The Electron: Continued

The great mistake of these people in those times is that they kept their discoveries secret so that the same things were done many times, over many generations. There just weren't enough people working on the same problem to ensure any consistent successes. The success of modern science is not that the descriptions of reality are more accurate or precise or correct but that there are many more people involved in investigating each question being asked. These people agree with each other for the most part so that there is the appearance of certainty in their pronouncements.

A "fact" is not about the thing studied but the consensus of those studying it. The reality of reality is that everything is only appearance. More specifically, reality is how things appear to us, to human beings. We are, after all, the only ones interested. The electron exists not because it's there but because someone was looking for it. There is, for example, a species of electron that exists only in the southern hemisphere. This electron has the unusual property of turning blue and ceasing all motion as if frozen.

This behavior is entirely random. The Paraguay Telephone Company implemented this electron since its erratic behavior made it unsuitable for other uses and electricity generated using this electron was therefore less expensive. The PTA sold this technology to a U.S. corporation which incorporated it into their product line. The corporation, who I will not name here (its initials are, Microsoft) and the products it created (Windows Operating Systems) was able to prove that the behavior of this electron at the atomic level could be duplicated in their products. They called this a "feature". The significance of all this is that, since an electron owes its existence to our perception of it, its properties are variable.

While PAC and the un-named U.S. corporation (Microsoft) will vehemently deny the existence of the Blue Electron, their denial has no effect on its existence because they know better. There are many other instances of electrons being modified to suit a particular need. There is the Red Electron used in TV remote controls and CD players, the Gray Electron used in dimmer switches and volume controls, The Green Electron used in those self-flushing urinals and many other electron types.

Once the electron is believed into existence, unbelief has no effect on its continued existence; it actually exists from it inception unto forever.

The electron used in the computers is specialized as well. An electronic circuit is a kind of maze through which the electron must pass. As the electron progresses through this maze it begins to "learn" its position and is able to advance more quickly through the remainder of the maze.

This increase in the Maze Rate is exponential so that by the time the electron has passed through the first half of the maze the remainder of its journey exceeds the speed of light. This is why electrons are introduced into a computer where the maze is simplest, the Power Supply. Experimenters discovered a unique power source of immense potential using this "Thinking Electron". Rather than introducing the electron flow into the simplest part of the computer circuitry, they connected it to the most complex circuit: the Esc key on the keyboard.

As expected the electrons quickly learned the maze and the Maze Rate began to increase. By the time the electrons reached the power supply their increase in speed was such that their increase in mass (recall E=MC²) was equivalent to over 4500 X 10⁹ camels. This much mass confined to the volume of an electron is simply not allowed by any known Law of Physics. These electrons congealed in to a small Black Hole that immediately consumed all matter within 100m (the exact distance limit allowed for an Ethernet Segment), all the tables, the chairs, the desks, grad students and Principal Investigators fell into the event horizon.

This experience led to very stern warning labels on all electronic devices to ensure that small black holes would not proliferate. Fortunately this phenomenon has been limited, so far, to just a few research laboratories so the risk of annihilation is quite small.There is yet another aspect to the existence of the electron but I hesitate to publish it here. Since an electron is believed into existence, the power of belief is the only power in the universe and all other powers are merely derivative.

The Solar Membrane

What is the significance of the sun moving in orbit around the galaxy at about 514,000 mph? This orbit is about 250 million terrestrial years in circumference. At this speed shouldn't the planets of the solor system fall behind?

The Oort cloud is about a light year from the sun yet follows the sun's orbit which may be the actual outter limit of the solar system. In order for the solar system to hold together it must be a single unit, one thing of many parts. Shouldn't the sun be properly understood as a body having a radius of at least one light year.

The Earth moves around its orbit at about 67000 miles per hour and through about half that, it's moving away from the sun. Shouldn't Earth just leave the solar system?

It seems unlikely that gravity can hold this kind of space together so it makes more sense to think of the sun as a giant ball with a radius of one light year. This ball is mostly empty but everything within it moves together in orbit around the galaxy.

This must mean that the space within the solar system is not the same as the space outside of it. The space is dragged along with everything else. The solar system, then, is a bubble containing all the material objects we can see plus the space they move in.

What are the properties of this bubble? It has enough substance to contain all the objects within it and drag them along with the space that contains them, in orbit around the galaxy so it's not insubstantial.

If there is a surface it must have properties that separate it from the space outside of it. It may have the property of deflecting or reflecting objects and energies from outside of it. This seem to add another possible parameter to a Goldilocks Zone that may be significant to the development of life.

Since our sun resides in a (possibly protective) bubble, we can probably expect that most or all other stars will be similarly configured. Do these bubbles affect how they are observed? Willl light be distorted when passing through them? Will freely moving objects be deflected, heated, modified?

In agreement with these facts, should we think of the sun as just the luminous ball we see in the sky? Shouldn't we instead understand it as the core of sphere extending out one light year in every direction?

This may have implications for space travel beyond one light year from the (visible) sun. What if a spaceship reaches the interior of the bubble? Will it bounce off? This may be why Flash Gordon's spaceship had a point on the end, to penetrate the bubble's membrane.

But wouldn't that create a leak? Would the interior space of the solar system leak out causing the whole thing to collapse like a deflated balloon? What if it allowed outside space to invade the inside space, would the solar system inflate and burst?

Would a space traveler from a distant solar system be able to penetrate our solar membrane or would it bounce off? This may be why we've never been visited by ET.

Nothing Somewhat Exists

If we reduce existence down to its most basic parts, everything disappears. All that's left are atoms, we can't see any molecules, only the atoms that make them up.

If the molecules cluster together, we won't know. If molecules arrange to form complex oraganisms, they cannot be perceieved at the atomic level, so they don't exist. Since there is no visible light at the atomic scale, existence is invisible; we can't even prove it's really there.

With materialism there is only fact, indivisible little bits of stuff that we can measure and quantify. Everything else is mere illusion, subjective preceptions that can't be trusted. Since things like purpose, design, meaning and intelligence are ephemeral and insubstantial, they cannot be fact.

Even so, there is an attempt to confuse the products of mind (thoughts, ideas, theories and philosophies, etc.) with fact. This is handy for some since they get to decide what is a legitimate fact and what is mere imagination.

This creates an interesting conundrum in that we know we exist but we can't prove it materialistically. Since our existence is only the emphemeral configuartion of atoms, what then is experiencing our existence?