. Ref [2]
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<br />Number 2 Issue: Note: Most writers, and thinkers involved with physics or philosophy, tend to discount, or assume that "Time and Space" were somehow "None-Existent" before the Big Bang. That seems a novel or naive perspective, as no one really knows, coupled with an implicit fact, that “Infinity” by definition has no beginning or no end. I personally sense Time and Space to have been the whipping boys and girls of assumptive physics for far too long, such as assuming space and time curve, and so on. Only relative to mass does Space or its particles move or so-called curve, as anything so-called curves, relative to gravity. NOTE: From this assumption we have created all forms of novel thinking, such as time travel “Back to the Past”. Good Luck on that assumption from a sentient perspective.
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<br />Number 3 Issue: Inflation, is assumed to have happened, all but justified because it fits our needs to understand the CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background), etc. But just as Alan Guth poignantly pointed out "Perhaps something is nothing". So perhaps Entanglement, which violates Time and Space and the Speed of Light, was the beginning trigger, not simply a so-called singularity? It is a question worth examination.
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<br />Number 4 Issue: Gravity is always called the weakest force, relative to its counter-parts. Gravity is Relative or in other words always variable dependent upon its environment. For instance: Gravity Trumps all forces at the realm of a Black Hole, but acts like near massless quarks, next to one another in a micro environment, and is no-doubt impacted by other dark energy and dark matter along with its other 3 forces at a quantum level. Therefore gravity at the quantum level is weak, but not non-existent. So the 4 forces we know of are unified, as they are relative to the environment they reside in, therefore electrons do not eventually collapse into the nuclei.
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<br />However, I do not believe that Classical Physics and Quantum Physics are unified, only the four-forces. Please review my own personal Blog on this subject: Ref [2] @ this site: “Everything is Nothing and Nothing is Everything”, or also Search for “Russ Otter” to find the article and others. This prime article is: "Everything is Nothing and Nothing is Everything." The thoughts I have in this article is why Alan Guth a cosmologist from MIT, really caught my eye in an article: Ref [1]
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<br />Number 5 Issue: Smart Energy Now: This is part of another article I have written at the website: www.emergent-hive.com, titled: “Our Universe, Science and Energy Potentials in Review”. Please look for the section called “Smart Energy Now.” This is the greatest potential for the human race to build unity, that I can currently envision. This article in brief explores the development of “Continuous Motion”, not “Perpetual Motion”, as all things atrophy, using our natural forces: Electrostatics, Gravity and Magnetism, versus the need for fossil fuels. This is the area I have several working models in mind, and would like to work with a physicist, with the mathematical language of science to optimize its development. This is implicitly doable, but most physicists will evoke the 2 law of thermodynamics to derail the effort. Make no mistake this is an area the world is headed towards, as even the 2 law is not sacrosanct, and uses variables that are myopic. See Ref [3] for some further thoughts about this issue:
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<br />Russ Otter
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<br />NOTE: I am looking to engage anyone on any of these issues, and better yet work with you to advance the knowledge related to any of these subjects…
<br />Ref [1] Comment by: Alan Guth, Cosmologist @ MIT, Magazine Article: pg: 28 “Why is there something rather than nothing?, July 23-29, New Scientist.
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<br />Ref [2] Author: Russ Otter, www.emergent-hive.com Title: “Everything is Nothing and Nothing is Everything”
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<br />Ref [3] Author: J. Miguel Rubin, Article: The Long Arm of the Second Law”, Magazine: Scientific American, October 2008, Pgs: 63-67 russotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240697229473787570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290462389546694225.post-71614925510848753642011-07-11T14:41:00.000-07:002011-07-11T15:21:27.967-07:00Everything is Nothing and Nothing is Everything<strong>Everything is Nothing and Nothing is Everything<br /><br />By Russ Otter </strong><br /><strong>July, 2011<br /></strong><br />Provocative perhaps, weird, illogical: Yes indeed. But that is the paradox, the conundrum that fits into the open box of ideas and ultimate logic, as we ponder the nature of existence, which has no beginning and no end.<br /><br />To begin this story, I need to address some fundamentals, with a few leaps from the intuitive aspects of our minds. And that story begins with the physics, we live within, and how they operate, or at minimum from what we currently understand, which is not the whole story, to be certain. As the whole story involves “Infinity” which must defy understanding, save our ever evolving quest for knowledge, which will always come up wanting, as infinity, by definition is beyond complete comprehension.<br /><br />As you will hear me repeat over and over again and again, for if “Infinity” were comprehendible, it would have limits, and therefore defy its own nature, i.e., therefore becoming finite. It would be a mere fairytale, of our mental illusions. And truth is not an illusion. So make no mistake about the limits of your comprehension. They exist and will forever exist, save an impression found through instinctive logic or perhaps, better said instinctive illogic, but not from any firm notion through the pining efforts of mathematical truths, which are finite at best.<br /><br />But to begin this story, I will begin discussing some premises of physics, beginning with Quantum Mechanics, of which we all are born from. Quantum physics, seems in some sense to be the bridge between the Infinite and the Finite, but that is just a definition formed from the limits that words hold us to. In truth, I believe the Finite and the Infinite are absolutes and that never meet, but with some exception, by way of the Quantum world, which contains the weird-science, that mirrors both worlds, through “Entanglement” and “Superposition’s”, among other obscure physical realities, that defy explanation in either a finite or infinite form of definition.<br /><br />NOTE: This bridge that quantum mechanics bears, is a window into two existences. From which the mechanics of - actually allow life itself, as well as infinity to exist, or differently said, co-exist with the finite. As one is not possible without the other.<br /><br />Quantum Physics for those who do not know much about it, unlike our Classical Physics, which simply tells us that 2+2=4, is the bearer of our birth as sentient beings. Without the weirdness and mystery of the Quantum, we would dangle in despair trying to elucidate or impose the Classical model of life as the core of physics. And it is Not, save the world of the “Finite”. Our Classical Mathematics proves clearly that its own mathematics and science will never resolve the answer to “Infinity”. Infinities are the possible province only of the Quantum and of the Infinite. And for us as finite sentient beings, these obscurities that trump mathematical formulas to understand, will so, and be so forever - or at the very least preach of an agnostic truth, which will be all that is left to human sciences, save perceptions – perhaps…<br /><br />To hopefully clarify: The Alpha and the Omega have no beginning and no end. To suggest otherwise would be to live in a fairytale, which we often do to find answers, when we should actually admit to our ideological selves and rather commit to reality as it spells itself out, with answers, and non-answers.<br /><br />After all: These are just the simple facts of the finite existence we occupy, as consciousness is a confined term… If we were Infinite, or omniscient, we would not be conscious, as that would limit us. Again, this may seem to be a foggy concept, but it is really very basic and important to understand. I will continue to repeat and hound upon this premise above, while I explain the fundamentals of existence, as they exist, regardless of my point of view.<br /><br /><strong>A Brief Explanation NOTE:</strong> Quantum and Classical Physics have never fully resolved themselves with similar physics, yet both exist: The Classical World is made of objects we can see and touch, such as: Plastic, Metal, Humans, Animals, Stars, as well as conceptually Space and Time. The Quantum World is made of micro particles, such as atoms, electrons, photons, quarks, neutrinos, and the list goes on. But these micro particles make up the macro particles of us: Human Beings, Cars, Dirt, Asphalt, and the matter we see and touch. To briefly touch on this subject and the objective distinctions: I will give you a couple of examples: If in our Macro-World (Finite Matter), If I through a Baseball at 2 windows on a wall it will go through one of the windows, but in the Micro-World of the Quantum particle world: if I throw an electron or a photon at that same window it will go through both at the same time. Logically it makes no sense, but it has been proven by experiment. Additionally we have a premise in the Quantum Mechanical world called “Entanglement”: It defies the speed of light, and treats all objects as if they were local to one another, rather than separate. In other words, if I had two micro particles, such as a photon, millions of miles apart, and I changed the spin of one companion particle photon, its counter-part millions of miles away will change its spin at the very same time. This has also been experimentally proven. But logically in a Classical Physics world, this does not happen, as we are bound by the laws of the speed of light, or what is known as local and non-local behavior.<br /><br />Even beyond the Quantum science we are now observing from within our finite world, quantum mechanics still defies complete explanation. It is a reality we will never fully know, as it is un-caged by Infinity itself… I would suggest that the Quantum world, is the link between a twain that will never meet: The Infinite and the Finite, yet they co-exist through our necessary quantum partnership.<br /><br />To reiterate: In fact, the truth-be-known: “Everything is Nothing and Nothing is Everything”, thanks to the Quantum, which bears us our very life’s - as sentient beings. As it is from quantum particles, that we form matter, in the form of our finite selves. Beyond that province of Sentiency, we are captives of a mystery, forever unresolved, but not unacknowledged…<br /><br />Infinity is and will forever be of a weirdness to the Classical mind, as the mind itself is finite, yet quantum truth, is outside that circumscribed realm, hence it is additionally of infinite bias.<br />Even though some physicists will assert that Quantum Physics, works within the Classical physics and mathematics of our finite world, and I will agree in degrees, at a molecular level. It does not. Note: with the exception of degrees, I pointed out, but in general it does not.<br /><br />In this reality or our own macro based matter, interdependence emerges that makes it possible for our Classical World of Physics to even exist, coupled with the Quantum, from which we are born. The Classical world is not inevitable, but plausible, given time, which actually does not exist, or more appropriately exists within a superposition within the quantum world. [ Figure that one out, however you will never really know, other than to possibly gaze the truth of a logic not seemingly possible. ]<br /><br />But do not even try, other than in a quasi-reality of inquisitiveness, as infinite reality is beyond our finite sentient minds. Infinity cannot and will not be defined. To make it so would violate its very nature, in an un-circumspect manner, as its very definition of “Infinity” is something beyond our finite comprehension.<br /><br />If it where comprehendible, it would therefore be circumscribed, i.e., defined. Infinity by implicit definition - is not defined. It is Omniscient. As if it where understandable it would be defined, hence circumscribed, and therefore no longer infinite.<br /><br />It is a conundrum, that haunts the obscure ends of knowledge, and confines us to live in an unknown not-fully defined existence, as well as encourages us to pursue knowledge forever… As to not pursue knowledge would be to withdraw from life itself… Or at least a full and productive life that has the potential through knowledge to build bridges, that bring us together in more common terms, rather than live in the divides we exist in today, albeit those divides were even worse in times of ancient pasts. Just review your history, and the beliefs of many saints and sinners, that slavery, concubines, cast systems, and the torture of witches, and infidels were of goodness, and right, for which today the majority of the world would argue the opposite. Our history, and technological advances have given us a much better assessment of the cultures that have gone before us, and we are improving for the most part I would hope.<br /><br />One of the Greatest of “Thought Problems” or “Thought Equations”, is similarly based on the concept of a God, or an Omniscient Deity which is based on “Faith”, not “Reality”, as most Theologians and Scholars would agree. [Ref A] And it today still is causing great hardships and divides between peoples, when it should be bringing us together, if one believes in the goodness of such religions and theoretically humane philosophies.<br /><br />I will describe such an ancient “Thought Problem and Solution”, hence “Thought Equation” below: However the Solution, within our current multi-cultural reality will be abridged by those who believe in ideological faith and culture versus fact as their truth.<br /><br />1. Sentient Beings are “Finite” and for the sake of argument co-exist inside the “Infinite.” In other words: Finite life is not omniscient, but “Infinity” is so, just as a possible God is described as such, however correctly or erroneously. NOTE: I hope this “Thought Equation” will define that answer for you, even if the correctness of the answer fundamentally proves out to be agnostic.<br /><br />If we can agree that Finite things are only possible within an Infinite (Omniscient Existence) [Ref A], as “Infinity” encompasses our “Finite” world we all live within, then the following “Thought Equations” holds true: Otherwise we would be of a “Duality” both Finite and Infinite. And there is no mathematics or logic that would hold to a finite object being infinite. Simply not possible. Finite and Infinite definitions are implicitly not the same. As Finite is finite, and Infinite is Infinite. ] Never will the twain meet. One is limited, and one is not. A Very Simple Logical Proof…<br />a. Hence Proof number 1 is an Absolute than cannot violate itself.<br /><br />2. Infinity by definition, has no center-point, is boundless, has no beginning and no end, hence it will never be understood by a sentient mind, by way of philosophy, or mathematics which hails from the finite world we all live within together. Thus Proof 1 and 2 are sacrosanct, as finite mathematics breakdown and fails when describing the Infinite. [ NOTE: Ask any mathematics major. ]<br /><br />3. I want to also note that within an infinite existence, there can be no love, no joy, no pain, no knowledge, no ego. As to apply any attribute to the infinite, it to limit it and define it. And that which cannot be understood, such as “Infinity”, cannot be defined in our conventional terms. Such as a=a. Again, such provinces of mathematics and philosophy exist solely to the “Finite” species.<br /><br />4. Infinity is actually impossible to comprehend. Logically it is impossible, yet we know it is. For instance: The notion of no Alpha or no Omega? (No Beginning and No End?) How does that make any logical sense? However the inverse of that illogic is the Finite, which grows and lives by way of hopeful logic, along with selfishness and illogic as well. But the decent goal for sentient beings is the “Golden Rule” and the growth of Knowledge to better humanities health and caring. But I do digress – somewhat here. My primary point is that logic keeps on track based on our finite existence, not based on our Infinite notions of Deities, which would be by definition circumscribing God or Infinity, and the Omniscient to a thing, or finite object. And Infinity, will not be tamed, with such wishful illusions. [Ref: A]<br /><br />5. In summary the finite may transition to the infinite, or the infinite to the finite, but they will never, and can never meet. “Just to repeat myself.” Just do the math: Or ask any mathematician if Infinities can be defined? In a word, No. So we only can inject faith, to find a God or God’s, and we will never - and can never know the truth of such a question, in point of fact. [Ref: A] Forever and a Day! It is a fickle life we lead, quite radically and factually.<br /><br />So what does this mean, regarding classical and quantum physics? It means we know less than we think we do, too often. By the way: “I am included is Spades!!!” Yet theoretical physicists and cosmotologists, among other philosophers and pursuers of truth, are rubbing up upon the wisp’s of truth, that we are not all we seem to be, and even more… They are doing this by the measures of science coupled with intuitive perceptions, which would have been unthinkable, just a century ago. In fact they would have been the Copernicus’s and Galileo’s in another time, that would have had them killed for such heretical, non-cultural thinking believed to be ideologically sacrosanct in times past.<br /><br />So we are on the verge of a highly valued knowledge, not bound by ideology, or faith, but by knowledge, inspiration, brought about largely by science, that is peeling away, not only at legacies, which some hold inviolable building blocks, but at the legacies of their own science’s. They are reaching to a vision of scientific weirdness, possibly hard to swallow, yet possibly of fact, more than fiction. Clearly we may never know, as this journey is peering into the relationship of the infinite, the quantum, and our home foundations built upon the finite from the highest levels of sentiency. It is a co-existent venture, to examine the possible, with the so-called impossible, or the finite with the infinite, but that is where we are headed. And the results may reveal those bridges that I spoke of to mend past wrongs and improve our daily lives, not for just some, but for all. A lofty notion, but a result that lays in wait, as the knowledge of science and philosophy of this world improves.<br /><br />In 1935 Erwin Schrödinger came up with a thought experiment, whereby the micro and macro worlds collide. His seemingly logical supposition was that a micro-world radioactive atom could both decay and not decay at the same time, and if linked to a bottle of cat poison, based on “Superposition’s dual state proven in quantum physics.” Therefore a macro-world “Cat” could either be dead or alive all dependent upon the mere observation of a human opening up a cage and looking at the cat.<br /><br />Hence “Everything is Nothing and Nothing is Everything”, if you will. However I have often found this premise of a micro-world (atom) and a macro-world (cat) superposition state, as not being accurate. To negate my own thesis. But it holds an interest, or novelty at any rate for me. But it is not the sacrosanct proof I find compelling.<br /><br />Even though, Vlatko Vedral, a professional physicist has entertained the notion that the quantum world also works in union far more than we realize with the macro-world. Please read his very substantial and intriguing article in Scientific American. Ref: [1] I believe that Vlatko Vedral is glimpsing the true realm of physics as it will progress… He touches on the known and unknown as equals in my view. And this is where real physics of the future is headed.<br />But I also want to note another article from “New Science”, by Anil Ananthaswamy, who points out other experiments and rationales regarding the distinctions between the Quantum and the Classical Physics worlds. Ref: [2]<br /><br />The sum total of these articles rubs up against the very nature of existence, which is not definable by my believe system or by logic in my view, but they are grasping at the core of an open physics system that may open our philosophical gazes to new hopes and heights.<br />In Summary, we are living in a system which is for all practical purposes of our lives both local and non-local, but for Infinities sake, may debunk every known mathematical formula ever devised, as both bring a balance to the chaos of entropy, and allow for both to exist as disparate and as equals at the same time.<br /><br />To answer the question what is reality. Co-existence of the Finite and Infinite, hence complete abstraction and Scientific proofs posits “Balance” as to be the only final answer. As to propose otherwise, would explode and dismantle the logic of an educated mind to extinction, as it grasps the impossible nature of no beginning and no end, and allows for life within a closed environment that sees no further than the logic of the self within bounds, we hold as true, even if they are not.<br /><br />In a truth, what I mean for most of us, is that we will never have the misfortune to engage, endless infinities of reality within our own minds: Which, if our minds were caught in “endless infinite loops, as mathematical definitions of infinity are” the experience of that truth in such educated detail - would mentally cause a compulsive phobia, unrelenting. That truth is the experience of “Infinity” or the thought provoking notion of the essence of “Endlessness”. Such an awareness would negate purpose and the necessity of a conclusion or ultimate answers to be sought. In poignant truth such an end conclusion will never be found. Therefore the mind may only dismay itself to pain and demise in that perfect view of nature’s full experience. Therefore, the climb to knowledge, not final conclusions is of a noble and good purpose. It is the rainbow’s trail that is the gold, not so the end destination!<br /><br />Today in 2011, we only experience for most of us, the notions of black and white, of yes and no, of a wrong and a right. But the truth of life is that these notions are found more truly in the gray areas of life, in the mix of realities, the truth that entropy is part of some realities, such as the finite, but not the infinite, that quantum physics within the areas of “entanglement” and “superposition’s”, defy common sense and finite definitions. Coupled with other intuitive queries into subject’s, such as: 1) Time may have other dimensions, 2) along with multi-verses. All of these queries into the plausible are not beyond the intuitive nature of thought, but many well be beyond the mathematical proofs or enormous energies required to prove. Ref: [3] (Simply for food for thought: (Thermodynamic violation of the 2nd law))<br /><br />In other words existence/life is in balance, even as entropy wildly abounds via its finite roots, coupled by way of its non-existence - through the “Infinite” nature of existence. For which no one can explain. NOTE: Here is a riddle for the ages: Do all things, through the ebb and flow of existence, exist and not-exist?)<br /><br />Actually put: “Everything is Nothing and Nothing is Everything” gives us Logic and Life/Existence via “Balance.” In other words there is “Time” and there is “No Time”, there is “Space” and there is “No Space”, everything is connected, and yet is separate: certainly given Entanglement, Superposition’s, and the Infinite which supersedes any hope for understanding. These conundrums reinforce a science, so fundamentally raw, and necessarily incomprehensible, which gives rise to the firm and balanced mechanics of existence in general. Make no mistake, it is a violent and turbulent Universe we are engaged in, at this point of our existences, but that is Nature in Symphonic rage and glory, yet, I believe exists, as a result of Perfect Balance out of a realm of nature without an Alpha or Omega. That premise is essential, and yet incompressible. But the virtue of that Irony is that it gives us nature, as it always has been and always we be. If we understood it – the balance would be gone and that I find impossible. NOTE: That “Balance” is no respecter of humanity [Ref: [ 5 ] A wise human biblical reference: “God is no respecter of persons.”) or its often violent and harsh human torments, it is only a respecter of its own nature. We living within the finite, must take on the horror of natures and humankinds tragedies alone and together. Therefore is it fundamental to put away youthful visions, imaginations, superstition’s, and mythologies, as such of the ancients, whose knowledge was of a child’s knowledge based on our science of today. To quote a wise biblical human made phrase: “1 Corinthians 13, Verse 4: “When I was as child, I spoke as a Child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” We should take heed…<br /><br />The novel and interesting potential fallout of the relatively empty endless abyss we exist within has no logical answer, if you programmed computers that were as large as a solar system, they would literally burn themselves out into failure, as the circuit boards burnt out at the impossible task of understanding infinity. We too as humans and some of us have, have glimpsed the ultimate jail and inevitability of existence and it too can become a suffocating mental breakdown for some people, sometimes. At least for me on occasion. My point is that if we are truly honest and fully focused, our minds would breakdown if we ever fully looped onto the endlessness, and seemingly pointlessness of existence. My only relief is to imagine an ebb and flow of existence, which fully dies as we know it, and is reborn, again and again, then the hopelessness of no end, seems ironically less confining… “As without conclusion, what is the point of anything?” A riddle, I have been challenged with for a life time.<br /><br />That is the only way it can be, if we are a part of “existence” in either a finite or impossible infinite form, as there is no twain, even via quantum mechanics illumination of its potential mysteries, which will never combine both finite knowledge and the Infinite as a sentient or otherwise type of conscious thought or equation.<br /><br />But the sentient search is essential to improve on life, and inevitable… Forever, as I logically believe sentiency will come and go… As Time however multi-dimensional or not, also will come and go in a relative manner, if you choose to believe so… Still for us as sentient beings, and objects of matter, we are finite, and for me: If a tree falls and no one hears it. It still makes a sound. Time and Space are immutable to the conscious mind, even if Time and Space are of a bizarre nature that really does not exist… in some form of “Entanglement”, and so forth. As I believe Infinity connects us all. Quite the Story, this existence we are engaged end.<br /><br />The big picture or grand reality, beyond our mere selves - is and will be a riddle, an enigma, a paradox, and a conundrum, undisposed forever.<br /><br />Simply said, with the only means available through a poetic depth: “We are in Balance”, by being both local and non-local, by existing via the only describable manner capable: We are and we are not. Everything is Nothing and Nothing is Everything. [ Period ] The Perfection of Balance, which will never find any other description…, save illusion.<br /><br />However the Pursuit of Knowledge from our roots (the quantum, intuition and science per se’) is a humble and humane effort. This exciting, noble and extraordinary pursuit of knowledge must trump all obstacles. In doing so it will, if we follow the Golden Rule, find our commonality as a species and all species, and as a result better our health, lives and understanding, through the diminution of torment and harm that a world of a misguided historic diversity has only seemed to continue with its useless ego’s and destruction.<br /><br />Knowledge is power, and power is curative… So goes the Balance I look for in life and the understanding that we are all one, from dust to dust in the end… We are different in our randomness and the same in such…<br /><br />References:<br />[1] Author: Vlatko Vedral, Article: Living in a Quantum World, Magazine: Scientific American, June 2011, Page: 38, 43<br /><br />[2] Author: Anil Ananthaswamy, Article: Quantum reality is what you make it, Magazine: New Scientist, June 2011, Page: 13<br /><br />[3] Author: J. Miguel Rubin, Article: The Long Arm of the Second Law”, Magazine: Scientific American, October 2008, Pages: 63-67<br /><br />[*] My Own Personal Reference: Author: Russ Otter, Article: Is Reality Analog or Digital, Website: FQXi Community, February 2011. <a href="http://fqxi.org/data/essay-contest-files/Otter_Our_Universe_Digital_1.pdf">http://fqxi.org/data/essay-contest-files/Otter_Our_Universe_Digital_1.pdf</a> Additionally posted @ <a href="http://otterwrite.blogspot.com/2010/10/our-universe-science-and-potentials-in.html">http://otterwrite.blogspot.com/2010/10/our-universe-science-and-potentials-in.html</a><br /><br />[5] Author: Biblical Reference in several places: Gen: 4:4,5 ; Acts 10:34, 35 Rom. 2:9-11, among many others within the Judeo-Christian Bible<br /><br />[A] Author: Exodus 33:20 (Referring to God) “For no one may see me and live.” [ This illustrates some ancient and wise individuals, who understood the divide between the Infinite (Omniscient/God, if you will) and the Finite.)russotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240697229473787570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290462389546694225.post-37526316626541370032011-04-16T00:56:00.000-07:002011-04-16T00:58:26.875-07:00Leadership<strong>Leadership</strong><br />By Russ Otter<br /><br /><br />It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.<br />- John Wooden<br /><br /><br />Leadership ideally rallies all to the cause of itself. It breeds leaders, and seeks leaders who are better than itself. It knows when to give and knows when to push. Discretion, and judgment, not inflexible rules are its wisest allies.<br /><br />Leadership: This is the gray area: between the black and whites of an issue. Where common sense and personal commitment to self-honesty and responsibility come into play. <br /><br />An example of this would be: Imagine a business with union and management: you find both groups have rules to abide by. If you run a business solely operating by fixed rules - management vs. union - you have solid friction, butting heads, with one another, without give and take. This is a formula for robots, not human beings with self-esteem. In the best of businesses: Union and Management both use these rules as guidelines, not as absolutes. <br /><br />Give and take would, therefore, be the standard, not the exception. <br /><br />Hence both groups (Union and Management) work together in a gray area, where frictions are decreased and people are enabled to do their best. The work rules may require a break period for a worker and restrict them to X amount of daily work hours. However, the worker may be involved in a project about which they have great pride and ownership of and have chosen to forego their break time and put in extra hours at home or at work. In turn management sees fit to let this union employee have more freedom and flextime to manage a personal issue or grant other liberties. These are mutually agreed to choices that benefit everyone, and produce greater quality of service, products and, very importantly, personal self-esteem, which only enhances Quality of Service (QoS). This kind of relationship uses rules as guidelines to protect against abuses, but does not rule by a fixed method of operating only based on the established rules. This eliminates unnecessary friction between groups and allows for the best intent of a rule to rain supreme, not the letter of the rule. Hence operational variance is reduced and a business’s Sigma standards are improved, therefore your QoS is enhanced.<br /><br />Rules are the least effective, poorest form of an education or teaching method. Rules are primarily needed to be outlined - to protect against abuses. Rules are too often used by educators, management professionals or family leaders as the easiest way to deal with an event, question or situation. They are used too many times to allow us to skate past the important work of analyzing the merits of a situation. <br /><br />I will reiterate that to be human is to use judgment, not to simply react as an amoeba would to fixed stimuli, but to respond with consideration for the context in which an event occurs. This ability to measure and judge is a human attribute and a high responsibility – that we sometimes will relegate to rule based guidelines through laziness or ignorance. <br /><br />The easiest and poorest method of teaching anyone anything is to defer to rules, rather than take the time to actually evaluate, and communicate intelligently, hence teach.<br /><br />The common cry when fixed rules are not followed by people who operate by using more common sense and individual reward/merit diversity with different people: Are these common cry’s: It is not equal treatment; It is favoritism, or it is even too productive and keeps other workers from finding work. These arguments are primarily sour grapes, and are based more on envy and a poor understanding of how good working environments and teamwork are actually created.<br /><br />Using “give and take”, rather than rigid fixed rules is good for everyone, for overall morale and trust in any working environment. Just review the businesses that operate in this manner versus the businesses that operate based on friction through black-and-white operating conditions. The latter businesses are cold, wasteful and restrain the creative abilities of individuals. If any individual wants to contribute additional effort, then equal guidelines need to be applied. <br /><br />Allowing freedom to workers is the ultimate equality.<br /><br />This is also true in families, with children, where guidelines for behavior are drawn. If you have one child that is exceptionally responsible and demonstrates great trust, and worthiness, you can afford to bend the curfew and grant other little freedoms, however if your other child is less trustworthy and pushes proper behavior or discipline limits consistently, you would not afford them any additional freedoms. <br /><br />Equality means: You treat people the same based on their behavior, not based on the guidelines for behavior. Those guidelines/rules will be used when you have abuses, then you enforce them with absolute commitment. But when responsibility begins to develop in someone, you move away from the use of fixed rules towards trust and common sense. This is the intangible medium of human potential that transcends mere rule-based methods of communication and actions.<br /><br />This again is the essence of equality and fair treatment. You treat people the same by treating them differently, based on circumstance and or behavior.<br /><br />However do not expect the politically correct, or a classical bureaucrat, to have any understanding of any of this. They, by definition, do not respect values, per se, or common sense; they only respect control and condone actions, whether thoughtless or not, imposed on those that violate a particular set of written words (rules). In other words weak or artificial leadership simplistically respects operating from a point of high friction, operating from absolutes; as such they are often demonstrated through zealot forms of behavior. The do not operate with common sense; as common sense implies following the intent of a law or rule, not always the letter of the law. <br /><br />Such reason would blur their fixed judgments and dismantle their often self-righteous support pedestals that their identities are built upon. They do not understand the gray areas of communication, the merging of diverse views, and opposite points of view, to enable improved results. Such are the politically correct people who, on paper, appear to be social and corporate saints, but they are the first people who must be removed from positions of authority if optimized results and successes are to be realized.<br /><br />Jack Welch, General Electric’s former CEO and business author, has spoken of four types of workers: 1) the ones who make numbers and are part of the corporate culture: 2) those who make numbers but do not marry into the corporate culture: 3) those who do not meet numbers but meld well with the corporate culture; and 4) those who do not meet numbers and do not meet up with the culture. Number Four is easy to get rid of or remove from a business, Number Two is critical to get rid of, but takes the greatest effort and courage to do so. Number Three are good people and good people can always be turned around to make the numbers, but group Number 2, the people who make numbers cannot always be made into good people. <br /><br />This is what I believe Jack Welsh would argue. Jack Welsh is a true leader in the corporate world, which I would say only a handful of CEOs could lay true claim too. Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin Airlines is another gentleman who is a true leader and a success in a brutally tough industry. He has spoken of not always hiring experts, but rather to hire good people. Again, good people can become experts, but experts can not necessarily become good people. This in my view, echo’s much of what Jack Welsh says. <br /><br />I would add another corporate true hero of mine to the list of great CEOs Herb Kelleher, former CEO of Southwest Airlines. Please read his book, NUTS. Herb breaks the rules, trusts people – and wins. He is not politically correct, rather he is genuine. A very rare commodity in this age. He is an icon and role model for all Business leaders.<br /><br />Another book that captures the essence of equality through different treatment, and corners how to be a smart and effective manager is Ken Blanchard’s, The One Minute Manager. If you have not read that book, it is a great read. It is concise, capturing the essence of how to evaluate situations while teaming with and managing various types of people. <br /><br />Finally, one of the greatest business leaders of our modern times is W. Edwards Deming, whose iconoclastic methods, did not simply change a corporation, but changed a nation, Japan, into the quality center of the globe. In my view, Deming mirrored an understanding shared by John Wooden, the greatest coach in UCLA basketball history as well as a brilliant author, who believed “That amazing results can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.” <br /><br />Dr. Deming was a world-class Harvard educated statistician, who was ironically fond of saying that “He that starts with statistical methods alone will not be here in three years as a business”. His approach would also apply to athletics or any enterprise, as with athletics, it is not athletics alone, but attitude or character that makes a leader and a winner. Dr. Deming like John Wooden and other unrivalled leaders are intelligence and integrity personified, as they epitomize “Common Sense” - and they all stand-out from the crowd. <br /><br />I would recommend any one of several books written on Dr. Deming, as he is an example of a consummate leader, not bound by conventional business practices. Dr. Deming honored the value of human beings by his life-long commitment to excellence, through a marriage of common sense judgments, and science. Dr. Deming’s leadership methods led major businesses and the Wall Streets of the world, rather than being led by them, and their conventional short-sighted quarterly analysts. Dr. Deming was the Einstein of business success, who certainly was not an unsung icon, but he did not reach the sustained acclaim I believe he deserved. And frankly, he was flatly rejected by too many - for some of his seemingly more unorthodox approaches to working with people, which were essential to his successful management formulas for business. <br /><br />Great leaders with strong leadership qualities run short in this world, so be wisely skeptical and wary of charlatans, even though many of them are generally good people. I have found even the good folks are caught up in being first and foremost - out for themselves. Then there are others who are simply not good people and are disguised in sheep’s clothes. However – their lip-service is world class. <br /><br />Foremost from leadership measure all things against your standards, your ethics of high principles, and trust yourself first. Have character. By that I do not mean irreverence or disrespect for other people, but respectfully attempt to avoid being led by conventionalists and mere mediocrity. Find a way to influence and lead by example. An example, which builds on cooperation rather than competition.<br /><br />Let me try to capture this in brief poetic verse:<br /><br />Truth is found between the lines, in the middle, where grays and paradox abound… <br />It is found in give and take, through common sense – the law of shades… <br />The engagement of truth is to be moral, rather than conventional, as ego’s can only scream in silence here. <br />For it is easier to be emotional, indignant, and anchored to the black or white, than do the math. <br />For truth’s equations do dismantle aristocrats might. <br />Truth forever, will scoundrels and ignoramus frankly fright…<br /> <br />Value your inner voice and find it, clarify it, use it. Your integrity requires it. The current state of the world can use you. Ignore the cries from the colorful demagogues, those who exploit and portray half-truths as facts to garner attention and promote self-serving agendas. In contrast to the demagogues, a true-hearted person, lives in the middle, not in the extremes, is descript and defined in character, not in cause, and is actually the person living in the peacemaker’s seat, without grandiose identity – but with something more than flash and pomp. That person has honor, not medals; has kindness, not sentiment; has a respect for truth, not for agendas; and has a love for what is truly right, not for what is technically right. That is Leadership.<br /><br />If you find your inner voice, either quiet or overt, you will not become a politically correct nuisance to the world, creating volumes of unnecessary one-sided noise. You will become a much truer, more honest voice of diversity, merging the sounds and feelings of everyone through your voice, by your actions, in your symphony of thoughts, in your music that is intrinsic and somewhere in everyone of us.<br /><br />That search for the common denominator - the common truth that resonates in us all – will never be found in the black-and-white sides of an issue or an organization, but in the middle, in the grays, between the lines, in the dance that brings us together. In that dance - both the magic and discipline of authentic ideals are born.<br /><br />True effective leaders know this. They understand that dance: That leadership is a melding of differences into one objective, and to accomplish that takes intelligence, which is sometimes reticent, sometimes overt, and sometimes a combination of both. You need to be straight and to know when to bend. The best of leadership is very simply a combination of skills. But, first, and always foremost, it is built from a true individual, not a conventionalist. In other words: Character Counts. Integrity is essential. It is important to attract genuine respect from others. That respect translates into a bond and a trust that is essential and unmistakable. Think of the few who you can count on your hand who engender such respect and trust.<br /><br />Much too often: Far too few…russotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240697229473787570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290462389546694225.post-90432372282553072562010-10-08T13:26:00.000-07:002010-10-08T13:43:48.789-07:00Our Universe, Science and Potentials in Review<strong>Our Universe, Science and Potentials in Review</strong><br />Russ Otter October 2010<br />(For what it’s worth: Please think and enjoy!)<br /><br /><strong>Section: One</strong><br /><br />Holy Grail: Particle Physics<br />(The Quantum – from which we all arise)<br />Natural Forces, along with energy and matter begin at the quantum level, just as Gravity does… <br /><br />Even though “quantum gravity” currently seems to be a missing link: The Quantum - is gravities birth place, from which all matter and energy originates. I postulate however that Time and Space are exempt from an inscrutable beginning, as they are “Infinite”, just as possibly, as is gravity and other natural forces are, but that is a question, we may never have an absolute answer to. <br />The origins of all finite creation come from the quantum, at least this is the most we can hope to ever understand, as all else is of an infinite realm, and the infinite is not and will never be definable in terms that finite sentient beings can understand.<br /><br />Our Universe(s) conscious understanding or rather foundation is built upon the solitary empire of quantum building blocks.<br /><br /><strong>That is principle One.</strong> The “Quantum” is our Foundation in all we will come to understand - and perhaps, we may even glimpse - at its predecessor’s trigger: Therefore always define your mathematics and philosophical notions of Space and Time, in conjunction with all of the natural forces we are ruled by, based on their quantum roots. The current notion of “SpaceTime” is highly likely askew… I would suggest that All things are quantized: Remember even a straight line or circles are arguably a combination of bits.<br /><br />So whether gravity, as well as space and time are quantized at a sub-atomic micro-level, and or a macro-level, or perhaps morph in the process, or not: Please remember that Natural Forces are created equal at a base level, even as Space and Time are constants within both infinity and a finite existence. <br /> <br />However, in the examination of nature and the truth of our existence of matter and energy, the question often becomes, what is the “Beginning or the End”? I would offer that such a question can never be answered. As the Alpha and the Omega are of an “Infinite” nature, which will never be defined by “Finite” mathematics or philosophy. As to define “Infinity” would be to no-longer make it infinite. In other words you cannot circumscribe infinity, otherwise, if you could define infinity, it would, logically no longer be infinite, but finite. <br /><br />Infinity by definition and nature is not definable.<br /><br /><strong>This is principle Two:</strong> The infinite is not and never will be defined by the finite, or differently said, by finite sentiency. <br /><br /><strong>And finally principle Three:</strong> (Which I would assume will create the most controversy amongst modern day physicists and perhaps some philosophers) Is that Space and Time are immutable (Fixed and unchangeable). They do not change, whether at the Event Horizon, nor does Time curve. Space, as with anything physical, does curve relative to gravities influence. <strong>NOTE: </strong><em>I will argue in in the next section: titled “Science: Is infinitely more than it seems…” of this treatise, that contrary to previously miss-calculated scientific testing, from my bias point of view, that Time and Space do not change via acceleration or lack thereof. Time and Space, as will all things, are impacted by gravity, but not to the point of changing space or time. I will soon explain.</em><br /><br />Additionally as you read this document, perhaps rather than beginning with the principles of “Thermodynamics”, as sacrosanct, I would suggest you try to begin with these principles, which I have outlined above, and our math and science will thereby define our physical empire and its riches; such as virtually infinite energy will be manifest, for all practical description’s purposes, from the simple and logical mechanics these 3 principles portend.<br /> <br />And these riches, which I speak of, I believe, will help unite the world, in common union, for the good.<br /><br /><strong>Section Two:</strong><br /><br /><strong>Science: Is infinitely more than it seems…</strong>[ Classic (Macro world) and Quantum (Micro world) ]<br /><br /><strong>They underpin one another, but they are not based on the same math or logic. They are distinct in dimension, is the best way I would describe them.</strong><br /><br />Theoretical Physics is hard enough to follow, let alone understand, as it has its own language and bizarre concepts that actually defy the logic of the world we live within. For instance, the concept of “Entanglement” whereby micro-sized particles millions of miles apart respond to one another or communicate as if they were local to each other, whereby the speed of light does not apply. This is a proven phenomenon, also known as locality and non-locality behavior. The jargon of classical mathematics and quantum mechanics or the macro and micro worlds do not operate the same. This is of a confusing level, much as the concept of “infinity” is an impossible term to grasp. [That of which has no beginning and no end.] But I am printing my thoughts here for the few of you who may be involved with quantum physics and may be able to possibly forward my thoughts on to a forum that may take up the issues I raise below. It is my shot in the dark – to convey issues that have since my early adolescence and even younger captured my imagination. And I do hope some of you find it of interest…<br /><br />So read at your own will. As I have stated the language and concepts do really require some background in this bizarre field of “quantum mechanics” to really even get close to grasping what is being explained. Coupled with the fact, that I take my own liberties with my own conceptions to further confuse the issues. However my goal is to clear up, what I believe to be some former misconceptions. Clearly too many of you, much of this will seem a grand heresy, but I would ask that you consider the broad scope of what we still do not know, and still may be errant in our current understandings regarding physics so-called proven laws.<br /><br />The search for the “unified theory of nature or existence” is a fickle road in conventional terms. Quite simply because we live within an existence that is inscrutably possessed of “Infinity”. Infinities - cannot and will not succumb to classic mathematics. In fact classical mathematics breakdown and are void, outside of the macro-world or the real world of objects that we live within.<br /><br />We also live within the “micro-world” or “particle-world” of quantum mechanics, that are the building blocks of our object world, made from atoms, quarks, electrons, photons, and so on, along with the world of what is known as “entanglement” and “superposition’s”, that defy all classical or common logic. Quite clearly, just as infinity defies explanation, if you try to extrapolate, or describe entanglement” and “superposition’s in mathematical terms. It simply will not, and cannot be done.<br /><br />That is why I would call the quantum world, which underpins and creates our “real world”, the 5th dimension. In other words: There are the 3 physical dimensions (up/down,back/forward,side to side), plus time, plus the quantum or infinity realms, that are separate dimensions in my view. And both the macro and micro-worlds contain the Four-Forces we know of in the physics world, as the “strong, weak, electromagnetic, and gravity forces. These forces are the glue and engine of the dimensions we exist within. I understand the argument about the search for the fleeting notion of “quantum gravity”, but as I stated in section one, Quantum Mechanics is the bearer of all physical things, and gravity is one of them… If you have mass, you have gravity. If you have no mass, you are subject to gravities influence. NOTE: With the exception of “Entanglement”. Entanglement is a mystery of which I believe has its roots in non-particle, wave science. But that is perhaps a question that will defy explanation, much as infinity forever will.<br /><br />I would also add 2 sub-dimensions to the quantum world: Number One: Particle and Number Two: Wave. These are the transmission modes of the micro and macro world. And they do behave quite differently, and often in tandem, unlike they always do in the macro-world or object-world we live our daily lives within.<br /><br />1. Quantum Particle transport is based on the speed of light as defined by Albert Einstein.<br />2. Wave transport, I would argue, is a continuous (connected method of transport) that allows for “Entanglement” to occur. (In my opinion) Quantum Entanglement represents the concept of “infinity in action”, it is a non-locality based transport that is always connected, as if all separated objects were based on the concept of “locality”. Waves are connected, making the notion of “Everything, Nothing - and Nothing, Everything” all at the same moment in time. This is where classical math breaks down and we have to rely on a new methodology and understanding of time and space, hence “Infinity” to describe existence per se. It is that complicated and that simple. Or Indescribable…<br /><br />Secondly, for accuracies sake, there may be 5 or 6 more dimensions if “string theory” is correct, but those are of the quantum micro-world, bound to the indefinable quantum dimension we are infinitely bound too.<br /><br />• I am a layperson with a basic understanding of the world in which we live. And these realms or dimensions are the basics; we are both simplistically born into, and currently all capable of understanding. But understanding is a qualified term, as some things can and cannot be understood: The paradox of life…<br /><br />With the passing of Time which is a misnomer in its own right, given the “special theory of relativity”, for which I will explain in a moment, we will expand our understanding, thus increase our knowledge of the forever and infinitely non-understandable. That is the ultimate truth we are compelled to, as finite beings, existing within an infinite realm. “Simply: We are always and infinitely expanding our knowledge.” In other words, some things Are Not understandable, given that you are a finite being within and infinite realm. Finite by definition cannot grasp the infinite. This is both of a philosophical point as well as a mathematical, as they are synonymous. Synonymous, due to the fact that classical math as I have stated before breaks down at the point of some aspects of the quantum world and its “entanglement” or infinite underpinnings that allow our world, or our very existence to occur.<br /><br />I will use time, as we have defined it in classical mathematical terms to illustrate, at least to me, that our perceptions of time today through the lens of Einstein’s special relativity is not accurate.<br /><br />As I explain my thought processes, keep in mind what I have said about the “Quantum” and the “Relative” worlds, or the “micro and macro” realms of physics: They are different in virtually every way. The macro and micro worlds are affected differently by gravity, by the tandem travel of waves and particles in the micro world, and by entanglement amongst other inscrutable behaviors. They are of two dimensions, if you will. Think of the very famous thought experiment of “Schrodinger’s Cat”. It is a bogus argument, because it involves both the macro world of the “Cat” and the micro world of “quantum mechanics” to enable the description of the cat being both alive and dead at the same time, or in a superposition. This can never be, as superposition’s and entanglements are restricted to the quantum or micro world of atomic particles. This is what has been done with speaking about an astronaut traveling at near the speed of light, and behaving the same way as muons, or their remnants electrons do. It is a spurious scenario, that continues to mislead us, as we explore time and space. Simply put: macro biology or physiology, does not change with velocity, outside the normal changes that gravity imposes on impacting our normal heart or breathing rates. Yet we have continued to discount or ignore this monumental difference when we engage our mathematical or particle experiments. It is comparing apples to elephants!<br /><br /><strong>Time:</strong> The notion of time as changing due to the speed of travel is a misguided concept. It is accurate in theory, but not in fact. My Theorem: “Time is immutable, just as Space is. Both are underpinned by infinity and quantum mechanics, which dismantle classic mathematics and physics as we might hope to simply define them.” This is a simple theorem, that speaks clearly for itself. <br /><br />In other words “time and space” are fixed and outside of our finite understanding. They do not change, as “Special Relativity” implies, by curving or slowing down or speeding up dependent on speed and mass. They can be described as such in a quasi-manner, but in fact they remain as they are. Infinite and inexplicable.<br /><br />The current understanding of time is based on mass and velocity, or Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, but time is again, as I said immutable, and subject not to the speed of an object, relative to its mass, but to its mass alone, subject to gravity. In other words all objects will not slow down or speed up based on the speed by which we travel. The current experiments that use atomic clocks: One clock stationary and the other traveling at high speed and then are used to measure their times which are logically different, is fatally flawed. Time is effected by way of the mechanical operation of atomic clocks, which is influenced by the gravity or mass it experiences within its travel. Again in other words, if a clock is traveling at a high velocity, it experiences greater gravity in a shorter period of time, which alters its mechanical functions. Time does not actually change only the forces of gravity that impact its mechanics changes and slows down the clocks mechanical operation. Thus density or gravity slows down or speeds up a clocks mechanical parts and physical time actuations. Time is not changed, only the operation of the clock subject to different mechanical pressures are changed. In simple terms, a clocks time is always going to be different based on its atmospheric conditions, i.e., whether it is stationary on the ground at sea level or sitting on the highest mountain. The mechanics will work differently, but time itself, has not changed, only the clocks mechanics have been altered by different pressures, so the times will infinitesimally be different. Extrapolate this using the speed of light and gravities changes, and the clocks show much different time results. But again, time itself has not changed only the physical apparatus that measures time has changed. <strong>Time remember is immutable. [Period]</strong><br />Time has been manipulated by mixing the dimensions of Classic mathematics and Quantum mechanics realms - as if they were one. They are not. This has distorted our perceptions of the immutable and unchangeable nature of time and the notions of a curved space. [ Classic Standard Relativity and Quantum mechanics are unique and distinct. That simple, and this premise of confusing the two with the same assumed mathematics has miss-led us, very understandably, but also, very obviously. ]<br />I will attempt to give an example:<br /><br />We need to first dispel the notion of curved space. This is another concept derived from the concepts of the speed of light and mass. This is not the truth of our obscure and infinitely indescribable existence.<br /><br />It seems to me that Time and Space are immutable. Contrary to current belief, they are as fixed as the cognitive notion of existence itself, or as immutable as the fixed solution to a geometric equation.<br /><br />Time and Space have been determined to be changeable based on velocity and density, and consequently marry up into the term SpaceTime. The singular term has merit, since combined time and space are the common objects of physical dimension as we understand them. But the notion that time changes and that space curves are relative ways for language only to express the effects of gravity on those elements of energy and or mass. Curved space and Time Running Slow are even poetically acceptable terms, but not physically accurate facts.<br /><br />Light only curves as would any other object of mass, when gravity impacts it. Without gravity it would not so-called curve. To be less confusing about what physically takes place during the curving of light is to describe the impacts of gravity on any object as simply changing the objects direction, due to the force of gravity. You may want to call this “curved space”, but it only convolutes a simple picture into an unnecessary description, that obscures classical physics.<br /><br />Likewise the experiments that demonstrate time slowing down is a misguided misnomer. Time does not slow down, whether at the Event Horizon, or with an atomic clock running under different velocity from another atomic clock. Simply the mechanics of the (macro/micro) particles that operate the measurement tools (clocks) are impacted by gravity via high velocities and thus slow down both the quantum and standard relative pieces of mechanical matter that operate measuring devices. Time is not slowed down. Matter is the only element slowed down, by physical forces. Matter is not time. Time has no mass, i.e., it does not curve.<br /><br />Time and Space are physically immutable. It is surprising to me that this simple fact seems to elude us or at least I have not seen it explained as such.<br /><br />Even more surprising to me is that we have not harnessed continuous motion with the natural forces in the universe as we know them. I do not call it perpetual motion, since all mechanical matter decomposes (wears out) and replacement is necessary, so perpetual is somewhat of a misrepresentation technically. But continuous motion seems to be a reality that I have several ways I could explain to make this possible without fossil or other material fuels. Yet I never see much on the subject other than – it cannot be done because it violates a thermodynamic theorem? I would note if our theorems are based on the logic that “matter is time”, therefore time slows down, then I rest my case.<br /><br />Please also see this article, where the second law of thermodynamics is challenged: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-nature-breaks-the-second-law. This article further supports my premise regarding “Energy” and its continuous potential.<br /><br />In this next section: “Smart Energy Now”, I have partially detailed out how to provide for “continuous” motion and would like to work with someone in this field. I of course hope you find my explanations above of merit, so that I might find someone with the mathematical background, which I certainly lack, to work with me on this project.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Section Three:</strong><br /><br /><strong>Smart Energy Now…</strong><br /><br />Natural Forces in nature provide multiple endless Energy models, without expending fossil fuels. Is anyone willing to work with me, who has a physics background? <br /><br /><strong>What will it accomplish? </strong><br />Evolution on a monumental scale. Migrating from a fossil fuel world to an automated world devoid of expending fossil fuels. It will overnight, in unbounded terms, provide universal energy to the entire world, not just the industrialized nations or emerging nations. It will provide a unifying playing field for the people of all nations to find more common options in which to better communicate and improve our common understanding and standard of living. <br /><strong>Note:</strong> <em>Even I believe these ideas sound as if I have a large dose of megalomania lodged into my grey matter, but it simply needs to be tested and moved forward. Even if I am only 90% correct, it could change energy production as we currently understand it today.</em><br /><br /><strong>Why is it important?</strong><br />To improve life, to advance conservation of precious fossil fuels for other uses. To change the world and provide it with greater possibilities. To liberate. As well as dramatically control carbon emissions from the planet, coupled with enabling universal energy to all individuals or societies who either require or desire it.<br /><br /><strong>What are the anticipated outcomes?</strong><br />Virtually near- free recycled-energy and or regenerated energy, provided by the current clean and robust elements of energy, such as “gravity”, “electrostatics”, “magnetism”. And all that implies.<br /><br /><strong>What will be its enduring impact?</strong><br />Forever alter the social structures and thereby the social requirements of the world. In other words energy provided on an equal playing field for all people will in effect tie us all closer together in function and in equal choices. It would theoretically replace monopolies and cartel’s with freedom. As well as being groundbreaking for all of physics, and all sciences in general.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Further Project Description:</strong><br />This project began with me as a child, trying to figure out how to automatically run my tricycle and my little green army jeep that required peddling a wheel or armature bar to turn the wheels. I was obviously a lazy kid that did not desire to labor too much – taking too much physical laboring to peddle thru the sidewalks and streets - in my youthful days! I remember constructing the concept, using magnets, and then let the idea fade as I entered school and grew-up as a young man going to school and then on to my working career. Just before I retired, I was still intrigued by the idea, and began to construct the project in my garage, with some success. However I soon realized I needed a physics partner with a background in electronics, especially electrostatics and the mathematics to aid in the assumptions as well as scribe in the language of science - the calculated results. And as I knew that would take some higher levels of mathematical language, certainly beyond my expertise. <br /><br />These multiple ideas of automatic energy, from my youth that I mused about, once detailed will give away the intellectual property, to anyone with a hint of conceptual capability. I am very willing to give the intellectual property away, but would like to work on the project.<br /><br />In simple terms, you may think it violates the fundamental thermodynamic entropy theology, which we have all been indoctrinated with. By the way I consider thermodynamic science more a theology and manifest scotoma in our lexicon, rather than a fact. In my own humble opinion physics is incalculable, and to rely on definitions, is to limit physics or existence itself. Neither have limits, therefore - in my puny assumptive world – Physics is forever a living definition, as well as a fixed proof. Much as “Infinity is both sides of the same coin – at once.”<br /><br />Therefore I will fundamentally argue that thermodynamic entropy is relative for “like” for “like” kinetic actions: which will diminish “force”, as it today properly outlines.<br /><br />However if you change the “Like for Like” concepts when generating energy, you change the rules by which “thermodynamic entropy” was developed. In other words, If you use two dimensions to generate kinetic energy, complemented in equal response to one dimension, generating its own energy. You alter or augment the output energy produces. Hence the “like for like” action = reaction is modified and the results are not like for like. Action can multiply Re-action. This provides for a gear ratio that augments energy output using natural forces. As well as other forces (fossil fuels too.)<br /> <br />This process using natural forces, such as Electrostatics, Magnetism and Gravity, among other natural stores of energy in a form which is non-relative or in other words using a differential gear –ratio that trumps lost energy. This does so by way of leveraging opposite dimensions and gravity. Thus it changes the scientific or theological rules that constricted the methods used to define generic thermodynamics. In other words thermodynamics becomes truly dynamic, rather than static.<br /><br />My clumsy written formulas: ( See D, G, 1D, CM, etc. definitions in “<strong>Bold</strong>” below )<br />1. Electrostatics created by: D² + G in Linear 1D = CM<br />2. M+ (+ & -) + G = CM * Note, Electrostatics could be included to augment output.<br />3. Combination of both formula’s to leverage ultimate energy output potential.<br /><br /><strong>D = Dimensions G = Gravity CM = Continuous Motion E= Electrostatics 1D = 1 Dimension </strong><br /><br />Simply stated: It combines linear and non-linear actions to produce energy that is continuous.<br /><br />NOTE: Two basic methods: 1. G&E (Gravity & Electrostatics) 2. M+G (Magnetism & Gravity) <br />Stated in another fashion, there are 2 forms of possible methods: 1) independent of electrostatics which uses Gravity and Magnetism) and 2 with the use of electrostatics in combined ways to achieve natural energy from natural forces:<br /><br />1. Form: A Uses Dimensions x 2 (Down and Side to Side) run by Gravity (Non-Linear) generating electrostatics combined with a linear (Up) Dimension. This Linear and non-linear interaction provides the mechanisms to create a gear ratio that multiplies itself. Hence you gain continuous motion which could then provide for heat and other outputs to generate endless energy.<br /><br />2. Form: B Uses both positive and negative Magnetism in graduated powers, to direct motion in an upward direction opposing gravity, and then uses electrostatics captured in the downward thrust to leverage additional energy, and then re-deployed again and again by magnetism alone in an upward motion. Note, the “electromagnetism” is not necessary, but a natural benefit that should be leveraged from the simple process of motion ( That both Gravity and Motion provide for).<br /><br />Variations of these forms of operations are dependent on mechanical engineering.<br /><br />• Additionally, electrostatics can be enhanced by using a circular glass ball for instance, with other internal triboelectric materials to augment the energy produced beyond the direct gravity effects of tribolelectic stimulus, using for example a Teflon tube and a glass ball. These two materials: 1) “Glass” and 2)”Teflon” are near opposites for electron transfer on the triboelectric scale, which generate electrostatics. The electrostatics would be captured within a capacitor for electric generation.<br /><br /><strong>NOTE: </strong>I use the term “continuous motion”, vs. “perpetual motion”, since all mechanical matter decomposes (wears out). Perpetual is generally an accurate statement, save matter decay; for which at that point – motion ceases.<br /><br />Thermodynamics fundamentally proposes that you cannot squeeze blood from a turnip. Or in other words, energy depletes, and will not sustain itself. But if you change the mechanical genetics of the turnip, you can. Metaphorically, and practically that can be accomplished when Energy and Matter are merged together in a completely clean and virtually innocuous manner. Simply you apply 3 dimensional forces in a manner which leverages 2 dimensions against or in complement to 1 dimension. <strong>Nature working at its best. That Simple.</strong><br /><br />With the “continuous motion” of matter, then heat or additional motion receptors can be activated generating excess energy, superseding the level of energy required to generate this continuous motion of matter. Thus continuous energy is produced by way of natural forces: (Gravity / Magnetism / Electrostatics).<br /><br />Sounds highly improbable – given current thinking, but intellectually it is quite plausible. Again, my goal is to work with a lab of scientist’s to pursue this objective, as I have outlined above. It may seem obscure, but once I share the simple mechanics of this idea, I hope you will find it of interest and most importantly possible. If it is possible, the world changes. I know it sounds in large part to be more than just a bit delusional, but even if we leverage 90% of this potential, we succeed beyond what exists today and provide for the clean and necessary energy the world depends upon.<br /><br /><strong>Ultimate objectives and gains:</strong><br />Secondarily this project, if actualized, would certainly secure a Nobel Prize, due to its unique utilization of “continuous motion” and would therefore support the investment returns to the philanthropists and scientists involved. Foremost it will be “humanity changing” for the good. Providing a leap in the advance of science and living standards for the people of this world. It will expedite the integration of humanity buy tying us together via sources of energy necessary to improve communication and common living standards that would better integrate the world. Coupled with the saving of fossil fuels for other uses, combined with less pollution. And in that process it would hopefully improve understanding and common cause among us all, rather than living with the continuing social divides that hinder those decent objectives.<br /><br /><strong>In sharing these thoughts on the potentials for energy production with new methodologies, it is my objective to hopefully find someone seriously interested to pursue these ideas.</strong><br /><br />Simply and profoundly that is my end goal.<br /><br />These concepts are actually basic, and the mechanics I have in mind to build a working model, would not be difficult given access to scientists in the area of physics, and electrostatics’ along with some very common materials.<br /><br /><strong>Summary:</strong><br /><br />We exist because of the concept called a “Paradox. Paradoxes have no answers, they can never be broken. They are the infinite fuel of existence itself.<br /><br />These ideas I have shared have been a growing process, so they will seem somewhat contradictory or paradoxical at times, but at a basic level, they seek the same objective of simplifying perceptions, based as much on common sense, as on our ever evolving science. The Quantum world is truly our birth place, so it holds our commonality, but as its fundamental structure builds the matter we exist with and by, it may morph its fundamentals in the process. Simply, I believe to begin our scientific pursuits, we do best when we can start at the beginning, with a common foundation and with practical principles, which give rise to a better result in our end conclusions as we pursue the Holy Grail of knowledge.<br /><br /><strong>My hope is that those of you that disagree, or find value with my points of thought, augment this discussion and we will in the end all move forward…</strong><br /><br /><strong>Final Thought:</strong><br /><br />The quantum world is the sole genesis of all we are, combined with the infinite realm, for which I believe bares the inscrutable nature of space and time, whether we as sentient philosophical beings - exist or not. <br /><br />In my world view, if a tree falls, and no one’s there to hear it, it still makes a sound… <br /><br />Infinity and evolution, survives us all… forever! But in the interim of our existence, this ebb and flow throughout time, I believe enhances knowledge. Therefore with the growth of true knowledge we will improve the betterment of how we treat one another. Consequently, science is the basis for all truth, hence either the practical or metaphorical face of god, if you believe in such things. As science underpins philosophies truths and failures, as well.<br /><br />Therefore science is a worthy journey indeed…russotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240697229473787570noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290462389546694225.post-78552512806711880352010-10-06T17:50:00.000-07:002010-10-06T18:33:35.483-07:00<div align="center">Our Universe and Potentials in Review<br />Russ Otter October 2010(For what it’s worth: Please think and enjoy!)<br /><br />Section: One<br />Holy Grail: Particle Physics<br />(The Quantum – from which we all arise)</div><div align="center"><br />Natural Forces, along with energy and matter begin at the quantum level, just as Gravity does…<br />This is gravities birth place, from which all matter and energy originates. I postulate however that Time and Space are exempt from an inscrutable beginning, as they are “Infinite”, just as possibly, as is gravity and other natural forces are, but that is a question, we may never have an absolute answer to. </div><div align="center"><br />The origins of all finite creation come from the quantum, at least this is the most we can hope to ever understand, as all else is of an infinite realm, and the infinite is not and will never be definable in terms that finite sentient beings can understand.<br />Our Universe(s) conscious understanding or rather foundation is built upon the solitary empire of quantum building blocks.</div><div align="center"><br />That is principle One. The “Quantum” is our Foundation in all we will come to understand - and perhaps, we may even glimpse - at its predecessor’s trigger: Therefore always define your mathematics and philosophical notions of Space and Time, in conjunction with all of the natural forces we are ruled by, based on their quantum roots. The current notion of “SpaceTime” is highly likely askew… I would suggest that All things are quantized: Remember even a straight line or circles are arguably a combination of bits.</div><div align="center"><br />So whether gravity, as well as space and time are quantized at a sub-atomic micro-level, and or a macro-level, or perhaps morph in the process, or not: Please remember that Natural Forces are created equal at a base level, even as Space and Time are constants within both infinity and a finite existence.</div><div align="center"> <br />However, in the examination of nature and the truth of our existence of matter and energy, the question often becomes, what is the “Beginning or the End”? I would offer that such a question can never be answered. As the Alpha and the Omega are of an “Infinite” nature, which will never be defined by “Finite” mathematics or philosophy. As to define “Infinity” would be to no-longer make it infinite. In other words you cannot circumscribe infinity, otherwise, if you could define infinity, it would, logically no longer be infinite, but finite. Infinity by definition and nature is not definable.</div><div align="center"><br />This is principle Two: The infinite is not and never will be defined by the finite, or differently said, by finite sentiency.</div><div align="center"><br />And finally principle Three: (Which I would assume will create the most controversy amongst modern day physicists and perhaps some philosophers) Is that Space and Time are immutable (Fixed and unchangeable). They do not change, whether at the Event Horizon, nor does Time curve. Space, as with anything physical, does curve relative to gravities influence. NOTE: I will argue in in the next section: titled “Science: Is infinitely more than it seems…” of this treatise, that contrary to previously miss-calculated scientific testing, from my bias point of view, that Time and Space do not change via acceleration or lack thereof. Time and Space, as will all things, are impacted by gravity, but not to the point of changing space or time. I will soon explain.</div><div align="center"><br />Additionally as you read this document, perhaps rather than beginning with the principles of “Thermodynamics”, as sacrosanct, I would suggest you try to begin with these principles, which I have outlined above, and our math and science will thereby define our physical empire and its riches; such as virtually infinite energy will be manifest, for all practical description’s purposes, from the simple and logical mechanics these 3 principles portend. </div><div align="center"><br />And these riches, that I speak of, I believe will help unite the world, in common union, for the good.<br /><br />Section Two:<br />Science: Is infinitely more than it seems…[ Classic (Macro world) and Quantum (Micro world) ]</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">They underpin one another, but they are not based on the same math or logic. They are distinct in dimension, is the best way I would describe them.Theoretical Physics is hard enough to follow, let alone understand, as it has its own language and bizarre concepts that actually defy the logic of the world we live within. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">For instance, the concept of “Entanglement” whereby micro-sized particles millions of miles apart respond to one another or communicate as if they were local to each other, whereby the speed of light does not apply. This is a proven phenomenon, also known as locality and non-locality behavior. The jargon of classical mathematics and quantum mechanics or the macro and micro worlds do not operate the same. This is of a confusing level, much as the concept of “infinity” is an impossible term to grasp. [That of which has no beginning and no end.] </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">But I am printing my thoughts here for the few of you who may be involved with quantum physics and may be able to possibly forward my thoughts on to a forum that may take up the issues I raise below. It is my shot in the dark – to convey issues that have since my early adolescence and even younger captured my imagination. And I do hope some of you find it of interest…</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">So read at your own will. As I have stated the language and concepts do really require some background in this bizarre field of “quantum mechanics” to really even get close to grasping what is being explained. Coupled with the fact, that I take my own liberties with my own conceptions to further confuse the issues. However my goal is to clear up, what I believe to be some former misconceptions. Clearly too many of you, much of this will seem a grand heresy, but I would ask that you consider the broad scope of what we still do not know, and still may be errant in our current understandings regarding physics so-called proven laws.</div><div align="center"><br />The search for the “unified theory of nature or existence” is a fickle road in conventional terms. Quite simply because we live within an existence that is inscrutably possessed of “Infinity”. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Infinities - cannot and will not succumb to classic mathematics. In fact classical mathematics breakdown and are void, outside of the macro-world or the real world of objects that we live within.We also live within the “micro-world” or “particle-world” of quantum mechanics, that are the building blocks of our object world, made from atoms, quarks, electrons, photons, and so on, along with the world of what is known as “entanglement” and “superposition’s”, that defy all classical or common logic. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Quite clearly, just as infinity defies explanation, if you try to extrapolate, or describe entanglement” and “superposition’s in mathematical terms. It simply will not, and cannot be done.That is why I would call the quantum world, which underpins and creates our “real world”, the 5th dimension. In other words: There are the 3 physical dimensions (up/down,back/forward,side to side), plus time, plus the quantum or infinity realms, that are separate dimensions in my view. And both the macro and micro-worlds contain the Four-Forces we know of in the physics world, as the “strong, weak, electromagnetic, and gravity forces.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> These forces are the glue and engine of the dimensions we exist within. I understand the argument about the search for the fleeting notion of “quantum gravity”, but as I stated in section one, Quantum Mechanics is the bearer of all physical things, and gravity is one of them… </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> If you have mass, you have gravity. If you have no mass, you are subject to gravities influence. NOTE: With the exception of “Entanglement”. Entanglement is a mystery of which I believe has its roots in non-particle, wave science. But that is perhaps a question that will defy explanation, much as infinity forever will.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">I would also add 2 sub-dimensions to the quantum world: Number One: Particle and Number Two: Wave. These are the transmission modes of the micro and macro world. And they do behave quite differently, and often in tandem, unlike they always do in the macro-world or object-world we live our daily lives within.1. Quantum Particle transport is based on the speed of light as defined by Albert Einstein.2. Wave transport, I would argue, is a continuous (connected method of transport) that allows for “Entanglement” to occur. (In my opinion) Quantum Entanglement represents the concept of “infinity in action”, it is a non-locality based transport that is always connected, as if all separated objects were based on the concept of “locality”. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Waves are connected, making the notion of “Everything, Nothing - and Nothing, Everything” all at the same moment in time. This is where classical math breaks down and we have to rely on a new methodology and understanding of time and space, hence “Infinity” to describe existence per se. It is that complicated and that simple. Or Indescribable…Secondly, for accuracies sake, there may be 5 or 6 more dimensions if “string theory” is correct, but those are of the quantum micro-world, bound to the indefinable quantum dimension we are infinitely bound too.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">• I am a layperson with a basic understanding of the world in which we live. And these realms or dimensions are the basics; we are both simplistically born into, and currently all capable of understanding. But understanding is a qualified term, as some things can and cannot be understood: The paradox of life…With the passing of Time which is a misnomer in its own right, given the “special theory of relativity”, for which I will explain in a moment, we will expand our understanding, thus increase our knowledge of the forever and infinitely non-understandable.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> That is the ultimate truth we are compelled to, as finite beings, existing within an infinite realm. “Simply: We are always and infinitely expanding our knowledge.” In other words, some things Are Not understandable, given that you are a finite being within and infinite realm. Finite by definition cannot grasp the infinite.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> This is both of a philosophical point as well as a mathematical, as they are synonymous. Synonymous, due to the fact that classical math as I have stated before breaks down at the point of some aspects of the quantum world and its “entanglement” or infinite underpinnings that allow our world, or our very existence to occur.I will use time, as we have defined it in classical mathematical terms to illustrate, at least to me, that our perceptions of time today through the lens of Einstein’s special relativity is not accurate.</div><div align="center"><br />As I explain my thought processes, keep in mind what I have said about the “Quantum” and the “Relative” worlds, or the “micro and macro” realms of physics: They are different in virtually every way. The macro and micro worlds are affected differently by gravity, by the tandem travel of waves and particles in the micro world, and by entanglement amongst other inscrutable behaviors. They are of two dimensions, if you will.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> Think of the very famous thought experiment of “Schrodinger’s Cat”. It is a bogus argument, because it involves both the macro world of the “Cat” and the micro world of “quantum mechanics” to enable the description of the cat being both alive and dead at the same time, or in a superposition. This can never be, as superposition’s and entanglements are restricted to the quantum or micro world of atomic particles. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">This is what has been done with speaking about an astronaut traveling at near the speed of light, and behaving the same way as muons, or their remnants electrons do. It is a spurious scenario, that continues to mislead us, as we explore time and space.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> Simply put: macro biology or physiology, does not change with velocity, outside the normal changes that gravity imposes on impacting our normal heart or breathing rates. Yet we have continued to discount or ignore this monumental difference when we engage our mathematical or particle experiments. It is comparing apples to elephants!</div><div align="center"><br />Time: The notion of time as changing due to the speed of travel is a misguided concept. It is accurate in theory, but not in fact. My Theorem: “Time is immutable, just as Space is. Both are underpinned by infinity and quantum mechanics, which dismantle classic mathematics and physics as we might hope to simply define them.” This is a simple theorem, that speaks clearly for itself. In other words “time and space” are fixed and outside of our finite understanding. They do not change, as “Special Relativity” implies, by curving or slowing down or speeding up dependent on speed and mass. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">They can be described as such in a quasi-manner, but in fact they remain as they are. Infinite and inexplicable.The current understanding of time is based on mass and velocity, or Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, but time is again, as I said immutable, and subject not to the speed of an object, relative to its mass, but to its mass alone, subject to gravity. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">In other words all objects will not slow down or speed up based on the speed by which we travel. The current experiments that use atomic clocks: One clock stationary and the other traveling at high speed and then are used to measure their times which are logically different, is fatally flawed. Time is effected by way of the mechanical operation of atomic clocks, which is influenced by the gravity or mass it experiences within its travel. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Again in other words, if a clock is traveling at a high velocity, it experiences greater gravity in a shorter period of time, which alters its mechanical functions. Time does not actually change only the forces of gravity that impact its mechanics changes and slows down the clocks mechanical operation. Thus density or gravity slows down or speeds up a clocks mechanical parts and physical time actuations. Time is not changed, only the operation of the clock subject to different mechanical pressures are changed. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> In simple terms, a clocks time is always going to be different based on its atmospheric conditions, i.e., whether it is stationary on the ground at sea level or sitting on the highest mountain. The mechanics will work differently, but time itself, has not changed, only the clocks mechanics have been altered by different pressures, so the times will infinitesimally be different. Extrapolate this using the speed of light and gravities changes, and the clocks show much different time results. But again, time itself has not changed only the physical apparatus that measures time has changed. Time remember is immutable. [Period]</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Time has been manipulated by mixing the dimensions of Classic mathematics and Quantum mechanics realms - as if they were one. They are not. This has distorted our perceptions of the immutable and unchangeable nature of time and the notions of a curved space. [ Classic Standard Relativity and Quantum mechanics are unique and distinct. That simple, and this premise of confusing the two with the same assumed mathematics has miss-led us, very understandably, but also, very obviously. ]</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">I will attempt to give an example:We need to first dispel the notion of curved space. This is another concept derived from the concepts of the speed of light and mass. This is not the truth of our obscure and infinitely indescribable existence.It seems to me that Time and Space are immutable. Contrary to current belief, they are as fixed as the cognitive notion of existence itself, or as immutable as the fixed solution to a geometric equation.Time and Space have been determined to be changeable based on velocity and density, and consequently marry up into the term SpaceTime. The singular term has merit, since combined time and space are the common objects of physical dimension as we understand them. But the notion that time changes and that space curves are relative ways for language only to express the effects of gravity on those elements of energy and or mass.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> Curved space and Time Running Slow are even poetically acceptable terms, but not physically accurate facts.Light only curves as would any other object of mass, when gravity impacts it. Without gravity it would not so-called curve. To be less confusing about what physically takes place during the curving of light is to describe the impacts of gravity on any object as simply changing the objects direction, due to the force of gravity. You may want to call this “curved space”, but it only convolutes a simple picture into an unnecessary description, that obscures classical physics.Likewise the experiments that demonstrate time slowing down is a misguided misnomer. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Time does not slow down, whether at the Event Horizon, or with an atomic clock running under different velocity from another atomic clock. Simply the mechanics of the (macro/micro) particles that operate the measurement tools (clocks) are impacted by gravity via high velocities and thus slow down both the quantum and standard relative pieces of mechanical matter that operate measuring devices. Time is not slowed down. Matter is the only element slowed down, by physical forces. Matter is not time. Time has no mass, i.e., it does not curve.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Time and Space are physically immutable. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">It is surprising to me that this simple fact seems to elude us or at least I have not seen it explained as such.Even more surprising to me is that we have not harnessed continuous motion with the natural forces in the universe as we know them. I do not call it perpetual motion, since all mechanical matter decomposes (wears out) and replacement is necessary, so perpetual is somewhat of a misrepresentation technically. But continuous motion seems to be a reality that I have several ways I could explain to make this possible without fossil or other material fuels. Yet </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">I never see much on the subject other than – it cannot be done because it violates a thermodynamic theorem? I would note if our theorems are based on the logic that “matter is time”, therefore time slows down, then I rest my case.<br />Please also see this article, where the second law of thermodynamics is challenged: <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-nature-breaks-the-second-law">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-nature-breaks-the-second-law</a>. This article further supports my premise regarding “Energy” and its continuous potential.</div><div align="center"><br />In this next section: “Smart Energy Now”, I have partially detailed out how to provide for “continuous” motion and would like to work with someone in this field. I of course hope you find my explanations above of merit, so that I might find someone with the mathematical background, which I certainly lack, to work with me on this project.<br /><br />Section Three:<br /><br />Smart Energy Now…</div><div align="center"><br />Natural Forces in nature provide multiple endless Energy models, without expending fossil fuels. Is anyone willing to work with me, who has a physics background?<br /></div><div align="center">What will it accomplish?</div><div align="center">Evolution on a monumental scale. Migrating from a fossil fuel world to an automated world devoid of expending fossil fuels. It will overnight, in unbounded terms, provide universal energy to the entire world, not just the industrialized nations or emerging nations. It will provide a unifying playing field for the people of all nations to find more common options in which to better communicate and improve our common understanding and standard of living.</div><div align="center"><br />Note: Even I believe these ideas sound as if I have a large dose of megalomania lodged into my grey matter, but it simply needs to be tested and moved forward. Even if I am only 90% correct, it could change energy production as we currently understand it today.<br /><br /> Why is it important?<br />To improve life, to advance conservation of precious fossil fuels for other uses. To change the world and provide it with greater possibilities. To liberate. As well as dramatically control carbon emissions from the planet, coupled with enabling universal energy to all individuals or societies who either require or desire it.<br /><br />What are the anticipated outcomes?</div><div align="center">Virtually near- free recycled-energy and or regenerated energy, provided by the current clean and robust elements of energy, such as “gravity”, “electrostatics”, “magnetism”. And all that implies.<br /><br />What will be its enduring impact?</div><div align="center">Forever alter the social structures and thereby the social requirements of the world. In other words energy provided on an equal playing field for all people will in effect tie us all closer together in function and in equal choices. It would theoretically replace monopolies and cartel’s with freedom. As well as being groundbreaking for all of physics, and all sciences in general.<br /><br /><br />Further Project Description:<br />This project began with me as a child, trying to figure out how to automatically run my tricycle and my little green army jeep that required peddling a wheel or armature bar to turn the wheels. I was obviously a lazy kid that did not desire to labor too much – taking too much physical laboring to peddle thru the sidewalks and streets - in my youthful days!</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> I remember constructing the concept, using magnets, and then let the idea fade as I entered school and grew-up as a young man going to school and then on to my working career. Just before I retired, I was still intrigued by the idea, and began to construct the project in my garage, with some success. However I soon realized I needed a physics partner with a background in electronics, especially electrostatics and the mathematics to aid in the assumptions as well as scribe in the language of science - the calculated results.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> And as I knew that would take some higher levels of mathematical language, certainly beyond my expertise. </div><div align="center"><br />These multiple ideas of automatic energy, from my youth that I mused about, once detailed will give away the intellectual property, to anyone with a hint of conceptual capability. I am very willing to give the intellectual property away, but would like to work on the project.<br />In simple terms, you may think it violates the fundamental thermodynamic entropy theology, which we have all been indoctrinated with. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">By the way I consider thermodynamic science more a theology and manifest scotoma in our lexicon, rather than a fact. In my own humble opinion physics is incalculable, and to rely on definitions, is to limit physics or existence itself. Neither have limits, therefore - in my puny assumptive world – Physics is forever a living definition, as well as a fixed proof. Much as “Infinity is both sides of the same coin – at once.”</div><div align="center"><br />Therefore I will fundamentally argue that thermodynamic entropy is relative for “like” for “like” kinetic actions: which will diminish “force”, as it today properly outlines.</div><div align="center"><br />However if you change the “Like for Like” concepts when generating energy, you change the rules by which “thermodynamic entropy” was developed. In other words, If you use two dimensions to generate kinetic energy, complemented in equal response to one dimension, generating its own energy. You alter or augment the output energy produces. Hence the “like for like” action = reaction is modified and the results are not like for like. Action can multiply Re-action. This provides for a gear ratio that augments energy output using natural forces. As well as other forces (fossil fuels too.) </div><div align="center"><br />This process using natural forces, such as Electrostatics, Magnetism and Gravity, among other natural stores of energy in a form which is non-relative or in other words using a differential gear –ratio that trumps lost energy. This does so by way of leveraging opposite dimensions and gravity. Thus it changes the scientific or theological rules that constricted the methods used to define generic thermodynamics. In other words thermodynamics becomes truly dynamic, rather than static.</div><div align="center"><br />My clumsy written formulas: ( See D, G, 1D, CM, etc. definitions in “<strong>Bold</strong>” below )1. Electrostatics created by: D² + G in Linear 1D = CM2. M+ (+ & -) + G = CM * Note, Electrostatics could be included to augment output.3. Combination of both formula’s to leverage ultimate energy output potential.</div><div align="center"><strong>D = Dimensions G = Gravity CM = Continuous Motion E= Electrostatics 1D = 1 Dimension<br /></strong><br />Simply stated: It combines linear and non-linear actions to produce energy that is continuous.<br /><br />NOTE: Two basic methods: 1. G&E (Gravity & Electrostatics) 2. M+G (Magnetism & Gravity)<br />Stated in another fashion, there are 2 forms of possible methods: 1) independent of electrostatics which uses Gravity and Magnetism) and 2 with the use of electrostatics in combined ways to achieve natural energy from natural forces:1. Form: A Uses Dimensions x 2 (Down and Side to Side) run by Gravity (Non-Linear) generating electrostatics combined with a linear (Up) Dimension. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">This Linear and non-linear interaction provides the mechanisms to create a gear ratio that multiplies itself. Hence you gain continuous motion which could then provide for heat and other outputs to generate endless energy.2. Form: B Uses both positive and negative Magnetism in graduated powers, to direct motion in an upward direction opposing gravity, and then uses electrostatics captured in the downward thrust to leverage additional energy, and then re-deployed again and again by magnetism alone in an upward motion. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Note, the “electromagnetism” is not necessary, but a natural benefit that should be leveraged from the simple process of motion ( That both Gravity and Motion provide for).Variations of these forms of operations are dependent on mechanical engineering.</div><div align="center"><br />Additionally, electrostatics can be enhanced by using a circular glass ball for instance, with other internal triboelectric materials to augment the energy produced beyond the direct gravity effects of tribolelectic stimulus, using for example a Teflon tube and a glass ball. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">These two materials: 1) “Glass” and 2)”Teflon” are near opposites for electron transfer on the triboelectric scale, which generate electrostatics. The electrostatics would be captured within a capacitor for electric generation.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">NOTE: I use the term “continuous motion”, vs. “perpetual motion”, since all mechanical matter decomposes (wears out). Perpetual is generally an accurate statement, save matter decay; for which at that point – motion ceases.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Thermodynamics fundamentally proposes that you cannot squeeze blood from a turnip. Or in other words, energy depletes, and will not sustain itself. But if you change the mechanical genetics of the turnip, you can. Metaphorically, and practically that can be accomplished when Energy and Matter are merged together in a completely clean and virtually innocuous manner.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> Simply you apply 3 dimensional forces in a manner which leverages 2 dimensions against or in complement to 1 dimension. Nature working at its best. That Simple.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">With the “continuous motion” of matter, then heat or additional motion receptors can be activated generating excess energy, superseding the level of energy required to generate this continuous motion of matter. Thus continuous energy is produced by way of natural forces: (Gravity / Magnetism / Electrostatics).</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Sounds highly improbable – given current thinking, but intellectually it is quite plausible. Again, my goal is to work with a lab of scientist’s to pursue this objective, as I have outlined above. It may seem obscure, but once I share the simple mechanics of this idea, I hope you will find it of interest and most importantly possible. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">If it is possible, the world changes. I know it sounds in large part to be more than just a bit delusional, but even if we leverage 90% of this potential, we succeed beyond what exists today and provide for the clean and necessary energy the world depends upon.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Ultimate objectives and gains:</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Secondarily this project, if actualized, would certainly secure a Nobel Prize, due to its unique utilization of “continuous motion” and would therefore support the investment returns to the philanthropists and scientists involved.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Foremost it will be “humanity changing” for the good. Providing a leap in the advance of science and living standards for the people of this world. It will expedite the integration of humanity buy tying us together via sources of energy necessary to improve communication and common living standards that would better integrate the world. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Coupled with the saving of fossil fuels for other uses, combined with less pollution. And in that process it would hopefully improve understanding and common cause among us all, rather than living with the continuing social divides that hinder those decent objectives.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">In sharing these thoughts on the potentials for energy production with new methodologies, it is my objective to hopefully find someone seriously interested to pursue these ideas.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Simply and profoundly that is my end goal. These concepts are actually basic, and the mechanics I have in mind to build a working model, would not be difficult given access to scientists in the area of physics, and electrostatics’ along with some very common materials.<br /></div><div align="center">Summary:<br /><br />We exist because of the concept called a “Paradox. Paradoxes have no answers, they can never be broken. They are the infinite fuel of existence itself.<br /><br />These ideas I have shared have been a growing process, so they will seem somewhat contradictory or paradoxical at times, but at a basic level, they seek the same objective of simplifying perceptions, based as much on common sense, as on our ever evolving science. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">The Quantum world is truly our birth place, so it holds our commonality, but as its fundamental structure builds the matter we exist with and by, it may morph its fundamentals in the process. Simply, I believe to begin with a common foundation and actually practical principles, which give rise to a better result in our end conclusions as we pursue the Holy Grail of knowledge.<br /><br />My hope is that those of you that disagree, or find value with my points of thought, augment this discussion and we will in the end all move forward…<br /><br /><br />Final Thought:<br /><br />Simply said, the quantum world is the sole genesis of all we are, combined with the infinite realm, for which I believe bares the inscrutable nature of space and time, whether we existed or not. <br /><br />In my world view, if a tree falls, and no one’s there, it still makes a sound…<br /><br />Infinity and evolution, survives us all… forever! But in the interim of our existence, our ebb and flow throughout time, I believe enhances knowledge, and therefore can and will improve the betterment of how we treat one another. Consequently, science is the basis for all truth, hence either the practical or metaphorical face of god, if you believe in such things. <br /><br />Therefore science is a worthy journey indeed…<br /><br /><br /> </div>russotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240697229473787570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290462389546694225.post-47522611507050294832010-08-29T12:39:00.000-07:002010-09-01T16:02:45.833-07:00Open our Hopes, our Goals, our Realities: based through the Prism of Physics – and we all will improve.Thermodynamics is threaded through the firm notions of relativity’s mathematics. In other words, force, mass, and movement or acceleration are seemingly straightforward when mathematics is defined and applied against the backdrop of the rules defined by thermodynamics.<br /><br /><strong>By the way:</strong> <em>Thermodynamics is simply the science of energy and heat, based on its mathematics that seemingly binds us to its rules.</em><br /><br /><strong>With exception</strong>, if the force, mass and acceleration are manipulated in combination by both linear and non-linear directions of thermodynamic movement, based on using the forces of simple gravity, among other natural energy sources, then the results will differ from the traditional fixed notions of our heretofore science of thermodynamics. But as of yet, no one seems to understand this, or has manifested such an application.<br /><br />Meaning that Entropy and the other rules of thermodynamics, while inevitable: just as a shoe with use, will become worn out with time, you also can extend that worn out shoe, 100-fold, rather than like for like or (action for re-action equivalency). In other words, energy is only lost based on an equal level of energy applied. However - Energy can be applied with a ratio bases, that mathematically creates more action for a re-action, than a like for like result. Thus you can create a virtually continuous motion machine, with the exception of parts eventually wearing out and needing to be replaced.<br /><br />I have written other articles on this subject matter, but no one seems to take it seriously, or I am not explaining it well enough to engender some reaction or reaching the correct audience. If my hypothesis is true, then we change the very dimensions of the world, in almost every discipline that you can imagine. And all for the better…<br /><br />I would hope someone with a physics or electromechanical background, would contact me. And please read some of my Science specific Blog’s, especially the one related to “Continuous Motion” as I hope they will shed some further light on this subject.<br /><br />This type of purely physics based / mathematical energy solution, will additionally bring us together as a single human race of people, rather than as disparate groups competing harmfully with each other. This physics can change the world in personal matters as well as mathematical ones.<br /><br />NOTE: We live within confined thinking built upon the philosophical and mechanical rules of the past. For instance, does the concept of “<strong>Inflation</strong>” at the start of the <strong>Big Bang</strong>, hold to Einstein’s, cosmic speed limit of light. <strong>No</strong>. But we make adjustments in our thinking to accommodate that seeming violation of physics. Similarly Thermodynamics has some areas that bend as well. But they bend within the confines of logical mathematics, that we have simply not explored - as of yet. And I would note that the “Bane” contention for the infinite quest of explaining history and time, is a true possibility too.<br /><br />The open fields of physics and mathematics are unbounded infinities, which are in bloom at every moment, for the taking, by those who seek truth.<br /><br />However, the real truth is that many a truth - was discovered by mistake! But - Oh’ Well, I digress.<br /><br />Clearly truth is holding at bay our pre-formed modes of thoughts-travels, docked in self-made impressions, or in other words our scotomas, just waiting to sail away and change the symphony of infinity’s seas, that reality holds - forever open.<br /><br />The possibilities of physics, of mathematics, of the progression of reason, hold the hope of the ages, the Holy Grail of truth, not from the static fixations of the past, but of the knowledge born in the moment, from the shoulders of the past, and our ever evolving future.russotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240697229473787570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290462389546694225.post-40944839009254760322010-07-24T13:32:00.000-07:002010-07-24T13:45:11.562-07:00Finite and Infinite (The Holy Grail that will never meet...)<div align="center">Infinities are Reality: [ What the heck kind of jargon is this? Science / Humanity? ]<br /><br /><br />Well it is about the twain of our finite and infinite worlds we are bound within. And a twain that will never meet. But in that disparate truth, we simply are bound to grow for the better, as we are more similar than otherwise.<br /><br />So goes our hope for knowing all things, or for our capability to understand in total what science or faith pursues, but not in vain, but certainly in failure, comprehensively speaking.<br /><br />Mathematics is the very face of god, if you will, or in other terms: the face of truth and the goal to understand what the mind is capable of understanding… Beyond that finite reality, is an infinite reality were even math breaks down, and fails; for infinity is real and no mathematics is capable of defining infinity. Just ask a math major… (They can identify it, but they will never answer it.)<br /><br />So it is true for us, of sentient minds, which reach for our understanding of infinity, for purpose, or for that notion of ultimate truth, or our search for a god, from within our finite existences. Again, our comprehensive understanding of all nature will fail, and it will always be so, as long as we are finite beings within an infinite realm.<br /><br />This is the dilemma for those who believe in a scientific understanding of existence, of the Universe, with a capital “U”, not just our big bang universe, which is no more than the size of a single proton, in the true scheme of spatial reality or in other words, within our infinite reality…<br /><br />We are captives of nature beyond our understanding, as long as we remain finite beings. Only an infinite structure, that by definition cannot be circumscribed by definition, can in theory know the truth of all things. In fact it can be argued that as an infinite structure or being, there is no such thing as “Knowing” or “Knowledge”, ego and the like. Infinity is without awareness, as awareness itself, would be a defined circumscribing and therefore limiting element that would preclude infinity. A conundrum of the first degree. But that is what infinity is. Indefinable [Period].<br /><br />Factually, to believe in your capability to have any simple or complex perception of “Infinity” is to manifest a limited definition of infinity, therefore you violate the principle of infinity, which cannot be defined.<br /><br />Hence we grapple with the ultimate conundrum of our very existence - of our finite and infinite worlds; which will never meet by way of knowledge.<br /><br />Mathematics teaches us this truth… Sentient wisdom would do well to accept this truth.<br /><br />Simply we live in an infinite fog, but by way of a finite existence. So find your truth inside the scope of your own space and time of life. And make it a good truth, one based on the “Golden Rule” and pursue knowledge at every crossroad of life.<br /><br />That is all we have – nothing more, nothing less.<br /><br />Cultures, Religions, Fads, can be good or bad, but they all are all vain and vacuous, unless they operate by truth and the golden rule.<br /><br />And that is where we exist, accept it or not.<br /><br />Again, Infinities are our Reality, which preclude our ultimate fullness of knowledge, but also give us an endless pursuit to grow… Hopefully for the better! As this truth makes us more similar than disparate - and that truth will enable growth to embrace a reality that improves on our lives and those about us…<br /><br /><br />PS… This is a refrain of my first Blog: “It Only Takes One Thing” (The Golden Rule), with a coupling of my Blogs on “Science” and the value science manifests for us all.</div>russotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240697229473787570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290462389546694225.post-73601794287729701372010-01-11T12:45:00.000-08:002010-01-13T10:35:23.272-08:00Science of Natural Energy - Continuous Motion<div align="center">01/11/2010
<br /><strong>Science of Energy and Thermodynamics
<br />I need some help ! </strong></div>
<br />This BLOG is a call for help, related to working on energy generation. I have written before on this subject but I am simply refining the science, as well as my personal perceptions – in the hope to find someone with a physics background and facilities to work with. In other words, My objective is to find someone interested in this subject matter with a physics/mathematical background to work with me, and again, I would hope this article may clarify some of the science behind heretofore impossible visions. But after just having read Dr. Michio Kaku’s, book: “Physics of the impossible”, I have been re-invigorated at the moment to pursue this subject matter once again. I am no maven of science, but have the same zest I believe many of us have, such as Alan Alda, to pursue the intrigue of science and its possibilities. To that end, I have some prototype ideas, I would like to pursue, but really need a University’s, or professional lab and the personal to work with.
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<br />In brief, I will explain the science behind this interest of mine:
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<br />Thermodynamics is a Newtonian methodology, which works well with the “macro world”, but has some dings in the armor, related to both the macro and quantum worlds. It is not entirely sacrosanct, as are most “absolute laws”, save perhaps for infinity itself.
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<br /><strong>However, I fully agree that the second law of thermodynamics is virtually sacrosanct, as all things atrophy or simply wear out.
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<br /><strong>I also agree with the third law: “That we cannot escape where we are”, sort to speak.</strong>
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<br />But the first rule of thermodynamics is based on the exhaustion of matter into energy, and thereby the resultant diminution of both matter and energy, so it implies.</strong>
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<br />In the quantum world, and even the macro world, some forces, such as sun, wind, geothermal, water (Damn Power plants), electrostatics, and magnetism, along with gravity are energy sources that do not require, the USER (us) - to use what is already naturally available, without any form of ignition or activation. In other words the energy is self-initiated.
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<br />These sources of energy break into two distinct forms:
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<br /><strong>1. Electrostatics, magnetism, and gravity are self manifesting. </strong>They are ripe for the picking. As they are not matter converted to energy in a conventional manner, but energy that is abundant as existence itself.
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<br /><strong>2.</strong> The other forms of energy from natural sources such as the Sun or geothermal are more terminal in a few billion years or so,<strong> but they are available by exploiting what is already being naturally produced. </strong>
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<br /></strong>I would argue in <strong>Form 1</strong> above that these forms of energy completely afford us the ability to exploit without diminishing matter. In fact they afford us the ability to leverage a gear-ratio cohesion that augments energy. It does not deplete it.
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<br /><strong>Form 2</strong> above, granted will diminish with time, but they are abundant and self-actuating all of the time, unlike the manual efforts to burn coal or natural gas. This self-actualized nature makes them sources that do not fully adhere to the intent of the first law of thermodynamics, but they do adhere to its final outcome.
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<br />In summary:
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<br />Electrostatics married with gravity and magnetism, can provide a geared-ratio of energy, that does not diminish matter, but in fact augments energy, save the entropy of thermodynamics law 2. These forms of energy actually create energy that is more abundant that in its sole standalone form. I believe I can take magnetism and gravity combined to create sustained, albeit subject to entropy (mechanical wear and tear) to generate abundant and virtually free energy.
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<br />As quantum physics progresses, this will also be found to be true I believe via the force of particle physics continuous motion found in quantum mechanics. We already are beginning to see this natural leverage of nature impact the future of computers, albeit some time off before it is refined.
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<br />At the heart of these potential changes is the key to a new future for international human cohesion. A beginning to a new era of hope for humankind, if I may be so bold. As the creation of energy, from energy will level the playing field for an improved communication, and equality around the world.
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<br />I do believe in “continuous motion”, not “perpetual motion”, due to the second law of thermodynamics or entropy, or what I synonymously call atrophy of materials. However the consequences of “Continuous motion” are the virtual equivalent of perpetual motion, and the results obviously – speak for themselves.<strong> If possible, which I currently surmise, then this reality changes the playing field for everyone toward a fairer and more balanced world.</strong>
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<br /> <strong> - But I do dream… </strong></div><strong><div align="center">
<br /></strong>I would really like to work with someone on this aspect of generating energy from energy. That simple. </div><div align="center">
<br />If any of you know of an institute of science where a lay person can share their ideas please refer me to that organization or individual. This will seem very farfetched, I am certain, but in this Universe of many unknowns, the impossible is possibly possible… That is one of the lesson’s I learned from reading some of Dr. Michio Kaku’s books…
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<br />Sincerely,
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<br /></div>russotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240697229473787570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290462389546694225.post-15448162263378122382009-11-04T14:50:00.000-08:002009-11-10T12:13:52.342-08:00Science: Is infinitely more than it seems...<div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Science: Is infinitely more than it seems…<br /></strong></span>[ Classic (Macro world) and Quantum (Micro world) ]<br /><br /><strong>They underpin one another, but they are not based on the same math or logic. They are distinct in dimension [Period].<br /><br />I do not expect anyone who does not follow physics and especially theoretical physics to read this BLOG.</strong> Theoretical Physics is hard enough to follow, let alone understand, as it has its own language and bizarre concepts that actually defy the logic of the world we live within. For instance, the concept of “Entanglement” whereby micro-sized particles millions of miles apart respond to one another or communicate as if they were local to each other, whereby the speed of light does not apply. This is a proven phenomenon, also known as locality and non-locality behavior. The jargon of classical mathematics and quantum mechanics or the macro and micro worlds do not operate the same. This is of a confusing level, much as the concept of “infinity” is an impossible term to grasp. [ That of which has no beginning and no end. ] But I am printing my thoughts here for the few of you who may be involved with quantum physics and may be able to possibly forward my thoughts on to a forum that may take up the issues I raise below. It is my shot in the dark – to convey issues that have since my early adolescence captured my imagination. In the coming weeks, I will be refining my thoughts, and looking for a scientific journal or BLOG to hopefully publish to. And I do hope some of you find it of interest…<br /><br />So read at your own will. As I have stated the language and concepts do really require some background in this bizarre field of “quantum mechanics” to really even get close to grasping what is being explained. Coupled with the fact, that I take my own liberties with my own conceptions to further confuse the issues. However my goal is to clear up, what I believe to be some former misconceptions.<br /><br /><strong>The search for the “unified theory of nature or existance” is a fickle road in conventional terms.</strong> Quite simply because we live within an existence that is inscrutably possessed of “Infinity”. Infinities - cannot and will not succumb to classic mathematics. In fact classical mathematics breakdown and are void, outside of the macro-world or the real world of objects that we live within.<br /><br />We also live within the “micro-world” or “particle-world” of quantum mechanics, that are the building blocks of our object world, made from atoms, quarks, electrons, photons, and so on, along with the world of what is known as “entanglement” and “superposition’s”, that defy all classical or common logic. Quite clearly, just as infinity does, if you try to extrapolate, or describe it in exposition or in mathematical terms. It simply will not, and cannot be done.<br /><br />That is why I would call the quantum world, which underpins and creates our “real world”, the 5th dimension. In other words: There are the 3 physical dimensions (up/down,back/forward,side to side), plus time, plus the quantum or infinity realms, that are separate dimensions in my view. And both the macro and micro-worlds contain the Four-Forces we know of in the physics world, as the “strong, weak, electromagnetic, and gravity forces. These forces are the glue and engine of the dimensions we exist within.<br /><br />I would also add 2 sub-dimensions to the quantum world: Number One: <strong>Particle</strong> and Number Two: <strong>Wave</strong>. These are the transmission modes of the micro world. And they do behave quite differently, and often in tandem, unlike they always do in the macro-world or object-world we live our daily lives within.<br /><br />1. Quantum Particle transport is based on the speed of light as defined by Albert Einstein.<br />2. Wave transport, I would argue, is a continuous (connected method of transport) that allows for “Entanglement” to occur. (In my opinion) Quantum Entanglement represents the concept of “infinity in action”, it is a non-locality based transport that is always connected, as if all separated objects were based on the concept of “locality”. Waves are connected, making the notion of “Everything, Nothing - and Nothing, Everything” all at the same moment in time. This is where classical math breaks down and we have to rely on a new methodology and understanding of time and space, hence “Infinity” to describe existence per se. It is that complicated and that simple. Or Indescribable…<br /><br />Secondly, for accuracies sake, there may be 5 or 6 more dimensions if “string theory” is correct, but those are of the quantum micro-world, bound to the indefinable quantum dimension we are infinitely bound too.<br /><br /><strong>• I am a layperson with a basic understanding of the world in which we live. And these realms or dimensions are the basics, we are both simplistically born into, and currently all capable of understanding. But understanding is a qualified term, as some things can and cannot be understood: The paradox of life…<br /></strong><br />With the passing of <strong>Time</strong> which is a misnomer in its own right, given the “special theory of relativity”, for which I will explain in a moment, we will expand our understanding, thus increase our knowledge of the forever and infinitely non-understandable. That is the ultimate truth we are compelled to, as finite beings, existing within an infinite realm. “Simply: We are always and infinitely expanding our knowledge.” In other words, some things <strong>Are Not</strong> understandable, given that you are a finite being within and infinite realm. Finite by definition cannot grasp the infinite. This is more of a philosophical point rather than a mathematical, but they are synonymous. Synonymous, due to the fact that classical math as I have stated before breaks down at the point of some aspects of the quantum world and its “entanglement” or infinite underpinnings that allow our world, or our very existence to occur.<br /><br />I will use time, as we have defined it in classical mathematical terms to illustrate, at least to me, that our perceptions of time today through the lens of Einstein’s special relativity is not accurate.</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><br /><br /><em>As I explain my thought processes, keep in mind what I have said about the “Quantum” and the “Relative” worlds, or the “micro and macro” realms of physics: They are different in virtually every way. The macro and micro worlds are affected differently by gravity, by the tandem travel of waves and particles in the micro world, and by entanglement amongst other inscrutable behaviors. They are of two dimensions, if you will. Think of the very famous thought experiment of “Schrodinger’s Cat”. It is a bogus argument, because it involves both the macro world of the “Cat” and the micro world of “quantum mechanics” to enable the description of the cat being both alive and dead at the same time, or in a superposition. This can never be, as superposition’s and entanglements are restricted to the quantum or micro world of atomic particles. This is what has been done with speaking about an astronaut traveling at near the speed of light, and behaving the same way as muons, or electrons do. It is a spurious scenario, that continues to mislead us, as we explore time and space. Simply put: macro biology or physiology, does not change with velocity, outside the normal changes that gravity imposes on impacting heart or breathing rates. Yet we have continued to discount or ignore this monumental difference when we engage our mathematical or particle experiments. It is comparing apples to elephants!<br /></em><br /><strong></strong></div><div align="center"><strong>Time:</strong> The notion of time as changing due to the speed of travel is a misguided concept. It is accurate in theory, but not in fact. My Theorem: “Time is immutable, just as space is. Both are underpinned by infinity and quantum mechanics, which dismantle classic mathematics and physics as we might hope to simply define them.” This is a simple theorem, that speaks clearly for itself. In other words “time and space” are fixed and outside of our finite understanding. They do not change, as “Special Relativity” implies, by curving or slowing down or speeding up dependent on speed and mass. They can be described as such in a quasi-manner, but in fact they remain as they are. Infinite and inexplicable.<br /><br />The current understanding of time is based on mass and velocity, or Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, but time is again, as I said immutable, and subject not to the speed of an object, relative to its mass, but to its mass alone, subject to gravity. In other words all objects will not slow down or speed up based on the speed by which we travel. The current experiments that use atomic clocks: One clock stationary and the other traveling at high speed and then are used to measure their times which are logically different, is fatally flawed. Time is effected by way of atomic clocks, simply by the gravity or mass it experiences within its travel. Again in other words, if a clock is traveling at a high velocity, it experiences greater gravity in a shorter period of time, which alters its mechanical functions. Time does not actually change only the forces of gravity that impact its mechanics changes. Thus slow down or speed up its time actuations. Time remember is immutable. [Period]<br /><br />Time has been manipulated by mixing the dimensions of Classic mathematics and Quantum mechanic realms - as if they were one. They are not. This has distorted our perceptions of the immutable and unchangeable nature of time and the notions of a curved space. [ Classic Relativity and Quantum mechanics are unique and distinct. That simple, and this premise of confusing the two with the same assumed mathematics has miss-led us, very understandably, but also, very obviously. ]<br /><br /><em>I will attempt to give an example:<br /><br /></em>We need to first dispel the notion of curved space. This is another concept derived from the concepts of the speed of light and mass. This is not the truth of our obscure and infinitely indescribable existence.<br /><br />It seems to me that Time and Space are immutable. Contrary to current belief, they are as fixed as the cognitive notion of existence itself, or as immutable as the fixed solution to a geometric equation.<br /><br />Time and Space have been determined to be changeable based on velocity and density, and consequently marry up into the term timespace. The singular term has merit, since combined time and space are the common objects of physical dimension as we understand them. But the notion that time changes and that space curves are relative ways for language only to express the effects of gravity on those elements of energy and or mass.<strong> Curved space</strong> and <strong>Time Running Slow</strong> are even poetically acceptable terms, but not physically accurate facts.<br /><br />Light only curves as would any other object of mass, when gravity impacts it. Without gravity it would not so-called curve. To be less confusing about what physically takes place during the curving of light is to describe the impacts of gravity on any object as simply changing the objects direction, due to the force of gravity. You may want to call this “curved space”, but it only convolutes a simple picture into an unnecessary description, that obscures classical physics.<br /><br />Likewise the experiments that demonstrate time slowing down is a misguided misnomer. Time does not slow down, whether at the Event Horizon, or with an atomic clock running under different velocity from another atomic clock. Simply the mechanics of the (macro/micro) particles that operate the measurement tools (clocks) are impacted by gravity via high velocities and thus slow down both the quantum and relative pieces of mechanical matter that operate measuring devices. Time is not slowed down. Matter is slowed down, by physical forces. Matter is not time. Time has no mass, i.e., it does not curve.<br /><br />Time and Space are physically immutable. It is surprising to me that this simple fact seems to elude us or at least I have not seen it explained as such.<br /><br />Even more surprising to me is that we have not harnessed continuous motion with the natural forces in the universe as we know them. I do not call it perpetual motion, since all mechanical matter decomposes (wears out) and replacement is necessary, so perpetual is somewhat of a misrepresentation technically. But continuous motion seems to be a reality that I have several ways I could explain to make this possible without fossil or other material fuels. Yet I never see much on the subject other than – it cannot be done because it violates a thermodynamic theorem? I would note if our theorems are based on the logic that “matter is time”, therefore time slows down, then I rest my case.<br /><br />Please also see this article, where the second law of thermodynamics is challenged: <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-nature-breaks-the-second-law">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-nature-breaks-the-second-law</a><br />This article further supports my premise regarding “Energy” and its continuous potential.<br /><br />I have detailed out how to provide for “continuous” motion and would like to work with someone in this field. I hope you find my explanations above of merit, so that I might find someone with the mathematical background, that I do not have to work with me on this project, along with the funding necessary to achieve this relatively simple goal, using natural forces. I do have another BLOG called “Smart Energy Now”, that touches the surface of this subject.<br /><br />Thank You,<br />Russ Otter<br />Email: russ@otterworks.com<br />November, 2009 </div>russotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240697229473787570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290462389546694225.post-40212038858369082622009-09-16T13:36:00.000-07:002009-09-16T16:03:48.936-07:00<strong>Economics ?</strong> ( It is not Either / Or )<br /><br />I have heard the debate for my 58 years on this planet, regarding Capitalism and Socialism, and would be left adrift by the black and white, absolutisms, defining the characterizations of these two economic systems – if it were not for my own presumptuous common sense. Note: I am not an economist, save my own personal common sense. Which many will no doubt - object too!<br /><br />I will be very pithy in this blog, compartively speaking, based on my past ramblings: America is both capitalistic and socialistic within its approach to running economic policy. Neither economic position, i.e., Capitalism or Socialism is in and of itself - a panacea for perfection. Both systems fail miserably when implemented as standalone economic policies.<br /><br />America has chosen wisely, to operate with the best of economic philosophies as a hybrid of socialism and capitalism. We have private enterprise, and ownership, but regulated to allow for competition from the startup’s and small ownership operations.<br /><br />If any of you remember, when the J.P. Morgan’s and the Rockefellers nearly owned this country or complete industries, we had a situation that was true capitalism, whereby the most powerful could economically crush the small and the weak.<br /><br />During the riotous times of establishing unions at the beginning of the 20th century, and with the help of the U.S. Congress in the 1930’s we implemented “Regulations” that subsidized the small businesses and rural land owners in order that they could both be provided services, i.e., telecommunications, and other utilities at rates far less than a free market would have allowed for. This regulated approach allowed for expansion and growth of so-called free markets within our great country. Free-markets are a misnomer, as they only exist because they are subsidized by the wealthier and more robust commercial operations, such as urban cities or highly consolidated industries produce.<br /><br />In fact when the old “Ma Bell”, (telecommunications industry) said they would submit to regulation in the 1930’s, it was thought to be "capitalism heresy", but it helped create a country with universal communications and services, not seen anywhere else in the world. Which by the way improved our national defense and overall security and fairness as a nation. As an example: It may have cost 10 million dollars to set up a communications switch in a rural town of only 200 people, which could never afford to pay for such a communication system in a life time, but due to “regulated monopolies” being established that took greater revenues from the business and urban clients and used the money to support “universal national communications” we succeeded with a socialistic methodology tied hand in hand with capitalism.<br /><br />In a pure capitalistic society we would not of achieved the success we have produced, and would still be a land of King’s and Paupers. In equal contrast: In a socialist economy, we would be a lazy, un-incentivized and a mediocre society at best. It takes two to tango, and we did so by working with both economic models, those of capitalism and socialism. Taking the best of both worlds and philosophies…<br /><br />To live with belief systems that are only black and white, to believe one system, or political party or economic philosophy is sacrosanct and always better than the other, is misguided and myopic thinking. We as a sound nation of sound values - are a coalition of taking the best of all worlds, philosophies and economics to find a stable, productive and realistic world. It is not always fair, but fairness is the objective, never a completely satisfied end.<br /><br />Pragmatism is the order of the wise, just as absolutist, or black and white thinking - is the order of ignorance and of the self-serving.<br /><br />Thank goodness we took the path of common sense, and not ideology, through much of this countries improved growth and development.<br /><br />Both our capitalism and socialism are what has made this country great economically. Even so we are now faced with globalization, and that means consolidating our larger industries to become soundly and resolutely competitive abroad. This will put a wrinkle in our previous histories economic growth, but as long as we use both our heads and our hearts with liberty as our backbone, I hope we find the right mix of economic formulas to help lead the world to even better days of universal freedom and a fairer economic playing field for all.<br /><br />If any of you reading this have an amplified view, I fully encourage you to enlighten me and others in amplifying both your knowledge of finance and your perspective… I certainly do not have all of the answers to fairness, which is probably a misnomer, in a world that feeds the strong off of the weak. But I can always hope we work towards a better model for all…<br /><br />The world is a project in motion. To believe that a single philosophy will be an end-all - in an imperfect world - is to hope for the impossible. Even though that is the utopian goal we should always work towards. Albeit ubiquitous fairness and utopia, are not of this world… We should still - never quit trying.<br /><br />At any rate, we are a combination of economic practices in this great country, and to deny that is to be naïve. Just as supporting any one or single economic philosophy is just as equally naïve…russotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240697229473787570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290462389546694225.post-60616894331187419712009-09-15T13:58:00.000-07:002009-09-15T14:26:12.118-07:00<div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><strong>Smart Energy Now<br />Natural Forces in nature provide multiple endless Energy models, without expending fossil fuels. Is anyone willing to work with me, who has a physics background? </strong></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><div align="left"><br /></span><strong>What will it accomplish?</strong> </div><div align="left">Evolution on a monumental scale. Migrating from a fossil fuel world to an automated world devoid of expending fossil fuels. It will overnight, in unbounded terms, provide universal energy to the entire world, not just the industrialized nations or emerging nations. It will provide a unifying playing field for the people of all nations to find more common options in which to better communicate and improve our common understanding and standard of living. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><em>Note: Even I believe these ideas sound as if I have a large dose of megalomania lodged into my grey matter, but it simply needs to be tested and moved forward. Even if I am only 90% correct, it could change energy production as we currently understand it today. </em></div><div align="left"><br /><strong>Why is it important?</strong></div><div align="left">To improve life, to advance conservation of precious fossil fuels for other uses. To change the world and provide it with greater possibilities. To liberate. As well as dramatically control carbon emissions from the planet, coupled with enabling universal energy to all individuals or societies who either require or desire it.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><strong>What are the anticipated outcomes?</strong><br />Virtually near- free recycled-energy and or regenerated energy, provided by the current clean and robust elements of energy, such as “gravity”, “electrostatics”, “magnetism”. And all that implies.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><strong>What will be its enduring impact?</strong><br />Forever alter the social structures and thereby the social requirements of the world. In other words energy provided on an equal playing field for all people will in effect tie us all closer together in function and in equal choices. It would theoretically replace monopolies and cartel’s with freedom. As well as being groundbreaking for all of physics, and all sciences in general.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><strong>Further Project Description:</strong></div><div align="left">This project began with me as a child, trying to figure out how to automatically run my tricycle and my little green army jeep that required peddling a wheel or armature bar to turn the wheels. I was obviously a lazy kid that did not desire to labor too much – taking too much physical laboring to peddle thru the sidewalks and streets - in my youthful days! I remember constructing the concept, using magnets, and then let the idea fade as I entered school and grew-up as a young man going to school and then on to my working career. Just before I retired, I was still intrigued by the idea, and began to construct the project in my garage, with some success. However I soon realized I needed a physics partner with a background in electronics, especially electrostatics and the mathematics to aid in the assumptions as well as scribe in the language of science - the calculated results. And as I knew that would take some higher levels of mathematical language, certainly beyond my expertise. </div><div align="left"><br />These multiple ideas of automatic energy, from my youth that I mused about, once detailed will give away the intellectual property, to anyone with a hint of conceptual capability. I am very willing to give the intellectual property away, but would like to work on the project.</div><div align="left"><br />In simple terms, you may think it violates the fundamental thermodynamic entropy theology, which we have all been indoctrinated with. By the way I consider thermodynamic science more a theology and manifest scotoma in our lexicon, rather than a fact. In my own humble opinion physics is incalculable, and to rely on definitions, is to limit physics or existence itself. Neither have limits, therefore - in my puny assumptive world – Physics is forever a living definition, as well as a fixed proof. Much as “Infinity is both sides of the same coin – at once.”</div><div align="left"><br />Therefore I will fundamentally argue that thermodynamic entropy is relative for “like” for “like” kinetic actions: which will diminish “force”, as it today properly outlines.</div><div align="left"><br />However if you change the “Like for Like” concepts when generating energy, you change the rules by which “thermodynamic entropy” was developed. In other words, If you use two dimensions to generate kinetic energy, complemented in equal response to <em><strong>one dimension</strong></em>, generating its own energy. You alter or augment the output energy produces. Hence the “like for like” action = reaction is modified and the results are not like for like. Action can multiply Re-action. This provides for a gear ratio that augments energy output using natural forces. As well as other forces (fossil fuels too.) </div><ul><li><div align="left">This process using natural forces, such as Electrostatics, Magnetism and Gravity, among other natural stores of energy in a form which is non-relative or in other words using a differential gear –ratio that trumps lost energy. Does so by way of leveraging dimensions<strong> </strong>and gravity. Thus it changes the scientific or theological rules that constricted the methods used to define generic thermodynamics. In other words thermodynamics becomes truly dynamic, rather than static.</div></li></ul><p align="left">My clumsy written formulas: ( See D, G, 1D, CM, etc. definitions below )<br />1. Electrostatics created by: D² + G in Linear 1D = CM<br />2. M+ (+ & -) + G = CM * Note, Electrostatics could be included to augment output.<br />3. Combination of both formula’s to leverage ultimate energy output potential.<br />D = Dimensions G = Gravity CM = Continuous Motion E= Electrostatics 1D = 1 Dimension </p><p align="left"><strong>Simply stated: It combines linear and non-linear actions to produce energy that is continuous.NOTE: Two basic methods: 1. G&E (Gravity & Electrostatics) 2. M+G (Magnetism & Gravity) </strong></p><p align="left"><strong>Stated in another fashion, there are 2 forms of possible methods: 1) independent of electrostatics which uses Gravity and Magnetism) and 2 with the use of electrostatics in combined ways to achieve natural energy from natural forces:<br /><br /></strong>1. Form: A Uses Dimensions x 2 (Down and Side to Side) run by Gravity (Non-Linear) generating electrostatics combined with a linear (Up) Dimension. This Linear and non-linear interaction provides the mechanisms to create a gear ratio that multiplies itself. Hence you gain continuous motion which could then provide for heat and other outputs to generate endless energy.<br /><br />2. Form: B Uses both positive and negative Magnetism in graduated powers, to direct motion in an upward direction opposing gravity, and then uses electrostatics captured in the downward thrust to leverage additional energy, and then re-deployed again and again by magnetism alone in an upward motion. Note, the “electromagnetism” is not necessary, but a natural benefit that should be leveraged from the simple process of motion ( That both Gravity and Motion provide for).<br /><br />Variations of these forms of operations are dependent on mechanical engineering.</p><ul><li><div align="left">Additionally, electrostatics can be enhanced by using a circular glass ball for instance, with other internal triboelectric materials to augment the energy produced beyond the direct gravity effects of tribolelectic stimulus, using for example a Teflon tube and a glass ball. These two materials: 1) “<strong>Glass</strong>” and 2)”<strong>Teflon</strong>” are near opposites for electron transfer on the triboelectric scale, which generate electrostatics. The electrostatics would be captured within a capacitor for electric generation.<br /><br /><strong>NOTE:</strong> I use the term “continuous motion”, vs. “perpetual motion”, since all mechanical matter decomposes (wears out). Perpetual is generally an accurate statement, save matter decay; for which at that point – motion ceases.<br /><br />Thermodynamics fundamentally proposes that you cannot squeeze blood from a turnip. Or in other words, energy depletes, and will not sustain itself. But if you change the mechanical genetics of the turnip, you can. Metaphorically, and practically that can be accomplished when Energy and Matter are merged together in a completely clean and virtually innocuous manner. Simply you apply 3 dimensional forces in a manner which leverages 2 dimensions against or in complement to 1 dimension. <strong>Nature working at its best. That Simple.<br /><br /></strong>With the “continuous motion” of matter, then heat or additional motion receptors can be activated generating excess energy, superseding the level of energy required to generate this continuous motion of matter. Thus continuous energy is produced by way of natural forces: (Gravity / Magnetism / Electrostatics).<br /><br />Sounds highly improbable – given current thinking, but intellectually it is quite plausible. I would like to work with a lab of scientist’s to pursue this objective, as I have outlined above. It may seem obscure, but once I share the simple mechanics of this idea, I hope you will find it of interest and most importantly possible. If it is possible, the world changes. I know it sounds in large part to be more than just a bit delusional, but even if we leverage 90% of this potential, we succeed beyond what exists today and provide for the clean and necessary energy the world depends upon.<br /><br />Thank You,<br />Russ OtterCopyright 5/2008 ©<br /><br /><strong>Ultimate objectives and gains:<br /></strong>Secondarily this project, if actualized, would certainly secure a Nobel Prize, due to its unique utilization of “continuous motion” and would therefore support the investment returns to the philanthropists and scientists involved. Foremost it will be “humanity changing” for the good. Providing a leap in the advance of science and living standards for the people of this world. It will expedite the integration of humanity buy tying us together via sources of energy necessary to improve communication and common living standards that would better integrate the world. Coupled with the saving of fossil fuels for other uses, combined with less pollution. And in that process it would hopefully improve understanding and common cause among us all, rather than living with the continuing social divides that hinder those decent objectives.<br /><br /><strong>In sharing this BLOG on the potentials for energy production with new methodologies, it is my objective to hopefully find someone seriously interested to pursue these ideas.</strong><br /><br />Simply and profoundly that is my end goal.<br /><br />If you know of anyone, such a University Professor of Physics, or scientist at JPL or NASA - that just might prove very helpful!!! * Also if you know of any forums where this would be an appropriate subject for discussion, please point me in the correct direction. Additionally, if you believe me to be nuts, you are certainly entitled to comment and I will publish that as well… Thanks to all. As the subject of improved Energy is a subject the human race needs to boldly look for solutions to embrace, in both smart and aggressive manners.<br /><br /><strong>Final Note:<br /></strong>By the way, a recent article is just as heretical, to scientific tradition, as my position is. The article recently published in “Scientific America” (Oct 2008) is also about the breaking of the second-law of thermodynamics: You may find it interesting: <a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-nature-breaks-the-second-law">www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-nature-breaks-the-second-law</a><br /><br />In other words I am not alone in my views regarding the breaking of the second-law of thermodynamics, albeit these are premised on different methods.<br />PS… If you find much of this over your head, please allow me to join in your company… All of this thermodynamics stuff, is largely just stuff to me too, however it carries weight within mathematical and scientific circles. My point is that you do not need to be a mathematician to have ideas, and conceive of the possible. The right brain conceives the left brain proves… I need someone with a left brain, as my higher math skills and understanding of simple electronics need some help! And it is often true that two heads are very often better than one.<br /><br />These concepts are actually basic, and the mechanics I have in mind to build a working model, would not be difficult given access to scientists in the area of physics, and electrostatics’ along with some very common materials.<br /></div></li></ul>russotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240697229473787570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290462389546694225.post-20961534966595183302009-09-11T18:19:00.000-07:002010-10-02T11:24:02.535-07:00On a lighter Note: 40 year HS Reunion and a Poem from my youth...Rambling in the moment, foggy it may be, but truthful it remains...<br /><br />I attended my 40th High School reunion last month, and it drove home to me some superficial and deep memories. The ups and downs of my life past and present and an overwhelming since of a word that seems to run so much of our lives. And that word is “Acceptance”. At least within my own personal ruminations from my life.<br /><br />Acceptance as a young person was a big deal, and still to this day. However it is managed differently, with the maturity of age, or so-called hidden maturity we call our age… “Acceptance” seems to balance the prism of so many values, both of vice and virtue - that measure our actions with both ourselves and with others. Other important and simple but related and profoundly valued words, such as “Forgiveness”, “Humility”, “Caring”, and “Acceptance”, just plain and simply resonated with me as I reviewed my old friends and moments past, and these old friends in the present.<br /><br />So this is my experience as I reflect from that High School Reunion: The simple word of acceptance, which extrapolates far beyond the plain and simple - or beyond just itself.<br /><br /><strong>So what do I mean? I am not sure I can tell you, as my rhetoric is full of ambiguity, as usual, but full of its own poetry, in a form of its own Prose. So bear with me as I ramble on… Poetry and Prose or perhaps </strong>“iambic pentameter” is the thrust of my expression. It is meant to coin or congeal a moment of thought, in simple poetry and expression that captures a feeling, an expression of time, a moment of importance and value, all in a phrase of mere words, rather than a banal phrase of sense… This is the poetry of the moment, of the caring, that transcends common spirituality, but embraces the heart of spirituality… You must understand it, not necessarily believe in it.<br /><br />But I will share some of my rambling thoughts, along with an old poem, that this reunion brought to mind, that I wrote as a youngster at about 20 years old, that speaks of acceptance of self, and for the hope of acceptance from that mythical valentine we all sought, and much, much more, as I see it…<br /><br />But it is all trite, to be very real about it all. Still, trite or not, it was this reunion of thoughts, or moments, of the trite and the profound, all scrabbled together into a moment, that tied the past and present into a legacy, we all will leave someday. One way or the other we will leave a past, either of value or not.<br /><br />In other words this poem, for its youthful simplicity, is profound in its scope. It touches that fulcrum or prism I spoke of that touches the spectrum of values we are all innately engaged within. Some of us possess, simply better luck and skill than others, but still, it is of arbitrary sensibilities, that we lay claim to personal success versus failure. In other words, some are born with the silver spoon and in the right geographic place on this planet to live a relatively fanciful and joyful life, and some simply are not as fortunate. It is always that simple, save those who believe hard work is the only genie of gold that made their life so pleasing or the lack thereof…<br /><br /><strong>Neither truth stands on its own, but truly both have merit.</strong><br /><br />It is finding that modicum of intellect within yourself or your peers if you expect to have a sound discourse on this issue. Life is arbitrary, life is random and life is blessed for some and lost for others. It is - the way it is. No excuses can change that truth.<br /><br />But I digress… So here I go with my rambling of acceptance and its importance, which is so central to all species. At least the older I become, the more it becomes more apparent. As anyone who has read my other rhetoric on values, clearly knows that I believe in the Golden Rule as the fundamental guide to a good life, but even the Golden Rule teeters on this fulcrum of life’s truthful sense of finding acceptance, forgiveness, and the willingness to care for others.<br />Acceptance? Acceptance of self, caring for others, caring for self, and our ego’s are all wrapped up in the same ball of wax… Sort to speak… Acceptance, and Caring are the spirituality that really only matters to our momentary existence.<br /><br />I do often speak in riddles, as you can tell, as my words speak for themselves. However riddles are sometimes more telling of the truth, Far more telling than implicit ideological fixations based on the fanciful world of ideological faith and wishful belief’s.<br /><br />Still all is fair in an unfair existence, of which we are born into. For every child that smiles, there are probably 10 that cry. That is a statistic that is hard to dispute. And for good reason. The world or existence and the crap shoot we are involved in - by way of life – simply is not fair. It can be no other way. It can be improved upon, but for genetic mishaps, and the nature of imperfections or superior perfections, life is – simply – what it is. And fairness is the myth of the miss-given… Critically thought out and logically speaking.<br /><br /><strong>But kindness can trump unfairness. </strong>Both Kindness from within and from without.<br /><br />However, such kindness is too few and far between, but none-the-less such kindness is the gold standard of living a good life. And I mean also the personal kindness of accepting our fortunes and misfortunes by way of humility and valuing the honor of working well, toward a happy life, and an accepting life.<br /><br />The finest people in the world, are those with genuine crosses to bear, and they bear their crosses with “acceptance”. Beyond all expectation. That is the true gold standard, that those of us, such as myself, that live here in the United States, in a virtual Disneyland, compared to the squalor of so many on our planet, are by the shear math of the issue, are implicitly bound too. I am ashamed at how I often may squander my days with my sense of mistakes or superficial issues, which pale to real hardship.<br /><br />Heck guys – we all live in Disneyland… We should never forget it.<br /><br />So with my Disneyland analogy I will cease and desist, with my riddled dribble, that I hope some of you will find of value, and now share this simple poem of spying a person across a room and wondering, in sometimes trepidation, fear, and awe, due to acceptance of self, and the search in ourselves to cross that bridge at some point - and make a life move positively forward. Still whether we move forward or struggle to do so, we learn and grow, and consequently come to know acceptance of oneself in the process.<br /><br />So without further pedantic dribble, here is the less than awe inspiring poem that came to mind at my High School Reunion as I thought of my youth and of the words I use to write, looking for answers to my own direction…<br /><br />Please do not fault me for being naïve and simple… It is the way of growth, and will continue to be…<br /><div align="center"><br /><strong>Across the Room </strong></div><strong></strong><br /><strong><div align="center"><br /></div></strong><div align="center"><strong></strong></div><div align="center"><strong></strong></div><div align="center"><strong>I saw you today, in the rear of my thoughts, in my fantasy, in my subtle battle of needs, which are in essence vain not loving. - But then needs are undeniably selfish. </strong></div><strong></strong><br /><strong><div align="center"><br /></div></strong><div align="center"><strong></strong></div><div align="center"><strong></strong></div><div align="center"><strong>To really love is to meet without desire, without pretense, within common goals directed outside the passions of personal attraction. </strong></div><div align="center"><strong></strong></div><div align="center"><strong>So that personal desires are not the initial impetus but rather secondary blossoms of the vine. </strong></div><strong></strong><br /><strong><div align="center"><br /></div></strong><div align="center"><strong></strong></div><div align="center"><strong></strong></div><div align="center"><strong>Wherein the initial nature, character, principle and common atmosphere to which you met is not overridden or altered in a vain pining effort to please.</strong></div><div align="center"><strong></strong></div><div align="center"><strong>Albeit to please is the truest of joy… </strong></div><strong></strong><br /><strong><div align="center"><br /></div></strong><div align="center"><strong></strong></div><div align="center"><strong></strong></div><div align="center"><strong>But none the less – you are a little dawn, a fantasy to reap, a novelty of mind, an experience to feel and oversee – and see myself. </strong></div><strong></strong><br /><strong><div align="center"><br /></div></strong><div align="center"><strong></strong></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><strong></strong></div><div align="left">Russ Otter, as a youngster, and even today… </div>russotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240697229473787570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290462389546694225.post-5640649582853834112009-09-11T18:07:00.000-07:002009-09-16T16:16:26.139-07:00Open Letter to the U.S. President<strong>Open Letter to the President of the United States<br /></strong><br />Oh’ I am going to catch hell for this letter to the President, but I have had enough – of the forked tongue and divisiveness in America, let alone the world. I am done, listening and not standing up. Both to the juvenile media (for the most part, (editorialized as it has become)), and to the slippery-slope of pleasing everyone seemingly supporting our President.<br /><br />So here I go:<br /><br />I voted for Barak Obama, as did my wife, but in our opinion, the manner by which he has appointed his Czars: The most recent being the “Green Czar” and in so on, along with other radically divisive thinkers, breaks my heart, my hopes and worries me for the future of our country, as well as the world. Even the US Attorney General, who has his own peccadillos to account for seems uncompromisingly self-righteous and unforgiving, which is not the manner by which a giving and thoughtful country behaves. Alas, we as a country seem to show little deference, and consideration, that bore our foundations of understanding and humanity as we developed our U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.<br /><br />I voted for Barak, because, in my honest opinion, he was about Humanity, not about Race. It was inspiring and refreshing, save a few nut cases in the wings pushing the race card, that surrounded him.<br /><br />Barak campaigned on a color-blind non-racial platform, devoid of affirmative action quota systems, that Dr. Martin Luther King would have denounced, had he remained alive for many years after his death, and certainly had been alive today. Dr. King is a historical <strong>HERO</strong> of mine, that few, I believe really understand, as he worked for the <strong>Civil Rights of All,</strong> not just the few.<br /><br />Martin believed in hard work, standards and values, but understood that those who had been spit-on and down-trodden should have some recourse to pick themselves up. As I remember in the early 70’s, the second in command at the NAACP, resigned over the notion of quota systems to balance past wrongs. He knew as Martin did - <strong>that two wrongs do not make a right.</strong> As he, said, we should not just put people into positions of leadership or grant educational gifts, without merit. That what was needed for people who were forlorn and disenfranchised, is a system of remedial education and standard building to prepare them for the future. “Quote, we should not lower standards, if anything we should raise them”. To lower standards for admissions or promotions would be unfair to those who through no choice of their own had proper opportunities, but also to those of less than adequate opportunities. We need a middle ground that maintains standards, but offers hope to those, denied common opportunities in the past. In other words, if someone could not pass an SAT (Aptitude Test for College acceptance), they needed to go to remedial courses funded by the state to prepare properly, not let them just walk through the gates of education and deny others who possessed the proper skill sets, to fairly sit in a classroom. Dr. King knew this: That the Civil Rights legislation of 1964 was to make “color blind” our Starting Point for All, and that only testing and the capability of an individual would be the prerequisite for achievement. No one should receive extra tally points due to race or gender. [Period]. That was what the 1964 Civil Rights legislation was implicitly all about, if not in explicit word, implicit in intent.<br /><br />The 1964 Civil Rights legislation, said that any individual denied the opportunity to a promotion or to an acceptance to a college or other position of leadership, who qualified on objective criteria, that had been discriminated against based on race or ethnicity would have the right of the government to intervene and that right corrected, through a term it called “<strong>Affirmative Action</strong>”. It could have been called “Assertive Action” or anything else, but its sole intent was to remedy individual discrimination based on race.<br /><br /><strong>That was only right. </strong>But the implementation of the government, mandated that racial percentages constituted, racial fairness. (In other words, any work environment, educational institution, or team in theory should have racial proportionality in the working ranks.) That understanding plainly violated the US Constitution and the civil rights legislation of 1964, that Dr. Martin Luther King worked so effectively and properly for.<br /><br />That one simple little paragraph, that used the phrase “affirmative action” in the 1964 Civil Rights legislation, turned America’s standards and values upside down. That was not its intent, nor Dr. King’s, - but that is what followed.<br /><br />It is a disgrace that we use the race card today to justify, such discriminatory actions, as proper. I only wish, with all my heart and soul that Dr. King were alive today, as he would not have supported this divisive behavior of race based actions, that are again tearing this nation apart and violated his whole and honored proposition in life, and the US Constitution that he worked to change for the absolute better: Dr. King’s proposition was that: “We do not get extra merit points for race, but only for merit.”<br /><br />I voted for Barak Obama, because I saw a different approach to this issue, as I believed he truly saw the merits of hard work and standards that Martin saw, and was trying to move us forward, not backward in the arena of race relations. But with his appointments to key positions, by what I would loosely speaking call reverse-racists from the other bitter side of the equation has disturbed me. This may set us back 20 years, toward division, not toward unification, as humanity, in terms of race and the goal of fairness in all of our human existence.<br /><br />Our President may lose my vote in the next election, unless I see him speak out forcefully for the true humanity of all of us in the honored and wise vision, Dr. King had, and others of his stature throughout history, that I believe true and honored leaders called for. That being, of true spirituality, of caring, of fairness, of acceptance and love of others, based on objectivity, and wisdom, not based on absolute laws and rules that deny our very humanity, through the one-eyed vision of race or even certainly gender.<br /><br />I have heard leadership politicians of late, who happen to be of all colors in the spectrum of race, suggest that people who disagree with Barak, do so because they are racist. This is the rhetoric of ignorance. As a matter of statistics that would be true, but in the smallest of measures, and to use that minority “race card” to color white or Asian, or Hispanic American’s as racist, who by the way, just elected a man of African background, among other backgrounds - is dirty, swine filled politics - of the lowest most cowardly, chip on the shoulder of politics I could define.<br /><br />Let’s kick these race-baiters and race-players out of office and support the values of Dr. King and others who would fight to the death their values for true fairness, standards and love.<br /><br />Mr. President, you need to speak up and tell these people to evaluate their behaviors, and stop contributing to a divisive America, rather than a Unified America. If you do not, then the climate of change, I truly believe you sought will die, my hopes will die, along with it your Presidency and the hope of a world in need of real, genuine and decent change. Oh’ and we do need the Change!!! This change is not easy, but imperative and it is now been given to you to lead.<br /><br />I can only hope you do - lead in the direction of the truley great leaders of our history. I in large part, I voted for you to bring about this change, but am currently disappointed. Clearly though - I have not given up. Please, hold on to your wisdom, your unique integrity, I know you possess deeply in the core of your being, and prove me, oh’ so very wrong… I thought I knew you, but I am questioning myself now. Please, please prove me in error. I really think the world of you, or at least my conception of you. I wish you every, absolute success. It is imperative to this world.<br /><br />This world needs unity, not division, needs caring, not disregard, needs hope for others, not assumptive hate, and ill-will, that helps no one. When we care for someone, we are uplifted. We need to try it sometime, and this world will perhaps change. <strong>But leadership – is no small part of that equation.</strong> And you Sir are our leader. I wish I had just one hour with you to discuss the merits or your Presidency and the value of your family and administration. You all mean so much, please do not roll over for the historic and understandably bitter of mind - but rather carry forward with your deep capabilities. It means everything… You are in a unique position, with a unique wisdom that transcends self, and I deeply care for your success. If squandered – so be it. But if managed well, the world evolves beyond the common, and finds its stride to the greatness, you alone may only be capable of providing.<br /><br />Take the stand, and do what you know is right. You alone have in today’s world that capability.<br /><br />Very Sincerely,<br />Russ Otterrussotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240697229473787570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-290462389546694225.post-56074044039447913512009-09-11T14:29:00.000-07:002009-09-15T14:24:37.345-07:00"It Only Takes One Thing"<div align="center">What a World it is - What a world it could be…<br />It only takes one thing: “The Golden Rule”<br />The Golden Rule is “Ethics”. It stands irrefutably, indelibly and infinitely - on its own. Devoid of the need for support from culture, religion or politics…<br /><br /><br />It is agnostic, theist and antitheist seamlessly strung together in perfect sympathetic union, as it is no respecter of personal dogmas. “As such the Golden Rule – is Ethics personified: The Common Denominator that merges diversity into unified form: The true ether of sentient conscience.<br /><br /><br />Nobel Prize laureate Albert Camus said that “Integrity has no need of rules.” I understand the ethical intent of his point, when based on the golden rule. But to even be more precise I would say that the “Integrity of ethics has no need of rules.”<br /><br /><br />What a world that would be…<br /><br /><br />The reason I added the word “ethics” in the quote above, is due to the fact that the derivation of “integrity” comes from the Latin, meaning “individual”. The inference being that an “individual” is not subject to changeable fair-weather conventional thinking, but is first and foremost “independent” and therefore can be trusted, simply because social-conditions will not change a true individual. But clearly - they can be trusted to be both good or bad - based on ethics. In contrast social-conditions will often change a person, who lacks integrity, whose beliefs and behaviors are based on outside sources, fads, whims, cultural, religious, or political dogma’s. Hence Integrity and Ethics must be in union to effect goodness and disband the need of rules. As George Bernard Shaw would have stated it: “People are not moral, merely conventional.” An individual or someone with “integrity” can be trusted, as in contrast, a conventional person would be less reliable. Hence ones ethics would be respective of their conventional or individual (integrity based) dispositions.<br /><br /><br />Clearly as a result of the importance of integrity and an understanding of the issues I will explain in the following paragraphs, the only moral absolute or ethic, I can, with logic, envision is the “Golden Rule”, as that is a principle based on circumstance or context, rather than fixed dogma.<br /><br /><br />I believe that integrity and the golden rule are in lockstep in order for sincere virtue to manifest itself. As they are the embodiment of our core ethical or spiritual teachings central to our most decent and altruistic leaders throughout history, coupled with the personal nature of sentient knowledge within our stand-alone individual selves.<br /><br /><br />All other moral absolutes, that are written as one-dimensional concepts, such as “Thou Shall Not Lie”, are based on strict un-equivocating and unyielding adherence to a principle, a rule or law. Such absolute concepts that ignore the value of context, or the variables and nuances of actions or circumstances, all fail to define the true facts of actions or events, with results that derail the presence of truth and promotion of human dignity. For instance, the premise of “Do not kill” is a moral absolute, however, I believe pragmatically that killing may become the less of two evils, if by my actions of killing one person, I can save millions of lives. I must out of moral duty; relinquish my moral position of not killing someone, for the good of the many. This type of killing is not born out of the vices of revenge, or selfish motives, but out of charity and kindness. Such actions are only executed out of the fundamental notion of the Golden Rule.<br /><br /><br />A simple example of this type of moral action would be: If I was a pacifist, but was told that I had the opportunity, without any other options, to pull the trigger on a rifle that was fixed on a terrorist, who was only seconds away from pushing the button to blow up a hotel with a 1,000 innocent lives in the balance, I would have to pull the trigger and kill.<br /><br /><br />As a result of the example above, I am in practice - executing the principle of “the one for the many”, while at the same time I am sacrificing my pacifist absolutism. This is an act of pragmatic judgment, incumbent upon ethical sentient beings. Therefore any personal, cultural, or religious opposition to this ethical position should be discarded from all human discourse.<br /><br /><br />This position does not set well with those who operate by way of singular ridged positions, suggesting that Honor is Honor or the Law is the Law, without the notion of give and take. In other words: Absolutes are unequivocally Absolutes: Or in the vernacular of our current day: “Zero Tolerance” is commonly stated as the only acceptable approach to address a particular situation.<br /><br /><br /><br />Well, I would say both: yes and no, depending on context, to such absolutes and self-righteous moral rhetoric. That is the fundamental reality and conundrum that language seems to confine us to: (Yes and No, Either/Or, and Black or White), seemingly fixed positions, but only if we allow it to be so. Ideally, we must make judgments about our moral positions that sometimes conflict, with our so-called moral positions in order to truly be moral. In other words, to stand pure to a belief, that restricts pragmatism, and the exercise of human judgment, is to relegate humanity to being no more than thoughtless drones, devoid of integrity or virtue. Virtue is self-sacrifice, even the sacrifice of moral conviction, if it means that the outcome will benefit goodness in the end.<br /><br /><br />With our basic common sense we know an honest person and a dishonest person, a loving action and an unloving action. Sometimes both decent and deplorable actions - require guile and disguise, sometimes they require humility and raw truth from our behavior to secure decent results. (White lies and lies are actually different, but again, that does not set well with a moral absolutist, whose honor is based on a strict code of one-sided conduct. Hence:” thou shall not lie.”) This type of moral absolute position is fatal to the ultimate premise of decency given the fact that there are distinctions in the function and purpose of a lie. That simple. For instance: Some lies can ameliorate the unnecessary harshness of facts that would unnecessarily make someone who is emotionally ill even more despondent and potentially cause them to harm themselves or others or even to commit suicide. This type of lie is no less a lie, but its intention is kind and moral.<br /><br /><br />However what happens when you try to convince the politically correct, a true red-blooded-brain-dead-bureaucrat, or someone with deep personal, cultural or religious absolutist-zealot tendencies of this type of measured judgment and decency that must be applied to human thought and action? Often very little. But we all, I believe, should continue to try, because without uplifting the education of the world to thinking-critically, in the moment, rather than relying on the traditions of the past, we very well may condemn and destroy all of us, and at the very least will indirectly cause harm to the many innocent, who are killed by fanatics – through our otherwise inaction.<br /><br /><br />We all see it today with suicide bombers, maiming and destroying in the name of Allah, and we have seen it in the past centuries as well from various religious and secular structures. But with one grave difference, there were no weapons of mass destruction from centuries past. Give it some thought…<br /><br /><br />And give this quote some thought as well: “The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.” - Socrates<br /><br /><br />The current ignorance that is so endemic in our global social fabric, is born from the past abuses of power and from mankind’s early mythologies and superstitions used as poor substitutes for knowledge and science to make sense of the fundamental unknowns of our universe. In today’s world such ancient early foundations for truth and knowledge continue to dismantle “goodness” by way of such ignorance. Tragically with a world of new technologies that contain weapons of mass destruction – it only takes one individual, (one bit of ignorance) to harm us all.<br /><br /><br />Technology has changed the balance of power.<br /><br /><br />It is no longer an advantage for an aristocrat or a king or queen and the powerful and mighty of this world to indulge in keeping the masses ignorant or pacified in order to manage with hopeful and wishful calm. Ignorance today has within its control - the power of the mighty and powerful of yesterday, but with less to lose. So the ignorant of today will commit to mutual destruction, unlike those of the past whose knowledge, wealth and means, kept them relatively less committed to mutual destruction.<br /><br /><br />Such absolutists, and bureaucratic policy-fixed thinking, or in other words, rigid thinkers, that do not value the context of an action are the province of many groups; such as the politically-correct, often of the naïve, immature, or a secular and religious fundamentalist, who will rally to an issue to an extreme whereby all rationale is lost.<br /><br /><br />It is also important to recognize that conversely and ironically however absolutists are sometimes equally honorable sincere people too, who simply hold to altruistic goodness.<br /><br /><br />As such we live in a confounded world of paradoxes. Language (words) keeps us consorting with all sorts of strange bed fellows (people & principles), seemingly defined by the same terms, when we communicate with one another. This very truth, this reality - is a vivid and insidious contrast for the wise to understand; and for the unwise and selfish to demagogue about, through rant or rage - to ad nauseam, and to the ultimate destruction of moral ethos.<br /><br /><br />So how do we get a handle on this diverse melting pot of contention between adversaries, or philosophical opponents? Well we may never. But that does not mean we should not continue to try. In other words apply the ethic of the golden rule, when confronted with an obstacle, a dilemma, and a conundrum. Think about how you would operate if held to that standard. The standard of wanting to be treated with altruism, with goodness, with understanding first and foremost. Then proceed with your judgment or hopefully understanding that is then manifest at that point in your analysis, and thus your behavior.<br /><br /><br />Understand that both virtuous or infamous principles are not always black and white. Common sense, and sound pragmatic action, sometimes requires behaviors or actions that are nuanced or mitigated, not absolute. While absolute principles such as love and hate are fundamentally black and white positions, they require the common denominator of Reason to measure how we apply them to a given situation.<br /><br /><br />Simply seek out and find companions in this world - who understand life, not the ones who judge it - and you will find the infinite - indefinable essence of goodness and justice within humanity. Know that words cannot do justice – in always defining justice. Perception and actions combined are the purest measure of a decent person – of justice itself.<br /><br /><br />As you look to the law and written values to define behavior, look to the nature and constructs of balance that have been added to law, such as the principle of “jury nullification”, or the “doctrine of equivalents” within Patent law, as well as other balanced mechanisms that attempt to arbitrate law through judgment, not through cultural, moral or technical rule-based absolutes. These constructs, such as “jury nullification” or the “doctrine of equivalents”, allow for the superseding of the “rule of law” to be subordinated by the arbitration of duly appointed arbiters, should fairness and justice be better served. In other words, the law ideally is written to be addressed when the “intent” of the law is violated, not the “letter” of the law. To determine this distinction requires one to arbitrate wisely, hence use balanced judgment - and nothing less if you expect the law to emulate fairness and truth. Law based on rules only – is harmfully shallow, empty and wanting, when justice is the goal.<br /><br /><br />Differently said, balance is the key to success in all things, not commitment for the sake of commitment and adherence to technicality. That is the road to war, not to union, not to productive communication, not to understanding, and not to humility that bears all things decent. In other words, laws, and rules, in their wisest application, are used as guidelines, that hold to the “intent” of the law or rule, rather than to the technical “letter” of the law or rule.<br /><br /><br /><br />We as a species are so much more than the sum of our words, we are the sum of our understanding which stretches beyond the confines of mere words. As words by themselves are a finite vehicle that have lent themselves both to good ethical behavior, but as well – to artfully pandering shamefully in the name of truth through demagoguery or cultural, and ideological paradigms. Simply because something sounds good or obvious, or traditionally true - does not make it so…<br /><br /><br />Do not let words wrap you up into one-dimensional boxes. Words often have far more to express – through a broader understanding of their definitions - than by holding onto a myopic view of what a word or words singularly and theoretically appear to mean. Words are often multi-dimensional, not one-dimensional. For example, it is often brought up in religious or theological conversations that “truth” is either fixed or it is relative.<br /><br /><br /><br />I would argue that truth is both fixed and relativistic; the two are not mutually exclusive. What is true yesterday, and today is also true tomorrow. But that truth is based on how a set of circumstances impact an event. [ Please refer to the example above in paragraph 8 that looks at the principle of “Thou shall not kill or lie”, and yet may be required to accomplish the pragmatic fundamentals of the Golden Rule.]<br /><br /><br />My point is that words can tie us up into illogical knots, and as such, unethical behavior, if we allow them. Words are tools, not fixed absolutes. When we use the often one-dimensional notion of words, as a truth descriptor to try and describe situations - that are actually multi-dimensional when viewed within context - we do an injustice to the actual event or situation being described. Words at their best are actually multi-dimensional when we apply measured judgment and reason and understand the full context of a situation. The truth is words are not the “thing” (situation/event) described, words only represent. (This is fundamental to understand.) Unambiguously we must be wise in our application of words, and the weighted values we afford them, if we are to judge accurately and fairly in this life.<br /><br /><br />The nature of words (etymology) is both precise and imprecise, based upon an individual’s perceptions, and this variability will bear both fairly and unfairly on the truth. Certainly words are society’s organizational tools, and certainly the tools of any decent social structures foundation in law. The wrinkle in this reality is that the facts of law and the necessary understanding of words – are often variable in both intent and meaning.<br /><br /><br />This variability of words has become the laws, and a lawyer’s tools, as they try to define contexts and circumstance, underpinning a behavior or action. Sometimes lawyers use words to tie truth up into a fixed, seemingly immutable, box while their counter-part may argue with the same words but with different frames of reference to clarify their perceived truth and expand that same so-called immutable box of facts.<br /><br /><br />Again, words are not the truth, only events are the truth. And to understand events we must use words to communicate, but balanced with the mathematics of human intellect, based on objective values founded by the “golden rule”, to affect justice. In order to actually experience and know truth.<br /><br /><br />Jurisprudence in its highest and most noble of forms understands this principle behind the specter and shadow cast by the circumscribed nature of words. Hence the notion and beauty of arbitration emerges, which attempts to bridge this breech between the words of the believed-obvious (perception) and actual balance of reality. Arbitration is our ultimate means of delivering thoughtful and proper justice. Ironically arbitration can be used through words to deliver the opposite result as well. But, I would defer to educated objectively trained arbiters, and intellects - for a lack of better terms I suppose, before I would defer to traditional rules or the dogmas administered by ideologues in all matters of value and objective truth whenever we use words as our truth seekers or descriptors of un-biased cultural humane values.<br /><br /><br />This is the foundation of the Golden Rule and why integrity, not conventionalism or tradition is incumbent upon every individual to personally define and operate by, as long as it is premised on the Golden Rule. Traditions are invaluable, but they are only hopefully sound building blocks for behaviors, not always ultimate panaceas.<br /><br /><br />We are the actions of the sum of our parts, of our histories and traditions. Ideally those actions produce goodness through the golden rule, rather than selfish gain that has been often bred through the so-called goodness of ideologues, religions, or cultures behavioral absolutes. However you do not need culture or religion to operate by the integrity of the golden rule. There is no other conscious constant in the universe to live by – if you choose to be decent and loving - beyond this single and humble truth, called the Golden Rule, which all sentient beings are knowledgably endowed with. If you believe anything of “Maslow’s” studies of human motivational hierarchy, then at a survival level, perhaps many humans behave as selfish animals, but at the higher modes of psychological functions we are enabled quite consciously with the humanity of the golden rule.<br /><br /><br />All great decent leaders in history and current times lived by this non-hate, non-warring notion whether of ancient past great religious names or of our contemporaries, such as the current Dali Lama, or Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King. We would do well to follow such ancient or contemporary leaders, in their wisest moments, by way of their loving altruism. As to do so, would be to follow and embrace the truth of decency, genuine generosity, rather than selfish centered judgment, and thereby manifest genuine goodness, rather than political correctness or static ideological fundamentalism disguised as goodness.<br /><br /><br />To follow any other edict in life beyond the golden rule, such that would do unnecessary harm to others, is to follow evil and unnecessary destruction, which will never enable you to embrace the sincerity and holiness of truth, or the power of forgiveness and goodness.<br /><br /><br />In other words, we as a world community need to commit to goodness not destruction, not to dictators, or religious ideologues, or to ancient perhaps well-meaning cultural traditions, but rather first and foremost - commit to ourselves to care for others - rather than harm them. To find our integrity, in order to do right. There is no other way.<br /><br />No other way - to be sincerely kind or decent… And all who will tell you that there is another way - are wrong, perhaps, well intended, but they are wrong.<br /><br /><br />Again as I think of the great and decent loving leaders from our history and those from our current times; and you all know their names, which embodied love for others, by turning their cheek, or insisting on goodwill toward others. They first and foremost where not slaves to the leadership of their contemporaries foolish, selfish, or destructive dogmas. In fact some of these leaders were thought to be heretics by the secular and religious establishments in their own times – due to the fact, that they were leaders, who broke with convention, as they implicitly and foremost operated with their integrity by way of the Golden Rule.<br /><br /><br />Hence if we lived by their guidelines, we would no longer be the hypocrites we are or harm others in the name of God, Allah, religion, culture, politics, or tradition.<br /><br /><br />What a world - that would be.<br /><br /><br />It only takes one thing…<br /><br /><br />Russ Otter 2008 </div>russotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240697229473787570noreply@blogger.com0