Thursday, August 27, 2026

Introduction To This Blog System

                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Posting is usually done once a week, on Thursday.

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 six major scientific theories, each arranged in the form of a textbook. The first five of the following six 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 Theory Of Infinite Dimensions" is the most recent scientific theory. It is the second cosmological theory, after"The Theory Of Stationary Space". We see the universe as an infinity of distance in three spatial dimensions and light as always moving in straight lines. But this is another example of how we see the universe as we do not only because of what it is but also because of what we are. It is more logical that the universe has an infinite number of dimensions. We can see in all of the dimensions because light actually can turn corners but it requires energy. We can only see it as three dimensions because of our limited dimensional order. Light consists of two-dimensional waves and we perceive space as being three-dimensional. This means that we can see light as coming from different directions but can only perceive it as moving in a straight line.
 
"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".   

Special Announcement

I have been stating it here for quite some time. India has had four golden ages in it's history and a new golden age typically begins approximately four hundred years after the end of the last one.

The First Golden Age was the Mauryan Empire. Fourth to Second Centuries BC.

The Second Golden Age was the Gupta Empire. Fourth to Sixth Centuries.

The Third Golden Age was the Chola Empire. Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries.

The Fourth Golden Age was the Mughal Empire. Sixteenth to early Eighteenth Centuries as a great power. This ended with the emperor Aurengzeb.

In 2014, India became the first nation to launch a successful Mars mission on it's first attempt. I consider that as the beginning of the Fifth Golden Age. Coincidentally, Narendra Modi came to power in that same year. 

We seem to be hearing about India and Indians everywhere. That is because of the golden age. In the coming weeks we will be seeing India and it's past golden ages and that will give us a perspective on the new golden age.

Mumbai

Mumbai, once known as Bombay, is India's financial center and most important city on it's west coast.

Mumbai is built around a good natural harbor. The peninsula on which the city is built was once seven islands that were joined together, into a peninsula, by land reclamation.

The opening of the Suez Canal, in 1869, opened a much more direct route to India from the west, and made Mumbai (then Bombay) into a very important port.

In my geology theory, described in an abbreviated version, "Geology Theory With Satellite Imagery And Maps", March 2024, we saw that there is a long undersea ridge on the floor of the Indian Ocean. The ridge runs nearly directly north-south and is caused by magma emerging from below. It is what is described in the theory as a longitudinal line of emergence.

Mumbai is located right where the line of the Chagos-Laccadive Ridge meets the west coast of India. It is the magma emergence from below that parts the continental land mass of India and produces the good natural harbor around which Mumbai is built. Two images from Google Earth.

The red dashes show the undersea ridge and Mumbai is where it meets the west coast of India.


The red line is the inlet that is produced by the line of magma emergence and the blue line to the left is central Mumbai.


Let's begin our visit to Mumbai with the magnificent sight of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, with it's new tower in the background, and the Gateway to India. The first six images are from Google Street View.

This is the hotel with the tower addition in the background.





This is the adjacent Gateway of India.



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Nearby are some of the best-known buildings of Mumbai. This is the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. This seems to be as far south as the trains go on the peninsula on which Mumbai is built. This is one of the most famous train stations in the world, and is sometimes referred to by English-speakers as Victoria Terminus. How many train stations look like a palace? Six images from Google Street View.







Across the street from the train station is the building of the Municipal Corporation of Mumbai. It is actually called Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. This could be thought of as the city hall of Mumbai. The train station and city hall both look like palaces. Two images from Google Street View.



There is a famous market nearby, the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, sometimes referred to be English-speakers as the Crawford Market. Four images from Google Street View.





There is a college near the train station, with an adjoining high school, that is known for it's architecture, St. Xavier's College. Three images from Google Street View.




Not far away is the area around Chowpatty Beach. The beach faces the ocean to the west so that one can watch the sun set in the evening. Four images from Google Street View.





Possibly the best-known cafe in the world is the Cafe Leopold. We in Niagara Falls NY would really like to have one here.


The following area is in central Mumbai. The first eleven images are from Google Street View.












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This is a business district in central Mumbai. The first five images are from Google Street View.







This is further north in Mumbai, away from the central city area. It seems like ever city in India designates a dual color scheme for taxis, Mumbai's is black and yellow.


Here is more of Mumbai, further from the central part of the city.


This is a look at the far northern area of Mumbai.

India And The West

To better understand India, here is a link to the compound posting "India And The West".

https://markmeeksideas.blogspot.com/2022/12/india-and-west.html?m=0

Navi Mumbai

I can remember from childhood the news that an entirely new city was being built adjacent to Mumbai, then called Bombay, to relieve congestion in the city. "Navi" means "New". Let's have a look at how Navi Mumbai is doing today.