How the Universe Works an Attempt at Dealing with the Big Questions of Science and Philosophy in Light of 21’St Century Knowledge
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How the Universe Works An attempt at dealing with the big questions of science and philosophy in light of 21’st century knowledge. By Theodore A. Holden Copyright © 2015 Theodore A. Holden. All rights reserved. Other than as permitted under the Fair Use section of the United States copyright act of 1976, no part of this publication shall be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the authors. Quoting of this work must be attributed to this book, and not in a manner which would indicate any sort of endorsement. No derivative works are permitted without express permission of the author. Reproduction of artwork contained in this book must be properly attributed to this book. Information, discussion, related links at: http://www.cosmosincollision.com/. ISBN # 978-0-9891787-3-0 Version 5/2/15 Contents Forward: Part I, Ancient Realities and Some Background Chapter 1. Gravity in prehistoric times. Animal and Human Sizes of Past Ages The Weightlifter and the Witch How Much Attenuation of Gravity was Needed to Account for Dinosaur Sizes? Sauropod Necks and the Problem of Torque Ancient Flying Creatures Ancient Humans and their Sizes Antediluvian Lifespans Chapter 2. The Fermi Paradox and the Realities of Interstellar Distances Chapter 3. Telepathy and Pre-Flood Language The Evidence for Telepathy in Today’s World Telepathy in the Ancient World Talking to the Animals… Chapter 4. The Mars Images Cities and villages Walls and fitted stones Mechanical junk and debris (A few samples) Gateways to Subterranean areas. Structures (a few samples) Sphinx Phobos Red/orange wooly-bullies… Snakes Bugs Conspiracy Theories or Real Conspiracies? Chapter 5 Prehistory. Herbig/Haro Strings The Southern System The oldest creatures and their eyes Elaine Morgan’s Aquatic Ape Thesis Requirements for a human home world Ganymede First Transfer Later Transfer Purple and Gold Purple Dawn Age Golden Age Part II Problems with religion, philosophy, and cosmology Chapter 6. The Main Problems with Ordinary Ideas about Religion The Problem of Evil The Theory of Evolution. The Purpose of Sex Taxonomic Charts and Object-Oriented Design The Book of Joshua. The Problem of the Space Age. The question of aliens “seeding” this planet with life… Part III Understanding our Universe and its Living Worlds Chapter 7. Morphic fields and Object-Oriented Information Systems Chapter 8 Resurrection and Ghost Stories in the Bible. Chapter 9 The Egyptian Notion of Ka Chapter 10. The Antiquity of Egypt. Chapter 11. The Collapse of 20’th Century Magic Physics. Relativity. The “Big Bang”. Black Holes. Dark Matter. Quantum Physics. Faster than light?? Summary. Chapter 12. Escape Chapter 13. Earthly Paradises. What you’d want for a paradise world. Flight. Lifespans. Communication with animals. The Question of an Antediluvian peace. Righteous Conduct. The Ganymede Hypothesis and Past Paradisial Conditions. Conclusion Forward: There are any number of things in areas involving human origins and the human condition which are enigmatical and which cannot be easily be figured logically. Cosmos in Collision by Theodore Holden and Troy Mclachlin answered some of those questions about origins, but that book was written with an eye towards academic robustness and provability and, perforce, left a lot of material out. This book amounts to an attempt to fill in some of the gaps in questions of both origins and the human condition, while making no claim to being academically robust or scientific in any real sense. The Bible and most other religious works are written as if the stars and planets were points of light revolving around the Earth, while most science books are written as if God and morality (and the study of ancient history for that matter) did not exist. You get the impression that somewhere in that picture, there has to be a happy medium, but the problem is much bigger than that. Space scientists today find themselves in the position of amnesia sufferers who, knowing nothing of their own pasts, can do little more than keep on putting one foot in front of the other, hoping that something will kick in sooner or later to jog their memories. Americans over 60 in particular will remember spending ten or twelve years of their lives hearing and reading every day about the great imperative of getting to the moon, only to have that mighty dream fizzle after a few manned moon shots. The implied official message of: “Space, oh yeah, been there, done that, now it’s time to get back to the serious business of running our welfare state and taking down governments which run afoul of the World Bank and IMF!” somehow seems less than completely satisfying or believable. Or, could it be that NASA got to the moon and what they found there so totally messed their minds that either all such future projects were canned or became “black” projects, which the American people have no way or learning anything about? Or even worse from the perspective of many scientists… What if whatever they found on the moon and possibly also whatever they might be finding on Mars with their motorized probes, has tended to falsify the theory of evolution and/or other standard theories pertaining to the history of our solar system, human prehistory and the like? What effect might that have on the degree of access which ordinary people have on the findings of the space age? What about the menagerie of fantastic things which twentieth century science has created and the careers and tenured positions which depend upon them (dark energy, dark matter, the “Big Bang”, dark holes, worm holes, space-time, string theory…)? Could these things and the isms of 20’th century science have morphed into roadblocks to logical thinking and a kind of a minefield which will need to be cleared out of the way before the science of the 21’st century can proceed much further? Particularly problematical is the overwhelming evidence of past habitation now being found on Mars, and on other bodies in our system. Believing that Mars was ever inhabited means having to totally jettison the entire standard theory of the history of our solar system, there being no way to picture Mars ever being habitable under present conditions. And, finally, horror of horrors, could it be that the Bible and other ancient literature concerned with origins might have more to offer us in the way of understanding the things which are turning up in space science at this point in time, and could that be any part of the reason why the United States space program in particular, seems to have gone on a sort of a 35-year walkabout? Part I, Ancient Realities and Some Background Chapter 1. Gravity in prehistoric times. Animal and Human Sizes of Past Ages There is a great deal of interest in questions of giant humans and/or hominids in past ages. Whatever the answer to those questions ultimately turns out to be, there doesn’t seem to have ever been an age in which ONLY giant humans and/or hominids inhabited our planet. Neanderthals were compactly built, heavy, and immensely strong, but their skeletons don't indicate that they ever grew much over 6 feet tall, if that. Cro-Magnon people appear to have been large, around 6 feet on average, but no more so than groups of larger humans today. There actually is evidence of substantially larger humans and hominids in past ages but, before getting into that, we should take a look at the question of dinosaurs and their sizes and what made those sizes possible, since that is the simplest case. The question that you never see in standard textbooks or even in popular literature is this: if those kinds of sizes were such a winning ticket for creatures that supposedly dominated the earth for tens of millions of years, then in the 65 million years that supposedly intervenes between that age and ours, why has nothing else ever re-evolved into such sizes? Or could it be that such sizes are no longer even possible? Or, did you ever wonder why it was always the littlest kid in your class in school who could do the most pushups and pull-ups, or why you never see 200-lb athletes competing in gymnastics? The answer to all such questions concerning size ratios involves what we call square/cube phenomena, that is, ratios of volume or weight (which is proportional to volume) to some measure of strength or efficiency that is proportional to surface area or to body cross section. Volume, of course, is a cubed figure while cross section and surface area are squared figures. The radiators in cars are basically square/cube phenomena for that matter, since anything only gains or loses heat on its surface; a radiator is a heat transfer device that maximizes surface area for a given volume of coolant. Weight is proportional to volume, which is a cubed figure (width times breadth times height) while strength is proportional to cross section of bone and muscle, which is a squared figure. Double your physical dimensions, and you have a factor of two that gets figured three times for volume and weight (you'll be eight times heavier), while it only gets figured twice for cross section and strength (and you'll only be four times stronger). You'll have cut your power/weight ratio in half. Clearly you can only halve your power/weight ratio so many times and still stand up and walk; the mathematical limit for that sort of thing in our present world and gravity is about 20,000 lbs., indicating that the largest elephants at something like 15000 lbs.