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Introduction (2009): Despite several thousand years of failure to correctly
understand physical reality (hence the current postmodern
view that this is impossible) it is actually very simple to work out
how matter exists and moves about in Space.
The rules of Science
(Occam's Razor / Simplicity) and Metaphysics
(Dynamic Unity of Reality) require that reality be described from only
one substance existing, as Leibniz
wrote; 'Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the
interconnection of all things with one another'.
When we deduce
this most Simple Science Theory of Reality we find that there is only
one possible solution: Space must be the substance which exists and matter
is formed from waves in Space. The electron is a spherical standing wave
in Space. See Wave
Diagrams
i.e. While there are many minds and material things, they all exist in one
common Space (just look around you and think about it). We can then show
that the Wave Structure of Matter is the correct solution as it deduces
the fundamentals of Physics
& Philosophy
perfectly (there are no opinions).
I realise that there are a lot of 'crackpot' theories about truth and reality
on the internet, but this solution is the most simple one and it is obvious
once known (though it takes time for our minds to adjust to new knowledge).
In hindsight the error was obvious - to try and describe an interconnected
reality from the foundation of many discrete and separate things, matter
'particles', which then required forces / fields to connect them in space
and time. This was always just a mathematical
solution which never explained how matter was connected across the universe.
For those who are religious
/ spiritual, I think Albert
Einstein expresses the enlightened view of God. He writes 'I believe
in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists,
not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.'
This harmony arises from a Wave Structure of Matter in Space (we are all
interconnected in this space that we all commonly experience). This unity
of reality (God, Brahman, Tao, Spirit, Energy, Light, Vibration) is central
to all major world religions, thus their common moral
foundation of 'Do unto others as to thyself' as the other is part of
the self.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a
revolutionary act. (George Orwell)
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. (Mohandas Gandhi)
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.
(Edmund Burke)
Hell is Truth Seen Too Late. (Thomas Hobbes)
Cosmology: Exploring the Milky Way Galaxy, other Galaxies,
Stars, Supernovas, & Quasars Brief Summaries / Information & Pictures
Summary of the Milky Way Galaxy
The Milky Way galaxy
in the Southern hemisphere
The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy which is the home of our Solar System
together with at least 200 billion other stars, their planets, thousands
of clusters and nebulae.
A spiral galaxy can be described as having a bulge in the center, surrounded
by a disk (flat, moving) and spherical halo.
Compared with other galaxies, the Milky Way is very large - its mass is
probably between 750 billion and one trillion solar masses, its diameter
about 100,000 light years.
Galaxies, which are made up of stars, gas and dust, rotate very slowly.
Our Sun, one of many stars in our Milky Way Galaxy, completes a circuit
around the Milky Way every 250 million years.
The term "milky" originates from the hazy band of white light
appearing across the celestial sphere visible from Earth, which comprises
stars and other material lying within the galactic plane. The Greek philosopher,
Democritus (450 BC – 370 BC) was the first known person to claim that
the Milky Way consists of distant stars.
Spiral Galaxy M81: Photo by Hubble Space Telescope.
This is a spiral galaxy which is similar to our Milky Way galaxy.
It is 11.6 million light-years away.
Definition of Supernova
A
supernova is a stellar explosion that creates an extremely luminous object
that is initially made of plasma - an ionized form of matter. A supernova
may briefly out-shine its entire host galaxy before fading from view over
several weeks or months. During this brief period of time, the supernova
radiates as much energy as the Sun would emit over about 10 billion years.
The explosion expels much or all of a star's material at a velocity of up
to a tenth the speed of light, driving a shock wave into the surrounding
interstellar gas. This shock wave sweeps up an expanding shell of gas and
dust called a supernova remnant.
What is a Quasar?
Modern physics understands quasars to be extremely bright
and distant active nucleus of a young galaxy. They were first identified
as being high-redshift (thus very distant) sources of electromagnetic energy,
including radio waves and visible light that were point-like similar to
stars rather than extended sources similar to galaxies.
However Halton
Arp clearly shows in his book 'Seeing Red' that these supposedly very
distant objects are actually part of much closer constellations - proving
that their high redshift is not related to distance and thus contradicting
the standard 'Big Bang' theory of cosmology. His work is now suppressed
in the USA (he was banned from using their telescopes) and he works at the
Max Planck institute in Germany. A sad insight into the state of modern
physics and its suppression of the truth to maintain existing beliefs over
empirical facts.
Picture Gallery of Supernovas, Galaxies,
The Milky Way Galaxy and Doomed Stars
Discover the amazing beauty of the cosmos!
A Supernova - Stellar explosion
The Whirlpool (spiral) Galaxy (M51)
and Companion Galaxy
The Cats Eye Nebula - Three thousand light-years
away, a dying star sheds clouds of glowing gas.
NGC 4622 Spiral Galaxy
A rare example of a spiral galaxy with
two arms pointing in opposite directions.
LH 95 - a star-forming system located
in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC),
160,000 light-years away.
This photo from the Hubble Space Telescope
shows gas, dust, infant and larger stars.
The 'doomed' star Eta Carinae - 8,000 light-years
away, 10 billion miles diameter. Eta Carinae exploded about 150 years
ago, when it became one of the brightest stars in the southern sky.
It survived the outburst, even though the star released as much visible
light as a supernova explosion.
Two spiral galaxies pass by each other.
The larger galaxy is NGC 2207 (on the left),
and the smaller one on the right is IC 2163.
Star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon)
This photo shows the effect called 'the light echo' in which light
from the stellar explosion moves outwards and the surrounding dust
is illuminated.
Sombrero Galaxy, M104, NGC 4594
Spiral Galaxy, 28 million light-years away.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the
world."
(Mohandas
Gandhi)
"When
forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence:
Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
... Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially
extended. In this way the concept 'empty space' loses its meaning.
... The particle can only appear as a limited region in space in which
the field strength or the energy density are particularly high. ...
The free, unhampered exchange of ideas and scientific conclusions
is necessary for the sound development of science, as it is in all spheres
of cultural life. ... We must not conceal from ourselves that
no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without
a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined
to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm
and the misguided. ... Humanity is going to need a substantially new way of thinking
if it is to survive!" (Albert Einstein)
This is the profound new way of thinking that Einstein
realised, that we exist as spatially extended structures of the universe
- the discrete and separate body an illusion. This simply confirms the
intuitions of the ancient
philosophers and mystics.
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A
supernova is a stellar explosion that creates an extremely luminous object
that is initially made of plasma - an ionized form of matter. A supernova
may briefly out-shine its entire host galaxy before fading from view over
several weeks or months. During this brief period of time, the supernova
radiates as much energy as the Sun would emit over about 10 billion years.
The explosion expels much or all of a star's material at a velocity of up
to a tenth the speed of light, driving a shock wave into the surrounding
interstellar gas. This shock wave sweeps up an expanding shell of gas and
dust called a supernova remnant.
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
(Mohandas Gandhi)
The free, unhampered exchange of ideas and scientific conclusions is necessary for the sound development of science, as it is in all spheres of cultural life. ... We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. ...
Humanity is going to need a substantially new way of thinking if it is to survive!" (Albert Einstein)
This is the profound new way of thinking that Einstein realised, that we exist as spatially extended structures of the universe - the discrete and separate body an illusion. This simply confirms the intuitions of the ancient philosophers and mystics.
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