The Tenth Dimension...And Beyond

A few months back I got a link from my friend to Imagining the Tenth Dimension, something which I had never thought about in such terms but this animation totally blew my mind wide open. So here is "a new way of thinking about time, space, and string theory"
but while doing some basic research about the Tenth Dimension I stumbled upon this website where in the 5th comment, the commenter mentioned that there were now 11th Dimensions and if you wanted to know more about string theory to check out a PBS documentary called The Elegant Universe, which I had heard of but never bothered to watch.
So here is The Elegant Universe Part III: Welcome to the 11th Dimension (you can watch part I and part II here)

Or maybe it's Garrett Lisi who has it all figured out with his Unified Theory of Everything and no the answer is not 42 not it's more like 248.
Now if only we knew the question...

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Blowin' My Mind

White Holes.
I don't know how I came upon the subject, I think it was mentioned in some article I can no longer find, but as I tend to do on subjects that I don't understand I used the wonderfulness of google. I came upon this video on youtube, because I think I'm a visual learner sometimes (when I'm lazy), of asteroids being drawn to a smaller high gravity white hole

but that really didn't answer any of my questions so I went to good ol' wikipedia

In astrophysics, a white hole is the time reversal of a black hole. While a black hole acts as an absorber for any matter that crosses the event horizon, a white hole acts as a source that ejects matter from its event horizon. The sign of the acceleration is invariant under time reversal, so both black and white holes attract matter.

I then checked out this site on Wormholes and White Holes that was a little more technical but more substantive. It read, in part

White Holes are the theoretical exact opposite of black holes, and their existence is implied by a negative square root solution to the Schwarzchild metric. The Schwarzchild metric is based on General Relativity, which is time symmetric. This means that the most technical definition of white hole is simply a black hole running backwards in time. It is a location in space time that, instead of being impossible to escape, is impossible to reach.

Under the definition given by the solution to this equation they repel everything, including massive particles as well as photons, nothing can enter them. We have never discovered a white hole, and given these properties we believe that they would be rather difficult to miss. Furthermore, an object that acts in this manner directly violates the second law of thermodynamics which states that heat naturally flows from a region of high temperature to a region of low temperature.

This, however, only applies to our universe. The same equations that suggest the existence of white holes also seem to imply that they exist in a universe parallel to our own, and would exist connected to a black hole by way of a worm hole in order to complete the Schwarzchild geometry suggested by the equation which predicted the existence of black holes. This worm hole joining 2 separate universes is known as the Einstein-Rosen bridge and is one of the most fascinating concepts in theoretical physics.

Sister, you ain’t lying.

And this just totally made my mind go empty with fullness

A more recently proposed view of black holes might be interpreted as shedding some light on the nature of classical white holes. Some researchers proposed that when a black hole forms, a big bang occurs at the core which creates a new universe that expands into extra dimensions outside of the parent universe

Damn I really wish I was smarter. I can't wrap my mind around it.
The Universe is just so.................................................................................
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Midnight Movie Transmission

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it"- Flannery O'Connor.

This is one of those things that fell into my lap almost by providence, or in this case because of a facebook wall post in response to a misinterpreted status, but within 5 minutes I was hooked and by the end I couldn't stop thinking about it, and still can't. I actually debated putting this as my last post on Wednesday so it would have a predominant spot for the Holiday weekend but I knew I would not be able to think about anything else or get it off my mind before then. I've already spent so many hours today following up on some of the salient points in the film and recommended it to a lot of my friends (and I'm sure I'll be thinking a lot about it as I fail to sleep tonight.)

It's Zeitgeist: The Movie and it is one of the most important things I've ever seen. It touches on everything from the founding myths of Christianity to the myths of the 9-11 attacks in order to tell people to not trust everything you're told and to think for yourself!

I'm not generally a conspiracy theory type, though I was thinking about it and realized I believe in Kennedy and King assassination conspiracy theories, and I certainly didn't want to believe all those I deemed wackos who thought that 9-11 was a government job; i may be naive, but I didn't want to believe that our government would just kill 3,000 of it's own people. And yes I agree there are too many times where they use an unattributed voice overs but I was so hooked and already believed in what they were putting forth in Part One that I gave them the benefit of the doubt- well that and I do believe that this Administration would do anything and the immorality of power)

It's staggering and terrifying and devastating. Seriously watch it- there are very few things that I can honestly say blew my mind or changed my way of thinking and seeing the world but this is definitely one of them.
Zeitgeist: The Movie


"They must find it difficult...Those who have taken the authority as the truth, rather than the truth as the authority"-Gerald Massey

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Sometimes I Really Wish I Was Smarter

I've had this for awhile but I didn't know how to fit it in so I didn't. But anyway astronomers have found a gaping hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light years across devoid of stars, galaxies, gas and even dark matter. I really have always been fascinated with astrophysics and the like and the questions it rises (here's my theory on the Big Bang that I first thought about in 6th grade history class: the material necessary for it came from the end of the past universe in the Big Squeeze or contraction or crunch, where all matter in the universe contained itself into that speck that Banged and birthed the Universe and it is a cycle and this cycle of universe birth and death will conitnue for all of time. That's as deep as I can go), and I would have loved to study it but I think the fact I suck at math may hinder me. But it always blows my mind.
The Universe really scares me sometimes and makes my brain hurt trying to think of the scope and size of all existence where a hole that would take light a billion years to go across has just now been discovered.I don't feel this has been made as public and as big a deal as it should be. Just think of the metaphysical leaps and questions that this can raise. There are huge holes of nothingness scattered all over all that we can imagine and more. The Universe the Everything The Endless Boundless in certain parts it's a little patchy. I really wish I was smarter so I could understand if this means that these could possibly be wormholes or gateways/tunnels to other universes and levels of existence. Or maybe we were right when we were kids in elementary school and we hypothesized (at least me and some friends) that maybe the Universe is a piece of cheese (in this case swiss) on a sandwich eaten by an off duty police officer.
And you know how Keanu Reeves is always mocked and ridiculed and deemed to be a slacker intellectually because of his Ted persona. I actually think he may be the wisest of us all and is actually pondering the size and scope and life cycle of the Universe and our infinitely small place in it All you can say when you actually think about it is "Whoa"

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Hmm..Maybe I should have paid attention in D.A.R.E.

then I suppose none of this would be a surprise.)
Bad news all my "seekers of higher consciousness" friends, apparently weed is bad. Not Reefer Madness bad (the stuff in that movie is hysterical, you should see it), but still "harmful" (though if it wasn't would it be as fun?) Anyway a slew of recent studies have shown that one joint does the same damage to your lungs as five ciggies, excuse me cigarettes. (But of course most semi functioning people in society don't smoke five joints a day so the occasional recreationness of weed should be taken into account versus the supposedly more addictive cigarette. ) Not only that, studies now believe marijuana can increase the chance of psychosis later in life.
With scientific research like that I kind of feel like I shouldn't point you to this article from Radar which tells secrets on how not to get busted, incredibly really great tips from an ex-police officer. Its a good read for anyone really. But that would be irresponsible, just as irresponsible as showing you these videos (and more) that you can enjoy while baking or baked. That would just be wrong.


Turn on, tune in, drop out (hmm, they didn't say anything about LSD...)

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Spiritual Mindfuck- The Pale Blue Dot

(i googled blue dot because i wanted some information on the application and I stumbled upon this. Needless to say this is a thousand times cooler.)

The image to your left is called the Pale Blue Dot photo and the faint dot in the middle of that blue outline is the Earth. It is the Earth in a beam of sunlight. It was taken from over 400 billion miles away. The whole thing blows my mind.

From the Wikipedia article:

On February 14, 1990, Nasa commanded the Voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission, to turn around to photograph the planets it had visited. NASA ultimately compiled 60 images from this unique event into a mosaic of the solar system.One image Voyager returned was of Earth, 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometres) distant, showing up as a "pale blue dot" in the grainy photo.

In That dot is all that we are and that we will ever be, all our hopes, and all our dreams. It is so beyond my level of understanding. But Carl Sagan said it far better than I ever could in a graduation address (and we got the CEO of GM; awesome):

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

(here's a video of Sagan reciting it.)



Certainly puts things in perspective. Like everything in perspective. And to think that a planet so small and so insignificant in the span of the universe would be the only one with life seems just a bit more ludicrous. There could be a billion of these "little dots" and with worlds and histories and civilizations like ours that think, that when they look into the dark night sky that there is only emptiness and death, never realizing that we're here thinking the same thing.
The image below is Earth (the smaller, fainter dot at the top) and Mars taken from Jupiter; that really helps to give the tinniest sense of just our solar system.
And though thinking about our insignificance in the greatest scheme of things may seem depressing and nihilistic I prefer to be an optimist. Maybe times people complain that they can't make a difference because the world is so big, but looking here you realize how small it is; you can't be intimidated by something that size. But something that size you should also feel a sense of parentage to and protection towards because it is so small and fragile and it is all we have or ever will. We're all alone, together.

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