Monday, May 3, 2010
Figment Proposal
This is a proposal for figment. It is meant to be considered as a sketch. The gears are used to spin around a central axis. The theory is that this central rotational energy (???) will produce rotation of the the arms. You spin it manually, and then try and sink it into the hole without getting hit by the vortex. It is obviously dangerous, becuase I have no idea where the golf ball will fly off to.
I have no idea if this will work - I also plan on making a version that has lights and is not a golf hole.
Oh and PS - I must credit the Music. it is from the Akira soundtrack. The song is "Dollhouse Polyphony"
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
The Theory of Everything
My current art project
I will attempt to explain things simply. To begin with, forget everything you "think" you understand about science. Most of what you know is Ptolemaic in nature. There is no such thing as gravity. There are no such things as protons neutrons or electrons - no quarks - and no gravitons. Only "stuff" that is infinitely dividable into self similar parts. This "stuff" has spin - either clockwise, or counterclockwise. But the spin is a bit more complicated than it sounds. It is a system that involves the vortex. We understand fractals only in the context of shapes - and forget that it is the underlying systems that generate the shapes. It is the system of the vortex that is the fractal system explaining the universe.
I will attempt to explain things simply. To begin with, forget everything you "think" you understand about science. Most of what you know is Ptolemaic in nature. There is no such thing as gravity. There are no such things as protons neutrons or electrons - no quarks - and no gravitons. Only "stuff" that is infinitely dividable into self similar parts. This "stuff" has spin - either clockwise, or counterclockwise. But the spin is a bit more complicated than it sounds. It is a system that involves the vortex. We understand fractals only in the context of shapes - and forget that it is the underlying systems that generate the shapes. It is the system of the vortex that is the fractal system explaining the universe.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
Goodbye Rome
Looking back, I was a dullard in collage. Actually I’ve been a dullard much of my life. But no more, so its okay now. and its this new perspective on life that allows me to understand how much of a dullard I was…of course, it is only a matter of perspective. Afterall, maybe now I am even more of a dullard that I was before – certainly less sane of course.
Lately, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the underlying theory behind the purpose of running a national deficit. In collage, I majored in economics, of all things, and I recall the phrase “a debtor nation is a better nation,” and while I don’t recall the logic behind this rhyme, I remember there was one. The theory being running a deficit makes us a stronger country.
I realize now looking back that pretty much the whole of college involved very little critical thinking. It was about just getting the answers and hitting the marks. Conditioning. But that’s the system. There is no dissenting viewpoint presented, so what is presented as fact, and you are not asked to question anything. My Civil war History class was the only one that challenged me to think. At the time it made me a little uncomfortable, but I didn’t understand why. Now I do.
Like I said, at the time I was a dullard. Now I am not. But the larger point was that I wasn’t alone, in fact, EVERYONE was the same way. Mindless drones. Chomsky is right when he says the Educated are the most indoctrinated. And I state that as a previous member of the indoctrinated.
So looking back, I realize how ludicrous a proposition that was. The type of power that provided on the scale of society is similar to that of the sweaty balding guy at the strip club in order to get attention from the strippers. And as far as the individual is concerned within the context of the larger hole, it really is running up a bill and leaving it for your children to pay. Morpheus was fucking right when he said that we are borne into a cage that we cannot touch, see, or smell. We are born owing money, not to the government, but to banks, in the form of interest payments.
This isn’t about the recent federal bailout of the financial system; it only caused my awareness to spike. The very system is not only corrupt it is unsustainable. And it is because we have created a nation of dullards, and we are so far gone that for most, the inability to even consider this as a possible truth, in part or whole, is evidence. “America is Great!” - “Freedom!” blablabla. Can you be more indoctrinated? If you take a serious look at the history of the United (and not the one you were taught in high school. Don’t fucking kid yourself that what is going on in Texas right now is an isolated incident) you will find it hard to take such statements seriously/ But America is nothing special, this is the history of ALL nations, with the same story lines of the struggle for control between the individual and the institutions. The story is always the same.
Rome is burning my friends, and I don’t think there is anything I can do to stop it, so I am going to stock up on graham crackers, marshmallows, and chocolate bars and make smores and sing and dance and laugh and play while Rome burns. You did this. You did this.
Lately, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the underlying theory behind the purpose of running a national deficit. In collage, I majored in economics, of all things, and I recall the phrase “a debtor nation is a better nation,” and while I don’t recall the logic behind this rhyme, I remember there was one. The theory being running a deficit makes us a stronger country.
I realize now looking back that pretty much the whole of college involved very little critical thinking. It was about just getting the answers and hitting the marks. Conditioning. But that’s the system. There is no dissenting viewpoint presented, so what is presented as fact, and you are not asked to question anything. My Civil war History class was the only one that challenged me to think. At the time it made me a little uncomfortable, but I didn’t understand why. Now I do.
Like I said, at the time I was a dullard. Now I am not. But the larger point was that I wasn’t alone, in fact, EVERYONE was the same way. Mindless drones. Chomsky is right when he says the Educated are the most indoctrinated. And I state that as a previous member of the indoctrinated.
So looking back, I realize how ludicrous a proposition that was. The type of power that provided on the scale of society is similar to that of the sweaty balding guy at the strip club in order to get attention from the strippers. And as far as the individual is concerned within the context of the larger hole, it really is running up a bill and leaving it for your children to pay. Morpheus was fucking right when he said that we are borne into a cage that we cannot touch, see, or smell. We are born owing money, not to the government, but to banks, in the form of interest payments.
This isn’t about the recent federal bailout of the financial system; it only caused my awareness to spike. The very system is not only corrupt it is unsustainable. And it is because we have created a nation of dullards, and we are so far gone that for most, the inability to even consider this as a possible truth, in part or whole, is evidence. “America is Great!” - “Freedom!” blablabla. Can you be more indoctrinated? If you take a serious look at the history of the United (and not the one you were taught in high school. Don’t fucking kid yourself that what is going on in Texas right now is an isolated incident) you will find it hard to take such statements seriously/ But America is nothing special, this is the history of ALL nations, with the same story lines of the struggle for control between the individual and the institutions. The story is always the same.
Rome is burning my friends, and I don’t think there is anything I can do to stop it, so I am going to stock up on graham crackers, marshmallows, and chocolate bars and make smores and sing and dance and laugh and play while Rome burns. You did this. You did this.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Does Gravity Really Exist?
INTRODUCTION
I can't believe that I'm the only one out there that has this question...and I am completely serious. Now I'm not saying there is some grand illusion going on, and that we are being deceived into believing what goes up must come down. What I am saying that what we believe to be gravity, is actually something else entirely. And that something else is magnetism - and what holds us to the earth is not this thing called gravity, but magnetism.
GRAVITY
Let us first think about what we know about gravity. we know it exists because of its effect on large objects in space, that attract each other. but any physicist will tell you that we don't know anything beyond that. In fact, this is the purpose of the Hadron super collider that has recently begun on and off operations. This multi-billion dollar facility was constructed with a central goal in mind - to find evidence of "the gravaton," which, according to string theory is a vibrating string. By smashing high energy protons, together and measuring the release of energy, they hope that they will find a loss of energy. this loss of energy they will say is proof that the gravaton existed, and that it is now in another dimension.
MAGNETISM
Most of what we understand about magnetism comes from the standard 2 dimensional diagram of North/South poles showing field lines. Many of us can also understand and visualize the doughnut shaped magnetic field of earth. as well and this makes sense.
But its what is really going on at the subatomic level that creates larger magnetic fields. In 1910 the Einstein-de Haas effect was the observation of a relationship between angular momentum and the spin of elementary particles.
The diagram of the magnet showing "+" and "-" on either ends is wrong. the electrons don't group up at one end at all. What is happening, is all the elementary particles are rotating - and they aren't just rotating like a compass in a 2-dimensional way - they are rotating as spheres around multiple axis. and its the alignment of the spins that creates polarization. Its not a grouping of these two things at either end, its the same material, all facing the same way.
In addition to angular movement, linear movement creates a magnetic field - here we call it an electromagnetic field. It is this movement that makes electric motors possible.
One explanation for the earths magnetic field is know as the dynamo theory. It describes the process of convection of our outer core as the process behind the field.
EINSTEINS THEORY.
Einstein believed that there was this one fabric called space time, which acts like an elastic 2-dimensional surface. We are all familiar with animation of earth sitting on a trampoline and the moon rolling around on that same surface. And we can even visualize this idea within the context of our solar system, and maybe even galaxy. But when I look at the famous images of our universe taken by hubble, we see all these galaxies resting on these surfaces that are turned which way and that, breaks down for me.
Is there one continuous surface that is crumbled into a 3 dimensional space? According to Einstein, it is the mass that creates the warping of this 2-dimensional plane. But what causes the orientation of the plane itself? what creates the axis of rotation for that center of gravity.
Could it be that what is warping the space IS the rotation that causes the magnetic field? Its seems a much simpler explanation than einstein.
2D vs 3D
One of the main sources of confusion I think has to do with our understanding rooted in 2 dimensional diagrams. For example, when we talk about light waves, and sound waves, with think of of them 2-dimensionally, looking at it from the side - an elevation, as it were. this wavelenght has an amplitude and frequency.
However, if you begin to think of this wavelenght existing in the 3-dimensional world, you will get something quite different. Imagine, taking that 2-dimensional piece of paper, rotate it 90 degrees and look straight AT the light wave. What do you think it will look like? will it stay in the 2 dimensional world, and appear as a line going up and down?
or perhaps you will begin to see a rotating coil with a radius and a rate of rotation in place of amplitude and frequency. A very simple real world way of visualizing this by holding a string at either end and twirling it in such a way that you get multiple "bulges". If you are able to look at this directly from the side, it will look like a 2-dimensional understanding of a wave.
Another example would be dropping a stone into still water. Its the assumption that the resultant waves rippling out are concentric circles. But could it be something different entirely? Could the ripples be a spiral rotating outwards?
Take our earths magnetic field. its based mostly on a 2-dimensional model of a magnet with lines of force. Essentially, this is what is known as a section. we have sliced the world in half along the axis. But what would happen if we were to slice along the hemisphere. might we find a single continuous surface, spiraling outward?
FRACTALS + FIBBONOCCI + SACRED GEOMETRY
There does seem to be this organization of the physical world that follows our understanding of these concepts. We keep looking for the mathematical explanation of the universe - a single unified theory. E = mc^2. But why is it so strange that we would use geometry to help explain those laws. It seems as though a language of geometry (something 3-dimensional itself) could provide a much better representation of the world around us.
Perhaps if we at least start here. If we examine how these ideas manifest themselves in the world around us, we can then extrapolate into the unknown.
HISTORY
this is something I want to understand better, both in the formation of our understanding of gravity, and magnetic theory.
I can't believe that I'm the only one out there that has this question...and I am completely serious. Now I'm not saying there is some grand illusion going on, and that we are being deceived into believing what goes up must come down. What I am saying that what we believe to be gravity, is actually something else entirely. And that something else is magnetism - and what holds us to the earth is not this thing called gravity, but magnetism.
GRAVITY
Let us first think about what we know about gravity. we know it exists because of its effect on large objects in space, that attract each other. but any physicist will tell you that we don't know anything beyond that. In fact, this is the purpose of the Hadron super collider that has recently begun on and off operations. This multi-billion dollar facility was constructed with a central goal in mind - to find evidence of "the gravaton," which, according to string theory is a vibrating string. By smashing high energy protons, together and measuring the release of energy, they hope that they will find a loss of energy. this loss of energy they will say is proof that the gravaton existed, and that it is now in another dimension.
MAGNETISM
Most of what we understand about magnetism comes from the standard 2 dimensional diagram of North/South poles showing field lines. Many of us can also understand and visualize the doughnut shaped magnetic field of earth. as well and this makes sense.
But its what is really going on at the subatomic level that creates larger magnetic fields. In 1910 the Einstein-de Haas effect was the observation of a relationship between angular momentum and the spin of elementary particles.
The diagram of the magnet showing "+" and "-" on either ends is wrong. the electrons don't group up at one end at all. What is happening, is all the elementary particles are rotating - and they aren't just rotating like a compass in a 2-dimensional way - they are rotating as spheres around multiple axis. and its the alignment of the spins that creates polarization. Its not a grouping of these two things at either end, its the same material, all facing the same way.
In addition to angular movement, linear movement creates a magnetic field - here we call it an electromagnetic field. It is this movement that makes electric motors possible.
One explanation for the earths magnetic field is know as the dynamo theory. It describes the process of convection of our outer core as the process behind the field.
EINSTEINS THEORY.
Einstein believed that there was this one fabric called space time, which acts like an elastic 2-dimensional surface. We are all familiar with animation of earth sitting on a trampoline and the moon rolling around on that same surface. And we can even visualize this idea within the context of our solar system, and maybe even galaxy. But when I look at the famous images of our universe taken by hubble, we see all these galaxies resting on these surfaces that are turned which way and that, breaks down for me.
Is there one continuous surface that is crumbled into a 3 dimensional space? According to Einstein, it is the mass that creates the warping of this 2-dimensional plane. But what causes the orientation of the plane itself? what creates the axis of rotation for that center of gravity.
Could it be that what is warping the space IS the rotation that causes the magnetic field? Its seems a much simpler explanation than einstein.
2D vs 3D
One of the main sources of confusion I think has to do with our understanding rooted in 2 dimensional diagrams. For example, when we talk about light waves, and sound waves, with think of of them 2-dimensionally, looking at it from the side - an elevation, as it were. this wavelenght has an amplitude and frequency.
However, if you begin to think of this wavelenght existing in the 3-dimensional world, you will get something quite different. Imagine, taking that 2-dimensional piece of paper, rotate it 90 degrees and look straight AT the light wave. What do you think it will look like? will it stay in the 2 dimensional world, and appear as a line going up and down?
or perhaps you will begin to see a rotating coil with a radius and a rate of rotation in place of amplitude and frequency. A very simple real world way of visualizing this by holding a string at either end and twirling it in such a way that you get multiple "bulges". If you are able to look at this directly from the side, it will look like a 2-dimensional understanding of a wave.
Another example would be dropping a stone into still water. Its the assumption that the resultant waves rippling out are concentric circles. But could it be something different entirely? Could the ripples be a spiral rotating outwards?
Take our earths magnetic field. its based mostly on a 2-dimensional model of a magnet with lines of force. Essentially, this is what is known as a section. we have sliced the world in half along the axis. But what would happen if we were to slice along the hemisphere. might we find a single continuous surface, spiraling outward?
FRACTALS + FIBBONOCCI + SACRED GEOMETRY
There does seem to be this organization of the physical world that follows our understanding of these concepts. We keep looking for the mathematical explanation of the universe - a single unified theory. E = mc^2. But why is it so strange that we would use geometry to help explain those laws. It seems as though a language of geometry (something 3-dimensional itself) could provide a much better representation of the world around us.
Perhaps if we at least start here. If we examine how these ideas manifest themselves in the world around us, we can then extrapolate into the unknown.
HISTORY
this is something I want to understand better, both in the formation of our understanding of gravity, and magnetic theory.
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