https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_(classical_element)
Aether (classical element)
From Wikipedia
According to ancient and medieval science, aether, also known as the fifth element or quintessence, is the material that fills the region of the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere. The concept of aether was used in several theories to explain several natural phenomena, such as the traveling of light and gravity. In the late 19th century, physicists postulated that aether permeated all throughout space, providing a medium through which light could travel in a vacuum, but evidence for the presence of such a medium was not found in the Michelson–Morley experiment, and this result has been interpreted as meaning that no such luminiferous aether exists.
Today is May the 4th, 2022
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal:
Re: whendoes this goddamned end??????????????????????????????
Sat, 3/25/06 7:12 PM
goddamn rat bastard
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15383506/
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From
Silhouettes
Episode aired Mar 6, 2022
S1 E5
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Jim, Tabitha, and Ethan begin asking questions about where they are in the hopes it may lead them home. Ellis and Fatima show Julie the lighter side of life in town. Jade struggles to make sense of their situation as Boyd seeks guidance.
From (2022) s01e05
"Silhouettes"
Tabitha Matthews: Tell me you figured it out.
Jim Matthews: Oh, I-I did. And the answer is 12.
Tabitha Matthews: Okay.
Jim Matthews: All right, let's go over this again. Everyone enters from different parts of the country, on different roads, in different places, and they all, presumably, see the same tree, same crows.
Tabitha Matthews: Jim, Jim everyone here has asked the same question over and over again. How does writing them on the wall going to make any difference?
Jim Matthews: Because There are plenty of things in the world that don't make sense.
Tabitha Matthews: Yeah.
Jim Matthews: Something here is missing. We just can't see it yet. But we will.
From 9/7/2015 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, illustrations ) To 3/6/2022 ( ) is 2372 days
2372 = 1186 + 1186
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/31/1969 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Lights of Zetar" ) is 1186 days
From 1/10/1908 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication: An Invitation To Everyone ) To 9/14/2020 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me on the global-internetwork ) is 41156 days
41156 = 20578 + 20578
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/6/2022 ( ) is 20578 days
From 7/9/1911 ( from Wikipedia on the global-internetwork: John Archibald Wheeler ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 20578 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/6/2022 ( ) is 20578 days
From 10/18/1993 ( the launch of the US space shuttle Columbia orbiter vehicle mission STS-58 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-58 pilot astronaut and my 2nd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 3/6/2022 ( ) is 10366 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/21/1994 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication: Tourist trap! ) is 10366 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15383506/
IMDb
From
Silhouettes
Episode aired Mar 6, 2022
S1 E5
"The Lights Of Zetar" (Star Trek)
Original Airdate: 31 Jan, 1969
(from internet transcript)
(first lines)
Captain's log, stardate 5725.3. The Enterprise is en route to Memory Alpha. It is a planetoid set up by the Federation solely as a central library containing the total cultural history and scientific knowledge of all planetary Federation members.
From 3/5/1909 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication: Article Lauds Princeton ) To 3/6/2022 ( premiere USA EPIX-channel video-serial episode "From"::"Silhouettes" ) is 41274 days
41274 = 20637 + 20637
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/4/2022 ( Today, Wednesday ) is 20637 days
From 8/29/1909 ( from Wikipedia on the global-internetwork: Glenn Curtiss won the world's first airplane race, conducted at Rheims, France ) To 5/4/2022 ( ) is 41156 days
41156 = 20578 + 20578
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/6/2022 ( premiere USA EPIX-channel video-serial episode "From"::"Silhouettes" ) is 20578 days
From 4/28/1938 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication: Doctor Stresses Need for Constant Study ) To 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) is 20637 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/4/2022 ( ) is 20637 days
From 2/22/1967 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication: Sandage: The Stars Say 'Six Billion Years' More ) To 5/4/2022 ( ) is 20160 days
20160 = 10080 + 10080
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 10080 days
From 2/22/1967 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication: UGC IDENTITY CRISIS Of Washing Machines, Etc. ) To 5/4/2022 ( Today, Wednesday ) is 20160 days
20160 = 10080 + 10080
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 10080 days
https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19090305-01.2.12&e=-------en-20--81-byDA-txt-txIN-------
Daily Princetonian, Volume 34, Number 5, 5 March 1909
ARTICLE LAUDS PRINCETON.
"What I like about Princeton is that it has an ideal of education and is working it out," is the outspoken way in which Mr. Edwin E. Slosson of The Independent expresses the central idea of his article on Princeton University, which appeared yesterday. It is an interesting and instructive article. The fact that the two which have preceded it, dealing with Harvard and Yale, have criticised many points in the policies of those institutions, led us to suppose that the same would be true in our case, but we were agreeably disappointed. The article contains a few inaccuracies of statement which ought not to pass unchallenged. For instance, the privilege of giving courses in the graduate school applies only to a few preceptors, not to all; nor is it true that "a different preceptor has to be provided for each course, even in such allied subjects as history, politics and economics;" nor again is it a fact that "the preceptor has nothing directly to do with a student's grades." But inaccuracies of statement upon this system which is scarcely understood even by many undergraduates, are not surprising.
Will the preceptors become lazy, tired, indifferent or mechanical in their old age? If so, we hope they will no longer be preceptors, and they probably will not. Princeton ought not to be able to hold this class of men, as preceptors at least, until they have outgrown their efficiency, because they should be men who have a higher ideal for their lifework. The charge that one does not know the scope of the subject he elects when the choice is made is a good one. We believe that the catalogue is far too meagre in its analysis of courses.
High entrance requirements, and the amount of work done by undergraduates are points upon which just praise is given. "Still the students do not work so hard as they do at a university like Columbia, where student activities are not so numerous and attractive.," is his personal opinion. But what about the advantages to be gained in those student activities? Are they not of a real and lasting benefit? We most decidedly think they are. A variety of -aspects of our University life are discussed fairly and according to facts, in most instances. Such an article cannot have any other effect than to increase popular knowledge upon a number of questions which are but little understood outside the confines of the campus.
From (2022) s01e05
"Silhouettes"
Tabitha Matthews: Well, there's a question we haven't asked.
Jim Matthews: Why not?
Tabitha Matthews: Because it's crazy. I don't want to know the answer.
"The Lights Of Zetar" (Star Trek)
Original Airdate: 31 Jan, 1969
(from internet transcript)
SPOCK: They will not accept their own deaths.
Stargate SG-1 - "The Fifth Race" - tv series Season 2 Episode 15 - 01/22/1999
(from internet transcript)
[Teal'c pulls O'Neill away from the computer.]
O'NEILL No! No, not yet! I'm not fargus!
Stargate SG-1 - "The Enemy Within" - television series episode 2 (alternately episode 3) of Season 1 - Friday 08/01/1997
(from internet transcript)
DANIEL: Genetic memory. That's amazing.
KENNEDY: Yes it is. All the knowledge of the Goa'uld. I just want you all to think on that before we just throw it away.
O'NEILL: I've thought about it. You thought about it? I think we've all thought about it. Any more thinking to be done.
HAMMOND: Colonel.
KENNEDY: Imagine if we could convince that Goa'uld to share that knowledge.
TEAL'C: A Goa'uld would not willingly share.
DANIEL: Teal'c is right. To them, we're nothing. Less than nothing, I mean think about it, they've taken on the roles of our ancient gods. What does that tell you?
"The Lights Of Zetar" (Star Trek)
Original Airdate: 31 Jan, 1969
(from internet transcript)
KIRK: You can't be from Zetar. All life was destroyed there long ago.
ZETAR: Yes, all corporeal life was destroyed.
KIRK: Then what are you?
ZETAR: The desires, the hopes, the mind and the will of the last hundred of Zetar. The force of our life could not be wiped out.
KIRK: All things die.
ZETAR: At the proper time. Our planet was dying. We were determined to live on. At the peak of our plans to go, a sudden final disaster struck us down. But the force of our lives survived. At last we have found someone through whom we can live it out.
KIRK: The body of the one you inhabit has its own life to lead.
ZETAR: She will accept ours.
KIRK: She will not. She is fighting for her own identity.
ZETAR: Her mind will accept our thoughts. Our lives will be fulfilled.
KIRK: Will she learn the way people on Memory Alpha learned?
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: July 05, 2017 3:02 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse
Multiverse
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of possible universes, including the universe in which we live. Together, these universes comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, and the physical laws and constants that describe them.
The various universes within the multiverse are called "parallel universes", "other universes", or "alternative universes".
Origin of the concept
In Dublin in 1952, Erwin Schrödinger gave a lecture in which he jocularly warned his audience that what he was about to say might "seem lunatic". He said that, when his Nobel equations seemed to describe several different histories, these were "not alternatives, but all really happen simultaneously". This is the earliest known reference to the multiverse outside of fiction.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universe_(fiction)
Parallel universe (fiction)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Science fiction
While technically incorrect, and looked down upon by hard science-fiction fans and authors, the idea of another "dimension" has become synonymous with the term "parallel universe". The usage is particularly common in movies, television and comic books and much less so in modern prose science fiction. The idea of a parallel world was first introduced in comic books with the publication of The Flash #123, "Flash of Two Worlds".[citation needed]
In written science fiction, "new dimensions" more commonly – and more accurately – refer to additional coordinate axes, beyond the three spatial axes with which we are familiar. By proposing travel along these extra axes, which are not normally perceptible, the traveler can reach worlds that are otherwise unreachable and invisible.
Television series involving parallel universes
Charlie Jade, in which the titular character is accidentally thrown into our universe and is looking for a way back to his own.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: July 25, 2020
Somewhere in my posts, I wrote about my thoughts on this topic, popular in science-fiction
My dissertation being that the Many Worlds Theory is just a big crock of shit
The basis of that theory, I've speculated, is ignoring that electrons *have* predictability
My guess is that someone reverse-engineered that notion that the states of electrons can NEVER be determined
Therefore, everything is uncertain
And since everything is uncertain then everything is possible
I think that the invention of Many Worlds Theory based on that viewpoint is dim-witted
There is only ONE reason that the states of electrons cannot be determined: the primitive technology of the human-race
My assertion is that anything that tries to measure the state of electrons would have to shoot more electrons at the target electron, thus changing it
So, out there somewhere in the vast Universe, with it bazillions of possibilities for life vastly more intelligent than human will be ever, there may be technology that can measure accurately and unobtrusively the state of electrons.
Predictable eliminates uncertainty.
Posted by me, Kerry Burgess, February 27, 2017
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hugh-everett-biography/
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett
After his now celebrated theory of multiple universes met scorn, Hugh Everett abandoned the world of academic physics. He turned to top secret military research and led a tragic private life
By Peter Byrne on October 21, 2008
Everett’s scientific journey began one night in 1954, he recounted two decades later, “after a slosh or two of sherry.” He and his Princeton classmate Charles Misner and a visitor named Aage Petersen (then an assistant to Niels Bohr) were thinking up “ridiculous things about the implications of quantum mechanics.” During this session Everett had the basic idea behind the many-worlds theory, and in the weeks that followed he began developing it into a dissertation.
The core of the idea was to interpret what the equations of quantum mechanics represent in the real world by having the mathematics of the theory itself show the way instead of by appending interpretational hypotheses to the math. In this way, the young man challenged the physics establishment of the day to reconsider its foundational notion of what constitutes physical reality.
In pursuing this endeavor, Everett boldly tackled the notorious measurement problem in quantum mechanics, which had bedeviled physicists since the 1920s. In a nutshell, the problem arises from a contradiction between how elementary particles (such as electrons and photons) interact at the microscopic, quantum level of reality and what happens when the particles are measured from the macroscopic, classical level. In the quantum world, an elementary particle, or a collection of such particles, can exist in a superposition of two or more possible states of being. An electron, for example, can be in a superposition of different locations, velocities and orientations of its spin. Yet anytime scientists measure one of these properties with precision, they see a definite result—just one of the elements of the superposition, not a combination of them. Nor do we ever see macroscopic objects in superpositions. The measurement problem boils down to this question: How and why does the unique world of our experience emerge from the multiplicities of alternatives available in the superposed quantum world?
Physicists use mathematical entities called wave functions to represent quantum states. A wave function can be thought of as a list of all the possible configurations of a superposed quantum system, along with numbers that give the probability of each configuration’s being the one, seemingly selected at random, that we will detect if we measure the system. The wave function treats each element of the superposition as equally real, if not necessarily equally probable from our point of view.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted online by me: 09/14/2020
From my research, most of that Multiple Universe nonsense, common in popular science-fiction, started with some comments by some guy in Physics, at Princeton University, wasn't it?
My guess is that spawned out of the fact that the precise location of electrons can never be determined. Because, with modern human technology, you would have to shoot more electrons at that electron to track it and thus, you just changed it.
So, the fact is: electrons ALWAYS have a precise location. Is just that humans have no way of knowing those precise details
So some guy at Princeton - drunk, perhaps - extrapolated the notion into a wacky, convoluted idea that multiple-universes exist
Since electrons can't be tracked then ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE, according to that wacky physics graduate. But the reality is: Anything is not possible, when extrapolating with the unknown-electrons idea
https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19080110-01.2.14&e=-------en-20--81-byDA-txt-txIN-------
Daily Princetonian, Volume 32, Number 159, 10 January 1908
AN INVITATION TO EVERYONE.
We are all asked to the festivities which the Philadelphian Society is giving this afternoon and as this is the first of a series which we are to enjoy during the winter, we would be wise to jot the hour down in our notebook and make sure to be on hand. There is nothing formal about the event so when we enter the hall, we can be sure of a general good time in an atmosphere of good fellowship; campus clothes are expected, the use of the weed is thoroughly allowable and we can be sure of an hour of sound enjoyment in mingling with the men of the college and in listening to Dr. van Dyke who has kindly consented to read us tales of the Canadian woods. So it is clear that those of us who can attend this afternoon will be well repaid for any trouble it may cost us.
From (2022) s01e05
"Silhouettes"
Bartender: Look, if it's any consolation, it It gets easier, man, it really does.
Jade: Gets easier, that's rich. That is fucking rich. You know, you guys are You're like rats in a maze, sitting there, contentedly nibbling on your cheese. This is a paradox. That's the problem. The immediate question is, how do we get home, right? How do we get out? How do we get out of here? 'Cause unless we know where "here" is, we can't get outta here. It's like it's like this, it's like, uh, hitting a bull's-eye with your eyes closed, right? You're just throwing 'em blind! You don't even fucking know where the fucking target is! Maybe it's over here! I don't know! Maybe it just, like, went that way!
Bartender: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Come on!
Jade: Throwing it!
Bartender: Settle down.
Jade: Eventually {Actually}, you just get tired, you give up. You accept that you can't just get out, 'cause you have no fucking idea where you're trying to get out of. So, you sit around drinking your acidic potato piss water that you call vodka.
Bartender: Yeah. So, let me guess, you're gonna be the guy who figures it all out.
Jade: You're goddamn right I am. People like me, we design the maze, we place the cheese. I don't know what you did before you got here, but I just sold a company for an obscene amount of money based on a quantum computing algorithm with the potential to I'm not supposed to be here. I'm supposed to be celebrating right now at Look, the point is we can't get out of here unless we know where "here" is. Right? To solve the paradox, you gotta understand the paradox. You gotta identify it. You gotta frame it.
Bartender: Schrodinger's cat.
Jade: What?
Bartender: Schrodinger's cat, that that's the paradox. You put the cat in the box and you close the box. As long as you never open it again -
Jade: The cat is theoretically alive and dead at the same time. I know what Schrodinger's cat is.
"The Lights Of Zetar" (Star Trek)
Original Airdate: 31 Jan, 1969
(from internet transcript)
KIRK: There must be some defence we can use.
SPOCK: Captain, we are dealing with a community of life units. Their attack is in the form of brain waves directed against the brain, which is most compatible.
album: "Car" (1977)
"Solsbury Hill"
(from internet transcript)
Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
I could see the city light
Wind was blowing, time stood still
Eagle flew out of the night
He was something to observe
Came in close, I heard a voice
Standing stretching every nerve
Had to listen had no choice
I did not believe the information
(I) just had to trust imagination
My heart going boom boom boom
"Son," he said "Grab your things,
I've come to take you home."
To keep in silence I resigned
My friends would think I was a nut
Turning water into wine
Open doors would soon be shut
So I went from day to day
Tho' my life was in a rut
"Till I thought of what I'd say
Which connection I should cut
I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery
My heart going boom boom boom
"Hey" he said "Grab your things
I've come to take you home."
(Back home.)
When illusion spin her net
I'm never where I want to be
And liberty she pirouette
When I think that I am free
Watched by empty silhouettes
Who close their eyes but still can see
No one taught them etiquette
I will show another me
Today I don't need a replacement
I'll tell them what the smile on my face meant
My heart going boom boom boom
"Hey" I said "You can keep my things,
they've come to take me home."
From 1/25/2022 to 3/6/2022 is 40 days
From 3/6/2022 to 4/15/2022 is 40 days
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2022/04/today-is-04152022-post-2.html
Posted by me, Kerry Burgess at 11:06 AM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Friday, April 15, 2022
Today is 04/15/2022, Post #2
That was interesting as hell.
The starring character's son's didn't turn out to be the meth.-head-rabble the preview made me think they would be
As for my code, and it's perpetual presence causing my constant anticipation, I spend most of my time analyzing activities of the past or the present day
In this case, I analyzed a future-day because of the observation I made about that calendar-day, in this case, back on Monday, I discovered this title and its scheduled day of its debut, whch is today
On very rare occasions, my anticipation has made me try to discover The Day When It All Finally Makes Sense
I want that day to arrive so so so sooooo badly
Because each passing day is a rope that constantly tangles me up tighter in this code-pattern, each passing day I sit here at this desk and I know that someday - SOMEDAY! - that day will finally arrive
All this drama then just become so much baggage I carry around with me, perhaps giving me perspective as I find myself in the deeply fantastic of whatever I am destined to discover, that you are incapable of imagining in your dim-wit dullard pathetic life and I really wonder just what sort of nut-job sits back out there and follows along with my posts here.
For some people, I've created the reason, whether they choose to follow along or not
For others, I just cannot fathom how pathetic you must be to actually follow along here, as though this is all some sort of voyeurist, pervert pleasure for you.
I started this all decades ago because I wanted answers.
*You* contribute not one goddamned useful thing.
AND I KNOW without a doubt the *answer* is in *here* somewhere.
I just can't see it yet.
Someday, I'll look back here and the answer will be as clear as day.
I. JUST. CANNOT. GODDAMNED. SEE. IT. YET. !!!!!
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 11:04 PM Pacific-time USA Wednesday 05/04/2022
