How a Giant Telescope Works

From ESOcast, explore the state-of-the-art technology behind the Very Large telescope, which has provided astronomers with an unequalled view of the Universe. To obtain the sharpest images of the sky, the VLT has to cope with two major effects that distort the images of celestial objects. The first one is mirror deformations due to their large sizes. This problem is corrected using a computer-controlled support system — active optics — that ensures that the mirrors keep their desired shapes under all circumstances. The second effect is produced by Earth’s atmosphere, which makes stars appear blurry, even with the largest telescopes. Adaptive optics is a real-time correction of the distortions produced by the atmosphere using computer-controlled mirrors that deform hundreds of times per second to counteract the atmospheric effects.

As one demonstration of its power the VLT’s sensitive infrared cameras, helped by adaptive optics, have been able to peer through the massive dust clouds that block our view to Milky Way’s core. The images, taken over many years, have allowed astronomers to actually watch stars orbiting around the monstrous black hole that lies in the center of our galaxy. It was even possible to detect energetic flares from gas clouds falling into the black hole.

See also:
- Active Optics
- Adaptive optics

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Where are all the Insects?

Fly

Yesterday I noticed during a walk the absence of flies and all kind of flying insects. I posted already a article about the dying honey bees, which is caused by toxic chemical substances and electromagnetic pollution. But I have never seen the total absence of flying insects during this period of time. The weather is warm, the sun is shining, but there are no insects. Nobody around me seems to have noticed that. Do we live in a unreal world, where just computer and cell phones attracts the attention of human beings?

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Conspiracy of Science – Earth is in fact growing

This video is a Neal Adams animation about his theory that the Earth is growing. This collides with the Pangea theory. Watch it, you will be amazed.

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Healing of the Collective Consciousness Field of Mankind

The formation of a real community
The formation of a group is not automatic at humans. Spontaneous targeting – e.g. when finding the proper members of a group to form – seems to be sporadic. The ‘group’ as a higher level entity is the envelop which keeps together the individuals. Until this envelope is not formed, one can find the peoples to be an aggregate and not in a group. But what is the nature of this ‘envelop’? As Didier Anzieu expresses, the most important factors are the network of implicit and explicit rules, the established habits, the rites, the facts and actions with accepted values, which contribute to the formation of an inner space and a proper timeliness (Anzieu, 1984). I have to add as a substantial characteristic of any group a similar sensitivity, sharing some basic elevating or interest-expressing ideas, conceptions and motives to act, and propensity to similar emotional states and emotional drives. Being in a faceless mass, in an atomised society, in the absence of communities, without emotions to be shared, sooner or later will generate stress, anxiousness and tension, deforming the natural states of consciousness, degenerating our mind, which may enhance aggression and destruction. The formation of a real community, giving the frame to a meaningful life, is the task of the present societies.

Natural states of Consciousness Fields
To do this, it would be helpful to explore the physical conditions and physical forms of consciousness, and determine the proper conditions of the natural states of consciousness fields, therefore being able to create physical conditions which may generate favourable conditions to regain our physical and mental health. Learning that consciousness is basically an EM field (which is resonantly coupled to the vacuum field), and its sources are the cosmic systems of Sun, Earth and the Moon (Grandpierre, 1996d), together with the natural sources of the biosphere, especially the natural fields into which we can tune most easily, the physical field emitted by the human organisms, we may be able to measure and broadcast wave fields which heal the stress, intensify, galvanise, correcting the distortions of the natural fields, like stress and alienation, and then to broadcast fields which induce in us urge to participate in the collective forms of consciousness. Measuring the healing spectra of special sites like water-springs, nascent forests, solar and lunar oscillations of the earthly magnetosphere, we may be able to sample them and re-radiate them in forms of Schumann-waves.

Transpersonal Connections
Searching the conditions of the tuning of the individuals to the natural healing EM fields has the same importance as the possible explorations of changes in our EM environment, which do have a healing effect. Psychological research shows that the efficiency of tuning in between different people is determined largely by emotional connections, i.e. transpersonal connections are the most effective between lovers, parents and children, friends tuned to each other. This result suggests that mankind may heal itself if we are able to tune us more effectively to the natural sources of consciousness, to the natural powers living in us, revealing the natural beings behind the manipulated masks which are developed by an unnatural society’s norms, and when our emotional bounds are strengthened towards the wider ranges of our personal existence, towards Nature and the Universe.

Telepathic Theatre
It is suggested that new types of mental techniques may be developed to explore the subjective effects of mental intensification (Grandpierre, 1995c). If Vekerdy (1974) is right and the cathartic effect of the theatre is based on the extrasensory transference of the emotions generated in the actors, we can imagine a theatre in which everybody participates simultaneously. The idea of the ‘telepathic theatre’ suggests a play in total darkness and silence. The actors play the real drama on stage, intensifying their emotions and consciousness, and the participants are measured simultaneously through EM detectors positioned in the performance hall. The facilitation effect of the large number of harmoniously tuned participants could be detected directly.

A New Form of Art
Moreover, in recognising the hidden social drives of human beings, we could mobilise these immense inner natural forces, and as a new form of art, we may invent socio-mental group therapy, when people meet and form a community to inspire each other not with de-intensifying meditation, but strengthening the opposite tendency, the vitality, flexibility, mental intensity and freshness. Certainly, the whole society could got a vital lightning by becoming aware of its real, socio-natural-cosmical nature.

Nature and the Universe
Neural mind is connected to executive functions of bodily changes, an already fixed form of the mental processes. Consciousness, as understood by mainstream science, is an extremely small part of this executive neural mind. Our calculations and arguments strongly suggest, that consciousness may be and, by nature, has to be of a much wider range. Beside the quantitative intensification of the neural mind, we can develop and improve the quality of our brains’ activity, spontaneity, tuning in to the much faster and subtler electronic, EM and quantum-vacuum minds. Consciousness may regain its natural functions only when finding a partnership with his parental, subtler minds, with human communities, with Nature and the Universe.

Source: The Physics of Collective Consciousness, by Attila Grandpierre

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The Electric Universe

Plasma cosmology is a term describing a loose set of non-standard ideas about cosmology, some of which are attributed to the 1970 Nobel laureate Hannes Alfvén. Ionized gases, or plasmas, play a central part in plasma cosmology’s explanation for the development of the universe. Alfvén proposed the use of plasma scaling to describe cosmological phenomena by extrapolating the results of terrestrial and space plasma physics experiments to scales orders-of-magnitude greater, see box.

Some of the ideas of plasma cosmology contradict the current consensus of astrophysicists that Einstein’s theory of general relativity, a theory of gravity, explains the origin and evolution of the universe on cosmic scales, relying instead on the further development and application of classical mechanics and electrodynamics to astrophysical plasmas.

Joining of space plasma filaments

Two plasma filaments joining together ... looks like DNA, right?

One of the most basic and important concepts in plasma cosmology is how plasma filaments combine together to enable them to carry the enormous currents required for plasma cosmology. Assuming an existing magnetic field and two plasma filaments, aligned along the magnetic field lines and each carrying an axial electric current opposite to the magnetic field (i.e. Birkeland currents), and for simplicity ignoring gravity. The currents in the two filaments will produce circular magnetic fields around them, which interact with the current in the other filament to generate a force attracting the two filaments together (use the right hand rule to determine the direction of the magnetic field, then Fleming’s left-hand rule to show each filament is attracted to the other, i.e. “like” currents attract). However, as the filaments move towards each other, the original (or background) external magnetic field and the motion interact to cause a current across the filaments (use Fleming’s right-hand rule, N.B. not the same as the “right hand rule” used before). The current is composed of protons moving in the direction of the current and electrons moving in the opposite sense. The electrons and protons that form this current will congregate at opposite sides of the filament. Using Fleming’s right-hand rule again, the filament motion interacts with the circular magnetic field surrounding the other filament, causing a secondary current to flow at the filament edges, in the opposite direction to the main current (not surprising, since originally we used Fleming’s left-hand rule for motors to determine the direction of motion, finally we used Fleming’s right-hand rule for generators, in the same field, to determine the direction of this secondary current).

Since the electrons move much faster than the protons, the current profile across the filaments will be unbalanced, which means the attraction between the filaments is now offset from their centres. As the two filaments move towards and past each other, the excess charges on the inner faces of the filaments will repel each other as they are like charges. An equilibrium is reached between the repulsive force from the like charges on the inner surfaces of the filaments, and the attractive force from the main (like) currents. The two filaments become twisted together into a rotating double filament, which acts as if it were a single filament and can combine with another filament in the same way. Thus plasma filaments tend to “pinch” together, this being an example of a z-pinch since the current is in the z-direction with an azimuthal magnetic field. Magnetic fields can remove angular momentum, in the same way as stellar magnetic braking does, allowing the pinching to continue, unlike in the case of gravity alone where centrifugal force will eventually limit the contraction.

Interestingly, computer simulations in the 1980s showing the cross-section of two plasma filaments coalescing mimicked the shape of real galaxies, as had experiments done in the 1950s by Winston H. Bostick.

Galaxy formation, active galaxy nuclei and galaxy rotation curves
Supporting evidence for plasma cosmology comes from simulations of galaxy formation by A.L. Perrat. Simulations of colliding plasma clouds, starting 300,000 light years apart in filaments with currents of 1018 Amps, showed many similarities with observations of galaxies. This is a more complicated 3D version of two plasma filaments joining. Basically, the clouds begin to spin and are distorted (because of the same offset forces as in the case of the filaments joining) into two arms, separated at the centre by a buffer region (which corresponds to the gap between the filaments in the case of two filaments joining). The simulations also showed central radio sources of synchrotron radiation and emerging jets of material from the central buffer region, which looked like that observed from quasars and active galactic nuclei, without the need for supermassive black holes required in simulations based on gravity alone. Extending the simulation run time showed “the transition of double radio galaxies to radioquasars to radioquiet QSO’s to peculiar and Seyfert galaxies, finally ending in spiral galaxies”. The simulation accounted for the spin of galaxies (they gain spin at the expense of the magnetic fields), and also accounted for flat galaxy rotation curves without dark matter (the discrepancy between observed galaxy rotation curves and those simulated based on gravity alone had to be accounted for by introducing dark matter). With magnetic fields in play, the spiral arms of galaxies are like rolling springs that have the same rotational velocity along their length, creating in simulations flat galaxy rotation curves in spiral galaxies as observed in nature.

Peratt's galaxy formation simulation: spherical plasma clouds in two adjacent Birkeland filaments of width 35 kpc and separation 80 kpc. The axial extent of the simulation is only 10 kpc, so the formation of a 3D disk is not demonstrated.

Complementing and in agreement with these simulation studies by Perrat was an analytical model of a plasma quasar mechanism by Lerner. This contradicts the standard model of quasars as being powered by supermassive black holes which are illuminated by radiation from the luminous matter they are accreting.

Experimentally plasma filaments are typically 10,000 times longer than they are wide. Thus to form galaxies, the filaments would be 100,000 light years across and one billion light years long, and such filaments would form the large-scale structure of the universe such as the Great Wall: 500 million light-years long, 300 million light-years wide and 15 million light-years thick. Prior to the discovery of the Great Wall in 1989 the mainstream consensus was that at these scales the universe would be uniform, but plasma cosmology had predicted the scale of these structures years before then.

Further readings:
- Collective EM field of the Biosphere
- Rupert Sheldrake’s Alternative Science
- The Joe Cell is a kind of Cyclotron
- Fractal Cosmology

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Reality is created in a Consensus Agreement of all Participants

The idealistic worldview considers consciousness as the base of the reality, which generates dynamically space and time in order to communicate. It is not consciousness what represents an epiphenomena of the brain chemistry, but instead the apparent locality of “objects” or objective reality is the phenomenon which is the real mystery. Quantum mechanics has discovered that every particle is everywhere (nonlocal) in the universe at the same time, as long it is not observed by a conscious being. The act of observation collapses the wave to a particle or the wave remains a wave if the necessary information lacks. So locality is a information, nothing else …?

If Idealism is true, if the primacy of consciousness is true, then why are objects so real? Why does this reality act so stable and not fuzzy like a dream?

The solution lies in the fact that our reality is created in a consensus agreement of all participants. Every observer views reality from a slightly different angle and this contributes to the stability of our reality. Like biodiversity enables a well working ecosystem, so the different observers provides a stabilized framework.

To whom belongs this dream?

On the level of individual created reality, inside our dreams, there is no other observer except the dreamer himself. Therefore this kind of reality is fuzzy, always changing, not stable. But the reality of the wake state, what we know as “physical reality“, is the stabilized reality created together by the collective consciousness.

Can you imagine what would happen if we would agree on a different kind of physical law, all together, everybody in one consensus reality? Would this law begin to exercise power over every individual? From the point of view of biocentrism, idealism and the theory of morphic fields, such a scenario is not just fantasy.

When things went wrong
Creating a reality in a consensus reality has a huge problem: when the majority of the participants has the wrong worldview, reality becomes a trap and not a place where life is beautiful. Long time ago the first human pair decided to make their own thing, rebelling against God. The result was catastrophically for every human. Fortunately every reality which is created based on lies and illusion has a short shelf life (compared to the eternity) and it will perish sooner or later. Every reality has the tendency to decompose, with exception of the one reality which is based on the eternal truth (not affected by entropy). We are approaching now with quick pace the end of the evaluation period of this old system.

… in the context of eternity whatever is imperfect is considered inexistent or corrupt, not worthy to continue to exist forever …

This reality, created in a consensus of people which do not love the truth and questions heavens authority, will fade away and make place for a new reality, a kingdom ruled by God. Can you now imagine what this means? Some physical laws will be altered and eternal life will be possible again. Being thankful means to be completely aware of the truth.

Further readings:
- An alternative way to express ZERO
- Fractal Cosmology

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Holism

Holism (from ὂλος holos, a Greek word meaning all, whole, entire, total) , is the idea that natural systems (physical, biological, chemical, social, economic, mental, linguistic, etc.) and their properties, should be viewed as wholes, not as collections of parts. This often includes the view that systems somehow function as wholes and that their functioning cannot be fully understood solely in terms of their component parts.

The term holism was coined in 1926 by Jan Smuts. Reductionism is sometimes seen as the opposite of holism. Reductionism in science says that a complex system can be explained by reduction to its fundamental parts. For example, the processes of biology are reducible to chemistry and the laws of chemistry are explained by physics.

Social scientist and physician Nicholas A. Christakis explains that “for the last few centuries, the Cartesian project in science has been to break matter down into ever smaller bits, in the pursuit of understanding. And this works, to some extent…but putting things back together in order to understand them is harder, and typically comes later in the development of a scientist or in the development of science.”

General scientific status
In the latter half of the 20th century, holism led to systems thinking and its derivatives, like the sciences of chaos and complexity. Systems in biology, psychology, or sociology are frequently so complex that their behavior is, or appears, “new” or “emergent”: it cannot be deduced from the properties of the elements alone.

Scientific holism holds that the behavior of a system cannot be perfectly predicted, no matter how much data is available. Natural systems can produce surprisingly unexpected behavior, and it is suspected that behavior of such systems might be computationally irreducible, which means it would not be possible to even approximate the system state without a full simulation of all the events occurring in the system. Key properties of the higher level behavior of certain classes of systems may be mediated by rare “surprises” in the behavior of their elements due to the principle of interconnectivity, thus evading predictions except by brute force simulation. Stephen Wolfram has provided such examples with simple cellular automata, whose behavior is in most cases equally simple, but on rare occasions highly unpredictable.

Complexity theory (also called “science of complexity“), is a contemporary heir of systems thinking. It comprises both computational and holistic, relational approaches towards understanding complex adaptive systems and, especially in the latter, its methods can be seen as the polar opposite to reductive methods. General theories of complexity have been proposed, and numerous complexity institutes and departments have sprung up around the world. The Santa Fe Institute is arguably the most famous of them.

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Emergence

In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. Emergence is central to the theories of integrative levels and of complex systems.

Snowflakes forming complex symmetrical patterns is an example of emergence in a physical system.

Definitions

The concept has been in use since at least the time of Aristotle. John Stuart Mill and Julian Huxley are just some of the historical luminaries who have written on the concept.

A termite "cathedral" mound produced by a termite colony: a classic example of emergence in nature

The term “emergent” was coined by the pioneer psychologist G. H. Lewes, who wrote:

Every resultant is either a sum or a difference of the co-operant forces; their sum, when their directions are the same — their difference, when their directions are contrary. Further, every resultant is clearly traceable in its components, because these are homogeneous and commensurable. It is otherwise with emergents, when, instead of adding measurable motion to measurable motion, or things of one kind to other individuals of their kind, there is a co-operation of things of unlike kinds. The emergent is unlike its components insofar as these are incommensurable, and it cannot be reduced to their sum or their difference. (Lewes 1875, p. 412) (Blitz 1992)

Jeffrey Goldstein in the School of Business at Adelphi University provides a current definition of emergence in the journal, Emergence (Goldstein 1999). Goldstein initially defined emergence as: “the arising of novel and coherent structures, patterns and properties during the process of self-organization in complex systems”.

Goldstein’s definition can be further elaborated to describe the qualities of this definition in more detail:

The common characteristics are:
(1) radical novelty (features not previously observed in systems);
(2) coherence or correlation (meaning integrated wholes that maintain themselves over some period of time);
(3) A global or macro “level” (i.e. there is some property of “wholeness”);
(4) it is the product of a dynamical process (it evolves); and
(5) it is “ostensive” (it can be perceived). For good measure, Goldstein throws in supervenience — downward causation. (Corning 2002)

Corning’s definition of emergence:

Rules, or laws, have no causal efficacy; they do not in fact “generate” anything. They serve merely to describe regularities and consistent relationships in nature. These patterns may be very illuminating and important, but the underlying causal agencies must be separately specified (though often they are not). But that aside, the game of chess illustrates precisely why any laws or rules of emergence and evolution are insufficient. Even in a chess game, you cannot use the rules to predict “history” — i.e., the course of any given game. Indeed, you cannot even reliably predict the next move in a chess game. Why? Because the “system” involves more than the rules of the game. It also includes the players and their unfolding, moment-by-moment decisions among a very large number of available options at each choice point. The game of chess is inescapably historical, even though it is also constrained and shaped by a set of rules, not to mention the laws of physics. Moreover, and this is a key point, the game of chess is also shaped by teleonomic, cybernetic, feedback-driven influences. It is not simply a self-ordered process; it involves an organized, “purposeful” activity. (Corning 2002)

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Morphic Fields are like Electromagnetic Fields

Sheldrake’s metaphors suggest that the morphic fields are objective, autonomous realities. As such, they are supposed to be like electromagnetic fields, but of a different nature.

Electromagnetic fields are abstract and invisible, detectable only by their ability to interact with particular arrangements of matter, like ionized gases or magnetically polarized metals. Similarly, morphic fields, which are equally abstract and invisible, are detectable only by their ability to resonate with particular arrangements of matter under particular circumstances, like those of embryonic development or electrochemical activity in the brain.

Sheldrake thus places his views on a firmly realist ground: Morphic fields exist objectively in nature as part of it, next to other objective parts of nature like atoms and fields of other types. In other works, Sheldrake also suggests that mind itself is a kind of field centered in the brain but extending beyond the brain, much like the electromagnetic field of a magnet is centered in the magnet but extends beyond it. Here again, Sheldrake’s metaphors seem to be underpinned by a realist assumption: Minds are objective and causally-effective fields just like electromagnetic fields. As such, mind-fields are a part of nature, but not the very medium of all reality, as idealism entails.

Source: bernardokastrup.com

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Habits

Habits (or wonts) are routines of behavior that are repeated regularly and tend to occur subconsciously. Habitual behavior often goes unnoticed in persons exhibiting it, because a person does not need to engage in self-analysis when undertaking routine tasks. Habituation is an extremely simple form of learning, in which an organism, after a period of exposure to a stimulus, stops responding to that stimulus in varied manners. Habits are sometimes compulsory. The process by which new behaviours become automatic is habit formation. Examples of habit formation are the following: If you instinctively reach for a cigarette the moment you wake up in the morning, you have a habit. Also, if you lace up your running shoes and hit the streets as soon as you get home, you’ve acquired a habit. Old habits are hard to break and new habits are hard to form because the behavioural patterns we repeat are imprinted in our neural pathways.

As behaviors are repeated in a consistent context, there is an incremental increase in the link between the context and the action. This increases the automaticity of the behavior in that context. Features of an automatic behavior are all or some of: efficiency, lack of awareness, unintentionality, uncontrollability.

Habit formation is modelled as an increase in automaticity with number of repetitions up to an asymptote.

Habits and the invisible Morphic Fields
Materialistic science imagine that habits are “patterns imprinted in neural pathways“. This is only partly true. In physics we know that scalar waves are able to store information outside of the space dimension (non-physical, immaterial). This information rides on the waves of time, never decaying, never loosing energy.

Similar to scalar waves are the morphic fields. Perhaps morphic fields are based on scalar waves. This morphic fields are a kind of memory fields, which are able to influence on us and we are able to influence them too.

Our DNA is a kind of scalar antenna, build like fractal. In each cell of our body the DNA acts like a wireless communication network, sending and receiving informations. So our memories are not stored in our brain, but in a invisible network, like a Internet.

Even habits, the patterns repeated over and over again over a certain amount of time, are stored as “invisible pathways” in a non-dimensional space … or as a immaterial morphic field.

This morphic fields acts as storage medium and they influence humankind. For example a whole generation of young kids playing aggressive computer games will for sure affect the collective consciousness and it will produce a invisible pathway to facilitate to gain this habit for other following generations. We have here identified a new kind of pollution. Similar to the electromagnetic pollution (EMF-Pollution), this kind of morphic fields containing bad habits represents a seriously not underestimatable threat to the society.

In a positive manner morphic fields could provide pathways to solutions or facilitating the adoption of good habits. Here morphic fields acts as a information pool and a common source of knowledge. Through this field people all over the world can collaborate in working for a common goal, even if they do not know each other personally. Some knows that they are not alone and some people even feels that they are actually contributing to this invisible fields in order to find a solution for a global problem or helping individual persons to find their way to the already solved problem.

Through morphic resonance individuals can access the vast pool of the morphic fields, receiving the necessary information of patterns for forming a habit. Than more people achieve a certain knowledge or forms a habit, than easier it will be for other people to achieve this goal too. So the first who decide to walk on a certain path are the precursors, trailblazers, innovators, forerunners or pioneers. They form the template of the morphic field for this new habit. Then other people follows and reinforce this field. When more people follows the field becomes stable, surviving even many generations of inactivity.

Further readings:
- Morphic Fields and Morphic Resonance
- The Memory of Water
- The Holographic Universe
- Scalar Waves
- Collective EM field of the Biosphere
- The Common Field of Consciousness
- Biocentrism and Cosmology
- Posts Tagged DNA

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