Ron Jamos

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My theory for the future of data retrieval

I came up with this while sitting at my computer waiting for something to download. I really couldn’t think of anything else other than “why am I waiting for this thing to download?”

My theory is that with time travel, all types of data retrieval can be time shifted so that it is always instantaneous.

Once a data processing request is initiated. It notes the exact time of the request and estimates the processing time. The data retrieval process is essentially given a head start, so that it’s already available at the exact time of the request. Put simply, if you’ve asked your computer to retrieve some type of data, it’s already been processing in the past, thus eliminating the wait.

This means that even the most intense processes that might otherwise take years to compute, would be available seemingly instantaneously.

It’s more or less a background process using time and space as the background. It’s like having infinite processing time on-demand. Unless of course time itself has a definite beginning. But I wonder if humans could even think of a task that needed that much processing time.

The applications are endless but might include Artificial Intelligence Modeling, Gene Sequencing, etc. It also eliminates the physical footprint of todays bulky computers. A computer the size of a business card would have access to the same processing power as all the computers in the world combined, and more.

I’ve made a diagram to illustrate the process.

Things That Do Exist

Cosmic ‘DNA’: Double Helix Spotted in Space

Magnetic forces at the center of the galaxy have twisted a nebula into the shape of DNA, a new study reveals.

The double helix shape is commonly seen inside living organisms, but this is the first time it has been observed in the cosmos.

“Nobody has ever seen anything like that before in the cosmic realm,” said the study’s lead author Mark Morris of UCLA. “Most nebulae are either spiral galaxies full of stars or formless amorphous conglomerations of dust and gas-space weather. What we see indicates a high degree of order.”

These observations, made with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, are detailed in the March 16 issue of the journal Nature.

Read the full article here…

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COSMIC MAGNETS: I KNEW IT

This is Sophie again, for no other reason than I like to post nerdy things on the blog of the Raving Rant. I suppose the blood from my gash is spilling over from my area, into his area.

But the main reason for my expressing the point that will become this post, is the strange parallel that a new theory has to my own theory on the existence of ‘multiverses’ rather than a lone ‘universe’. Jon and I have discussed this previously, that: Is it not true that the term universe is used to explain everything out there, all together? But I don’t believe that the term universe can be used to explain all that is out there, rather I believe in the existence of many other dimensions that are radically unrecognisable to us and our concept of space and time.

My theory goes like this: If all space is curved, then our universe is, in totality, more or less a sphere. ie. No edge is straight. Secondly, prior to the Big Bang, there is a theory that our universe exploded into existence through a black hole, and was squeezed through the ‘rollers of space-time’ emerging in a chaotic and randomised fashion which slowly began to develop into suns, planets, stars and orbits.

The birth of the Universe is described as a nugget so small and dense that it had to explode. This nugget is also known as the ‘atome primitif,’ the ‘primordial atom’ or the ‘ylem.’ This point is the concentration of all matter in the universe squeezed by gravity into one tiny point. A fascinating book called The Index of Possibilities describes this as the aforementioned ‘rollers of space time.’ If you can imagine it like a giant hourglass, the beginning of the universe is the point where all sand pours forth from the top section, to the end section. However, in this theory, there is another point of dispersion (another chamber) attached to the bottom of the last hourglass chamber.

My imagination wonders what exactly is squeezing this all together. Gravity obviously pulls all sand (matter in the universe) towards the funnel (black hole) thence giving birth to a whole new universe. The sand from the first chamber gets jumbled up as it moves into the next chamber. So, theoretically, scientists from our universe could never imagine or conceptualise what came before the Big Bang, because every thing we know about space and time is different in our world, and has been shaken up as it was taken from that last chamber.

My theory is that since - according to Einsteins Theory of Relativity - all space is curved, this means that we could be living inside a cell or chamber that correlates to something like the cells in our body. These cells are dotted with small pores that can exchange information through their walls via osmosis. When thinking of our universe, the black holes that scientists have found dotted around the ‘wall’ of our universe are like these small cell pores. NB: The walls, or edges of our universe are measured in terms of the distance light can travel, or if you want to get more complicated, in terms of red-shift, which is the red part of the light spectrum, used to calculate the age of the universe as we know it. “If a distant galaxy were moving away from us, the wavelength of the light coming from it would shift to a longer wavelength, the red end of the light spectrum. According to the big bang theory, the farther away an object is from us, the more redshifted its light.”

To sum up, we could be living in a universe among universes, born through black holes and exploded out in chaotic discombobulation (always wanted to use that word) into new realities. All of these inter-realities would then, if we zoom out and look from a distance, like cells against cells against cells, much like tissue in an organ in a human body. Because many proportions of the human body fit symmetrically with proportions in the natural world, (a phenomenon described in terms of the existence of what Pythagoras called the Golden Ratio, or Phi; 1.618) which is “simply” (ha) the ratio of the line segments that result when a line is divided in one very special and unique way and derived with a number of geometric constructions (read on for more Phi, which is different from Pi)… then the universe could be, if we had the ability to measure it with the Golden Ratio, parallel to nature also. The universe may be, according to my theory, a single cell within a multiverse of cells, embedded within a large organ of more cells, up against more organs, and within an intelligent body of billions of universes/cells, connected together through the pores of black holes, exchanging new matter and energy with gravitational magnetism.

Now, to the point of my post! My brother who sat with me until the early hours of the morning as I formulated this theory, sent me an article from National Geographic that supports my idea of the universe as interconnected by the magnet-like pull of black holes. On that July evening back in Australia at the edge of the world, upon the coast of the most isolated city in the world (Perth, WA) we saw the universe as just one cell in the body of multiversal cells, connected by hourglass-like space-time rollers: the cells of which make up organs, tissues and perhaps a whole body, something like God, or perhaps, something like the guy walking down the street outside.

To end, I want to suggest that the old adage taken from John Donne’s Mediation XVII, ‘No man is an island’ could be modernised to express the idea that ‘Every man is a planet’, and that every man and woman has his or her own gravitation, orbit, weather system and sun. No man or woman exists as a section apart from the world. All is necessarily connected and responsive, interrelated and communicative. We exchange information to that which surrounds us, and that which we surround. To go further than that, it is not only true that men are planets, but according to me, Sophie Ward, I believe that ‘Every man is a universe’ and that in light of the parallels of man and universe that make up my theory, get ready for it: The multiverse is a man.

Wrap your head around THAT.

NB: All you lunatics powered by raving rants should know that I am not pro-male and anti-female (a chauvinist swine?) and believe that the multiverse could be a woman also. It could also be a plant, an animal, anything that is composed of interrelated intelligent cells that are, as they stand alone, unrecognisable to each other due to the incognizant self-centeredness of their spherical existence. The universe sounds like it could be gigantic Citizen Kane. Geniuses should correct me if I make no sense.

More links:

- The Divine Proportion in Nature

- The Divine Proportion in the Human Body

- The Multiverse Theory (see Bubble Theory, which helps explain my cell theory)

- Imagining the Tenth Dimension

From Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth:

“Your inner body is not solid but spacious…. Physicists have discovered that the apparent solidity of matter is an illusion created by our senses. This includes the physical body, which we perceive and think of as form, but 99.99% of which is actually empty space. This is how vast the space is between the atoms compared to their size, and there is as much space again within each atom. In many ways it is a microcosmic version of outer space”

Tags: Before the Big Bang: Hourglasses, Black Holes, Golden Ratio, Multiverse Theory, Sophie's Theory of the Universe

Things That Do Exist

Sweet Potato = Big Brain

“Did Cooked Tubers Spur the Evolution of Big Brains?”

An article by Elizabeth Pennisi, pointing to the fact that vegetarians have bigger brains, and better taste buds.

From Science, Volume 283, Number 5410 Issue of 26 Mar 1999, pp. 2004 - 2005

A controversial new theory suggests that cooking–in particular, cooking tubers–sparked a crucial turning point in human evolution.

Potatoes, turnips, cassava, yams, rutabagas, kumara, manioc–these are just a few of dozens of underground tubers that sustain modern humans, who boil, bake, and fry them for lunch, dinner, and sometimes breakfast. Now, a small but enthusiastic band of anthropologists argues that these homely roots were also pivotal in human evolution. In work in press in Current Anthropology, Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham and his colleagues announce that tubers–and the ability to cook them–prompted the evolution of large brains, smaller teeth, modern limb proportions, and even male-female bonding.

Already this work, which Wrangham has presented at meetings, has provoked skepticism, for it challenges the current dogma that meat-eating spurred the evolution of Homo erectus, the 1.8- million-year-old species whom some anthropologists say was the first to possess many humanlike traits. But the idea dovetails with another challenge to the primacy of meat-eating as an evolutionary force: the notion that gathering by females was crucial, which another team of anthropologists will present in the May issue of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE). And some researchers find the new perspective, based on a potpourri of data from both archaeology and modern human societies, quite refreshing. “Cooking as making such a difference is not something that I had previously considered,” says Andrew Hill, a paleoanthropologist at Yale University. “It’s nice to have this put forward.”

Other notable points:

- If early humans did cook tubers, then they must have controlled fire about 1.8 million years ago–but the first clear evidence for hearths isn’t until about 250,000 years ago

- Cut marks on animal bones suggest that humans had mastered meat-eating, perhaps by scavenging carcasses, by 1.8 million years ago.

- Many researchers have assumed that this high-quality food fueled the rise of H. erectus.

- But Wrangham and his Harvard team think a range of evidence argues against that scenario. They question whether scavenged carcasses could have been a major staple.

- Modern tropical hunter-gatherers do not rely heavily on meat. Among modern tropical African tribes, “there is no case of [people] eating more meat than plant food,” Wrangham points out.

- Anthropologists found that hunters belonging to the Hadza tribe of Tanzania might catch one large animal per month on average.

- Yet even for these modern hunters, “this is no way to feed the kids”

- Wrangham points out that if meat wasn’t responsible for the increase in brain size 1.8 million years ago, cooked tubers were, arguing that these starchy roots would have been quite abundant on the plains of Africa 2 million years ago. Today, there are 40,000 kilograms of tubers per square kilometer in Tanzania’s savanna woodlands, for example.

- But the real revolution came once human ancestors tasted a tuber baked in a lightning-sparked grass fire and realized the value of cooking

- “There seems to be a genuine energetic advantage in cooking food,” agrees Yale’s Hill. “This could lead to a shift in human behavior” as well as physical change.

Read the article here

LONG LIVE BAKED TUBERS.

(posted by fellow sweet potato obsessor: Sophie Ward)

What I Had For Dinner

If I Were Stranded On a Deserted Island…

…I could eat this every day. A meal made by Sophie, my favorite sometimes-gluten-free chef in the whole unknown universe. This time it was brown rice with tofu and vegetables, bathing in a coconut milk-peanut sauce. I’m sure there were some spices in there as well but some things will remain a mystery.

For desert it was dark chocolate dipped in whipped coconut cream and peanut butter.

Things That Do Exist

A Sound That Carries Over

As I was watching the opera last night with the extramazing Sophie, I came to the conclusion that the French Horn is in fact my favorite orchestral instrument.

It has a sound so distant that it seems as though it’s being played by someone in the afterlife. Yet it has a throw so far that it penetrates its way into the living.

I would like someone to play the french horn at my funeral, because I am certain I would hear it on the other side.

Have a listen…

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Sometimes even the worst art can be amazing

Once in a while I’ll come across an artist that really confuses me. So much that I’ll spend years deciding whether I like it or not. Possibly a lifetime in this case.

I’ve never been one for fantasy paintings, and never had an interest in naked woman chained to a pole while a dragon contemplates her fate. But I have to say this guy is pretty fucking amazing.

If you’ve never seen the artwork of Boris Vallejo you should check out his site, hopefully you will be as amused as I have been over the years.

Some of my favorites include movie posters for films such as Barbarella and National Lampoon’s Vacation.

What I Had For Dinner

Vegetarian Burrito from an undisclosed location

Now I say undisclosed location because my compadre Manderson ordered the food, and I can’t remember the name. But it’s mexican food, so does it really matter where it came from? Probably not. Add some chips and salsa to that order.

In addition to that a bit later I had some of those German biscuit like cookies with a slab of chocolate on the bottom. You know the kind that seem to take up a whole isle in the deli, but nobody ever really buys them. Well I buy them because they make me feel all European inside.

At the very same time, Sasha was in my room with her entire fist in a jar of Nutella. She likes to dip pretzels in the Nutella, but was running a little low today. Poor Sasha.

Things That Do Exist

What happens when you stick your head in a Supercollider?

Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski is a Russian scientist who was involved in an accident with a particle accelerator in 1978.

As a researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, Bugorski used to work with the largest Soviet particle accelerator, the synchrotron U-70. On July 13, 1978, Bugorski was checking a malfunctioning piece of equipment when an accident occurred due to failed safety mechanisms. Bugorski was leaning over the piece of equipment when he stuck his head in the part through which the proton beam was running. Reportedly, he saw a flash “brighter than a thousand suns”, but did not feel any pain. The beam measured about 2000 gray when it entered Bugorski’s skull, and about 3000 gray when it exited after colliding with the inside of his head. › Continue reading

Things That Shouldn't Exist

Exhibit teaches life’s beginnings through literal interpretation of Bible

Christians dig up fossils in hopes that nobody will find them.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The museum exhibits are taken from the Old Testament, but the special effects are pure Hollywood: a state-of-the-art planetarium, animatronics and a massive model of Noah’s Ark, all intended to explain the origins of the universe from a biblical viewpoint.

The Creation Museum, which teaches life’s beginnings through a literal interpretation of the Bible, is claiming attendance figures that would make it an unexpectedly strong draw less than a year and a half after it debuted. More than a half-million people have toured the Kentucky attraction since its May 2007 opening, museum officials said.

For creationists — Christians who believe the Bible’s first chapter of Genesis is the literal telling of the universe’s start — the museum is a godsend. Many have returned with family and friends, some from faraway states arguing it’s one of the few with a Christian worldview.

I wish they would’ve based this museum on a more interesting book.
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