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(originally written on 4/7/2008 for yuwie.com)

Ghosts. Are they real? What is real? My dictionary says this is the definition of real: existent or pertaining to the existent as opposed to the nonexistent. How do we know it exists? Because people see it. Everyone? No. People born blind can't see rainbows, but we know they exist. According to PressTelegram.Com 1 in 4 people have claimed to have seen ghosts. So surely they must be real. But what are they? Lost souls? Demons trying to fool us? Possibly. But I have my own idea. Just a thought. I say they are recordings. Yeah. Recording isn't a man made thing. Man never invented anything on his own. He stole every idea from nature. Think about it. Ever had an image stuck in your head? Or dreamed? Those are visual recordings. What about an echo? You yell out something, and you hear your own voice call back. Hello. Recording. How these things are recorded I'm not exactly sure. I've got a few ideas.



First one is chemical reactions in nature. If you still use a film camera (35mm whatever), there is a chemical reaction that takes place to produce your pictures, to make images appear. Ok. Lets say nature does the same thing. Under the right circumstances you could have your picture taken by "nature". But then wouldn't we see people all over? No. There would have to be certain things that would have to occur. The right chemicals to be in place, lighting, possibly some kind of radiation from the suns solar flares. And opportunity. Who would have the best opportunity? Someone who did something many times over and over. Which would be why people claim to see ghosts that seem to be stuck in an event. And as we all know, taking a picture with a film camera doesn't allow you to see images. You need to process your film. This involves more chemical reactions in order for you to see your images. The same would be true for nature. You can't see the images unless certain things occur for you to be able to see them. Wanna know how to get rid of ghosts? Clean your house. Yeah. Actually people have said ghost activity stopped when they clean their house. Odd.



That's my first idea. This next one is not so well thought out. Just a quick thought that popped into my head, still working on the details really. "Genetic Memory" DNA. Its what makes us who we are. Your hair, eye color, etc etc. I think not only traits are recorded in that DNA, but events in one's life. Things you've seen in a dream. Maybe an ancestor saw the same thing. That strong connection you feel with someone. Maybe an ancestor had the same connection to one of their ancestors. So maybe, when you see a ghost, its actually something that an ancestor witnessed playing back for you to see. Like a lost thought that just suddenly pops into your head.



So far I haven't discussed sound at all. People claim to hear thumps, crying, screaming, laughing. What about the sounds? Well This last one is very simple, and I think it will explain the sounds. Sound waves. Sound waves and light waves are how visual and sound information is passed from one object to the next. These waves don't disappear. They bounce from one item to the next. Eh? Eh? Who knows.



Anyway, these are just thoughts. Maybe ghosts are simply spirits. Or people on the other side. But for many people, whatever they may be, they are real.

Oh. One more thing.  If ghosts are spirits, are we all white inside?  If they're people from the other side, where are the dark skinned ghosts?  Seriously.   Has anyone seen a picture of a black ghost?  White ghosts, asians; yeah sure.  But dark skinned people?  No.  If you have a pic of a dark skinned ghost please post it here.

Diamond Armor

A diamond is created when an object with carbon is put under really intense pressure. This usually takes millions of years. Thus one of the reasons they are so expensive. However a team of scientists headed by Tracy Hall,( working under GE: general electric) found a way to create diamonds in a matter of hours, with one hell of a press. These synthetic diamonds are the real deal. Under inspection they match up to their costly counter parts perfectly (including strength). Even certified diamond inspectors cannot tell them apart. The only difference is price. Synthetic diamonds are priced higher than a fake diamond such as cubic zirconia, but half the price of a geo-diamond. Any object that contains carbon can be put into the press to create a diamond (finally we can get rid of those landfills).
Now that I've given you a quicky on synthetic diamonds let me get to the point. The point is what if this technology was used to create diamond armor. No I don't mean stick a bunch of diamonds on a shirt rhinestone cowboy style. Basically it would be diamond-Kevlar suits. Think about how strong a diamond is. Its the hardest substance known to exist. Modern projectile resistant armor (Kevlar) does a decent job of protecting people, but it has many flaws, and is not 100% in saving lives. The stronger they make the Kevlar, the stronger the bullets get. Also the current armor is bulky, making it hard to perform tasks, and it slows the wearer down, making them vulnerable.
Kevlar suits are fibers that are crisscrossed at many different angles, on several layers. Which makes it really strong. If you did that with diamonds you could make a lighter suit, as it would take way less layers, and it would be many many many times stronger.
To create the suit you would need to put a fitting on the press that you could use to make diamond thread. The thread could then be woven just as the Kevlar armor is. Diamonds obviously aren't very flexible, so other materials would have to be woven into the suit. Or another application for this material would be for armored vehicles. Military, or citizen.

Well just something to think about (powers that be). If I had the money I would make some. Would save lots of lives.

Gravity Fed Thinking

Gravity. What is it? You probably don't think much about gravity, nor do you care about it, but I do. I wish you did. It is what is suppose to be keeping us all here on this planet we call earth. It is said to be the force that keeps us all from falling off the face of our round earth while its spinning around. Recently I was thinking about gravity, while I was thinking of hover cars. I mean its the year 2010 already, and there are no hover cars yet. And I don't mean something with a big air bag under it. That's not hovering. Hover means to have no contact with the ground. To float above it, and the space underneath to be open air. I'm talking the kind of stuff we saw in the "Back to the Future" movies. I was discussing the attempts at so called anti-gravity being tested at different universities, and other testing grounds. I saw one on the discovery channel with a frog. The point of the tests was to figure out how to use anti-gravity to overcome the gravitational force of the earth, so that ships could fly into the air without thrust(which is currently used today).
So it got me thinking about gravity itself. I remember the explanation they gave us in school, but as far as I can remember it wasn't very detailed. It was basically "the force that keeps objects from floating away." Something like that. But then I was left with even more questions. So I decided to do a little research online. Maybe there was something I had forgotten, or something my teachers hadn't mentioned in school. I came upon this site first http://www.howstuffworks.com/question232.htm , and this was the explanation of gravity in the first paragraph:

"Every time you jump, you experience gravity. It pulls you back down to the ground. Without gravity, you'd float off into the atmosphere -- along with all of the other matter on Earth."

That sounds alot like what I said. But that can't be it. Its doesn't really answer what gravity is. So I did some more research. This time I went to wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation) This is what I found:

"Gravitation, or gravity, is one of the four fundamental interactions of nature, along with strong interaction, electromagnetic force and weak interaction. It is the means by which objects with mass attract one another. In everyday life, gravitation is most familiar as the agent that lends weight to objects with mass and causes them to fall to the ground when dropped."

So now I think about it. What does that mean? "Its the means by which objects with mass attract one another"? All objects have mass. If it doesn't have mass it wouldn't exist. Who wrote this? Maybe they don't know what mass is. Anyway continuing on. "The means by which objects attract one another." That sounds like magnetism to me. Are they saying gravity is magnetism? "Gravitation is most familiar as the agent that lends weight to objects and causes them to fall to the ground when dropped." Ok hang on. If gravity is pulling objects together, then how can you say fall? Being pulled towards something is not falling.
Something just didn't seem right, so I did some more looking. Everything I found was saying the same thing with a few words changed here, and there, but basically the same thing. Gravity is the force that keeps things from floating away. WTF? That's an answer to why we don't float away? The force that keeps is from floating away is the force that keeps us from floating away? That's not an answer. Oh but they named it. "Gravity". That makes it a real answer.
Let me ask you something (anyone reading this), do you feel like you might just float away? Do you feel there's something pulling you down? Cause I don't. I jump up and fall cause of my weight. The bigger I am the faster I will fall. That's just common sense. We've all witnessed it personally. There is a force that keeps us all in our place, but I've began to doubt the uneducated guess called "gravity" we've been given. Yeah I said it. They haven't even worked all the details out on it, and the evidence is ..well evidence of what? Its not even an answer. "The force that keeps us from floating away is the force that keeps us from floating away" is not an answer. And the little details they figured out make no sense.
So you're probably thinking now, ok genius. You think you're so bright? Think you're more intelligent then the brightest minds known to the scientific world? What geniuses? The more I read about these so called scientist scientific explanations of things, the more convinced I am that they are either complete idiots, but smarter than the rest of the worlds idiots, or they are frauds.
And now onto your second question. What's my theory? Its simple Sherlock. Pressure. You float in water because the mass of it is larger than you, the total weight of it is heavier than you, and the thickness of the liquid gives you something to push on. You will sink through water, because it is not a solid, but you can float on it. A solid you cannot pierce so easily. You would need to break through it by force. And a gas you would fall through so easily, but since its not a liquid, not thick enough (the particles are too far apart), there is nothing for you to grab onto to float. You just fall right through the particles.
Those particles, solids, liquids, gases, (etc), fill every single bit of space. The air around you is gases. The atmosphere is full of gases. The universe is full of gases. Think of all that gas. Put it together that's alot of weight on you. Its the pressure of the total weight of gases that is keeping your butt attached to the earth. The weight above you is more than that below you, and thus you are kept from floating away. Ta da.

Coloring For Beginners

Lets talk about colors for a bit. Do you know where color comes from? To better understand where color comes from, we must first know what color is. The text book version would go something like this: "Color or colour, is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others" (source: wikipedia). Nice Job Wikipedia. Once again you fail! That doesn't tell what color is, that claims that only humans can see color. Ok next source says: "the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light" (dictionary.com). So it says its the quality of an object, and is effected by light. Well no shit its a quality. What is it? ok forget it. I'm sure most of us know what color is, even if we can't define it properly. Lets just skip ahead to finding out where it comes from. Well I can't answer this myself, so I'll need to do some more research. Let's see what they say about it on the interweb. I've listed a few sources below, and what they say about how color is created.

1.http://answers.ask.com/Fashion_and_Beauty/Clothing/where_does_color_come_from

"Color actually comes from light refracted through prisms. Then light travels through a prism (or atmosphere) is is bent and forms different colors. When something is white it is the combination of all color - as that's how color starts out."

Ah so color comes from light you say? Light refracted through prisms. Where are all these prisms? I don't have any prisms in my house. I don't see any outside. How do these magic prisms know what color to put on things? If color comes from light, then shouldn't the color change when I move? I don't mean the shading. I mean the color itself. How would the light know what is suppose to be red, and what is suppose to be green, etc? Answer: it doesn't. Color does not come from light. Next.

2. http://www.shortcourses.com/use/using4-1.html

"Why do we see colors? Light from the sun or from a lamp seems to have no particular color of its own. It appears simply to be "white" light. However, if you pass the light through a prism, you can see that it actually contains all colors, the same effect that occurs when water droplets in the atmosphere separate light into a rainbow. A colorful object such as a leaf appears green because when white light strikes it, the leaf reflects only the green wavelengths of light and absorbs the others. A white object such as a white flower appears white because it reflects most of the wavelengths that strike it, absorbing relatively few. Inks, dyes, or pigments in color prints also selectively absorb and reflect certain wavelengths of light and so produce the effect of color.

Although light from the sun appears colorless or "white" it actually contains a range of colors similar to a rainbow. You can see these colors using a prism to separate them out.

White objects reflect most of the wavelengths of light that strike them. When all of these wavelengths are combined, we see white. On the other hand, when all of them are absorbed, and none reflected, we see black.

A green object such as a leaf reflects only those wavelengths that create the visual effect of green. Other colors in the light are absorbed by the leaf."

Ok ok I'm beginning to see the problem people are having. People are getting confused. Things of color can change the color of light. But light does not create color. Its a very wide spread misconception people have that color comes from light. Its not true. Colored light comes from an object that already has color. But I can't really blame people for thinking this way, after all it is what they teach in most schools. Tsk tsk.

Light can effect the shade, hue, and brightness of an object's color, but it does not make the color itself. If you were to color a box red, and then another one a darker shade of red, and place them in the same light, they will still be different shades of red. The color is already there. It does not come from the light, but it can be effected by the light.

So where does color come from? Its funny all the answers we pretend that we have. Can anyone figure it out?

Time Travel For Beginners

"Is time travel possible daddy?" (that's what your imaginary kid just asked you)

Answer: Are you serious? Why would you waste my time and yours simultaneously like that? Well for those wondering I have attempted in the most simple way possible to explain this. If you have any questions after reading this, just put your arm up, and wait till you are called upon.


No. You can't go to the past because it's already gone,and you can't go to the future because it hasn't happened yet. There are no dimensions of time and space. It's an interesting thought, and nice to day dream about the possibilities of such a thing. But it is not reality.

In order for you to be able to go back in time there would need to be a piece of you left in every moment of time. The smallest fractions of time. Imagine what that would look like. Because it would be visible with that much of you breaking off. You would be like a blur of light or gas. Probably something like a ghost or soul.

You can't go back into the past, because then it would change the present, and the present can't be changed unless you are there. The past effects the present. And you can't go into the future, because the present effects the future, and if you're not in the present then there is no future. You can only exist where you are at right now.

Any questions?

Sputnik I

Sputnik I "Cпутник-1" First satellite to orbit the Earth on October 4th, 1957 by Soviet Union

Let's Get It On
The Cold War had already begun and American fat cats angrily shook their fists at the robots of the Soviet Union. The fight to be numero uno, number one, king of the hill. Marching soldiers angrily kicking their feet up, while swinging their rifles were just a few news commentator's observations ahead of lines of truck beds hauling missiles and rockets the size of buses. It was getting out of hand. There had to be some other way to make your place in the world.

On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced that Americans would put a man on the moon. A move that would surely cement their place in the history books as the Roman Empire of the new age. It was an announcement that sent rocket scientists running in every direction, as suits argued over the cost and ability to do so. But it must be done, so that the rest of the world would know who was in charge, and they could surely say, "They were the first." But they weren't. For just a few short years ago the Soviet Union had taken their dog Sputnik out for a walk around the Earth, and it took a poop in America's yard.

A Closer Look
The satellite had sensors used to detect the different layers of the upper atmosphere, pressurized nitrogen in the body, which helped detect meteoroids, and a transmitter to send radio waves back to Earth for deciphering of the collected information by scientists. It traveled at 18,000 mph to make a complete orbit in just 96.2 minutes. After 3 months in orbit Sputnik I burned up as it fell to the Earth on October 26, 1957. A sad end to such a good pet, but he made M.S. Khomyakov and the rest of his team proud.