Posted on 01/14/2002 8:14:36 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
We know that light imparts a certain amount of energy in it interaction. For example solar cells exhibit this phenomena. So if we assume that there is no real particle to light, which in Einstein terms means no rest mass, then light could only have a mass associated with its frequency. In this is the case we should see light of higher frequencies bend from a gravitational lens proportional to the frequency. We should be able to show that as the frequency approaches zero the bending of the light should also approach zero.
Are you aware on any studies that show the effects of an embryo development in an electric or magnetic fields? If the electric field plays a significant role in fetal development then a large or better yet an oscillating electric field should cause havoc in the embryo.
I once took a course on Applied Information Theory and the interesting thing I recall is that we applied principles of entropy and Fourier analysis to information. I was used to thinking of these things as in more classical physics terms. But now I see a correlation between light and information. It appears that you cannot exchange information without some transfer of energy and that energy is in effect information. I know the universe exists because the Universe tells me so.
Well, no, I don't. But some people have seen in fractals a direct mathematical realisation of the Emerald Tablet's "as above, so below". You'll find some serious weird commentary on the holographic universe, complete with fractals, here. But beware! This is the contemporary end of a chain of speculation that leads back to Johannes Duns Scotus' Peri physeon, from which few emerge unscathed.
If not here then, where do you see a place for the discussion of fractals?
It seems that this theory is being developed from the paradoxs found in quantum physics where weird stuff like events that happen before it starts are observed.
We will break the speed of light barrier as soon as we learn to change our model of the reality of existence... from the old to a newer vision. I think this is really interesting, and not surprising.
That all of creation is moving within a construct that supercedes our ability at present to fully grasp... is well, biblical in its implications.
God is real. God is light... and contains no darkness at all. Seems to me that everything in this universe revolves around our understanding of light and instantaneous characteristics of matter that is NOT really there... per se.
Strange. This life may be a dream, but whose?
GREAT stuff.
How can God claim to be bigger than the universe and smaller than a human heart, simultaneously? Such claims were not just some metaphysical rant by a cross dragging lunatic. It may just be His explanation of the nature of reality, in terms we could barely understand at that time.
I think hologram is a crude term for a concept that supercedes current models. I suspect it is truer than we care or dare to admit. How can God simultaneously be IN you and IN me, even if WE don't agree on who HE is, without us both being wrong or right? Maybe the way we see our universe is based only on what we can see hear and touch. The scientific method is loathe to admit there might be things beyond our taste touch sight and hearing, even though they KNOW it has progressively been true... only by finding it with a tool that shows it to them can they acknowlege what they refused yesterday to admit as a possibility.
We may yet extend life for centuries and travel to the stars... if we fail maybe it was our ideas and false assumptions that held us back... as has always been the case. The world they say, is FLAT.
Is this, perhaps, true for all of Reality?
Folks always want to be part of something bigger than themselves. Well, there you have it.
AS a concept, it may be more real than we can know.
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