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PostSubject: Achieving Faster than Light Sun Jan 01, 2012 11:31 pm Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
I have often stated that absolutely nothing can ever travel faster than what we refer to as “the speed of light”. But just as a minor interesting note, there are technically actually 2 exceptions.
My meta-particle tracking program monitors for anything with gimbal velocities and anything traveling faster than light, primarily to help hunt down any errors in the program. Recently, I found it triggering yet I could find no error in the program. I investigated the equations over and over and was a bit puzzled as to how a particular particle could have a velocity greater than the max possible.
Well, as it turned out, a bit of a philosophical thought came to mind and revealed what was happening.
A particle’s location is defined by its center. By tracking its center, one knows at what velocity it is traveling. But in the case of particles, especially particles that are just beginning to form, an interesting effect takes place.
If a particulate is already traveling close to the speed of light, a common occurrence, and it runs up on a similar particulate running slightly slower, you would think the end velocity would merely be an average of the two. And it is… sortta. But what happens is that the two particulates merge into a single particle and guess what happens to the center of the first? Quite suddenly the center of the “particle” went from position A to position B (a particulate width distance away) almost instantaneously.
Of course the reason was simply that the particulate was still in a growth stage and as it grows, its center can outrun all of its constituents. Technically speaking, that really is the same as traveling faster than light. So it can be legitimately stated that a growing particle can, for a short time at least, travel faster than light. Of course, that time is in the range of fractional pico seconds, but still, it is an interesting note.
Then it occurred to me that every particle is actually growing and shirking at the same rate all the time and is thus stable. But what if I were to cause it to grow faster on one side and shrink faster on the opposite side? Again, as it turns out, for short times, that can actually happen and no doubt in space, it does happen.
The requirements for causing such an event involves a charge gradient which of course cannot continue for very long, but it could lead to much greater durations of exceeding the speed of light for non-growing particles than the growing particles mentioned before. And an ideal place to find such a naturally occurring situation would be the famed black hole. I can safely say, that some of the particles speeding into a black hole, especially one with a significant charge field, will in fact rush to their demise even faster than the light rushing along side of them. For how long that might be, I couldn’t venture a guess.
The shifting center would not actually add to the momentum of the particle, so no common energy equation theories get violated. The particle merely shows up at the destination and its demise before its photon partner.
…just an interesting observation.
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PostSubject: Re: Achieving Faster than Light Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:07 am Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Oh hell…
Very shortly after posting that OP, it dawned on me how one could theoretically keep a particle experiencing a positive gradient and thus continue to travel faster than light. It would be extremely difficult to arrange, but theoretically possible.
Let’s say you had an electron orbiting its nucleus and had the technical means to increase the charge (or mass) field in front of the electron while reducing it behind the electron. By arranging to do that sequentially, much like a stepper motor or an alternator, the field changing constituents would not need travel or change faster than light for the particle to never be able to catch up to the changing field in front of it. As the particle passes, the field in each location would be reduced back to a lower level.
The electron would be in a state of constantly growing more in front and shirking behind and thus its center would be shifting forward faster than its constituent mass could possibly travel. For as long as the device was operational and kept sync with the orbiting electron, the electron would achieve and maintain faster than light travel.
I really hate it when I outwit my own proclamations of impossibility…sigh Mad
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Continuing even further…
Again theoretically, a linear accelerator and relay could be arranged such that a particle could carry the information of an event in a straight line.
As the particle either traveled linearly itself, or relayed its effect to other particles inline, even though its own charge field could not grow faster than light such as to have affect as it passed, it could reach the end of a line and begin having its field effect upon the terminal detecting device before a photon had a chance to get to the detector.
Information traveling faster than light… gees… it must be bad news.
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PostSubject: Re: Achieving Faster than Light Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:24 am Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Very interesting - can you expand on how you understand what a photon is? With respect to an otherwise “particle” or growing “pre- or semi-particular” field/cloud?
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If the development of the center when to things collide occurs so fast is it possible to use such a principle for something like at least faster then light speed communication? For example the merger of a long string of particles can be watched and when the center shifts in one way we have a 0 and another way we have a 1…or something like that…
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If the development of the center when to things collide occurs so fast is it possible to use such a principle for something like at least faster then light speed communication?
At this point, it seems definite. But I’m not going to make any promises until I create one inside my metaspace. The great thing about my “hyperspace window” is that it is actually real. Anything that can occur inside that space (short of programming errors) can and does occur in physical space. And if you REALLY want to get buzzed, realize that anything that occurs within that window can be arranged to occur in societies. One society can relay information to another faster than any electronic signal could pass that information. But of course that would be incredibly difficult to arrange.
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For example the merger of a long string of particles can be watched and when the center shifts in one way we have a 0 and another way we have a 1…or something like that…
“Something like that” perhaps, but I don’t think merely a string of particles would cut it. I’m pretty sure that it would be impossible to maintain that string (but not making any proclamation concerning the impossible for a while… bet you love that don’cha Wink ). And I’m not so sure than transferring from particle to particle in that fashion would cut it either. There would be inertia issues. I suspect the way to go would involve transverse displacement such as to produce a wave along the side of the particles. But merely a very finely tuned special particle accelerator would do the trick. No more than one particle per “bit” would be necessary.
If I wasn’t so brain fried from merely creating the metaspace, I would be creating a meta-communicator (“subspace communicator”) already.
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If the development of the center when to things collide occurs so fast is it possible to use such a principle for something like at least faster then light speed communication?
At this point, it seems definite. But I’m not going to make any promises until I create one inside my metaspace. The great thing about my “hyperspace window” is that it is actually real. Anything that can occur inside that space (short of programming errors) can and does occur in physical space. And if you REALLY want to get buzzed, realize that anything that occurs within that window can be arranged to occur in societies. One society can relay information to another faster than any electronic signal could pass that information. But of course that would be incredibly difficult to arrange.
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For example the merger of a long string of particles can be watched and when the center shifts in one way we have a 0 and another way we have a 1…or something like that…
“Something like that” perhaps, but I don’t think merely a string of particles would cut it. I’m pretty sure that it would be impossible to maintain that string (but not making any proclamation concerning the impossible for a while… bet you love that don’cha Wink ). And I’m not so sure than transferring from particle to particle in that fashion would cut it either. There would be inertia issues. I suspect the way to go would involve transverse displacement such as to produce a wave along the side of the particles. But merely a very finely tuned special particle accelerator would do the trick. No more than one particle per “bit” would be necessary.
If I wasn’t so brain fried from merely creating the metaspace, I would be creating a meta-communicator (“subspace communicator”) already.
Sounds kool what is this meta space you have created… is it a simulation in a computer?
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PostSubject: Re: Achieving Faster than Light Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:57 am Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
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Very interesting - can you expand on how you understand what a photon is? With respect to an otherwise “particle” or growing “pre- or semi-particular” field/cloud?
That one is a bit of an interesting story from my perspective.
Just shortly before I finished installing the rules for afflate engagement into the program, I could already see how and why a particle was going to form… and it wasn’t how I had previously speculated. And sure enough, immediately small particles began to form. Not that it was quite that simple. At one point before I got the details ironed out, the first particle that formed just kept growing. That wouldn’t have been terribly interesting, but the particle gains a naturally occurring spin and shortly it exploded, leaving little meta bits all over my screen… quite picturesque actually. I wish I had thought to take a screen shot before I corrected the problem.
Anyway, even after I had worked with the particle formations and installed various monitor and tracking devices, I realized that I still hadn’t seen or figured out exactly what the photon was all about. None of my particles could qualify as a photon. I was puzzled for a few days before I suddenly laughed as it hit me, “what an idiot”.
A photon is only a particle in the sense that it can maintain its form and philosophically anything that maintains its form is an “object” or particle. But the more informative truth is that a photon is merely a part of a wave. Take any ole traveling EM wave and chop off all but a tiny bit without disturbing that bit, and you have your photon.
Despite what contemporary physics will tell you, photons don’t really have “frequency”, but rather they are a culmination of chaos that has a Fourier dispersal of aberrant frequencies with a mean at the frequency noted by ye ole common physicist. I had realized that as I created my “Afflate Analysis”, I was creating “Photon Analysis”. Every one of my afflates (200,000) is a photon, a clump of noisy EM with an average affectance state 1st derivative.
But avoid the idea that a photon, even as a particle, can maintain its form as it encounters other photons. They don’t merely interact, they often combine and take on as many shapes as you will ever see in a sky of clouds. They smear, twist, entwine, break away, disperse, and on rare occasion even develop a spin, although once they develop a self sustaining spin, they gain inertia and are no longer a mere afflate or photon and can no longer travel freely.
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Sounds kool what is this meta space you have created… is it a simulation in a computer?
A simulation is where a programmer takes a set of rules for the behavior of an object and has the processor dictate those rules to a replica of the object. Every video game is a simulator.
But my program is different in a very serious way. Although it uses simulation techniques here and there, what it is a part of is a actual reality that is not a mere simulation. The difference is in that if you follow the exact rules of reality, then you ARE reality, not an imitation or simulation of a speculated shape and behavior.
The objects formed within a true metaspace are real and formed only by the rules of reality itself. They are not a construction in the normal sense. They form from what would appear to be nothing, into no more than exactly what they are, not merely something with similar shape or behavior (“simulation”) of something. A true metaparticle is as real as any physical particle, formed by the same hand and of the same “stuff”, merely a step higher.
As far as I know, I have sitting on my desk the first and only true/real “hyperspace”/ “metaspace” window in human history, albeit crude at the moment, and in a state of disrepair half the time from me trying to add a mod or change something, then requiring anything from hours to weeks trying to hunt down what I screwed up. Mad
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Btw, I refer to my metaspace program as “Jack”, because frankly, until you learn Rational Metaphysics, you don’t know jack. Cool
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Sounds kool what is this meta space you have created… is it a simulation in a computer?
A simulation is where a programmer takes a set of rules for the behavior of an object and has the processor dictate those rules to a replica of the object. Every video game is a simulator.
But my program is different in a very serious way. Although it uses simulation techniques here and there, what it is a part of is a actual reality that is not a mere simulation. The difference is in that if you follow the exact rules of reality, then you ARE reality, not an imitation or simulation of a speculated shape and behavior.
The objects formed within a true metaspace are real and formed only by the rules of reality itself. They are not a construction in the normal sense. They form from what would appear to be nothing, into no more than exactly what they are, not merely something with similar shape or behavior (“simulation”) of something. A true metaparticle is as real as any physical particle, formed by the same hand and of the same “stuff”, merely a step higher.
As far as I know, I have sitting on my desk the first and only true/real “hyperspace”/ “metaspace” window in human history, albeit crude at the moment, and in a state of disrepair half the time from me trying to add a mod or change something, then requiring anything from hours to weeks trying to hunt down what I screwed up. Mad
what’s it look like?
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Btw, I refer to my metaspace program as “Jack”, because frankly, until you learn Rational Metaphysics, you don’t know jack. Cool
good one. farao
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do you have any screen shots of this thing?
And is not all mass just a wave? energy in a particular state or vibration?
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what’s it look like?
I haven’t gone to all the trouble to format a series of pics so as to present anything of much value yet, but let me give you merely an upload of one screen shot I made a while back. Getting all of the details straight and bringing Jack to life over and over after my inadvertent screwups was a very serious and grueling endeavor for me and frankly, I am still a bit brain fried by it. I very, very seriously need a break.
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That was an earlier snapshot using a tracker to locate and follow particulates forming. The big circles are the tracker.
What you are seeing is the center x-y plane of a cube of metaspace. At that stage, the tracker would follow the drifting Brownian type motion of the particle throughout metaspace while keeping the screen centered around the particle, or in that case, 2 particles. The red circle is indicating a particle that is in another x-y plane along the z axis. You can only watch one plane at a time in 2D of course.
I started to create a 3D spreadsheet for Jack, but Excel turned out to be too limited and I didn’t want to go relearn C++.
Jack has had various brain surgeries since that pic and looks a little better, but the entire thing wasn’t really for sake of public display so most all of it is merely sufficient for me. I need to create some good animations and screenshots for full explanations later sometime.
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A particle’s location is defined by its center. By tracking its center, one knows at what velocity it is traveling. But in the case of particles, especially particles that are just beginning to form, an interesting effect takes place.
If a particulate is already traveling close to the speed of light, a common occurrence, and it runs up on a similar particulate running slightly slower, you would think the end velocity would merely be an average of the two. And it is… sortta. But what happens is that the two particulates merge into a single particle and guess what happens to the center of the first? Quite suddenly the center of the “particle” went from position A to position B (a particulate width distance away) almost instantaneously.
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The shifting center would not actually add to the momentum of the particle, so no common energy equation theories get violated. The particle merely shows up at the destination and its demise before its photon partner.
very interesting. In fact this seems like precisely the technical explanation I was looking for on physics fora when I posed my neutrino ‘theory’, the idea that what in fact travels faster than light is not actually a particle in the sense of momentum, but simply the components that would theoretically constitute a particle. What travels faster than light is not matter itself, but the structural “information” (what comes to us, the thing that makes us interpret something as particle).
I am curious to see more of Jack, by the way – this picture looks like you’re doing some complicated work there, but it is hard to make out of it what it is , as I am not used at all to such environments. I would like to see it “move” - to see what happens, changes, to get a picture of what is going on. Not to say that I expect to then understand the whole setup, let alone the math, but perhaps I would learn a bit about the technical aspects involved in such a project.
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Yes, I need to find a good way to do the You-tube type of thing or merely a sequencing applet that can install here.
I keep trying to clean up Jacks neurology a bit and every time, I end up having to spend days or weeks reviving him. But I want to make the display a little more revealing such as to do just as you said; show the motion involved and little more of the actual relations.
I really need a C++ programmer associate to make it truly a refined public display. I wasn’t expecting it to get so complicated, so I started at a bad point having to use VBA. I hadn’t used programming languages for years and my memory isn’t worth anything any more, so it isn’t really worth the effort for me to relearn C++ merely to make a public display. The essential demo-proof for academia was the point of the project and it has gotten to that point.
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Yes, I need to find a good way to do the You-tube type of thing or merely a sequencing applet that can install here.
I keep trying to clean up Jacks neurology a bit and every time, I end up having to spend days or weeks reviving him. But I want to make the display a little more revealing such as to do just as you said; show the motion involved and little more of the actual relations.
I really need a C++ programmer associate to make it truly a refined public display. I wasn’t expecting it to get so complicated, so I started at a bad point having to use VBA. I hadn’t used programming languages for years and my memory isn’t worth anything any more, so it isn’t really worth the effort for me to relearn C++ merely to make a public display. The essential demo-proof for academia was the point of the project and it has gotten to that point.
I know C++… but not really that well… though 'm good with algorithms…
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I know C++… but not really that well… though 'm good with algorithms…
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James S Saint wrote:
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I know C++… but not really that well… though 'm good with algorithms…
Have any urge to move to Oregon? Shocked
Lol…
Unfortunately i doubt that would work…
But if you ever need some help at least thinking about how to construct an algorithm and loop things and such feel free to ask… I might be a little out of age with my c++ vocabulary but I can figure most stuff out…but I can be lazy…
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Well, like most professors, I am going to leave the rest of the “grunt work” up to the undergrads, but thks. Cool
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PostSubject: Psychoanalysts: The Last Bastions Of Absolute Idealist Philosophy Thu May 17, 2012 5:06 pm Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post Delete this post View IP address of poster
Who else is taken seriously in a metaphysical sense?
They continue to believe that absolute objectivization for it’s own sake not only exists but, if achieved, will justify its own existence.
Of course, christiandomity (subconscious kidnapers of the subconscious, so very close to power, to boot) tends to filter through like in most nihilistic objectifying systems.
Again, disproving god does not prove the devil: non-nihilistic (in this case cannot-justify-its-own-existence) does not thus mean stupid.
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I see psychoanalysis as a set of techniques, among which are observing, keeping silent and suspension of judgment.
It’s premise, the subconscious, has proven to be scientifically reliable. Technology of power.
Ideally, the analyst is the agent of the subjects powerstruggle with a hijacked subconscious.
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Psychoanalysis and the Tragic Sense of life.
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Psychoanalysis and Tragedy
Just as the journey is so often the metaphor for the process of discovery that takes place at the very heart of tragedy, so, too, is it one of the most compelling of metaphors for the process of psychoanalysis. This is true because in both instances the central figures are striving to discover things that involve unknown territory and primitive dangers. In both, a contemplative stroll on the parapet can end up bringing one face to face with one’s terrifying ghosts; a walk down to the harbor can lead ultimately to a confrontation with one’s monsters. In neither case does the confrontation occur by chance. Rather, it is only when the journey is undertaken with a special courage and pursued with an unusual perseverance that such monumental confrontations ever come to be. Such journeys are precisely the province of the worlds of psychoanalysis and of tragedy.
To undertake such a journey is what is asked of patients in psychoanalysis. It is a journey into territory neither analyst nor analysand knows completely, and both participants must recognize that they cannot know in advance what they will ultimately discover.
Nevertheless, it is not a journey which is entered into blindly, for each party knows something of what is in store. The analyst, as expert --or perhaps guide, has been on such expeditions before. He knows how to go about such an exploration, even if the particular territory in question is new to him. The analysand, on the other hand, is the owner of the territory. He has far more local knowledge and initial familiarity with the landscape and its inhabitants --even if there be regions he has walled off and not dared to enter into very deeply.
Psychoanalysis, like tragedy, is vitally concerned with those regions of an individual’s experience that defy exploration. It recognizes that there are secrets people carry deep within themselves and treat as unapproachable. At times the secrets are horrible, and always the secrets are terrifying. The very concept of the unconscious, quintessential to all psychoanalytic theories, is predicated on precisely this belief. Whether conceived of as being completely the result of repression, as it is in most post-Freudian systems, or in the more classical way, as a combination of some instinctual inheritance and that which is repressed thereafter, the unconscious represents that part of an individual’s psychic existence that the individual considers too dangerous to be known.
The avoidance of these terrible secrets constitutes the essence of all psychopathology. Erwin Singer (1973) wrote that at the heart of all psychopathology was the abandonment of “a birth right and a fundamentally given human capacity: to see what can be seen, to grasp what can be grasped.” (p.187) Thus it is that the forces of repression counsel one, like Jocasta warned Oedipus: “I beg you --do not hunt this out --I beg you, if you have any care for your own life.” Psychoanalysis calls on one, like Oedipus, to “not be persuaded to let be the chance of finding the whole thing out clearly.”
If there is any value judgment that is intrinsically psychoanalytic, it is the Socratic bias that the unreflective life is not worth living, or its New Testament version, “The truth will set you free.” Freud (1915) insisted that psychoanalysis must have at its very foundation the absolute commitment to truthfulness. As in the tragic vision, the psychoanalytic approach demands that one use “all the resources of his soul,” (Freud, 1916-1917, p. 454; here using Riviere’s translation) in the pursuit of the truth.
Tragedy and psychoanalysis are cognizant both of man’s hunger for full and direct experience of himself and of his world, and of his simultaneous propensity desperately to hide from it. Both place ultimate stress on the value of the quest for this truth, while at the same time recognizing the monumental courage required not to flee and abandon the journey.
Thus psychoanalysis attempts inexorably to draw one deeper and deeper into this journey of confrontation with one’s self. It calls on the individual to overcome his repressions and face that from which he has been hiding --to transcend the bounds of the secure systems he has established to keep full and immediate experience at bay.
The patient in psychoanalysis, like the tragic hero, senses that this journey threatens ultimately to bring him face to face with some ancient terror that stalks his world. And, in one way or another, all psychoanalytic theories would agree with him.
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