Why Can't We Get a Little Peace and Quiet in the World - I Ask - I Am Trying to Get Some Sleep!

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After watching all the sound and fury in Egypt, along with all the commentary, TV, video showing chaos and controversy on nearly every news channel, it occurred to me that well, like you, I'd just like a little peace and quiet you know. Like leave me alone already. Interestingly enough, it is important to have quiet and peacefulness, and it is very important to the human biosystem. Everyone needs sleep and quiet and it effects us all at the cellular level whether we realize it or not.

In human societies you don't need riots, protests, marches, shouting, or civil unrest with the throwing of tier-gas bombs, molotov cocktails, or sticks and rocks to break the peace, we have noise all around us every day, and it's not healthy, not even a little bit. Think about it, airplane noise, train tracks, horns, machinery, kitchen equipment, air-conditioners, and motors from trucks, cars, motorcycles, and the like.

There is an interesting book on this topic that I'd surely like to recommend to you, the name of the book is;

"Technology for a Quieter America" By the Committee on Technology for a Quieter America; National Academy of Engineering, Washington DC, (2010), pages 216, ISBN: 978-0-309-15632-5.

This book really gets into the details of it all and makes some excellent points of what we can do to get a little peace and quiet. I am not talking about Library level quiet, but why not take down the decibels 10-20 points, as it could serve us all with better quality of life. In the introduction of the book, in fact, in the Executive Summary, in the very first paragraph it notes;

Exposure to noise (i.e., unwanted or potentially hazardous sound) at home, at work, while traveling, and during leisure activities is a fact of life for all Americans. At times noise can be loud enough to damage hearing, and at lower levels it can disrupt normal living, affect sleep patterns, affect our ability to concentrate at work, interfere with outdoor recreational activities, and, in some cases, interfere with communications and even cause accidents. Clearly, exposure to excessive noise can affect our quality of life.

It is my contention that it takes friction to make noise, and friction is energy, in fact, it is lost energy. If we design and build better equipment that does not make noise, we will automatically use less energy. That means less electricity use, and less fuel. This also means lower costs, and that equates to lower cost in everything we buy or use.

Think about this for a moment. And while we are at it, we should harvest the noise whenever it exists, perhaps using magnetic induction principles to collect vibrations to power up batteries for later use. Please consider all this and let's hear about your inventions and innovations to reduce all this racket!

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Critique Of Stephen Hawking's Book The Grand Design

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We submit a review of Stephen Hawking and co-author Leonard Mlodinow's latest book, The Grand Design. The authors cite both physics and metaphysics viewpoint. Yet, physics excellence does not guarantee metaphysics expertise. Only syllogistic reasoning from the only true source can decide the rightness or wrongness in monotheism disciplines.

In attempting to critique The Grand Design, this author must confess to more than just a casual interest in 'the nature of things.' In my own small intellect, in the history from now, resides a reasonable assumption of beginning to matter: whatever its dimensions and product of force. Outside of reasoned debate arises the scientists' claim of 'something from nothing.' They state: "... the laws of gravity and quantum theory allow universes to appear spontaneously from nothing... that our known universe is only one among uncounted billions of universes."

Here, Hawking and Mlodinow opine Universe beginnings through spontaneity by Physics or creation by Super-intelligence. They accept the givens in physics observation and theory from experience or experiment; they acknowledge the infiniteness of Special and General Relativity and quantum mechanics; yet, they neglect to consider the experience and experiment of established theism. Rightfully, they cite religion's lack of mathematical precision; wrongly, they succumb to impreciseness in their own speculative consensus of multiple universes and equation theory. Ben Winter would question even the ubiquitous application of E=mc2. It cannot effectively prescribe more energy than is contained in the Ultimate Particle mass.

Their debate on God existence is also subject to the following logic: where, Emanuel Kant, states: "No man has the intellect to deny another man's god". Such reasoning must be accepted as truth in the absence of insight to evaluate another's inherent gnosis. Ben Winter would add to the observation: "A god can be instantaneously created by anyone at any instant and without need for verification."

We comment on additional opinion offered in The Christian Chronicle; where, noted PhD Rubel Shelly, longtime minister, author, and president of Rochester College in Michigan, also critiqued The Grand Design and made the following observation: "If there had ever been a time when absolutely nothing existed, nothing could exist now. Since something clearly has existed forever, you make the more intuitive, reasonable, and consistent-with-experience choice... Creative God or quantum mechanics?"

Respectfully, we wonder if the good Doctor's definition of 'forever' came from the traditional misconception of Bible semantics. In either event, Dr. Shelly is also in error. For, the word defines as 'until the set time' in biblical frame of reference.

So much for challenging everyone's perspective of everything! The Grand Design is a good way to refresh the mind on physics and metaphysics; however, in summation, this book is more dedicated to speculation than substance and leaves a huge gap between cause for the Universe basis and cause for modern religions. These issues are resolved in additional study.

Ben Winter, particles physicist, Bible scholar, and author of "THE GREAT DECEPTION: Symbols And Numbers Clarified," reveals there 'is' something new under the sun -- that is, for modern Bible students, addressing a correctness of language and true intent of the major Bible topics: solves Bible mysteries, defines Gog and Magog, reveals Daniel He-goat's surprising identity, daring to number the all important Ten Ages. Sign up for FREE book critiques at http://www.winterbriar.com/ and view more articles in blog format at http://blog.thegreatdeception.net/.

Space-Time - It's Time We All Learned More

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Relativistic Physics conflicts with the way we perceive our own world presently and it is not a trick or anything like that, it's just the way things are. If things were not like this we would be living in a linear 2D world, but we don't we live in a 3D world, don't we?

And if we live in a 3D world it is hard to comprehend a 4D world or 5D world isn't it? Yes, all this becomes more complicated for the human mind, but it is not impossible to understand as some folks would have you believe.

In fact, it's relatively simple as Einstein showed and then went on to explain it through mathematics. He went over everyone's head when he explained the relevance of his theories and how they related to the whole of existence and space-time.

Einstein himself was unsure if all his theories were right, often fighting with his own understanding of it all. Perhaps, this topic is of interest to you and perhaps you might like to take this discussion further, but first let me recommend an extremely good book to you:

"Foundations of Space-Time Theories; Relativistic Physics and Philosophy of Science" by Michael Friedman; 1983 by Princeton University Press.

This book discusses physics and philosophy in a way that makes things seem simple in relation to Einstein's Theories. The author goes on to show how a layman can understand these concepts in a simple way, which takes all the guess work out of things.

Why would I recommend this book to you? Well, because I bought it and read it and feel that most all human beings can grasp these simple subjects, if they would only realize that they are not so difficult when explained correctly to the students. You too, can understand Einstein's theories and what they mean to all we observe.

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