Nassim Haramein's latest publication

Nassim Haramein

Thanks to a commenter I was alerted to this article touching on Nassim's latest work and reporting that he has been published again! His new paper is called "Quantum Gravity and the Holographic Mass" and this time I don't see how it will be possible for anyone to argue against the legitimacy of his being published, because as far as I can tell this is a legit journal that he would have had to have gone through a peer-reviewed process to be published in.

The article states that:

At the basis of Haramein's research is a bold prediction about the charge radius of the proton, which was recently verified by experiment. Less than a month after Haramein sent his paper to the Library of Congress, the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland released a new measurement for the size of the proton, confirming Haramein's prediction.

I am confused about the above statement because as best as I have been able to figure out, back in 2010 this paper reported that a proton's charge radius was measure to be 0.84184 fm. Nassmin references this paper in his own paper, so I don't understand how his prediction came BEFORE the new measurements. Can anyone clear this up for me?

Also keep in mind that the only source listed for the above article is the Nassim's "Hawaii Institute for Unified Physics." I am not trying to bring him down a peg or anything, after all he WAS published, but I would like to see other scientists/institutes touching on this.

BUT at any rate I simply want to say good job to Nassim. At the end of the day this won't be about whether he makes the most accurate predictions that stand for all time (though I do have faith that he knows what he is doing and that what he has to offer to physics is invaluable), it is simply so awesome that he HAS been published and that he has kept at it all this time going his own way.

I can't wait to take a look at his new paper for myself. You can download it by clicking this link.

And also here is a short video that talks about it a little. It is apparently a "a film trailer for an upcoming documentary." I can't wait to see it!

I've been hoping for some new stuff from Nassim lately. I'm so happy about this new paper and upcoming documentary!

A New Foothold

It is like this. A caterpillar, when it comes to the tip of a blade of grass, reaches out to a new foothold and draws itself into it, so the self, after it has knocked down this body and rendered it unconscious, reaches out to a new foothold and draws itself onto it.

- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Pretty LSD Picture

Believe it or not, this is the front of an info card that is suppose to make you NOT want to do LSD. The back has a list of all sorts of effects (which honestly only serve to make it more appealing and compel you to want to try it) and the front, as you can is, really cool. This photo doesn't really do it justice, this colors are bright and really pretty in real life. I'm using it as a wall decoration!

Gods love the cryptic and despise the plain

From the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Chapter 2:

Indha, cryptically called "Indra"

"Clearly, the true name of the person in the right eye is Indha. Even though he is really Indha, people cryptically call him 'Indra', because gods in some ways love the cryptic and despise the plain."

I love this quote because it's just so... funny! It strikes me as true of most religions that gods, or divine beings, or just "God", sort of "love the cryptic." Everything has to be cryptic, mysterious, dressed up. In Hinduism the entire universe can be seen in Krishna's mouth. In Christianity God is three in One. Things like that. Cryptic things, confusing things, paradoxical things.

It is hard to comment concretely on this passage without knowing several things, such as the words in context, the words in original Sanskrit (which I plan to read one day), and so on. But, if I am to trust this translation (which I do, it seems to be a great one), I really do think that this passage was meant to be a little funny. I think that it was meant to point out that the cryptic nature of religion and spirituality may just be there because the "gods" would rather have some fun than dealing with plain and boring things.

I sure prefer it!

Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death

Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death is an amazing two-volume work by Frederic William Henry Myers. Myers was one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research as well as a good friend of William James, who was the Society's 5th President. 

Though published over a century ago in 1903, Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death is still, to my knowledge, one of the very best and thorough works in the areas of "psychical research." In its 1,360 pages it covers in great detail and deep research the topics of; disintegration of personality, genius, sleep, hypnotism, sensory automatism, phantasms, motor automatism, and trance, possession, and ecstasy.

The best part is that the book is out of copyright, and both volumes can be downloaded in whatever format you like. Just follow the links:

Volume 1

Volume 2

Enjoy!

A Glimpse

Wholeness

"Wholeness is for us simply totality. No longer does it come naturally to us to apprehend the whole as an indwelling presence within the part, for each part of the world has come to be experienced as but a fragment of a whole conceived purely quantitatively."

- Jeremy Naydler

© Ashley Christudason

I like this quote because I really think it hits the nail on the head. When we think that Wholeness is simply the total amount of some number of quantitative objects, I think we're going in the wrong direction. That isn't Wholeness, that's just a collection of finite things that remain separate even if collected together. I think this is a fundamental flaw in today's rational, scientific thinking. We think that if we can describe "everything" (meaning the material stuff that makes up the universe), we've somehow captured and described the Whole. But this couldn't be more wrong.

Running away from your shadow...

There was once a man who was frightened by his own shadow and scared of his own footprints, so he tried to escape them by running away. But every time he lifted his foot and brought it down, he made more footprints, and no matter how fast he ran, his shadow never left him. Thinking he was running too slowly, he ran faster, never ceasing until finally he exhausted himself and collapsed and died. He had no idea that by simply sitting in the shade he would have lost his shadow, nor that by resting quietly he would cease making footprints. He really was a great fool!

- Zhuangzi

Pi

I love this. I love this so much. Here is the deal... I saw some people talking about a similar picture (I made my own image using those words) commenting that it might not possibly be true because even if Pi is infinite it doesn't mean that, for example, the number 7 will repeat 7 billion times in a row. But because it is infinite that it exactly what it means. Any number combination and repetition that can happen, will happen in infinity. Which is exactly why people say that if there are an infinite number of universes than anything that can happen will happen.

Others were saying that Pi might not be infinite, in which case the above isn't true. Now I'm no mathematician and I don't know the latest info concerning Pi, but this doesn't phase me too much because it still leaves me with the knowledge that all this information is stored in infinity itself. If you believe that everything is infinite (I do, because of complex reasons and many years thinking about how this is the only possible way for there to be anything at all), then there must be an infinite number in which all of the above is true, in which you can find your date of birth, information about the first thing you saw in this world, etc,. Infinity, in the form of Pi or in any other way, is mind-blowingly cool.

If anyone knows who originally said this please let me know, I'd love to give credit.

Young Stars in Orion

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For more info on this image head over to JPL