Earworms and Talking Heads, An Accessible Simile to Time

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone
Once in a Lifetime, water flowing underground
same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was
--From Talking Heads' Once In a Lifetime, Lyrics by Keith Urban

The Quran encourages us to reflect on natural phenomena in order to conceptualize God without the ability to make a direct observation of 'God' while we are alive, since just like envisioning a hyperdimensional object in a lower dimension it is near impossible to phathom an Infinite Being when we are limited by the 4-Dimensional Spacetime we are born into.

In 'A Gardner Like That One,' following the geometry of how spacetime evolves from 'spin foam' led to the conclusion that Time does not exist near the Planck scale, that it is discontinous and changes abruptly from one tick to the next.

While the observation and the math is correct, the analysis is skewed by the fact that Time's apparent disappearance is akin to 'water flowing underground' (an allusion is made to this effect in Sign 6:6, Time/like water flowing beneath them like a River) where we can't directly observe it, rather than its popping into and out of existence. The conclusion that something (Time in this case) goes to Nothing and then emerges from Nothing just doesn't make any sense (ie., that Information is Lost then Wanders back out of the Void, with the memory to pick up where it left off?).

The apparent discontinuity may better be explained if we look for an accessible similitude (As Above, So Below), the same way we can intuitively comprehend an Infinite Being (God) with our limited Human faculties, Time can be understood in a similar fashion as we observe the Earth's Water Cycle. Actually, the Water Cycle is mentioned quite often throughout the Quran, and Time is alluded to as flowing like a River (the homonym Days/Time/River).

PS Before I forget:
He Says: The Smartest Thing I Ever Did My Whole Life Was Never To Say A Word To That Girl.
She Says: That's Why Telepathy Was Invented, Dear.

Time Me Up, Time Me Down

...But Whatever You Do,
Don't Put My Feet Back on Their Same Ground!
--Sung to the Tune 'Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down' by the Stereophonics
(from the Album 'Just Enough Education to Perform')

Because I have come to the same conclusion as another fellow American, Carl Sandburg, American Writer, Poet, Editor.
So...Let's Do The Time Warp, Again!

(Riff Raff & Magenta)
… And the void would be calling.
(Guests) Let's do the Time Warp again.
Let's do the Time Warp again.
(Narrator) It's just a jump to the left.
(Guests) And then a step to the right.
(Narrator) With your hand on your hips.
(Guests) You bring your knees in tight.
But it's the pelvic thrust.
They really drive you insane.
Let's do the Time Warp Again.
Let's do the Time Warp, Again.
(Magenta) It's so dreamy
Oh, fantasy free me
So you can't see me
No not at all.
In another dimension
With voyeuristic intention.
Well secluded I see all...
(Riff Raff) With a bit of a mind flip... (via a well-c0nc0cted 'air fresherner')
(Magenta) You're into a time slip...
(Riff Raff) And nothing can ever be the same.
(Magenta) You're spaced out on sensation.
(Riff Raff) Like you're under sedation... (Welcome to Heaven, See. I. A...Non Such A...)
—Lyrics 'Let's Do the Time Warp, Again!' from The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Travel Log may not be accurate or complete since times were checked randomly and not all sources available at all locations/activities.

{Added to this Post on 29.10.2011: Men strutting about in boys' bodies, being loud and boystrous for no apparent reason at Starbucks tonight, they took note of the coffeeshop's location/business card, had a camera and were taking pictures; the first group of 5 came together and represented different ethnicities (African American, Asian, and 3 others (may have been various Caucasian/Semetic/whatever else is other). Once they left, 2 more came in, the one dressed for an early Holloween (maybe a poor version of Robin Hood) was about 5' 3" tall, well-groomed hair, caucasian and seemed excitable, a loudmouth; the other was an exotic mix, maybe Hispanic/Asian, dressed casually and much quieter, also not very tall, maybe about 5'7".

As an Aside, apparently discussing Physics/Scripture with the Void (like we do here) qualifies as some sort of Proselytism, as evidendced by some woman seated nearby that made deliberate eye contact with me and giggled as much in her phone conversation with someone.

What to think of all this: If these shysters want to grab my attention they should do something more constructive than to scramble the preset radio stations in my vehicle--it is in dire need of a good detailing, why not do something helpful like that!}

And in all fairness I Am, once again, to give fair warning. My invisible 'Friend', the One euphemistically referred to as 'Husband' (ie., One Who Keeps An Eye on The House, Affords me some measure of Protection) is not a childhood pretend playmate that I have failed to outgrow or my 'Higher Self', but what some of you call 'God'.

I only say 'Husband' not because we are married or that I am anyone's Wife, not by any stretch of the imagination, but because I have been known to throw a tizzy-fit in 'His' Presence and 'God' puts up with it for no apparent reason other than that my patience approaches that of the Saints'. And while it would be ideal and lovely (and kindo' boring) for all of us to have those qualities, our individuality dictates that we each bring our unique approach to problem-solving; mine happens to be a very long fuse of varying indeterminate lengths leading to an explosive temper (off-the-chart-multiple-Supernova-temper) at the end of my protracted prim peaceful patience. Thankfully, since this condition has been imposed on me and I was not born this way, a reasonable accommodation is provided for this legal disqualifier (debility, medical condition, encumberance, ...whathaveyou):

Surah 2 The Al-Baqara (The Calf)

إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَكْتُمُونَ مَا أَنزَلْنَا مِنَ الْبَيِّنَاتِ وَالْهُدَى

مِن بَعْدِ مَا بَيَّنَّاهُ لِلنَّاسِ فِي الْكِتَابِ أُولَـئِكَ

(2:159)يَلعَنُهُمُ اللّهُ وَيَلْعَنُهُمُ اللَّاعِنُونَ
(2:159) Indeed, those who suppress any of what We Reveal of the Evidence (Signs) and Guidance, after We have made it clear to Humanity through the Divine Writ (The Book, Scripture) - they will incur (both) God's Curse/Damnation and the Curse/Damnation of those entitled to Curse them.

I Love You, Mad-E

Hear Now, The News...When I said I Love You, I Meant Forever, but I know You had other things to do that day.

So, in all defference to Your priorities, I found ways to keep myself busy, until You stopped acting like you just fell off Your horse with that bit of unsolicited information.

But, like Chapter 86 Verse 11, everything comes back around.

If You see me trying to make a new friend, it doesn't mean that You are being supplanted.

Despite appearances to the contrary, I do prefer the sweet hitchhiker who ages 20 years in an hour and goes around town pretending to play the part of the 'loser' who still lives with His 'parents,' and acts like a curmudgeon that wants nothing to do with me when I try to 'break the ice' and word gets back to me that I'm not supposed to do things like that---to 'tell' Him what I had for breakfast (yes, I liked Kurt Vonnegut, too) that morning or 'speak' to Him in public.

Ever the one with questionable taste in Men, I gravitate toward the One (see above) who rudely puts his lug-soled hiking boots up on the coffee table making sure they are oriented right at my face, for me to get a good whiff of His recently stepping through horse country; while He plays the part of the transient, who happens to afford good leather boots and high-tech accouterement (the very definition of ___________(fill in the blank with the classified title).

And if You find me saying things here based on things You don't (can't) see, it doesn't make me delusional, it just makes you blind.

Fox Trot Cartoon Panel Appeared in the Los Angeles Sunday Times  Jan 15, 2012
Too Phunny

A Gardner Like That One

Trees
I THINK that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
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A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
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Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
--American Poet, Joyce Kilmer. 1886–1918

Trees, branches, fractals are some examples of dendrites and 2 key parameters characteristic of dendritic growth are the tip radius and tip velocity. 

 "Dendritic growth also provides an archetypal problem in morphogenesis, where a complex pattern evolves from simple starting conditions. As one of the simplest nontrivial examples of spontaneous pattern formation, the physical understanding and mathematical description of dendrites remains of interest to mathematicians, scientists, and engineers."—from the article, Dendritic Growth Tip Velocities and Radii of Curvature in Microgravity, by Koss LaCombe, et.al.


Other naturally ocurring phenomena which display dendrite formation/dendritic growth are the shape of EMF, magnetic flux...

Tesla's 'Dooms Day Machine'

...organic and inorganic formations such as icicles and neural networks

Examples of Naturally occuring Dendrites.
Both organic and inorganic include (clockwise from top left);
 metal alloys, water icicles, fly eye neurons, brain cells/networks.

The fine structure constant, α ~ 1/137 is a dimensionless fundamental physical constant that surfaces in both Mechanistic and Anthropic considerations. (See Sifting Through The Rubble for more about what else may be couched in the fine grain structure constant).

SpaceTime as described in a Scientific American article.
According to 'spin foam' and how the 'spin network' changes with Time, is remeniscent of Dendritic growth.

3-D to 2-D Reduction of the Universe near the Planck length.
Similar charts found elsewhere at apageinthelife,
 including 'Building a Mystery'.
The image is not very clear but it reveals
the geometry at small scales is similar to dendrite patterns

The Evolution of Geometry in Time, shown above is taken from the Scientific American article Atoms of Space and Time (Lee Smolin, Scientific American Sp 15, 56 - 65 (2006) doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0206-56sp) depicts the geometry of spacetime from the evolution of 'spin foam', ie., the 'spin network' when it includes Time as the 4th dimension:

“The (spacetime) geometry changes discontinuously, becoming a single (1) quantum of volume and 3 quanta of surface area, as shown in the last frame. In this way, time as defined by a spin foam evolves by a series of abrupt, descrete moves, not by a continuous flow…"

(Note: This contradicts the 'Time as a Line' premise (see wolframalpha definition discussed below), in that the very definition of a line implies continuitity since between any 2 points on a Line there is an Infinite number of Points.)

"Although speaking of such sequences as frames of a movie is helpful for visualization, the more correct way to understand the evolution of the geometry is as discrete ticks of a clock. At one tick the orange quantum of area is present; at the next tick it is gone—in fact, the disappearance of the orange quantum of area defines the tick. The difference in time from one tick to the next is approximately the Planck time, 10^-43 second. But time does not exist in between the ticks; there is no “in between.” In the same way that there is no water in between two adjacent molecules of water…”

(Note:While the 'Time vanishes between Tics' or 'Pops In and Out of Existence between Tics' premise is one way of explaining Time in the geometry/math of the evolving 'spin foam', it is this very behaviour of Time near the Planck scale that would make it Suspect as a Higher Dimensional Object manifesting/Transitting? a Lower Dimension, (my take on this spacetime geometry, remember what fun Emily is having with Bob...Oh, and poor Fred the Flatlander!)

In contrast to the author, Lee Smolin's,  explanation of 'quantum tic Time' in this 2006 Scientific American article, the "conventional" concept of Time from wolframalpha.com/(keyword fractal dimension) follows:

"The term "fractal dimension" is sometimes used to refer to what is more commonly called the capacity dimension of a fractal (which is, roughly speaking, the exponent in the expression , where is the minimum number of open sets of diameter needed to cover the set). However, it can more generally refer to any of the dimensions commonly used to characterize fractals...

The notion of dimension is important in mathematics because it gives a precise parameterization of the conceptual or visual complexity of any geometric object. In fact, the concept can even be applied to abstract objects which cannot be directly visualized. For example, the notion of time can be considered as one-dimensional, since it can be thought of as consisting of only "now," "before" and "after." Since "before" and "after," regardless of how far back or how far into the future they are, are extensions, time is like a line, one-dimensional object..."

(Hmmm...'Time is a One-Dimensional Object Like a Line?'...Says the Observer from the 4-D SpaceTime Universe, refer to Flatlands--You mean to tell me it's a Line and Not a Complex Geometric Object? Not a Fractal? That it doesn't/cannot Loop Back Around?... And do other funny things (to my hair  /hare    /neverwhere)?)

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Physicists Renate Loll and Dejan Stojkovic are working independently to discern the geometry of the 'early universe' and answer the question 'Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension?'

Studies suggest that the early universe — which expanded from a single point and was very, very small at first — was one-dimensional (like a straight line--here we go again with the linear thinking) before expanding to include two dimensions (2D, like a plane) and then three (like the world in which we live today).{Really, 3- and not 4-D is the world in which we live today?--That would mean my goose is cooked in No Time At All!} 

The theory of evolving dimensions presents a paradigm shift from the way we previously thought the cosmos came to BE.

The core idea is that the dimensionality of space depends on the size of the space we’re observing, with smaller spaces associated with fewer dimensions.

That means that a fourth dimension will open up (unfold)— if it hasn’t already — as the universe continues to expand. The theory also suggests that space has fewer dimensions at very high energies of the kind associated with the early, post-big bang universe.

According to Stojkovic, “What we’re proposing here is a shift in paradigm,...Physicists have struggled with the same problems for 10, 20, 30 years, and straight-forward extensions of the existing ideas are unlikely to solve them...We have to take into account the possibility that something is systematically wrong with our ideas,” he continued. “We need something radical and new, and this is something radical and new.”

Loll works on developing a theory of quantum gravity, reconciling the beautiful geometric description of space and time laid out in Einstein's theory of General Relativity with the insight that all of physics at its most fundamental level must be described by quantum laws of motion.

She is one of the pioneers of a new approach to the nonperturbative quantization of gravity, that of Causal Dynamical Triangulations which recently has produced a number of remarkable results. These include a dynamical derivation of the fact that space-time is four-dimensional (something that can be taken for granted only in classical gravity) and that it has the shape of a de Sitter Universe (like our own universe in the absence of matter), and of the so-called wave function of the universe which plays an important role in understanding the quantum behaviour of the very early universe.

Remarkably, the dimensionality of spacetime reduces smoothly to two (2-D) at short distances, indicative of a highly nonclassical behaviour of spacetime geometry near the Planck scale. These results are obtained by superposing elementary quantum excitations of geometry which have a notion of causality ("cause preceding effect") built into them at the very smallest scale.

Ink on Paper modeling 2-D Universe near Planck length, as seen on one episode of Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman featuring Dr. Renate Loll (the shape is reminiscent of dendrites).
{While this is a reduced spatial dimension, it corresponds to a higher energy state).

The 'Universal Mesh' modeling how the 2-D Dendritic type Universe near Planck scale (see previous) expands to higher 3- and 4-Dimensions as it grows.
(See references to 'interwoven firmament', 'heaven rife with interwoven paths,' ie., Quran Sign 51:7)


 

Shown: 4-D Julia Set
Interesting in that it is very similar to results from Computer-generated superpositions of causal geometries that show the emergence of an extended quantum groundstate;
 the geometric properties of which provide strong evidence that quantum spacetime indeed behaves macroscopically like a four-dimensional universe.

According to Loll it reveals a fractal structure on slices of constant time, and I posit that due to the 'Law of Similars' (ie, 'as above, so below'), Time itself is more than likely fractal in nature, like other natural phenomena and probably displays the same fractal dimensions as Rivers (see reference to Rivers of Time in 'Is the Sky a Hologram', elsewhere reference to 'tuples', quaternions/octads/octals).

Since all local curvature degrees of freedom of the geometry undergo large quantum fluctuations, a four-dimensional geometry can either crumple up to generate a geometry of an effectively higher dimension (like crumpling up a two-dimensional sheet of paper into a three-dimensional ball), or curl up to give a geometry of an effectively lower dimension (like rolling up a piece of paper into a thin tube, which will appear effectively one-dimensional at a scale much larger than the circumference of the tube). This is exactly what happens in nonperturbative Euclidean quantum gravity. It produces ground states of geometry that are either maximally crumpled with an infinite(!) effective dimension  or polymerized into thin and branched threads, with an effective dimension of two, neither of them promising candidates for the ultimate vacuum.

The main technical tool for constructing a causal nonperturbative path integral is the method of Causal Dynamical Triangulations, a Lorentzian version of dynamical triangulations , in which the new fundamental principle of microcausality is implemented by taking superpositions of only those geometries which have a well-defined causal structure down to the very smallest scales.

And the exciting news is that this idea seems to work!

Computer-generated superpositions of causal geometries show the emergence of an extended quantum ground state.

Recent work which analyzes some of its geometric properties provides strong evidence that this quantum spacetime indeed behaves macroscopically like a four-dimensional universe.

These very encouraging findings imply that an essential aspect of the classical limit, the dimension of spacetime, emerges correctly, a consistency check other approaches to nonperturbative quantum gravity have yet to pass.

This nontrivial result makes the model of causal dynamical triangulations a prime candidate for a theory of quantum gravity, although much work remains to be done to prove that it indeed is the correct theory.

Further research is under way to determine other classical and semiclassical properties of the "reconstructed universe", as well as its true quantum structure.

At large scales, it re-creates the familiar 4-dimensional spacetime, but it shows spacetime to be 2-D near the Planck scale, and reveals a fractal structure on slices of constant time. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_dynamical_triangulation ]

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Dendrite growth is imprinted in the Mechanistic world from the 'spin foam' to 'the universe' (i.e, the quantum level to the cosmic scale). (That covers the maxima and minima for The As Above ..So, Too, Below.)

For the medial, or Anthropic applications, there have been several studies to parametrically define and analyze dendritic growth in living cells to determine branching rules, morphological identifiers and the shape of their dendrite spanning fields for anything from fly eye neurons (i.e, lobula plate tangential cells or LPTCs, motion sensitive neurons) and cerebellar Purkinje cells.

A brief review of the literature turned up one article which mentions that some early approaches to describing and reconstructing dendrite branching in general for LPTCs had failed to take into account a major functional constraint governing dendrites: their need to reach specific input locations.

"More recent attempts to constructing dendrite morphology in relation to their function and the location of their inputs had led to dendrite structures of low complexity and accuracy in spite of high computational costs. However, circuitry and connectivity as well as simple wire packing issues are known to be determinants of dendrite morphology.

In addition, the specific organization and architecture of many parts of the brain helps to reduce wiring costs for the (brain/neural network) circuitry. It is therefore not surprising that such constraints can be used to describe dendrite branching in LPTCs and other cells.

Other planar space-filling cells, the cerebellar Purkinje cells, certainly follow a similar rule. However, the suggested approach is not restricted to planar dendrites and future analysis will cover all different neuron arborizations to clarify the ubiquity of the suggested branching rule. At the example of LPTCs, the usefulness of the approach presented here can be put forward: LPTC electrophysiology was studied in great depth (e.g. and precise models, so-called compartmental models, including the detailed anatomical structure were designed and are continuously being improved).

Understanding LPTC branching, these constraints can be directly put in relation with the optic flow processing occurring within their circuitry.

Assuming generality of principles, even the function of cells, which have not yet been reconstructed, can be inferred based on the contours of their dendrites alone. Moreover, the fly is the model animal in which the molecular components that determine neural growth are currently being unveiled, mainly through genetic tools.

Our framework therefore allows a quantitative study of the impact of gene modifications far beyond basic statistics.

In particular, molecular principles guiding neuronal self-avoidance during development and others can now be put in relation with the branching constraints presented here. Eventually, studying molecular factors shaping dendritic spanning fields separately from a specific branching rule within should elucidate a fundamental organizational element in the brain, i.e. the neuron's branching structure.

After 3D skeletonization and sparsening the carrier points, the remaining points were submitted to the same greedy algorithm (started at a user defined dendrite root location) as used for obtaining artificial dendrites Quadratic diameter decay was mapped on the resulting trees."

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Iron Filings in A Jar
3-D Magnetic Field
The 'tendrils' branch from a central 'hub' or 'onion' (see Purkinje Cells)
Similar to Dendrite Growth/Networks found Elsewhere in Nature

Applying this vast body of information from the very large to the very small probably leads to inroads when similar dendrite growth/concepts are applied to developing, say, a monopole magnet?

[Monopole magnets may not exist, but bipolar magnets may be produced/constructed based on the shape of the magnetic field and modeling it such that the 'net effect' is a monopole magnet--much like a monopole antenna is essentially still a dipole antenna, but its net effect is to radiate in only 1/2 the space.]

An analogous case, if one were to model such an 'alien magnet,' would  be a monopole antenna with a perfectly conducting, infinite ground plane  which is identical to the top half of a dipole pattern, with its maximum radiation in the horizontal direction, perpendicular to the antenna.

The 1/4-wave monopole antenna is a single element antenna fed at one end, that behaves as a dipole antenna. It is formed by a conductor in length. It is fed in the lower end, which is near a conductive surface which works as a reflector (see Effect of ground).

The current in the reflected image has the same direction and phase as the current in the real antenna.

The quarter-wave conductor and its image together form a half-wave dipole that radiates only in the upper half of space.

In this upper side of space the emitted field has the same amplitude of the field radiated by a half-wave dipole fed with the same current.

Therefore, the total emitted power is one-half the emitted power of a half-wave dipole fed with the same current.

As the current is the same, the radiation resistance (real part of series impedance) will be one-half of the series impedance of a half-wave dipole.

As the reactive part is also divided by 2, the impedance of a quarter wave antenna is ohms (most likely purely capacitive reactance).

Since the above-ground fields are the same as for the dipole, but only half the power is applied, the gain is twice (3dB over) that for a half-wave dipole ( ), that is 5.14 dBi.

The earth can be used as ground plane, but it is a poor conductor: the reflected antenna image is only clear at glancing angles (far from the antenna).

At these glancing angles, electromagnetic fields and radiation patterns are thus the same as for a half-wave dipole.  Impedance of the earth is far inferior to that of a good conductor ground plane -- this can be improved (at cost) by laying a copper mesh.

Because it radiates only into the space above the ground plane, or half the space
of a dipole antenna, a monopole antenna will have a gain of twice (3 dBi over) the gain of a
similar dipole antenna, and a radiation resistance half that of a dipole.

Thus a quarter-wave monopole antenna, the most common type, will have a gain of 5.19 dBi and a radiation resistance ofabout 36.8 ohms if it is mounted above a good ground plane.
Commercially manufactured ladder line or "window line" (for this metaphor see Talk Like An Egyptian, above) is a type of transmission line similar to twin-lead for balanced connection of antennas.

Ladder line is constructed as a pair of evenly spaced wires with supportive plastic webbing holding the wires apart. The plastic webbing has windows cut in it to reduce its dielectric effect and reduce loss in the transmission line. The alternating webbing and windows gives ladder line its characteristic look and name.

Conceivably, due to similaries in dendrite growth/shape of electric and magnetic fields, and their physical properties already clearly understood through related parameters from the coupling factor (fine structure constant α) to Maxwell's equations (which unify electricity, light, and magnetic radiation), monopolar magnets may be engineered by properly ~weaving~ the magnetic domains to produce a net effect of monopolar mangnetism--an analog (dual/complement) to how monopole antennas radiate radio signals or akin to how metamaterials 'appear' to violate Snell's Law for light.

{Back in the day we used to call this 'reverse engineering' and we didn't need to down alien space craft to do it--it was simply a matter of cracking open some competitors' devices, like RCA InGaAsP transcievers---now I am forced to resort to just pounding out 'crib notes' on A Page... from my kitchen table while I wait for the veggies to parboil.}

--it's not that easy, and me not so smart, so Yous guys have first crack at it and work from my notes.

Oh...I forgot, someOne already figured all this out, I just edited the in-flight black box recording for posterity...

...no need to bust a gasket over it, I do believe You Know It!

...turns out Jeremy here knew the answer to a History question and not any of this other stuff.

What Time Is It

Thursday September 29, 2011

The PC Windows Synchronous Time is 12:25 am
The Blackberry Pearl Cell Phone Time is 12:25 am (Updated to AT&T Network Time on Sunday)
The IWC Porto Fino Wristwatch Time is 12:25 (Synchronized on Sunday)
The Late Model MB with 'RealTime' GPS NavSystem Time is 12:25 am (Verified with its Network Time on Sunday)
The AT&T Network Time for the Blackberry Pearl is 12:24 am (Seems someone forgot to tell the atomic clock on one of the satellites)

According to Special Relativity on-board atomic clocks on satellites should fall behind clocks on the ground by about 7 microseconds per day because of the slower ticking rate due to the time dilation effect from their relative motion.

And General Relativity predicts that clocks closer to a massive object will seem to tick more slowly than those located further away on board satellites orbitting high above the Earth where the curvature of spacetime due to the Earth's mass is less than at the Earth's surface. That means, when viewed from the surface of the Earth, clocks on the satellites will appear to be ticking faster than identical clocks on the ground, something on the order of 45 microseconds ahead of the ground-based clocks.

The net result of these two relativitic effects means that clocks on board an earth-orbiting satellite should tick faster than identical clocks on the ground by about 38 microseconds per day (45-7=38)!

This effect is compensated by deliberately slowing down the clocks ticking on board satellites prior to deployment to sync with ground-based clocks, or by installing a microprocessor to compensate for the relativistic effects.

But it seems someOne forgot to tell the atomic clock on one of the AT&T networked satellites.

That roughly translates into Time for You to Give Up!PS Okay, I'll spell it out for ewes guys--clocks on board orbitting satellites are expected to be ahead of/faster than or indicate the same time as ground-based clocks--the expectation is that they should never lag behind their Earthly counterparts.

PSSshhhhh Who--tell me, Who-- voices aloud to a coffeehouse full of patrons, ' I know because I slept with her last night'?! Oh, and some other Starbucks patron asks me to help him spell 'oops' and tells me that he came by his 'Brooklyn accent' from having heard one too many mortar rounds during his tour in the middle east because he is really from Seattle. But these anomolies are no where near as disturbing as the conversation 2 other patrons were having about, what sounded to me to be, a kind, beautiful, genuinely caring person who loves her family and works hard and is funny and practically a borderline--I was thinking they were going to say personality disorder, but they said--genius, and that they knew some guy was going to cripple her. Really, the one guy says to the other, 'But why does he have to cripple her?' And then, get this, the other guy justifies it by saying 'Well, you know, Jacob and Peter...' at which point they thankfully lowered the volume on that conversation(?), but I think the justification was something like 'there is nothing better on television..' or some other inane excuse for inexcusible behaviour. I made sure to look over at their table to see if they were rehearsing a scene or working on a screenplay, but there was no indication of that, so I say ,"Whatever, Just Don't Do It!" And that's how I know I seem to have run out of Starbucks to frequent--they used to be tranquil bastions in the urban land-escape wherein to enjoy a cup of coffee and read yesterdays news, but now what, am I to think?


Past the Post Script
And if I see one of these the next day (a Chinook?) I am not supposed to wave at it, but miraculously the AT&T system time jibes with all the others mentioned above.

Meh

I don't have tunnel vision or short of hearing I just no longer care to pay attention...

Disengagement

Broken Door

(More at Linda Rochon Photography)

It's obvious from the collection of moving violations I've managed to win this year that I can't drive 55 and if I ever find myself reciting it...

Surah 55 Al-Rahman (The Beneficent)الرَّحْمَنُ (55:1Alrrahman55:1 The Beneficent;
عَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ (55:2
AAallama alquran
55:2 Taught the Qur’an,
خَلَقَ الْإِنسَانَ (55:3Khalaqa alinsan55:3 Created Man,
عَلَّمَهُ الْبَيَانَ (55:4
AAallamahu albayan55:4 Taught him speech,
الشَّمْسُ وَالْقَمَرُ بِحُسْبَانٍ (55:5Alshshamsu waalqamaru bihusbanin55:5 The Sun and the Moon run their courses (according to Him);
وَالنَّجْمُ وَالشَّجَرُ يَسْجُدَانِ (55:6Waalnnajmu waalshshajaru yasjudan55:6 and the Stars and the Trees bow (to Him).
وَالسَّمَاء رَفَعَهَا وَوَضَعَ الْمِيزَانَ (55:7Waalssamaa rafaAAaha wawadaAAa almeezana
55:7 And He Raised the Sky and Placed the Balance,
أَلَّا تَطْغَوْا فِي الْمِيزَانِ (55:8Alla tatghaw fee almeezani55:8 so that you never overstep the balance (cheat the measure);
وَأَقِيمُوا الْوَزْنَ بِالْقِسْطِ وَلَا تُخْسِرُوا الْمِيزَانَ (55:9Waaqeemoo alwazna bialqisti wala tukhsiroo almeezana55:9 and determine the weight honestly, and not short the measure.
وَالْأَرْضَ وَضَعَهَا لِلْأَنَامِ (55:10Waalarda wadaAAaha lilanami55:10 And He established the Earth for creatures (الأنام), -
فِيهَا فَاكِهَةٌ وَالنَّخْلُ ذَاتُ الْأَكْمَامِ (55:11Feeha fakihatun waalnnakhlu thatu alakmami
55:11 she (the Earth) contains fruits and palm trees as respirators
وَالْحَبُّ ذُو الْعَصْفِ وَالرَّيْحَانُ (55:12Waalhabbu thoo alAAasfi waalrrayhani55:12 and seeds with storms and winds.
فَبِأَيِّ آلَاء رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ (55:13Fabiayyi alai rabbikuma tukaththibani
55:13 Which one of your God’s Representations do you deny?

Hmmm, lemmee see—‘which one of God’s Representations (some would say Avatars) do I deny?’…the one that brought out my mean temper and serves as a constant reminder as to why I Am so flippin' mad--that one!

I'd better stop right there before I become unhinged.







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Doors hang on hinges which is a great segue to the subject of ‘Heavens’ Doors,’ mentioned briefly in the earlier post "Is the Sky a Hologram?" that seemed to call for a focus of its own .







Signs 7:40:11; 7:96:11; 78:19:2 (Chapter:Sign:Word Number) all mention that access or Ascension into the Sky (or Heaven) opened directly like through 'doors' or 'blessings' (the root for which 'bara' intimates that it would be as simple or merely as though one were to get to another 'floor' or opening a 'fold' or climbing a 'stair' and that this can be done via 'multiple' ways, including standing in a 'queue' or just an act of flexure (like when bending, curving, or turning a corner).









The interpretation of these Signs hinges on remembering the reason behind this excercise in the first place--it having been introduced with the first Sign to 'fall under my ax' in "Today is Monday, Frieze Groups and Fish,"
Ayah (38:29), classically interpreted to mean, 'A book Revealed to you, full of Blessings, so that those of understanding would take it to heart (reflect on it).






The premise being that the Quran will reveal only as much of itself as its present-day audience is able to manage effectively; basically the Quran as a Knowledge Object with the following core characteristics:

1. It is self-contained – each learning object (or Sign) can be taken independently









2. It is reusable – a single learning object may be used in multiple contexts for multiple purposes (the concept that the Message is a limitless Source of Information presented in a finite text)










3. Can be aggregated – learning objects can be grouped into larger collections of content, including traditional course structures, and specific to the Quran, the Signs can be grouped according to different shared parameters or as whole Chapters.

That Sign 38:29 emphasizes the Verses in the Quran are to be considred or conceptualized in light of the information or Knowledge available to 'those of understanding' or 'the most learned/educated' in the community sets the maxima for what can be divulged from the Signs for any generation or audience. This way, it provides the impetus to develop higher concepts to break through any ideological limitations or stagnations that occur while protecting against any misapplication of higher level concepts that are not suitable for a society that is not primed to apply them properly--a Tool that at once Evolves with its User as well as driving that User's Evolution. {Now You know the Reason I was not too concerned with making math mistakes throughout this blog, relying on the fact that only those that know better can call me on it, to everybody else 'it's just a stack of hay!'}.







Verse 38:29 is from Chapter 38 Ṣād (a Surah named after its opening verse, the single letter ص, one of the Muqati3at or disconnected letters, which is the 18th letter in the Arabic alphabet).






Of the 29 Surahs that start off with Muqatiaat only 3 open with single letters, those being Chapters 38 (Ṣād), 50 (Qāf ), and 69 (Nūn); the rest have combinations of 2 or more such letters. And treating Sign 38:29 as a Knowledge Object led to an interpretation, without the benefit of a reliable dictionary, far removed from the traditional understanding of the Verse by using secondary or tertiary meanings of the words that still made sense in context.
38 Ṣād ص
كِتَابٌ أَنزَلْنَاهُ إِلَيْكَ مُبَارَكٌ لِّيَدَّبَّرُوا آيَاتِهِ وَلِيَتَذَكَّرَ أُوْلُوا الْأَلْبَابِ 38:29
38: 29 A Book (كِتَابٌ, Scripture) Revealed to you (أَنزَلْنَاهُ إِلَيْكَ ) (as a) Blessing (مُبَارَكٌ, root 'bara' discussed in more detail at Is the Sky a Hologram?) (with) mounting (to assemble/assembling/arranged; from لِّيَدَّبَّرُوا root 'dabr' ) Its Signs (آيَاتِهِ, ayatihi, ) and to Remind (وَلِيَتَذَكَّرَ lead to) the Origin of The Portal (the Kernel?); ( أُوْلُوا الْأَلْبَابِ ; typically rendered to mean 'take it to heart' or 'reflect on it' yet depending on how this phrase is parsed out, in context with what went before it having to do with assembling or 'arranging/putting together' an actual 'something,' the phrase can also mean the following:

أُوْ
لُو
اال
ْأَلْبَابِ Or If Only Cores


أُوْل
ُو
اال
ْأَلْبَابِ First And Only Cores

أ
ُوْلُو
االْ
أَ
لْبَابِ A If Only A Pith

أُوْ
لُو
اال or if only


أُوْ
لُو
ا
الْأَلْ
بَابِ Or If An Aluminum Door

أُوْلُ
و
ا
الْأَلْبَ
ابِ First And A Alps August


أُوْلُ
واالْ
أَلْ
بَابِ First Otherwise L (the) Door

أُوْ
لُو
االْ
ل
ْبَابِ Or If Only For Door

أُوْ
لُو
ال
ْ
لْبَابِ Or If The Pith

أُوْ
لُو
الْلْ
بَابِ Or If Paintings Door

أُوْلُ
والْلْبَابِ First And Pulp

أُوْ
لُو
لْلْبَابِ Or If The door

وْلُو
الْ
لْبَ

ا
بِ If The Core AB

الْ لْبَابِ Ilal bab== الْ لْبَابِ To The Door

أُوْلُواالْأَلْبَابِ Or If A Kernels

أُوْلُواالْلْبَابِ Or If A Paintings Door

Noun ‘bab’== door; section; gate; chapter; matter; kind; entry; rubric; issue; hatch; port; sort;subject; field; affair; source.

Noun 'Lab' ==core; heart; pulp; gist; pith; marrow; backlog.

الال Aluminum

الل Paintings (also sounds like 'allele')

The key components being that the Signs are to be Assembled (or compiled) in order to Remind or lead to the Origin of 'The Portal' or 'Door' (alternatively, the 'Kernel').

Several attempts have been made throughout A Page In The Life to do just that--some methods yielded physical structures (like the air foil in 'Building a Mystery'), others led to more esoteric concepts (like in A String, A Ring, A Modulus Thing), and some to parsing out the Signs to their elementary components (like in Sourcing or Word Problems).

This single example of how Verse 38:29 breaks down into multifaceted meanings bespeaks of the Quran's inherent Beauty. It is Complete. The fact that no matter how we scale it, it holds its value (information), makes it Perfect (self-similar)--like we find in other Natural Phenomena that are Perfect and, therefore, Infinite-- like fractals.

The trick to not getting lost in the traslation is to focus on the purpose as to why we seek information in any given Sign or Passage. For our purposes here we are looking at doors or things related to such structures (i.e., passageways, portals, access point (WAP), etc.) in general. With that in mind we take a closer look.


Sign 38:29 mentions Aluminum + Cores + Doors/Portals.

Aluminum cores are commonly used as effective heat dissipators, and aluminum core structures are found in applications that range from wires to aircraft components. Focusing on just the Metallurgy, we see that Aluminum (the most abundant metal in Earth's crust, has a relatively low density, resists corrosion, and is well tolerated by animals and plants (low toxicity, passive), it is a good thermal and electrical conductor, and is capable of being a superconductor) can be alloyed or clad with other metals; this only comes to mind since the Sign number 38:29 coincides with Element 38, Strontium (an Alkaline Earth Metal), and Element 29, Copper ( a Transition Metal).

One association that leaps out about the mention of 'pith' or 'pulp', 'paintings' and Aluminum is that Aluminium phosphate (AlPO4) is used in the manufacture of pulp and paper products, and paints. And while Aluminum/Copper alloys are common, and while Titanium can be used as an additive to reduce the grain size and refine the grain structure in Al-Cu alloys, Strontium, in trace quantities also refines the grain structure of aluminium-based alloys.

{I think I've taken this example as far as I can go. Is there a Metallurgist/Material Scientist in the House? A Biologist/Neurologist might have just as much fun with it, (ie, biology applications--considering the tie-in to Aluminum/cores/doors and ALP as in Alkaline Phosphatase and their connection to bile ducts; neurology applications--consider that 'pith' in general form/meaning is a spongy interior of a body part/inner tissue of a hair shaft or bone; a central most important part of something such as argument or discussion; or 'to kill an animal by cutting the spine,' and that in vascular plants the 'pith' is also known as the 'medulla' which according to entymology.com means, "hindmost segment of the brain," from Latin, lit. "marrow," also "pith of plants," of unknown origin, perhaps related to or influenced by medius "middle" (but cf. also O.Ir. smiur, Welsh mer "marrow"--see 'Lab' in Sign 38:29 above).}

Having considered Sign 38:29 as it pertains to 'doors' on Earth, a similar treatment of the topic is given for 'doors' in/to Heaven. (The Dual case, or what's sometimes referred to 'as above, so below', see 'At Six's and Sevens'). And the language found in Signs 7:40:11; 7:96:11; 78:19:2 (Chapter:Sign:Word Number) clearly speak of such access/Ascension or 'open doors' that lead to the Sky. (So, it may very well be that Jacob's dream of beings climbing up and down a ladder was not a dream at all, but an actual 'Point of Departure'?)...

7:40 إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ بِآيَاتِنَا وَاسْتَكْبَرُواْ عَنْهَا

لاَ تُفَتَّحُ لَهُمْ أَبْوَابُ السَّمَاء وَلاَ يَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ

حَتَّى يَلِجَ الْجَمَلُ فِي سَمِّ الْخِيَاطِ وَكَذَلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُجْرِمِينَ

{The story so far: Indeed for those who belied our Signs and Shunned them/Distanced themselves from them, Heavens' Doors nor Earth's will not open for them, Even if (or Until) 'yilja aljaml fi smma alkhayati' and in thus do We reward the Criminals (Miscreants).

typically 'yilja aljaml... taken to mean until such time as 'a camel passes through the needle's eye' or until 'a large twisted rope/cabel passes through the needle's eye'; but problimatic in that smma doesn't have a modern-day meaning of 'eye' and al.khayati is clearly the tailor/or one who sews and not the 'thread' itself. The word 'yilja' seams to be closely related to 'resort to' or 'league' as in 'a distance of about 5 k or 3 mi' or 'join forces/join together/ collaborate' and smma means 'name/designate/denote/toxic?' fi==in, whatever the tailor/surger (or according to the one making the modification, seems to make sense as a nautical metaphor; another variant is at such time as Telekenisis exists in that the thread/or yarn/camel follows in the style of the tailor/ or according to what the tailor/sewer says/names/designates..etc.

7:96 وَلَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ الْقُرَى آمَنُواْ وَاتَّقَواْ لَفَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِم بَرَكَاتٍ مِّنَ السَّمَاء وَ

الأَرْضِ وَلَـكِن كَذَّبُواْ فَأَخَذْنَاهُم بِمَا كَانُواْ يَكْسِبُونَ

7:96 Had the people of the towns believed and feared/followed We would have opened to them /provided for them blessings/access from the sky/heaven, and the earth, but they lied/so We gave them /furnished them with what they earned/gained (by it)

وَلَـكِن كَذَّبُواْ فَأَخَذْنَاهُم بِمَا كَانُواْ يَكْسِبُونَ means, but they belied (Us/Our Signs) So that We Gave them whatever they Gained/Earned (by lying);

78:19 وَفُتِحَتِ السَّمَاء فَكَانَتْ أَبْوَابًا

78:19 And the Sky Becomes Doors

wa. fa. tahhtu. alsama. fa.kanat ab. wa. ab; if broken down this way indicates And Under the Sky (Beneath the Sky) thus becomes (exists) Father and Father (or abu.aba==Father's Father==Grandfather).