A number of things trouble me about the standard or received model of cosmology. I do not claim to be a physicist, but merely an artist trying to figure out my universe. My problem is with the notion of entropy which according to the second law of thermodynamics says that chaos is always on the increase. The law of energy associated with entropy also says that energy is unidirectional with respect to time in that the arrow of time always goes in one direction. It means that information is lost as we experience entropy
Well, if we are exploding at every point of our being then I suppose that this motion is going in one direction, which is a form of outwards expansion. We see it in the very large by observing the the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Most of us don't see it in the very small where we ourselves are being blown apart. One has to ask why one rule should apply to very large entities and another to very small ones. Of course, my Wuh Lax answer is that what applies to very large entities also applies to very small ones. What does this have to do with entropy?
The entropy and temperature measured by me are a consequence of my accelerating motion. What am I accelerating relative to? I am accelerating relative to the speed of light, which in the Wuh Lax world is zero. I have no problem going faster than the speed of light because I twist as I accelerate. The twisting gives me forward motion as well as sideways motion. The two add up to a speed greater than the speed of light except to say that I cannot travel sideways as fast as I am exploding. As I twist, can I create information?
Obviously yes! While I am twisting, I can create information that is not random. I somehow twist out of the law of entropy by creating order out of chaos using my kinetic exploding energy. What I cannot do is explode any slower or slow down the acceleration in my rate of exploding.
I don't know if this makes any sense, but it seems to suggest that in a Wuh Lax universe, there is a different physics going on, a very different cosmological explanation for almost everything. This is the world inside out that one finds in the world of Wim and Wuh. My next task is to figure out what black holes are all about!
Scratches to Sketches
Thursday 20 December 2007
What is Seven Thousand Years Historically?
What sorts of threads can link peoples over a period of seven thousand years. People raising children leave genetic markings for future generations. People raise other animals besides children and the genes of these other animals can be studied. The means by which people communicate may also survive over long periods, so that language and the origins of words can be studied. If the communities remained fairly close to where they started out and if they settled then one can study the effects of settlement, which can include all aspects of the life cycle from birth to death.
Over very long periods, peoples may define territories and they may leave markings on the ground of their territories. These territories may have a mathematical relationship to each other, such that in an early period the number is lower than in a later period. If numbers of communities is reflected in numbers of other entities this helps to establish linkages between communities and the periods they were active. Again the mathematics of their impact and the mathematics of their social and survival tools will be reflected in the remnants found in the landscape.
My early training was in mathematical statistics, and my approach to the evidence would tend to be Bayesian in orientation. I was taught by different schools of thought as to how one applied statistics and formed my own views, but essentially the Bayesian methodology has stood the test of time in the social, biological and physical sciences.
What I would look for is anomalies. Things that should not happen or seem out of place given what other things are in place. The outliers strewn around a location or between locations would be interesting.
History over seven thousand years is thus for me, at least, an issue of distributions of remnants that have verifiable statistical significance in some way.
My second bias comes from communications theory a la Norbert Wiener, which seems to have had an impact on data dissemination and diffusion. At Cambridge, I did studies of the communication and diffusion of new technologies within the British landscape over time. These were studies of modern technologies and the highly developed social setting of the post war period. I wonder what parallels there could be to similar processes occurring across the historical landscape of seven thousand years.
Seven thousand years is a very long period of history. The mind boggles at a period of history that is only several years long. Lots can happen in a millennium.
When I consider the serious concern of MJ Harper, and the serious research of Colin Burgess, I have to conclude that there exists a gap between the two, but it is not that big. Both Harper and Burgess are dealing with enormous uncertainties resulting from a decaying landscape. In the case of Harper, we find someone who is looking at the evidence of words, language and the community of words, and we are questioning easy answers for some very difficult questions.
My bias is with Harper on the issue of language. I have always questioned the ease with which the origin as of words have been spelt out in reference books on English and Old English. In my own case, I had to work out for myself that the word lake, which is supposed to refer to a stream, is more likely to be associated with the word lax, a type of salmon. No book gave me this understanding. I had to figure it out for myself. With this figuring came my research into the early world of Wuh Lax and the meaning of the salmon to the early community, as part of the life and death cycle, and as an instrument of teaching and dissemination of knowledge from generation to generation. Thus it is with English, a very old and widespread language, indeed.
Over very long periods, peoples may define territories and they may leave markings on the ground of their territories. These territories may have a mathematical relationship to each other, such that in an early period the number is lower than in a later period. If numbers of communities is reflected in numbers of other entities this helps to establish linkages between communities and the periods they were active. Again the mathematics of their impact and the mathematics of their social and survival tools will be reflected in the remnants found in the landscape.
My early training was in mathematical statistics, and my approach to the evidence would tend to be Bayesian in orientation. I was taught by different schools of thought as to how one applied statistics and formed my own views, but essentially the Bayesian methodology has stood the test of time in the social, biological and physical sciences.
What I would look for is anomalies. Things that should not happen or seem out of place given what other things are in place. The outliers strewn around a location or between locations would be interesting.
History over seven thousand years is thus for me, at least, an issue of distributions of remnants that have verifiable statistical significance in some way.
My second bias comes from communications theory a la Norbert Wiener, which seems to have had an impact on data dissemination and diffusion. At Cambridge, I did studies of the communication and diffusion of new technologies within the British landscape over time. These were studies of modern technologies and the highly developed social setting of the post war period. I wonder what parallels there could be to similar processes occurring across the historical landscape of seven thousand years.
Seven thousand years is a very long period of history. The mind boggles at a period of history that is only several years long. Lots can happen in a millennium.
When I consider the serious concern of MJ Harper, and the serious research of Colin Burgess, I have to conclude that there exists a gap between the two, but it is not that big. Both Harper and Burgess are dealing with enormous uncertainties resulting from a decaying landscape. In the case of Harper, we find someone who is looking at the evidence of words, language and the community of words, and we are questioning easy answers for some very difficult questions.
My bias is with Harper on the issue of language. I have always questioned the ease with which the origin as of words have been spelt out in reference books on English and Old English. In my own case, I had to work out for myself that the word lake, which is supposed to refer to a stream, is more likely to be associated with the word lax, a type of salmon. No book gave me this understanding. I had to figure it out for myself. With this figuring came my research into the early world of Wuh Lax and the meaning of the salmon to the early community, as part of the life and death cycle, and as an instrument of teaching and dissemination of knowledge from generation to generation. Thus it is with English, a very old and widespread language, indeed.
The Mysterious Lines Running Across South West Britain
One of the great things about Google maps is that it is possible for one to verify hunches that one has had for a long time, but thought were too crazy to be true. Well, for me it appears that at least one hunch is true, and, indeed, it is very strange. This is one everyone can test out for themselves since it requires only Google and a few tools of the digital age.
Up until last night I had thought the the early British, who I refer to as the Ing people, or the hero worshippers, were very curvilinear in orientation. Now, I have to revise my view for the following reason. They appear to have done the impossible using surveying technologies to place centers in straight lines extensively across their landscape. At this point you should be saying wow, but you are probably saying, huh, or not another silly idea from Wooooohs Stream of research into the unknown.
My conclusion on looking at the evidence in the landscape relatively carefully, is that there is much more to nine stones circle near Maiden castle in Dorset than just nine stones in a small circle. What I now have to conclude is that there are nine ancient communities associated with the nine stones and these communities knew how to survey, or at least, some members knew how to survey across vast distances.
This puzzles me greatly, because when I reviewed the archaeological evidence in my copy of Colin Burgess's book The Age of Stonehenge, I was forced to conclude that these ancient people, the Ing people, had as Burgess suggests, formed stratified societies by the third millennium BC, over five thousand years ago. Now here is the mystery. In a world in which people are oriented towards curves and circles, why would they structure their society in a straight line running directly to the sea. That is what they appear to have done.
This is not a straight line running north south along the earth's north south magnetic field, but a straight line that links communities from Woodhenge, not far from Stonehenge, directly to peoples living by the sea. How weird!? What's more there appear to have been nine such early communities and they placed their community centers along the straight line, ending with the community not far from Maiden Castle in Dorset.
I am forced to conclude that not all the early peoples were curvilinear, but there seem to have been a strong deposits of early Ing people that thought along straight lines. I would agree with Burgess in saying that it would seem likely that these people were fairly well established and organized. They, after all, appear to have had some very superior surveying technology. And, this leads me to another bone to pick with the notion that the Romans were the ones who designed the straight roads of early Britain.
I have to conclude that the Romans must have organized the early tribes of Britain to live along a straight line and have their main centers located along a straight line, but we know that this was not the case. Romans of early Britain received information from the locals about straight surveyed lines that already crisscrossed the landscape, but why were these lines there, and for how long? It seems amazing that the straight lines may have already been tracks across the landscape from community to community.
My second conclusion is that the straight lines were lines of communication between early social groups and had something to do with continental peoples, possibly to coordinate celebrations of some form. Burgess suggests that the people in the South of Britain were communicating with continental peoples by way of travelling across the English Channel. Perhaps, what we don't realize is how strong such communications were at a fairly early age in the history of this area of the world. Communications may have been by the lighting of fires along a straight line to the sea. If people settled near the points at which the fires were created, then you would have a logic for people settling along an extensive straight line across the landscape.
Because of my interest in Wuh Lax and the people of the salmon, I was curious to see whether one of the communities along my nine stones line was a lax community bearing in mind that the lax community I am thinking of was a linear community predating the period of curvilinear peoples. In other words, there appears to me to have been waves of social logic and structure with a period in which linear and rectangular in terms of dwellings, and possibly settlements, dominating over curvilinear and circular. Possibly the linear period, as Burgess suggests, predated the curvilinear. I have to say, however, that this may have something to do with the development of surveying and construction technology.
In my mind, linear peoples, such as the Romans are invasive, wide spreading and expansive, while curvilinear people are oriented toward enclosure, community, and locality. It is interesting that over seven thousand years of history, both forms of community had their periods of dominance. I can only guess that there may have been cycles or waves of dominance since we are considering a very long period historically.
Up until last night I had thought the the early British, who I refer to as the Ing people, or the hero worshippers, were very curvilinear in orientation. Now, I have to revise my view for the following reason. They appear to have done the impossible using surveying technologies to place centers in straight lines extensively across their landscape. At this point you should be saying wow, but you are probably saying, huh, or not another silly idea from Wooooohs Stream of research into the unknown.
My conclusion on looking at the evidence in the landscape relatively carefully, is that there is much more to nine stones circle near Maiden castle in Dorset than just nine stones in a small circle. What I now have to conclude is that there are nine ancient communities associated with the nine stones and these communities knew how to survey, or at least, some members knew how to survey across vast distances.
This puzzles me greatly, because when I reviewed the archaeological evidence in my copy of Colin Burgess's book The Age of Stonehenge, I was forced to conclude that these ancient people, the Ing people, had as Burgess suggests, formed stratified societies by the third millennium BC, over five thousand years ago. Now here is the mystery. In a world in which people are oriented towards curves and circles, why would they structure their society in a straight line running directly to the sea. That is what they appear to have done.
This is not a straight line running north south along the earth's north south magnetic field, but a straight line that links communities from Woodhenge, not far from Stonehenge, directly to peoples living by the sea. How weird!? What's more there appear to have been nine such early communities and they placed their community centers along the straight line, ending with the community not far from Maiden Castle in Dorset.
I am forced to conclude that not all the early peoples were curvilinear, but there seem to have been a strong deposits of early Ing people that thought along straight lines. I would agree with Burgess in saying that it would seem likely that these people were fairly well established and organized. They, after all, appear to have had some very superior surveying technology. And, this leads me to another bone to pick with the notion that the Romans were the ones who designed the straight roads of early Britain.
I have to conclude that the Romans must have organized the early tribes of Britain to live along a straight line and have their main centers located along a straight line, but we know that this was not the case. Romans of early Britain received information from the locals about straight surveyed lines that already crisscrossed the landscape, but why were these lines there, and for how long? It seems amazing that the straight lines may have already been tracks across the landscape from community to community.
My second conclusion is that the straight lines were lines of communication between early social groups and had something to do with continental peoples, possibly to coordinate celebrations of some form. Burgess suggests that the people in the South of Britain were communicating with continental peoples by way of travelling across the English Channel. Perhaps, what we don't realize is how strong such communications were at a fairly early age in the history of this area of the world. Communications may have been by the lighting of fires along a straight line to the sea. If people settled near the points at which the fires were created, then you would have a logic for people settling along an extensive straight line across the landscape.
Because of my interest in Wuh Lax and the people of the salmon, I was curious to see whether one of the communities along my nine stones line was a lax community bearing in mind that the lax community I am thinking of was a linear community predating the period of curvilinear peoples. In other words, there appears to me to have been waves of social logic and structure with a period in which linear and rectangular in terms of dwellings, and possibly settlements, dominating over curvilinear and circular. Possibly the linear period, as Burgess suggests, predated the curvilinear. I have to say, however, that this may have something to do with the development of surveying and construction technology.
In my mind, linear peoples, such as the Romans are invasive, wide spreading and expansive, while curvilinear people are oriented toward enclosure, community, and locality. It is interesting that over seven thousand years of history, both forms of community had their periods of dominance. I can only guess that there may have been cycles or waves of dominance since we are considering a very long period historically.
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Sketches from scratches is a provocative blogspot that has grown out of the Wuh Lax experience. It is eclectic, which means that it might consider just about anything from the simple to the extremely difficult. A scratch can be something that is troubling me or a short line on paper. From a scratch comes a verbal sketch or image sketch of the issue or subject. Other sites have other stuff that should really be of interest to the broad reader. I try to develop themes, but variety often comes before depth.
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