Friday, 10 August 2012

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND - CLIMATE CHANGE

 

“July 2012 - For several days this month, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland, from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its two-mile-thick center, experienced some degree of melting at its surface…    ….According to satellite data, an estimated 97 percent of the ice sheet surface thawed at some point in mid-July.”

NASA scientists first reported an unprecedented meltdown then thought it might be faulty data.  It matters because when the 2.2 million square kilometres of snow and ice, rising up to a mile high on Greenland melts, sea level will rise dramatically.  When the 13.8 million square kilometres, rising up to 3 miles high on Antarctica also melts – the sea will rise by about 300 ft (113 metres).  Governmental and commercial pressures to resist all thoughts of change and focus on “business as usual” censor such facts and, Canute like, push them a hundred years into the future.  If your home is below 300ft, as are 80%, follow the NASA link and judge for yourself.

My climate-change e-novel, Out of the Depths (Print version, Over the Rainbow) tracks migrants from the flooded coastal margins and concludes there is no hiding place for highlanders or lowlanders. If you live on a mountain, try stopping 5.6 billion desperate refugees from joining you.


Thursday, 9 August 2012

CREATURES OF LIGHT – DYNAMIC UNIVERSE


It is little wonder that friends tell me to get a life and get out more. For our vacation I took five popular science books on the physics of the universe, including an old cartoon ABC version of Einstein’s Special & General Relativity in which I had once managed to scribble the maths of E=MC2 …and understand it. Einstein’s “Special” theory shows that the speed of light is the only fixed “dimension”, whereas height, length, breadth and Time vary. And his later “General” theory shows that gravity bends space-time around massive (and presumably small) stellar objects.

I also re-read Professor Frank Close’s book The Void, which brilliantly explores vacuums, waves and the basic stuff of the universe. Closest to my heart however is The Goldilocks Enigma by Paul Davies, who starts by berating scientists who hold that the universe is ultimately pointless and meaningless. He explores the great mystery of how the universe on micro and macro scales is right for life, those ubiquitous delicate, complex, vulnerable, sentient creatures, including humans, usually mixed with water, that survive and emerge from cauldrons of exploding supernovae, zero temperatures (-273 degrees Kelvin), and survive crooked bankers and politicians.

This holiday reading confirmed that my speculations on Life, The Universe and Everything are still consistent with mainstream scientific thinking. It is still viable to assume that we are Creatures of Light, literally made from compressed light, immersed in an expanding sea of perpetual but dynamic electromagnetic holograms of the entire universe – The Aether-Matrix – and that all things, life and we broadcast our every motion, including brainwaves, into the Aether-Matrix, which in turn is informed and reformed by this feedback. We are literally and scientifically, Creatures of Light in an ocean of light. And, judging from Evolution, school leaver’s achievements and ever improving Olympic performances, we incrementally grow in ability. Whatever will become of us?

And …our personal brief life electromagnetic broadcasts, scientifically speaking, persist until the end of days; and affect the entire universe.  So – let us make them count.  



Monday, 6 August 2012

CAPITAL IS ON VACATION


On return from holidaying in France, the land of revolutionary democracy, where they really know how to permanently turn aristocratic heads; newspapers report that the new aristocrats, super-rich villains, have hidden $21 trillion in tax-havens, courtesy of crooked banks. This is an advance on the $18tn reported in 2009 by the OECD – and shows it is increasing by one-trillion-dollars a year. $21 trillion will clear all the national government and banking deficits worldwide.

The whole $21tn should be clawed back to the nations the cash was gouged from over the past 30 years. No new legislation is required. The governments, secret services, international banks, industry and auditors know where the loot is stashed. All that is needed to solve the global money crises is for back-duty-tax assessments to be raised under existing laws on all “offshore” funds, trusts, charities and other funny money hoards. The required (100 years old) laws and precedents exist across the world. In tax law the hoarders are guilty until proved innocent (prove where the asset came from and that tax is paid). This massive collection cannot be trusted to the usual tax collectors; e.g. the UK’s HMRC is infiltrated with tax dodgers and its courts with biased “offshore” judges at the highest levels. New “tax-clean” special task forces need to be recruited from the intelligence services and incentivised with collection commissions.

Governments in the USA, UK, Europe, South America, Japan, China and the Pacific Rim have no reason to delay the repatriation of the $21tn; to be invested in the home nations now; to make sustainable jobs for our unemployed, our students and the next generation. Ask your elected representatives if they or anyone connected have siphoned assets to tax-havens. And tell them to get our capital back to work at home.

TAX-STRIKE: The alternative is for everyone to ape the rich and to withhold all their taxes.

Friday, 20 July 2012

WE DESIGN THE DYNAMIC UNIVERSE


Mrs Trellis of North Wales writes: “My grandson, Owen Llewellyn-Jones is a tutor in particle-physics, at The Great Orme University of Llandudno, and he’s never heard of a Dynamic Universe; at least not affecting Wales. He says it is either steady-state, Flat; or contracting, Closed; or expanding, Open; – like that lovely Dr Brian Cox says.” She challenges… “And my Owen says the Universal Constants are constant. Can you really, really, really explain yourself this time.”

Well, just before my summer Blogging-Break – this blog will resume in August – here goes.

The Universe, our mutual home, is an infinite (as far as science can measure) energy field. The energy field is The Aether, or my Aether-Matrix, or the Higgs Field. Everything, including ourselves with our intelligence and sentience (ability to feel), emerges from the field. Logically, the field is endowed with the seeds of all the characteristics of all phenomena, including human intelligence. The field is Light. It must be sentient to give rise to sentience. A field has no parts – it “feels” all activity across the whole field.

Logically, and scientifically demonstrably, the field changes as stars, galaxies, planets, atoms, black-holes and people precipitate from the energy and become matter (though still of and in the field). Matter is highly compressed light. We are highly compressed light. We are creatures of light. Light includes all radio frequencies and waves; it carries information, light is a data carrier. Ask your Optic-Fibre broadband salesman.

Just as we are precipitates from the field, our actions, every minute action, make radio waves that broadcast data and information back into the field. Your every thought is on permanent record and cannot be deleted from the universe. This data in-forms and re-forms the field. As far as science knows, radio broadcasts are perpetual – hence we can still see (light from) the first galaxies broadcast 13.7 billion light-years ago. All things in the field broadcast their activity back into the field at all times. The first episodes of TV’s Coronation Street now impact a sphere of 50 light years radius.

Thus the field, the stuff of the universe, from which we are made or make ourselves, is constantly changing. As new phenomena emerge (say, a new baby) they come from the re-formed and in-formed field. The universe evolves. It is dynamic not inert; not clockwork; not fixed by immutable laws. Just as the universe makes us – we make the universe. As we are wilful creatures and have intent, we can most probably make our future, not have it dictated by mindless wandering cosmic pebbles and casual particle collisions in deep-space.

The Universal Constants that science brilliantly discovers, do not govern the universe, they are characteristics of the universe. As the universe changes, the Constants change; but stay in balance. From our time perspective, in our really, really, really short lives, the changes are interminably slow – and barely detectable. We are blessed with mysterious Gravity that makes things happen, and with mysterious Intertia that stops things changing. We, collectively, have time to think in our Dynamic Universe.

As the pinnacle of creation (as far as we know), as the most complex thing in the universe (so far), our feedback is particularly influential. Think good thoughts.

Your opinion is important to us. Before you die, please fill in the Feedback-Form and hand it to a flight attendant.

Next blog on 7th August.  In the meantime – repatriate our $18 trillion from the tax-havens.

Thursday, 19 July 2012

A PERSON OF UNIVERSAL CONSEQUENCE

Man is half-way between the smallest and largest phenomena

Does what you think and do matter? As an individual, are you of any consequence at all? Will your brief birth, life and death on our bejewelled blue planet, one of a billion, billion globes in infinite space-time, have any impact or meaning?

Such questions are beyond the remit of today’s science. Science regards life and humans as messy, confused and confusing. Until little green men invade Earth in their starships and then are followed by a scientifically forecasted and anticipated second alien invasion of life forms, science sees living forms, life, as an accidental, one-off aberration. To science, life is no more than a mix of chemicals, usually with a bit of water, which will, one day, be created in test-tubes – shaken not stirred, into life. Even the divine Professor Brian Cox, dream pinup of all the women in my physics class, tells us smilingly that the universe, and all of life, will scientifically and inevitably and unstoppably end in Heat Death; when all matter will spread out into the lightless, limitless void and no phenomena will exist. Doom, Doom, meaningless, purposeless Doom.

Such thinking is utter scientific nonsense. It is based and extrapolated from the understandable desire of scientists to pin things down, to fractionise, atomise and analyse using universal laws that do not change in the middle of their calculations. Such doom-laden Heat-Death prophecies are conceived from juggling with the same rules and regulations that lead us back to The Big Bang. Physics relies utterly on The Universal Constants – and scientists pray fervently that while they are engrossed for ten years in fiendishly difficult calculations, say to weigh the observable universe, the damn Constants will damn well stay constant. But they do not.

The missing ingredient in today’s scientific models is the obvious, demonstrable scientific fact that the entire observable universe is suffused with radio signals – with electro-magnetic fields – with light in all its manifestations. We, and everything, are made of compressed light, which vibrates at millions, probably billions, of diverse wavelengths and manifests particles such as photons and electrons (and The Higgs). We, and everything, broadcast electro-magnetic signals; either originating the signals from primary energetic events, or, as in interstellar clouds of hydrogen gas for example, altering the signals as they pass through. All these signals are scientifically detectable – even from the edge of the observable universe, more than 40 billion light years away. This is the universal field of energy and its manifest phenomena.  So where do you and I come in?

As far as science knows today, we humans are the most complex (and intelligent – though that’s sometimes hard to credit) product of the universal field and its mathematical Constants. We choose to gather energy, to collect photons, to compress them, to integrate into a well tested pattern, to be born, to walk, talk and watch TV, and to die and disintegrate and shuffle-off this mortal coil – all in the blink of an eye. Our brains, which extend throughout our bodies via the nervous system, are fantastically complex, run on a 10 to 75 watt circuit fuelled by food, and they ceaselessly broadcast radio signals – some of consequence – whether we are playing football or translating hieroglyphics. Everything you, and we, do and think and say is broadcast and recorded, till the end of time, in the universal field, by the field being altered. Your tiniest movement and thought makes an impact. You are of consequence to the universe. It remembers you.  

These signals, like all radio, stream into the universe at almost the speed of light and they scientifically, undeniably, demonstrably alter the existing energy field (now perhaps The Higgs Field – my Aether-Matrix). What science currently lacks is to hold in mind that these “new” phenomenal signals constitute a feed-back mechanism into the field, which have to be accommodated by the field. Recognition that the field is sentient not inert and dumb, and that the field in turn gives birth to all phenomena, will illustrate the circular nature of nature. The natural laws, the Universal Constants, change as the field evolves through all the events and experiences in the universe. The wonderment of scientists at the incredible precision of the Universal Constants and how they create the exacting Goldilocks conditions necessary for matter and life to exist is more readily understood when such circular feedback is accepted.

We do not live in a Flat, or Open, or Closed universe (“Open” means ever expanding unto the Heat Death), we live in a Dynamic Universe which adjusts its parameters and Constants micro-second by microsecond.  “Nil Desparandum” Professor Cox and Co. You, and we all, are immortal – as broadcasting stars.  

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

WEALTH FOR OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN

18 July 2012. Letter to: The Guardian
GET THE MONEY BACK!

Barclays (and other banks) & Libor, HSBC & drug barons, London City’s alleged losses in 2008/09 of £52,000 per UK home, ditto on Wall Street, false-accounted bankers’ “bonuses” over 30 years, £300M gift to G4S (off-shore?), obscene gouged-out corporate “rewards” (off-shore of course), bent ministers & civil servants joining government out-sourced contractors, ex-PM’s paid 30 pieces of silver off-shore, major tax-dodgers installed on the UK HMRC (tax) Board, alleged JP Morgan $5.7B London losses (with UK tax relief?), pension-funds nicking an extra 1% annually, the OECD’s estimate of  $18 trillion illicit tax-haven funds, etc.

In all the media reporting of monstrous, obvious graft and corruption, I have not seen a call, by politicians, FSA, SEC, Mervyn King at The Bank of England, the Fraud Squad, lawyers, economists, religions, moralists or ethicists for what the villains most fear - confiscation and claw-back of the ill-gotten gains, for the public purse.

E.g. The billions of Mexico/USA border cash, courtesy of HSBC, probably came from drug sales, mostly on USA streets, to South American drug barons and back for laundering, tax-free, into OECD economies.

Most of this defrauded, false-accounting loot sits in tax-havens. Use back-duty tax laws, guilty until proved innocent, and gun-boats if needed, to quickly get the stolen trillions back, repair all national deficits, and secure our children’s futures.

PS – Beacon of Hope - The good news is that the bold, brave media still reports all this crime.

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

I NEVER ASKED TO BE BORN - THE FIFTH FORCE



This morning I was struck by a crossword clue involving genes and genetics - the governing patterns of our bodies. We all have them. We are all the same. We are all made of the same stuff. But all are subtly different. Most living forms have genes; simpler forms have DNA or RNA or just fantastically complex arrangements of molecules. Our DNA is made of four chemicals - molecules. The molecules are made of atoms. The atoms are made of sub-atomic particles, including the now notorious and infamous Higgs. The sub-atomic particles are made of Light (electro-magnetic spectrum). Suns, planets, moons and asteroids are made of chemicals and atoms. There are about 130 different atoms in the Periodic Table of Elements. All this energy and matter is organised by just four fundamental physical forces - Gravity (which we do not understand), Electricity (with magnetism), the Weak Nuclear (holds electrons in atomic orbits) and the Strong Nuclear (compacts atomic nuclei and explodes in atom bombs). Science likes to regard these four forces that sculpt the universe as non-sentient, essentially unchanging and reliably inert. Though there are some very big pieces missing from the scientific jig-saw, the four fundamental forces can be calculated, juggled, jiggled, confined in test-tubes and extrapolated from. They always behave as expected; expected by us; expected by our intellects; intellects powered by our fleshy brains with 100 billion brain cells and 100,000 billion connections - which are made of atoms, organised by the four fundamental forces we study. 

But, if all things are made of the same stuff, and patterned by the same forces, what makes them different? What power gives them separate identities? What force injects identity and sentience into matter? My pitch is that there is a Fifth Force, the Lifeforce, a force that organises; a force that creates, that modifies by dynamic feed-back, and that records and holds the templates, the blueprints, the designs of all phenomena in the entire universe. Such a force is magical - we conjure it into existence with our imaginations - and it is ever-changing the essential templates, applying information from the universal field that I call the Aether-Matrix. Such universal fields are old scientific concepts - rejected through lack of instruments that can detect them. This Lifeforce, this bringer of identity and recorder of experiences, would be the very essence of energy and matter; it would be essential. And implies that the entire universe is a living, sentient entity - not an inert mass of stuff, mindlessly, unconsciously, unintentionally pushed and pulled, gathered and dissipated by Gravity, Electricity, The Weak & the Strong Nuclear forces. I guess that the universe has intention, has purpose, has sentience, has intelligence; and we are a vital, intentional part of its magical matrix. We humans emerge from the Aether-Matrix through self-intention. We do choose to be born.

LIFE THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 2011:

www.noelhodson.com/index_files/Life-Universe-Everything-8Mar2011.pdf