World History
We tend to think the world’s getting smaller, but that’s been coming on a long time, coming back to where it started, I guess. We may have all descended from a single group of DNA-improved hominids that may have numbered no more than a couple hundred in their formative years. It may have taken thousands of years to get out of Africa, but hey, better late than never. The transportation systems in some of those countries still probably aren’t much better; ditto for life expectancy. We’ve come a long way since then, choosing sides as gooks and honkies, so that we’d have somebody else to fight when we aren’t busy fighting with ourselves. We even took the fight to America, honkies claiming the turf even though the gooks got there first. Or did they? The more we separated, the more we came back together. Aryans took their Motown chariots over the steppes all the way to India in the second millennium BC, kicking gook butt the whole way. Then Alexander, representing the honkies again, showed his troops how to ride bareback and proceeded all the way to Central Asia in the fourth century BC by the southern route. Well, that kicked over a hornet’s nest, you can be sure. The gooks invented stirrups and then Genghis Khan and his brother Don finally returned the favor fifteen hundred years later, kicking honkie and gook butt alike. They screamed down out of Outer Mongolia, and took China, central Asia, Persia, Russia, and half the known world as their province. This new state of affairs was not lost on some merchants of Venice and the Catholic Church. They decided to capitalize on the situation and thus capitalism was born, peddling trinkets to homies all over the world. Money is the measure of motion, a great scientific discovery. Then when European sailors realized you could sail south of the Equator and not fall off, it was a whole new ballgame all over again, the Age of Discovery. Muslims and Chinese already knew that, but, situated at the crossroads of trade, the Muslims were the problem, not the solution, and the Chinese were chicken shit. They had gunpowder, the magnetic compass, and printed paper, but couldn’t think of a thing to do with it, except print more money and gamble it away. The Middle Kingdom expected the world to come to them. Meanwhile the homies back in Africa didn’t do so well. Their average life expectancy never got much past that of our chimpanzee and gorilla cousins. When British tightwads discovered that the money they hoard and the gadgets they create could spur industry that would revolutionize the world, creating more and more money in a never-ending spiral, a big wad of cotton candy fluff was born that looks a lot like our modern world. Welcome to it. Good luck out there.
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Geoffrey Thomas 3:45 pm on March 22, 2008 Permalink |
Geofrey Thomas exploring how time works
I’ve been exploring the idea clocks tell us time us excatly as the great scientific thinker and hero of the scientific world Albert Einstein said all along about time.
He siad clocks slow down when we approach the maximum speed of light. We all read about this in any science manual on Albert Einstein’s theory of reality. But the theory says only from that point of view. Some of us believe time comes to a stop as we hit the maximum speed of light.
We’d think the horrific G-forces of extreme velocity like that would be an ideal force and energy for use in distorting space and time catalysis for time travelling.
However, if it’s only a point of view thing, as time stops at light speed from our point of view, and then what does the environment’s time lines point of view see us as?
I’ve been exploring in my blog all this called, (http://) time travel and parallel universe theorie (.blogspot.com/) how we observe the environment’s time pass not only from our point of view when we’re at maximum speed of light but also from the environment’s point of view of us at that velocity.
When we think of it, we observe the hour and minute hands of clocks frozen in time at any given moment just as we would expect to see clock arms stopped in time if we were at the maximum speed of light.
Despite “us” seeing the environment frozen in time at the maximum speed of light “from the environment’s point of view” would probably see us speeded up in time.
Something tells us despite the fact the hour and minute hands appear to be frozen in time at any given moment they’re not. It appears we observe the hands are moving though time stopped in time at the same time.
Yours The explorer of time
Geoffrey Thomas