The Void, Spacetime, and the Curvilinear Cross

I often think that one needs a really healthy dose of imagination or image realizing abilities to understand complex relationships. Perhaps, this is only in the case of those with eyesight that is colonically rich!?

My main point to make this morning is that 'modern man' is not modern at all. Ancient man had a non-linear cross that our linear cross derives from. We today have mostly branched off into what falls into my small bucket of 'linear musings'. It's a curious oddity that we have so much progressed in understanding romantic or Romanized linear relationships with so little understanding of non-linear relationships. We use symbolism as contained in our letters and words, which make up sounds and sentences, which then get added together to form paragraphs and paragraphs of hopefully reasonably well-expressed logic.

This is all very fine and good, but is it really modern. In doing all this, what we may miss is that very cute baby in the bath water, which we throw away. That is because modern is our way of expressing progress along a path that we mentally conjure up to express our satisfaction that we have a form of positive evolution going on. But are we really modern?

Guys, it is just possible that the boat has already been here, or been built, and has gone. We may be the left behinds. I just say this to get one's brain cells activated. It is a reasonably pleasant day outside, but still too cold to enjoy a walk in a meandering sort of way. That I like to do here,and now, in my world of blog.

Meanderings on Leaves

We have very little to go on by way of words coming from the ancient people who used to live where I am sitting right now. Yes! There were people here on this cosy hill overlooking a beautiful valley populated with wandering sheep and many other creatures it would be pointless to list. In case you were wondering what part of the world I am in, may I say that I am abiding in Somerset, England.

The early people that lived here knew plants much better than I. In particular, they understood much more about trees. By looking at trees and the relationships of trees to the world around them they understood much more than 'modern man'. I say this because, they used the leaves of trees as a way to convey complex ideas. They would save a variety of leaves in a basket and when they wanted to tell someone something important, they would select those leaves that conveyed the idea. They would amass a small handful of leaves and organize them in sequence and putting them between fore finger and thumb hand them over to the person with whom they wished to communicate.

The reaction would be as great as the written word. On occasion love making would ensue or a fight would break out with jaws damaged and feelings hurt. But, it remains that by using ordinary leaves that they could find locally in the woods they were able to record considerable 'paragraphs' of emotion and expression. We have some idea of what the leaves spoke, but much of what we have are guesses. Nevertheless, the people hereabouts used leaves to record and communicate, and they would have done so very easily and effectively.

That is not to say that they did not have spoken words. Yes! They probably, almost certainly, spoke English! "Rubbish," you say! "I don't believe you," you add, shaking your head. I smile and think to myself, "There goes another linear modern man, thinking without thinking."

The Forest that the Leaves Symbolized

Often its difficult to see the forest from the trees. If my memory serves me correctly, Arthur Koestler wrote that the image of a tree with its roots represented the fourth dimension. He coined the term 'holon' and a term for a configuration of 'holon' he referred to as a 'holonarchy'. What you see when you look at a tree is what life is all about. Life and society is organized, or organizes itself, as a holonarchy. This is true of all forms of structures including those we often do not think of as living, such as particle structures.

The economists Kenneth Boulding and Jeffery Stamps saw the economy and other social structures in this way and gave a name to their concept, calling it a 'holonomy'. They were thinking of a social structure, but the ancients when they thought of a holonomy were thinking of a mathematical structure, much like what is found in advanced differential mathematics. From the idea of the holonomy of structures comes the idea of the non-linear cross.

The Holonic Cross and the Non-linearity of Ancient People Who Lived Here

If you think that the people of ancient times were not modern, forget this notion very quickly. We are the ones that are not clued in. We are so not modern that we are backward in comparison to my ancient people, the one's that lived right where I am sitting right now. And, they were here almost 2,000 years ago. I write about their lives in my adventure and mystery story Wuh Lax and the Cosmic Lantern.

The holonic cross was very familiar to many of the people who lived in England at the time of the Roman invasion in 43 AD. The problems of gathering information about the thought processes of people of this period are well known. These people have no voice and are the forgotten tragedy of ancient time. It is almost as if they did not exist. Their influence on the Roman and subsequent world is not understood nor estimated. One might say that they were marginalized which is precisely what the Romans wished to do with them. Understanding, expressing, and feeling for such margins and marginalized people, however, is the work of the artist, and what I see as my present enjoyment. Bringing them into our fold of comprehension makes them more real and gives us a way to empathize as to their plight. What we do for the least of them is what we can do for others.

I was initially drawn to the holonic version of the cross appearing on ancient objects because it is an interesting non-linear art form. More recently, I have tried to understand what it meant. The process of interpretation has led me to what I consider modest speculations with relatively high probability. These are not certainties, but probabilities given the physical evidence before me. When I donn my artist hat, I depart from the world of certainties and enter the world of modest speculation. This does not mean that what I am saying is fiction though I will call it fiction, because I am aware of the need for verification, fact is pretty close to fiction until it is verified. One accepts and enjoys such fiction because one lives in a world of uncertainties. If one needs certainties then go far away. There are none!

The Void

How did the ancients understand the void and the non-linearity of existence?

Cosmic scientists speculate that the universe that earth belongs to is expanding into the void of nothingness and nothing to resist pressure 'our world' coming at it at an accelerating rate. What is not so clear is how fast we are ourselves expanding. My speculation is that we are also expanding at an unbelievably fast rate. My idea is that our expansion enables us to experience motion, or ease of movement. This we relate to and about in a relative way and call time, or we may even call it spacetime when we realize that time is an abstraction of our imagination. There is something else, many things, but in my view it / they is / are not time.

The idea of time belongs to the physical world and cannot be truly measured depending as it does on relative speeds. Our reality is a mixture of physical and non-physical worlds interacting in a meaningful way. If you did not understand what I just wrote, do not worry, you don't really need to, unless you are exploring possibilities.

The notion that a God used time in creating the world that we inhabit is non sense. It is a conceptual abstraction used by teachers to convey an idea since teaching about a non-time world is so difficult. Would you not agree!?

What created our world did it in such a way that all the pasts, presents, and futures were created all at once. Can you imagine yourself as travelling within this world. You think that you are an effective part, but you do not really control anything. What will be will be! Ouch! Stop surrounding me with those awful thoughts. Give me a chance, I can explain!

First understand that non-linear thinking is probably very different from the thought processes that you are familiar with.

Purpose in the Void

All the purposes of a universe are the end result of a universe. What the universe ends up as is its end result. Your purpose in the universe is part of what the universe becomes, but you are only a little branch and circle in a very large tree. For the most part, the universe is so large that you feel that can have little impact on it. That is despite your ambitions, you feel that you are effectively ineffective as far as the purpose of the universe. You feel that you contribute nothing of substance to its purpose, but you may understand that you contribute purpose to its purpose. What does this mean?

It means that your impact on the universe is enormously disproportionate to your scale of effort, or so you think. In non-linear mathematics, this is referred to as the butterfly effect. You wag your tongue and the result is an end result very much greater than you can ever imagine in terms of scale. So it is with your existence within the universe. You are of much grander proportions than you can ever imagine. Even breathing for less than a full second has a major impact on the direction of matter within the universe.

The problem we have, however, is that impact on a physical level may be much less than the impact on other levels. This is because we belong to powerful worlds, 'universes', that are interlaced and interact with one another.

To extend the purpose of the world in a meaningful way, you need to develop in an abstract or non-linear way. This is a difficult concept to grasp since we are so used to thinking our effectiveness and purpose arises from what we actually do as compared to what we actually think. The reality is, however, that we have much greater impact by what we think than by what we do. The reason is the butterfly effect of thought within ourselves. We think that we can extend our influence by taking action, but we frequently forget that we need to harmonize our thought with our action if our action is to be effective.

In other words, it is not our actions that cause purpose, but the direction of our actions. For example, in history, had the Roman soldier not destroyed the culture that he did not understand because he thought better of doing so, the outcome would have had greater purpose than mere destruction. Think in the abstract before you act. See the purpose of action before you do something. If you do this, your actions will have greater purpose than destruction. The reason is that purpose in the grand scheme of the universe derives from extension rather than exclusion or destruction of things that embody a higher or more constructive 'non-linear' purpose.

The Circle or Curve Produced by Streams of Consciousness

Analogous to the water flowing in the streams of the beautiful local landscape, are the thoughts flowing in our minds. Like water flowing from springs downstream and collecting in pools and lakes, our thought processes are connected like strings and crosses. The ancient mind understood that the relationship between the brain and its workings were very much like the landscape and the flow of rivers through the landscape. This appears in their art.

Revision is the Nature of Life

The Immediate Problem

Yesterday's blog was very long. Parts of the writing were more exploratory than I expected when starting different trains of thought. It was obvious when I looked at the blog later that I should do some revision and editing. Revision of one's writing is normal. Some writers will revise and revise until they have almost nothing of value. The problem is continually that when you are getting your thoughts out, you tend to have a window of opportunity in which you can follow a train of thought. If you lose the train of thought, which is a stream of ideas that translate themselves into words, you don't accomplish the goal of expressing that inner impulse.

Revising may or may not put you back into the original stream of thought. More often than not, revisions lead to confabulation. Artists know of this problem when painting. Some writers are not even aware of it. The criminal law courts are increasingly aware of it.

Our inner impulses are produced by molecules making up our bodies. Thus, our thoughts are affected by what we feed ourselves by way of food, water, and other intake. It is too simplistic to think that we are a machine or a comprehensible input-output system. Some of our behaviour may be very machine-like, but we, as humans, are very very far away from being simplistic machines. A displacement in time of a thought, means an entirely new thought because what is stimulating the original thought disappears after a short period. Thus it is that interruptions, no matter how warranted, will change one's life and thinking.

A characteristic of our humanity is the fact that we sleep and that we need considerable amounts of sleep in order to retain our sanity. Deprived of sleep, a human being quickly goes insane. Humans are made from genetic material, which means that we have exceeding complex structures that have very early origins in the coming into being of the earth. We are only now discovering how complex genetic material actually is and how important sleep is to making sure that body revises and updates the protein and genetic code it has already written.

In other words, the body is correcting for the mistakes it has made and that is what sleep is all about, correction and reviewing, smoothing out and simplifying. We may in fact be so good at repairing and revising our experiences that we don't really remember what we experienced. This is called confabulation and it means that our minds revise so well that we forget. This is a protective process going on in the body to help us heal from trauma as well as to help keep us sane and clear thinking. For example, try to draw something on paper using your memory. You will find how well your mind is actually able to remember detail. Not all of us have such ability, and what we have needs to be continually exercised to work effectively. In some ways, our bodies work against us remembering a lot of details. To have clear thinking, you need to train your mind to revise and still retain the memory that you wish to retain. Read, review/re-step, and recall, are stages to remembering more accurately and we need to repeat the process many times to be sure of accuracy.

The Bigger Picture

A book by Steven Oppenheimer arrived on my desk this morning. It is entitled 'The Origins of the British - A New Prehistory of Britain and Ireland from Ice-Age Hunter Gatherers to the Vikings as revealed by DNA Analysis. The book is enormous and has over 600 pages of written material to support its thesis. This is a lot of material to get through.

When you have a book of this size written in English, one trick is to use the English method of reading to your advantage. Culturally, or for whatever reason, the English tend to organized paragraphs by putting the main idea in the first sentences. The paragraph is used to support the main idea. By reading the first sentence of each paragraph one can get through a book much faster than reading every word. At least, such reading tends to prepare one for a more detailed and exhausting reading later on. It also helps one to determine whether the work being examined is something one wants to spend a lot of time on, or can it be put aside temporarily or indefinitely.

There are some provisos. The quick reading trick does not always work for every paragraph. It is intended to work on the average. Works in English, but written by someone of another culture may not be written with the normal logic of the English paragraph. That depends on culture and education. You will have to find out for yourself whether the writer is using standard English methods of presenting paragraphs and sentences. Some scientists and engineers do a lot of writing but the structure of their writing may follow different rules from those of the normal English.

What does this mean or imply when research a work, a place, a name or something like labels and identification. It probably means that an English person tends to organize materials in a predictable way. If initially, the product of an English person is fairly complete, it may be that the organization comes as a secondary activity. Sentences may be organized into tighter mire structured paragraphs etc as a secondary stage.

Know Your Cultural Biases

I personally have at least three cultures affecting my writing. My main is English, my second main is Canadian, and my third is French / Quebecois. I am also heavily influenced by having lived in America for an extended period. What does this mean for my own logic and preferred style of thinking, writing and organizing words, sentences and paragraphs?

To be honest, I am not sure. I tend to be more English than French. What this means is that I tend to prefer objects over people, and to organize and to label accordingly. Now that sounds very cultural. I am not sure, but suspect that it is.

Maybe, I think the way I do because of my genes. I know that I eat the food that I eat because of my genes. My body tolerates oats better than wheat. In fact, now I find that I am becoming less wheat tolerant as time goes on. Is this due to my DNA being associated with the majority of ancestors living in the woods or in northerly climes.

Putting Together a Mental Image of What Seems to Fit Best

What I am finding is that given druthers, those subconscious preferences one does not have much control over, one is drawn towards locations because of reactions to the environment. If one rarely moves around then one is not giving oneself the opportunity to be drawn. What makes me think that this is genetic is the fact that I have an Australian friend, whose ancestral origins are from the northern Scottish islands, red hair, fair skin, not used to too much sun light, always wanting to be in doors and huddled away in some cosy dark room away from people and the elements of climate. One example, may cloud my thinking, but when I see a tomb of a book, such as that by Oppenheimer, I can't stop thinking that it says something about where one might be happiest without knowing why. Another issue is whether one would gravitate to such places, given druthers. The answer, for me at least, seems to be yes.

I notice that Scots, and Russians, Yorkshire, and Brittany people mostly tend to like Canada and its climate. This is a very small sample of different cultures, but it may be that there is an adaptive process that has gone on over many many generations. When I was young, I may have been more sensitive than now to these inner factors shaping my preferences, what economists call preference functions, but they seem real enough even now.

It is the advantage of having time that one does revisions. One corrects mistakes and one moves closer to situations and places one is more suited to or prefers. Essentially then, revision is a way of life. We may not understand it or see why we do it. By having genetic preferences locked into us we may even be destroying ourselves, as say falling prey to our latent addictive tendencies that are prescribed genetically. Do you think that you are really in control? Well consider the amazing studies done on identical twins.

A Guide to Thinking - Consciousness, Omega 3 and Multiple Dimensional Exploration

Our Waking Thoughts

When one has the quiet of the morning, it is a time when thoughts can appear within the mind unstimulated by the stimuli of action and reaction associated with the many aspects of daily life. One of the possibilities of the early morning mind is an exercise to awaken one's spirit. Exercise of the spirit is only part of the process of travelling across universes. One needs to feed the brain the best food and stay well away from chemicals or drugs that the brain does not consider as normal brain food.

The Nature of Consciousness

When I think of spirit, I am thinking of worlds that do not have a strong resemblance to our normal material life in what one may think of as universe 'main'. We all know what the main universe is, after all we live and die within it. What we need to do is visit other universes, many of which we are unfamiliar. How we can do this is not obvious. The Penrose - Hameroff research team has food for thought when they say we are probably totally immersed quantum phenomena. Its obvious that such worlds as the quantum world which make many of present technologies work come from outside our 'main' universe and are interlaced with it.

Our Being Within Uncertain Mysterious Worlds

This is why such mysteries as cold fusion dog the scientific world. Religious communities have long delt with mysteries! All of us, we need to have a greater understanding of what the universe is that human beings are actually now seeing and learning about. We actually know very little about what may have been the forces who created the 'main' universe, but we now need to see more of it because our curiosity is tickled pink. People of all pursuasions need to have open minds. We have the itch to learn and we are not in for easy answers. We are the multidimensional generation, but still a very young generation.

Keeping One's Brain Clear for Logical and Exporatory Thought

The joy of searching for and exploring the multiverse is not age dependent. It matters little how old you are. I am addressing parents when I write that for children there are many things you should remember. Be aware of what stimuli you expose them to at a very young age. This is a generation of parental laziness, neglect and experimentation. If you avoid all three of the former, you can have a head start for guiding your children on the path to understanding the multiverse.

Avoid One Dimensional Thinking

Herbert Marcuse once wrote about the dangers of one dimensional man. The fact that Marcuse was a highly respected author and philosopher that one would put on what was once the new left of politics made him aware that the values of a totally material world were not what working people really sought. Marcuse foresaw the enormous dangers of a new industrial technological age in which spiritual values were lost to consumerism. These are insights that young challenged people need to have to cope with an exceedingly complex post industrial revolution society. Our future is that enormous change will be the norm. Not only that! Change is coming about faster and faster. Change will happen at an unprecedented scale and speed. It will happen regardless of most efforts to slow it down.

Be Aware of How Fast The World is Evolving

Think that inflation is dangerous for social values and cohesion! We are entering a dangerous period of hyperchange. Change may already now be too fast for many societies to cope. Look at what change is doing to once peaceful communities that have had long periods without it. Violent reactions, flighting in the streets, mobs, secret armies, totalitarian groups, police control.

The obverse problem of trying to control changes is fraught with problems. The answers to negative change are elusive. As governments and groups try to control others from changing or to prevent others from introducing approaches and technologies that will bring about change. We all need a very healthy dose of patience and clarity of thought that being sober and spiritually alert brings.

Placing Youself in the Spacetime Dimension

We need all to think very hard each morning about just how lucky we are to be able to read and exchange information freely over the internet. This is a blessing that we can all use to extend freedom, social awareness, and philosophical maturity. That is why the Wuh Lax books are healthy. They show you how easy it is to get lost in a world of straight lines and be guided by the pressures of the day rather than human psychological needs.

Leaving Personal Addictions Behind

Food for the spiritual side of the brain is extremely valuable and is obtained with visual and perceptive clarity and concentration. Likewise to be a multiverse traveller you need a clear unaddicted mind.

The inner city writer, Anne Wilson Shaef has written many books about the many forms of mental and social addiction. Often we are addictive without realizing it. For example, for the very young television has become addictive and may contribute to the two fast growing problems of concentration loss and obesity. It may be that parents need to be much more vigilent than ever in the past in keeping the very young, say those not yet five years old, away from TV viewing. The results of studies of how TV viewing may alter concentration levels long term are food for serious thought.

Computers can more interactive and don't lead to zombiism of movie viewing. Books with pictures are far better for children. In short, computer games and books, if they are slow paced, yet interesting, are better for children than the flashy fast-paced hypnotic movies produced in the age of movie culture gone wild.

What causes attention deficit disorder? Do the research? Drugs may calm children temporarily, but is that all what you want, a short term solution with a series of calamities later on. We are now finding that many drugs that fool the brain can do long term damage to your fragile psyche. Omega 3 is a brain food, so follow your mother's advice and stay away from the TV. Omega 3 may be good for children! Don't let your parent use the TV as a child minder, get your parents to read you a book with lots of pictures. What 3 year old can? But still, it is very advisable for you 3 year old children reading this blog (huh!) to tell your parents that you do not want to have attention deficit disorder. In the end, it is probably better that children have the traditional cod liver oil instead of Ritalin. Do your own research and make up your mind for the health of your kids and grandchildren.

Equip Yourself by Reading Widely

Instead of giving them drugs, read books to your children, or help them leaf through books such as the one's described below following the multi-verse adventures of Wuh Lax. It is far better to equip yourself for visiting the multi-verse by developing your ability to concentrate through healthy and regular omega 3 consumption as found in oily fish.

In my writing of the Wuh Lax series, I try to guide sentient beings through the mysteries of the multi-verse of all ages, from as young as 4 to well over 100. Much of the battle for understanding is the health of those faced with life's challenges. For example, it is not easy being rational if you are an oppressed Palestinian or targeted Jew. We need our brains as healthy as possible and far away from stress, violence and negative thought in order to see clearly.

Without the clarity thinking granted by good mental health we are doomed to a single-verse world in which we fail to see the rainbow of the many other worlds and communities around us. As children, we can be injured by violence and poor drug or therapeutic technology that doom us to a life of seeing things very narrowly, to say the least.

Begin the Exploration Porcess

As far as I know, there aren't many tool kits, guidebooks, instruction leaflets, as yet about how to enter another universe. So here goes!

Have a Look at Internet Links about the Multiverse

This is your first guide to exploring the multiple universes. You will need a big mug of coffee and a chunk of very dark 'chocolat.' These you will slowly consume as you read my guide. You might first do a Google on the name Everett, the scientist who embarked some considerable time ago with explanations of the nature of multiple universes. Things have moved on since his ideas became known. Now scientists have much more to say about the nature of the multiverse. When you have googled Everett, you need to return to this blog for guidance as to how you may begin your own personal exploration.

My review of the nature of other universes suggests that there are basically two main types, at least for the exploring beginner. You can think of these as the two groups of universes. The first group is made up of universes of fermions and the second group is made up of universes of leptons. These two universes interact and are interlaced, so movement between them is relatively easy. You could move between them, but in this day and age, you would not survive to remember that you came from one and arrived in the other. No, the fact is that our present technology for moving between universes is pretty awful. No worse, it does not exist! So what does one do?

Consider Acquiring the Wuh Lax Books

One to prepare your mind to visit multiple universes is to begin by reading the extremely interesting books about Wuh Lax and the extraordinary life of a child of destiny of the mid Roman period from Wookey Marsh in South West (I)England. It matters little when you live, but it makes a great difference whether you have adequate use of the written word and know how to record your adventures as Wuh has done. Search out the books. The books recommended here are intended to be a source of information on how to deal with the multiverse. They have been and are being written to follow the life experiences of a very early member of a very human family, the Lax family of early Roman Briton.

Lax is the early word for salmon, which is what you need to eat to travel the multiverse. Salmon helps your brain develop and helps you remain sane. In ancient times, it was regarded as the source of knowledge. Wuh's life adventures through space, the multiverse and earthly time form an exciting series of books that explore the vast world of relationships between all things, not just between people, but between different places, different spacetimes, different civilizations and cultures, different economic structures, different political formations, different meanings to the idea of giving life and limb, different ways to save oneself, different philosophies, different life experiences, different life challenges, different universes, and the many different forms of existence of sentient entities. There are many sentient entities and you need to understand why and how they relate to you.

My recommended way to begin is to read the series of books beginning with the Cosmic Lantern . These books are for any age of reader or viewer.

Understanding the Nature of Spacetime

Strictly speaking, time is just a concept we humans use to give us a sense of place, but we will soon have devices that make the concept of time a very mute point. More important is that we retain a concept of bifurcation. Notice how the number of Google results dropped dramatically. That is because most people forget about bifurcation in their thinking of time and space and time travel, space visitation. Bifurcation ensures that you can't kill yourself when travelling through space and time by doing something that ensures that you don't exist.

The only problem is that travel through spacetime is unfortunately not without limits. One has to deal with bifurcation. In their very nature, our universes have this big flaw. The original calibration set the stage for a very strange orchestration of creation in which we are dominated by bifurcation. The original architect of our 'known' world realizes this is frustrating for us, but as a consequence, there is no way that we will ever know or experience everything even when we develop the art of spacetime travel.

But, assuming that you can't spare the change for a book, or a series of books, there is another possibility. Just keep reading this and Wuh Lax's own blog.

Getting Serious About Finding Lost Balls

The very first principle about finding lost golf balls is that they are almost always in the rough. It is my contention that those most likely to be able to find golf balls are painters. It don't mean industrial painters, but those who can paint images in a painterly fashion. Such people are more likely to be able to distinguish small out of place blobs or pin pricks in an otherwise neat and tidy landscape. They will be able to find balls in fog, in the wet, in muck, in ponds and in tall grass along streams.

This is because the eye composition of painterly people has more rods than cones. Having more cones enables one to see colours better and to find extremely tiny discrepancies in a landscape or a painting. Having more rods helps one to see things more quickly and possibly crisper or less blurred, since rods hit on the location of things more quickly. You now see why painterly is better. This is because the artist or painterly person is also looking for a way to make the image something that hangs together in a meaningful way, an expression of originality. Such a person will see the ball as an anomaly, and be able to pin point its location as being in the place where something looks like a ball or looks a little anomalous. The downside of being painterly may be that one needs more rods than cones to be a good golfer, since golfing may require seeing something very small and not blurred out of the corner of one's eye when one is in full swing.

You will have guessed that a good eye doctor will be able to tell you whether or not you will be good at finding golf balls, were eyesight the only thing that you needed. In my view, the most valuable asset to finding golf balls is being a novice at golf or being really unskilled. Such people will find golf balls where they hit them. They need only to remember that after one hits a ball, one must never take one's eye off the last place that one expects to find the ball. Last being the operative word here!

If a ball flies into a place that is very uncomfortable, such as a brier patch, or a place of poison ivy or stinging nettles, or a place that is wet, or on the side of a steep cliff, it will more difficult to find. Such places can be expected to hide more golf balls. It is advisable to carry a very fast high definition digital camera with one and as soon as the ball is about to disappear from sight, one takes a picture. Lining up with the point of disappearance and walking in a dead straight line, one can simulate the direction of an errant golf ball. One should always have a long pole scooper with one when playing golf. This allows one to scoop a ball from one side of a stream to the other, from within a thick gorse bush, from a pond or stream, or from a sand pit that is full of water.

My advice to one that wishes to find gold balls as well as I do, is to eat lots of cooked carrots on a regular basis. Cooked carrots are best because the cooking releases the good stuff for your eyesight in the carrots. Eating raw carrots gives you enzymes which may or may not help you, but it certainly means that you won't eat as many carrots. Another thing that you can do is to drink a glass of carrot juice every morning. This not only helps your eyesight, but may also help you to live longer.

If a ball flies into an area of long grass, such as a rough, or a place with snakes, or things that bite, it will be more difficult to find. In England and Scotland there is a bush called a gorse. These are prickly bushes that will almost always contain a few lost balls. Many of the balls will not be visible even if one makes one's way into the center of the gorse.

The Art of Finding Golf Balls

Some things are more like a skill and some things are more like a science or art. The activity of finding golf balls is arguably more like a science or art. My reasoning is that many people lose golf balls, and many of these are highly skilled individuals. Their main interest is in hitting a ball towards a very specific target. The more skilled the golfer is the less likely he will lose a golf ball. When a skilled player lose a golf ball this is due to really difficult conditions. The ball is very well hidden in the more obvious places and closer to the shorter grass, and yet it cannot be found. This takes a lot of skill.

On the other hand, a novice and unskilled player loses many more balls and many of these are in well off the preferred places. I should know because I am a very unskilled player and I lose lots of golf balls. But, here's the rub. I find many more golf balls than I lose. In an average game, I will often find more than a golf ball per hole, which sometimes means that I end up with more than another nine or eighteen balls to play on the next round. You might say that I am developing, perhaps unconsciously, the art or science of finding golf balls. I am definitely not developing much in the way of playing golf. Thus, there seems to me to be more in the way of an art and science going on with my game than the development of a golfing skill. That does not mean that I enjoy the game any less, but that I get more pleasure than the average person who only plays to hit a ball in a hole. I play golf to be artistic, to develop the science of finding golf balls inobtrusively, to demonstrate skill in playing the game of golf by getting the ball in the hole with less shots over time.

If we look up the definition of art in the online dictionary, we find that it means "the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance." Another definition is "skill in conducting any human activity." If we look up the definition of skill in the online dictionary, we find that it means "the ability, coming from one's knowledge, practice, aptitude, etc., to do something well." What you immediately notice is that a skill is not necessarily an art. It would seem that an art is a little more than a skill. It would seem that if one is artistic in something, one is skilled in that something. So being an artful golf player would seem to be of a higher order than being a skilled golf player.

Now what would give the game of golf the element of beauty beyond the mere description of skill. In my opinion, one could say that an artful golfer is a golfer that knows not only how to play golf but also how to hit golf balls so that they can can be easily found. It follows that the less artful golfer may hit a ball into the cup, but that only makes him skilled at golf. To be artful at golf in the way I am describing one must not only hit the ball into the cup, one must also know how to lose the ball in a beautiful or appealing way. Its best, of course, if one doesn't lose a golf ball at all, but if one is destined to lose the ball, one should have a bit of taste in the way one goes about it.

Because I have mastered the art of finding a golf ball, I believe that I am a more artful golfer, not by definition but as a consequence of having developing a finding skill, which I would think is very much more like an art and science than a skill. When I lose my golf ball in an artful way it is so well hidden that I can never find it, but in the process find many other golf balls that were hit in much less artful ways.

The beauty in losing a ball comes from the impact that it makes when others observe you losing the ball. One of the most dramatic ways to lose a ball, is to hit it into a lake or pond. It makes much more of an impression on the observer if one does this within a few feet of the pond. That would seem illogical, but remember that art and skill don't really have that much in common.

Now what am I really driving at when talking about losing one's balls, is the problem that many reviewers of art have with images they are viewing on a canvas. To realize that to be artistic does not necessarily mean that you need to be skilled is to realize that a really good painting does not really have to demonstrate very much in the way of skill. It is enough that it create a slash much like a golf ball plunking in a lake for it to be good art.

Interest in the Mysterious Can be Lost

One of the attirbutes of a truly well educated person, is that such a person does not lose interest in the mysterious. Life in a world environment such as ours has to be full of surprises. Thus, it is that there is no valid theory of everything. There may be a theory of something, but not everything. There will always be a mystery to solve. That is what continuing education is all about.

When we open ourselves to learning on a continuing basis we open ourselves also to the mysterious. Those that think everything has been discovered cannot be right, they may think that for them, it is time to put up the feet and rest away from a world that is continually evolving. They have only defined what for them seems a best policy. Such people choose to ignore the change going on about them. They also perhaps do not realize that nothing is permanent.

One surity that we all experience is that everything has a life and death process attached to any state that it may have. All frozen ice eventually melts. All solid rock eventually loses its solidity. Changes in everything mean that nothing material is what it seems to be. It takes on the nature of an object when in reality its most defining characteristic is that it is not an object over the longer term.

Our ancestors were possibly closer than we ourselves to an understanding of the changing nature of things. The closer they were to continuous change, the more difficult they found it to create something that lasted. It is our modern faith in the semi-permanence of things that gives us meaning. We see ourselves less a part of a changing environment and more a part of a world in which we can create a niche that is sustainable.

The big question is whether we have the ability to create something that is sustainable and permanent out of all the science and religious effort we spend in thinking we do things that are meaningful. A test of whether we create something lasting is whether or not it remains with us while we are living. We have less control over things when we are dead, but if we have not control over them while we are living, it defies reason that we can find meaning in our efforts.

What gums up the works of one trying to achieve a sort of niche or permanence is the realization at some point that we are all subject to the mysterious world that we know nothing about. Our interest in the mysterious world needs to be sustained if we are to find meaning, for the one thing that will reduce our efforts to change is the participation of the mysterious in the period after we give up our efforts to create something that has lasting value. This is the ironical aspect to our existence is that we have around all the time a world of mysteries, a world that is infinitely greater than we can ever imagine, that will ultimately reduce all our efforts to something we would never recognize.

If we were to live long into the future, our biggest problem would be that we could not keep up with the rate of change around us. The mystery that surrounds us all the time is the very vastness of the world we inhabit. It is so vast that it is almost incomprehensible that we could ever exist at all, and when we do realise that we do exist, we may or may not also realize just how small a part we play in the vastness of the world we were born to. It's almost as if we were never born.

But that is the whole point isn't it. If we assume that we are what we see that we are, we make a huge mistake. We are nothing like what we see that we are. We are and must be much greater and significant. It's as if the whole world was made for us. During our stay in the world it is up to us to take note of who and what we are in what we think of as the present, to remember ourselves and to realize that we are not what we think we are. No way are we ever even close to what we think we are!

Faith in Simple Cold Fusion Systems to Make Clean Energy

Sometimes faith in something comes before belief. Other times belief comes before faith. If you have not already thoroughly researched the cold fusion technology controversy, you might try an experiment out on yourself to see whether you see faith or belief, or something else is arising in your own psyche when someone on the Internet tries to convince you of something that is basically unbelievable, or miraculous whether or not you are a scientist. See New Scientist story.

If what you see below is true, it may have enormous implications for the future of the planet we live on, and may result in amazing savings. The alternative research work reaps many hundreds of millions of dollars. After you see the video, it would be interesting to know whether you would have faith in the future of such revolutionary technology. Is there something holding you back from being convinced. Do you think that more money should be given to cold fusion.

They say that belief comes with seeing something with your own eyes. The question arises whether you will believe that cold fusion is a potential energy source if you see it through a video or images on the Internet. Jean-Louis Naudin, a bilingual french speaking scientist has an uncanny way of making you think more deeply about specific technological projects. If you wish to see cold fusion energy being produced then view the French nuclear lab experiments and wonder why the French have more faith. See French and other nuclear labs that have tested for cold fusion reactions and seem to have have been successful. Favourable results were even obtained by a high school student, see.

When a US Government panel from its Department of Energy investigated the cold fusion research, it had very interesting results to report, see what the DOE panel thought. Afraid of being associated with a low prestige or the much maligned name of cold fusion research after strong criticism from MIT, Harwell, and CalTec some researchers sought to rename their area of research.

Probably what surprised everyone was the haste with which these authoritative institutions pounced on the Pons - Fleischman work, suggesting that they were not able to reproduce the same results. To some it appeared that they had not tried hard enough given the potential winnings for the world community.

The American Press was very interested in the possibilities, but the DOE was not so forthcoming. In a later review of the discovery, in 1984, it did little as to publicize the review discussions and the event it had staged. After all, some the best and authoritative names in energy physics were to take part in the process of reexamining 'alchemy' as a possible future science.

Does this seem possible to you!? In all fairness, its something any brilliant scientist might reasonably risk given the potential rewards for everyone. Can one imagine an Einstein turning down participation in such an event. A gutsy scientist with tenure might be expected to present perhaps a theory or two as to what was actually happening, i.e. beyond straight forward disbelief, for the potentials beyond imaginings were there. However, the judgment coming from these quarters was highly negative when some glimmer of understanding about what was occuring might have been expected to have evolved by this stage! Was the idea of cold fusion so off the wall. Yes! It seems so. The story is complicated because people do not behave the way they are expected to, see.

The problem is that all scientists were getting hung up on the difference between what is normally called basic research and development research. In the case of cold fusion, the whole subject matter was new, threatening to established thinking, revolutionary, extremely promising and highly risky at the same time. Now normally in science and knowledge creation, there is a good case for governments, such as those of the OECD group under the Directorate of Science and Technology to encourage and to sponsor 'basic research' so that private and public interests from many schools and universities of different countries could then provide development research when promising avenues of research arise.

The results of Pons and Fleischman are so close to applied and development research that there is almost no basic or theoretical research presently available. Moreover, there is a taboo on nuclear research against 'risky' information that could widen the world of nuclear science to the peoples in areas of the world where it is considered dangerous because of potential military applications. The phenomenon of cold fusion is such an easily reproduced and basic result that can be conducted in some high school laboratory. Its simplicity has produced a wave of disbelief and a staggering response enormous confusion and misunderstanding throughout the scientific and technological communities world wide.

The potential rewards to discovery of such a technology would make it the most valuable technology ever discovered any time. It could literally transform earth. An estimate puts the amount of water available for such reactions on earth could produce enough energy for future generations to travel across all the known and observable galaxies.

Energy from small amounts of water on this scale is staggering, so why on earth would anyone want to put a stop to such basic research work unless they were thinking mainly of themselves. Sure the discovery of a cold fusion technology that could be scaled up sounds like winning the lottery, but that is what people try to do each day. Ask the public and this writer suggests that a majority would feel that the risks are worth taking. Now as to hot fusion, that research work could also be undertaken and continue along its present path. Perhaps there may be synergies found between the two approaches. We can only hope so!

On one side, those who potentially would lose valuable contracts if cold fusion gained respectability have almost unanimous lined up against the very notion of cold fusion. But, there have been cracks emerging from such quarters, as more and more evidence continues to stream forward that perhaps the chemists have a role to play in nuclear reactions and perhaps a joining of effort between advanced chemistry and advanced physics is needed if the world is ever able to move beyond its obvious present ignorance. It is probably fair to say that cold fusion seems much like alchemy and that is something science has long sought to progress beyond. We must all wonder why such a phenomenon has been hidden within the world of chemical reactions.

When we examine the history of science and technology, we see that discoveries are often made under the strangest of conditions. It stretches my belief that Pons and Fleischman intended to deceive the public or scientific communities, or had serious failings in their work. Rather they are to be highly congratulated for their sharing of their discovery with us. I, for one, am very grateful that they did. It took guts! I am reminded about the English author James Burke whose presentation efforts and books to show connections between technologies are so noteworthy.

If you are curious about the actual results of simple experiments then See data result for cold fusion reproduction. Having viewed the video, do you think that the scientific method for the Ponds and Fleischman experiments have been observed, or do you think that MIT is correct in thinking the experiment was too flawed and possibly embarassing to serious science.

Cogito, Ergo Sum and Where Reason Begins

The phrase 'Cogito, Ergo Sum' translates to 'I think, therefore I am.' It is attributed to the French philosopher Descartes, see, who expanded the phrase to 'I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am,' or 'Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.'

It is from such simple statements of concept that we have vast differences in philosophy of vast numbers of peoples. What made me think of such differences was a phrase that I read this morning on a Muslim web site. It said that the role of science was to prove the Koran was correct. Such a logical position might be described as 'I believe, therefore I am, therefore I think.' It is a very natural reaction to one emerging within the background of a Muslim, or other form of social community.

Perhaps, it is too much to ask whether or not peoples will agree to anything because they have very different attitudes as to what comes first. If you start with the premise that you begin thinking and then your thoughts arise because you become aware of yourself in the world, you will have a very different attitude from one who becomes aware of self, but does not think. The question is whether you can think without words or a language for thought. We might even ask the question of what entities can think or mediate their environment in a meaningful way in order to control it for their benefit. Obviously, there will be competition, as between animals, and plants, but there will also be cooperation and synergy, as between bacteria and humans. A bacterium may not be aware of the 'forest from the trees,' the bloodstream from the human or animal body, but it will have some sort of behaving mechanisms based on its senses, sensations, and reactions to these sensations, as in the case of moving towards light, or seeking a sensational match for a feeling portion of its anatomy!

It would seem that thinking is in large measure governed by language and words, however, the direction of one's thoughts may not be. It would seem that even though we have words and thus thoughts, we also have reactions that have nothing to do with words and thoughts. For example, we can see without using words. We can feel without using words. We can do many many things before we use words and before we start thinking by means of words.

What if belief is not something on which words are necessary, but rather something from all our other senses. I see the house, therefore I believe that the house is there. I don't think in words that the house is there. I just know in my being, or believe, that the house is there.

Well this upsets the apple cart doesn't it!

What this means is that we believe, then we are, and then we think. It is not that we think and therefore we are, at all. It is that we sense and know without thinking and this makes us what we are initially. Subsequently, we may be educated to use words and to write and to develop sophisticated philosophies, but in our beginning, we tend to believe what we see and sense without much sophisticated logic. It would seem that my Muslim writer was correct, or was he?

Sometimes we think we know what we believe, but we really don't. Believing and thinking are tools to help us cope with the world around and inside of us. Neither are sufficient for human life, nor does either have a strong priority on the other.

When we formulate a belief in thought using words we are extending things well beyond the basics. Thinking occurs without the use of words. Our brains have the capacity to work things out by interaction with the world. We might say thus that 'I operate in the world and thus I am.' Alternatively, we might say, 'I am aware that I operate in the world and therefore I am.' OK! now we are getting somewhere!

It's one's awareness that is crucial to our being. If I am aware of myself then I be. If I am dead to myself then I cease to be. In other words, if I have senses to be aware of myself, to observe myself then I am. The senses I normally have available to me are feeling, hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling. I can be without some of these senses, but I must have at least one. A single sense is enough to give me the power of being as long as I can realize that sense in some meaningful way.

One might ask whether a plant is a being. Obviously, plants have sensations because they grow and they move towards light. Therefore plants are beings. They also have senses that we as humans do not have, so they are very interesting and if given the capacity to observe themselves differently, interested beings. What we don't think they have is sight or speech. Would it not be very interesting for mankind to try to give plants and simpler animals the ability to speak and participate in our world in ways that we see as meaningful, and they presently do not understand.

Maybe, we as human beings are missing a great opportunity here. What if we could build a device that would allow simple plant to communicate with us directly. For example, such a device might be that the plant is thirsty. We would find the part of the plant that tells itself that it is thirsty and then build a device that would also tell us that it is thirsty. Over time we could locate other control points in plants that would give them other senses as well, such as the ability to hear and to see. In such a way, plants would be enabled to communicate with us more effectively.

As humans, we have a real problem giving each other a chance to understand how we, individually, feel and sense. We could greatly enrich sexual, feeding, adrenalin, smelling and other sensational experiences if this were possible. We are, however, constrained by what has gone on before, and we need to get to grips with our past mistakes to enable a more satisfying future.

Another challenge would be to give plants abilities that would help us use its abilities more effectively. For example, if plants can sense oxygen levels and could tell us exactly the level of oxygen in the atmosphere, we could use this information. The big issue would be whether plants are capable of being aware in ways that would be meaningful to us as human beings, so that we would respect them in ways that we don't presently respect them. For example, if a tree could show us the best way for it to be comfortable and grow then we would enrich or knowledge of how to develop and locate forests. Imagine trying to plant a tree and it shouting at you. "Not here, you idiot, I will not get enough sunlight and I want to live to be over a hundred years old."

We really need to get to understand this awareness thing much better. It's not only plants that could tell us things, but almost all other forms of life, some of which arose on earth long before we arrived!

A Review of MJ Harper's 'The History of Britain Revealed'

I had already written and published a book with characters of the period of the Roman invasion when lo and behold I came across M. J. Harper's book on the history of Britain, revealed. I have searched high and low for good books on early Britain and there are not very many. This makes a novelist's research very difficult and almost scary.

"My word!" I thought with great trepidation as I opened the book for the very first time and read the first paragraphs. I flipped through and noted the diagrams inside and said to myself, "These look interesting. This is a book to buy and keep. It is extremely well printed (hard copy). What a lovely addition to my bookshelf!"

I also briefly noted Harper's comments on the theory of evolution. "Well at the very least he might be well read," I thought to myself. There is so much interesting that can be learned by letting the competing sciences review each other. "What if Harper's book makes my own book sound like complete rubbish? After all, I have little to go on, but a very strong hunch." Thus, it was that I eagerly bought the book and within several days, I had read it at least three times. Good books are like that. They cause you to read them several times, and you really do grow in understanding with each read.

My own novels are like that. They are not to be read only once. See.

Reading Harper's book many times changed my mind about the English language. My aim is not academic but informational, so the absence sources would not be a problem. At this stage of reading, I am not seeking to verify, but rather to have a cogently argued case for an alternative view presented. I leave it to others, as I am sure Harper does to begin the process of verification. Indeed, too many references would not only be boring, but could deter me from reading.

The book is carefully argued logic and the author makes a clear case for the need to review what we have understood to be the basis of the English language. Many times I have poured over glossary type books of place names seeking an insight into their origin only to find the expression old english applied to the search in question. When looking for insights it is only to easy to be amazed at how readily the authors have said something without verification. How in the dickens is one supposed to verify something.

Obviously, MJ Harper is on to something much grander than the question of the origins of the English language. He is questioning the method of historical research. He is saying that one needs to see the forests from the trees.

The fact is that in the case of English the absence of verification of the Anglo Saxon origins rests mainly with academia and if they wish to verify there own points on the historical origins, this is their opportunity to present their case. They can refute Harper in a book with all the verifiable sources of their case listed. If they don't, we can probably assume that a lot of hot air has been wasted on theories that don't hold forth under close examination. Problem is that much of the hot air has been like butterflies stirring up hurricanes around the world of trust and faith.

Is past history fiction or fact? Have we been duped by the Romans into a false view of our own history? It's a wonderful set of questions that Oxford and Cambridge or other schooled academics can set to rest, or can they?

I have collected all the other books I can find on the English language and try to see whether any of the authors of these have had any doubts in their minds when they were writing so very convincingly. I watched TV programmes about the Anglo Saxons and pondered whether what there were saying was just a guess or based on partial evidence or something that had been verified. The way the present on the BBC is rather convincing would you not agree. The voice is very authoritative, but are the points made verified, and does one verify?

My approach is to read all and everything about a subject before forming an opinion and even then be flexible in making a judgment. It was Gurdieff who wrote that it is of utmost importance to very everything you hear. If you don't you will live in a world of lies. Its largely a matter or personal style and psychology. Some people need to move along with certainty. They feel they can't go on unless what they know is what they believe.

Others like myself live in a world of uncertainty always thinking that what one knows will be revised by someone else. Its a matter of continuing education that you are open to alternative views and don't get closed down into a problem of a logic net, some way of thinking that entangles you without remission.

Yes, its best to take the view that Harper has many good points in his book. The book is well worth reading alongside a book with more conventional views. If you then try to see for yourself the inconsistencies in the conventional view, you might make progress, but your aim should be to verify, verify, if you can. Where you can't verify the story is up for grabs and it is the best presented and most convincing arguments that will win.

A Tale about the Three Hares and the Lost World of Ing

What follows is mythology that is used in the creation of the Wuh Lax series of books, See . The subject of early english language appears in the excellent book by MJ Harper.

The three hares were originally an abstraction in a world where nothing was written down. This world was dominated by hills and the breath of life that moved through the hills was referred to as Breeze.

The Breeze people breathed and through breath they attained life. The faster they breathed the greater was the level of life they attained until they became like the wind and could fly through the air as breeze. The hare breathed fast and moved like the wind and was highly respected by the breeze people, who saw three levels of life based on wind with the last being that of the spirit and made eternal. The hare ran fast in a figure eight which the breeze people used as a symbol for eternity and the spiritual life they were seeking.

The three hares signify three dimensions that concerned them at the time (more on this later, a dimension is a boundary for which it is impossible to cross without transformation; transformation comes with the combining of the four main life forces (water, salt, sand/soil, and organics). In the nature of the universe discoveries have shown that particles can occupy more than one dimension at any one time and it is such properties than enable light that is the mind of man to shape his material universe while aware of the realms of light of invisible universes beyond all imagining.

The breeze people had an alphabet and carved messages on trees, branches, soil, bodies, and sand. They placed stones to define the very large round settlements of their families. The breeze people were the Bri people who eventually took their lead from those settled along the river Tone (now Taunton, where they had their capital city not far from Athelney the capital of the later Saxon rulers of Britain). The people of the breeze settled across the three islands (now Ireland, Britain and Europe). From northwest europe they settled further and further into the east as well.

They became known as the Britons, and their lands as Breton or Brittany, or Britain. They eventually formed a nation that spoke the language of the Ing, a person=hero who in their mythology discovered the property of making metal called bronze from Tin. The Ing was the 'hero' of the Bri people, and his land was known as Ingland, a variation of Tinland. The people of Ingland settled across the island of Ingland, selling tin to make bronze and creating the first wave of civilization (the bronze age) and migrating through Europe travelling as far as the coast of the Mediterranean and well into Asia influencing a broad stretch of the globe arriving eventually in Asia and thence back once more to Ingland, through long extensive trading routes.

The language of the Ing became the source of the European and asian languages See.

Locally in Ingland, the Ing eventually were overrun with the arrival of the darkish curly haired people from Africa and South Western Europe, who spoke a different group of languages and who seized the land from the Bri (breeze) people in order to seize their tin for making weapons. These people were warlike and conquered the Ing. They were known as celts and they absorbed the religion of the Ing into their own. Because of their strange languages and proximity to Roman influence the Romans did not originally recognize the Ing culture. With their swords, and fearsome ways the celts had ruled the peaceful Ing people, but there influence was eventually displaced by that of the Romans.

The celts reign over a long period had caused the Ing to lose and forget their heritage. Thus because their story rotted with the trees, the people of Ing lost their king, the hero and their past became timeless and meaningless. The Romans eventually claimed the culture of Ing absorbing its ideas as their own, and the contribution of the Ing people was lost.

Curiously, a general of the Romans found traces of the people of Ing at Tone when he was conquering the South West of Britain in search of tin and lead. He learned from Corellus one of his generals that the Ing had combined with the celts to form a single people, but that it was only the celts that were warlike. He recognized the importance of the Ing to peace and Roman influence, but he knew that the spiritual leaders now the druids who did not recognize tribal boundaries (between the celts and the Ing) might unite all the people of Ingland as one people to push the Romans off the island. Nevertheless, Romans arranged for a permanent peace with the people of the Ing which obviously stood the test of time.

By way of interest, the Ings (the Ing people) had occuped the whole island of Ingland, but they were mostly to be found in England and they spoke the English language over a wide area. They were very numerous as a people, but had no written word, or at least that is the mythology. With the arrival of the Romans, the warlike and ruling 'celts' retreated to Wales and remoter regions of the island since they would not live under Roman rule. The Ing, the hero worshippers, remained in England and retaught the Romans their full language and spiritual ways which survive to this day as does England, the land of the 'hero.' To their credit, the commercial and military language of the romans died away and was replaced by Italian a language derived from the much older language of the Ing.

Michio Kaku Makes a Timely Impression on BBC Time

My three favourite authors at this very moment are Michio Kaku, MJ Harper, and Ronald Brech. Kaku appeared on BBC 4 to tell us all about how the future of technology was going to shape the directions of change looking forward. Harper recently (2006) wrote a book entitled 'The History of Britain Revealed - The shocking truth about the English language'. Paperback or Hardcopy Ronald Brech in the 1960's wrote a book entitled 'Britain 1984 - The History of the Future' I tried to find a copy of it on Amazon, but could not find one. It would appear that the history of the future 1984 is now known and no book need predict it.

Are you sure? Last year, I debated with my brother whether or not time existed as a dimension. His argument was that I was an idiot. There was no real debate over whether time existed or not. It seemed to him that it was obvious that the whole question was a stupid question. Of course, time exists. I should listen to my brother because he was trained as an astra physicist in Massachusetts. I think he helped find a super nova.

Ooops, I must have made a mistake because time does not exist. I am sure that you believe it does, but I am equally sure that that you are wrong. This is because I am a student of time and have researched it thoroughly for many decades and could not find it anywhere. Everywhere I looked I saw motion and change but no where could I find time. No time does not exist. Time is a figment of the human mind. It simply is not there. I am mistaken, you say. No I am not, say I.

The problem that I have with time is that it suggests that a unique future exists, but having read Ronald Brech's book, we know that it does not exist and no matter how hard we try to predict it, we will fail. The problem is mathematical in that there are more things moving around than things to stop them or control them moving around. Even things that move backward in our illusion of time, such as positrons, cannot be uniquely controlled. This means that the past is not determined any more than the future.

It is said that if you were able to go back in time you would be able to kill your parent and then you would not be born. The problem with this silly argument is that it insults the intelligence of the mathematics I have just described that doesn't allow for a single solution of existence of anything.

What I mean to say is that obviously and mathematically we have a world that has more than one pathway that we would call time if we thought time exists, which suggests that there are obviously multiple paths of time. Ok, you might say, but how many paths of time are there? The answer is that we simply do not know, but the number could be very large as I have not seen any future people saying hello to me recently.

Remarkably, when we examine the past in the way that MJ Harper does, we find that there are many anomalies as he describes them. It would appear that we are not really in a position to say definitively that the English language was originally an Anglo Saxon language or that it had much to do with Anglo Saxon. All we really know is that the people of Britain in the time of the early Romans spoke a language very similar to that spoken in the rest of early Europe. No one to my knowledge wrote the language down in such a way that one in modern times could see, read or hear it.

MJ harper in his fascinating book claims that it is more likely that the sounds of the English language were already part of the vernacular in Briton well before the arrival of the Romans. Its just strange that no one seems to know what the early Britons sounded like. When I wrote my book about the amazing life of Wuh Lax in 50 AD See I took great care in deciding to have my characters speak English. This seemed logical given that the people of the day probably sounded like they spoke English.

Harper is also very good at revealing the pit falls of accepted truths of sciences such as evolution. He shows that the history of the past may be very different from what we would like to think because we only see it in a causal way. We tend to look at things as causal. Some thing causes something else therefore it must have preceding the thing it caused.

I have a very different twist on this idea of causation because if time does not exist as I say it does not exist, who is to say that past times cause future times. It could be the other way around. Suppose that in earthly past a group had uncovered a cold fusion energy machine and had discovered a way to travel very very fast using this machine. This is only fiction since I have no evidence for it, but they could travel slower in time relative to people on earth. I am not sure what technology they would need to travel backward in time, but I think it would have to do with light.

Now what does this all have to do with Michio Kaku and the BBC program on future technologies? The big question in my mind is whether we need to go back in time in order to change the past. Maybe the answer is that we can never go back in time because time does not exist and so the question is irrelevant, or is it. Could a future technology presently being research help me to answer my question about travelling somewhere that does not exist. Michio describes superconductors, metamaterials, invisible cloaks, nanotubes, highways into space, abundant energy sources, nano materials, swarms of nano robots or nanobots, disassembly technologies reassembly technologies, digital fabrication, personal fabricators, teleportation systems, the synergy of technology revolutions, the mastery of matter and life, but he fails to answer my simple question. Do we need to go back in time to change the past? What is the past? For that matter, what is the future?

I Lost Yesterday But Not Millions of Records

If you were like me, yesterday went by in a blur. So fast did it happen that it was over almost before it began. I was lost, yes lost! I cannot remember when I was more lost. Lost that is in disbelief, total disbelief. No I could not be hearing and seeing what I was hearing and seeing. The world had become almost surreal as though all those standards one has been given for most of one's life were thrown to the wind.

I lost my day focusing on the news that I could not comprehend let alone understand. This news pales in comparison to something I had ever experienced in the computer industry. I could not believe the news that two data disks containing the information of almost half the population of the UK was lost. No one seems to know where, but after several weeks the Chancellor and Prime Minister of the UK have had to conclude that an astonishing amount of very private information was lost.

Now lost is a pseudonym for something very serious. We assume that when data is supplied to a government it gets put onto a secure system and it stays there unless someone accesses that system by means of a tried and tested security method. In the office that lost the information in the UK, there appear to have been two systems, one for one group of people that was very secure and another for another group of people that obviously was very insecure .

Unfortunately, in this specific office, having two systems has meant that the whole system was compromised like having a back door to a bank that remains open for some people to use as long as they have special access to that door. We often hear of computer programmers leaving a back door into secure systems that only they know how to use. By definition, such systems are insecure. One only has to what the American TV series 24 Hours to see the implications of such insecurity. In effect, the data lost in England was not secure and never was. The implications of such levels of insecurity are potentially catastrophic for the entire information world.

Governments, like doctors, are respected for their level of competence, trustworthiness, reliability, honesty, capability, and intelligence. What we have observed is at the very least a lack of skill! At its worse, the loss of data may have been deliberate and will be used by some unknown group.

Today, we must think that we may never know where the data has gone, who has by now copied it, and what the gains are to those that have the data, say even for marketing of goods and services. Think how such data could transform the competitive landscape for small companies struggling to survive against and large organization with such 'secret' information. Think how such information could be used by the terrorist worlds or by secret police organizations and government based groups seeking to undermine.

Now audit systems are supposed to determine whether a system is secure and it would seem that the auditors of this particular office did just that. They found out by their own methodology that the system they were asked to review was insecure. The only problem is that the auditors used an insecure system in order to determine the insecurity of an system that was designed to be secure but was quite insecure. Perhaps there is logic in the auditing system that was used after all. It seems to have unearthed more than one insecure system, an insecure system of data storage, and insecure system of data retrieval, an insecure system of data review, an insecure system of internal audit, and insecure system of external audit. One could go on and on!

Now the issue is whether there is a loss beyond the loss of data which is very serious in itself. If I give you a key and you lose it, then you are responsible for the loss that occurs to me should that key fall into the wrong hands. Right? When, almost but not quite! You could argue that you were insane or incompetent and that I should never have given you the key. Even worse, you could say that you knew that I would lose the key. Even worse, you might say that I told you to give the key to someone else so that I could rob myself for some nefarious reason. Perhaps, there are parallels in the above analogy to what has happened to the lost data in the UK.

In a typical case of theft, the thief knows what he is after having stolen may times before and having been trained in the art of thievery. What do we do if the data was not just lost, but stolen? If the data were stolen which seems very likely then the thief had probably stolen before and knew what to steal and how to use the data stolen. There could even have been an organized group behind the theft who knew how to use the data stolen. If that is the case then more has been lost than data of twenty five plus million people. Much more has been lost! Even worse the liability is now that of the people who gave the data under systems of faith and trust. When you provide data, you trust that the people you have given the data to are trust worthy and do not have nefarious goals beyond those that you can imagine.

The problem with this case is that you might trust one office of government but not the whole of government and when one part of government makes demands on another, you and I might lose that trust. For example, I don't trust CDs as a means of transporting 25 million records. You probably don't either. When we give our data to another group we expect them to use reasonably secure methods of holding and retrieving. At this point, I think one could have truly lost trust in the various offices of government which exchange private information. Why is this. It is because we cannot trust that the methods of the government in data storage and retrieval of private information were or are, in the case of the UK, reasonably secure.

This lack of trust, if were to include the banking system, would bring about a crisis of confidence beyond our imagining.

Needless to say, we must insist that the people who receive our data give us reassurance that they can be trusted throughout their organisation. After all, a security system is only as strong as its weakest link, which I think we can now see in the case of the UK system that lost the valuable data of millions of people.

Now the question arise as to who should resign. My gut feeling is that the whole present government should resign if the data is not found in the next 24 hours. Yes, the whole lot and new elections be held in February. Perhaps that would go part of the way to helping people recover some of the loss in confidence that could occur over the next few weeks and the full implications of what has happened are reflected on in the sanity of day and the insanity of a dream like state we call sleep. Who an sleep soundly after this?

The Religion in the Science of Energy Creation

Do you imagine that scientists all follow the scientific method? Think again. Sometimes scientists are unwilling to give up their failed ideas even though evidence shows that these ideas are somewhat inadequate.

The problem often arises because of technological choice. Science is not a cost free exercise and in order for an area of ignorance to be explored or new knowledge of a technology be developed, scientists sometimes stretch their allegiance to a theory or technology beyond what strict adherence to tested evidence and good scientific method allows. A good example occurs with the development of new energy technologies.

Some new technologies are so expensive and time consuming that once embarked upon there is little incentive to reverse direction. An example arises in the case of energy from fusion. Those that embarked on development of hot fusion technologies follow improvements in these technologies with an almost religious fervour, refusing to accept that cheaper alternatives may actually be available.

The problem arises when a group of scientists deliberately sets out to destroy the efforts of another group primarily because of the difference in directions and costs of the competing technologies. If you are like me, you wonder whether the competitive efforts of scientists working on cold fusion were sabotaged by those working on hot fusion. The jury is still out as to whether cold fusion has potential as a scalable technology for energy. What one observes, however, is that scientists do not always adhere to their mantra of the scientific method.

One might ask why scientists are often very reluctant to change direction when the evidence suggests a better alternative. Perhaps, it is because they have spent much of their academic life accepting a limited view of their field and in becoming over specialized cannot see the forest for the trees. Putting blinders on is in the nature of a pilgrimage, and many scientists behave like religious pilgrims determined to fulfil a specific journey and quite willing to misdirect others away from alternative journeys. In such cases, science unfortunately adopts some of the less attractive attributes of a religion.