An ancient Anomaly recapitulates even One who can see Time magic.

Anciently, there existed a set of cosmic insights known as the Numismati. Over centuries of translating, revising, and interpreting, they lost all meaning. In modern times, a convoluted process of randomly cutting and pasting bits of the Story, footnotes and ToneOats produced, by amazing coincidence, the long-forgotten Numismati.

“By this art we may contemplate the variation of the 23 letters...”
The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Historically, Opened and Cut up. by Robert Burton (1621); part 2, sect. II, mem. IV

Dylan, Beatles, Grateful Dead, Urantia, Tao te Ching, Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Firesign Theatre, Illuminati, StarTrek, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

bicentennial renegade...
mumbling randomly...
an intellectual concept...
it’s connected.

Unified field theory

In physics, a unified field theory is a type of field theory that allows all of the fundamental forces between elementary particles to be written in terms of a single field. There is no accepted unified field theory yet, and this remains an open line of research. The term was coined by Albert Einstein who attempted to unify the general theory of relativity with electromagnetism. A Theory of Everything is closely related to unified field theory, but differs by not requiring the basis of nature to be fields, and also attempts to explain all physical constants of nature.

This article describes unified field theory as it is currently understood in connection with quantum theory. Earlier attempts based on classical physics are described in the article on classical unified field theories.

There may be no a priori reason why the correct description of nature has to be a unified field theory; however, this goal has led to a great deal of progress in modern theoretical physics and continues to motivate research. Unified field theory is only one possible approach to unification of physics.

According to the current understanding of physics, forces between objects (e.g. gravitation) are not transmitted directly between the two objects, but instead go through intermediary entities called fields. All four of the known fundamental forces are mediated by fields, which in the Standard Model of particle physics result from exchange of bosons (integral-spin particles). Specifically the four interactions to be unified are (from strongest to weakest):

1. Strong nuclear interaction: the interaction responsible for holding quarks together to form neutrons and protons, and holding neutrons and protons together to form nuclei. The exchange particle that mediates this force is the gluon.

2. Electromagnetic interaction: the familiar interaction that acts on electrically charged particles. The photon is the exchange particle for this force.

3. Weak nuclear interaction: a repulsive short-range interaction responsible for radioactivity, that acts on electrons, neutrinos and quarks. It is governed by the W and Z bosons.

4. Gravitational interaction: a long-range attractive interaction that acts on all particles with mass. The postulated exchange particle has been named the graviton.

Modern unified field theory attempts to bring these four force-mediating fields together into a single framework. Quantum theory seems to limit any deterministic theory's descriptive power (in simple terms, no theory can predict events more accurately than allowed by the Planck constant).

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME
Stephen W. Hawking
Our Picture of the Universe

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory. On the other hand, you can disprove a theory by finding even a single observation that disagrees with the predictions of the theory... Each time new experiments are observed to agree with the predictions the theory survives, and our confidence in it is increased; but if ever a new observation is found to disagree, we have to abandon or modify the theory.

Today scientists describe the universe in terms of two basic partial theories - the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics... The general theory of relativity describes the force of gravity and the large-scale structure of the universe, that is, the structure on scales from only a few miles to as large as a million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe. Quantum mechanics, on the other hands, deals with phenomena on extremely small scales, such as a millionth of a millionth of an inch. Unfortunately, however, these two theories are known to be inconsistent with each other - they cannot both be correct.

The discovery of a complete unified theory, therefore, may not aid the survival of our species. It may not even affect our life-style. But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

the 2OO9 SPACE Festival

This was a great festival for stories.  Maybe because we had quite a few people this year.  There was a close-encounter tale, an amazing account of attending at over 1000 births, quite a yarn about blowing the whistle on the boys at KBR, a porpoise joke, poignant stories about meeting Janice Joplin, knowing the iconic victim of the Kent State riots, recollections of visiting Ram Dass in New Hampshire, and of course there was our own SPACE story, which we followed as it traveled back to the old commune on Gregory Street... a memorable event we will spin into future stories.

In the beginning (Wednesday) there was One. By Thursday there were eight of us including this year’s Mystery (unexpected) Spacenique. Good music at the campsite.
Fridayday: A hike down to Dark Hollows Falls. Five more Spaceniques arrived in the afternoon. Most all of us went to the campsite for an excellent potluck. Good food, good music, good people.
Friday evening: Another newcomer arrived -- a total of four. Most everyone congregated to swap stories and socially propagate archetypal cosmic eschatology. (According to Pooh “It’s the same thing.”)
Saturndayday: Rain in the morning. Will we be able to hang out in the Meadow? Yes! Here comes the Sun! Warm and sunny. For the first time ever, we read the Story from the Scroll itself.
This year was a bicontinental bicentennial quartertoss -- in addition to all the quarters thrown in the Meadow and across the U.S., one was thrown from Gaborone, Botswana!
MidSummer’s Eve: Most of us ate at the lodge. It took a loong time but we had plenty to talk about to keep ourselves entertained. We couldn’t go up to Blackrock this year because they were trying to protect the falcons. (We really would’ve been nice to the falcons if they’d let us.) We watched the sunset anyhow.
All 15 of us gathered for the TimeScan®. Tracing the Story back to 1973 was spellbinding and the return trip had us all oohing and ahhing.
Sunday and beyond: Some folks left early. Most of us met for breakfast at the lodge. Those of us who stayed had a pleasant day hanging out, eating, watching videos or listening to CDs, chatting and hanging out. Some folks left Sunday evening; others left Monday morning. And then there was One.

Having been some days in preparation, a splendid Time was guaranteed for all.

(Check out some cool photos from this year’s festival on the June 22 entry below.)

Round Metal Objects

What are the 42 Round Metal Object (that are not coins)? Are they all the same or different "round shape"? What type of metal? Are they the same or different types of metal?

What's their purpose? Who made them? Who first found them? Where are they now?

The story behind the Story

Now it can be told (as soon as we figure it out).
Where exactly is Macias Nguema Biyogo (see photo)? Where is Ma´tan Bishãrah? Poti, Gruzinskaja?
What is a Badonan? What lay beneath the ground on which they were standing? What were the forty-two round metal objects? What was the “strange and nearly forgotten tongue”? Why does Eschatology recapitulate itself?
Check it out. Go to “Questions Asked” on this blog or Vade Mecum on the Space Forum.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Milliways, better known as The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is a dining establishment that has been said to be the best thing since sliced bread, and in fact even serves sliced bread at your request.

It involves both:

Seeing one Edge of the Universe, and Seeing the End of the Universe

The name Milliways apparently refers to either:

The million ways the Universe could end, or

The thousandth of a way the Universe could end.

Its sister project is the Restaurant at the Beginning of the Universe, called Manyways.

Conventional methods
Reaching the spatial End of the Universe is rather simple. The restaurant is built on the former location of the planet Magrathea (which was built on the future location of Frogstar World B), and one can reach it using any variety of spacecraft available, including those that use Infinite Improbability Drive, Bistromathics, or Hyperspace. Actual travel time may vary, depending on the space, time, and dimension of origin.

Alternate method
You just, well, wait for about 42 billion years. The Big Crunch will be imminent by then, and the size of the Universe will have been greatly reduced, making it easier to reach the spatial End of the Universe.

This, of course, is what is mainly done by many immortals.

However, since many people are mortals, they just utilize time travel and high speed spacecraft.

Questions asked, unasked and not yet answered

SPACE is not only big, it’s also mysterious. There exists within SPACE an ancient Mystery. At this Time, we do not comprehend the full extent of the Mystery. Eschatology recapitulates the Mystery, but it’s bigger than just that. There are clues in the Story, but the Mystery cannot be solved without the missing clues.

That’s why we create a set of clues known as toneoats. Some of them are allegorical; others are literally true; the rest are ersatz nonsequiturs. Over Time, they evolve, both in terms of what they say and in their ability to facilitate TimeMagic. By this process, we unravel the mystery as we create it.

Look everywhere for SPACE clues, potential toneoats. As you read, watch TV, surf the Net, interact with people, look for SPACE clues. As you live Life, contemplate the Universe, and experience Everything, look for clues, potential toneoats. Send, Post Any Clues, Eschatological insights, outasights, ideas, factoids or connections you happen upon. Even if you don’t see how it fits, some other Spacenique may find some other faction or connectoid that meshes perfectly with it, so we’ll be able to decode the answer when it appears. Here are few questions that need clues....

1) What is the “underground mechanism [that] had been working on the problem for a long time”?

2) What “lay beneath the ground on which they were standing”?

3) What SPACE insights are encrypted on the Phaestos Disk?

4) What is special or unusual about June 21, 1974 (history, astrology,numerology, whatever), date of the First Festival and first modernquartertoss?

5) What about Minoan civilization relates to the Story or SPACE?

There are many many other questions, so few answers and more questions yet unasked. Sign up and join into the discussion on the Space Forum.

Hubble Telescope Photos

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Who, What, Where, When, How, and Why?

Who is Eieio? What's his story? Was he a real cyclops or just a very big man who lost an eye?

What of Lilith? Sorceress? Adept? High Priestess?

And Gern, the Wanderer? Did he always wander or was that something he took up later in life? If so, what was his life before he became a wanderer?

How were the 42 round objects (that are not coins)found? What were the round objects? Why were they left in the garden mist? What happened to them after being left in the garden mist?

It occured to me, a compendium of some sort, would be a good format to answer these and other questions. For lack of a better term, a "SPACEipedia" - where we would all contribute our thoughts and explainations regarding the elements of SPACE.

so long and thanks for all the fish

Einstein, Relativity and the Space-time Continuum

According to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, matter bends the fabric of space and time. The distortion of the space-time continuum even affects the behavior of light.

Almost looks like the SPACE logo... very interesting......

In order to sidestep the issue of Newton's Third Law of Motion and the impossibility of matter traveling faster than the speed of light, we can look to Einstein and the relationship between space and time. Taken together, space, consisting of three dimensions (up-down, left-right, and forward-backward) and time are all part of what's called the space-time continuum.

It's important to understand Einstein's work on the space-time continuum and how it relates to the Enterprise traveling through space. In his Special Theory of Relativity, Einstein states two postulates:

1. The speed of light (about 300,000,000 meters per second) is the same for all observers, whether or not they're moving.

2. Anyone moving at a constant speed should observe the same physical laws.

Putting these two ideas together, Einstein realized that space and time are relative -- an object in motion actually experiences time at a slower rate than one at rest. Although this may seem absurd to us, we travel incredibly slow when compared to the speed of light, so we don't notice the hands on our watches ticking slower when we're running or traveling on an airplane. Scientists have actually proved this phenomenon by sending atomic clocks up with high-speed rocket ships. They returned to Earth slightly behind the clocks on the ground.

Quick Spacefest Clip 2009

WOOT! The Story has been sent back.

We just returned home from a wonderful spacefest. A few spaceniques are still there.

Will post some pics during the week when I get them downloaded.

Meanwhile - Spacegear for the 2009 Spacefest will remain available until we get ready to put put the 2010 Spacefest gear sometime next year.

We did some brainstorming regarding life, the universe and everything. Keep checking back to get some details.

IT'S SPACEFEST!

It's SPACEFEST- where it a connects!

Albert Einstein and Douglas Adams

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the resta kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security. --Albert Einstein



Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants. --Douglas Adams



Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. --Albert Einstein


Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. --Douglas Adams


What is inconceivable about the universe, is that it should be at all conceivable. --Albert Einstein


From the late Einstein we are getting more and more refinements to our picture of how time and space work at a macroscopic level, and from the late Heisenberg and Planck we are increasing our understanding of the fundamental structures of matter at a quantum level. And there is absolutely no doubt that this information is edging us closer and closer toward the elusive goal of a Grand Unified Field Theory of Everything. --Douglas Adams

The Uncyclopedia

“In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the western hemisphere of the planet earth, uncyclopedia has already supplanted wikipedia as the standard repository for all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omission and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it contains 1 zero wing reference every 3 words; and second, it has the wisdom of Oscar Wilde inscribed at the top of every article. ”

~ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on Uncyclopedia “I got beaten to it, but I don't really mind... bloody good book...” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The history of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is now so complicated that every time I tell it I contradict myself, and whenever I do get it right I'm misquoted. So the publication of this omnibus edition seemed like a good opportunity to set the record straight--or at least firmly crooked.” ~ Douglas Adams

Big Meadows WEBCAM

For those not attending Spacefest, but wish to peek in on us - here's the link to the Big Meadows webcam

We will be gathering in the Big Meadow on Saturday 6/20

Weather Forecast

Thursday 6/18
Chance Of T-Storm
High 71 deg F
Low 59 deg F
Cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Overnight: mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 40percent.

Friday 6/19
Chance Of T-Storm
High 81 deg F
Low 65 deg F
Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Overnight: mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.

Saturnday 6/20
Chance Of T-Storm
High 81 deg F
Low 60 deg F
Cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Overnight: mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. Lows around 60. Southwest winds around 5 mph.

Sunday 6/21
Chance Of T-Storm
High 79 deg F
Low 60 deg F
Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.