Sunspot Madness

      Sunspot Madness

                   From the desk of the Mad Scientist  

                          – a few weeks ago I mentioned Terrence Mckennnas Time wave theory which postulates a cyclical aspect to events on earth which can be predicted by, among other things the I-Ching.

             I don't have much faith in astrology as a science  nor do I ever play the lottery but that said, one can  be intrigued at that mathematical point where coincidence seems to carry over to cause and effect. You could even say this is what quantum effects are all about.

           The usual explanation for the seeming predictive abilities of the I-Ching as well as most other such systems is based on the psychological mechanism known as projection. In other words the scenario is laid out in terms sufficiently vague for the subject to , as it were, “fill in the blank spaces” with actual events. This is traditionally aided by the fortune tellers ability to discern the wishes of the advice seeker. This isn’t that difficult.

                    If you suggest to a teenage girl she is looking to meet a tall, attractive, youngish man of means you probably will hit the mark.

                 There are other possible explanations as well. Gravity waves in space are not impossible. When you try to consider how strange space is just think of dark matter which indicates most of the universe is not there, or here, or anywhere –but we don’t quite know where it is. And of course, waves of probability which are mathematically impossible but no more so then quantum physics.

Speaking of math, it is math that takes us from the realm of chaos to that of predictive order. Again, if you want to get really weird, mystical in fact, you can suggest that there is no chaos in the inverse – there’s simply order we are not able to comprehend.
          Perhaps the effects of sunspot activity were in some way input into the creation of the Mayan Calender and the I-Ching- both of which, independently seem to have some sort of fixation on this year, 2012. It would be easier to believe if they had had tube radios, or even accurate statistical records of events but there’s no evidence of either.

                 Also some are saying these events will be apocalyptic, but from what I read it is more like the end of the cycle which is certainly not the same thing.

Michio Kaku teaches physics and has had a radio show on WBAI for years of interest to a small but dedicated audience including yours truly and he mentions that every 11 years the sunspot activity reaches an apex and flips polarity. I knew that sunspot activity rose and fell periodically but there are other things to consider. First is the fact that the normal barriers to radiation from space are eroding as a result of the weakened atmosphere that we associate mostly with global warming. Another is that the way waves work is if they operate on eleven year cycles some are bound to be larger and some smaller.

                          The third is a little difficult to describe. Essentially we have taken bandwidth that once broadcast television signals and replaced them with mobile phone stuff. No big deal
(although I’m still pissed off at the loss of free TV and refuse to pay for it –) But even though the data is digital it is transmitted via cyclic waves. Enough digital data and you get a pile of bricks, enough electronic data and you get a bolt of lightning.

              So the third aspect is while in the past we were not sensitive to the fluctuations of solar activity (except when it effected the weather) because our mechanisms weren’t effected this may change and possibly even assume a cumulative effect.

                      Street hackers are always talking about the EMP’s (Electromagnetic pulse) that could shut down society as we know it. It’s been almost twenty years since the rumors started and no one’s used it yet – plus the effect is mitigated by distance and by shielding – so one would think that at least in terms of important things, eg military, the shielding has been upgraded.

                          There’s not much you can do to control a solar event, but on this end it doesn’t appear as if anyone gives any credence to the idea of one. Anyone recall the neutron bomb? That was, I believe in the Carter administration and it was the same principle. If you take a floppy disk and put it on an oldstyle ringing telephone the fluctuation of the magnetic field effectively wipes the disk.

                              One last consideration – which I think is in the category of a sick mind is that a neutron bomb and it’s various offshoots eliminates tech and leaves humans unscathed. The sick thing is that is not what we want. We want to eliminate humans and preserve technology.  That at least is what our actions indicate.  If humanity wants to suggest that it actually values human life more then property and technology then let them behave as such.

                         The dream sequence, under the influence of heightened sunspot activity

I confess and admit that while I am not self destructive I am at times sickened by the stupidity of the human race. One sometimes feels there’s no point in helping them because they are so manifestly dedicated to killing and their own extinction. A few years back this despair overcame me and I tried to understand the rationale by which the stock market operated. It was

                    “The purpose of life is to build ever more complex and productive machinery.”

                And having built these damn things we then fall to our knees and bow down to our own creations.

Economics is a hobby of mine and unemployment is needless to say a problem. I jest that we have taken upon ourselves the prerogatives of the Gods and we are not up to the job!

                     Then again there are bio weapons that eliminate people and leave the machines – which would solve the unemployment problem. That is to suggest there is no unemployment problem We have a population explosion problem- too many women, in the workplace. so how solve it- Scientifically? According to the free market?

                 Actually the evidence is that the free market works very effectively to depress prevailing wages and the way to counter act that is to keep everyone else the hell out.

              Okay no problem. Persons making less then the average income are to be sterilized. It can be sold as the humane choice- one that will solve the prison problem as well. And the more money you have the more children you are allowed to have. This is the case already anyway.

             Heh – here’s a weird thought - what if sunspot activity effects our brains – like the schizophrenics nightmare. How would we know? The majority determines sanity, right?

I’d like to retain the rights to make that movie.