Some articles by Rowe posted previously:

A History of Dark Matter?

Controlled Transmutation of Elements Under Surprisingly Mild Conditions?

Hydrogen From Space - The Aether 'Comes Alive'

So here is his latest..

Gravity and the Nature of the Chemical Bond? Part I

Introduction

Sepp Hasslberger has included several of my articles on his blog. Most of them propose that knowable space is not a void but rather, a concentrated matrix of protons and electrons (possibly Bose-Einstein condensed hydrogen and/or the ether of classical physics). The easiest to read is, “A History of Dark Matter?” The most difficult to follow is a too long-too weird play, “The Fall and Rise of the House of Cards”.

Both attempt to give simple mechanisms for many observed phenomena, including:

The magnetic and dielectric properties of space required by Maxwell’s wave equations.

The wave and particle natures of light.

The results of Michelson and Morley’s interferometer experiments.

The present article tries to explain gravity based on the same assumption.

The Growing Influence of Social Networks is one of the themes to be discussed in Davos this year. Public input was invited, but the request was somewhat hidden in a brand new Ning group with little more than a hundred members, and it reads as follows:

Given the topic of the workshop it was natural to open it to input from the different social networks. We want to hear from you:

1. "How are social networks changing society?"

2. "What are the most important implications and risks for society?"

3. "What should individuals and institutions do to leverage the power of social networks and improve society?"

Are social media going to change the world?

A big question to be hidden away in a group with very few members. Still, some great comments and suggestions were made. To get the whole conversation, see the posting

The Growing Influence of Social Networks

And indeed, how do social media influence and change society? I tried to answer those questions, and was surprised at my answers. Social media are more important than we might believe. We are having conversations, mostly for fun, and sometimes with the intention of changing things we perceive to be going in the wrong direction. Yet, the implications of what we are doing are profound, indeed world changing....

Loop quantum gravity - artwork by slobo777

And talking about Einstein ... Vergon is one of the few people who clearly point out what are special relativity's logical inconsistencies and how they will de-throne the theory as logically inconsistent. There goes a mainstay of physics.

Vertner Vergon's introduction to his paradigm changing notes:

A PARADIGM SHIFT


GRAVITY, RELATIVITY, ENERGY, QUESTIONS

Three subjects are in the forefront of today's research.

The present paradigm cannot present solutions to them. The four Attachments present solutions and can be considered a paradigm shift.

"Gravity" is actually Quantum Gravity.

By way of analogy, one can read the face of a clock, but that does not tell him how the mechanism works.

Newton mathematically described the face of the clock but he did not have a clue as to HOW it worked. So you could say he mathematically described the laws of gravity, but that is certainly not the whole story.

Einstein refined the mathematical description -- and then ATTEMPTED to describe the workings, the HOW of gravity.

To me, curved space (empty or not) with geodesics is NOT a PHYSICAL description of how gravity works.

By contrast, I have developed a quantum gravity thesis that tells HOW the force of gravity is created, HOW it is transmitted, WHY the quantities are what they are, and shows why the mechanics of gravity creates an ILLUSION of action at a distance and mutual attraction.

If you will read it (QUANTUM GRAVITY) you will see the difference between Einstein's "explanation" and mine. Judge for yourself.

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Einstein developed his special relativity in typical mathematical physicist style - and made a grievous error in the interpretation, a typical problem in mathematical physics often leading to bizarre conclusions.

The second attachment clearly and definitively explains this error and defines the result.
(will be uploaded soon - Sepp)

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Gamma ray energy is bad enough, but cosmic ray energy dwarfs it. Tesla, the discoverer of cosmic rays (protons), said they travel faster than the speed of light, but he was not able to say just what that was.

The answer is in the third attachment. (will be uploaded as soon as I can get a server bug fixed - Sepp)

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The fourth attachment is "questions". They speak for themselves.

(Questions are reproduced below)

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A more recent addition is a short paper describing a common mistake made by proponents of a mass less photon.. They (mis)use the energy/momentum 4 vector equation to establish their view. Vergon points out their mistake -- and shows why the photon has mass and is not mass less.

For those of you who want to get deeper into the argument, there are two books written by Vertner Vernon that can be downloaded as PDF files:

ON THE QUANTUM AS A PHYSICAL ENTITY

and

A DIAGNOSIS OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY

I am not sure whether this is a positive development or something negative that should be balanced out, in some way.

Privacy has become a major issue on facebook, but it seems that the important privacy issue that facebook use brings with it, is glossed over in those discussions. By interacting with our peers, we permit the servers of facebook to construct online social profiles for each of us users that go WAY beyond anything we would normally dream to put in public view. Who then has access to that kind of data? It's anybody's guess.

Again, is that a bad thing, or is it part of a new openness that we consciously choose to engage in?

On the other hand, facebook is the first online service that, along with a few others, allows us to open up and explore a new dimension of networking. I almost feel as if we're constructing a global mind, each one of us being similar to a neuron and learning to interact with other neurons. Where that could lead, is not quite clear as yet.

Some friends of mine have a rather strongly negative reaction when I invite them to join me on facebook and recently, I received an email from a friend and fellow blogger who says he started to use the service but was banned.

He brings up some interesting perspectives from which to see the expanding phenomenon of on-line social interaction. Here is what he said:

You may have heard of a great accumulation of plastic garbage in certain areas of the oceans. It's all stuff we throw away and it keeps accumulating because plastic does not easily degrade. Birds and fish eat it, mistaking the pieces of plastic for food.

Image credit: Ocean Conservancy

"The dangers of these garbage patches are great in both quantity and quality. Marine animals of all sizes, from zooplankton to whales, mistake the plastic for food. Some organisms become entangled in the mass and die", says Meg White.

We can of course combat the continued accumulation of that garbage by controlling what we throw away, but that is a slow process, and it does nothing about what's already there and which will continue to float where it is for decades if not centuries to come.

As for the trash that's already there, many throw their hands in the air nihilistically. "There's just too much, and the ocean is just too big," said one expert about the possibility of cleaning up the garbage patches.

No one seems to have a solution for what's already there, other than waiting for it to magically disappear or kind of nebulously suggesting that the stuff should really be collected and brought to land, a truly Herculean task to say the least.

But there is a solution, and it isn't too difficult either:

Our system of bank currency - the money we are using every day - has a fatal design flaw - it violates the BIBO principle. Economic instability is built in to our money right from the start. This leads to the imperative that the economy must keep expanding endlessly. We are unable to achieve sustainable economic activity, to preserve our planet's finite resources, lest we face financial collapse.

This, in short, is the situation as argued by Marc Gauvin and Sergio Dominguez of bibocurrency.org

A formal stability analysis from the standpoint of control systems theory has shown that the mechanism of interest inherent in money creation and in everyday lending practices must lead to monetary instability (inflation) and eventually to the collapse of economic activity. Adding interest to the principal of any loan to be repaid creates an excess debt that, within the confines of the economic system, can never be fully paid off, resulting in an inherently unstable economic situation.

Financial System walkthrough

1. Wealth is generated by ingenuity, human effort and resources made available through past investment of units of currency.

6. Because the total debt created always exceeds the amount of money available to satisfy it, the system produces a minimum residual debt that must be refinanced in subsequent cycles thus compounding it.

"Cap and trade", is the way to reduce emissions to levels that will stop the inevitable warming up of the planet. No more increase in fossil fuel burning except ... if a country can pay for the right to continue emitting carbon dioxide.

Leuren Moret, examining global warming in the context of geological history, comes to a different conclusion. In her interesting and immensely readable examination of Global Climate Change, the whistleblower at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons lab, and former
Environmental Commissioner in the City of Berkeley, lays out for us the reasons for global changes in temperature in the context of "deep time", the long term geological history of the earth, and some of the behind-the-scenes manipulations that have led to a rather hysterical campaign that sees us concentrate our attention on one of the minor causes for the changes that doubtless are afoot.

Large parts of the economy appear set to go to hell in a handbasket. The banking system, which should be of service to production and the economy, is itself on the verge of collapse. Yet the speculators who brought down those banks are being lavishly rewarded - bailed out with huge gifts of our hard-earned money.

Unless we want to spend the rest of our lives working to pay off those huge debts, we must understand what exactly has been happening and why - where things went wrong. And we must figure out how money and banking can be re-configured to support, rather than ruin our economic efforts.

We can't leave this to corrupt politicians. In our search for answers we can't even rely on the economists. They did nothing to warn us of impending disaster. The only way out of this mess: we must understand for ourselves. Thomas Greco's new work The End of Money and the Future of Civilization is an encouraging book in this respect. Amongst all the confusion, it provides a stable foothold, a starting point for our quest to understand.

Greco reduces a complicated subject down to the very essentials and, after providing an overview of historical developments and an indication of the reasons for our current trouble, the book points to a future where our currency will be at the service of individuals' economic activities rather than being a source of easy profit for bankers and speculators, who have been gambling with what wasn't theirs.

There are several videos on YouTube that show the spin reversal we see in a rattleback. You can start with this one and see below or check the "related videos" on the YouTube page for more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puaif3OTJL4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PydoEA5Jx5s

Wikipedia about the rattleback: "This spin-reversal motion seems, at first sight, to violate the angular-momentum conservation law of physics. Moreover, for most rattlebacks, the motion will happen when the rattleback is spun in one direction, but not when spun in the other. Some exceptional rattlebacks will reverse when spun in either direction. This makes the rattleback a physical curiosity that has excited human imagination since prehistorical times."

I was first made aware of the existence of this curiosity by David Tombe, who mentions rattlebacks in some of his article and tries to explain their spin reversal with reference to the coriolis force. In the latest revision of one article titled The Cause of Coriolis Force (http://www.cartesio-episteme.net/ep8/vorticity--new.pdf) Tombe's treatment of the rattleback starts out like this:

The rattleback is the most mysterious of all the mechanical devices. A spinning rattleback undergoes a complete 180 degree reversal of its angular momentum without any apparent source of reversal torque. The situation is further complicated by the fact that some rattlebacks can work in both directions. Modern physicists cannot explain the rattleback mystery because they deny all three of the vital ingredients that are necessary for its full understanding. We first need centrifugal charge followed by axial Coriolis force. We also need the electric sea in order to induce these convective effects, and also to give the reversal torque something to kick off against, as per Newton’s third law of motion. The rattleback is very obviously tangled up in a very subtle elastic medium, but this medium along with the centrifugal force and the axial Coriolis force which are the basis of the interaction with this medium, are denied in modern physics.

My take on the "mysterious" reversal of spin of the rattleback is that it is due to the interplay of known forces - inertia, gravity and friction. How exactly? If you check on the net, several people say they understand how the rattleback works, but I have yet to see a clear and simple description of the mechanics and the forces involved.

So here is my attempt to give a point for point explanation of the process of torque reversal in the rattleback ...

The experiment did not find the expected result but rather than looking for a reason the aether wind might not be measurable in this way, the idea of there being an aether in the first place was questioned. Einstein then declared that an aether was "not necessary", and since Einstein's theories gained widespread acceptance, any further investigation into the subject of the aether was relegated to the fringes of science.

Many attempts have been made to explain why the physical configuration of the measuring apparatus of Michelson and Morley was improper for showing the aether wind, but no one has repeated the experiment in a different setting, such as in a satellite orbiting the earth.

Now recently Martin Grusenick, an experimenter in Germany, has repeated the Michelson-Morley interferometer experiment with a rather simple laser set-up and has found - to no great surprise - that rotating his apparatus horizontally, no shifts in the interference fringes are observed. Grusenick however had another idea. He modified his apparatus to make it possible to rotate in a vertical plane ... documenting his results in a video that was uploaded on YouTube:

Extended Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment

Ingo Swann, a researcher into telepathy and remote viewing who worked for about two decades with the prestigious Stanford Research Institute, has found out. He details his own research into the question and he connects it with a broader problem - the suppression of telepathic and related human capabilities. His research has been published in a hard-to-find book titled: "Penetration - The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy".

The paper version of the book is quite hard to come by. There seem to be a few used copies around but they go for a proud price. However, you can find a scanned copy - without the illustrations and photos - on Scribd. The book can be read on line or downloaded as a PDF file. Here's the address:

Penetration - The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy

If any of my readers here do have the original, please consider scanning the illustrations and photographs and sending them to me. I promise to make them available on this page.

Physics has come a long way in explaining how things work and our mathematical formalisms are extremely useful for technological development, but the larger picture still escapes us. The 'big bang' origin of the universe takes the concepts of force and energy to their highly illogical conclusion. No one can say how that unlikely concentration of energy that, according to physicists, gave rise to a primordial explosion from which both space and matter developed, could have come into being in the first place.

William Day approaches the problem from a different angle. In his books, and now in a paper titled Holistic Physics in a Self-Organizing Universe, he argues that we must look at hierarchies, at systems and patterns of organization. Instead of trying to understand matter in terms of its parts, we must look at how things fit together. Non-Newtonian Physics is a way of looking at the universe as a system, not just an accumulation of material parts that interact and that can be understood by putting them under a microscope.

My favorite analogy for the universe has been that of a tv screen.

What we perceive as a picture in motion is nothing but a clever manipulation of pixels of light. We can create, on a perfectly immobile screen, successive images that our eyes and brain put together into a representation of moving scenes of life. Granted, the physical universe is much more detailed and more "real" than any movie, but we are still looking at the same principle.

What we see on the screen cannot be fully understood by analyzing the details of the single pixels and in a similar way, we can't understand the universe by analyzing matter, by looking at particles and splitting them up into their constituent parts.

William Day's paper details his approach to modeling physical reality by looking at how the screen is made, rather than just analyzing the picture and finding out what its parts are composed of and how they interact with each other ...

Is 'Cosmic Energy' Static Electricity?

Static electricity versus ether

Now here is Miroslav's letter to Nexus Magazine and two further, recent articles about this particular line of research of his.

Golan Heights Megaliths

The Golan Heights (wikipedia) spreads over 1250 square kilometers and is an important spring region that supplies four states with water.

The great presence of static electricity can be deduced from the high number of megalithic structures.

A local circular structure of 159 meters in diameter is composed of five concentric circles that are laid out by freely laying stones that all weigh 37,000 tons in total.

The heaviest single stones that were used weigh about 20 tons. Around this structure there are a further 8,500 dolmens and menhirs, the heaviest weighing 50 tons, and they are up to 7 meters in height.

One of the last great barely known wonders of the ancient world is a Stonehenge-like monument sitting atop Israel's Golan Heights. Called Gilgal Refaim in Hebrew (The Circle Of The Refaim or "Wheel of the rafaim"). It is one of the most mysterious archaeological sites in the world. The monument consists of five concentric stone rings whose diameter is155 meters. The best preserved of the rings is the outermost, whose height reaches 2 meters and thickness 3.3 meters. The central dolmen is built from relatively smaller rocks. [Refaim = spirits or ghosts] Image credit and description: GODSSECRET'S WEBLOG

The Golan Heights may be thought of as a natural laboratory which can provide us with historical information, in view of this research.

The static electricity that is almost unknown to present science was crucial for all megalithic structures that were built around the Earth. The new knowledge about properties of static electricity that I describe at www.miroslavprovod.com provides more in-depth information via continuing research about the mysteries of construction of megalithic structures with combinations of different kinds of rocks; for example, at Stonehenge, Machu Picchu and many other sites.

The megalithic structures had all the same function. They accumulated static electricity in their matter, which they gained from various sources. At the Golan Heights the sources are mainly underground springs, which provide the megaliths with the static electricity charge.

The electronics of the human body take the static electricity from cellular membranes in order to maintain functionality of all organs. The static electricity is continually supplied by the mitochondria.

It can be proved by various experiments that the charge of the human body can be filled by other means as well - by staying close to a greater source of static electricity, which spontaneously gives the energy to cellular membranes. The transfer of energy is rather slow.

In the case of transfer between a rock and a human body, it takes tens of minutes. This shows that the megalithic structures and, later, also the sacred structures were built mainly for health purposes.

Miroslav Provod, Czech Republic
contact centrum11 [at] volny [dot] cz

- end of Miroslav's letter to Nexus Magazine -

There are two further articles by Miroslav which add to this discussion, and you will find them here below.

It is adapted to the Italian situation, where alternative currencies are looked upon as competition to the official one. So SCEC defines itself as a complementary currency. It circulates together with the official currency.

SCEC is in the form of a discount chit denominated in Euro equivalents (in denominations of 0.50 Euro, 1, 2, 5, 10 and 50 Euro). It is distributed for free and acquires value only when used. Businesses and professionals agree to give a discount to buyers who pay (in part) with SCEC, usually around 20 %, but ranging mostly between 10 and 30 %.

A full description of the project in English - a bit lengthy but certainly of interest - is available here:

http://www.arcipelagoscec.org/doc/ArchipelagoSCECproject1.pdf

SCEC is putting first emphasis on actually supporting local production and commerce over imports from far away and world wide commerce by multinationals. The currency makes local exchanges more convenient for people who use the system, as they get a break by virtue of getting substantial discounts on the normal price.

The SCEC, once issued, stay in circulation and can be spent at any business or professional that adheres to the program and states how much discount they are willing to give. In this way, SCEC is tax neutral - no tax is to be paid on it as it is merely a discount.

Users of course, who are not subject to value added tax (VAT) when buying/selling second hand goods or exchanging favors and transactions in the social area can use SCEC to replace the official Euro currency in these direct exchanges.

SCEC is a discount as far as the government is concerned, but it is a fledgling alternative currency as far as the users are concerned.

It favors local commerce and as it gets more and more accepted, future uses might even include the payment of rates or (local) taxes.

An electronic system to run side by side with the currently available paper currency is in the planning stage. This would work like any bank account. You can make transfers to other users of the system, and you can convert paper into electronic or electronic into paper, if so desired.

Organizationally, SCEC is organized as a non profit "archipelago of several islands" which are the regional associations that are independent of each other, but agree to use the same kind of currency and to exchange information on who are the member businesses and professionals who accept SCEC as part payment for their goods or services.

SCEC are issued periodically and equally to all participants in the system, in exchange for a voluntary contribution intended to defray the costs of printing and administration.

Loans in SCEC to participating businesses are possible. They are given as an advance on future distribution of the currency. Once someone has received a loan they will not receive any future SCEC distributed to others, until they are "caught up" and are once again eligible to receive the normal distributions. Anyone entering the system gets 100 SCEC to start trading. To get more, they have to either wait for another periodic distribution or have to start giving some kind of service for which they accept SCEC in payment.

Rocking Stones such as this delicately balanced rock of some 800 or 900 tons are called Logan rocks. The image is of a rock at Treen in Cornwall. It has been taken from a wikipedia article on Logan rocks.

In any case, here is Miroslav's article...