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- Info-ParaNet Newsletters Volume I Number 378
-
- Saturday, March 16th 1991
-
- Today's Topics:
-
- Hatonn and the Pleiades
- Re: Relativity Woes
- (none)
- Interview
- Arui
- Linguists
- Arui
- Halley's Comet
- Forward/transporters
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- From: well.sf.ca.us!ddrasin
- Subject: Hatonn and the Pleiades
- Date: 15 Mar 91 18:20:57 GMT
-
- From: ddrasin@well.sf.ca.us (Dan Drasin)
-
- Just some quick replies to some points raised during the past few
- weeks:
-
-
- + Hatonn and the America West 'Phoenix Journals'
-
- I don't claim to be the world's foremost authority on this, but for
- what it's worth...
-
- Hatonn (Please, not 'Hatoon!') has been channeled for years by the
- Rock Creek Research group in Louisville, KY. This entity has never
- claimed to be Pleiadean, and has presented itself in a consistently
- respectful, humble and spiritually uplifting fashion. The 'Hatonn'
- presented in the America West 'Phoenix Journals' may in fact be
- either a crude fabrication or an 'astral impostor,' whose manner and
- 'vibe' seems diametrically opposed to that of the original
- 'Hatonn.' The journals give some justification for this (that
- people 'now have to be jogged out of their complacency') but it
- doesn't compute from a number of standpoints; too much to get into
- here.
-
- The Phoenix Journals are not likely to have been channeled, or
- received via a shortwave radio: While they admit that much of what
- they present has appeared elsewhere, much of it survives verbatim
- WITH TYPOGRAPHICAL AND GRAMMATICAL ERRORS INTACT. The violations of
- copyright alone (they are apparently being sued by more than one
- party) should be enough to raise a red flag or two: a spiritual
- teacher will almost never counsel violating the laws of the land. At
- any rate, the publishers openly solicit contributions of information
- from their readers, many of which apparently turn up as
- 'transmitted' material later on. The preponderance of the Phoenix
- Journal entitled 'SPACE-GATE: THE VEIL REMOVED' was taken
- word-for-word from papers by Bill Cooper and others. As of last
- year, several people named as supporting the Phoenix Journals have
- gone on public record as repudiating any connection or association
- with them, and I understand that Cooper himself is bringing suit.
-
- What useful information there may be in these journals (and there is
- undoubtedly some) seems strongly overbalanced by the amount of
- what appears to be mis-and dis-information mixed in helter-skelter,
- and above all by the simplistic and hysterical tone in which they
- are delivered. Information out of context is useless; information in
- *this* kind of context is *less* than useless because it strongly
- discourages intelligent people from taking it seriously.
-
- The only rationalization I can conceive of for presenting important
- information in this way is that its amateurish, ranting quality may
- prevent its being taken as a serious threat by 'the authorities.'
- However, if the publishers are to be believed, they are already
- under almost constant harrassment by the 'authorities' anyway.
-
- It has been my experience that groups that dwell on their own
- persecution (real or imagined) tend to have some serious emotional
- problems at the core.
-
-
- + Pleiades being 400 light-years away
-
- Distance is relative to the system of physics through which you
- perceive it. Current physics recognizes that conventional notions of
- space and time are transcended by demonstrable superluminal
- (faster-than-light) connections. The concept of a 'warp drive,' while
- certainly a long way from being realized, is not at odds with the
- picture of the universe that is presently unfolding at the leading
- edges of physics. Those who believe that 'what we know is all there
- is to know' should remember that powered flight was generally
- regarded as an impossiblity less than a century ago.
-
-
- Dan Drasin
- ddrasin@well
-
-
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-
- From: pluto@cs.ucsd.edu (Mark Plutowski)
- Subject: Re: Relativity Woes
- Date: 15 Mar 91 21:16:53 GMT
-
-
- This is regarding the recent message, included here:
-
- ----- Begin Included Message -----
-
- +From: James Roger Black <jrblack@shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- +Subject: Relativity Woes
- +Date: 14 Mar 91 14:27:17 GMT
- +
- +General Relativity, Einstein's magnum opus, may be in trouble, according
- +to the latest issue of Science News (9 March 91, p. 148).
- +
- +In a supercomputer simulation conducted by Stuart L. Shapiro and Saul A.
- +Teukolsky of Cornell University, the gravitational collapse of large,
- +nonspherical particle clouds in space resulted in the the formation of
- +what are known as 'naked singularities'--points of infinite mass and
- +density without a surrounding black hole to insulate them from the outside
- +universe. This violates the 'cosmic censorship' rule which states that
- +naked singularities cannot exist in the real world.
- +
- +This represents a potential disaster for general relativity, according
- +to Shapiro, because it results in a situation in which relativity theory
- +fails to model the physical world.
- +
- +'If cosmic censorship really goes out the window ... then one would need
- +to revise the mathematical equations for relativistic gravity,' Shapiro
- +says.
- +
- +For further information, see Shapiro and Teukolsky's article in the
- +25 February 91 issue of Physical Review Letters.
- +
- ----- End Included Message -----
-
- My understanding is that it was more of a disaster for Roger Penrose's theory,
- which implied the connection between Einstein's theory and the cosmic censorship
- conjecture. Also, even if Penrose is correct, and the simulations do give an
- accurate model of reality, then (I gather from what I have read) researchers
- are still split on the impact of this evidence upon Einstein's theory.
- At worst, it seems it will only put a chink in a branch of it, and will not
- affect any fundamental aspects of the theory.
-
- -=-=
- M.E. Plutowski, pluto%cs@ucsd.edu
-
- UCSD, Computer Science and Engineering 0114
- 9500 Gilman Drive
- La Jolla, California 92093-0114
- =
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- From: ecn.purdue.edu!lush@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM
- Subject: (none)
- Date: 16 Mar 91 02:34:09 GMT
-
- From: lush@ecn.purdue.edu (Gregory B Lush)
-
- I was asked a couple questions about a previous posting.
-
- = +From Greg Lush (lush@ecn.purdue.edu)
- = +the scribe (I did NOT call her a channelor nor a psychic) has been
- =
- = Nor did you explain the difference, even when asked.
-
- Jim, I talked to a friend who introduced me to these Journals. He
- says that any definition he comes up with to describe channelling
- fully describes the interaction between Hatonn and the scribe.
-
- He felt that the reason that Hatonn made such a big point (note
- I said 'big' point, not "important" point) about this NOT being
- channelling is that he didn't want people associating this material
- with New Age material. I now understand that. I apologize for
- misleading you on that. My friend describes channelling as the
- bringing forth of information from other dimensions. Some channellors
- are better that others, and that ability would be a measure of how
- well the 'channelor' can focus on one frequency without allowing other
- frequencies to interfere or cloud. Hatonn criticizes others because they
- have let their ego get in the way and so they interpret the information
- and do not transcribe directly. He says that HIS scribe has not yet
- exhibited such faults. Of course, if one were trying to get people
- to buy ones books, it makes sense to say 'We are the only ones doing
- it right!' I don't know how to address that except to say you must
- decide for yourself.
-
-
- = +I heard Dan Rather quote Boris Yeltzin once as saying,
- = +'the KGB has beam weapons that can stop my heart.'
-
- = Can you give any reference for this quote? It's very interesting if true,
- = but it needs to be tracked down. (I have also heard [from an unidentified
- = source!] that the CIA can cancel out your brain waves. I don't consider it
- = technically possible, especially in the manner it was described [via a
- = 'bug' in a telephone receiver.]) Perhaps you could cause nervous system
- = effects with some sort of radio waves. I'm not a physicist, or a
- = biologist. But I suspect it would have to be very strong to work from any
- = sort of distance.
-
- I can only say that I heard that on CBS News in the last year and that it
- was before the Persian Gulf Thing. It had to be after I learned of this
- material which would be in June. I don't know if I tried to find a
- reference to it in the New York Times the following day or not.
- I do know that I heard it. Sorry for the haziness.
-
- The beam weapons the Pleidians describe use extremely low frequency
- 1-60 Hz waves. There are old studies now being made public and new
- studies being done which show relationships between EM fields from high-
- voltage cables and transfer stations and cancer and birth defects.
- There are two references to this that I can give you.
- The first is in IEEE Spectrum August 1990.
- It references a New Yorker 3-part series which was published 'a year
- before' June 1990. It is a long series which shows, among other
- things, that heart rates can be slowed in these fields.
-
- IEEE Spectrum:
-
- However, when the exposure pattern (of 60-Hz fields) is one of
- switching on and off every 15 seconds, alertness and reaction time
- worsened notably. Some individuals seemed much more sensitive than
- others. MRI (Midwest Research Institute) has also reported slight
- changes in the rate of heartbeat, with the degree of response again
- varying with the subject. The institute is now screening for
- sensitive subjects for further study.
-
- The IEEE Spectrum article also mentions how certain frequencies affect
- certain organs and frequencies nearby (they compare 55 and 60 Hz) will
- not affect the same organ. These phenomena seem very hard to study.
-
- These principles are the same as a beam weapon except less concentrated.
-
- Greg
-
-
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- From: Michael.Corbin@f4.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
- Subject: Interview
- Date: 15 Mar 91 01:11:00 GMT
-
-
- > Hello All! I am doing a research paper on UFOs and am required to do
- > an interview. Any one interested please contact me via email.
-
- Welcome to ParaNet, John. Could you elaborate on your project a bit more?
- Perhaps we could help you find that someone.
-
- Michael Corbin
- Director
-
- --
- Michael Corbin - via FidoNet node 1:104/422
- UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name
- INTERNET: Michael.Corbin@f4.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG
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- From: Michael.Corbin@f4.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
- Subject: Arui
- Date: 15 Mar 91 01:34:00 GMT
-
-
- > From: webb@afglsc.span.nasa.gov
- > With regard to the solar flare postings, what does this have to do with
- > UFOs? Periodic energetic flare outbursts are not uncommon, especially at
- > this phase of the solar cycle. Maybe you were worried about possible
- > outages of Paranet communications.
-
- Cross posted to the wrong conference by mistake. Sorry for the unnecessary
- bandwidth.
-
- Mike
-
- --
- Michael Corbin - via FidoNet node 1:104/422
- UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name
- INTERNET: Michael.Corbin@f4.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG
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- From: ParaNet.Information.Service@f4.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (sm)
- Subject: Linguists
- Date: 15 Mar 91 05:34:00 GMT
-
- ParaNet is in need of linguists who can volunteer their time to translate and
- transcribe foreign documents and articles. At the present time, we are in
- need of French and Italian linguists. Please reply via this conference or to
- one of the following addresses:
-
- ParaNet @ FidoNet 1:104/422
- Paranet @ Internet - mcorbin@scicom.alphacdc.com
-
- Thank you.
-
- Michael Corbin
- Director
-
- --
- ParaNet(sm) Information Service - via FidoNet node 1:104/422
- UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name
- INTERNET: ParaNet(sm).Information.Service@f4.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG
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- From: John.Burke@f9.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (John Burke)
- Subject: Arui
- Date: 15 Mar 91 07:01:00 GMT
-
-
- Dave Webb writes:
-
- >
- > On a separate matter, I was intrigued by Roger Black's
- > reference in
- > Vallee's book 'Confrontations' to Behrendt's paper. What
- > the hey is "Annals
- > of Ufological Research Advances' ?!! Has anyone ever heard
- > of this obscure
- > publication? Is it an English-language periodical?
- >
- > Dave Webb
-
- Dave:
- Ken Behrendt's A.U.R.A. is a 12-page newsletter which
- he publishes out of Florida. Single issues are available from
- Arcturus Books at $5 each. It seems to be concerned with the
- reverse-engineering of UFOs, based on whatever can be gleaned
- from documented observations.
- -- John
-
- --
- John Burke - via FidoNet node 1:104/422
- UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name
- INTERNET: John.Burke@f9.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG
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- From: Kurt.Lochner@f22.n14766.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Kurt Lochner)
- Subject: Halley's Comet
- Date: 10 Mar 91 19:42:31 GMT
-
-
- > I am curious among our scientific users if this
- > phenomena related to Halley's Comet in the previous
- > post is a normal feature of a comet?
- >
- No, not considering that the ejection would have been
- much more likely with closer proximity to the Sun.
- It usually takes tremendous heat input for a system
- of frozen liquids surrounding a rocky core to become
- super-heated enough to cause clouds/ejected materials.
-
- What might have provided the path for this gaseous
- escape/ejecta could have been the weakening or fracture
- of the frozen outer shell of this comet, perhaps due
- to gravitational stress or collision with an asteriod.
-
- Past this, I would only be guessing at the distances
- and forces involved, none of which have been mentioned.
-
- --
- Kurt Lochner - via FidoNet node 1:104/422
- UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name
- INTERNET: Kurt.Lochner@f22.n14766.z1.FIDONET.ORG
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- From: violet.berkeley.edu!chalmers
- Subject: Forward/transporters
- Date: 16 Mar 91 10:57:44 GMT
-
- From: chalmers@violet.berkeley.edu (John H. Chalmers Jr.)
-
- Clark: Good to hear from you again. Although I logon
- every morning, I haven't posted much recently as the topics
- have been ones about which I have little insight or knowledge.
- Forward is a straight General Relativitist as far as I know. At
- one time he made a generous offer to do the tensor computations
- for other SF authors using GR/SR in their stories.
- As for the recent Naked Singularity computation, I'd like
- to see how the story develops in the next few months as other
- theorists check the assumptions and results.
- I've appended a computation I did on the bandwidth requirements
- for a matter transmitter. Somebody pointed out that I should double
- my numbers to include the 3 components of momentum (as well as space),
- but what's a factor of 2 in 10 exp 30 or 45? Also, I haven't the
- faintest idea how a scanner could measure velocity.
-
- The question recently was raised about
- 3D scanning, presumably for matter transmission, i.e., the Star Trek
- Transporter. The idea intrigued me as I remembered a statement
- by Arthur C. Clarke in talk given years ago at UC, Berkeley
- that the bandwidth would be prohibitively high. So,I decided to
- try to estimate it.
- Let us assume we want to transport a human being
- weighing 60 kilos (about 132 lbs, rather average).
- Humans are mostly water and as a first approximation,
- let's assume humans are 100% water so we can more easily calculate
- the number of atoms in 60 kg's of flesh. Water has a MW of 18
- (O +2 H) so there are 1000/18 moles of water per kilo. There are
- 6.023 x10 exp 23 molecules per mole (Avogadro's number);
- ergo there are 60 x 1000/18 x 6.023 x 3 atoms in a 60 kg human body.
- This number is 6.023 x 10 exp 27 atoms. Identifying each one in
- a real body as to atomic number and isotope would require 8 bits.
- This means we need 8 x 6.023 x 10 exp 27 or 4.818 x 10 exp 28 bits
- just to enumerate the atoms.
- In order not to break chemical bonds and destroy DNA, proteins,
- etc. or create reactive fragments, we need to know the location of each
- atom to picometer resolution (chemical bonds are typically 100's of pm)
- in 3D dimensions. It takes 40 bits (2 exp 40) to express 10 exp12.
- Therefore we need 3 x 40 x 4.818 x 10 exp 28 bits of information to
- locate every atom in a body. This number is 5.782 x 10 exp 30 bits.
- However, these atoms are not static, many are taking part in
- chemical reactions. Chemical reactions occur on time scales of tens of
- femtoseconds ( the much slower observed rates are due to diffusion,
- fraction with enough energy to react at given temperatures, etc.).
- Therefore to correctly determine all the chemical species, we need
- to scan the body in 10 exp -15 seconds, which yields a bandwidth of
- 5.782 x 10 exp 45 bits/sec as a worst case estimation.
- One might improve on this number my assuming that the small
- fraction of atoms actually undergoing chemical change at any instant
- is irrelevant or one might freeze the body to near absolute zero to
- stop chemical reactions, diffusion, circulation, etc.
- In these cases, one might gain 15 or 20 orders of magnitude in the
- bandwidth requirements, if long scan times are acceptable.
- The small percent of heavier elements in the body would make a minor
- adjustment to the bandwidth. Data compression schemes might be
- of value in some cases; a boule of isotopically pure semiconductor
- grade silicon would have no dislocations, so not much info other
- than the dimensions might have to be sent.
- How would one actually do the scanning? I have no idea
- NMR imaging only works for those atoms having magnetic moments
- and currently has a resolution of millimeters, so it would
- have to be improved by a factor of a billion. Perhaps another
- method can be discovered, or teleportation might be limited
- to atoms with net spins. Also, storing and transmitting this
- amount of data boggles my mind.
- --- John
-
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