Thursday, May 1, 2025

Introduction To This Blog System

                                                                                                                                         

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This is my main blog and all new postings are made here. Postings may be later combined into a compound posting on this blog. Many of the postings concern my observations in various branches of science, but there are also many on technology, religion, economics and, general world issues.

Blogs are organized to be read from top to bottom like a book. There is a list of the postings on each blog to the right of the blog, but you have to click on the months shown. Please use this listing to verify that you have seen all of the postings on the blog. The usual pace of this blog is 1-3 new postings per week.
 
I would really like to thank everyone who reads any of these blogs for your interest.
 
SCIENCE WRITING
 
Most of the postings on this blog are visits to various places around the world, and articles about such topics as history and religion. But much of the writing is about science. I do not write about what is already known but only if I can write something new, or at least a new way of looking at things. If the title of a posting has an asterisk* after it, that means that the posting has already been moved to it's permanent position and will later be deleted from here.
 
If you would like a quick background in the science and mathematics that everyone should really know in the 21st Century, the posting "Scientific Literacy" provides this in about a hundred paragraphs. Similarly, "The Way Things Work" provides a quick background in everyday technology.
 
I am a Christian and I want to show that belief in God is not unscientific at all. I was interested in science long before I was interested in religion, and have never had any trouble believing that God created everything.
 
There are five major scientific theories, each arranged in the form of a textbook. The first four of the following five are on this blog.
 
"The Theory Of Stationary Space" is my cosmological theory of how so much revolves around time being explained by us being in four-dimensional space, with the dimension that we cannot access being perceived as time. This is my version of string theory, with matter actually being strings in four dimensions rather than particles in three dimensions. Everything is ultimately based on negative and positive electric charges, with energy being able to overcome the laws of attraction and repulsion of electric charges. No one has ever explained exactly what time is, and a myriad of explanations of other things fall right into place around it.
 
"The Flow Of Information Through The Universe" is about how so much can be explained by seeing how there is a limited amount of information, and it must be the same information that constructs the highest levels as the lowest levels. A ready example is how the orbits of planets around the sun is based on the orbitals of electrons around the nucleus, in the atoms of which the sun and planets are composed. This concept is extremely useful because, understanding this, we can study things that we cannot directly see by analyzing things that we can see because all must be built on the same information.
 
"The Theory Of Complexity" is about what information actually is, how energy and information is really the same thing, and how we see the universe as we do because of our perspective of being at a higher level of information than our inanimate surroundings.
 
"The Lowest Information Point" is about how, since information and energy is really the same thing and the universe always seeks the lowest energy state, it also always seeks the "Lowest Information Point". So much is explained by how the universe prefers equalities to inequalities and related ratios where the numerator of one ratio is also the denominator of the other. This explains so much from why dust particles are as big as they to why the planets and stars are the scale that they are.
 
"The Story Of Planet Earth", on the geology blog, is about how virtually every major feature of the earth's surface, both on land and seafloor, can be explained by lines of magma emergence from below that were affected by the landing of three Continental Asteroids. Many people believe that land originated from a past "super-continent", but there is no explanation of where it came from.
 
There are a few of what we could call "minor" theories, where there is not as much written as with the major theories. On this blog, there is "How Biology And Human Life Fits Into Cosmology". On the meteorology and biology blog, there is my theory of the nature of water, "Water Made Really Simple".
 
There are compound postings about science which are groupings of writing about a certain topic.
 
Scientific compound postings include, "Computer Science", "Atomic Science", "Measurement", "A Celebration Of The Inverse Square Law", "Our Solar System", "Mind-Bending Cosmology", "The Configuration Of The Solar System Made Really Simple", "In Appreciation Of Electrons", "The Science Of Human Society " and "Orbital And Escape Velocities And Impacts from Space".
 
Compound postings about history and the world include "The House Of Holy Wisdom, Where The Modern World Began", "Niagara Stories", "Economics", "How History Repeats Itself", "The Meaning Of Freedom", "The Western Hemisphere", "Our Language" and, "America And The Modern World Explained By Way Of Paris".
 
There are two compound postings about prophecies and the Bible. There is "The Aztec Prophecy" than, for prophecies that are directly made in the Bible there is "New Insight Into Bible Prophecy".
 
"Investigations" is the compound posting that is a collection of any posting about an investigation.
 
The rest of the postings are individual postings. For more detailed information about this blog, see the posting "About This Blog". For general topics of conversation, see "Thoughts And Observations", on the world and economics blog.  

Other Blogs And Books

                                                                                        

Lights at night 

Here is a quick look at my other blogs before you start this one.

On this blog, you can see a list of all postings by clicking on the year or month to the right. But on the topical blogs, that is not the case. If you click on a year or month on those blogs, it will display the postings themselves, but the list on the right will still only show those postings that were added most recently.

To access a list of all postings on those blogs, it is necessary to click on the arrow in front of the year or month in question.

http://www.markmeekeconomics.blogspot.com/ is about economics, history and, general human issues.

http://www.markmeekprogress.blogspot.com/ concerns progress in technology and ideas.

http://www.markmeekearth.blogspot.com/ is my geology and global natural history blog for topics other than glaciers. My natural history blogs concerning the impact of glaciers is http://www.markmeekworld.blogspot.com/ .

http://www.markmeekniagara.blogspot.com/ is about new discoveries concerning natural history in the general area of Niagara Falls.

http://www.markmeeklife.blogspot.com/ is my observations concerning meteorology and biology.

http://www.markmeekphysics.blogspot.com/ is my blog about physics and astronomy.

http://www.markmeekcosmology.blogspot.com/ is my version of string theory that solves many unsolved mysteries about the underlying structure and beginning of the universe.

http://www.markmeekpatterns.blogspot.com/ details my work with the fundamental patterns and complexity that underlies everything in existence.

 http://www.markmeekreligion.blogspot.com/ is my religion blog.

 http://www.markmeekcreation.blogspot.com/ is proof that there must be a god.

http://www.markmeekphotos.blogspot.com/ is my travel photos of Europe.

On my photo blogs, Blogspot will not hold all of the photos in each blog in a straight line. To see all of the photos, you must click on the bottom posting listed on the right at the top of the blog after seeing all that there are in the initial showing. The last posting in the North America blog should be "Tijuana, Mexico" and the last posting in the Europe blog should be "Notre Dame Cathedral Door And Arc De Triomphe, Paris". Each photo in the photo blogs can be clicked on to enlarge it to full screen.

My autobiography is http://www.mark-meek.blogspot.com/

My books can be seen at http://www.bn.com/ http://www.amazon.com/ or, http://www.iuniverse.com/ just do an author search for "Mark Meek".   

Shanghai

Shanghai is China's largest city, and the world's busiest export port. Let's have a look at the city that so many products that you see and use every day likely passed through. Shanghai is a very old city, that once was walled. It is on an alluvial plain where the Yangtze River, one of China's three great rivers, meets the sea. Shanghai is reputed to have the best education system in China, which is believed to have the best education system in the world.

The following six images, except the first, from Google Earth, show a port area of Shanghai.


This is shipping containers lined up, and being loaded onto ships by crane, maybe with goods on their way to Walmart.



This looks like an area where shipping containers are stored or repaired.

These tanks seem to be for importing oil or fuel.


The Huangpu River is an artificial tributary of the Yangtze River, and is over two thousand years old. The famous street known as the Bund, meaning the waterfront, is built on Zhongshan Road, which is along the Huangpu River. The following scenes begin along the Bund, which is Shanghai's old business district. The domed stone building is the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank. It was once the headquarters of HSBC, as well as the Shanghai Municipal Building.

Across the river from the Bund are the tall buildings of the new business district, known as Lujiazui. This has been developed since 1992 as a Special Financial Zone, and is in a bend of the Huangpu River. The building with the globes is the Oriental Pearl Tower. The tallest of the buildings is the Shanghai Tower, which is the tallest building in China. The Aurora building forms a video screen at night. The following seven scenes of Lujiazui are from Google Street View.








The Shanghai Tower is the tallest building in China. Three images from Google Street View.




The building with the globes is the Oriental Pearl Tower. Seven images from Google Street View.








This is from the top of the Oriental Pearl Tower. Two images from Google Street View.



The Aurora Building can be illuminated like a billboard. Three images from Google Street View.




The side of the river with the older buildings, the Bund, is also illuminated at night. This was the business center of Shanghai before the modern buildings were built across the river. Five images from Google Street View.






There are multiple scenes following. To see the scenes, after the first one, you must first click the up arrow, ^, before you can move on to the next scene by clicking the right or forward arrow, >. After clicking the up arrow you can then hide the previews of successive scenes, if you wish.

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The following scenes begin in the Old City of Shanghai, but with views of the modern downtown across the Huangpu River. This part of the city used to be walled, until the walls were dismantled in 1912. The following eight images are from Google Street View.







 






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It may seem to some westerners that there is a similarity between the Chinese and Japanese languages, since both are written with characters. Chinese characters have had some historical effect on Japanese characters but, other than that, the two languages are not related. These two images, from Google Street View, show Chinese (top) and Japanese (bottom).



The following scenes begin in the area around Nanjing Road and People's Square Park, in the middle of downtown. The first three images are from Google Street View.






https://www.google.com/maps/@31.1458195,121.656405,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-RDAYBFUqW8E%2FV8-XYKK8IMI%2FAAAAAAAABp4%2F4eBBgp7iyaoeGO8coq44bNAehFcV2C_HgCLIB!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh4.googleusercontent.com%2F-RDAYBFUqW8E%2FV8-XYKK8IMI%2FAAAAAAAABp4%2F4eBBgp7iyaoeGO8coq44bNAehFcV2C_HgCLIB%2Fw203-h101-n-k-no%2F!7i5376!8i2688

Finally, here is the Formula 1 Grand Prix auto racing track in Shanghai, known as the Shanghai International Circuit. The name of Formula 1 refers to the standards that the cars in the race have to adhere to. The first two images are from Google Street View.