Important Note (September, 2012) - I have submitted an essay to a competition on the foundations of physical reality. It explains how matter and fields are just two different ways that space vibrates. It is very simple and obvious once understood, has profound consequences for humanity, our sense of self in the universe knowing that we vibrate with everything around us. Please read it, rate it, and I will reply to all comments. Thanks, Geoff haselhurst (11th Sept. 2012)
I realise that there are a lot of 'crackpot' theories about truth and reality
on the internet, but it is easy to show that the Wave Structure of Matter
is the correct solution as it deduces the laws
of Nature (the fundamentals of Physics & Philosophy)
perfectly (there are no opinions). While the Wave Structure of Matter is obvious
once known, to begin it will seem strange simply because it takes time
for our minds to adjust to new knowledge.
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)
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Safe Natural Herbicides for Weed Control
There are a number of natural pesticides available to gardeners
for insect control, but relatively few natural herbicides for the eradication
of weeds or other invasive plants. What natural herbicides do exist can
do more harm than good if applied under the wrong conditions. However,
there are plants that act as natural herbicides, such as black walnut,
sunflowers, sagebrush and spotted knapweed. These plants excrete chemicals
that can kill off another plant species growing nearby. The process of
certain plants acting as natural herbicides is called allelopathy.
Researchers are very interested in the allelopathic qualities
of plants, since the chemicals responsible for natural herbicides can often
be isolated and refined for commercial use. For example, scientists were
able to extract an herbicidal chemical called catechin from the roots of
spotted knapweed, an invasive weed found in the western United States.
This chemical can be synthesized on a larger scale and applied to a number
of other invasive plants. Many natural herbicides are selective, which
means that their chemicals only kill specific plants, not everything they
touch.
Other natural herbicides are used primarily to control weed growth
in commercial turf, such as golf courses and installed lawns. These natural
herbicides are considered pre-emergent, which means that they destroy other
plants at the germination stage, before the plant can establish roots.
One such natural herbicide is corn gluten meal. Corn gluten meal was originally
developed as a medium for growing fungus, but researchers discovered that
it also inhibits the germination of other plants, especially weeds and
grasses.
The biggest danger from pesticide exposure is not from the immediate
effects, but the harm that comes long after exposure or from repeated,
low-dose exposure. Of the 26 most widely used pesticides in the U.S., 12
are classified by the EPA as carcinogens. Americans use approximately 380
million pounds of pesticides per year. (U.S. EPA. 1998. Office of Pesticide
Programs, list of chemicals evaluated for carcinogenic potential).
Recent data collected by the EPA reports that in the U.S. approximately
5 billion pounds of active pesticide ingredients are applied annually.
These tremendous amounts of poisons entering our environment and our bodies,
create great concern among many of us.
A recent University of Washington (2002) study found that 109
out of 110 urban and suburban children had pesticides in their urine samples.
Pets and wildlife are also vulnerable to the harmful effects of
pesticides and herbicides. Since pesticides are designed to kill, it is
no wonder that beneficial insects are decimated by pesticide use. It makes
sense to avoid harmful pesticides in order to preserve the health of beneficial
insect populations which control pests naturally.
Food grown on certified organic farms contains significantly less
pesticide residue than food grown with synthetic pesticides. That seems
obvious, but the evidence for this fact has only been available since 2002,
according to Sandra Steingraber, PhD. Research has shown that children
fed organic food have lower residues of certain pesticides in their bodies
than children fed conventionally grown food.
This site has a great list of websites on pesticides, organic
foods and farming, natural lawn care, soil testing etc.
Research of Natural Pesticides from Plants
Natural compounds have increasingly become the focus in the discovery
of pesticides.
Tens of thousands of secondary products of plants have been identified
and there are estimates that hundreds of thousands of these compounds exist.
There is growing evidence that most of these compounds are involved
in the interaction of plants with other species-primarily the defense of
the plant from plant pests. Thus, these secondary compounds represent a
large reservoir of chemical structures with biological activity. This resource
is largely untapped for use as pesticides.
This review will provide an overview of those compounds from plants
that have been utilized for pest control, examples of some compounds with
pesticidal potential, and a discussion of considerations in development
of natural plant compounds for pesticidal use.
"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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(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)
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