It is 1867, and twenty-three-year-old Shade McDonald is ready for a change. After spending the last few years serving in the Civil War, Shade has his sights set on marrying a good woman, settling on the family farm in Kentucky, and raising a family. Unfortunately, the only companions he has right now are a revolver, a rifle, and a strawberry roan named Rex. As he trudges along a hot, dusty road in southeastern Texas headed toward his future, Shade has no idea that trouble is not finished with him yet. Happily reunited with his family on a Texas ranch, Shade busies himself with learning the business of working and raising cattle. Yet within the dark recesses of his mind, something is casting a shadow on all that is good, and it is as ominous as a squall line. As a threat lurks in the distance, Shade must learn to rely on his past experiences to prepare for the uncertain road that lies ahead. Shade must leave all he loves to right a wrong. As he goes on a dangerous mission to find two culprits driven by evil intentions, he must summon the courage he learned on the battlefield to save not only his family, but also his own life.
This book is made up of short articles, poems and stories that speculate on the future and seek to combine science with medicine and ideas which have always been regarded as belonging to religion or science fiction. The four short articles at the start (Gates>STARGATE, How to Create Universes, Building Doctor Who's TARDIS and Darwin's Evolution Unifies Universe) give the reader a condensed view of the conclusions my reading and thinking led me to. They seem to help explain points in each other. After these four are written the steps taken since 1999 to arrive at my conclusions.
This book describes the mathematical and diagrammatic techniques employed in the popular many-body methods to determine molecular structure, properties and interactions.
These ideas started making themselves at home in my brain 30 or 40 years ago. But the ideas' arrivals have been much more detailed and frequent since I discovered the science website vixra.org at the start of 2012. I'm not a professional of any kind - just your average citizen, with a burning desire to understand how everything works (my main interest is cosmology).* I can't say I've been originating the ideas presented here. My feeling as I typed these thoughts has always been that they already exist (though, since physics' Unification appears to connect every point and time in the Cosmos, not on early 21st-century Earth in every case). And I'm just a student, learning about them. * It doesn't matter that I'm not a professional scientist. Keep the following words said in 2015 by scientist Professor Neil Turok in mind - "We need a very different view of basic physics. This is the time for radical, new ideas." He believes this is a great time in human history for the revolution to occur.
I saw a video ("Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace" - http: //www.worldsciencefestival.com/hidden-dimensions) in which it was stated that mathematicians are free to imagine anything while physicists work in a very different environment constrained by experiment, and that the American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988) said scientists work in a straitjacket. Well, Albert Einstein (1879-1955) said "Imagination is more important than knowledge" so let's see what happens when we throw away everyday tradition and conformity, let our imaginations fly (while trying to stay grounded in science and technology), and thus release science from its straitjacket! This little book has its beginnings in cellular automata (in mathematics and computer science, collections of cells on a grid that evolve through a number of discrete time steps according to a set of rules based on the states of neighbouring cells) and grew into a belief that the universe (electromagnetism, gravitation, space-time and, as we'll see, 5th dimensional hyperspace) has a digital (electronic) foundation. This belief can be supported by 11 steps that begin with an experiment in electrical engineering at Yale University in the USA. These steps logically lead to assertions of instant intergalactic travel, time travel into the past as well as the future (neither of which can be altered), of unification of the large-scale universe with small-scale quantum particles, that the universe is a computer-generated hologram, that everyone who ever lived can have eternal life and health, that motion is an illusion caused by the rapid display of digitally generated "frames," that the entire universe is contained in (or unified with) every one of its particles, that the terms "computer-generated" and "computer" do not necessarily refer to an actual machine sending out binary digits or qubits, that we only possess a small degree of free will, that humanity could have created our universe and ourselves though unification physics says a being called God must nevertheless exist and likewise be Creator, and that Einstein's E=mc squared equation could be modified for the 21st century, reflecting the digital nature of reality. Though these things may be unbelievable in 2011, we should not ignore the possibilities of their being true or of their showing that reality is basically digital because they are the logical product of already demonstrated electrical engineering and trips into space, science is investigating time travel and unification, the notion of motion has been suspect to some ever since the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (490?-420? B.C.) argued that motion is absurd, and many religions worldwide speak of God and have some concept of survival of bodily death.
GA[a¬a[day from the Land Down Under! To be exact: from a town called Stanthorpe in Australia and a guy who was born here in 1956. IA[a¬a[m really curious about the universe and have tried to understand it by using A[a¬Ascientific imagination.A[a¬A Hope you like the results. The German physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) said, A[a¬AImagination is more important than knowledgeA[a¬A]A[a¬A In this quote, Einstein isnA[a¬a[t speaking of fantasy, but of applying scientific knowledge in an imaginative way. It seems to me that every generation throughout history has decided the world cannot progress in a radical way beyond the achievements of their own generation. I respectfully disagree and itA[a¬a[s my goal, by means of the science and curiosity and imagination (not fantasy) in my writings, to show everybody that there is still so much progress to be made that the whole world will be busy for thousands (if not millions) of years yet.
According to this brilliant or nonsensical (depends who's reading it) summary and essay, many of the present scientific mysteries become explicable. And this new science reaches into areas once reserved for religion and philosophy. While the conclusions are unbelievably fantastic by today's standards (we could travel to any point in the universe, or in time, instantly - we could achieve physics' holy grail of cosmic unification, and unify the large scale universe with small scale quantum mechanics - we could see eternal health for everyone who ever lived - and proper understanding of unification would not only show that a being called God must exist but humans would be unified with that God), I don't think the steps taken to arrive at those conclusions are irrational at all. They have their foundation in quantum mechanics, Einstein's Relativity, a recent demonstration in electrical engineering at Yale University and, of course, the inspirational work of Professor Stephen Hawking. Yes, I'm writing about science AND religion - my book has its beginnings in a cellular automaton (in mathematics and computer science, a collection of cells on a grid that evolves through a number of discrete time steps according to a set of rules based on the states of neighbouring cells) and grew into a belief that the universe has an electronic foundation. I've always been far more curious about the distant future than the present, and this is what my curiosity has revealed to me. Its conclusions are absolutely incredible at times ... which is why I felt the need to spend years (decades, actually) writing a long, detailed article explaining those conclusions, and making my article as perfect as my limited abilities permit. And I have the feeling that the distant future I've been thinking about is not so distant after all. It might be possible for much of the technology mentioned here to reach fruition in this century, or in the 22nd/23rd century. In the next 50 years, science could not only make the visions shown to us by Star Trek come true but it could surpass those visions, unimaginably by today's standards. If we can cast aside our emotional attachments to life as we know it, all this might happen within 50 years. If we cannot cast aside our attachments, we'll call the following "nonsense" and might have to wait hundreds of years to see it come true. I'll first summarise the steps leading up to (and beyond) exploration of all space-time then write a detailed essay showing how those paragraphs are consistent with the plausible nature of the universe and are therefore not science fiction.
This book adopts the view that the universe is infinite and eternal - but scientifically created. This paradox of creating eternity depends on the unimaginably advanced electronics (whose binary digits of 1 and 0 base- 2 mathematics) developed by future humanity. Those humans will develop time travel, plus unbelievably advanced computer simulations that use so-called "imaginary" time and infinite numbers like pi. They will also become the El or Elohim (names used by various religions to mean "God" or "the gods"). As astronomer Carl Sagan wrote in his book "God" or "the gods"). As astronomer Carl Sagan wrote in his book "Pale Blue Dot - A Vision of the Human Future in Space," "Many religions teach that it is the goal of humans to become gods." The incredible electronics and programming of thousands of years from now will surely result in binary digits giving rise to a vector-tensor-scalar relationship that unites an infinite Earth with the Higgs boson and an Elohim that would be termed supernatural today, though their infinite abilities are actually natural outcomes of progress. When I first started thinking about writing this book, it was intended to be entirely about science. But as the book developed; the approach of unifying all the sciences in the universe into one thing grew into viewing everything as one thing. All objects and events on Earth, in space, and in time (including the inevitability of world peace and immortality, the human condition and religion) are just one thing - like the objects in a computer image seem to be a lot of separate objects but are really just one thing (strings of binary digits). The first part of this book (every part except for the final chapter) was freely published in paperback form by Lambert Academic Publishing in early 2018. The second portion consists of a single chapter ("Mathematical Nature of Reality...") which partly revises and summarizes Part 1. The two parts are being freely re-published by Capstone Media Services later in 2018 (now). Part 1 treats Dark Matter as gravitational push holding galaxies together while Part 2 attributes Dark Matter to material particles in another large-scale dimension. This book is intended for the non-specialist reader, with the aim of keeping jargon and math's to a minimum.
Tomorrow's Science Today "If a complete unified theory was discovered, it would only be a matter of time before it was digested and simplified ... and taught in schools, at least in outline. We should then all be able to have some understanding of the laws that govern the universe and are responsible for our existence." ("A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking, Introduction by Carl Sagan - Bantam Press 1988, page 168) So let's give credit where credit is due and encourage the scientists to pursue the mathematics and measurements which we may find boring and tedious, but let's remind them occasionally that maths and measures are nothing unless they give everyone understanding which can show the way when scientists get lost in their details and competing theories. I saw a video ("Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace") in which it was stated that mathematicians are free to imagine anything while physicists work in a very different environment constrained by experiment, and that the American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988) said scientists work in a straitjacket. Well, Albert Einstein (1879-1955) said "Imagination is more important than knowledge" so let's see what happens when we throw away everyday tradition and conformity, let our imaginations fly (while trying to stay grounded in science and technology), and thus release science from its straitjacket! This article has its beginnings in cellular automata (in mathematics and computer science, collections of cells on a grid that evolve through a number of discrete time steps according to a set of rules based on the states of neighbouring cells) and grew into a belief that the universe (electromagnetism, gravitation, space-time and, as we'll see, 5th dimensional hyperspace) has a digital (electronic) foundation. It logically leads to assertions of instant intergalactic travel, time travel into the past as well as the future (neither of which can be altered), of unification of the large-scale universe with small-scale quantum particles, that the universe is a computer-generated hologram, that everyone who ever lived can have eternal life and health, that motion is an illusion caused by the rapid display of digitally generated "frames," that the entire universe is contained in (or unified with) every one of its particles, that the terms "computer-generated" and "computer" do not necessarily refer to an actual machine sending out binary digits or qubits, that we only possess a small degree of free will, that humanity could have created our universe and ourselves though unification physics says a being called God must nevertheless exist and likewise be Creator, and that Einstein's E=mc2 equation could be modified for the 21st century, reflecting the digital nature of reality. Though these things may be unbelievable in 2011, we should not ignore the possibilities of their being true or of their showing that reality is indeed digital because they are the logical product of already demonstrated electrical engineering and trips into space, science is investigating time travel and unification, the notion of motion has been suspect to some ever since the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (490?-420? B.C.) argued that motion is absurd, and many religions worldwide speak of God and have some concept of survival of bodily death.
Tomorrow's Science Today - A broad outline of future discoveries concerning the workings of Nature, and of science's reconciliation with religion. "If a complete unified theory was discovered, it would only be a matter of time before it was digested and simplified ... and taught in schools, at least in outline. We should then all be able to have some understanding of the laws that govern the universe and are responsible for our existence." ("A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking, Introduction by Carl Sagan) I saw a video ("Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace") in which it was stated that mathematicians are free to imagine anything while physicists work in a very different environment constrained by experiment, and that the American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988) said scientists work in a straitjacket. Well, Albert Einstein (1879-1955) said "Imagination is more important than knowledge" so let's see what happens when we throw away everyday tradition and conformity, let our imaginations fly (while trying to stay grounded in science and technology), and thus release science from its straitjacket! In this book, we'll learn about intergalactic travel - we'll also learn how to travel into the future and the past (though neither can be changed). And we'll see that ESP (extra-sensory perception) and telekinesis (psychokinesis) are scientifically possible.
Development in science depends on several factors. Among these, the role of individual scientists is perhaps not the most important one. Science is typically a body of collective knowledge and any increase in the amount of this knowledge is certainly due to strong interaction among scientists. Even in the past, it happened quite rarely that a single person, without any aid of others, d- covered something fundamental or opened a new chapter in science. Great figures of science history have, in most cases, had rather a summarizing and s- thesizing role. This is especially valid over the last few decades. On one hand, the amount of information necessary to achieve new discoveries, has increased tremendously. On the other hand, improvement of technical facilities has increased the speed of information exchange. These factors resulted in a degree of specialization in science that had never seen before. Most of us are experts and specialists rather than scientists in the classical sense. My personal feeling is that, even nowadays, there is a strong need for professionals with a broad knowledge and c- prehensive mind, although they may not be competitive in the number of their publications or the sizes of their grants. Every time I have met such a person (I can count these cases on my fingers) I have become deeply influenced by his or her strong intellect.
American territorial borders have undergone significant and unparalleled changes in the last decade. They serve as a powerful and emotionally charged locus for American national identity that correlates with the historical idea of the frontier. But the concept of the frontier, so central to American identity throughout modern history, has all but disappeared in contemporary representation while the border has served to uncomfortably fill the void left in the spatial imagination of American culture. This book focuses on the shifting relationship between borders and frontiers in North America, specifically the ways in which they have been imaged and imagined since their formation in the 19th century and how tropes of visuality are central to their production and meaning. Rodney links ongoing discussions in political geography and visual culture in new ways to demonstrate how contemporary American borders exhibit security as a display strategy that is resisted and undermined through a variety of cultural practices.
Free blacks in antebellum America lived in a twilight world of oppressive laws and customs designed to suppress their mobility and their integration into civil society. Free blacks were free only to the extent of white tolerance in their community or town. They were at the mercy of the lowest members of the dominant race who could punish them on a whim. They were, in the words of a 19th century European traveler to America, "masterless slaves." Nonetheless, many successful and even prominent blacks emerged from the mire of oppressive laws and general public disdain to realize major achievements. Though excluded from the political process, from education, and from most professions they became preachers, teachers, missionaries, contractors, artisans, boat captains, and wealthy entrepreneurs. Members of this twilight social and legal class, which numbered nearly a half million by 1860, made great accomplishments against strong opposition in the first half of the 19th century. The history of America and of American slavery is woefully incomplete without their story.
A compilation of all known species of fossil decapod crustaceans arrayed in a modern classification based upon the work of numerous students of extant and fossil decapods represents the first such attempt in nearly 100 years. The systematic list cites authors and carefully verified dates of authorship as well as a complete list of references to all taxa cited. The work is intended to provide insight into the range and relative numbers of fossil taxa within the suborder Decapoda. The compilation will permit interpretation of the nature of completeness of the fossil record and will provide a platform for future research on this important, diverse group of organisms.
Science Sifting is designed primarily as a textbook for students interested in research and as a general reference book for existing career scientists. The aim of this book is to help budding scientists broaden their capacities to access and use information from diverse sources to the benefit of their research careers.The book describes why the capacity to access and integrate both linear and nonlinear information has been an important historic feature of pivotal scientific breakthroughs. Yet, it is a process that our students are rarely, if ever, taught in universities. This book goes beyond simply describing the features of great scientific breakthroughs. It discusses the basis for accessing and using nonlinear information in the linear research context. It also provides a series of tools and exercises that can be used to enhance access to nonlinear information for application to research and other endeavors.Topics covered include focal points in scientific breakthroughs, the use of concepts maps in research, use of different vantage points, information as patterns, fractals for the scientist, memory storage and access points, and synchronicities. Young researchers need useful tools to help with a more holistic approach to their research careers. This book provides the useful tools to support flexibility and creativity across a long-term research career.Roald Hoffmann — Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — has contributed the to Science Sifting. More information on Professor Hoffmann can be found at .
From emails relating to adoption over the Internet to discussions in the airline cockpit, the spoken or written texts we produce can have significant social consequences. The area of Mediated Discourse Analysis considers texts in their social and cultural contexts to explore the actions individuals take with texts - and the consequences of those actions. Discourse in Action: brings together leading scholars from around the world in the area of Mediated Discourse Analysis reveals ways in which its theory and methodology can be used in research into contemporary social situations explores real situations and draws on real data in each chapter shows how analysis of texts in their social contexts broadens our understanding of the real world. Taken together, the chapters provide a comprehensive overview to the field and present a range of current studies that address some of the most important questions facing students and researchers in linguistics, education, communication studies and other fields.
Rodney Jones and Gerald Uelman return with all-new unintentionally hilarious incidents from legal cases of all kinds, including folly in the Supreme Court. Here are laughably choice courtroom exchanges, incriminating evidence, and the comical results of efforts to decide the most urgent legal questions.
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