More Chimu structures - February 20, 2011
Unusual structure, near Santa, Peru - no surrounding roads:
Exploratoriaclips ~ comments ~ online diaries ~ thoughtsMore Chimu structures - February 20, 2011
Unusual structure, near Santa, Peru - no surrounding roads:
Chasing The Great Chimu Wall - February 16, 2011While looking for pictures of The Chimu Wall (along the Santa River, Peru), I came across 'The World Is Round', with many accounts and pictures of travel.
Armchair travels: The Cove near Baltimore, Southwest of Cork - February 12, 2011It was a nice ride, clicking away by the virtual small roads of the West Coast of Ireland. Even played some Youtube soft wind and Gaelic music courtesy of Pandora to make the trip more delectable and realistic. The wuthering clouds made an impressive contribution, and all that was missing was the brisk, cold air and a few raindrops on my face. And the scent of the Baltimore sea. And maybe some foamy amber ale and warm boxties [those flat potato cakes of them]. It was quite poetic and not exhausting at all... ha! Dreams are almost real these days, and free, all thanks to Google Street View! VOYNICH RESEARCH UPDATE - February 6, 2011Nice weekend so far, having fun doing a little Voynichean historical research for a change. Earlier on posted a hypothesis on the eternal subject, Georg Baresch, on the VMS list. Could it be that the alchemist was in fact the school librarian at the Klementinum? Perplexing amount of coincidences and yet we all know this is not the right hypothesis... however... hmm: - there is a reference that Ferus often recurred to hiding behind pseudonyms. - Ferus held an interest in languages, grammar and doing translations; held a high record of 17 texts. - Ferus was also a 'Georgius', or a Jirí (Czech equivalent), if you prefer. - Both men share a connection to Jacob H. de T; Ferus read his obituary and had him buried in his church, St Salvatore. - Ferus, Varus, Wares and Baresch - these names sound slightly similar when pronounced. Connection between Baresch/Barschius and Jiri Wares also possible, even if Wares died before Baresch's birth. - Both men share a connection to Philosophy and the Klementinum and were men of letters and history; they were both responsible for libraries. - Possibly Ferus was also an old friend to Jan Marek Markův (to be confirmed). - A recent reference to Ferus being in possession of a mysterious, "possibly fictional Chaldean book", found in the Malabar coast (Kerala? wth?), which he could not read yet "had greatly influenced his work" (??). Weird. - His 'real' name was not Ferus. - Both men were clearly very eloquent in their words and regarded as expert intellectuals. - Ferus birthplace is debated - some say Pizen, others Bishof (Horsovsky Tyn). - Both men were Jesuits, born in castles close to Prague and descended from noble families. - The relative obscurity/low profile of GB's character seemed somehow a little unusual; no papers, books, pamphletes, nothing (save for that 1639 letter!).
(credit: Pontificia Università Gregoriana Archives) Anyway, Rene Z is right - too many arrows point in the other direction. Oh well. God Bless Google Books! Watched the Social Network. Imperfect film, but a likely winner. Let's see how the Academy feels about it.
Dream of Waves - January 31, 2011Every day great wonders are unfolding in new fields, as is the case with molecular electronics. Perhaps one day scientists may be able to apply some of them to the seemingly impossible task of correcting drastic genetic defects seen in Down and other tragic syndromes. Finding a practical cure seems such a hopeless cause today because of the complexity and overwhelming magnitude of the job, and we can only keep hopes that soon enough, out of the blue, a breakthrough will occur.
In this matter -as in too many others, sadly- we all dwell in a house of questions, the walls of which are built by our own educational shortcomings.
Will it be possible to send a simultaneous message to certain target molecules within the nuclei of each one of our thirty five trillion human cells? Will we be able to order them to engage in a simple, effective recipe of changes, using complex irradiation and highly sophisticated computer models?
What complicated tune must the 'wave piper' (piper as in Hammelin) play in order to induce the entire cellular universe to implement appropriate 'fixes' or modifications? What arrangement of wave frequencies will be required to trigger DNA reprogramming and prompt cells to self-amend their chromosomal structures?
Without any scientific credentials, it can still be fun to speculate and seek to learn more about near-occult things (for us laymen) like density-functional theory, solvation and spectrometry. To shake the deep core of our ignorance and attempt to understand what laws, if any, apply to the coordinated, harmonic behavior of multiple individuals (think orchestras, military marches or choreographies). Can we use them for improving behavior control of complex organic molecular systems using some hidden mechanism of irradiation? Is it possible to teach them to 'pick up the cue'?
What are the right questions?
Meanwhile, dreams of combining the ability to make changes in the nucleus, with the ability to make those changes in millions of millions of fast changing cells, remotely. Simultaneously.
Dreams of finding cures hidden in electromagnetic signals...
Just dreams, that's all - for the time being.
Now, on to re-read the intriguing and potentially revolutionary paper 'DNA waves and water':
(by L. Montagnier, J. Aissa, E. Del Giudice, C. Lavallee, A. Tedeschi, and G. Vitiello).
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About ten months ago, I posted the following question on Aardvark:
Mar 18, 2010 | Question about DNA replication
Which would be your best approach to achieve 'remote' artificial DNA reprogramming (simultaneous to all 35 trillion cells of the human body with multiple ongoing high-speed DNA replication processes) - activation by central command (i.e. by the brain) or by exposure to a wave/electromagnetic medium of some sort? I have only received two answers so far:
27 / M / Lyon, France None of these approaches would have any effect. Nerves signals don't have an effect on DNA sequence, and I guess that you don't want the random DNA mutations that could be caused by waves (radiation). The only way is the current way : transfection with viruses... hard to target all cells though.
26 / M / Boston, MA Magic. But seriously, despite what the movies might tell you, this is not possible by any means imaginable by even the most optimistic scientists. Gamma rays can mutate DNA "remotely", but thanks to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle there is no way to know which DNA you're altering and if it was mutated at all. ME: Thank you Steven! I hadn't considered Heisenberg's but clearly it is an issue. Is it one that will remain impossible to overcome, ever, though? Steven M. It's a fundamental law of physics on about the same footing as conservation of energy. It has been confirmed by literally thousands of experiments, so the likelihood of it being "overcome" is very slim. That being said you should never say never. Perhaps remote control of intracellular nanotechnology will some day be possible. There are plenty of hard problems that make it unfeasible now, but none that obviously require breaking the laws of physics. The world's smallest RFID tag is already about 50 micrometers (10x the diameter of a cell nucleus). Are you writing a science fiction novel or something? :-)
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