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My YouTube videos lately have been of Sir Roger Penrose and Lectures by Richard Feynman.
The Feynman Lectures, excellent explanations that only serve to befuddle me more, and I can listen only to so many before I begin to get unsettled. They're synthesized from his notes, audio clips of him speaking, audio, it's the "Uncanny" feeling - that AI can resurrect you from the dead and have you do whatever it wants - listening to these for some reason builds up a pit of anxiety in my stomach.
So back to Penrose. I'm liking him; 94, still lucid and he disagrees with the standard Cosmological Model.
I; as well; disagree, the difference is that he does from a position of a lifetime commitment to studying physics and observing the universe and doing the math (ie: education) - mine simply a deep seated intuition that something is wrong. Not with the Universe - you have to love Feynman's quote "The Universe doesn't owe us an explanation" - but something deep and fundamental with our understanding of it.
A few examples: The expanding, or inflationary universe - (Big Bang Theory) - which are somewhat validated by the red shifting of stars and galaxies but then undermined by the supersized galactic rings and super structures that of necessity predate the "Dawn of the Universe". Even Eddington, whose idea it was - later came to reject it.
Why is the speed of light what it is? What of the Hubble tension?
And those pesky time-travelling Positrons, Dirac's equations, so many other questions -
Then there's the problem of an infinite, unbounded universe, which if left unchecked would see another me at another time perfectly incarnated, doing exactly what I'm doing right now - that all things of necessity would occur again, and this is also intuitively wrong. What I can imagine is that the laws of the universe will change as itself "evolves" to avoid this repetition
But - and the more I understand (which is really less) the more I can get on board with a whole host of spiritual teachings that explain it on a human scale - which, really, is going to have to be good enough.
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Found this out in a Penrose interview (which one I don't remember) - large scaled "Galactic Rings" that refute both the size and age of the universe by their being billions and (I'm sure we'll discover) even hundreds of billions of light years across, and the fact that their size means that somehow they existed or were forming before our current understanding of the big-bang. I'm with Sir Roger Penrose (& Eddington & Others) in that something very major is fundamentally wrong about our understanding of the universe. And it starts with Big Bang - remember, even Eddington, who's theory it was, later came to refute it.
Link: bit.ly/4rEpow7
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In line with a lot of the reading I've done over the past few years, which in no ways is an endorsement of him or his methods.
Merely noting the contemporisation of a lot of very old ideas through gaudy cover art and physics. Because Science.
Well, you be the judge:
Link: https://zelands.com/
Or, more broadly a GOOGLE SEARCH on the same.
I love the phrase "Reality Transurfing". Somehow the perfect blend of new-age-woke sexuality and hip. Now Ben Stiller needs to get to work on his next "Zelander" film...
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Now, I've always been a fan of all things Fortean, but unfortunately as you get older you get a bit disenchanted. Those UFO's turn out to be weather balloons, those ghosts just infrasound, underground water, sea monsters are formidably endowed whales having a threesome, and few of the things you once found mysterious still hold any of their charm.
This one, though, is a curious case from start to finish. It's nice to know we haven't got it all figured out...
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A short and interesting video on how we eradicated Smallpox.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybVZ7vluYhQ
Note that "eradicate" is perhaps a bit severe, the disease lies dormant in many labs and permafrosts, and current defunding by the US of Vaccines and WHO in general may well bring it back. But - for a time, when we trusted the experts and good science, it was gone.