The Time Traveler's Compass

Time travel has many perils, not the least of which involves becoming lost in space-time. Central to the concept of navigating the fourth dimension (within the perspective of MWI cosmology) is the understanding that one must travel through the dimension which lies directly above our desired destination. As three-dimensional beings (remember, we cast two-dimensional shadows) we must ascend into the fourth dimension in order to achieve the reorientation required by the laws of our universe (directly derived from the initial conditions present at the formation of our universe.) 

In order to travel through the fourth dimension, we must obtain some kind of satisfactory conveyance, a time machine. Ideally, this temporal conveyance device would allow one to remain tethered to an adjusted anchor point within the three-dimensional space (exact point of origin) or else allow for one's return to a similar point of origin within that same three-dimensional space. 

Indeed in many cases, the latter would be beneficial and the former might prove devastating to any would-be time travelers. 

If one were to somehow remain anchored to one's exact location in three-dimensional space whilst traveling forward into time, the best-case scenario would be that one would become marooned in outer space. This becomes evident when one remembers that the exact point of origin (currently located safely on the surface of Earth) would soon move as Earth orbits the Sun and moves further still as it rotates. The entire solar system and everything in it would also be orbiting further distant objects with ever-increasing mass. The entire Milky Way galaxy rotates about a central hub (Galactic central point) some 26,000ly away. At the center of our beautiful, if unremarkable galaxy is a supermassive black hole, about 4 million times the mass of our own sun (Sol.) 

Even an adjusted anchor point (if possible) could prove deadly if surface changes occurred during travel. We understand that two objects cannot effectively occupy the same three-dimensional space at the same time. Given humanity's persistent trend to build upon the Earth's surface, a new building inserted into the exact point of origin would become a fatal obstacle for any living inhabitants suddenly fused into walls, beams, or solid surfaces.

Travel backward into history could also prove fatal if calculations do not adequately predict the exact location of objects within the conveyance's pathway. Arriving at one's correct adjusted point of origin in the past (2 million years ago) only to killed by being partially fused into a 200 ft tall prehistoric canopy tree is not an example of successful time travel, is it? 

Further danger to craft or crew could arise if calculations are incorrect or do not effectively map out changes in Earth's changing topography. An error of this type could cause a craft to emerge at its "correct" destination, but hundreds or thousands of feet above the Earth's surface, or fused into the bedrock hundreds of feet below ground.

The resulting obstruction in either example could not be called a "collision" as a collision, by its very nature implies a real-time interaction of two or more bodies in motion, bound by the rules of the second law of thermodynamics. A temporal fusion event would likely release energy, light, gravitational waves, and unique subatomic signatures. Think of it as a trainwreck that takes place on a quantum scale. Temporal obstacles as well as any associated travelers would be irretrievably altered by these fusion events. If by some miracle a traveler were to survive such an event, they would be trapped at their new location in space-time without a functional device to get them back.  

It is likely that these subatomic signatures and gravitational waves would be detected in parallel universes which interact with our own. While it is unknown exactly how much energy would be released by a temporal fusion event, it may be similar to a tiny nuclear explosion. Production of novel subatomic particles (as are routinely generated by the LHC at CERN) would almost certainly occur. 

In order to effectively navigate the fourth dimension (time) it is necessary to avoid catastrophic fusion events by mapping out various pathways prior to travel. 

In order to arrive at an exact point in space-time, it is first necessary to accurately measure one's travel through the fourth dimension. A clock that measures movement through time, based on units of measurement at the Planck scale would be essential. Planck time is defined as the distance that it takes for a photon to travel one Planck length. An advanced quantum computer onboard the craft would first measure the rate of travel through the fourth dimension at baseline (resting at the point of origin.) On-board gyroscopes would feed telemetry data to the computer and provide for real-time adjustments and course correction if necessary. 

In order to maintain certainty that the craft emerges within the correct universe, it would be necessary to perform several diagnostic tests prior to travel and upon arrival. One such test might include measuring the values of certain mathematical constants, like Pi. Measuring the value of Pi to a certain number of decimal places might help one to confirm if one had inadvertently crossed into a parallel universe with significantly different initial conditions, though that might be immediately obvious if the differences were highly significant.

Bit 2 It

"An idea that is not dangerous, is unworthy of being called an idea at all."  - Oscar Wilde

In an earlier post, Simulism: The Science of Holodecks, and again in Ammonia Avenue, we briefly discussed the concept of Universe building and Nick Bostrom's theory of Simulism. Let's unpack these concepts a bit more and explore some of their implications.

First, we must dive headfirst into physicist Max Tegmark's research into the mathematical universe hypothesis (MUH) and the computable universe hypothesis (CUH). To say that the universe is mathematical is not a controversial statement. To say that the universe is a real-time expression of mathematic functions, giving rise to the illusory phenomena we call reality is a horse of a different color. The implications of the MUH are indeed staggering. 

D-Wave system quantum computer (QC). The D-Wave 2000Q has 2,000 quantum bits. NOTE: While this is technically a quantum computer, it is not the kind of device described in this article.

Assuming the validity of the Church-Turing-Deutsch hypothesis (CTD), it can be stated that the universe is a computable system (as long as quantum physics can accurately describe every physical process.) So far it appears that the former statement is indeed true. Given a sufficiently advanced quantum computer (QC) (or QC network) and a device that could effectively simulate all processes within the universe, it should be possible to predict a nearly infinite number of pathways into the future and decode the past. Furthermore, with sufficient power available (and the technology required to control it) that same system should be able to edit the universe in real-time, create a restore point or recreate an entire copy of the universe at any point in time and with any particular set of values (this is largely tied to the laws of nature; ie Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Mathematics, which is also tied to the initial conditions which existed as the universe was formed.)

Black Holes: Nature's End

         Artistic representation of a black hole contorting space-time around itself.   

The black hole is a riddle wrapped in a mystery, enshrouded by utter darkness. Apart from Hawking radiation, nothing ever escapes from a black hole. 

Karl Schwarzchild, a German astronomer and physicist (1915.) Sadly, Dr.Schwarzchild died (May 11th, 1916) due to an autoimmune disease (pemphigus) and infections sustained while on the Russian front in World War I. 

Karl Schwarzchild first described the nature of black holes (then a theoretical concept) using Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity in 1916. He was in a fox hole being bombed by allied artillery fire when he first penned a letter to Albert Einstein describing the exact solution to Einstein's field equations of general relativity, for the limited case of a single spherical non-rotating mass. The term " black hole" was coined by American astronomer and physicist John Wheeler in 1967. Four years later the first black hole was discovered by astronomers at the US Naval Research Lab, in New Mexico (1971.) 

Image rendered by Dr. Katie Bouman's team at MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab, April, 10th 2019.

Computer scientist Katie Bouman led the research team that used the Event Horizon Telescope to capture an image of the black hole at the center of M87. It took 10 days to scan the 40 million km three-dimensional hole. Dr. Bouman's computer algorithm made it possible for the translation of that scan into an image.

Recent research into Dr. Stephen Hawking's prediction of radiation slowly eating away at black holes (termed Hawking radiation in honor of the late scientist) confirms the existence (under special laboratory conditions) of Hawking radiation via a black hole analog using sound waves and a Bose-Einstein condensate.

Magneto-optical trap (MOT), used to produce Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) at Pomona College, Claremont, CA. 

Whitaker Lab at Pomona College (an all-undergraduate community college) first cooled system atoms to a few hundred micro Kelvin using laser diodes. Atoms are then collected in their magneto-optical trap (MOT) and further cooled using a CO2laser (affectionately named, "Bernie")  to a staggering <1 Micro Kelvin, then a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) forms. 

Computer-generated graphic showing the formation of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in (3) successive snap-shots. Rubidium atoms cooled to 170 billionths of a degree above absolute zero begin to fuse into one "super atom" acting in unison.

Jeff Steinhouer and his colleagues at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa used a BEC to model the event horizon of a black hole. An event horizon is the invisible boundary line from which nothing can ever escape. In a flowing stream of extremely cold gas, they simulated a cliff and measured the rate at which it fell. The researchers then used phonons (quantum sound waves) like a tiny paper boat floating over a waterfall to measure the behavior of this system. Phonons were accelerated by the surging BEC at speeds in excess of the speed of sound. So it was apparent why objects which fall into an event horizon can never escape, as inertia carries them much faster than they could ever be accelerated out of its path.  

Origins:

Form follows function,
Function follows necessity,
Necessity follows pattern,
Pattern follows potential,
Potential follows initial conditions,
initial conditions follow source emination.

Time Control Technology - Pandora's Box is Wide Open!

Check out this amazing episode of "Time Out" with Kevin Gallagher. "Gallagher hosts world premiere temporal manipulation researcher Dr. David Lewis Anderson."

(Telephone interview on July 28th, 2010) [YouTube video below = 00:59:01]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PiYG8EtRlw&feature=related

This is the real deal folks! Check it out for yourself...

Time control or temporal distortion via inertial frame dragging is achieved by creating a spherical energy field of tremendous energy. Within the energy field, time can be manipulated to increase or decrease its rate. That's right, they can achieve stable long-term "stasis"or suspended animation, with some refinement of this same technology. It is also possible to conduct unique experiments within the past or future by using this technology. So where do they get all those "jiggawatts" (jk, its more like TeV) of energy? Well, the old clock tower and a lightening rod just didn't work, so they harnessed the power within the Earth's own magnetosphere to fuel these 3rd generation time warp field generators.

Always remember that contemporary advanced R&D as well as emerging technology (especially energy/power technology, quantum mechanical devices, military technology, A.I. and nanotechnology) tend to be about 50-100 years ahead of common application and the worldwide commercial markets. 

Sound familiar, Anyone?

See also 

"Freeman interviews Dr. David Lewis Anderson on Time Travel part 1 of 8"

  

( 2 of 8)

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C2C AM Interview w/ Art Bell:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

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(all the other links are on YT... 3hr show)

World's first functional Quantum Computer produced at UCSB, CA

A team at the University of California, Santa Barbara has designed and tested the world's first fully functional macro-sized quantum computer. 

Here is a link to the Earthfiles.com press release that highlights this amazing achievement!

http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1829&category=Science

Along with  the  scientific achievements  of CERN's LHC (Large Hadron Collider) and certain aspects of nanotechnology, this progress represents the first major steps toward the next Quantum Age. 

 

The Yellowbrick Road

Sometimes it becomes damn near impossible not to share certain things, certain concepts which probably should not be shared. Its like a great wave of potential presses upon oneself from within. Sooner or later the potential reaches yet another threshold and crashes through to the outside world.

We live our lives out day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute in such a way that we feel as if they are a constant and real progression within a constant and real world. But the truth could not be further away from this limited understanding. 

We live within not one life, not one body, not one mind, but many! We are an immensely large (indeed infinite) expression of an infinite organism. If we had but a moment of this shining realization, we would be overcome by the truth of it all. We would feel the agony and the ecstasy of an infinite number of parallel selves, being made manifest by our infinite consciousness (our "God-mind" if you will) We would see our lives unfolding in infinite patterns of impossibly intricate detail, extending into an infinite ocean of never ending manifestation. 

As one who has seen the complexity and the richness of this complicated existence, I have witnessed on more than one occasion the reality of the many worlds that lie just outside our own. I have shared the agony, the ecstasy. I have shared the memories, the desires, all the hopes and fears which we think are private. 

What lies within the human mind, but the coiled frame of a God unimaginable and unfathomable in every way! We are deceived by the singularity of this world by that which seeks to be deceived within us all, that which seeks to experience that same illusion. This illusion or rather our lust for it can be diminished, if we try. When our consciousness reaches a critical level what remains is the kind of mind that sees the illusion for what it is. Mark Twain once introduced this concept in his hidden masterpiece, "The Mysterious Stranger" as the stranger tells us to (look beyond, that the secrets have been hidden in plain sight. The truth was there all along. It was all a dream, a fantasy of unimaginable proportions.) Twain's mysterious sage knows that the illusion is an illusion, and he sees right on through it. The spell has been broken, and the chains have disintegrated from around the mind.

To quote E.E. Cummings, "...There is a hell of a Universe next door..." And in fact, there are an infinite number of them. 

"If a fool will persist in his folly he may become wise,

If he persist further, he will surely lose his mind,

If he loses his mind he may become truly free,

If he becomes truly free, is he not unlike a God among men?!" 

The All Seeing Eye

It's been a while since I have posted. I've been in the middle of writing a website and a book, plenty of work to be done. 

The other day as I lay dreaming and just before I awoke I saw a huge glowing sphere of crystal clear radiant light energy. The sight of it reminded of the Biblical accounts of the burning bush  mentioned in Exodus, it was absolutely blindingly bright! This sphere was called the "All Seeing Eye," It actually told me that! 

The eye looked into me and I into it. It could see everything in every direction perfectly, things in the future, things in the past, things within the deepest darkest voids, things beyond this universe and things within other dimensions and planes of existence. I wondered what I could possibly use such a unique tool for? So human of me! This "tool" wasn't meant to be applied, but rather it would apply you. 

The effects have been tremendously strong and not so subtle upon my consciousness! 

In order to be applied to this entity you have to one thing thats very difficult to do (it was for me.) You have to take your identity and your views and desires and leave them behind. I imagined leaving it all behind in a dimly lit chamber within an old cardboard box on a bench. 

Don't expect a thing.

But you will find what I found, the "Eye" is as ancient as it is new, it does not exist and it does, it lies beyond that which we can grasp and yet we can be applied to it in such a fashion that it changes our consciousness and opens us up to newer and greater visions. Sometimes I can see it there in the darkness waiting for me when I shut my eyes, a beacon of radiance looming silently within.

I have since uncovered some very strong connections with this meditation and occult practices that are tied to the Eye of Horus, son of Osiris and Isis (Egyptian deities from the constellation Orion and Sirius respectively.) 

Enjoy!

On your mind and losing it.

"Considering the infinite can give you a headache. 

Consider it further and you may lose your mind. 

Lose your mind and you just might make something of yourself!"

rorriM

[The following is intended as a thought experiment. Certain limitations exist which are not discussed: mirror-image objects do not behave the same way objects do in this universe, for example mirror-milk is poisonous as the mirror image isomers in lactic acid would prove toxic to normal humans - however; that's not to say that mirror-people couldn't drink mirror-milk.]

When you look into a mirror (or any smooth reflecting suface) you are given a unique oportunity. You are seeing another world. This world is (not to be redundant) a mirror-image of your own. When you stare into a mirror at yourself (and we all do it) you will find yourself engaged in a strange behavior. As you explore your reflected image, mostlikely, you will not notice that the image in the mirror is also exploring you. As you move about the image traces you effortlessly. Or does it? We all assume that the image in the mirror is simply a reflection, and to some extent it is. But when you begin to understand the stranger aspects of Quantum Mechanics and the MWI,* you are aware that the image also represents another world, a world which appears (for the moment) locked into a dance of symmetry with our own world. Deeper contemplation reveals another odd question. When you make a motion, say a facial expression like a grin, who was it that grinned? The answer depends souly upon your perspective, your limited point of reference. Imagine the mirror image "you" for a moment. What would they think? Would they not assume the same thing we did, that they grinned and we grinned back? Of course they would - and they would be correct, and so would you. What your mirror-image self does after they leave the reflection of the mirror is another interesting matter. The truth is never singular and never quite so clear as we wish it to be.

The biggest obstacle to understanding the world around oneself is not the math, the science or the complexity of the task but rather the things which one KNOWS to be true - but are infact false!

Please refer to earlier blog entries concerning the finer implications of MWI Cosmology and how it related to Lewis Carroll's classic tales Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking-glass and what Alice found there.

“01101011/01100101/01111001/01110011”

“01101011/01100101/01111001/01110011”

01010100/01101000/01100101/01110010/01100101 - 01100001/01110010/01100101 - 01110111/01101111/01110010/01100100/01110011 – 01100001/01101110/01100100 - 01010100/01101000/01100101/01110010/01100101 - 01100001/01110010/01100101 - 01110011/01110000/01100001/01100011/01100101/01110011,

01010100/01101000/01100101/01110010/01100101 - 01100001/01110010/01100101 - 01110100/01101000/01101111/01110101/01100111/01101000/01110100/01110011 - 01100001/01101110/01100100 - 01010100/01101000/01100101/01110010/01100101 - 01100001/01110010/01100101 – 01100110/01100001/01100011/01100101/01110011,

01010100/01101000/01100101/01110010/01100101 - 01100001/01110010/01100101 - 01110100/01101001/01101101/01100101/01110011 - 01100001/01101110/01100100 - 01010100/01101000/01100101/01110010/01100101 - 01100001/01110010/01100101 – 01110000/01101100/01100001/01100011/01100101/01110011.

Why The Cheshire Cat Grins (a poem)

I know why the Cheshire Cat grins,
He's playing a game he knows he'll never win,
The end is near,
And yet he does not fear.
He is well aware,
Of all the traps that do ensnare,
He sees the world about him,
As one without a care.
For he knows the spiral down,
From the circle of a crown,
And it keeps him by and by,
No more troubles in his mind.
I know why the Cheshire Cat grins,
Its because he cannot sin,
Its because he's "out" and somehow "in,"
Its because he's not really there,
Not really there at all!

The "X"

The next time you see the symbol X you may have found a new and unique way of looking at it. The symbol can easily be broken down into several portions: 1.) its bisected or intersected / , \ diagonal portions, 2.) fragmentary bits of diagonal portions (cannot show here, using the standard keyboard options,) 3.) vertical bisection at the mid-line produces the following symbols (> , <.) The (>) portion can represent an infinite set of possibilities which lie within our past, tapering down into a collapse of the quantum wave function. The dash (>-<) helps define the period of time in which we currently function, our present, that unique set of conditions present during the collapse of infinite possibilities into finite "real" outcomes.* The (<) represents the infinite set of possibilities contained within our future. As we continue down the convoluted paths of this mysterious existence, we are actualizing or distilling a finite moment from an infinite reality. The illusion is formed from the perception we hold of that finite moment! We can take this idea further if we realize that our lives are being lived out by an infinite set of parallel versions of ourself, this would form a patchwork of X's all containing similar and different values for each end of the (>-<) equation that we call our life. Each version is totally convinced that they are a "real" and "true" individual, living out a unique set of conditions and their very own life. Those values or conditions present within each portion of each "X" will help guide the path for that individual being.*

-In reality, the period of time in which the connecting"dash" takes place does not actually hold any "real" temporal value, or rather, need not hold any real temporal value. As this period is relative and entirely dependent upon the perspective of the participant involved - their "anchor." Ask yourself this question, "How long does a moment last?" It lasts precisely as long as it "needs" to. Any time we find that a quantity exists solely to fulfill the necessary requirements to create or establish a functional reality experience, we are that much closer to peering into the very gear-works of how this life operates.

-As Rob Bryanton always points out, (In his video blog "Imagining The Tenth Dimension," the elements of "chance" and "choice" always play a role in that particular pattern playing out.

Schrodinger's Cat Has Nine Lives

I thought about Schrodinger's cat when I was reposting the original entry into my new Google Group page [Quantum Psychonautics Google Group page Link] I had this nagging question as I was writing the original post, but somehow forgot how to make it materialize and answer it, you know, the kind of question that seethes for months before actually presenting itself.

What would Schrodinger's cat experience from his/her perspective? The answer eluded me at first. Would the cat's perspective settle on one of the two outcomes? Would the cat cease to exist if the isotope decayed and the poison gas leaked into the box? Would the cat's consciousness experience both outcomes? That last answer rang like the peel of some great bell into the recesses of my mind. The answer was clear to me now! The cat would experience both outcomes at the same time, and would proceed where it could continue on in the most reasonable manner of existence. His or her limited memory would select to record the outcome which best suited it. It doesn't matter that the cat died to the cat that lived. It doesn't matter that all possible outcomes have been fulfilled in an infinite spectrum of quantum realization, because the illusion is functional, it has been made complete by the cat's mind, by the cat's selective memory. So what does this mean for us humans? The answer is simple, and yet it eludes us all. We are living out one of the outcomes that was made possible by the infinite spectrum of quantum realization. We live, we die, we live a trillion lifetimes all at once, and for all eternity, not as another person, but as ourselves.

AZOnano Blog Entry from "Nanooptic and Nanophotonics."

"An atomic clock that uses an aluminum atom to apply the logic of computers to the peculiarities of the quantum world now rivals the world's most accurate clock, based on a single mercury atom. Both clocks are at least 10 times more accurate than the current U.S. time standard." (from article in link below)

[The measurements were made in a yearlong comparison of the two next-generation clocks, both designed and built at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The clocks were compared with record precision, allowing scientists to measure the relative frequencies of the two clocks to 17 digits-the most accurate measurement of this type ever made. The comparison produced the most precise results yet in the worldwide quest to determine whether some of the fundamental constants that describe the universe are changing slightly over time, a hot research question that may alter basic models of the cosmos.

The research is described in the March 6 issue of Science Express. The aluminum and mercury clocks are both based on natural vibrations in ions (electrically charged atoms) and would neither gain nor lose one second in over 1 billion years-if they could run for such a long time-compared to about 80 million years for NIST-F1, the U.S. time standard based on neutral cesium atoms.

The mercury clock was first demonstrated in 2000 and is now four times better than its last published evaluation in 2006, thanks to ongoing improvements in the clock design and operation. The mercury clock continues its reign as the world's most accurate for now, by a margin of 20 percent over the aluminum clock, but the designers say both experimental clocks could be improved further.

"The aluminum clock is very accurate because it is insensitive to background magnetic and electric fields, and also to temperature," says Till Rosenband, the NIST physicist who built the clock and is the first author of the new paper. "It has the lowest known sensitivity of any atomic clock to temperature, which is one of the most difficult uncertainties to calibrate."

Both the aluminum clock and the mercury clock are based on ions vibrating at optical frequencies, which are 100,000 times higher than microwave frequencies used in NIST-F1 and other similar time standards around the world. Because optical clocks divide time into smaller units, they can be far more precise than microwave standards. NIST scientists have several other optical atomic clocks in development, including one based on thousands of neutral strontium atoms. The strontium clock recently achieved twice the accuracy of NIST-F1, but still trails the mercury and aluminum clocks.

Highly accurate clocks are used to synchronize telecommunications networks and deep-space communications, and for satellite navigation and positioning. Next-generation clocks may also lead to new types of gravity sensors, which have potential applications in exploration for underground natural resources and fundamental studies of the Earth.

Laboratories around the world are developing optical clocks based on a variety of different designs and atoms; it is not yet clear which design will emerge as the best candidate for the next international standard.

The new paper provides the first published evaluation of the operational quantum logic clock, so-named because it is based on the logical reasoning process used in quantum computers (see sidebar for details). The clock is a spin-off of NIST research on quantum computers, which grew out of earlier atomic clock research. Quantum computers, if they can be built, will be capable of solving certain types of complex problems that are impossible or prohibitively costly or time consuming to solve with today's technologies.

The NIST quantum logic clock uses two different kinds of ions, aluminum and beryllium, confined closely together in an electromagnetic trap and slowed by lasers to nearly "absolute zero" temperatures. Aluminum is a stable source of clock ticks, but its properties cannot be detected easily with lasers. The NIST scientists applied quantum computing methods to share information from the aluminum ion with the beryllium ion, a workhorse of their quantum computing research. The scientists can detect the aluminum clock's ticks by observing light signals from the beryllium ion.

NIST's tandem ion approach is unique among the world's atomic clocks and has a key advantage: "You can pick from a bigger selection of atoms," explains NIST physicist Jim Bergquist, who built the mercury clock. "And aluminum has a lot of good qualities-better than mercury's."

An optical clock can be evaluated precisely only by comparison to another clock of similar accuracy serving as a "ruler." NIST scientists used the quantum logic clock to measure the mercury clock, and vice versa. In addition, based on fluctuations in the frequencies of the two clocks relative to each other over time, NIST scientists were able to search for a possible change over time in a fundamental quantity called the fine-structure constant. This quantity measures the strength of electromagnetic interactions in many areas of physics, from studies of atoms and molecules to astronomy. Some evidence from astronomy has suggested the fine-structure constant may be changing very slowly over billions of years. If such changes are real, scientists would have to dramatically change their theories of the fundamental nature of the universe.

The NIST measurements indicate that the value of the fine-structure constant is not changing by more than 1.6 quadrillionths of 1 percent per year, with an uncertainty of 2.3 quadrillionths of 1 percent per year (a quadrillionth is a millionth of a billionth). The result is small enough to be "consistent with no change," according to the paper. However, it is still possible that the fine-structure constant is changing at a rate smaller than anyone can yet detect. The new NIST limit is approximately 10 times smaller than the best previous measurement of the possible present-day rate of change in the fine-structure constant. The mercury clock is an especially useful tool for such tests because its frequency fluctuations are magnified by any changes in this constant.]

Posted 7th March 2008

Link to source

It appears that we are getting closer to a real and true quantum clock (one that utilizes the Planck second as a base unit of temporal measurement) and much needed reform for our outdated calendar and time-keeping system. -ZNP

Tempus Fugit

Time flies even faster when its being measured by the flips and flops of a quantum computer's q-bit array, (at least I think it will.) Imagine that you have a time machine or trans-dimensional craft. How will you keep track of time? An ordinary wrist watch just won't do! That neat little Timex staring up at you just hasn't the ability to remain accurate through the waves of temporal flux you may subject it to. No, you need something far more stable and far more accurate. Better yet, you need something that calculates its values from outside this universe to start with! What such device would accomplish this impossible task? A quantum computer's clock could. As q-bits flop back and forth, they are actually performing calculations in all possible universes at the same time. While what we see here is just one such value for an infinite set, similar to the function of each electron around us. It should be possible to use electrons or other quantum state particles to attain the accuracy we need to measure time by the Planck scale. A Planck second could (and should!) one day replace the second as the SI basic unit of temporal measurement. To obtain any valuable measurements you would also need a starting point, (as with charting a course through space, you need a point of origin.) The point of origin would be the start of our universe, known affectionately as the Big Bang, common notation might look something like this 0000:00:00:00 (if we didn't have an antiquated Roman calendar system that is.) So why would we want to remake our time-scale and our time-keeping methods? There are many reasons - none of which are recognized today. Time travel, inter-dimensional travel, inter-dimensional communication, a host of unrealized technologies will rely on more complex time-keeping to function. How else do you create a holodeck with real-time synchronization with real-life, or simulate a universe in a plasma sphere computer with any real way to measure time differentials? I should point out that any sufficiently advanced civilisation's technology can and should be judged by the accuracy of their math, sciences (especially astronomy, medicine, cartography, but most of all, their time-keeping ability.) If judged by our ability to keep time, we would fall just above the ancient Romans and below the ancient Mayans. The current Atomic clock for the US (one of the most accurate clocks in the world) is accurate to 10(-19) seconds. Planck time measurement would require 10(-44) or greater precision, as well as computing power far in excess of what we now have (greater than all the classical computers we now have on earth, with data storage far in excess of a yottabyte (YB)*.

YB = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes or 10(24) bytes. It might be necessary to have one carefully guarded and isolated quantum clock data center, perhaps encompassing an entire barren moon or planet. The master quantum clock could transmit its signal into surrounding universes through quantum computer receivers in each universe. ( I think that somewhere out there, there must be planets that are used for nothing but computer systems and research, climate controlled and secured by a complex array of intelligently powered satellites.

The Spectrum

Human Visual Spectrum: 380-750nm or Terahertz (THz) Human Audio Spectrum: 20-20,000Hz Electromagnetic Spectrum: Gamma Rays (1 GeV, 2.4x10[23] Hz*) - nanohertz) 2.9×10[27] Hz sources have been documeted by astronomer

Yourself Or Someone Like You

The other day I was thinking about how we change as we grow and mature with the passage of time. I was struck with the similarity of this concept to that of alternate versions of oneself across the Multiverse or alternate worldlines - parallel universes. Imagine visiting yourself as a teenager, a child, a young adult, a middle age adult, an elderly person... all these versions of your own self would have such different ideas about life, them self, the world around them. They might (at times) seem share more in common with other individuals than with themselves. I recall considering this concept long ago (I must have been about 17 then.) I did not yet have an understanding about how the universe, multiverse and Omniverse were set up, then I was missing the key pieces of information that would drive my consciousness headlong into the infinite life. Yet my mind was suffused with a perpetual contemplation of the realization just around the corner. I could not know that I was just a decade away from the understanding I craved. What do I lack now, that I will know just a decade from now? It may be a small mercy that I have this time to allow myself to prepare. Information has a funny way of arriving just as we need it and yet, somehow just before we feel ready for it. If we remember this analogy it may help us to understand how alternate versions of our self across the infinite Omniverse may appear to one another. We should consider that even our own life (here in this worldline) shares nearly as much incongruity with itself as with other versions of that life (in other universes.) This concept of a changing being across time can be called a 4th dimensional being. We are 4th dimensional beings with the perspective of 3rd dimensional beings. The Holographic Universe Theory tells us that 4 dimensional objects cast 3 dimensional shadows. For more on this subject I suggest that you read the following authors: Rob Bryanton (Imagining the Tenth Dimension,) Brian Greene, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Michio Kaku, Paul Davies and Fred Alan Wolf.

Dream Within A Dream

Who hasn't considered the idea that life is merely a dream? Many great philosophers and musicians have mused about this odd question. Even the children's nursery song "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" asserts that all this "...Life is but a dream..." In the strangest tale (by Mark Twain) entitled the, Mysterious Stranger, an angellic being known simply as Lucifer remarks that what we know as life is truly a dream within a dream, he goes on to say that if one looks closely enough, all the signs were there. This haunting passage echos the mystical "un-real" nature of the world we live in. For all the solid, logical explanations we encounter, for all the functional elements, that which is predictable and sound, we are thrown into doubt by one single moment of magic. I frequently comment that this world contains an element of "un-reality" that the "non-real" is just as solid and functional as that which we KNOW to be real. I think that it is much more logical to make a concerted effort to rid ourselves of this notion that the world is anything (any one thing or another) it is enough that it is as it is. It is enough that it is functional, for the puroposes that it is put to use, to the extent that we will it to. Life can be called a dream within a dream because that is one aspect of the nature of it. If one spends all their life looking for the ethereal and effemoral they will find that aspect of the world all around them. If one searches for the solid and the sound, the scientific, then they too will find that aspect of the nature of the world to be all around them. The key is to look at the world in such a way that does not exclude either. If you seek the truth, you should first expect to find it within the infinite, not the world of shaddows and echos. If this world we experience is dreamlike it is because that is the state in which we are currently viewing it with. (See also the entry, "What Is And What Should Never Be" for more on the topic of the "un-real" nature of reality.)

The Filter

In a previous entry I discussed how the Personal mind (and to some extent the brain and nervous system) act as a kind of anchor, tethering us within the reality in which we function. It must also be understood that the mind has another very important function which is not accepted by modern psychology or by our current paradigm including those of science and medicine. The mind's second misunderstood function is that of a filter. The mind and the human nervous system act to reduce the stimuli which is allowed to approach the foreground of conscious awareness. If we were allowed to experience the entirety of the life we live, singly (as an individual human being,) we would completely overload every cell within our bodies and we would perish in a single moment of unparalleled agony and ecstasy. If we were to be allowed to mentally experience this same experience the result would be an overload and shut-down of mental processing, possibly death, coma or black-out. The filters of our mind and our body are part of our mind and body's default settings, or operating parameters. The human body (like all the individual cells within it) is written into manifestation by intelligent patterns of information. The physical manifestation of these patterns is DNA, RNA and their related proteins (the result of course, is our living physical body.) The mental manifestation of these patterns is the Personal (or Cell) mind. It is this conscious, self-aware portion of the human mind that we often identify as the "self." It is well known that every cell within our body possesses certain functional traits, certain values for energy potentials, and operational parameters, (values for: pH, temperature, pressure, salinity- just to name a few,) these values are very specific any overload can cause the death of the cell. The mind holds within it the same system for regulation and control of volatile energies. (It is important to remember that I am not discussing the human brain, but the mind.) If one tries to understand the macro-structure of the human mind one must understand that the Personal mind acts much like a cell would within the human body. The Personal mind has definite limits and default settings which are designed to produce very specific effects, just like cells in the body. Similarly, one could view the macro-structure of the 5th dimensional form of the human body (the version of yourself which is infinitely realized within the 5th dimension) as being composed of cells which are actually individual human bodies. This previous statement does not appear to make sense, because this world is set up with logic that is functional for a 4 dimensional reality set, and our minds are suffused with this 4th dimensional logic. We can easily understand concepts which are common to this universe's native logic, those concepts outside it may be very difficult to understand if not impossible.* The price we often pay for accepting foreign logic into our Personal mind is that of dysfunctionality within our native universe.

It was Aldous Huxley who I first recall having described the brain to be a reducing filter of sorts, in his work entitled, "The Doors of Perception/ Heaven and Hell."