Thursday, May 21, 2026

Introduction To This Blog System

                                                                                                                                                                                                      

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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.

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 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 "Thanks To Readers". 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".   

The Rhine-Main (Frankfurt) Area

Frankfurt has been an important city since early medieval times. The Rhine River was the edge of the Roman Empire. so that cities on the west bank of the river are likely to have begun with a Roman outpost but cities to the east of the river, such as Frankfurt, tend to have begun in medieval times.

The name of Frankfurt, as well as the nearby Castle of Frankenstein, come from the historic people known as the Franks, who were the descendants of both the France and Germany of today. Frankfurt is known today not only for being a financial center but for it's world-renowned book fair. This is the historic center of Frankfurt, which is on the Main River. The actual name of the city is Frankfurt-am-Main. The first two of the following seven images, from Google Earth And Street View, are of the modern tall buildings of Frankfurt. The remaining five images are of the historic center of the city.








You will notice that there are some places in the following views that are grayed out. This is because Germany is known for it's strong sense of privacy. That may be why Germany is successful and other places are less successful, there is too much personal business involved in doing anything.

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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Mainz, on the west bank of the Rhine River, originated as a Roman outpost at the edge of the empire. Mainz is known to the world as the city of the printing press. It is the hometown of Johannes Von Gutenberg. The traditional book fair in Frankfurt resonates with the development of the printing press in nearby Mainz.

It is difficult to imagine what the world would be like without the printing press. I had print shop classes in school with the same kind of movable metal type that had been used since the Fifteenth Century. It is fairly recently that higher technology has taken over in printing.

A vital part of printing was to find just the right alloy that could be readily shaped into the intricate forms of letters, numbers and, punctuation, without being too expensive or difficult to work with. An alloy of lead, tin and, antimony worked very well. The following scenes begin inside Mainz Cathedral. The first seven images, from Google Street View, are of the historic center of Mainz and the cathedral.













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The city of Worms originated with another Roman outpost on the west bank of the Rhine River. It has been an important city since the early Middle Ages. This is where the parliament, known as the Imperial Diet, of the Holy Roman Empire was held. The Twelfth-Century Worms Cathedral was the focal point of the city during the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The 1521 Edict of Worms was the formal condemnation of Martin Luther as a heretic.

The following views of the old city of Worms begin at the Luther Monument. This 1868 monument includes metal statues of many of the important figures of the Reformation. Interestingly, it does not include Huldreich Zwingli, the Swiss counterpart and contemporary of Luther, possibly because the two had disagreed when they met in Marburg.

The first two of the following eight images, from Google Earth and Street View, are of the Luther Monument. The rest are of the cathedral and the historic center of the city.









These three images, from Google Street View, are of the Nibelung Tower and Bridge, over the Rhine River. The tower was built to look medieval in the late Nineteenth Century.




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Mannheim is a city that originated in the late Middle Ages. Did you know that the bicycle and the car were both invented in the same city? This is central Mannheim. In the late Nineteenth Century, some cities considered water towers as works of art. These five images, from Google Street View, show Mannheim's water tower, aerial views of the city, and the modern observation tower.






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The bicycle and the car were both invented in Mannheim but the inventors of both actually came from nearby Karlsruhe. Here is the Marktplatz, in central Karlsruhe. It is a relatively modern city, without a medieval history. The founder of the city has a pyramid tomb, in the center of the city, just like the Pharaohs of Egypt. The pyramid was built in the early Nineteenth Century. The first of the following images is of the Pyramid of Karlsruhe.


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Here is the central area of the city of Wurzburg. It is an early medieval city. The Wurzburg Residence is an Eighteenth-Century palace. There is also the fortress known as Marienberg. The first three, of the following eight images from Google Earth and Street View, are of the Wurzburg Residence. The next two are general views of the city, and the final three are of the Marienberg.









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Heidelberg is a medieval town with monasteries, a castle and a university, and for it's picturesque red roofs. It was a Protestant city during the Reformation. The following views of Heidelberg begin inside the Church of the Holy Spirit. The first two images, from Google Earth, are of the historic part of Heidelberg.



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Stuttgart is not in the Rhine-Main area but to the south. It is the major city of southwestern Germany. Southeastern Germany is the state of Bavaria, which we have already visited. Southwestern Germany is the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, in which Stuttgart is the largest city.

Stuttgart has been settled since Roman times, and there is still a thousand-year-old castle. Stuttgart is known today as a city of wine and cars. Many German auto and parts makers have their headquarters in Stuttgart, but not Volkswagen which is in the northern part of the country. The first of the following six images, from Google Street View, are of the New Palace and the historic part of the city.








To the southeast of Stuttgart is the city of Ulm. It is a city from the early Middle Ages, with a Fourteenth-Century town hall. Near the Town Hall is the modern library in the form of a glass pyramid. Ulm went to the Protestant side during the Reformation. Remember how to tell a historically Protestant city in Europe from a historically Catholic city. A Protestant city will put old and modern buildings right next to each other while a Catholic city will usually keep them separated.

But most of all, Ulm is known as the birthplace of Albert Einstein. This is  the church known as Ulm Munster. The first four images, of the church and the city, are from Google Street View.