Black Parabolas or "Cheating Infinity"

The other day I was endeavoring to draw potential orbital paths around perhaps a neutron star which would consists coming from the same point of origen a series of hyperbolas that would vault said object near the edge of a "golf course hole" around the rim of said hole, so to speak, and out the other side and each successive hyperbolic orbit would in turn be more angular than the last. Then I would rotate the picture and do a copy overlay of this image turned twenty degrees or so, and keep repeating this process of copying and turning twenty degrees. I thought I would have a nice incricate geometric design in Sketch 7. Instead what I ended up with was a big mess. The whole program locked up and I had to wait several minutes for it to un-freeze. What I learned was that Sketch 7 locks up more easily than Sketch 6, which I still have on my computer.

As you know there are no "Proper" Black Holes in Einstein's Universe. (That's assuming that Einstein created it) If you will remember from our Green Grid exercise a while back, there are no black holes but only Black Parabolas, which go on to infinity. That is, there is an infinity of space before you reach the center of one, which you never do. In Einstein's world, there IS no "event horizon". Here the golf hole metaphore appears to break down because that "event horizon" where the ball swerls around but eventually actually goes into the hole- - - this never occurrs. No matter how carefully you hit the ball the ball always manages to swerl out of the hole. What you have is an elaborate de-facto "worm hole", which aren't as the Star Trek people invision them as but merely a series of potential hyperbolic paths, described in the first paragraph. Of course what you would have is enormous acceleration not unlike that Bajoran ship that traveled to Cardassia, where the Cardassian ships were waiting for captain Piccard at the other end to congradulate him for making a successful worm hole journey. Every time you came near a Black Parabola you would be greately accelerated due to gravity. You would speed way up and slow back down, always to the exact same speed you began your journey at.

Here is where we have a logical quandry. Only people outside the worm hole are allowed to Exit it. If you are already IN the worm hole you have to STAY in it. How can this be? This is where the idea of cheating infinity comes in. There are theorized things that exist called tachions, which can ONLY travel FASTER than the speed of light. Obviously they have to be made of some other kind of matter. But as we have repeated many times, the nature of space surrounding any matter is determined by the nature of the subatomic particles IN the matter, and visa versa. This means that somehow due to the unusual nature of the space you are in- - your atomic mater somehow mutates into a tachion like substance for the duration of your trek through the worm hole, and then once you are again in normal space, it shifts back to normal. All this mental gymnastics is necessitated because Einstein places the "Event horizon" an infinite distance away. What this means in practality is that the size of any black hole would be self limiting, if they exist at all. Because "infinity" is always a finite distance away in Einstein's world.

DISCOURAGEMENT ON THE HOME FRONT

Two nights ago I had a dream. I dreamed it was 2012 and we were voting on President of the United States and every time Joe Byden would come in first, but also in every contest, Senator Tom Harkin would come in second. But they passed some crazy rule that whoever came in second would become President, so that was Tom Harkin who became President. In this dream I discovered I had lost a back pack like school kids use for books, that had been a gift from my deseast Uncle a few Christmasses ago. In the final scene I was in the shower and I slipped on a bar of soap or something and fell flat on my back. Then I woke up. Then I remembered that the part about the missing back pack was no dream, but that had actually happened. So it is that this September first will also be a day of negativity. Of course around here people are always reporting stuff stolen out of rooms. It's spoken in a state of resignation like they never hope to get it back. Of course as you know Monday I smoked hardly any cigarettes. Borrowing them has never been a tougher proposition. It once took me four hours to even buy a cigarette with a quarter that I had. Of course this week I get paid only fifteen dollars, because the checks don't arrive on the first. It's not as bad as the Nothing I was paid last September first, though. But you know not smoking makes you more paranoid and a little OCD. So you check things. Around here you better check often because you never know.

Last night I had a dream where there was this movie out called Grendel of the North, or something. There were this group of supernatural beings that were Atlanta Romulans or something and they were around in the late 'seventies, and they sponsored Blues artists from Atlanta to become famous and there was a rash of them during this period. They had supernatural powers. On a crouded bus you'd see them in their Afros and they would look at you and hypnotize you into giving up your seat. And they had powers to hypnotize you into doing other things. In this dream Marian (no, not "Maid Marian) was Princess of the North Pole or something and her father wanted her to mary one man but she was in love with another man. And Black Bart (my Romulan friend) told me she was also in love with me. Me and her were lovers but I had amnesia and didn't remember. And that Marian secretly fantacised that she could have three way sex with me and that other man her father didn't want her to date. In this movie there was a lot more about these Atlanta Romulans, or whoever they were- - and sometime after 1980 they went away, but they would be coming back - - to take over the Planet, perhaps in 2010. There was also a "soundtrack album" with strange music and all this whispering in it, with the "pre-verb" where you here the re-birb ahead of time, and this voices were saying a lot of strange things. And the album was called "Journey accross the North Pole" or something and it was played around Midnight by the local rock station.

These fires are discouraging. You turn on the news and all you hear is stuff about the California fires, even on the Today show. Of course I'm worried they will knock out the TV transmitters and when the stations come back on the air they won't be broadcasting at full power and I'll have that headache all over again. Nobody at this point is very optimistic. Yesterday they said the biggest one of the fires was only five percent contained.

People are waiting for a pull-back in the stock market. If the market goes up I'll be barish and if it goes down I'll be bullish. My fear as stated in the last posting is that we are "re-inflating the bubble" and that we're headed for another economic crisis at some point in the future where things will be worse than ever and nobody can say when it will be. Just as in May of 2006 even then I knew in the abstract that we were in a Bubble but I didn't have the vaguest idea when said bubble would burst and supposed that it was many years into the future.