String Theory, M-theory, Parallel Worlds.

Cymatics: Bringing Matter To Life With Sound

Whether Map

The Arlington Institute Link

Before every major global event, whether it is a tsunami or a terrorist event like 9/11, people around the world begin to have strong dreams about the impending catastrophe. These unusual dreams – and other intuitions, like visions and strong feelings – sometimes manifest themselves as explicit mental images, sometimes symbols, and sometimes a combination of the two. There are many who have studied this phenomena in depth, like Dr. Stanley Krippner of Saybrook Institute and Dr. Robert Van de Castle of the University of Virginia. Some of them suggest that the number of these special dreams appear to increase as the subject event approaches.

A Revolutionary New Global Strategic Early Warning Capability

The man that killed 2 Alien Greys.

Keep in mind that this guy is telling the truth as HE believes it.

Philip Schneider was an ex-government structural engineer who was involved in building underground military bases around the United States, and to be one of only three people to survive an incident that occurred in 1979 between Grey aliens and U.S. military forces at the Dulce underground base. For the last two years of his life, Schneider gave lectures about government cover-ups, black budgets, and UFOs. Schneider was never able or willing to prove his allegations (e.g. showing the entrance to Dulce Base). His claims received little mainstream notice, but caused quite a buzz in UFO enthusiast circles. Schneider was found dead in his apartment on January 17 1996 Some suggest Schneider was murdered.

The Phil Schneider Story

Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension

This is an awesome NOVA documentary on fractal geometry, chaos and hidden dimensions.

Documentary link

Gravitational Lens

In the formation known as Einstein's Cross, four images of the same distant quasar appear around a foreground galaxy due to strong gravitational lensing.



Gravitational Lens - Wiki Page

New Comet Visable

Comet Link
recently discovered comet is surprising skywatchers by becoming brighter than predictions had first suggested and can now be seen with the unaided eye during the next few weeks.

Comet McNaught, officially cataloged as C/2009 R1, was discovered by Australian astronomer Robert McNaught last September using the using the 0.5-meter Uppsala Schmidt telescope and a CCD camera. It's the 51st comet that bears McNaught's name.

Although initially an extremely faint object, enough observations of the newfound comet were made to allow Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., to calculate an orbit.

Comet McNaught is expected to pass closest to the sun (perihelion) on July 2, at a distance of 37 million miles (60 million km). This sky map shows where to look in order to spot the comet in the morning sky.

The comet is visible now for people with dark skies away from urban and suburban lighting. By mid-June it may be an easy skywatching target for most people.

The signs aren't objective

When it comes to aliens, UFO's, ghosts, etc; people are looking for blatant signs, or an invasion, or objective proof. Everyone's looking to the sky for salvation, praying for modern gods from the stars to save us. Get off your knees, and start looking within yourself. The blatant symbols are already here and everyone's ignoring them. Be grateful for the information you have been given, be open to that information and form your own thoughts and opinions. Be grateful that these signs haven't been forced down your throat by "strange beings in the clouds". This life is a choice. Absolutely nothing says you aren't allowed to think for yourself and see the bigger picture, to live a free and individual life. Just be. Everything else is a prop in a learning lab called "life".

Joseph McMoneagle

I saw this guy speak in person a couple weeks back for about 2 hours straight. He absolutely blew my mind. He was one of the founding members of Project Startgate, the CIA's psychic spy program. I have been a fan of his for years, so seeing this guy in real life was surreal. I would highly recommend reading The Ultimate Time Machine with an open mind.





Joseph McGoneagle

Recommended downloads

Enjoy!




Morbid Angel -Domination


Meshuggah -obZen


Blacklisted -The Beat Goes On


Green Day -Insomniac


Black Sabbath -Master of Reality

Crop Circles

I would highly recommend watching this documentary on crop circles. It's the best I have seen for sure.

Time as a mental construct

How the Brain stops Time

"One of the strangest side-effects of intense fear is time dilation, the apparent slowing-down of time. It's a common trope in movies and TV shows, like the memorable scene from The Matrix in which time slows down so dramatically that bullets fired at the hero seem to move at a walking pace. In real life, our perceptions aren't keyed up quite that dramatically, but survivors of life-and-death situations often report that things seem to take longer to happen, objects fall more slowly, and they're capable of complex thoughts in what would normally be the blink of an eye.

Now a research team from Israel reports that not only does time slow down, but that it slows down more for some than for others. Anxious people, they found, experience greater time dilation in response to the same threat stimuli."

The Illusion of Reality

A great documentary about the fundamental nature of reality.

The Illusion of Reality

Intelligent people have 'unnatural' preferences and values that are novel in human evolution

Physorg.com article link

"More intelligent people are significantly more likely to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to the human species in evolutionary history. Specifically, liberalism and atheism, and for men (but not women), preference for sexual exclusivity correlate with higher intelligence, a new study finds.

The study, published in the March 2010 issue of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Social Psychology Quarterly, advances a new theory to explain why people form particular preferences and values. The theory suggests that more intelligent people are more likely than less intelligent people to adopt evolutionarily novel preferences and values, but intelligence does not correlate with preferences and values that are old enough to have been shaped by evolution over millions of years."

"Evolutionarily novel" preferences and values are those that humans are not biologically designed to have and our ancestors probably did not possess. In contrast, those that our ancestors had for millions of years are "evolutionarily familiar."

"General intelligence, the ability to think and reason, endowed our ancestors with advantages in solving evolutionarily novel problems for which they did not have innate solutions," says Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science. "As a result, more intelligent people are more likely to recognize and understand such novel entities and situations than less intelligent people, and some of these entities and situations are preferences, values, and lifestyles.

An earlier study by Kanazawa found that more intelligent individuals were more nocturnal, waking up and staying up later than less intelligent individuals. Because our ancestors lacked artificial light, they tended to wake up shortly before dawn and go to sleep shortly after dusk. Being nocturnal is evolutionarily novel.

In the current study, Kanazawa argues that humans are evolutionarily designed to be conservative, caring mostly about their family and friends, and being liberal, caring about an indefinite number of genetically unrelated strangers they never meet or interact with, is evolutionarily novel. So more intelligent children may be more likely to grow up to be liberals."


I dont care if you're liberal, conservative, Christian, Muslim or a damn rock at the bottom of a river. This article states that progressive social growth is BASED on going against mainstream ideals regarding more common social structures. I see a complete lack of rational thought in our culture and world. It makes me ill that the majority of people are robotic and driven by instincts based on power and control games, without ever considering individuality based on compassion.

If we are to ever see some sort of better world, then it will take ego-driven human behaviors to be looked upon as a negative in our world. But instead, these behaviors are worshiped and way too common. These behaviors oppress, kill, torture and lead to an overall hellish existence for those perceived as "lower". I'm not talking about acting different, I'm talking about being different. Turning against petty social games, hurtful "mating" rituals and fear-driven behaviors that oppress those who wish to live a peaceful and meaningful life. These behaviors satisfy selfish instincts that have been proven to be a negative evolutionary growth path in our world. Count me out, because I refuse to ignore the intelligence that nature has given me. - Toby

Life beyond our universe?

Physicists explore the possibility of life in universes with laws different from our own - Physorg.com link

"Whether life exists elsewhere in our universe is a longstanding mystery. But for some scientists, there?s another interesting question: could there be life in a universe significantly different from our own?

A definitive answer is impossible, since we have no way of directly studying other universes. But cosmologists speculate that a multitude of other universes exist, each with its own laws of physics. Recently physicists at MIT have shown that in theory, alternate universes could be quite congenial to life, even if their physical laws are very different from our own."

West Brain, East Brain

Newsweek - What a Difference Culture Makes

"...Still, scientists have been surprised at how deeply culture—the language we speak, the values we absorb—shapes the brain, and are rethinking findings derived from studies of Westerners. To take one recent example, a region behind the forehead called the medial prefrontal cortex supposedly represents the self: it is active when we ("we" being the Americans in the study) think of our own identity and traits. But with Chinese volunteers, the results were strikingly different. The "me" circuit hummed not only when they thought whether a particular adjective described themselves, but also when they considered whether it described their mother. The Westerners showed no such overlap between self and mom. Depending whether one lives in a culture that views the self as autonomous and unique or as connected to and part of a larger whole, this neural circuit takes on quite different functions."


I can't keep up
Can't keep up
Can't keep up
Out of step with the world - Minor Threat.


There's an oriented public who's magnetic force does pull
But away from the potential of the individual - Bad Religion

I thought this was pretty awesome...

The Illusion of Time in the Reality of Our Life

Ralph Abraham Professor of Mathematics and Chaos Theory.

Maya: The world as a virtual reality

Richard L. Thompson is a mathematician, who received his Ph.D. in probability theory and statistical mechanics from Cornell University in 1974. He went on to do research in quantum physics and mathematical biology at the State University of New York at Binghamton, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, and the La Jolla Institute in San Diego. He has written over 25 academic papers, scripts for several video productions, and several books on science and philosophy including: Mechanistic and Nonmechanistic Science, Vedic Cosmography and Astronomy, and Mysteries of the Sacred Universe. He also has a number of published works in the field of mathematical biology including the textbook Computer Simulations of Self-Organization in Biological Systems with N. S. Goel.

www.simulatedworlds.com

"In the world of modern science, consciousness is reduced to a fading epiphenomenon, left over after the brain has been physically explained. It seems to arise when matter is suitably organized, but scientists and philosophers have been unable to explain why complex organization should produce anything beyond complex physical behavior. Yet consciousness won't go away.

One possibility is that, instead of being produced by matter, consciousness is a separate element, added to physical systems. This can be modeled using the idea of a virtual reality, in which a human subject enters a computer-simulated world through a sensory interface. In this book, virtual reality is used as a metaphor for our situation as conscious beings. The basic theme is that what we can imagine doing in a virtual reality system may actually be happening in nature on a vastly greater scale. Nature may be like a computer simulation interfaced with conscious observer / participant .

This groundbreaking book shows how conscious beings could interact with a physically realistic virtual world. It shows how both paranormal phenomena and religious experiences can be reconciled in a natural way with the laws of physics, and it sheds light on paradoxes of time, on life beyond the body, and on cosmic and terrestrial evolution. In a sweeping synthesis, the ideas and data of modern science are used to illuminate the ancient theme of consciousness in a world of illusion."

http://www.simulatedworlds.com/main.html

Researchers demonstrate mosquito laser in action

In the video below, you can watch what happens to a mosquito at the instant it's zapped by a laser, all in slow-motion. Nathan Myhrvold’s company, Intellectual Ventures, has been developing the mosquito laser since 2008. Myhrvold recently demonstrated the device at the annual TED conference in Long Beach, Calif.

What is Consciousness?

This is a really cool slideshow on human consciousness by Stuart Hameroff, a physician and consciousness researcher at the University of Arizona Medical Center.

Click here for link

I think therefore I confuse myself alot. - Toby

Reality Shifts

Reality Shifters

"Time shifting is a relatively new term which describes the ancient phenomenon observed by shamans, yogis, and other spiritual adepts capable of accessing, experiencing and influencing events in the past, present, and future. Time shifts are reality shifts in which the dimension of reality we know as "time" undergoes some kind of observable transformation. Time shifts appear to us in such a way that we can observe them in the form of time loops, time travel, time slowing down, and retrocausality'.


Paper on the topic of Retrocausality by physicist Dr. Fred Alan Wolf:

THE TIMING OF CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE: A CAUSALITY-VIOLATING, TWO-VALUED, TRANSACTIONAL INTERPRETATION OF SUBJECTIVE ANTEDATING AND SPATIAL-TEMPORAL PROJECTION

"Quantum systems in the time interval between two events, so-called two-time observables (TTO), are known to behave in a manner quite differently from expectations based on initial value quantum mechanics. According to the transactional interpretation (TI) of quantum physics, wave functions can be pictured as offer and echo waves—the offer wave passing from an initial event, i, to a future event, a, and the echo wave, the complex conjugate of the offer wave, passing from a back in time toward i. TTO and the TI have been used to explain certain quantum physical temporal anomalies, such as non-locality, contrafactuality, and future-to-present causation as explicitly shown in Wheeler’s delayed choice experiment. Experimental evidence involving neurological functioning and subjective awareness indicates the presence of the same anomalies.

Here I propose a model based on TTO and the TI wherein two neural events are ultimately responsible for backwards-through-time wave function collapse in the intervening spacetime interval. After providing a simple argument showing how quantum physics applies to neurological functioning and a simple demonstration of how the TI and TTO explain the delayed choice paradox, I propose that such pairs of causality-violating events must occur in the brain in order that a single experience in consciousness take place in the observer accompanied by a single change in the observed quantum system.

Using this proposition I offer a quantum physical resolution—similar to that of the delayed choice experiment—of the "delay-and-antedating" hypothesis/paradox put forward by Libet et al to explain certain temporal anomalies associated with a delay time, D, required for passive perception experienced by experimental subjects including the blocking of sensory awareness normally experienced at time t by a cortical signal at later time t+fD (0< f£ 1) and the reversal in time of the sensory awareness of the events corresponding to cortical and peripheral stimuli.

The model may be a first step towards the development of a quantum physical theory of subjective awareness and suggests that biological systems evolve and continue to function in accordance with TTO and consequently a causality-violating, two-valued, TI of quantum mechanics. The model successfully predicts and explains Libet’s temporal anomalies and makes a new prediction about the timings of passive bodily sensory experiences and imagined or phantom sensory experiences. The predictions of the model are compared with experimental data indicating agreement."

Intersting article about Anti-depressants

Studies suggest that the popular drugs are no more effective than a placebo. In fact, they may be worse. - Click here for full article

"As more and more scientists who study depression and the drugs that treat it are concluding, that suggests that antidepressants are basically expensive Tic Tacs.

Hence the moral dilemma. The placebo effect—that is, a medical benefit you get from an inert pill or other sham treatment—rests on the holy trinity of belief, expectation, and hope."

Mandelbrot to Mandelbulb - 3D Infinity

Yet again, my mind is blown. - Toby

Magnapinna squid

New Research Rejects Theory of 'Primordial Soup' as the Origin of Life

New Research Rejects 80-Year Theory of 'Primordial Soup' as the Origin of Life

"For 80 years it has been accepted that early life began in a 'primordial soup' of organic molecules before evolving out of the oceans millions of years later. Today the 'soup' theory has been over turned in a pioneering paper in BioEssays which claims it was the Earth's chemical energy, from hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, which kick-started early life".

Quantum Mechanics at Work in Photosynthesis

Scientists find quantum mechanics at work in photosynthesis

"This and other recent discoveries have captured the attention of researchers for several reasons," says Scholes. "First, it means that quantum mechanical probability laws can prevail over the classical laws of kinetics in this complex biological system, even at normal temperatures. The energy can thereby flow efficiently by -- counter intuitively -- traversing several alternative paths through the antenna proteins simultaneously. It also raises some other potentially fascinating questions, such as, have these organisms developed quantum-mechanical strategies for light-harvesting to gain an evolutionary advantage? It suggests that algae knew about quantum mechanics nearly two billion years before humans," says Scholes."

This is simply staggering. - Toby

Jumbo Squid Invade California Waters

Predatory jumbo flying squid invade California waters

Hubble Sights Strange Object Traveling at 11,000 MPH

Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern of Trailing Debris

"February 2, 2010: Something awfully curious is happening 100 million miles from Earth in the asteroid belt. There's a newly discovered object that superficially looks like a comet but lives among the asteroids. The distinction? Comets swoop along elliptical orbits close in to the Sun and grow long gaseous and dusty tails, as ices near the surface turn into vapor and release dust. But asteroids are mostly in circular orbits in the asteroid belt and are not normally expected to be "volatile."

The mystery object was discovered on January 6, 2010, by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) sky survey. The object appears so unusual in ground-based telescopic images that discretionary time on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was used to take a close-up look. The observations show a bizarre X-pattern of filamentary structures near the point-like nucleus of the object and trailing streamers of dust. This complex structure suggests the object is not a comet but instead the product of a head-on collision between two asteroids traveling five times faster than a rifle bullet. Astronomers have long thought that the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never before been seen." - Hubblesite.com

Perspective

Krishnamurti & David Bohm - The Future of Humanity

The Future of Humanity is a dialogue between J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm which took place in Brockwood Park, England in 1983:

"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained". - David Bohm

"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself." - J. Krishnamurti

VALIS

"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane." - Philip K Dick.

Optical Trapping

"These are a few short clips illustrating the phenomenon of optical trapping. Essentially, a felt tip marker is briefly burned just above the focal point of a ~250mW 650nm laser, releasing an extremely small particle. This is not the intersection between the laser and some smoke; it's an actual particle embedded in the laser beam.

Because radiation can exert pressure on objects, there is a set More..of force vectors always keeping the particle just above the waist of the beam. This phenomenon illustrates how light can behave as particles (photons) because the photons have momentum and are therefore able to impart forces onto objects. It is even possible to move the laser around gently and the particle will follow along."



This kinda blew my mind. I have never seen this done before. The wave/particle duality constantly makes me re-think what I know about reality - Toby

As in humans, sleep solidifies a bird's memories

Sleeping is known to help humans stabilize information and tasks learned during the preceding day. Now, researchers have found that sleep has similar effects upon learning in starlings, a discovery that will open up future research into how the brain learns and preserves information.

The Holographic Universe

Our world may be a giant hologram - newscientist.com

"For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. "It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time," says Hogan.

If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."



Holographic principle - Wiki page

"The holographic principle is a property of quantum gravity and string theories which states that the description of a volume of space can be thought of as encoded on a boundary to the region—preferably a light-like boundary like a gravitational horizon. First proposed by Gerard 't Hooft, it was given a precise string-theory interpretation by Leonard Susskind.

In a larger and more speculative sense, the theory suggests that the entire universe can be seen as a two-dimensional information structure "painted" on the cosmological horizon, such that the three dimensions we observe are only an effective description at macroscopic scales and at low energies. Cosmological holography has not been made mathematically precise, partly because the cosmological horizon has a finite area and grows with time"



Wholeness and Implicate Order - Wiki page

"In the enfolded [or implicate] order, space and time are no longer the dominant factors determining the relationships of dependence or independence of different elements. Rather, an entirely different sort of basic connection of elements is possible, from which our ordinary notions of space and time, along with those of separately existent material particles, are abstracted as forms derived from the deeper order. These ordinary notions in fact appear in what is called the "explicate" or "unfolded" order, which is a special and distinguished form contained within the general totality of all the implicate orders" - David Bohm, 1980.

I HIGHLY recommend Wholeness and Implicate Order for a very solid theory that combines both math and intuition, to form a theory that makes sense unlike so many other theories regarding our Universe and human consciousness. Plus Bohm was the original thinker behind the Holographic Universe (maybe even M-Theory). - Toby

New Spider Species found

Science Daily article

An orientation to Parallel Universes

Parallel universe proof boosts time travel hopes - Telegraph.co.uk

The mathematical idea of parallel worlds was first glimpsed by the great quantum pioneer, Erwin Schrodinger, but actually published in 1957 by Hugh Everett III, when wrestling with the problem of what actually happens when an observation is made of something of interest - such as an electron or an atom - with the intention of measuring its position or its speed.

In the traditional brand of quantum mechanics, a mathematical object called a wave function, which contains all possible outcomes of a measurement experiment, "collapses" to give a single real outcome.

Everett came up with a more audacious interpretation: the universe is constantly and infinitely splitting, so that no collapse takes place. Every possible outcome of an experimental measurement occurs, each one in a parallel universe.





Every time there is an event at the quantum level - a radioactive atom decaying, for example, or a particle of light impinging on your retina - the universe is supposed to "split" into different universes.

Quantum mechanics describes the strange things that happen in the subatomic world - such as the way photons and electrons behave both as particles and waves. By one interpretation, nothing at the subatomic scale can really be said to exist until it is observed.

Until then, particles occupy nebulous "superposition" states, in which they can have simultaneous "up" and "down" spins, or appear to be in different places at the same time.

According to quantum mechanics, unobserved particles are described by "wave functions" representing a set of multiple "probable" states. When an observer makes a measurement, the particle then settles down into one of these multiple options.



the Heisenberg uncertainty principle

"In quantum mechanics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that certain pairs of physical properties, like position and momentum, cannot both be known to arbitrary precision. That is, the more precisely one property is known, the less precisely the other can be known."

Quantum Chaos

Chaos is everywhere in the natural world, present in the coiling of smoke rings, the fronds of ferns, and the beating of our hearts. But at the level of quantum physics, chaos as we now define it is unquantifiable.

Seed Magazine: The Question of Quantum Chaos

"Chaos is usually defined by a system’s movement: Set a pendulum swinging, track exactly where it goes, and its motion will reveal whether it is chaotic. Atoms, however, are governed by the uncertainty principle, which means that their location cannot be known precisely. What’s more, the laws of quantum mechanics say that hypersensitivity to initial conditions, which is considered the primary characteristic of a chaotic system, is physically impossible for atoms—at least in the way it’s understood at the classical level."

The known Universe

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The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Univ More..erse Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.

Octopus Intelligence

"In fact the Octopus is so smart that the biggest limitation to its behavior, is it's lifespan. An Octopus only lives 3 years, and that's not long enough to develop anything as complicated as a culture or civilization. Maybe if Octopi lived as long as we do, they would long ago have taken over the world" - Michael Crichton from Sphere.