The Bond

by Boltzman Brains

The Egg

The heliosphere is the region of space inhabited by the Sun. The heliosphere is a magnetic bubble-like medium and is located as far as beyond the orbit of Pluto. Plasma “blown” out from the Sun, known as the solar wind, creates and maintains this bubble against the outside pressure of the interstellar medium, the hydrogen and helium gas that permeates Milky Way Galaxy. The solar wind flows outward from the Sun until encountering the termination shock, where motion slows abruptly.

The Voyager spacecraft have actively explored the outer reaches of the heliosphere, passing through the shock and entering the heliosheath, a transitional region which is in turn bounded by the outermost edge of the heliosphere, called the heliopause. The overall shape of the heliosphere is determined by the interstellar medium, through which it is traveling and the sun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_magnetic_field

Earth’s magnetic field, also known as the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from the Earth’s interior to where it meets the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun. Its magnitude at the Earth’s surface ranges from 25 to 65 microteslas (0.25 to 0.65 gauss).

Roughly speaking it is the field of a magnetic dipole currently tilted at an angle of about 10 degrees with respect to Earth’s rotational axis, as if there were a bar magnet placed at that angle at the center of the Earth. Unlike a bar magnet, however, Earth’s magnetic field changes over time because it is generated by a geodynamo (in Earth’s case, the motion of molten iron alloys in its outer core).

Layer upon layer of protection lays over us protecting us from the forces of the universe that would obliterate us in an instant without their protection. Arising from this Is a system of binding that creates all life. Energy creates patterns which persist in fractal progression from scales large and small. Much of what we think of as a self is defined by ideas of what life is but we should realize that these definitions show more about our perspective than the reality of our existence.

What makes life? 

I believe it to be a matter of homeostasis that is regulated in such a way as to create a self regulating pattern within a dynamic system. This is caused by a system of value which defines the self the same way axioms define a model. The basis of life is algorithmic action manifest as direct representation through contextual energy upon physical reality.

The key to understanding the algorithm is in the binding selection. The first particle to exhibit polarity and connect to another particle making the first chain creating a line of energy which will then fold causing secondary and tertiary field generation through n dimensional space begins Physics and Chemistry.

Proteins may be created from folding and the quantum chemical bonds resulting from the simple arrangement of the four positions of the letter V as positive poles exist and attraction possibilities from inside outside + and – meet and create chains of particles which in turn create chains capable of chemical action.

It is so simple for such things to exist but do they necessarily have to exist only as physical objects or could you find such simple machines created by algorithms inherent in the action of the existence of energy to any abstraction of infinite reality?

To put it in perspective could cultures, memes, personalities and other such energy patterns also exhibit quantum chemical reaction?

What is addiction?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html

This is a good article I found recently on addiction and ist causes. It seems likely that people become addicted because of the need to bond socially rather than as previously thought a physical need for a chemical. Bonding builds into a social organism and may work on many levels previously unrecognized.

Though this is interesting and indicative, I am looking for an explanation for a different phenomena.

How alive and conscious is the planet as a system?

I noticed something unusual one day, I was cloud watching while driving and each puffy little cloud was sailing about five hundred feet up and trailing what looked like rain. I drove farther and then saw a barn on fire, as the clouds went past they were vacuuming up the dust and smoke from the fire, visibly. I didn’t know that clouds would cross the earth vacuuming up the particles that would give them substance and growth. They must have been using electrical differences to cause this transference. The earth and sky are continually exchanging electrical forces and the systems involved are as complex and little understood as just about anything we see. The earth itself is an electrical dynamo consisting of a liquid iron, nickel core that creates a strong magnetic field. It is in constant pattern of binding with scales outward and inward.

Another thing I watched while cloud watching, when wondering about the contextual energy systems on different scales I like to look up. There are many systems of great complexity that have raised questions in my mind. As I drove home one day I noticed two shapes in the clouds that looked like a set of eyes. Glancing back I watched them slowly changing as they filled with an iris and then filled with bright light which seemed to give them life. It suddenly seemed as if something very large was looking down at me. I suddenly felt like an ant must feel and wondered how such a thing could be?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_creativity

Stephen L. Thayler P.H.D. on creation machines and how they are a different form of AI created from artificial neural networks of imagitrons and perceptrons which create a system of logic and actually learn by using simple rules that arise spontaneously from natural means. What this means is that you have something that creates patterns and an observer of some form and then throw in some random noise within the system and you can easily create an entity with a creative imagination. Scale and energy are not the only things that occur to affect the context of conscious being within the fractal of our existence.

And today this creation of life is spreading into the realm of technology. There are many questions to be answered and I think it is bonding that will hold many of the answers.

Displacing the Matrix and the Power of Spiritual Cymatics

By Zen Gardner; 

I had an extremely inspiring conversation with a beautiful soul today about the awakening and how we can be the most effective in facilitating it. In the course of our exchange, while sharing ideas about how to go about creating practical applications, many analogies and perceptions came to mind.

As anyone who reads my articles knows, I am all over the shift into the awakening now being birthed and the empowerment available to anyone who is willing to tune into it.

It’s not evident to all, as the fixation on the crumbling matrix and growth of the parasitic police state on the dead and dying stump of the old paradigm in the forest of the world seems to captivate most people’s attention.

It blocks out people’s vision, as it’s designed to do. While we must also be aware of it, we cannot be fixated on it.

That crumbling matrix of world information is important, but must be transcended into levels of empowerment and personal and collective activism, much like concentrating on the new growth bursting with life on that same forest floor, way surpassing the influence of this relic of old control systems.

That old rotten stump is dead and dying. It’s branches have fallen, its leaves are long gone, and its roots are rotting in the rich, active earth below transforming this fungal infection back into the cycle of life.

We are seeing the final stages of a dying epoch, and our attention needs to be on the new growth bursting up through the dead limbs and leaves of the forest floor instead of the induced drama of the dying, old and decrepit, falsely imposed structure.

The Awake Grid and Spiritual Cymatics

As we spoke about the need for practical solutions supporting community and personal activism, I shared how many write me about feeling so alone in this fight and why I wrote Are We Alone? Or Strategically Placed and why it struck such a chord in people. Feeling isolated and alone is a fact of life in the so-called alternative community, but it’s a much greater phenomenon than that.

It has to do with our current alternative paradigm and how we’re approaching the shift.

When discussing alternatives and how empowering they are I had a picture of those same dispersed energetic nodes I refer to in my article, be they individuals, energetic portals, ley lines or otherwise, only now vibrating with an enhanced intentional frequency.

The vibratory effect at every level causes the immediately outlying points of awakened conscious human beings to resonate and thus create vibrational cymatic patterns which then vibrate and resonate with and even begin to converge with these localized nodes.

A magnificent image of people coming together when these strategic especially awakened human energy points are activated and vibrationally alive, if you can envision it.

It’s much like the deeper interpretations of the role of our star, the sun, and other planetary bodies, never mind massive galactic influences. My point is, as we tune into and facilitate these wonderful vibrations the effects are extremely practical, bringing together sympathetic souls and influences into powerful and extremely practical convergences. And it’s happening.

Bottom Line

We need to not just awaken individually but converge and activate in very practical ways to express this new awareness and understanding. As so many are intensely aware of the seriously decaying state of social governance, this should not be our focus.

Instead we need to concentrate our attention and intention on the blossoming innate knowledge of a better way to live and work together to explore the way of life we know in our hearts to be right.

Many are working to set such programs in place and we need to encourage and participate in these, or initiate our own, and thus help accentuate and realize this new birthing paradigm.

We are seeing movements arise around the planet affirming this very aspect. Groups, communities and alternative organizations are being born as we speak, well aware of our perilous external condition yet knowing a much better plan can easily be put in its place. This is true conscious revolution.

Look for it. Be part of it.

Let go of the old. Living in a reactionary state only affirms the oppressor and its matrix of deceit, fear and control. It’s time to move on and build. You’ll see it when you do. And it’s wonderful. Just respond from the heart.

More on this to come. A wonderful new day is dawning.

Cymatics: Sound Has Form

Cymatics is the study of wave phenomena and vibration, a term coined by Swiss scientist Hans Jenny, the word Kymatik, ('cymatic' in English) derives from the Greek 'Kuma' meaning 'billow' or 'wave,' to describe the periodic effects that sound and vibration has on matter.

Everything in the Universe is oscillating and vibrating. Cymatics shows how vibrations interact to create the world we experience 'out there,' while bringing into focus the hidden principles that underlie all natural processes. Understanding these principles offers insights into the dynamics of life in the dense, physical world of matter, form and function, but also in the subjective ways in which we perceive ourselves.(1)

"When one's eye is open to the Cymatic phenomena, you can see it everywhere." - Hans Jenny

In fact Jenny is just one in a long line of venerated scientist / philosophers involved with Cymatics, stretching all the way back to the original Father of Science Galileo. Galileo was the first to notice the formation of regular patterns on an oscillating body while experimenting with plates & chisels in 1632.(2)

Galileo Galilei

''....scraping a brass plate with a sharp iron chisel in order to remove some spots from it and running the chisel rather rapidly over it, I once or twice, during many strokes, heard the plate emit a rather strong and clear whistling sound: on looking at the plate more carefully I noticed a long row of fine streaks parallel and equidistant from one another.." 

-Galileo

1680: a Royal society member, philosopher, architect and polymath Robert Hooke noticed nodal patterns forming as he ran a violin bow along the edge of a glass plate covered with a fine layer of flour. Hooke is better known for giving us his law of elasticity (Hooke's Law) than for popularizing Cymatics.
  
1787: the German musician and physicist Ernst Chladni repeated Hookes experiments and published his findings in the book "Discoveries in the Theory of Sound", making it one of the first treatises on the science of sound, with this and other works, he laid the foundation for that discipline within physics that came to be called acoustics. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of acoustics". 

 

Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni

Chladni observed that when a metal plate covered with sand or other similar substance was made to vibrate by running a violin bow across it perpendicularly, a pattern emerged in the sand. Through careful documentation he theorized that sound affects physical matter and that these changes can be repeated. 

Chladni Plate

He produced diagrams of his experiments which came to be called, "Chladni figures." He went on the lecture circuit in Europe and demonstrated his finding to live audiences, which included a command performance for Napoleon. Chladni so delighted Napoleon he offered him 6000 francs for his performance. Napoleon then offered 3000 francs to anyone who could explain this phenomenon. This prize was awarded to Sophie Germain in 1816.(3) 

Examples of square Chladni Figures (drawn by Mary D. Waller)

This video is made by Suzanne Tribe, a student over at the School of Cymatics.




She built a homemade tonascope using PVC (like in these diy cymatics instructions), then invited a friend to sing Mozart’s “Una Donna a Quindici Anni” through the pipe. Watch this video to see how they achieved some beautiful and complex cymatics images using a very simple setup.

You can view Suzanne’s page at the School of Cymatics here. To get free instructions for building your own diy cymatics tonascope click here.(4)

Footnotes:

(1) http://www.cymaticsource.com/newto.html 

(2) http://www.janmeinema.com/cymatics/who_was_hans_jenny.html 

(3) http://9waysmysteryschool.tripod.com/sacredsoundtools/id19.html

(4) http://cymatica.com/2011/07/23/cymatics-video-mozart-music-patterns/

The U.S. Supreme Court Makes History on Marriage Equality

By Amanda Fickett

After decades of struggle, marriage equality is now the law of the land. Millions of Americans have been waiting for our nation’s highest court to recognize marriage equality–and it just did in a 5-4 opinion, issued by Justice Anthony Kennedy. Ever since the tide turned sharply in 2013, when the Court found that the federal government had to recognize same-sex married couples under federal law, case after case pointed toward what seemed an inevitable national consensus–at least until the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a contrary decision, setting up a showdown at the Supreme Court.

The decision in Obergefell v. Hodges was announced to the cheers of hundreds who gathered on the Court’s steps. Writing for the majority, Kennedy’s words resonated with the import of the decision: “It is now clear that the challenged laws burden the liberty of same-sex couples, and it must be further acknowledged that they abridge central precepts of equality. Here the marriage laws enforced by the respondents are in essence unequal: same-sex couples are denied all the benefits afforded to opposite-sex couples and are barred from exercising a fundamental right. Especially against a long history of disapproval of their relationships, this denial to same-sex couples of the right to marry works a grave and continuing harm. The imposition of this disability on gays and lesbians serves to disrespect and subordinate them. And the Equal Protection Clause, like the Due Process Clause, prohibits this unjustified infringement of the fundamental right to marry.”

To recap, Obergefell v. Hodges comprises four consolidated cases from Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, and Tennessee which pose the same essential questions: (1) are state bans on same-sex marriage constitutional and (2) if such bans are constitutional, are states that ban same-sex marriage required to recognize such marriages performed in other states.

In his eloquent majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy answered the first question with a resounding “no.” The Court’s four left-leaning Justices agreed with him that the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to perform same-sex marriages. According to the Court, “[t]he nature of marriage is that, through its enduring bond, two persons together can find other freedoms, such as expression, intimacy, and spirituality. This is true for all persons, whatever their sexual orientation.” The Court held that the right to marry is protected under the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, stating that the right to marry is fundamental: as a result, marriage equality is now the law of the land in all fifty states.

Justice Kennedy is an unlikely champion for LGBT rights, having been appointed as a presumably “safe” conservative seat by President Ronald Reagan. For decades, Kennedy voted fairly consistently with his fellow conservatives, leading to an often fractured 5-4 majority on a number of key cases with far-reaching social and legal implications. But on the question of LGBT rights, Kennedy surprised nearly everyone with his first seminal opinion, Romer v. Evans, which struck down Colorado’s anti-gay Amendment 2 in 1996. Then nearly a decade later, Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in Lawrence v. Texas, which ruled homosexual sodomy laws unconstitutional, flatly overturning the notorious case of Bowers v. Hardwick written just 17 years earlier.

But it was his opinion in United States v. Windsor, in which the Court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), that set the stage for today’s historic ruling. Kennedy wrote in that case that DOMA imposed a “disadvantage, a separate status, and so a stigma upon all who enter into same-sex marriages.” In his dissent Scalia warned, “By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition.” His dissent, ironically, was cited often by challengers to state laws restricting the right of marriage to just heterosexual couples.

While momentous, to many the Court’s decision comes as no great surprise. After all, as court watchers noted, the Court all but guaranteed a favorable outcome in February when, in an unprecedented move, the justices declined to stay a federal judge’s order that invalidated Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage. Moreover, traditionally conservative Ireland recently became the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote, and just last Friday, the Supreme Court of Mexico, a country that is more than 80% Catholic, legalized same-sex unions. On the question of human rights, Justice Kennedy is known to look not only to recent trends in U.S. law, but to the state of the law in other nations. But surprise or no, the Court’s decision today will go down in history as a capstone of one of the most significant civil rights movements in a generation.

Today, Justice Kennedy closed his opinion, and an era, with a particularly poignant thought:
“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one civilization’s oldest institution. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.”

Advocates have long insisted that the fight for marriage equality was never just about the right to marry; it was about basic human dignity. The story at the heart of the named case, Obergefell v. Hodges exemplifies that well. The facts of that case are compelling: Jim Obergefell and John Arthur, a couple for over twenty years, had flown from their home in Ohio to Maryland to get married, due to  Arthur’s rapidly failing health. Arthur had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and the swift progression of his disease heightened the couple’s sense of urgency to have their union recognized before Arthur passed away. The two were wed aboard a medical jet in Maryland in July of 2013; Arthur died a few months later. Despite the fact that Obergefell and Arthur had won the right to have Arthur’s death certificate reflect his true marital status, that decision was appealed by the State of Ohio—meaning that the death certificate could be rewritten to say that Arthur was single at the time of his death.

After today’s decision, couples like Obergefell and Arthur will never again have to face that kind of indignity at the hands of the state, nor will they have to endure the painful uncertainty of wondering whether their relationships will be recognized depending upon where they happen to live. Marriages in America will no longer be artificially bifurcated based on the sex of the participants. Love has always been love—but after today, marriage is also just marriage.

For a more indepth look at the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case, read this article: From Heartbreak to History: How One Gay Spouse’s Dying Wish Might Change the Law for All Time


From: http://secondnexus.com/social/the-supreme-court-makes-history-marriage-equality/?ts_pid=5

Tesla Was Right: Researchers Solve Wireless Power Transmission for IoT

By Ken Briodagh

The dream of wireless power is coming true, according to research from the University of Washington in Seattle, where a team of engineers led by Vamsi Talla has found a way to power a wireless security system, using juice transmitted by Wi-Fi only, just as Nikola Tesla predicted. 

Power is one of the great stumbling blocks of the IoT. Without it, there is no IoT. The problem arises in that wired power is limited in range and expense, and batteries are too unreliable, short-lived (although that’s changing) and expensive. Wireless power could solve those problems in one fell sweep.

Talla and company have figured out how to send power wirelessly to devices, although only over a few feet so far. The solution uses existing tech and Wi-Fi chip sets and they call it PoWi-Fi, or power over Wi-Fi. The concept came from Talla’s idea that if Wi-Fi antennae can receive data, why not energy, too?

Then measuring how much power comes over the air, it can approach around 300 millivolts, which is the operating threshold, and more than enough to power most sensors indefinitely. One problem they found was that Wi-Fi routers usually only broadcast in bursts of information, and a device would need a constant flow of juice to stay viable. To solve that, the crew programmed the routers to broadcast noise when it’s not sending actual information, and use untapped Wi-Fi channels to keep from interfering with the intelligible data stream.

In the end, the team was able to operate a temperature sensor from about 20 feet away from the router with no other source of power. Of course, if this is to be viable in the larger IoT, the ranges will need to increase, but that’s just a matter of time. In terms of available juice, that seemed to be no problem at all. They powered up an Omnivision VGA camera that needs 10.4 milliJoules of energy per picture it captures, and that was no problem. The published research said that the camera worked battery-free at about 15 feet from the router and was able to capture an image about every 35 minutes.

The router was able to keep the camera powered up even through a brick wall.

The team charged a variety of batteries over Wi-Fi, and even did real-world tests in urban areas with quite impressive results. Click here for the full paper.

It’s early to tell, but this might just be the beginning of the end of the wired age. And it’s about time. To get some more insight into what’s coming for Wi-Fi technology and the IoT, join us at IoT Evolution Expo in Las Vegas, from August 17 to 20.

Take that, Edison.


From: http://www.iotevolutionworld.com/iot/articles/404589-tesla-right-researchers-solve-wireless-power-transmission-iot.htm

Large Hadron Collider starts sending data that scientists hope will solve mysteries of extra dimensions and dark matter

The Large Hadron Collider is about to start delivering the data that scientists hope will solve some of the deepest mysteries of the universe.

It will be the first time that data is sent from the particle accelerator for 27 months. The whole experiment has been shut down for nearly two years, undergoing maintenance, repairs and improvements.

Those changes have left it able to smash atoms at with almost twice as much power as the first time around. Scientists slammed protons together at 13 tera-electron volts for the first time ever last month, and are now ready to start receiving and analysing data from those collisions.

Scientists hope that data will mark the start of “Season 2” — a whole new round of discoveries about the universe, after the successful first run. This time around, scientists will be looking further into the secrets of the universe, hoping to find out more about mysterious dark matter.

The Large Hadron Collider was switched back on at the end of April, when two beams of particles travelling a whisker below the speed of light were sent flying in opposite directions through 27 kilometres (16.7 miles) of circular underground tunnels straddling the Swiss-French border.

But the beam energy has only now been ramped up to its operating level of 13 TeV, almost twice the power used to uncover the Higgs boson two years ago.

The LHC team astounded the world with the discovery of the elementary particle that gives other particles mass, which had eluded detection for nearly 50 years.

With the ability to tap into higher energy, the scientists hope to explore mysterious realms of "new physics" that could yield evidence of hidden extra dimensions and dark matter.

Dark matter is the invisible, undetectable "stuff" that makes up 84% of material in the universe and binds galaxies together, yet whose nature is unknown.

Protons race around the LHC beam tunnels at just three metres per second below the speed of light.

The energy released when they collide together is used to spark the creation of new particles.Albert Einstein's famous equation E = MC squared showed that energy and mass are interchangeable. Upping the energy levels at the LHC increases the chances of some of it being converted to previously undetected, heavier particles - possibly including dark matter.

The particle collisions take place in four detectors arranged around the beam ring known as Atlas, CMS, Alice and LHCb.

Atlas team leader Professor David Charlton, from the University of Birmingham, has said: "We're heading for unexplored territory. It's going to be a new era for science."

As well as searching for dark matter, LHC scientists also hope to create more and possibly different strains of Higgs boson, investigate antimatter, and test the theory of "supersymmetry" which predicts that every known particle has a more massive hidden partner.

Supersymmetry seeks to fill gaps in the Standard Model, the all-encompassing blueprint of particles and forces in the universe that has been in place since the 1970s.



Additional reporting by Press Association

From: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/large-hadron-collider-starts-sending-data-that-scientists-hope-will-solve-mysteries-of-extra-dimensions-and-dark-matter-10293940.html

UFO hunters see 'pyramid' on Nasa image of Mars speculating it was built by an ancient civilisation

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00978/mcam/0978MR0043250040502821E01_DXXX.jpg

Extraterrestrial hunters claim to have found a structure very similar to an Egyptian pyramid in Nasa images of Mars.

ParanormalCrucible, a YouTube channel dedicated to the search for alien lifeforms, has scrutinized video footage from Nasa's unmanned Curiosity Rover space vehicle.

The video of the strange phenomena has gone viral, reaching nearly a quarter of a million views in just a few days.

The "pyramid" is only "car-sized" according to ParanormalCrucible, but others believe this is evidence of intelligent life on Mars, as reported by Daily Express.

Speculation on the nature of the object includes that it could be the tip of a bigger construction, buried under dust on the Red Planet, possibly a grave marker or capstone.

A ParanormalCrucible spokesman said the object's "near perfect design and shape" means it must be "the result of intelligent design and certainly not a trick of light and shadow.

"A remarkable artifact has been found on the red planet by the Mars Curiosity Rover. Due to the size of the object about the scale of a small car I would theorise that the artifact is either the capstone of a much larger pyramid, possibly buried deep beneath the surface or perhaps a marker stone."

Other structures have been spotted on the Red Planet with speculation as to their origins and purpose.
David Martines was scanning Google Mars when he discovered the long white edifice and has even listed the coordinates (71 49'19.73"N 29 33'06.53"W) so others can see it for themselves.

Martines posted a video of the discovery on YouTube which was viewed more than 200,000 times. On the video, he named his discovery 'Bio-Station Alpha.'

"It's very unusual in that it's quite large, it's over 700 feet (210m) long and 150 feet (45m) wide. It looks like it's a cylinder or made up of cylinders. It could be a power station or it could be a biological containment or it could be a glorified garage — hope it's not a weapon."

He added: "I don't know if NASA even knows about this."

However, sceptical scientists discount such discoveries on Mars as Pareidolia - a psychological phenomenon when the eye is tricked by the brain into seeing, faces, animal shapes and other recognisable objects in patterns, rock formations and clouds.


From: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ufo-hunters-see-pyramid-nasa-image-mars-sparking-theories-it-was-built-by-ancient-1507635