There are different power systems based on time.Vril is a very advanced kind. The longer a civilization has had, the cleaner and more powerful its forms of propulsion are. Touch a time-travel craft from 10K-50Kyears in the future, and download history by touch (WQ).
A heavy peace of metal levitates in thin air. Impossible! What "magic" holds it up?
(Wiki) When a magnet floats above a superconductor bathed in freezing liquid nitrogen, it demonstrates perfect diamagneticlevitationas explained by the Meissner effect.
Experiments with an ampere-based definition of the kilogram flipped this arrangement upside-down: an electric field accelerated a superconducting test mass supported by fixed magnets.
The upshot of these demonstrable and replicable facts is that you can makeyour ownmini vimana (flying disc craft) or purchase oneat any decent Sharper Image stylescience hobby shop. Build one to scale and sail the sky like an akasha-deva, a "shining one" from space. Here is the one we are constructing then trying to scale up:
(XNAME41) UFO anti-gravity from household items can be built by anyone at home to prove the point that of courseflying discs and enormous levitating craft are possible and seen all over the planet like Peter Davenport and other sites report (e.g., nationalufocenter.com).
While you were in your public lab, private research in secret labs was making headway many now take for granted.
The most fruitful research is simple reverse engineering. But there is always room for human innovation.
Subterranean labs (D.U.M.B.S.) -- in conjunction with various governments from Nazis in Antarctica, to Americans in secret sites like Dream Land/Groom Lake/Area 51, Fermi Labs, to European powers in Malta, CERN, the Vatican, to multinationals or transnationalists near Aceh, a "special region" of Indonesia, and so on -- create the most advanced things because earthlings and visitors work together.
Giant Easter Island Heads have...Bodies! Ancient aliens? Of course, there were aliens from space then as now. They have been here all along. We (Homo sapien sapiens) came from space as others came and keep coming. Earth, after all, is in space as all planets are.
Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly translation based on Ven. Thanissaro, Anagata-bhayani Sutta, "Discourse on Future Dangers" (AN 5.78)
The future: where you and I will spend the rest of our lives...when cartoons have been rendered useless by thelolcats (Tom Tomorrow/thismodernworld.com)
"Meditators, five future dangers are enough, when considered,
for one living in a remote setting -- heedful, ardent, and resolute -- to
live for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized. What five?
1. "One reminds oneself: At present I
am young, dark-haired, endowed with the blessings of youth, in the
first stage of life. But a time will come when this body will be beset
by old age. When one is overcome by old age and decay, it is not easy
to practice the Buddha's teachings. It is not easy to reside in
seclusion in peaceful forest or wilderness dwellings [beneficial for rapid success in Buddhist serenity and insight forms of meditation].
"Before this disagreeable, distressing, unwelcome thing happens, let me make an effort for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized, so that --
endowed with this instruction (Dharma) -- I will live in peace even when old.
"This is the first future danger that is enough, when
considered, for one -- heedful, ardent, and resolute -- to live for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized.
"Free Birds" - Going back in time to get turkeys off the menu
2. "Furthermore, one reminds oneself: At present I am free
of illness and discomfort, endowed with healthy digestion: not too cold,
not too hot, moderate and agreeable. But a time will come when this body will be beset by illness. When one is overcome by illness, it is not easy to practice the Buddha's teachings. It
is not easy to reside in seclusion in peaceful forest or wilderness dwellings.
"Before
this disagreeable, distressing, unwelcome thing happens, let me make an effort for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized, so
that -- endowed with this instruction -- I will live in peace even when sick.
"This is the second future danger that is enough, when
considered, for one -- heedful, ardent, and resolute -- to live for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized.
Original Mr. Peabody Dog and Boy Sherman (1959), "Rapunzel"
3. "Furthermore, one reminds oneself: At present food is
plentiful, and alms are easy to come by. It is easy to maintain oneself by
gleanings and patronage. But a time will come when there is
famine: Food will be scarce, alms hard to come by, and it will not be easy to
maintain oneself by gleanings and patronage. When there is famine,
people will congregate where food is plentiful. There they will live
packed and crowded together. When one is living packed and crowded
together, it is not easy to practice the Buddha's teachings. It
is not easy to reside in seclusion in peaceful forest or wilderness dwellings.
"Before
this disagreeable, distressing, unwelcome thing happens, let me
make an effort for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized, so
that -- endowed with this instruction -- I will live in peace even when there
is famine.
"This is the third future danger that is enough, when
considered, for one -- heedful, ardent, and resolute -- to live for
attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized.
Family Guy/original "Back to the Future" blend
4. "Furthermore, one reminds oneself: At present people are living
in harmony, on friendly terms, without quarreling, like milk and
water, looking at one another with eyes of affection. But a time will come when there is danger due to an invasion by savage outsiders. Taking
power, they will surround the countryside. When there is danger, people
will congregate where it is safe. There they will live packed and
crowded together. When one is living packed and crowded together, it is
not easy to practice the Buddha's teachings. It is not easy to
reside in seclusion in peaceful forest or wilderness dwellings.
"Before this disagreeable, distressing,
unwelcome thing happens, let me make an
effort for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized, so that --
endowed with this instruction -- I will live in peace even when there is
danger.
"This is the fourth future danger that is enough, when
considered, for one -- heedful, ardent, and resolute -- to live for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized.
5. "Furthermore, one reminds oneself: At present the community (Sangha) -- harmonious, on friendly terms, without quarreling -- lives in comfort
with a communal recitation [of the guidelines of the path-to-liberation]. But a time will come when the community
is split. When the community is split, it is not easy to practice the
Buddha's teachings. It is not easy to reside in seclusion in peaceful forest or
wilderness dwellings.
"Before this disagreeable, displeasing, unwelcome
thing happens, let me make an effort for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized, so that -- endowed with this instruction -- I will
live in peace even when the community is split.
"This is the fifth future danger that is enough, when
considered, for one -- heedful, ardent, and resolute -- to live for
attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized.
"These are the five future dangers that are enough, when
considered, for one -- heedful, ardent, and resolute -- to live for
attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized."
Literal time travel
Time travel may already be a functional reality
(C2C/DiscloseTruthTV) "Time travel is possible and already being done" according to attorney Andrew Basiago from the US government's Project Pegasus (DARPA/CIA). Basiago and his father served in the secret program. He blows the whistle on the current state of the cover up and surveillance technology being deployed. This includes chronovision, a natural quantum-access time-visualization technology to see events recapitulated in time through a TV-like box, suggesting that "time" -- along with various alternative timelines -- is constantly occurring rather than dead and gone. Events leave a cyclical residual signal that can be amplified, as was discovered during investigations of Gregorian chant harmonics, as well as incipient signals of future events. These fading signals, like ripples in a pond, can be amplified in the lab -- and this has already been done. Elite physicists, like Fermi of Fermilab fame, were well aware of this discovery and its theoretical, experimental, as well as practical implications. One device, Basiago explains, "generates a hologram of a past or
future event...by driving an electromagnetic signal through an
octagonal, an eight-sided array of bismuth crystals." Time travelers like Basiago were trained in its use. Basiago last saw these technologies in 1972, when
he left the program. However, he is convinced that chronovision has been implemented by
the US intelligence community to aid in its widespread spying programs.
Who is Andrew D. Basiago? His father was a project principal, and he became a project participant. He a is a lawyer,
writer, 21st century visionary, and future presidential candidate (Barry Obama was also involved in Project Pegasus and Mars travel). He is an emerging figure in the
Disclosure Movement leading a campaign to lobby the US government to tell the truth and disclose its involvement in various mind bending controversies. Beyond mindboggling time travel, near instant travel to
Mars to see the life forms living there, and "quantum
access" to past and future events. He has been identified as the
first of two major planetary whistleblowers predicted by ALTA, the Web
Bot project that analyzes the content of the Web to discern
future trends.
The MINOS neutrino experiment is located in a cavern half a mile deep in the Soudan Underground Lab, Minnesota. (Yet people doubt there are DUMBs in the US). A mural of famous scientists is painted onto the rock wall (Fermilab).
Buddhist Physics made visible It shocked me that at a meditation retreat, the revered monk and scholar was explaining how particles-of-perception could literally be observed. The mind purified and intensified through absorption- (jhana) and honed by insight- (vipassana) practice became able to perceive the smallest particles in Buddhist physics.
I had always thought these things theoretical and, although terribly interesting, beside the point. But they were the point. To gain enlightenment, one would have to examine and analyze these ephemeral objects. The purpose of doing so is direct realization that "everything that is of a nature to arise is of a nature to pass away." This is the teaching of radical impermanence.
It is not that eventually things crumble; rather in every moment in every way, things are changing and transforming.
One startling aspect of this teacher (Pa Auk Sayadaw)'s instruction, derived from the Abhidharma and Path of Purification, was the notion that particles-of-perception had "flavor" and "odor." This went against everything I understood about such gross physical phenomena. But had I known then as I know now that ordinary meditators in attendance were seeing them, were enjoying absorption and gaining liberating insight, I should have been much more amazed at that.
What is invisible and transient will become visible through practice. It will not, however, become any less transient. So how in the world will the mind/heart ever see a subatomic particle? The answer is easy to understand, hard to accomplish. The mind perceives it and, like a photograph, lays down a memory trace. That trace can be reviewed even if what it is a trace of happened so incredibly quickly as to be incomprehensible.
Stanford Univ., Los Alamos National Lab (particleadventure.org/KarlTate/LiveScience)
Seeing the transition (anicca, transition or flux), instability (dukkha, disappointment or unsatisfactoriness), and composite nature (anatta, impersonality or emptiness) first hand is what liberates the heart/mind from clinging to things as if they are real, able to yield satisfaction or able to be possessed.
If the mind/heart (other more subtle particles called cittas, the elements or moments of consciousness in Buddhist psychology) sees the "true nature" of things, it withdraws. It naturally lets go. And unbound, unentangled, detached from them, it is freed just for an instant.
But that instant is enough to undo the hold of samsara, this clinging to self, suffering, and rebirth -- giving way to the first stage of enlightenment (stream entry), the gateway, the all important noble attainment. Imagine what surprise, then, to hear science use the term "flavor" to describe the transitory nature of these same unbelievably small and short lived particles! Here's the story LiveScience.com:
Exotic Particle Changes Flavor as Scientists Watch Scientists have observed the rare phenomenon of one type of exotic particle transforming into another, which could reveal secrets about the evolution of the universe.
The particles are two types of chargeless, nearly massless species called neutrinos, which come in three flavors: muon, electron, and tau. In past experiments, physicists have measured the change of muon neutrinos to tau neutrinos and electron neutrinos to muon or tau neutrinos. But no one has definitively seen muon neutrinos turn into electron neutrinos.
Now two separate experiments -- one in Japan and one in Minnesota -- have both found evidence for this transformation as well.More
Artist's impression of a quasar (NASA/Telegraph.co.uk)
Astronomers shed light on the Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" in the evolution of the universe following the Big Bang, it has been claimed.
For years scientists have known nothing about the "dark ages" of space -- a period between the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago and the [forma]tion of the first stars.
But Cambridge University researchers have now captured light emitted from a massive black hole to peer into this unknown portion of the history of the universe.
They discovered remnants of the first stars and evidence of the aftermath of an exploding star, which was 25 times larger than the sun.
Prof Max Pettini, of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy, believes the discovery of these gases could help reveal the origins of the universe.
He said: "We have effectively been able to peer into the Dark Ages using the light emitted from a quasar.
"The light provides a backdrop against which any gas cloud in its path can be measured.
"We discovered tiny amounts of elements present in the cloud in proportions that are very different from their relative proportions in normal stars today.
"Most significantly, the ratio of carbon to iron is 35 times greater than measured in the sun...." More>>
Hidden in Plain Sight: Researchers Find Galaxy-Scale Bubbles Extending from the Milky Way John Matson (Scientific American, Nov. 15, 2010) An analysis of public data from a NASA satellite turns up massive galactic structures. Artist's conception showing the approximate scale of the newfound Fermi bubbles above and below the Milky Way (NASA/GSFC).
A group of astrophysicists has located two massive bubbles of plasma, each extending tens of thousands of light-years, emitting high-energy radiation above and below the plane of the galaxy.
The researchers found the structures in publicly released data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, which was launched in 2008 to investigate sources of extremely energetic photons — namely, gamma rays, which have higher frequencies than x-rays.
From its orbital perch hundreds of kilometers above Earth's surface, Fermi has charted the location of gamma-ray sources with its Large Area Telescope (LAT). But just where the gamma rays originate is not always clear; the foreground of Fermi's view is clouded with emission from events such as cosmic rays striking dust in the Milky Way's disk.
To get a better picture of the gamma-ray environment, Douglas Finkbeiner of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and his colleagues carefully subtracted those sources based on maps showing locations of cosmic dust, models of the galactic disk, and known emitters of gamma rays, such as active black holes in other galaxies. More>>
[And the ancient Indians knew what they knew about the universe, math, and architecture because visitors from space told them. The Vedas are a detailed record of that knowledge, particularly the Vimana Shastra. Here Vishnu is seen in space, where the bubbles seem to represent entire cosmos.]
Controlling the Brain with Light With a technique called optogenetics, researchers can probe how the nervous system works in unprecedented detail. Their findings could lead to better treatments for psychiatric problems.
Illustration of the God particle, Higgs boson (dailygalaxy.com)
(TOI) Has the Holy Grail of physics finally been found? The internet is abuzz with rumors that the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, US, has found the Higgs boson — nicknamed the "God particle" — after Tommaso Dorigo, a physicist at the University of Padua in Italy wrote in his blog that there has been talk coming out of the Illinois laboratory that the Higgs has been discovered.
The Higgs boson, believed to give all other particles in the universe their mass, is called the "God particle," because scientists believe finding it — or even proving that it exists — can help explain how the universe came into being.
In ‘‘Rumors about a light Higgs,’’ a post on Science20.com, Dorigo says: ‘‘It reached my ear, from two different, possibly independent sources, that an experiment at the Tevatron is about to release some evidence of a light Higgs boson signal. Some say a three-sigma effect, others do not make explicit claims but talk of a unexpected result.’’ More>>
US scientists create cloth that can listen (AFP) This could give a whole new meaning to the phrase power dressing. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a cloth that can hear and emit noise. The team, led by MIT professor Yoel Fink, has reached "a new milestone on the path to functional fibers..." MIT said in a statement.
The "Science of Resilience" (NYT) Is the loss of language and culture connected to the extinction of plant and animal species in a globalized “epidemic of sameness”? Welcome to the “science of resilience” — an interdisciplinary study of the value of diversity in complex systems. In Seed magazine, Maywa Montenegro and Terry Glavin report on a growing effort to study the feedback loops of “linguistic, cultural, and biological extinction.”
Asteroid pictures: Battered world found in Lutetia National Geographic) Asteroid 21 Lutetia is exposed, craters and all, in a picture captured Saturday by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft. Rosetta's close encounter with Lutetia revealed a battered world—a possible remnant from the birth of our solar system, astronomers say. To snap the above image, Rosetta swooped about 1,965 miles (3,162 kilometers) above Lutetia's surface. The image is the highest-resolution photo taken of the space rock, located more than 270 million miles (440 million kilometers) away from Earth, between Mars and Jupiter. (Watch a video of Rosetta's flyby.) More>>
(GoldRing) June 2007 to December 2012 is the completion cycle of the Mayan calendar. The compression of time-space energy fields increases the intensity of conscious awareness like an ocean wave moving onshore. From an individual's perspective everything is speeding up because we are vibratory beings. In actuality the space wherein one's vibration manifests is disappearing as time compresses into the omni-centric singularities. Space and Time are inseparable and integral energies that allow forms to become physical, actual, and interpreted by particularized consciousness. The metamorphosis, transition, or "ascension" can be understood with an analogy to the event horizon of a black hole. One is entering the zero point and preparing to move through the vortex of the singularity. The result is that past and future are compressed into the fullness of the eternal now.
Instead of meditating on the Four Elements (introduced below) and seeing for themselves, scientists have built a machine so we can all have a look. It's clumsy, but it's empirical. And it's much easier than the search for kalapas.
GENEVA -- A blip heard around the world: a blink of the computer screen and physicists everywhere (except perhaps Illinois) were celebrating. This blip was literally of cosmic proportions, representing a new tool to probe the birth of the universe.
The world's largest atom smasher passed its first test yesterday as physicists said their tool is almost ready to reveal how the tiniest particles [in Buddhist terms kalapasor hadrons] were first created after the "Big Bang," which is the theory that a massive explosion formed the elements, stars, planets, and everything else we see.
Rivals and friends in pajamas turned out at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, to watch the event via a special satellite connection. Joining in from around the world were other physicists — many of whom may one day work on the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC, pictured).
Tension mounted in the control rooms at CERN as scien-tists huddled around computer screens and fired protons through the 17-mile tunnel of the collider under-ground along the Swiss-French border. Then they celebrated. "The first technical challenge has been met," said a jubilant Robert Aymar, director-general of CERN, and went on:
"What you have just seen is the result of 20 years of effort. It all went like clockwork. Now it's for the physicists to show us what they can do. They are ready to go for discoveries...Man has always shown he wants to know where he comes from and where he will go, where the universe comes from and where it will go. So here we're looking at essential questions for mankind."
The CERN experiments could reveal more about various forms of matter including the theoretical "God particle" (Higgs-boson). And maybe next science will tackle the ocean's growing plastic waste problem.
Smaller colliders have been used for decades to study the makeup of the atom. Scientists once thought protons and neutrons were the smallest components of an atom's nucleus, but experiments have shown that protons and neutrons are made of quarks and gluons and that there are other forces and particles.
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) scientists look at a computer screen during the switch on operation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the Cern's press center near Geneva. Particle physicists were jubilant on Wednesday after the long-awaited startup of a mega-machine designed to expose secrets of the cosmos passed its first tests with flying colors (AFP/Pool/Fabrice Coffrini).
The LHC project was organized by 20 European member nations. It has attracted researchers from 80 nations. Some 1,200 of those researchers are from the US, an observer country and contributor. India, Japan, Canada, and Russia are also observers and major contributors.
The Eightfold Way: a classification of subatomic particles known as hadrons into groups on the basis of their symmetrical properties, the number of members of each group being 1, 8 (most frequently), 10, or 27.
The system was proposed in 1961 by the American physicistMurray Gell-Mann and the Israeli physicist Yuval Neʾeman. It is based on the mathematical symmetry group SU(3); however, the name of the system was suggested by analogy with the Eightfold Path of Buddhism because of the centrality of the number eight. One of the early triumphs of the Eightfold Way was the prediction of the existence of a heavy subatomic particle required to complete one of the groups.
The particle, called omega-minus, was discovered in 1964. That same year, Gell-Mann set forth the concept of quarks as the physical basis for the classification system, thereby establishing the foundation for the modern quark model of hadrons. See also quark.
The real meaning of Anicca is that "impermanence" or "decay" is the inherent nature of every-thing that exists in the universe — whether animate or inanimate.
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Kalapa, artist's conception
The Buddha taught that everything that exists at the material level is composed of kalapas. Kalapas are material units very much smaller than atoms, which die out immediately after they come into being. Each kalapa is a mass formed of the eight basic constituents of matter — the solid, liquid, calorific, and oscillatory, together with color, smell, taste, and nutriment. The first four are called primary qualities and are predominant in a kalapa. The other four are subsidiaries, dependent upon and springing from the former.
BUILDING BLOCKS
A kalapa is the minutest particle on the physical plane — still beyond the range of science today. It is only when the eight basic material constituents unite together that the kalapa is formed. In other words, the momentary collocation of these eight basic elements of behavior makes a human just for that moment, which in Buddhism is known as a kalapa. The life-span of a kalapa is termed a "moment," and a trillion such moments are said to elapse in the wink of an eye.
Kalapas are in a state of constant change, a perpetual flux. To the observer during insight meditation (vipassana) they can be felt as a stream of energy.
Moreover, according to Pa Auk Sayadaw (and many who have trained under him to directly experience kalapas such as Rasmussen & Snyder), it is possible to literally see and know kalapas and their constituents, that is, their four elemental and four subsidiary qualities. The Sayadaw is alive and teaching worldwide (currently in Barre, Massachusetts). But Buddhist physics goes further, pointing out aspects of matter directly relating to the human experience.
"Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form" is a famous expression from the discourse on the core of wisdom, or penetrative knowledge, that has "gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond" (Heart Sutra). It enters the realm of Buddhism's Higher Teaching (Abhidharma), which was exploring physics long before the Greeks (themselves influenced by Buddhism and other Indian philosophies) ever thought to search for the "atom" (kalapa = building block of matter).
There are underived elements, namely, the four primary qualities of matter (dhatu). And there are 24 derived (upada) or secondary phenomena. These will make very little sense to modern students of Western physics. But they suggest that what we see on a relative or conventional level is designed into the subatomic or most minute aspects of materiality. These derived/subsidiary qualities (such as taste or color, which we presume to be macro-level only) are already seen occurring at a micro or constituent level. This is what a meditator sees and directly knows. It is experiential rather than theoretical (the theory is merely recorded in the ancient texts and confirmed by practitioners). Buddhism itself, therefore, is more concerned with the successful practice of directly knowing and seeing than with any textbook discussion of the universe.
SPACE
Space (akasa-dhatu), interestingly, is also a derived quality of the material world. (There are two kinds, limited and boundless or finite and infinite). Limited space is the derived aspect of form already mentioned. "The space element has the characteristic of delimiting matter. Its function is to indicate the boundaries of matter....its manifestation consists of being untouched [by the Four Elements]... Its proximate cause is the matter delimited" (Path of Purification XIV,63).
Space (ajatakasa or anantakasa), more interestingly, that is unlimited, unentangled, unobstructed -- empty or hyperspace -- is the object of the First Immaterial Meditation (jhana). It corresponds to an actual, literal plane of existence called the Sphere of Boundless Space. [See WQ for the "31 Planes of Existence"]. Whether this actually exists in the universe is a matter of debate: The German scholar-monk, Ven. Nyanatiloka, deduces that since it is not included in an all-inclusive Commentarial summary of reality, it does not have objective (but only conceptual) existence. He goes on to point out that later Buddhist schools "regarded it as one of several unconditioned or uncreated states (asankhata dharma)" whereas Theravada Buddhism regards only nirvana as an "unconditioned" [i.e., without constituents] element.
Ulitmately, whether discussing a material form or a psychological "element" (sensation, perception, mental-formation, and consciousness) the same thing may be said. "It still remains a firm condition, an immutable fact, a fixed law that all formations [i.e., all conditioned phenomena] are radically impermanent (in constant flux), unsatisfactory, and impersonal (empty)." Therefore, for practical purposes but not ultimately, it matters what the LHC finds: hadrons, kalapas, the "God particle," a Black Hole on the French side of the border.
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