The World Turns? Screw That!

Perhaps this post is more appropriately titled , 'An (Hyperb-) Ode to Alan'

"Curvature is the Obstruction to a Flat Field.
Tidal Forces are the Obstruction to an Acceleration Field
Curvature of Space-Time is the same as Tidal Forces."
--From a link associated with "GR02 Gravity Acceleration Equivalence, Gauss’s Law 2008-09-29"

Surah 86 At-Tariq (الطَّارِقِ)
وَالسَّمَاء وَالطَّارِقِ 86:1وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الطَّارِقُ 86:2النَّجْمُ الثَّاقِبُ 86:3إِن كُلُّ نَفْسٍ لَّمَّا عَلَيْهَا حَافِظٌ 86:4فَلْيَنظُرِ الْإِنسَانُ مِمَّ خُلِقَ 86:5خُلِقَ مِن مَّاء دَافِقٍ 86:6يَخْرُجُ مِن بَيْنِ الصُّلْبِ وَالتَّرَائِبِ 86:7إِنَّهُ عَلَى رَجْعِهِ لَقَادِرٌ 86:8يَوْمَ تُبْلَى السَّرَائِرُ 86:9فَمَا لَهُ مِن قُوَّةٍ وَلَا نَاصِرٍ86:10وَالسَّمَاء ذَاتِ الرَّجْعِ 86:11وَالْأَرْضِ ذَاتِ الصَّدْعِ 86:12إِنَّهُ لَقَوْلٌ فَصْلٌ 86:13وَمَا هُوَ بِالْهَزْلِ 86:14إِنَّهُمْ يَكِيدُونَ كَيْدًا 86:15وَأَكِيدُ كَيْدًا 86:16فَمَهِّلِ الْكَافِرِينَ أَمْهِلْهُمْ رُوَيْدًا 86:17
{Some of 'em want to know what's driving me to do this. Simple vanity! I decided the only way to shed a few pounds around here is to get rid of Gravity.}

The diacritic marks were added to the Quran some time after it was first put down in writing, to ensure the proper pronunciation of the text to avoid any misunderstandings. However, it would appear some people go to great lengths to make sure the meaning is lost on them. So, enough about them.

For the classic Star Trek aficionado who may remember Spock and McCoy facing off in a game of multi-level chess, the Multiple nuances of the Quran are more to do with performing multiple math problems than to dig deep to find a way to screw your neighbor.

For a limited example, take the first line of Chapter 86 At-Tariq. 'The Tariq' has been variously rendered as 'the night visitor', 'the piercing star', 'Sirius', just to mention a few variations on the theme. Tabulated below, in a nod to Multi-level Chess and Math Word Problems, the first line 86:1 consisting of 14 letters is broken down to its basic elements of variables, constants and other arithmetic operators.



If the table on the left, parsing out Sign 86:1 of the Quran, does not make it immediately obvious that one of the relationships embedded in it describes a helical path or orbit, then perhaps some clarification is called for.

I am presuming no one else has stumbled on it since I have never heard anything about this particular information embedded in the Quran, or what turned out to be my very handy-dandy-field-survival-guide, in all the years I've been on this (sad forsaken) planet and considering that this information has been hiding in plain view for over 14 Centuries by our reckoning.

In fact, the majority of those I've encountered over the years only see the worse things in it (which I have always justified as a general lack of literacy in the population) and most of them can only sit around thinking of ways to desecrate it or disparage the One (pbuh) who saw fit to share it with us.

The few more widely read, or the handful following along at apageinthelife, may scoff at the discovery, because there is more vivid imagery and reference to this phenomenon than the example I selected. Not only in the Quran itself, as in Chapter 81 Takwiir (Lit. "Spiralling'/'Twisting,' moving off-center), but in other Ancient lore including the Maya's of South America and the Maori's of New Zealand.

The Maya, of course, are best noted for their 2012 so-called 'doomsday' calendar, and there is a Maori oral tradition that alludes to 'When the Snake Bites the Sun.'

The Snake or Dragon reference appears in one form or another in most world cultures, and while it essentially is a reference to new beginnings from old endings (depicted by the serpent usually eating its own tale), such myths are imparted in simplistic memorable terms akin to presenting someone with a colorful Easter Egg--something that can be easily recalled, so that when we get older and have learned enough or experienced enough, and there comes a time to do away with childish things, we can then truly understand the Reality that 'hatches' from all the fairy tales.

I am probably not as brilliant as the young man looking over my shoulder at our neighborhood Starbucks the other evening, so I can't do multi-level math; and given that I can't even do 10th grade math thanks in great part to those who for whatever reason saw to it I lose the only thing I had going for me (my mind) coupled with the lack of proper care and out-right cover-up from the so-called 'medical community', I have to resort to single-level easy-as-she-goes-so-as-not-to-blow-out-her-one-remaining-brain-cell approach. Since I was never all that great at Set Theory or Statistics, I will go with the Algebra (you can follow along and pick your forte).

The first step, as when working any Code, is to find a Key, or agree on a Convention. Since the 'bismillah' is among the most often repeated phrases on Earth, maybe it is a Key to untangling the Arithmetic embedded in the Quran?





Like with everything else, one must Consider the Source before committing anything to a Methodology. While for convenience I use islamicity.com for an on-line Quran source, I know that the Allah is generally more detailed than what is shown in Sign 1:1 above, so I used wikipedia to get a more faithful representation of the Name 'Allah'.
As shown, Allah comprises an 'alif wasl' which is actually not an 'A' at all but what is called a 'hamza' and since this one appears at the beginning of the word with no prior letter it is pronounced as "Ah" and is called a 'hamza wasl'. Literally, 'hamza wasl' means 'connecting link'.
This is followed by the first L (the Arabic Lam) which in Arabic math notation is used for !factorial but is also the notation for complex numbers of the form r*e^(it). And it connects to the medial L in the Word Allah.
The Medial L (connects two letters, the leading Lam and the Ha (Arabic H that follows). What is noteworthy about this second lam is that it has both the 'shadeh' and the 'dagger aleph' harakat or diacritical marks above it. So, while the first Lam is understood to be connected with the hamza, making the word 'al' as in the definitive article 'the', there is no ignoring what we are to think of this medial Lam.
The 'aliph dagger' خنجر is used to mark or highlight the letter it is over, much like a sign (†) that is used as a reference mark, especially to a footnote (oh, A Clue!). And then we have the 'shadeh' as mentioned throughout the table above meaning, to 'stress' 'double' or 'take root' as well as things having to do with germination and the 'kernel'. And it is worth mentioning that the word 'Aliph' itself means 'compile'.
That the medial Lam is followed by the Ha (ه ), and there is no mistaking that in Arabithmatic ه stands for Euler's number, E, (or, e as in ln(e)=1---like e=2.7182...that E!) may be pointing to Lam as shorthand for complex numbers rather than Permutation, but that's just a guess on my part. (Plenty of room here for puns about 'Mary had a little lamb' and 'Abraham sacrificing a Lamb' or Ram...blah, blah, but let's try to focus).
Euler's number appears often in math and the sciences, and is associated with a range of things from expressing growth (or decay) rates, to Gaussian fields, to simplifying Calculus (like when integrating the Taylor equations).
So, we look for the Truth of the Thing by stringing along the letters. Lam complex form taken once and transcribed to equivalent English is re^(it).

There are two ways to double this; either one should work, so I tried both 2re^(it) and (re^(it))^2. And according to Anyone Who Has Ever Told The Truth of The Matter, There is Only 1 Allah. So, to test the Key, We Trust That ALLAH=1. And thank Heaven for WolframAlpha.com, I was able to generate the table for each case.
The fact that each case based on this Method did not yield a 'False' statement, and that each case had roots and yielded recognizable functions, does seem to confirm that 'Allah-hu-Ahhad' ('God Is One'). (I have to insist it ain't me or any one of you, but I think We may have Met on my worse day on that 'flippin' planet'!). It is interesting to note that each curve varies in the same way given that they all have the same derivatives.

Euler's number also appears when expressing curves in polar coordinates (r,t) and is analogous to expressing a complex number.

A logarithmic, or growth spiral which often appears in nature (spiral galaxies, a hawk' s path toward its prey, the nautilus shell, or a moth' s approach to a flame) when expressed in polar coordinates (r,t) is given by:

r=ae^(bt)
where a & b are Real numbers

Parametrically, the curve is given by:

x=cos⁡〖(bt)〗
y=sin⁡(bt)

A 3-D spiral, or Helix, is formed when a planar spiral is pulled along a third axis, z;

z=t; 0≤t ≤2π

The Helix is not the only type of spiral found in nature, others include the 'Whorl' and the 'Vortex.' All this means is that the World 'Screwing Around' is nothing new, since not only does the Earth Orbit the Sun along the Ecliptic Plane, but it is following the Sun as it hurtles through space on its way to toward the Solar Apex-what is, essentially, a Helical orbit.

The image below is taken from the book Helical Helix : Solar System a Dynamic Process byDr. Pallathadka Keshava Bhat (comments added).



As of 2010 the concept that the entire Solar System moves in a vortex trajectory like a snake moving in 3 dimensions (the 'Solar Snake') instead of a flat plane is not the way it is being taught in our schools. (In fact, in some schools they are still arguing Creationism v Evolution, as if this is even an argument).
As the "Solar Snake" moves either above or below the Galactic Ecliptic (about 26,000 years), it produces the illusion of the 'precession of the equinoxes' or what is described as a wobble in the Earth's polar axis. (At least this is how it appears from the 'Accessible' perspective of Earth's inhabitants, or 'Lower Dimension', than when viewed from outside the Solar System, or the 'Remote' viewpoint from a 'Higher Dimension').
The 'Solar Snake' is creating the so-called wobble due to it's vortical trajectory above and below the Galactic Ecliptic. The Ancients, including but not limited to the Maya, Inca, Egyptians, Indians, Indonesians and Native Americans, knew this and represented the Solar Force as Serpents or twin opposing serpents (twin opposing vortices).

The precession of Earth's axis explanation by way of this 'higher dimensional' viewpoint has interesting ramifications when extending this 'as above, so below' observation to the way information propagates throughout the Creation.
One example is in the similarity between the shape traced by solar system's helical path on the Galactic level compared to sperm on the microscopic level and genetic material (DNA) itself at the atomic level. (I know, this all gives new meaning to the notion of 'panspermia').

And while the examples of the snapshot of the helical solar system, the movement of sperm flagellum and the structure of the DNA molecule are physical 'turns' like that of a screw, this type of displacement is strongly reminiscent of elelctro-magnetic wave propagation.
This 'Reverberating Pattern' transmitted across not only in magnitude (from the Galactic to the Microscopic) but also across forms of Matter and Energy (Movement) cannot be ignored; it is very much like the self-similarity seen in Fractals! The very fact that this self-similarity exists so widely in the Universe must have meaning of 'Grave' (-ity) importance! (Did I scare you?--to know You're Mom died?---You'll be okay, because it's still not as bad as your driving scares me! So, remember to drive safely...(well-timed, aptly-titled JumpStart comics appeared 01.03.2011 in the LATimes; is the 'grammar nazi' comment a personal attack? comics.com)
The Helix also presents as a screw dislocation as it propagates in crystal growth. Screw dislocations are an important mechanism in crystal growth and appear as distinct spirals under high magnification. Turns out, where there is a surface “step” the atoms can more easily add to the crystal, and the surface step associated with the screw dislocation is never destroyed no matter how many atoms are added to it. (The arithmetic description of a ‘step’ is a ‘jump point’ or a ‘discontinuity’ caused by a function being ‘undefined’ at that point, like ‘divide by 0’)
Keeping all this in mind, about how matter holistically travels or imprints these helical paths, an electromagnetic vortex may have something more to add to our understanding of the phenomenon and, in turn, add to our understanding of the Gravity 'paradox' when formulating the Theory of Everything.
An optical vortex is created when light (a form of electromagnetic radiation) travels in the z direction with a phase front in the shape of a spiral. The intensity vanishes at the center (anyone think this is familiar to Gravity at the Center of the Earth where counter forces cancel each other out?) of the optical vortex where the phase is “undefined”.

The image of just such an optical vortex is
taken from a paper by Dr. Ulrich T Schwarz Research Group, Regensburg University. According to that paper;
“…’the threads of darkness’ are the optical analogue to screw dislocations in condensed matter physics. They are defined as topological entities and thus stable. A perturbation of the beam will shift the position of the vortex, but not destroy it (as it is impossible to smoothly merge a spiral staircase).”{…And I suppose this is where I am not to let my anger show and only wonder, ‘Why can’t God Imagine better people?!’} Ok, Enough with the EMO stuff.

Moving right along, we take a second look at where we started:
وَالسَّمَاء وَالطَّارِقِ 86:1
86:1 By the Sky (Heavens) and the Tar(i)q(i)
Which is not to say we are right back where we started because all this has happened in the meantime, so it's not exactly the exact same beginning although it looks strangely familiar (Déjà vu, anyone?--Oh, the French, we'll get to them later...).
The reason the word Tariq has so many associations is probably because when it was first introduced into the Arabic vernacular people thought it quite foreign and they tried to make sense of it through context of what followed, which seems to be about the Sky and the Stars. But the words for Stars and Revelation are homonyms, so 86:3 may be just as likely talking about a Piercing Star as it is a Groundbreaking Revelation. Which brings us to the French.
French is a Romance language and derives from the ancient Latin. It is also known as one of the group of "oïl languages" which share the common word oïl (oui) for yes.
{This is where I have to digress and relate a story about a traveller who shared a (conventional) flight with me and was seated next to me on a business trip some time in the long distant past. As we were flying over New Mexico he became quite chatty about how beautiful it looked from the air and he said that travelling widely for his work had taught him to appreciate all kinds of beauty that is not so apparent to the rest of us just walking around because of the special vantage he had when hearing people speak. He was a Linguist and his work required that he find ways to preserve human language and discover how it evolved, which gave him a wider lexicon than the rest of us and an entirely different way of understanding the World.}
Consider the word الطَّارِقِ (at-tariq) first introduced in 86:1 and then followed by the rhetorical question:
86:2 "And How Would You Know (Who Taught You, or, How Can You Be Able to get the Concept of ) what is the Tariq?"
To someone like my travel buddy, sometime in the '80's, it was probably a no-brainer; but to the rest of us, (or me anyway), it's not incredibly obvious. The nearest Arabic word to it would be طرق "method(s)" similar words mean 'through' or 'way' and secondary meanings are 'knocking, beating, pounding, enter, etc.' It is interesting that an alternative word for 'methods' is الأساليب "al-asaleeb" which sounds a great deal like "the Crosses" ( الصليب the Cross, Crucifixion).
A great many of us know about the story of Jesus and the Resurrection and associate His time on 'the Cross' as a time of 'Persecution' or great 'Torture'. So, we would not be surprised to find that the Latin word torquere, ('to torment'), can remind some of us of the word 'Torque', ('to twist'). And we find even more associations to the Jesus story in similar Latin words like 'Torques", (meaning; 'a chain of,' 'collar,' 'yoke', 'garland', 'necklace', 'gorget', 'chain') and the closely associated 'Torquis' (meaning; 'twisted necklace').
All this is made more interesting when we find that the word 'tarch' or 'arch' is 'Ark' in French, and sounds like 'tark' in Estonian for 'wise, astute, sapient, intelligent...' Which brings us around full circle to the word in Farsi (Persian) for torque, where it's taken directly from the contemporary word and its modern-day meaning; 'torque' transcribed in the Arabic/Persian alphabet as 'تورک' (tork), which looks and sounds a lot like the definitive طَّارِقِ (allowing for variations due to trascription from one laguage to another).
The Answer to the rhetorical Question posed in 86:2 (although none is needed) is:
"Certainly Not Google language tools!"
Since a recent translation of 86:2 using Google Language Tools yielded the following interpretation:
"Everybody Knows What Tariq (86:2)" (is).
{I would be convinced otherwise if every government agency had not at one time or another visited this site, even by way of Malaysia and Siberia, ok? I know yousguys tamper with it, because I would not expect those visitors' default language to be English.}
Essentially, this is what it is:
86:3 An-najm al-thaqib86:3 The Piercing Star; A Penetrating/Acute/Sagacious Revelation (acute/keen/boring (like with a hand-drill/perforator Insight/Awakening)
86:4 Inna Kulla Nafsitin llamma 3aliha hhafizhu86:4 Indeed (Truly) Every Being (Soul) Has Overseeing it (Over It) A Saviour (Keeper, Guardian, Protector, Watcher)
86:5 Fayuntthiri al-insannu mimma khulliq86:5 So let (such that) the Human Being See (Understands) Of What (they) Are Created
86:6 Khuliqin min ma'in daffiqin86:6 Created From/Of Watery Effluent (stream, race, influx, afflux, outpouring, inflow/outflow, pouring, pumping, effluence...)
86:7 Yakhruju min bayina al-ssalbi wa al-ttara'ibi86:7 Coming out (emerging, exiting, surfacing) from/of between the 'al-ssalbi' (n.; steel, Crux, crucifixion, loin, ramrod, cross-cut, betterment. v.; crucify, harden, consolidate, stiffen, temper, call out, sear, castigate. adj.; solid, firm, rigid, tough, stiff, concrete, robust, metallic, adamant, unyielding, inflexible, unkind, stark, horny, stubborn, tenacious, resistant, solidity, cruel, corneous, persistent, callous, stabile, out-and-out) and 'al-'ttaraa'ibi' (Alterae (Altair); var. رأب ra'b, bridge, garage; al-tara ibi (ForeFathers' + White Flyers).

The Northern Cross, or Cygnus (The Swan)__Backbone of the Milky Way

On one level 86:6 and 86:7 may very well be a lesson in biology and procreation, but the text is troubling when we have to try and figure out what the exact body part the 'effluent' or 'flood, stream' is emerging from between given that the words 'al-ssalbi' and 'al-ttara'ibi' don't, as far as I can find, correspond to any widely accepted body parts as such. They have been variously interpreted to mean the ribs, loins, or rib cage and the pelvic arch, but this seems contrived.
So, for now, we have to look elsewhere in our Universe to make a more Immediate Connection.
The Galactic Plane (Equator) runs right through the Northern Cross (Cygus, The Swan) where the asterism Fixed by Deneb and Albiero forms the long ‘Staff’ of The Cross; and Delta Cygni, Sadr, and Gibeah form its outstretched 'arms' (cross-bars).
Sighting the Northern Cross is the same as looking directly into the Milky Way disk since it floats like a backbone of the Milky Way – the luminous River of Stars passing through the Northern Cross and stretching across the sky. On clear, dark Winter nights this “milky” swath of sky appears as a hazy band and is really an edgewise view of the Galactic Disk.
The "Summer Triangle" likewise fixes the orientation of the Milky Way Galaxy as it flows out through one of the 'legs' formed by Vega and Altair, with Deneb at its western Apex.
Each of these stars in the Northern Cross and the Summer Triangle are associated with avian Constellations: Deneb and Albiero and Delta Cygni mark the Tail, Beak, and Wing of The Swan, respectively; Gieneh, means 'wing' in Arabic and it represents a wing of Corvus, the Crow/Raven (Gamma Corvi), and the eastern outstretched 'wing' of Cygnus the Swan (Epsilon Cygni); Vega is the brightest star in Lyra associated with the mythic Eagle/Vulture that swoops between Heaven and Earth; and Altair is a main star in the Aquila and derives its name from al-nasr-al-ta'er, 'The Flying Eagle', of legend; and finally, Sadr at the center of the crossbar in the Northern Cross is from the 'Breast' of the Hen.
So, while anatomically we may yet have a few more things to learn about human physiology, it would seem what we know about the Cosmos provides a more fitting depiction of what Signs 86:6 and 86:7 are on about. Since it would seem to indicate that the flow of the Milky Way through these fixed points has something to do with Birth or Resurrection. A Birth that our Ancient Forefathers noticed on a Galactic Time Scale in its streaming through what is alluded to as a 'bridge' associated with these 'White Flyers'. It's not surprising that Deneb, Vega and Altair are all white Class A stars related to Birds.
A 'bridge' connects or links places and it also enables communication (a span across a physical barrier or Time) and the secondary meaning of the word رأب ra'b being 'garage' may lead to the inference that the destination is a place for rest and repair, whether it be for cars, stars, UFOs, or people.
86:8 Innahu 3alla raj3ihi laqadirun
86:8 (Indeed) He Is Able (Has Power Over, Can Cause) him (the Human) to Return (Revert, Come Back, Repeat, Reinstate, Snap back, pass back, reestablish, send back, report back, resound) (aside, is that like a threat?)
86:9 Yawma tubla assara'iru
86:9 On A Day Secrets Are Displayed (laid bare, put forth, the understanding is that they are 'worn out' for all to see, like clothing, with all connotations including 'bearing them' and their being 'erased' and/or 'worn down' in that there will be no way to make excuses for them)
86:10 Fammaluhu min quwatin wala nassirin
86:10 He will have no other Helper/Power/Force or Friend/Patron/Benefactor
86:11 Wa al.sama' tthati alraj3i
86:11 And the Sky (Heaven) Relates the Feedback
86:12 Wa al.ardi tthati alssud3i
86:12 And the Earth Relates the Rift/Flaw/Fissure/Crack/Separation/Segregation...
86:13 Innahu laqawln fasln
86:13 (Indeed) He Can Say (Utter, Call, View, Determine) the Decision (separation season segregation division disconnection isolation severance seclusion demarcation disjunction parting dissociation breakthrough displacement; v., separate disconnect detach break dismiss fire segregate remove adjudicate cut isolate determine decide settle cut off detail sever resolve divide disentangle dissociate sack discharge judge partition lay off set apart expel part itemize wean displace adjudge dissociate oneself from disunite disjoin arrive at a resolution cashier
render a judgment particularize elaborate seclude make a decision sunder have a final word)
86:14 Wammahua b'al hazli
86:14 And He Is Not Kidding (not joking); He Is Serious
86:15 Anahum yakeydoo'na kaeidana
86:15 They are scheming a plot (They plot a plot; plan an artifice, machination, scheme, trick)
86:16 Wa'akeydo kaeidana
86:16 And I Plot a Plot...
86:17 Famahali al.kafireen amhalhum ru'wayidana
86:17 Allow Time for the Disbelievers (Unfaithful)--Take It Easy On Them (Deal Gently with them, Allow (them) Time for A Reprieve).
...I can't believe You; they have the supercomputers, a nuclear arsenal, all the national labs, and their sanity & You Tell me to take it easy on them?! Fine. Here, I Plot a Plot!



PS Henry, I was kind o'hope'n you took off with the quantitative maths while I perigrinated the qualitative aspects. The Chapter:Verse may be the actual parameters for the steps. For example, Sign(1:1) would indicate use variables=1 and result=1 ; and test for True. The example given for الله above yields:
; ; ...
True; True; True...

Life Goes On

...without me

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
--Robert Frost US Poet (1874 - 1963)

Sage words coming from a thoughtful poet known for his 'telling last line.'

The intimacy one senses in Frost's poems derives from his ability to encapsulate profound Truths about our world in a language accessible to the rest of us.

Consider the last lines from some of his poems:

1. Desert Places..."I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places."
2. Hyla Brook..."We love the things we love for what they are."
3. Nothing Gold Can Stay..."So dawn goes down to day, Nothing gold can stay."
4. Revelation..."So all who hide too well away Must speak and tell us where they are."
5. The Road Not Taken ..."And that has made all the difference. "

Such keen observations could only be so well articulated by someone living very much in their present moment. Unlike some of us who are always looking back over what has happened or counting the days to see what will happen next--a sure recipe to miss what is going on right now.
A good ferinstance would be considering the simple case of 2 numbers; say, 9 and 118. Not particularly exciting numbers, and certaintly no readily discernable way to win the lottery, but here we are on September 16, 2010 thinking about them.
The Sign 9:118 given by these 2 numbers is found in Chapter 9 of the Quran, entitled Repentence.
Surah 9 Tawba (Repentence)وَعَلَى الثَّلاَثَةِ الَّذِينَ خُلِّفُواْ
حَتَّى إِذَا ضَاقَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ الأَرْضُ بِمَا رَحُبَتْ
وَضَاقَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ أَنفُسُهُمْ وَظَنُّواْ
أَن لاَّ مَلْجَأَ مِنَ اللّهِ إِلاَّ إِلَيْهِ
ثُمَّ تَابَ عَلَيْهِمْ لِيَتُوبُواْ
إِنَّ اللّهَ هُوَ التَّوَّابُ الرَّحِيمُ 9:118
We could try to find special relationships between the numbers 9 and 118 by using simple arithmetic operations and trigonometric functions; treat them as coordinates to find a location on earth or the celestial sphere; or convert them to different forms such as binary, hex or complex. Or, we can choose to look at this pair of numbers in terms of a common relationship we know they share today, in 2010 CE.
As of 2010, the Periodic Table contains 118 chemical elements whose discoveries have been confirmed. Ninety-four are found naturally on Earth, and the rest have been produced artificially in particle accelerators.
The'Periodic Table' is referred to as such since the elements are arranged according to their chemical properties which occur 'periodically' when these elements are grouped depending on the number of valence electrons and the total number of electron shells.
The 'periods' comprise the horizontal rows of the table, of which there are 9. (The wide table incorporates the lanthenides and actenides (f-block) and the extended version adds the 8th and 9th periods, incorporating the f-block and adding the theoretical g-block.)
So, in today's parlance the numbers 9 and 118 are associated with the Periodic Table as we know it at present having 118 confirmed elements and 9 periods.
Sign 9:118, Reaveled over 1400 years ago, relates the story about 3 Believers who were 'left behind' or stayed behind rather than join in a battle with the Prophet for reasons that were not immediately known to be valid. And it basically refers to their experience of feeling that their world (the Earth) felt constraining to them (they felt hemmed in) regardless of its expanse until they came to realize that there is really no place of sanctuary for them except in turning to God; a hard-won lesson in knowing that it is God who Causes or Teaches us Repentence as a Mercy from Him.
Well, what does this all have to do with today and the Periodic Table of the Elements?
Sign 9:118 appears to have everything to do with atoms and their finer parts and their motions: as given here in a nutshell--or a quantum well, as the case may be.
وَعَلَى الثَّلاَثَةِ الَّذِينَ خُلِّفُواْ
And (regarding, about) the the curvature/fundamental/effervescent of the Three that succeed/descendants that displace/supersede/in the wake of/subsequent to/as a result
حَتَّى إِذَا ضَاقَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ الأَرْضُ بِمَا رَحُبَتْ
even/if (while/as long as) tightens/bottlenecks/limits/narrows/strait=narrow channel connecting two larger bodies to them the Earth/ground/third planet from the Sun/ on them matter concerning/Earth/ground Including/with its capaciousness/spaciousness/vastness
{In terms of physics (or matter) properties, such as phase changes, are associated with the Three universality classes; relevant, irrelevant or marginal. And these properties depend on parameters, or ‘curvatures’ , as a second derivative of the energy, that are of direct physical importance. This statement is based on the first line of Sign 9:118 as it states that the subject is about or 'pertaining' to the 'fundamental' + 'curvature' + 'effervescent ==liveliness which is related to 'energy'' of the '3 descendents' or 'three derivatives' that 'result' or 'succeed/supplant/take place' from the following conditions in the next line(s): 'while' or 'even' as it seems to them that they have a limitation or a 'bottleneck' described as a 'narrow/strait' of the 'earth' which would imply their 'ground state' or the 'ground' itself appears to be a limitation or a narrow channel connecting two larger bodies (much like a quantum well) despite or 'including' all its 'capaciousness' or ability to' hold/store a vast amount'.}

Note: Things to keep in mind: “The curvature distributions
may find direct applications in the discription of fluctuations of
magnetic (such as diamagnetic susceptibility) or temperature (ie. heat capacity) properties in mesoscopic quantum systems or random media.” (Zakrzewski & Delande, 1993); in terms of
chemistry efferescense is the result of the chemical reaction occurring
in the liquid which causes gas bubbles to escape, typically seen in carbonated
soft drinks; and the historical name for the f atomic subshell is 'fundamental'.

وَضَاقَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ أَنفُسُهُمْ وَظَنُّواْ
and tightens/bottlenecks/limits/narrows/strait=narrow channel connecting two larger bodies to them on themselves matter/concern=disquiet/fluctuation/wavering/uncertainty/earth/ground and the feel/ imagine/picture/sense/work out a sound like a rustle/murmur (phonon)/ complain
أَن لاَّ مَلْجَأَ
there is no Harbor Burrow/small place created by digging or tunneling/earth Hideout Hideaway Sanctum==quiet place/calm or motionless place
{And they themselves (implies that something within them) cause a tightening or narrowing much like the narrow/straits they encounter from the 'ground' (like the quantum well described above); but here, the 'matter' 'fluctuates' or 'wavers' (implies dual nature, or particle/wave) in their own 'ground' state and they 'sense' or perceive a 'rustle', which can mean one of two things; they either react to a 'murmur' or sound wave or they produce it themselves, much like a phonon is thought to act. That there is no 'sanctuary' or 'harbor', a place of 'calm' or to be 'motionless' in a 'small place created by tunneling/digging'. A tertiary meaning to malja is also 'earth' or 'ground', so the idea here is that they perceive there is no way to get to a 'ground state;' and motionless would imply 'zero energy' by 'tunneling'.}
مِنَ اللّهِ إِلاَّ إِلَيْهِ
From God except In Him (to Him) to matter/instability/ebb and flow/rise and fall/fluctuate/change/oscillation/vacillation==uncertainty/wavering/of two minds/irresolute/undetermined/be hesitant
ثُمَّ تَابَ عَلَيْهِمْ لِيَتُوبُواْ
then, after He forgives/discharged/absolve/released/freed them of matter/
disquiet/disorder/unrest/chaos/disorder/disarray/so that they 'repent'= to repent== change ways or habits, adj.-grow or lie along/in the direction of the ground (mature on Earth)
{From God except in Him (to Him); where 'him' means 'matter' or 'concern', 'rise and fall' or 'ebb and flow', like a 'fluctuation/change/oscillation', again, an allusion to 'wavering' between 'two states', being 'undetermined', 'uncertain;' and further to this 'hesitant'. Then, or consequently, He 'freed them of matter/concern' or 'released' them from the 'uncertain' or 'indeterminate' state (of 'chaos', 'disorder', 'disquiet'='noise' or phonon) they are in so that they 'repent'.
In religious terms to 'repent' means to change one's ways or habits, but in real-world terms to 'repent' means to grow or lie along or in the direction of the ground. A change in 'ways' or 'direction' may mean a change in 'sign.' And that they 'li-tawbuwa' indicates that the direction in which they are 'repenting' is toward Him/God. So, in terms of 'God' being a 'Boson', it would indicate that these 'noisy' particles seek a ground (zero energy) state when in its presence or due to its presence. The mechanism by which 'God' does this is alluded to in the word 'forgives' which means to 'discharge a debt'.}

إِنَّ اللّهَ هُوَ التَّوَّابُ الرَّحِيمُ
The (Indeed, True) God He teaches/causes 'repentence'=change in direction (sign); to grow or lie in the direction of the ground; the 'Merciful'= one who has the capacity to forgive ==cancels/neutralizes/gives the reverse order to an obligation/debt/trespass==encroachment’==
'Beneficent'/produces benefits/advantages
'Clement'/uses little force or violence/not rising steeply/gentle slope/highest status
'Pitying'/willingness to forgive/capacity to be sympathetic
'Sympathetic' as in vibrations such as musical tones that are produced in something as a result of similar vibrations at the same frequency from something else
{The nature of how this 'God' teaches or causes 'repentence' is described further in this last line of Sign 9:118; It has 'capacitance' to 'discharge a debt' or 'cancel/neutralize' by giving the 'reverse order' to a debt or trespass (where a tresspass is an 'encroachment'). This is done with very little force/energy or violence. Its profile has a very shallow/gentle slope yet it reaches the highest status/level. 'Pitying' means a 'willingness to forgive' which implies this is done in a somewhat selective manner in that it can be done at any time that it 'opts' to do so. And 'forgiveness' is the 'capacity to be sympathetic' such that either the 'God' particle sets up a resonant frequency with the 'noisy' particle or vice versa such that the 'noisy' particle reaches a 'ground' state (as described by 'repentence' above).}
So, I hope You don't Mind my having turned You into a 'Sympathetic Boson Particle', considering that You have reduced me to an erstewhile 'noisy grounded nothing.' But this does prove the the old adage still holds True: "There is no Power (Transfer) nor Force (Vitality) nor Movement (Motion/Activity) except by/from/with God (Allah). لا حول ولا قوة ولا حركة إلا بالله"
I know You catch my 'drift', for everyone else looking in I leave you with a dated reference, 'Parametric Motion of Energy Levels in Quantum Chaotic Systems I. Curvature Distributions', Zakrzewski & Delande, Physics Review E Vol. 47, Number 3, March 1993. And I'll try to catch up tomorrow since You ditched me and while I'm stranded here I'll just find a comfortable Chair by a bright Lamp in a quiet corner to settle into and read a good book.

Smoke

All good dogs go to Heaven and there are No missing children there.

***A Search string leading to This Blog on July 8 2010; "Kyron's step-mother did not drop him off at school instead she drove to the island and killed him"*** from AOL, OC3 connection NY, New York...

and by some strange co-inky-dink the July 7, 2010 NY Time Crossword Puzzle answer to 61 Across HAYDN! GO SEEK [that thing that you are supposed to be seeking]! The clue was 61A Command to an Austrian composer on a scavenger hunt? ***

I suppose You think this all flew over my head, but I still want to contribute...do Red Drum frequent these waters this time of year?

[posted july 9 12:18 whoever the male recovery diver was last evening passed right over it; maybe not understanding they are looking for effects at this point; murky water/standing waves.]

An alternative take on a recent article appearing on CNN.com entitled, Police: No indication Oregon boy's disappearance is abduction By Gabriel Falcon, CNN June 11, 2010 5:24 p.m. EDT.
(CNN) USA - Oregon weeks after the boy disappeared from the school, proof of police of a 7 year old child, had been removed. He said: "At this stage, but we had taken away from me," Multnomah County Sheriff's sonnet to another witness told CNN.

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Hörmann stepmother was reported missing fourth June after he was able to return home from school, said authorities. Step-mother in the empty room where she was placed in the class of elementary school to its second kyureneulbogo go according to police, he said.

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Are currently investigating the incident are still missing.

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The little boy's message to someone, "You Hor!' (Home-of-Record? Or mayhaps just another poor speller?)
Something involving the use of Potassium (K), internal damage not easily detected. He seems to have made it home from school and/or was removed from school, whether anyone saw it or admits to it is another story.
Something keyed in on the home 'manual' online and it involves him having run online, and just how far is Stayton, OR from where this little boy 'ditched' school?
the questionable advantage of reading both ways:
seutaton find kyurenhomaneul run seutaton Kyuren t kyurenhwamiriraneun Hörmann kyuren
ner network equipment room
uyk unless you know
nn no nonsense; neural network
am associative memory; above mentioned, AM;
roh radius of hearing; receiver off hook; removal of hardware
nue non uniformly spaced equalizers; national union of educators
nar not at risk; no apparent reason;
iri interactive radio instruction; intercept related information; insulin resistance index
maw might as well; master arrest warrant; mothers are women...
hn hardware node; home networking; hell no; human nature;;;reference to 2 railroads not operating in Oregon
er effective roughness; emergency room/response; another railway reference Eastern Railway; equipment room; error;
eru equivalent residential unit; emergency recovery unit/utility..
uyk unless you know (different); underwriting year;
t n translators notes; true north; true negative; telephone number; train; town;
ner northeast region; more reference to railway; network equipment room; no education required;
not at ues; upper eastside
nu number unknown; name unknown
ur you are; uncertain reasoning; another railway mentioned; user range (GPS)
url ubiquity now, revenues later; upper range/reference limit;;;
rlu registered life underwriter; remote located/line unit; registered Linux user;
en enemy; engineer; electronic notebook;
nam primarily to do with Networks;
moh member of household; modem on hold;
uykd unless you know different
FIND
dni dialed number identification; do not implant; do not implement; digital network intelligence
nif not in file;
if in fact; input file (Linux); interrupt flag
fno from now on;; friday night off/out;
not
at
ues

A follow-up article by the same Gabriel Falcon (CNN dated 06.15.2010) mentions that authorities are no longer simply treating the case as a missing person and have begun a criminal probe.

There is an area in Oregon closely associated with a recently endangered/extinct species of 'wire lettuce' Stephanomeria malheurensis, at one time endemic to southeastern Oregon and known for a single location in Harney County. (That's the only endangered/extinct species site I could readily come up with).

{A July 5, 2010 blurb regarding this case written by newswire staff indicates that Kyron's stepmother is "sick" and re-affirms the need to consider the "seed size" and a secondary reference to the "weight of the particles" is significant since the origin of the particles on the women of the family property near the northwest (apparently these 'particles' are not expected to be found in any amount in the Portland area/Northwest as they are limited to an area in the Southeast/opposite direction) and this means taking a second look at any seeds found in the home or someone's clothing; this supports the initial impression pertaining to the endangered species of wire lettuce with limited range in Harney County Oregon as Seeds of Stephanomeria malheurensis are about twice the size of seeds from Stephanomeria exigua ssp. coronaria (Gottlieb 1977). It may be possible that this particlular species of wire lettuce can be found at Botanical gardens as well, like the one in Portland where the seeds were first geminated when they were being re-introduced. The plant's preferred habitat:• Tops of broad hills above surrounding flats (Meinke 1982).• Soil derived from volcanic tuff layered with thin crusts of limestone (Meinke 1982).• Associated species include Artemisia tridentata var. wyomingensis, Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus, Elymus cinereus, Bromus tectorum, and Salsola kali (Meinke 1982). }

Is one of this child's grandfather's known to have a problem with drinking? Gets really mad when drunk? Has a large brood and associated with 'hollow part of human body (fr., coffre)'?
Free word association: Days Suite; View Edge of the City Skyline; Front/Facing (of) the Biggest Cotton Textile (dust) sees you/catches you;

The biggest or one of the biggest textile mills in Oregon is Pendelton Mills (there may be others); the original plants in Pendleton and Washougal (across the river from Portland) are still in operation, along with two mills in Portland and a manufacturing plant in Nebraska.

The following is a personal message; I play You; understand clear sighted apparent; most peaceful, safe, extreme; God does not return the Aces--to that end; I have lost all connectivity to my work and can't send my supervisor a note to let him know I won't be in tomorrow; I hope I am not missed, I plan to take the day as sick leave, since I can't get there from here

--Oh, & who is Mark Pollack? Mary or Martha Howard? It seems it takes 2 people to change a record...and He wants to know how can it be accounted for that anyone with authority had all gone missing? How can anyone have a 'high yield portfolio' in this market?
--at some point enter the library and draw a 'line connecting NE' 'running on the Pine' (Rte 86 or 395?) there is an airport there (Pine Airport), the cutoff is 'sawmill' road; taking an 'economy' tin (container, Sn=sin).

--what's in a name? Ky ron Hor man; Kyr on Horm an; Kyron Hormann; associated with swamp land; Tyre; keeper of the keys/straits...brave mighty soldier; in various languages associated with onus on adultery; human; ditchbank--either a towpath or mill water conduit; the color purple; at some point at an elevation/racing/running--allusion to Potassium and association with Kidneys supports having possibly drowned in seawater...it was violent.

I don't know who took Kyron Horman and without any feedback if any of the other reality checks are true I am reluctant to say any more because I don't want to mislead anyone; there were 2 people in a truck...he may have known them...if this much is true then I might get sick if the rest of it is true too, and I don't have any means of support if I fling myself over that cliff.

It's often said 'to err is human...'---ahhh, what luxury to be human! I remember having erred... a long time ago while visiting the largest employer in Malibu far far away I asked, "Why install express-up windows before designing and installing sensors to trigger power-reversal in case the unthinkable happens?

And now that we thought of it, shouldn't someone disable them or stop installing them until that gets done?"

To which the fella across the table from me said, "What did she just say?"

I know I have an accent but most people in this country understand it since we all grew up watching several seasons of Welcome Back Kotter with Horschack and Vinny and Julie and all the rest.

And that faux pas cost me my last job in private industry and to this day I am not quite sure if express-up windows have this safety feature and am way too pessimistic to see for myself...ahhh ignorance and denial do lead to bliss (if you are a buxsom blonde, which I am---Not!)

Sound familiar? Anyone else see what the little tiff is about?

Why do I always gotta be the one without any power to have any say in any matter to do any good yet have all the awareness anyone can ever want to see what happens when everyone else does? (Kind o' funny like Gump, only in reverse--not so much).

And for my single devoted reader following this blog now you know why Michael came out of his way just to meet me...insurance policy against my having to kill everybody since he convinced me I would have to kill them all twice while he can do it with one fell swoop---and I am all for conserving energy!

---so, anyway that's what happened the last time I thought I erred...if I were to believe then that I am seldom in err-or what brave soul wants to prove me wrong so we can all sleep better?

The Science Times article (June 29, 2010) about the Benefits of Day Dreaming mentioned allowing our minds to drift contributes to creativity and prompted 'what do eye, gown and basket have in common?' at the beginning of the article to make a point about the outcome of such brain activity by the time the reader arrived at the end of the article.

And I thought why not ask 'what do 3 Sisters, Plants (power, mill, etc.) and Drums have in common?' and get a real return on the mental excercise---why waste brain power?

But maybe there is nothing to help me sleep, any more than to get Michael to eat or, try as one can, to get Gabriel to dispense with that cigarette...

Surah 44 al-Dukhan (Smoke)
لَا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا الْمَوْتَ إِلَّا الْمَوْتَةَ الْأُولَى
وَوَقَاهُمْ عَذَابَ 44:56
44:56 They will not taste Death therein beyond their first death (erstwhile death); and He Preserves them from the Suffering of Hell (the Underworld, Pandemonium).

Reality Check: Is Ellen DeGeneres sui generis when it comes to her generosity toward her mother and does Fran Drescher like to play strip poker but only rarely ever loses a garment?

It is little more than passing interest that this news story by Gabriel Falcon has a reference to Potassium (K) embedded in it, considering that Chapters mentioning Smoke (41 Fussilat and 44 Smoke) each have a verse closely associated with the properties of this element (Group I Alkali Metal); and it is quite by chance that I had started a treatise on this particular topic on June 1, 2010 and had not yet got around to publishing it here. Chapter 44 Smoke was one of the Chapters not yet cited at A Page In The Life and I was just getting around to it.

Chapter 44 derives its name from the mention of 'dukhan' which means 'smoke' in Verse 44:10. While the word 'smoke' has several connotations, the basic meaning is a 'vapor' or 'mist' or more precisely 'a cloud of fine particles suspended in gas.'

In chemistry, smoke is produced when gaseous hydrocarbons, raised to a red heat or thereabouts, are mixed with an insufficient amount of air to produce complete combustion and disengage their carbon in a fine powder, forming smoke.

Surah 44 Dukhan (Smoke)
فَارْتَقِبْ يَوْمَ تَأْتِي السَّمَاء بِدُخَانٍ مُّبِينٍ 44:10
44:10 Look for (watch, observe, survey, scrutinize, beware) a Day a Visible (Obvious, Apparent) Smoke Comes from the Sky.

Sign 44:10 is interesting in the use of the word تَأْتِي "ta'ti" having the root توي "tawi" which means 'comes' or 'derives' and also means 'instantaneously'; it can be understood to mean that a visible smoke comes from the sky or derives from the sky itself.

The word مُّبِينٍ 'mubeen' can mean that the smoke is visible, but also that it makes things 'apparent' or 'elucidates'. In addition, the interstitial nature of this smoke is alluded to in the root of the word 'mubeen' which is 'beyn', meaning 'between' or 'midst'.

Depending on which form of the word mubeen is intended in Sign 44:10, (whether noun, verb, adjective, adverb, or preposition), the Sign conveys various meanings, among them that the smoke is derived from the sky itself or just comes from the direction of the sky and is sandwiched between other things (between or among something) or it links something (like layers that it is between) and/or that the smoke in some way makes things clear or reveals something as well as itself being visible.

The word 'smoke' seldom occurs in the Quran, the only other passage that I could find that pertains to the Sky and Smoke is Sign 41:11 in Surah 41 Fussilat (Criterion).

Surah 41 Fussilat (Criterion)
ثُمَّ اسْتَوَى إِلَى السَّمَاء وَهِيَ دُخَانٌ
فَقَالَ لَهَا وَلِلْأَرْضِ اِئْتِيَا طَوْعًا أَوْ كَرْهًا
قَالَتَا أَتَيْنَا طَائِعِينَ 41:11
41:11 Then He (Applied His Design) 'Directed His Attention to the Sky'/'Leveled with the Sky' when she was Smoke; He Said to her and to the Earth, "Come (Derive) Willingly (Voluntarily) Instantaneously or Forcibly (Unwillingly, Reluctantly, Compulsorily)!" They said, "We Come (Derive) Instantaneously Obediently (Malleably, Willingly)."

Sign 41:11 bolsters the understanding of multiple layers or levels alluded to in Sign 44:10, inferred from the use of the word اسْتَوَى "astawa", and the inter alia nature of the smoke, that it is somehow associated with linking or connecting layers it is amongst.

The essential root of the word "astawa" is ساو "sawa" which means to equal, match, or 'get on the same level with' or 'reach the same rank or status'. The word "astawa" in the vernacular means to ripen, mature, become fully developed or evolve; typically it is used to mean having reached a stage ready for harvesting as well as having cognates meaning 'equal' or 'equalize'. In Sign 41:11 contextual inference also holds where "astawa" means 'direct attention to'. Arithmetically, the word entails equivalence; in other words, 'members of a set in reflexive, symmetrical, and transitive relation to each other'; that they share the same solution, or are correspondent.

That God is said to having then 'astawa ila sama wa hiya dukhan' can be understood on all these multiple levels; He Directed His Attention to the Sky, or Reached the Same Level as the Sky when it was Smoke (and since in my understanding God is Greater than His Creation that would mean He Came Down to the Level of the Sky and not Up); and further to this that God Became Equivalent to the Sky (not necesarily the Sky itself per se, but a Correspondent Entity to the Sky...).

Sign 41:11 continues with 'and He Said (Called on) to her (the Sky) and the Earth 'atati' Willingly/Voluntarily or Unwillingly/Forcibly...'

The imperative 'atati' is given, meaning 'Come!' or 'Derive!' (ie., that the Earth and Sky Come together and/or Derive one from the other) to which the Earth and the Sky 'respond' (here understood to mean 'perform' or 'do as told') "We 'atati-na' 'ttaw'an".

The manner of formation for the Earth/Sky system is encapsulated in their 'response', also to be understood on a number of levels. Having established the various meanings of 'tati' and its associated root 'tawi', as discussed above, the implication is that the formation of the Earth/Sky system was done 'Instantaneously' .

Further to this, their formation is described by the word طَوْعًا 'ttaw'a' meaning willing/willingly, the root of which طيع "ttay'_" indicates that the Earth/Sky system formed in a 'malleable' , 'pliable', 'docile', 'biddable', 'plastic' manner and not in the alternative unwilling كَرْهًا "karhan" or 'by force' manner.

This leads to the conclusion that the formation of the Earth and Sky (and by extension, the Universe) from the primordial 'Smoke' was not a 'Big Bang' at all, but something a bit more 'Manageable'.

Malleability is a significant factor in this formation since it is generally associated with metals and and if the Chapter number 41 is taken to be the number of nucleons in an element/isotope, it points to 2 metals that are key players in this Cosmic Dance, 41Ca and 41K. [For the persnickety set, the words 'plastic' and 'pliable' may also be referring to collisions, deformation, neuroplasticity, warping/bending and phenotype changes--just how far does the rabbit hole go?--as far down as you want to follow it.]

The Calcium (Group II Alkaline Earth Metal) isotope (41Ca), atomic mass 40.962 (effectively 41), is produced by the neutron activation of (40Ca) and has received much attention in stellar studies because it decays to 41K (Potassium 41), a critical indicator of solar-system anomalies. The K line is also associated with Iron (Fe) in astro-spectroscopy.

Spectral absorption lines in the Sun and stars are identified with individual chemical elements or compounds and the strength of the spectral lines indicates both the amount of the element emitting the line as well as the efficiency of absorption.

While Hydrogen dominates the Sun, it is ionized Calcium's absorption lines that dominate the solar spectrum even though there is 440 x10^3 times as much Hydrogen as Calcium (note the number coded in Sign 44:10; 44 *10=440). This is because Hydrogen has a low efficiency of absorption while that of ionized Calcium is very high.

The abundances of the atoms can be calculated from the strengths of the absorption lines and the chemical composition of the outer part of a star can then be ascertained. (Since the Sun is a ball of gas without a well-defined surface, it is the photosphere that is commonly referred to when speaking of the Sun's outer surface). Relative absorption line strengths can also be used to find temperatures and densities.

Since the verses mentioned here, 44:10, 44:56 and 41:11, all share a common theme (smoke and the formation of Earth and Sky, ie., the Universe) it is acceptable to scrutinize all the numbers encoded by them as a set.

The subset {54, 56} included in this Chapter:Verse set of numbers pertains to the element Iron (Fe), another key player in the Cosmic Dance. The 54 is given by Sign 44:10 (44+10=54) and is associated with the number of nucleons of the second most abundant stable Iron isotope found on Earth, 54Fe, which is radioactive and has a very long half-life (on the order 10^22) and the line number given by Sign 44:56 points to the most abundant stable Iron isotope 56Fe.

The isotope 56Fe is of interest to nuclear and astro physics since it is much more easily produced from lighter nuclei in nuclear reactions and it is the endpoint of fusion chains inside extremely massive stars which makes it common in the Universe relative to other metals.
Iron's role is also mentioned in:

Surah 57 Iron:
لَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا رُسُلَنَا بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ وَأَنزَلْنَا مَعَهُمُ الْكِتَابَ وَالْمِيزَانَ
لِيَقُومَ النَّاسُ بِالْقِسْطِ وَأَنزَلْنَا الْحَدِيدَ
فِيهِ بَأْسٌ شَدِيدٌ وَمَنَافِعُ لِلنَّاسِ
وَلِيَعْلَمَ اللَّهُ مَن يَنصُرُهُ وَرُسُلَهُ بِالْغَيْبِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَوِيٌّ عَزِيزٌ 57:25
57:25 Thereby We Sent our Messengers Bearing Illuminating Signs and Revealed with them The Book/Scripture and the Measure/Scale whereby Mankind may Gauge/Judge Correctly/Justly and We Revealed/Sent Down Iron, in it Extreme/Intense/Violent Hardiness/Strength and Benefits for Humanity; and such that God Knows who supports Him and His Messengers, Unseen (Faithfully); Truly, God is Mighty, Powerful.

The numeric relationships encoded in these Signs collectively call attention to the connection between Calcium, Potassium and Iron and their interwoven roles in the formation of the Universe. A brief rundown of the other numbers comprising the set associated with these Signs and their significance includes:

• 10 --as in Beryillium 10, (10Be) related to cosmic ray flux and indicates that the Sun undergoes prolonged periods of anomalous behavior in addition to its regular 11-year cycle
• 11--Boron 10 and Boron 11, the ratio (11B/10B) of which is used to determine pH in an aqueous environment
• 100 since 44+56=100, the ratio 44/56=79% the percent of Nitrogen (N) in air and 100-79=21 which is about the percent of O2 in air
• 41--41Ca, 41K
• 51--41+10; Radioactive isotope 51Cr used as a tracer in medical studies of blood cells and studying blood flow into and out of a fetus.
• 44-- Isotopes with 44 nucleons 44Cl, 44Ar, 44K, 44Ca, 44Sc, 44Ti, 44V, 44Cr
• 52 since 41+11=52 associated with 52Ca which is a neutron-rich Calcium isotope and Chromium 52, 52Cr, the most abundant Chromium isotope that is also radioactive and has a half-life less than 24 hours.

A relatively recent paper Fe I and Ca II K Lines in Quiet and Active Regions (of the photosphere) by Kucera, Brcekova, et al., and sponsored by ESA/NASA mentions finding that fluctuations in Fe I spectral absorption lines indicate changes between quiet and flaring regions of the photosphere and the fluctuations between quiet and plageous regions are small. (A plage is a bright region in the Sun's chromosphere, and plageous regions are typically found near sunspots). 

The authors find a correlation between the Fe I line and its relationship to the Ca II K line that 'there is no coupling between photosphere and chromosphere in quiet regions as there is no reflection of Fe I spectra lines acting in the Ca II K line centers, contrary to that plageous atmosphere is characterized by reaction of Ca II K lines intersecting to changes in Fe I line center ones; the intersections are shifted to higher values'.

(The chromosphere is a thin layer of the Sun's atmosphere that lies above the photosphere, and while it is farther away from the Sun's center than the photosphere it is inexplicably much hotter than the photosphere; spicules are a feature associated with the chromosphere and the chromosphere is sandwiched between the photosphere and the corona--things to keep in mind when looking for similars).

The 3933.7Å K and H lines can be used to determine the age of the Universe or the velocity other galaxies are moving away from ours. In each galaxy they are shifted toward a longer (redder) wavelength due to the galaxy's motion away from the Milky Way.

Knowing how much the K and H lines are shifted from a standardized, stationary source can be used to find that galaxy's velocity. These Sign values taken as wavelengths are all shifted longer than the K and H lines if they are understood to be taken as 4410, 4456 and 4111 (Angstroms Å ).

A Purist would be inclined to posit that the significance among these elements and values encoded in these interralated Signs would be expected to trickle down or propagate throughout the whole of Creation or reflect something in the nature of how we understand Reality that is worthy of remembering--in other words, they would take a Top-Down approach to how the System fits or works together.

In seeing how these elements behave in building the Cosmos it would be of interest to seek correlations of how these same players figure in their role closer to Earth. And, specifically, how everything observed is ultimately for the Benefit of Humanity.

In other words, look for similars (As Above, So Below) in everything and apply it to improve Mankind's condition (and by the same token, keep in mind that Mankind's key directive is caring for the Earth).

For example, Calcium and Potassium are among the major ions in seawater, noting that Na+, Mg2+, Ca2+, K+, Sr2+, Cl-, SO42- (sulfate), HCO3- (bicarbonate), Br-, B(OH)3 (boric acid), and F- account for almost all of the salt in seawater.

Ratios of major elemental ions remain constant, despite changes in salinity (about 35 g salts/1 litre seawater) and the percent by mass of Ca 0.04% and K 0.04% yield a Ca:K ratio of 1:1 (0.0102 Ca/ 0.0103 K molal composition (mol/kg)).

While the abundance (that of 41Ca) varies with depth, and in deep Pacific seawater is 440 ppm (the product of Sign 44:10, 44 *10=440)), the abundance of Potassium in seawater, by contrast, does not vary with depth. While both Calcium and Potassium are merely trace minerals in seawater their Ca:K balance is significant to coral reef health.

Potassium levels are important to good coloration in coral, and low K levels may lead to washed out coloration/graying or lead to stopping coral growth and/or necrosis.

Calcium provides the basis for calcification required by corals, mollusks, and algae for a variety of functions, including protection and body support, and it is hypothesized that the process of calcification itself may increase photosynthetic efficiency.

And calcium and other trace metals (such as Strontium) precipitate in the same ratios in many different coral species as the relative concentrations found in bulk seawater (such that the net effect is not readily detectable).

How these metals become incorporated into aragonite skeletons is especially important as the incorporation rate varies in a known fashion with temperature.

Understanding how corals incorporate these metals is an important aspect to exploiting the use of ancient corals as paleothermometers.

Chemical and biological oceanographers frequently analyze nutrient data with respect to the Redfield Ratios to determine which nutrient is the production-limiting nutrient. While Iron (Fe) is important in some regions, particularly open ocean regions distant from land, in most productive regions the limiting nutrient is either Nitrogen (N) or Phosphorous (P).

And while Calcium, Potassium and other trace metals in seawater contribute to thriving coral reefs, it has been demonstrated that enriched phosphate levels can significantly inhibit overall coral calcification and thereby adversely affect coral reef growth.

Correspondent to how the role Ca and K balance (and other trace minerals such as P and Fe, etc) contributes to thriving coral reefs in the Sea, clearly defined levels of Calcium and Potassium are closely linked to human health.

Calcium is used for bone formation and cell signaling and disturbances in Sodium, Potassium and Calcium levels is typically more serious than for other minerals in humans.

In many ways coral reefs in the Ocean are analogous to the brain in the Central Nervous System.

And the manner in which trace metal cations such as Ca and K contribute to the health of the coral in the Ocean is analogous to the brain and its vulnerability to either a deficit or an excess of these trace metals, in effect '...So Below'. And by extension, a talented spectroscopist may be able to draw some conclusions pertaining to how these same cations Ca and K, including Fe, behave in quiet and 'flaring' areas of the human brain (perhaps the pia mater/arachnoid/dura mater) based on relationships observed in the Sun's photosphere/chromosphere/carona spectral profile for these same elements, to plumb for the 'As Above...' correlation.

In the central nervous system, metallic cations are involved in oligodendrocyte maturation (oligodendrocytes are cells that coat axons in the central nervous system with their cell membrane forming a specialized membrane differentiation called myelin, which factors in providing insulation to the axon allowing electrical signals to propagate more efficiently) and myelinogenesis (myelinogenesis is the sequential growth and maturation of myelin sheaths which enable brain signals (neural signals) to propagate faster and with less signal loss), and metallic cations have been associated with pathogenesis, particularly multiple sclerosis and malignant gliomas; severe human pathologies as yet without efficient treatments.

Sign 57:25, may apply to these pathologies in that 57Fe is a minor stable Iron isotope which is closely associated with Mössbauer spectroscopy and the Iron-dependent enzyme RNR (ribonucleotide reductase is essential for DNA synthesis; or Rest And Relaxation, essential for averting insanity); in which case the 25 may be referring to 25–amino acid hepcidin (hepcidin 25).

Myelin is considered a defining characteristic of the (gnathostome or jawed) vertebrates, and myelination a key developmental stage in the human brain ('white matter'), continuing for at least another 10 to 12 years after birth; the rate of development of these brain structures is linked to the rate of development of related brain functions. And it is this association between metal cations, myelinogenesis and brain development in vertebrates that distinguishes them from invertebrates (like insects and worms).

The utilization of these cations in vertebrates and invertebrates differs at the most rudimentary levels.
The Ca and K ions diffuse through cell membranes but Fe is relatively insoluble. Iron and Calcium are required in vast amounts for hemoglobin and bone formation in humans; this contrasts markedly with insects that require them in only trace amounts. And phytophagous insects need relatively large amounts of Potassium and only trace amounts of Sodium, whereas humans and other vertebrates need these same minerals in reverse order.

Climate changes and ocean acidification can also affect coral reef health since calcium carbonate (used in calcification) is susceptible to dissolution in acidic conditions.

Foraminifera (or simply, foram) is a type of plankton that takes up Boron by accident while building their shells or tests out of calcium carbonate. Depending on how acidic their watery environs (related to how much CO2 there is in the atmosphere), foraminifera take up different proportions of the two available isotopes 10B and 11B (Boron 10 and Boron 11).

The ratio between the two Boron isotopes (11B/10B) yields the pH of the water in which the foram live, making them convenient bioindicators in assessing coastal coral reef health.

Climate changes occur during the Earth's lifecycle, and currently it is widely accepted that such changes have been accelerated due to increased CO2 in Earth's atmosphere (greenhouse effect).

There is a less widely accepted school of thought that changes in Earth's climate are a result of the Solar activity, specifically related to Sunspots.

Cosmegenic 10Be is produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, it has a relatively long half-life (about 1.36 million years) before decaying to 10B, and attaches readily to aerosols which then precipitate into the soil or get snowed out onto ice caps.

The production of 10Be is inversely proportional to Solar activity since the Solar wind decreases the flux of galactic cosmic rays that reach the Earth. It is assumed that more sunspots imply a more magnetically active Sun which then more effectively repels the galactic cosmic rays, in turn reducing their production of 10Be isotopes in the Earth's atmosphere.

This means that variations in the cosmic ray flux is recorded by 10Be in the ice core over time. 10Be isotopes in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores offer just such a terrestrial record of this Solar activity and the sunspot count can be deduced back to the year 850.

The decrease in Beryllium 10 since 1900 indicates a decrease in the cosmic ray flux over this period and that the solar magnetic flux has increased by almost a factor of 2 since 1900.

The reasons for this are not fully understood but supports the idea that the Sun undergoes prolonged periods of anomalous behavior in addition to its regular 11-year cycle.

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***Screen resolution 1024x768 and it is assumed "the island" is Hayden Island and presumably BNSF Railway has some presence there. And it's not like anyone has to dive in, shouldn't LIDAR be of some use in these types of situtions? Here is best guess, never having been to Oregon and using a really old contoure map...




***(Added July 19, 2010; If she carries a tote similar to this one, there is a strong possibility they did stop at an arboretum or botanical garden and that the surveillance camera may have picked something/someone up