Thursday, July 25, 2024

Perth, Adelaide And, Brisbane

On the far western side of Australia, a continent away from cities like Melbourne and Sydney, is the city of Perth. This city is really far away from everything. Like so many other cities, it grew as the result of a Nineteenth Century gold rush. Like Melbourne, it is built on a mostly-enclosed bay that forms a natural harbor. The city once turned on it's lights at night when U.S. astronaut John Glenn passed over as the first American in orbit.

When Australia was settled, it was not certain that one united country would form. Settlements in different parts of the vast continent originally saw little connection with one another, and no reason to form a single country. The state of Western Australia, where Perth is located, started out intending to be a separate country. 

These three images of downtown Perth are from Google Earth.




The following scenes of downtown Perth begin outside the Perth Arena.

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Outside of Perth, this is the area of Cardup. The first image is from Google Street View.


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Australia's two other largest cities are Adelaide and Brisbane. The following scenes begin in the center of Adelaide. There is a street in downtown Toronto with the same name. The first three images of Adelaide are from Google Earth and Street View.




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This is Brisbane, from it's downtown. Brisbane is the northernmost of the major cities in Australia that we have seen. Remember that Australia is in the southern hemisphere so that moving northward is getting closer to the equator. The first three images of central Brisbane are from Google Earth and Street View.



The Long-Ago Battle That Completely Changed The World

With the fiftieth anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Northern Cyprus this week let's review this posting because this battle that took place nearly a thousand years ago is really where the trouble began.

Remember that the country formerly spelled as "Turkey" now wants to be spelled as "Turkiye".

Near the eastern end of Turkiye is a place that is very important. There is a town known as Malazgirt. It used to be called Manzikert. A battle took place there nearly a thousand years ago. It really changed the world.

The Byzantine Empire was what was once had been the eastern half of the Roman Empire. It spoke Greek and it's capital city was Constantinople. It was there that the Hagia Sophia was located, which would be the largest church in the world for a thousand years.

To the east of Byzantium was an Islamic Turkic empire known as the Seljuks. It does not seem that the Seljuks had designs on Byzantium, but many of the Turkic people had a nomadic way of life and began entering Byzantine territory. Byzantium decided to send it's army to the frontier and confront the Seljuks. The result was the battle of Manzikert, in which the Seljuks emerged victorious.

It is almost difficult to imagine the long-term consequences of this battle.

It opened the way for Turkic people to move westward into Asia Minor, also known as the Anatolian Peninsula. This began the downward spiral of Byzantium, and ultimately it's end. The Turkic people who moved in would found an empire, which would grow to be one of the greatest empires the world had ever seen. They became known as the Ottomans.

By the time the Byzantines lost the Battle of Manzikert, in 1071, they had already split from the Catholics, in the Great Schism of 1054, to found the Eastern Orthodox Church. Even though the Byzantines were no longer Catholics, the Catholic Church hierarchy was alarmed at the news of this Moslem victory and that they were moving into what once had been Catholic territory.

The pope responded with the first of the Crusades. This was the medieval efforts to take back control of the Holy Land from the Moslems. It is important that the split happened before the Battle of Manzikert because, if the Byzantines had still been Catholics the effort that went into the Crusades would likely have been sent to Asia Minor to help the Byzantines and the Crusades, with their far-reaching effects on the world, would likely never have happened.

The Ottomans captured territory, moving ever-closer to Constantinople. In 1453, the city finally fell and the Ottomans renamed it as Istanbul. The Hagia Sophia became the standard for Ottoman architecture and, to show that they too were capable of such architecture, built what is known as the Blue Mosque facing the Hagia Sophia.

But the fall of such an important Christian city, as well as what had been the largest church for a thousand years, had very far reaching effects.

One effect of the fall of Constantinople to Moslems was the move of the center of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Kiev would seem to be a logical choice, it was Prince Vladimir that had made the Byzantine rites so important by choosing it over the Catholic rites for his kingdom known as the Kievan Rus. But Kiev had been devastated by the Mongols to such an extent that it would not regain it's importance until the Nineteenth Century.

This ended up with the headquarters of the Eastern Orthodox Church moving much further north, to a place called Moscow. This is what started Moscow, as well as the country of Russia, on it's way to being so important.

Another effect of the fall of Constantinople to Moslems was the movement of scholars, with large numbers of manuscripts on pack animals, westward. The tremendous enlightening effect that this new knowledge would have on Europe became known as the Renaissance. This is what turned the medieval world into the modern world.

The Renaissance could be thought of as the trunk of a tree with several branches of how it changed the world. Among these old manuscripts of the Bible that were close to the originals. This brought about the Reformation, which was the religious branch of the Renaissance. The scientific branch of the Renaissance was the Enlightenment. The political branch of the Renaissance was the French Revolution, which opened the modern political era. The technical branch of the Renaissance was the Industrial Revolution, which contributed the printing press to provide the necessary documentation to spread all of the other branches. I think of the leaves on the branches of the tree as the documents, printed by a printing press, that made the branch grow.

The Crusades left a tradition of travel to distant places by ship, which resulted in the Age of Discovery several hundred years later, which spread the ideas of the branches of the Renaissance across the world.

The Ottomans had one of the greatest empires in history and advanced far into eastern Europe, reaching as far as Vienna. This indirectly made possible another world-changing event. Martin Luther is the figure most closely associated with the beginning of the Reformation. The Holy Roman Emperor of the time, Charles V, was a devout Catholic who opposed the Reformation. He could probably have brought it to an end but knew that Luther had supporters and needed all the support he could get to oppose the Ottomans. So, the Reformation proceeded.

A branch of the Ottoman Empire was the Pasha Dynasty that ruled Egypt, and which we saw in our visit to "Cairo". It was the Pashas, who ruled until the overthrow of King Farouk in 1952, that really created modern Egypt. They also founded Khartoum, which is the capital city of Sudan. The overthrow of King Farouk set a pattern for the replacement of kings with military rulers that would be repeated in countries like Libya and Iraq.

This Ottoman advance far into Europe left a legacy in the region with later rivalry between the Ottomans and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, even though the two would ultimately end up on the same side in the First World War.The seizing of Bosnia, which had been under Ottoman control, by Austria-Hungary was the primary factor leading to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which was the spark that set off the First World War.

The First World War brought major changes to the world, including the end of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of modern Turkiye. It is sometimes referred to simply as "The War That Changed Everything". It was what really brought the world from the Nineteenth into the Twentieth Century. Among it's many changes was the October Revolution that brought an end to the Romanov Dynasty and ushered in Communism. The retooling of America's wartime industrial production to consumer goods brought about the "Roaring Twenties", but then the devastating economic crash of 1929, which ultimately led to a Second World War, and the postwar order that shaped the world after that, including the "Baby Boom" generation and it's rock music.

So much of the conflict in the Middle East today is simply due to the fact that the region was dominated by the Ottoman Empire for so long that it has not yet reached a new equilibrium since the end of that empire.

The end of the Ottoman Empire, following the First World War, brought about the republic of Turkiye. The president of the country, Ataturk, began an ambitious program of modernization and westernization, adopting the Latin alphabet for the Turkish language.

The Shah of neighboring Iran, Reza Shah, was a friend of Ataturk and also sought modernization reforms. Under his son and successor, these reforms would become known as the White Revolution. But this would alienate much of the Moslem community in the country. The ultimate result would be the 1979 revolution that overthrew the Shah, that we saw in "The Great Revolution Of Our Time", on this blog.

The Byzantine Empire included what is now both Turkiye and Greece. The Ottomans permanently conquered Turkiye, but not Greece. Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire until the early Nineteenth Century. This continues on as the tension between Turkiye and Greece today.

It all started with the Battle of Manzikert. 

Global Computer Crisis

The global computer crisis this week is a glimpse of what we saw in the posting "The End Of The World As We Know It", June 2024. We have gotten to be utterly dependent on modern computer technology but that makes us lost if it shuts down. I am certain that a devastating shutdown will be part of the Tribulation Period. I believe that it could be brought about by a massive solar storm, as described in that posting. 

There hasn't been anything like a world war since the internet era began. It will be interesting what happens because we are very dependent on the internet and GPS but undersea cables can be cut and satellites shot down.

Thanks To Readers

Tuesday is the 19th anniversary of the online writing that would become this blog. The first posting went up on July 30, 2005.

I would like to, once again, thank readers for making this blog such a fantastic success. When I started this blog on a computer in the red brick library not far from where I live, I thought that I would maybe write articles for a few months. I never imagined that it would go anything like this far. Because I write about the Bible prophecies the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the apocalyptic statements made by members of the U.S. and Russian Governments have pushed readership off the charts.

This blog has brought the best out in me like nothing else ever has, knowing that so many people are reading and that I must come up with something worthwhile for them to read. I plan to keep writing here as long as I can come up with articles that are worthwhile for my audience to read.

What I want to convey here is not just knowledge, but the addition of new knowledge. I don't want to just write about things that are already known, but to add things that were not known or seen before. I won't write anything here unless it is new, or at least a new way of looking at things. I never ask readers to just believe something, but show you so that you can see with your own reasoning and fact checking that it must be correct.

There are things all around us, every day, that no one has yet noticed and pointed out. The internet makes it possible to come up with an idea or discovery, and check within minutes to see if anyone else has ever thought of it. Today, everyone has essentially the same access to information as anyone else in the world. There are all kinds of patterns in that information that are yet to be noticed.

Remember my favorite motto, concerning this writing, that "Discoveries are often made not by answering questions that no one else has answered, but by asking questions that no one else has asked". I was led to the original cosmology theory on this blog by continuously wondering what time is. Time is so basic to us, but I could find nothing at all anywhere about what it actually is. Finally, I worked it out myself, and the result is the cosmology theory which I have been continuously adding to since I first thought of the basic scenario, "The Theory Of Stationary Space".

About half of what I write here is about science. My thought is that the internet is a doorway for amateurs in science. An amateur can make discoveries that are as valuable as that made by any professional. Some branches of science, particularly astronomy, have always had heavy amateur participation. The difference between an amateur and a professional is that the professional is assigned to work on some particular project, while the amateur can "wander" and look into whatever sparks his or her interest. 

Such a generalist may notice connections between things that the specialists didn't notice. Most well-known scientists before the Twentieth Century were amateurs, engaging in scientific investigation only as a hobby. Albert Einstein was an amateur, working a day job as a patent clerk, when he published his first Theory of Relativity. He was not a professional scientist.

When I was a child I became interested in space. I read about the brilliant supernova in the sky that was recorded in the year 1054. We see the remnants of it today as the Crab Nebula. When I later became a Christian the year 1054 sounded familiar. It was when the momentous split took took place between the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. All conflict between east and west in Europe, including the war in Ukraine, began with that split. I was amazed to find that no one had ever pointed out that the supernova was going on at exactly the same time as the split, in early July of that year. Could it have been a warning from God? Europeans didn't seem to have recorded it but it is seen in Arab, Chinese and, Japanese sources.

But science is not all that is written about here. There are the weekly visits to places across the world, as well as articles about world events and history. I am in a position to contribute to people better understanding each other, and that is exactly what I am going to do.

I try to combine articles about the same, or similar, subject matter, when possible. I would rather have fewer long articles than many shorter articles. There are a number of compound postings on this blog, collections of previous postings about similar subject matter. For a complete list of the theories and compound postings see the introductory posting at the top, "Introduction To This Blog System", "Library For Readers" and the posting "Index Of Compound Postings".

I have given up on periodically moving postings from this main blog to the applicable topical blog, just keeping everything here on one blog. There are quite a few articles on the topical blogs with post dates of June or July of 2009. That is because this is when I developed this new system of the main blog and the topical blogs, but I now use only this blog.

My writing process is first, of course, to think of an idea to write about that no one else has yet noticed, or at least that I can present in a different light. The idea is very often linked to, or a continuation of, something that I have written previously. I run the idea through my mind to see if I can develop it as a viable posting. I make sure that I can work out the essence of the idea in my mind, and get an idea of how the details will fit together.

This blog is quite a bit of work, although very enjoyable work. The actual writing itself is just the "tip of the iceberg". A lot of news and general reading gives me ideas to write about. Then there is working out the idea and maybe fact checking. Coming up with new ideas and things to write about is relatively easy, although sometimes working out all the details is difficult.

This blog is my top priority. This is my big thing in life and I am going to put my best into it. I used to be interested in learning languages, and collected tapes of all major languages of the world. I planned to do computer certifications. But I put it aside because it wouldn't give me much to write about but would take mental energy away from my writing. I have developed a computer language that I have written about here, actually mathematics that enables anything that is expressed in words to be expressed in numbers. But I decided that trying to find a company to buy it is taking too much attention from my writing here, and it will be a future project.

Part of what I do here is to question things. For one example how we would have been much better off counting by twelves, instead of tens. This helps us to break out of grooved-in thinking so that we are more likely to notice better ways of doing things.

I have only a community college degree and am mostly self-educated. About 20% of what I know I learned in school. But I consider that as an advantage in writing this blog. A downside of a formal education is that one learns to think like everybody else. Sometimes it might be good to think like everyone else but in coming up with new ideas someone who thinks like everyone else is less likely to notice things that no one else has noticed.

My cultural background is inevitably reflected in this blog. I am a Protestant, and Protestants are very individualistic. The religious ideal of Protestantism is for everyone to be able to read the Bible for themselves and go directly to God, with a minimal religious "establishment". 

There is the establishment, the community and, the individual. The secular ideal of Protestantism is to take some of the power away from the establishment, and the community, and give it to the individual. This blog, and the internet in general, certainly empowers the individual. You can go right to the people, without going through any "establishment", and without requiring the approval of the "community".

Anyway, this blog has been a fantastic journey that I never imagined would turn out like this and it is because you expect something to think about every week, and I have to make sure that I deliver it.

My Instagram account is mark_5429. Don't follow it because I am not adding anything new to it. I put my autobiography at the end of this blog in the posting "Updated Autobiography", July 2009. It is a living autobiography in that I am adding more to it as I think of it.

My book about health and fitness is "Secrets Of Health And Fitness" by Mark Meek. It is nearly lifelong study of study of health and fitness that gave me a scientific method of thinking. I am soon to be 64 and have lived my life in nearly perfect health and am doing daily workouts that I would have been very pleased with as a teenager. Exercise is wonderful for imparting a relentless sense of improvement that carries over to other areas of life.

Young people should not underestimate age. Obviously older people are not always right. The world that you inherit would be a paradise if they were. But I could not imagine doing all of this writing when I was young. If someone would have shown me all of the writing that I would someday do, and the number of people that would be reading it, I simply would not have believed them.

Spend more time with your parents because someday they will be gone. Never think that it is not cool to hang out with your parents. If I could have my mother and father back I would hang out with them all day every day.

Remember that the most destructive word in our language is "talent". People who are "talented" are not really "talented". They just have a strong sense of improvement. "Talented" people just take wherever they are and just keep improving on it. A person without the same sense of improvement will see them and say "Oh, that person is so talented".

Also remember what I refer to as "Your Three Things". Your position in life often depends on the approval of other people. Sometimes it is out of your control and sometimes you are not treated fairly. What you can do is to concentrate on the things that are under your control. Improve your mind, improve your physical fitness, and improve your relationship with God. All three of these things are under your control. These are "Your Three Things".

Your reading this blog is greatly appreciated.

Linking Science And God

Remember that one thing I am trying to do with this blog is to base science on God. We usually consider science and religion to be two completely separate ways of looking at the world. But God created the universe.

What would happen if we ask God to show us how the universe works, and lead us to discoveries? That is what I am doing here. I can think of something, check online to see if it has ever been pointed out, and then go right to the people with it. But I always ask God to guide me.

The result is the scientific theories, detailed in the posting at the top "Introduction To This Blog System". These theories explain so much that has never been explained, and I developed them after asking God to guide me.

The Creation Blog, www.markmeekcreation.blogspot.com, explains, in scientific terms, why God must have created us and why we could not have arisen spontaneously from inanimate matter. But I could have gone on and on writing it, with examples of why God must have created us.

First, just the fact that all things that were once living must be either alive or dead shows that there must be information from outside that has gone into living things. 

Living things are clearly vastly more complex than their surrounding inanimate environment. If living things had arisen spontaneously, had "evolved", from their natural environment then living things would be "islands" of higher complexity in the surrounding environment.

But if living things were then "islands" of higher complexity then there would be an increasing scale of complexity from the surrounding level up to the higher level of the living things. Going from life to death would be a sliding process that would have no reason for a sharp definition of the difference between life and death.

As it is there is a sharp definition between life and death. Going from life to death is like falling off a cliff. This shows that there is a gap between the higher complexity level of life and the lower level of the surrounding environment. There is no way to account for this gap if life had somehow arisen from it's surrounding environment.

There must have been information implanted from outside that brought living things to a higher level of information than the surrounding environment, with a wide gap between the two levels. In other words, God created us.

Second, what about the thin film of water that bathes our eyes? That film of water is absolutely necessary for our vision. 

If we go outside in cold weather, that film of water should freeze instantly, but yet it doesn't. The reason that it doesn't is that it is so saline. We can even get severe frostbite in our limbs and that thin film of water on our eyes will still not freeze.

Aside from this film of water resisting freezing humans would not be able to live in climates where the temperature ever dropped below freezing.

This could not have "evolved" by trial and error. There would be no evolutionary reason for eyes at all if they couldn't see. It would not make sense to "evolve" the salinity, in order to live in cold climates, if humans already had warm climates to live in.

Humans began in a warm climate, in Ethiopia, and the only way to explain this saline film of water is that God created us and intended us to also live in cold climates.

Summary Of Science On This Blog

On this anniversary of the blog remember that what I try to write here is not just knowledge but new knowledge, things that have never been pointed out before. I usually won't write something here unless it is new, or at least a new way of looking at things. I don't absolutely guarantee that everything I write here is new but it is as far as I know.

About half of what I write here is about science. Here are 81 new things that I claim to have found about science, in no particular order. It only just touches on the five major theories. Five of the entries are illustrated by diagrams. Remember that all around you, every day, there are things that no one has ever pointed out.


1) Entropy is supposedly a well-established principle in science. Entropy basically says that nature will tend to break down the complex into the simple. A classic example of entropy that is often given is the placing of an open bottle of ink in an aquarium of water. The ink will tend to disperse into the water. The ink will not return into the bottle. This is considered as entropy. But I have never seen a meaningful example of entropy outside of living things, and things made by living things such as the ink and the aquarium. My conclusion is that there is no such thing as entropy in the universe of inanimate matter. Living things are at a higher level of complexity than their inanimate surroundings and when we make things we impose our own complexity on them. Entropy is the breaking of those things, and the bodies of living things, down to the level of inanimate matter.

2) Gems that refract light, such as diamonds and rubies, are only found up to a very limited size, but I have never seen an explanation why. The reason is that these gems are made of atoms and are formed by geological processes. For a material to be clear or to refract light the atoms must be lined up in rows so that the light can pass through them. These gems are formed by geological processes and this means that the gems must be closer in scale to the atoms than to the earth. It is not possible for natural gems that refract light to form by geological processes at a size closer in scale to the earth than to it's component atoms.

3) Biology is just as much a science as chemistry and physics, but usually contains much less mathematics than the physical sciences. The reason is not that biology cannot be described with numbers but that our one line numbers, our 0, 1, 2, 3, ..., while fine for describing inanimate matter, cannot adequately describe the more complex biology. A number system that can describe biology would be "complex numbers", as opposed to our "simple numbers". Numbers would have to be two-dimensional and we should be able to express mathematical constants, such as pi, with a finite number of digits. One difference with "complex numbers" is that "and" and "plus" are not necessarily the same thing, whereas that is not true with our "simple numbers". That is why, relative to chemistry and physics, we tend to describe biology with words rather than numbers. 

4) Generations of algebra students have wondered what on earth they will ever us the concept of "i", the square root of -1, for when they get out in the real world. The "i" stands for "imaginary" because negative numbers cannot have square roots, since two negative numbers multiplied equals a positive number. But yet the students have to learn it to pass the class. Believe it or not this actually makes perfect sense and is very useful. But a mistake has been made. It shouldn't be defined as the square root of -1, which doesn't make sense. Rather it should be defined as "Perpendicular 1". As described in the section above our one-dimensional line of numbers is not entirely sufficient to describe the world around us. This would give us a two-dimensional number system. The concept of "i" is onto the right idea but it should be about "Perpendicular 1", instead of -1.

5) In 1998 two separate teams researched the rate at which the expansion of the universe is slowing down. Amazingly, both teams found that not only is the expansion of the universe, outward from the Big Bang, not only not slowing down, it is actually speeding up. So-called "dark energy" was contrived to explain how this could possibly be happening. Like "dark matter" we cannot detect "dark energy". But I find the acceleration of the expansion of the universe rather simple to explain. It is caused by the fusion of atoms in stars and can be explained in terms of information. Suppose that we have six identical bits that can fit into twelve empty spaces, this gives us 4,096 possible permutations. The bits are interchangeable because they are identical. Now suppose the bits undergo fusion, just like atoms in stars. The six individual bits are fused into one-bit, two-bit and, three-bit. Even though the bits are no longer interchangeable this fusion means a loss of information as there is now only 3,960 possible permutations. The bits, of course, represent atoms being fused in stars. But information in the universe cannot just be lost like this by internal processes. The only way to avoid losing information by fusion is for the number of spaces to increase, in other words for the universe to expand. The reason the expansion is speeding up is that, over time, successively heavier elements are being fused together so that more energy per time is being released. 

6) Explaining this expansion of the universe in terms of energy is also simple. When smaller atoms are fused into larger atoms the new larger atoms contain less overall energy than the smaller atoms that were fused together, this excess energy is released as radiation and is why stars shine. In my cosmology theory energy ultimately goes to overcome the basic rules of the electric charges that comprise everything in the universe. When energy overcomes the mutual repulsion of like charges it produces the charged particles of matter, such as electrons. When energy overcomes the mutual attraction of opposite charges it produces electromagnetic waves. These waves thus "loosen" the alternating checkerboard of the negative and positive charges in space, causing the space to "expand" as a result of the increasing amount of the radiation released by the fusion in stars. The "dark energy" driving the acceleration of the expansion of the universe is actually light, and other electromagnetic radiation.

7) There must be a wind pressure formula. I had seen charts of the force exerted by wind of certain velocities, but had never seen a direct formula. I was going across a nearby bridge on a windy day. There were whitecaps on the waves. I knew that whitecaps form on waves when the wind reaches a velocity of 22 KPH. I remembered that standard atmospheric pressure is 14.7 pounds per square inch. The reason that whitecaps form with a wind of 22 KPH is that the pressure of the wind exerted at that velocity equals atmospheric pressure. The wind is then able to force the air into the waves that form whitecaps. After converting the units this gives us a formula for the pressure exerted by the wind. We must remember to square the force, or take the square root, because twice the velocity gives four times the force, and half the velocity gives a quarter the force.

8) To an observer on the moon the earth appears to go through phases just as does the moon to an observer on earth. I realized one day that the phase of the moon, as seen from the earth, and the phase of the earth, as seen from the moon, must always add up to a complete circle.

9) The moon does not actually orbit the earth. From the moon the gravity of the sun is more than twice as strong as the gravity of the earth. What happens is that the path of the moon interweaves with that of the earth while both move around the sun. Since the earth is 81 times the mass of the moon it seems that the moon is moving while the earth isn't. When the moon is between the earth and the sun, at new moon, the sun and earth are pulling against each other, causing the moon to move slower so that it falls behind the earth. When the moon is on the other side of the earth from the sun, at full moon, the sun and the earth are pulling together so that the moon moves faster and pulls ahead of the earth. This is what causes the moon to appear to orbit the earth. It did once orbit the earth because it was much closer to the earth than it is now, so that the earth's gravity was the strongest force on it, and the information of that orbit remains. 

The following diagram shows how the earth and moon interweave as both orbit the sun. The blue line represents the earth and the red line the moon. The moon moves much more because it's mass is only 1 / 81 that of the earth. But the mass center of the two remains constant. F represents a full moon and N represents a new moon.

10) Salt, when added to water, both slows the rate at which the water evaporates and raises it's boiling point. That has tremendous implications for the earth's weather. What kind of wild weather would we have if the salt in the sea didn't slow the evaporation rate? Since salt is so closely associated with water, or where water has been, it must have arrived on earth with water, in one or more comets. Since there are salt mines and salt deserts, where water has been in the past, that means salt is being removed from the sea by geological processes. This means that the earth's weather must have been tamer in the past, with less water in the water cycle.

11) Liquid is a secondary state of matter. There is no such thing as liquid in open space. A liquid requires the support of a solid beneath it and the pressure of a gas above it. A liquid in open space would immediately turn into either a gas or a solid.

12) Only the largest stars explode in a supernova. We know that solar systems form around second-generation stars after the original star has exploded in a supernova. A supernova is the exploding of the star from the center. A nova, in contrast, is just the blasting off of the star's outer layers. I conclude that if planets in a solar system have atmospheres and oceans then the original star must have underwent at least one nova prior to it's supernova. If the star didn't have a nova then there would be solid planets without atmospheres or oceans. The much greater energy released by the supernova fuses small atoms together into larger ones, which is how all elements heavier than iron form, but the much lesser energy released by a nova fuses the light atoms in the star's outer area into the light molecules, such as water, that form atmospheres and oceans. I believe that there were likely three nova before the supernova. The first formed the distant comets, the Oort Cloud. The second formed the nearer comets, the Kuiper Belt. The third formed the methane, ammonia and, water that make up much of the mass of the outer planets.

13) The orbits of comets around the sun are extremely elliptical. This is explained by the comets resulting from nova before the supernova, as described in the section above. The previous star, before exploding in the supernova, was much more massive than the sun so that the comets would have more orbital energy than they do now. When that star exploded in the supernova only part of the mass fell back together by gravity to form the sun. This meant the orbital energy of the comets had to decrease and this was accomplished by their orbits "shrinking" into the extreme ellipses that we see today. 

14) The orbits of the comets are not in the same plane at all as the planets but their inclination to the orbital plane of the planets never exceeds about 45 degrees. This is explained by the explosion of the previous star in a supernova. The comets were orbiting the star, in all different planes, when the star exploded as a supernova. The star was rotating as it exploded and this meant it's equatorial region also had centrifugal force to add to the force of the explosion, while the polar regions didn't. This then meant it was the mass of the polar regions that fell back together to form the much-smaller sun, while the mass of the equatorial region continued on into space and swept away the comets in it's path. Since it was the mass of the polar regions that formed the sun, the rotational plane of the sun and the orbital plane of the planets is perpendicular to what was the rotational plane of the former star. This is why the orbital planes of the comets don't vary by more than about 45 degrees from the orbital plane of the planets. 

In the following diagram the red arrows represent the equatorial plane of the previous star that exploded in a supernova. The matter thrown outward from this region never came back together because it had the added outward momentum of the centrifugal force of rotation. The blue dashes are comets that formed from the light molecules thrown outward by nova that preceded the supernova. The comets in the star's equatorial region were swept away by the matter from the supernova. The green arrows represent the matter from the polar regions of the previous star. It did come back together by gravity to form the sun and Solar System and the comets in that zone remain. This is why the orbital plane of the planets is perpendicular to the equatorial plane of the previous star and comets have orbital inclinations up to about 45 degrees from that plane.

15) The planets are at unevenly spaced distances from the sun. There is a formula, Bode's Law, that fairly accurately predicts the distances. But even so the distances to the planets is information that must have come from somewhere. A solar system forms when a large star explodes in a supernova. Only the largest stars will explode in a supernova. The ordinary fusion process only goes as far as iron. Elements heavier than iron are rare because they are only formed during the brief time that the supernova is actually occurring, because atoms are fused together that otherwise wouldn't be by the tremendous release of energy. This is why iron is so common in the inner Solar System. Iron is the most abundant element on earth by mass. The information in iron, and atoms in general, is what has defined the distances to the planets. There are two types of nucleons, protons and neutrons, each of which are made up of three quarks. Smaller atoms are crunched by fusion into larger atoms, which forms a factor tree and explains why some elements are more common than others. An ordinary iron atom has 56 nucleons of which 26 are protons. The most obvious factor difference between 26 and 56 is that 26 = (4x4) + (1x10) while 56 = (4x4) + (4x10). So let's start with 0 to represent empty space, 3 quarks in each nucleon and 2 different types of nucleons. If we start with the 0 and 3, and multiply the 3 by successive multiples of 2 we get, 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 96, 192. We still have the 4 and 10 as the factors described above. If we add 4 to each number we get, 4, 7, 10, 16, 28, 52, 100, 196. We can then divide by 10 to get, .4, .7, 1, 1.6, 2.8, 5.2, 10, 19.6. This models the relative distances to the planets very well. Just by chance the 1 represents the relative distance of the earth. The 2.8 represents the asteroid belt. The only planet that is a little bit out of place is Neptune.

16) What I refer to as the "Weather Cycle" could be a very useful tool for forecasting the weather. Every factor involved in the weather is cyclical, the rotation of the earth, the seasonal changes in temperature, the evaporation of water and it's falling as precipitation. This means that unless we are dealing with an infinite amount of information, which we aren't, the weather must eventually repeat itself. The only linear factor, non-cyclical, is human-caused climate change and changing of the earth's surface. If we could identify, from weather records, when the Weather Cycle began repeating itself we could use the records to forecast the weather. An analogy is a system of intermeshed gears, with a handle to turn one of the gears. If we marked with a pencil where each pair of intermeshed gears were in contact at the beginning, and then turned the handle long enough, a finite system of gears would eventually line up at their starting positions.

17) My definition of a black hole is when the gravitational pressure exceeds the Mass-Energy Equivalence of the mass. A mass of matter, such as a star, will compress under it's own gravity. A star is born when this gravitational pressure exceeds the electron repulsion between atoms, so that smaller atoms are crunched together into larger ones. The new larger atom has less overall internal energy than the ones that were crunched together to form it. The excess energy is released as radiation and this is why stars shine. This internal energy of all matter is known as the Mass-Energy Equivalence. It is the basis of Einstein's famous formula, E = MC squared, that a certain amount of mass is equivalent to a certain amount of energy. My cosmology theory defines this internal energy as the energy that holds the like electric charges of matter together against their mutual repulsion. This is why matter is composed of charged particles, such as electrons. Everything in the universe, matter and space, is composed of negative and positive electric charges. Opposite charges attract and like charges repel. But energy can hold like charges together to form matter, this is the internal energy of matter that gives it it's mass. Space is a checkerboard of opposite charges and so does not have this internal energy. A black hole forms when the gravitational pressure exceeds this Mass-Energy Equivalence.

18) Moles and coulombs could have been coordinated but they aren't. A mole is a fixed number, as long as we measure mass in grams. A mole is defined as the number of atoms or molecules in a pure sample of an element or compound that has a mass of the number of grams of it's atomic or molecular mass. 56 grams of iron with an atomic weight (or mass) of 56 would contain one mole of iron atoms. A mole is 6.02 raised to the 23rd power. A coulomb, in contrast, is an arbitrary unit. It is a number of electrons. A coulomb is the unit of electric charge and the flow of one coulomb of electrons per second is defined as one ampere. But electrons come from atoms and atoms are counted in moles. A coulomb is relatively close to one ten-thousandth of a mole. It would have been very useful to coordinate the two so that a coulomb is one ten-thousandth of a mole, by adjusting the definition of a coulomb. The probable reason this didn't happen is that coulombs came first.

19) Another thing that we missed coordinating is the length of a meter with the rate of acceleration due to gravity, which is 9.8 meters per second squared. If a meter, which is an entirely arbitrary unit, had been made just a little bit shorter then the acceleration due to gravity would have been 10 meters per second squared, which would have been very convenient and would have fit perfectly with the Metric System being based on multiples of 10. But the Metric System is a product of the French Revolution, which happened long before aircraft and tall buildings became common. If a measurement system like the Metric System was being developed now I am sure it would be designed to incorporate the acceleration due to gravity. 

20) It is unfortunate that the two electric charges were identified before the structure of atoms was understood. Electrons have a negative charge and the nucleus a positive charge. But the designation of negative and positive is entirely arbitrary and could just as easily have been the other way around, which it is for antimatter. Maybe the entire terminology is unfortunate because a minus also means to lose something and a plus to gain something. It turns out that this is the way electrons in atoms work but it would be better if an electron was defined as having a positive charge because, the way it is now, if an atom loses an electron it has a net positive charge and if it gains an electron it has a net negative charge, and the way it sounds doesn't make sense.

21) Polar molecules, such as water where one side is more negatively-charged and the other more positively-charged, or diatomic molecules, which are two identical molecules bonded together often hydrogen or oxygen, are necessary for any kind of eddies, whirlpools or, turbulence to take place in a fluid, a liquid or a gas. If the fluid is made up of single atoms then such turbulent effects will not take place. These turbulent effects only take place in the air because the diatomic molecules in air are unequal in their length and width. The effects only take place in water because one side of the molecule is more positively-charged and the other more negatively-charged. All turbulence is a result of this molecular inequality. 

22) Whenever some entity in the universe, with a given topology, induces some other entity the induced entity will have a topology that is opposite to the topology of the original entity. We know that dimensions of space form right angles because right angled forms are the only ones that fit together with no leftover space. But yet the default gravitational form of matter is the sphere, which is the form that is most unlike right angles. But it goes beyond that. The earth is a sphere and it's rotation can induce tornadoes. A tornado is shaped like half of a pseudosphere, which is the topological opposite of a sphere. The same can be said for the eddy that forms when water is draining from a sink. If we graphed the acceleration of a falling object due to gravity it would also form a pseudosphere. 

The following diagram shows the earth at left as a sphere. A sphere has a continuous positive curvature. Any entity that it induces, such as a tornado, must have the opposite continuous negative curvature, at right.

23) We can never be sure that we all perceive colors in the same way because we cannot describe colors with words. Try describing your favorite color to a blind person. You can't, it's impossible, the words just do not exist. But this means that we can never be sure if we perceive colors in the same way. One person might see green the way another person sees red. The same goes for all sensory perception.

24) Red and blue blood and colors is not a coincidence. Color does not really exist outside of ourselves, it is just the way our eyes and brains interpret different wavelengths of visible light. At one end of the visible spectrum, the longer wavelength lower frequency end, is red, at the other end is blue. Blood is also either red or blue, it becomes red after being exposed to oxygen. I don't think that this is a coincidence. It means that the nature of our blood governs how we perceive colors. 

25) We know that colors are just the way that our eyes and brains interpret different wavelengths of light, and do not really exist outside of ourselves. Brown exists even less than the other colors. The way our eyes work causes there to be "forbidden colors". Two of these are red-green and blue-yellow. We cannot see these color combinations because the same sensors in the eyes are used to see both colors. I believe that brown is what our brains interpret if our eyes look at a color combination that they can't process. 

26) We see six fundamental colors-red, orange, yellow, green, blue and, violet. But why do we see six fundamental colors? It is information that must have come from somewhere. The acronym CHNOPS is used in biology class to represent the six elements that are very important to living things-carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and, sulfur. This is not a coincidence. The six elements act as points of information and is why we see six fundamental colors. It is also why there are six "kingdoms" into which all living things are classified. There are also six basic things that we measure-time, distance, mass, temperature, electricity and, luminosity. But this is just due to our perspective on the universe and our own complexity reflected back at us by our surroundings.

27) Plants are primarily green because it is the color, the least of which comes from the sky. When an object is a particular color that color is actually the light that the color is reflected away, rather than absorbed. Plants live by their leaves absorbing sunlight. Light of all colors comes from the sky but the sky is blue while the sun is yellow-orange-red. This means that green is the color, the least of which comes from the sky. So plants develop, by spacing of their chlorophyll molecules, to reflect away the green light so that it can absorb the more plentiful colors. This is why plants are green. There are some plants that are not green but these are smaller plants, adapted to live under a canopy of green trees and green grass so that they can absorb the green light that is reflected away.

28) The real reason for the demise of the dinosaurs is what I refer to as the "Bone To Flesh Ratio". When a living thing with bones dies the flesh decays, and it's atoms return to circulation in the biosphere, much faster than the bones. Very old bones and skeletons are often found, without a trace of flesh left. This means that the ratio of atoms that compose flesh in the biosphere is always increasing relative to the atoms that compose bones. Larger creatures require more bone mass, relative to flesh. This means that land creatures based on bones must get smaller as time goes on. Whales exist because the rules of the sea are different. Water dissolves limestone, which contains calcium. But whales are mammals that breathe air. Their larger size gives them a lower surface-to-volume ratio and they couldn't survive as fish, breathing through gills, since oxygen is scarcer underwater than in the air. 

29) Pterosaurs were flying dinosaurs in the distant past. We can see that they must have existed because they must have been responsible for plant life on remote islands. There are islands thousands of km away from any land that have a wide variety of luxuriant plant life. How else could the plants have gotten there? Flying dinosaurs must have lived on plants and been able to fly for very long distances. While flying over the ocean they would stop on an island for a rest. The seeds of the plants that they had eaten would pass through their digestive system and end up on the island. They might have flown over the ocean and sought out islands to avoid predator land-based dinosaurs.

30) Only living things with free will have a definable front and back, as well as a top and bottom. A natural rock has no definable top or bottom or front and back. A planet or star has a north and a south pole but we cannot really say that one is the top and one is the bottom. A hill or mountain has a top and bottom, but only by it's relation to the earth, not by it's own definition. But living things must have definable dimensions. A plant has a definable top and bottom but not a front and back. A living thing with free will must not only have a definable top and bottom but also a front and back.

31) We are of a higher complexity level than our surrounding inanimate environment. This means that we must labor in order to survive, since the surrounding environment will always be "trying" to pull us back down to it's level which is what happens at death. It also means that we require free will to make decisions because there is not enough surrounding complexity for all that we could conceive of to exist, which means that we can be wrong about things. If we were not of higher complexity than our surroundings we would never be wrong or able to conceive of something that did not exist. There is no such thing as a coincidence, it is just a random apparent reduction in our own complexity that we see reflected back at us by our surroundings.

32) The higher level of complexity of living things is manifested by the peak pattern. Living things have optimums, or peaks, where they are at their best. These peak factors include optimums of temperature, oxygen, food, sleep, etc. This optimum or peak pattern is not seen in inanimate matter. Another pattern only seen in living things is what I call "alphabet". A rock, as an example of inanimate matter, would make just as much sense wherever it is, on the earth or at the bottom of the sea or floating around in space. But a human foot would make no sense on it's own, not being part of the body.

33) We impose our higher level of complexity on our surrounding environment, which is why we can go wrong. Whenever we build or create technology we are imposing our higher level of complexity on our surroundings. That is why things can break or wear out, the surrounding environment is trying to pull them down to it's own level. We know that energy can never be created or destroyed but once we have used energy we cannot get it back in useful form because we are at a higher level of complexity. This applies to energy use by our bodies or by our technology. 

34) All technology is of the same complexity that is equal to our own complexity that we impose on our surroundings. But some of the complexity of each example of technology is internal, and some is external. A cup looks like a simple piece of technology, much less complex than a car. But that is just the cup's internal complexity. To thoroughly understand the cup it would be necessary to understand human biology, why we would need to drink from the cup, how we would hold the cup, why the cup would hold a convenient amount of liquid, how we would get the material from which the cup is made and how we would manufacture the cup. All of this is external complexity.

35) The Lowest Information Point is always preferred by the universe. We know that energy and information is really the same thing because we cannot add information to anything without applying energy to it and cannot apply energy to anything without adding information to it. Another way we can see energy and information as really the same thing is how we can make our lives physically easier, by use of technology, but only at the expense of making them more complex. We can never, on a large scale, make our lives both physically easier and also less complex. We perceive energy and information to be separate things only because of our higher level of complexity.

36) The universe's seeking of the Lowest Information Point is often manifested in what I refer to as "related ratios". This means that the denominator in one ratio is the same as the numerator in the other. The universe would prefer A / B = B / C to A / B = C / D because the first equation contains only three pieces of information while the second contains four. One way that I think this shows up is that so much of the matter in the universe is in the form of dust. I call this the "Bias Toward Dust". A typical mote of dust is halfway between the scale of the nearly infinitesimal electric charges that comprise everything in the universe, Planck's Length, and the scale of the entire universe. Another way I think it shows up is in metals. Metals are where large numbers of atoms share their outermost electrons. One of these metallic crystals is, like a mote of dust, about halfway between the scale of an electric charge and the scale of the entire universe. 

37) The "Magic Numbers", of either protons or total nucleons, that confer stability on a nucleus are already known. There are also my "Special Numbers" that are about limits. The Special Numbers come about because reusing numbers, in the development of elements, achieved the Lowest Information Point, as described in the above section. The original atoms were hydrogen, with one proton and one electron. But enough energy was released in the Big Bang to fuse some of the hydrogen atoms into heavier elements. This is known as primordial nucleosynthesis. There were 4 different atoms, including two isotopes of hydrogen, with 14 total nucleons. These could be called the First Stage Atoms. Some of these were fused in stars up to iron, which is as far as the ordinary fusion process goes. Iron ordinarily has 56 nucleons, because 4 x 14 = 56. These could be called the Second Stage Atoms. The tremendous amount of energy released in a supernova fuses together elements heavier than iron. There are 23 new elements in the Second Stage Atoms, because the original 4 included two isotopes of hydrogen. 4 x 23 = 92, which is the number of protons in uranium as the heaviest naturally occurring element in the Third Stage. A proton is 1,836 times the mass of an electron. That is a very divisible number. We can divide it by 3 three times and then by 2 twice until we get 17, which is a prime number. If we multiply 14, the number of original nucleons, by 17 we get 238, which is the number of nucleons in what is by far the most common isotope of uranium. You can see how numbers are reused, because this is the lowest information state. This is just an introduction, there is more to it than this.

38) Orbits and rotation exist for the universe to avoid making choices. The universe always seeks the Lowest Information Point just as it always seeks the lowest energy state, because energy and information is really the same thing. Suppose that the earth had a particular alignment, relative to the sun, such as the sun always being at it's 4 PM position where you live. The choice of that position would be information. In order to seek the lowest information position the earth rotates so that it cycles through all possible positions, relative to the sun. This avoids having to make the choice. The earth revolves around the sun for the same reason, to avoid the universe having to make a choice of one position in it's orbit. This achieves the lowest information state. 

39) We tend to ignore that, because the orbits of planets are ellipses, they move more slowly in their orbits around the sun when they are further from the sun. Kepler's Law is that a line from the center of the planet to the center of the sun sweeps over equal areas of space in equal periods of time, meaning that the planet must move faster when it is closer to the sun. This explains the two week gap between the solstices and perihelion and aphelion which would be a lower information state, and thus apparently preferred, if they occurred at the same time. What is happening is that the daily change in the earth's axial tilt is constant throughout the year but the journey between perihelion and aphelion is not constant, because the earth is moving more slowly when it is further from the sun. The solstices are around December 21 and June 21, perihelion is January 4 and aphelion is July 4.

40) Another implication of a planet moving more slowly when it is further from the sun is it's average distance from the sun. Textbooks give the simple average of the distances of perihelion and aphelion. But, since the planet moves more slowly when further from the sun, if we took it's distance from the sun on each day, and averaged the distances, we would get a distance that is greater than the simple average.

41) Physicists usually agree that everything is really numbers being manifested. This means that somehow everything that we are, and all that we do, must be expressible in numbers. But we can only express with numbers what our minds can grasp. Since our minds are of finite complexity there are things that we cannot express in numbers. This is what I refer to as "outer mathematics". We cannot get to human formula describing ourselves because we would have to be "smarter than ourselves", which is impossible.

42) We do not have an unbiased view of the universe, and this explains so much about the cosmology of the universe. A basic presumption of science is that we have an unbiased view of the universe, that we can completely rely on what our measurements and observations tell us. But what if we don't? My cosmology theory is based on the concept that we do not have an unbiased view of the universe. We see the universe as we do not only because of what it is but also because of what we are. With other sciences, like chemistry and geology, this doesn't make a difference. But with cosmology it does make a difference. It explains so much that cannot be otherwise explained. We were mistaken to think that we have an unbiased view of universe.

43) Relativity and Quantum Physics are two relatively new branches of physics. Both are based on concepts that cannot be explained by ordinary "textbook" physics. Furthermore, Relativity and Quantum Physics are incompatible with each other. In Relativity the speed of light is absolutely sacrosanct and mass, time and distance all revolve around it. But in Quantum Physics the speed of light is not even a factor at all. It can be demonstrated that information moves instantaneously between two entangled photons, no matter how far apart they are. The only way to explain this is ourselves, that we do not have an unbiased view of the universe. We see the "speed of light" as sacrosanct because it is the speed at which our consciousness moves along the bundles of strings comprising our bodies and brains, in four-dimensional space.

44) In Quantum Physics light appears to have both wave and particle natures. But that is because of what we are and explains why the act of observing an interaction is so important in Quantum Physics, an interaction can turn out differently according to whether or not it is observed. Light consists of two-dimensional waves in space that consists of alternating negative and positive electric charges. The only way that we receive light is by getting it's energy to knock an electron out of it's atomic orbital, whether in our eyes or our equipment. Electrons are, in my cosmology theory, one-dimensional strings. This means that, upon interaction, the electron string absorbs one of the two dimensions of the light wave. This leaves the other dimension as a particle, like an electron. This is why light is said to have both a wave and a particle nature and why it is so important or not whether the interaction is being observed. If the interaction was not being observed or measured the two dimensions of the wave would still be intact. 

45) My cosmology theory is that the matter of our universe is scattered across four dimensions of space. We perceive one of these dimensions as time because what we perceive as particles of matter, such as electrons, are actually strings in four dimensions instead of particles in three dimensions. This is the fulfillment of string theory. Our consciousness is moving along the bundles of strings comprising our bodies and brains at what we perceive as the speed of light. When Jupiter eclipses Io, one of it's moons, the eclipse is very predictable. But if the earth is moving toward Jupiter, in it's orbit, the eclipse occurs about ten minutes early. If the earth is moving away from Jupiter it occurs about ten minutes late. This is because of the speed of light. But if we observe a distant galaxy different rules apply. The light is shifted toward the red end of the spectrum, longer wavelengths, if it is moving away from us and blueshifted if it is moving toward us. This is known as the Doppler Effect. The reason for the difference of rules is that time, as the movement of our consciousness, is a factor with the eclipse of Io but not with the moving galaxies. So the relative movement of the objects shows up as time with the eclipse but as distance (wavelength) with the galaxy.

46) The density of matter in space is extremely sparse. In the universe as a whole it is something like three hydrogen atoms per cubic meter. Within galaxies the density is maybe a million times that of the empty inter-galactic space. But this density is information and information must have come from somewhere. The universe as we see it is only one possibility among all that it might have been. This is an alternative to the two groups of quantum theories. One group is that the universe is in all possible quantum states but collapses into only one upon being observed. The other group is that all possible quantum states that we do not see must still exist somewhere, in other universes. My theory is that the empty space must be maintained for all that the matter in the universe might have been but wasn't. No other quantum theory takes account of the density of matter in space, but it must somehow be important to the nature of the universe. What is not but might have been is information, just as much as what is, and this information must somehow be preserved.

47) We would not recognize each other unless the brain was more complex than the body. We would be able to recognize another person, but not to effectively tell them apart.

48) Handedness, people tending to be either right- or left-handed, is caused by the brain being more complex than the body. The human body already has two defined dimensions, top and bottom and front and back. But side to side looks pretty much identical, at least from the outside. The additional complexity of the brain shows up in effectively adding a third defined dimension, as handedness, but which comes into play only when the brain tells the body to undertake some action using the hands. Humans also tend to favor one foot over the other. Plants have only one defined dimension, top and bottom, but we eat plants, either directly or indirectly through meat, and that extra dimension is why our internal digestive and circulatory organs have another defined dimension, side to side.

49) Energy always ultimately goes to overcome the basic rules of electric charges. In my cosmology theory the universe is made of near-infinitesimal negative and positive electric charges. The size of these charges is Planck's Length, which is why Planck's Length shows up in all manner of physics formula. The basic rules of the electric charges are that opposite charges attract while like charges repel. Empty space consists of a checkerboard of alternating negative and positive charges, in multiple dimensions. But energy can overcome these basic rules so that like charges can be held together, against their mutual repulsion, to form the charged particles that comprise matter. This gives matter internal energy that we refer to as the Mass-Energy Equivalence. This internal energy in matter is partially released during a nuclear reaction and totally released during a matter-antimatter reaction. The energy goes to creating electromagnetic radiation, which is what results when energy overcomes the attractive force between opposite charges. So matter is when energy overcomes the mutual repulsion of like charges and electromagnetic radiation is when energy overcomes the mutual attraction of opposite charges. Radiation appears to be electromagnetic because it disturbs the perfect balance of the electric charges in space. Dimensions of space are at 90 degree angles to each other because an electric charge can bond with multiple opposite charges, if those opposite charges are positioned at 90 degrees to each other. 

50) Electric charges make up everything in the universe. Empty space is a checkerboard of negative and positive charges, in multiple dimensions. Matter is like charges, held together against their mutual repulsion by energy. This energy makes up what we call the Mass-Energy Equivalence. Electromagnetic radiation is so called because it is a disturbance that exposes the underlying electromagnetism of space, where the charges usually balance out and so conceal the electromagnetism. My model of electric charges are of oblong bits of information, as illustrated by the following diagram and images. The difference between negative and positive charges is that they are at right angles to each other. The two fit together and this is why the dimensions of space form right angles. The charges can be set end-to-end but this takes energy and forms the strings that comprise matter in my cosmology theory. This is why we see matter as composed of charged particles, such as electrons, because we can only see in three of the four dimensions over which matter is scattered, the other dimension we perceive as time. The energy is the Mass-Energy Equivalence. The length of one of these charges is the almost-infinitesimal Planck's Length, which is why it appears in all manner of physics formula.

Electric charges are oblong bits of information. A negative charge is shown in red and a positive charge in blue. The difference between the two charges is the alignment. The two charges naturally fit together to form the dimensions of space. Strings of either negative or positive charges form matter, as shown by the dashed line. This is why matter consists of charged particles, such as electrons. But holding like charges together, against their mutual repulsion, takes energy and this is the energy that shows up as the Mass-Energy Equivalence. 

Patterns of bricks show the difference between space and matter. In these images from Google Street View the alternating pattern in the first image shows how charges are arranged, at right angles, in empty space. This is why the dimensions of space form right angles. Electromagnetic radiation is so-called because it disturbs the underlying balance of the two charges.

The following image shows how electric charges are arranged in matter. Like charges, all aligned in the same direction, are held together, against their mutual repulsion, by the mortar that represents the Mass-Energy Equivalence.

51) Negative numbers do not really exist. We are shown in school a number line, starting at zero and with positive numbers in one direction and negative numbers in the other. But negative numbers only exist in things created by humans, particularly debt. Negative temperatures are only because of where we start temperature scales from. If we measured temperature from Absolute Zero, the coldest possible temperature, there would be no negative temperatures. The fact that we use negative numbers, which don't really exist, is a reflection of the fact that we are more complex than our inanimate surroundings.

52) Orbits are based on the fact that energy cannot be created out of nothing. If the earth has a mutual gravitational attraction with an object in nearby space then why doesn't the object just fall to earth? Why might it go into orbit around the earth? When the object was approaching the earth the earth's gravitational acceleration would accelerate the object, and thus increase the energy of it's collision with the earth. But, since there is no energy in gravity, this might be creating energy out of nothing, which simply cannot be done. So what will happen is that it will go into earth orbit instead. Higher orbits have higher energy levels so if an asteroid from further out in space than the earth collides with the earth, that is acceptable because it is not creating energy out of nothing. The difference in the energy levels of the two orbits shows up as the energy of the collision on the earth's surface.

53) Nuclear fusion is related to orbits and rotation. The simplest atom is hydrogen and all other elements are created from it by fusion in stars or primordial fusion after the Big Bang. Upon fusion the new atoms are more compact. My theory is that a cloud of pure hydrogen in space will not rotate and clouds of pure hydrogen will not orbit one another. The orbits and rotation that takes place when heavier, more compact, atoms are involved is the "ghost" of the space that was lost when the atoms were fused into a more compact form.

54) We should express more information in numbers, relative to words, as time goes on. We can express things in words that we do not completely understand. But to express anything in numbers we must completely understand it. Theoretically when we know all that we can practically know we should be expressing everything in numbers. So if we analyzed large numbers of documents over time we should see an increase in the proportion of numbers, relative to words. We can use this ratio to gauge our progress toward a future theoretical "K-Day", or Knowledge Day, when we would know everything that we can practically know. It is not as simple as learning what we don't know because we are always learning more that we don't know. There is what we know, what we know that we don't know, but also what we don't know that we don't know.

55) We usually express complexity with vague descriptive or comparative terms, such as "very complex" or "less complex than". Complexity can actually be expressed with numbers. It is the value of the denominator when the number is expressed as a fraction or ratio. The value of the numerator doesn't matter because many identical objects or arrangements contain no more information than one. We often use words as the denominator, five apples has apples as the denominator. To quantify that we have to identify all that "apples" could have been but wasn't, what I refer to as "The One And The Many". It doesn't matter if zero is the numerator, "zero apples" is as much information as "five apples".

56) Infinity is actually the lowest information state, with zero as the denominator. My information theory defines infinity as a ratio with zero as the denominator. Since the level of complexity of a number is defined as the value of the denominator when the number is expressed as a fraction or ratio, infinity actually has a complexity of zero. Infinity is not really a number and so escapes complexity because it avoids having to make the choice of a number.

57) Repetition is not complexity because a higher number of something is the numerator, and it is only the value of the denominator that determines the complexity of the number. A hundred identical objects contain no more information than one of the objects. This means that the universe can achieve a lower energy state by reusing information. It does this by the large-scale universe being based on the information in it's building blocks, thus reusing information. One obvious example of this is the similarity between the orbitals of electrons in atoms and the orbits of the planets in the Solar System, which is made of atoms.

58) We will always define a straight line as the path of light. But that could get complicated. We also define a straight line as "the shortest possible route between two points. But since we get our information about our surroundings from light, or other electromagnetic waves, the two definitions appear to be one and the same. We would be unaware if light actually did not take the shortest route between two points. There may indeed be "shortcuts" across space that we cannot see because of our dependence on light for information. Just for something to think about what if "dark matter", the apparent gravity that seems to come from matter that we cannot see might actually be because distant matter, and it's gravitational effect, is not as far away as it appears by the light that we depend on for information.

59) Shortcuts across space could be due to dimensions. We are in a four-dimensional block of space, including time. But maybe our block is bent or twisted relative to the background space, we have no way of knowing. Suppose that we have a two-dimensional sheet of plastic, ignoring the slight third dimension, and suppose that a two-dimensional being lives within the plastic sheet. If the being went from one side of the sheet to the other it would be completely unaware if the sheet was bent or twisted, it would always see itself as moving in a straight line. It would not be able to access the potential "shortcuts" in it's journey, due to it's lower dimensional order. It is the same with the electrons of an electric current moving through a wire. The electrons are one-dimensional particles so, no matter how twisted and turning the wire is, the electrons would always see themselves as moving in a straight line.

60) Energy increases the distance over which electric charges must balance out. Positive and negative electric charges, of which everything in the universe is composed, must always be equal in number, balancing out to zero. In empty space the charges must immediately balance out to zero, which is why space is a checkerboard of alternating negative and positive charges. What energy does is to increase the distance over which the charges must balance out. There still has to be equal numbers of each charge, but not in every immediate location. This makes possible matter, which is energy holding like charges together against their mutual repulsion to form charged particles such as electrons, and electromagnetic radiation, which is energy overcoming the attraction between opposite charges to create waves in space. This is why nuclear and matter-antimatter reactions produce a lot of electromagnetic radiation. Energy is going from holding like charges together to holding opposite charges apart. 

61) This concept of matter consisting of like charges held together, against their mutual repulsion, by energy makes gravity really simple. If the two electric charges, negative and positive, are equal but opposite then the two rules of electric charges, that opposite charges attract while like charges repel, must also be equal. If matter consists of the repulsion between like charges being overcome by energy then this means that there must be a net attractive force associated with matter. There is indeed a net attractive force associated with matter, it is what we refer to as gravity. This explains Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, about a gravitational mass curving space, by breaking the balance between the two rules of electric charges. It appears that gravity and light are two completely different things but yet both operate by the Inverse Square Law. It is because gravity is electromagnetic just as light is.

62) All gravitational spheres in the universe must be different from one another. This means planets and stars, spheres that form by gravity. For any two spheres to be the same we would have to define which two, and that definition would be information. We know that the universe always seeks the lowest information state so, to avoid having to make any such choice, it is a lower information state to just have every such sphere different from every other sphere. This is why gravitational spheres are large enough, relative to the size of atoms and the size of the universe, for every one of them to be different from one another.

63) Infinity is preferred with charge balance, zero with energy state. The universe is composed of positive and negative electric charges, and would prefer an infinite number of each. This is because infinity is not really a number, and so an infinite number does not require the information of making a choice of a number. An infinite number of something is actually the lowest information state. This also goes for the number of dimensions of space in the universe. I believe there are an infinite number, although we are confined to four of those dimensions including the one that we perceive as time. If there can be three dimensions then why can't there be four? If there can be four dimensions then why can't there be five, and so on? Infinity actually involves the least information because it is not really making the choice of a number.

64) Nature prefers an equality to an inequality simply because the equality involves less information. A is equal to A involves less information than A is not equal to B. This is because the first involves only one piece of information, while the second involves two. This is why, if we have a region of high pressure and one of low, the two will equalize. The same goes for temperature. The flow from high to low pressure involves energy, but remember that energy and information is really the same thing.

65) The universe in one sentence is as follows: "There are two electric charges, negative and positive, opposite charges attract and like charges repel. Energy can, to some extent, overcome the basic rules of the charges". Everything else about the universe is mere details. When matter is converted into electromagnetic radiation, in combustion, nuclear reaction or, matter-antimatter reaction, the total displacement of electric charges from the checkerboard pattern of empty space remains the same. Matter is the overcoming of the repulsion of like charges by energy while electromagnetic radiation is the overcoming of the attraction of opposite charges by energy. We see the universe as we do, light, stars, planets, rocks, water, etc. only because of our scale and perspective, we are seeing our own complexity reflected back at us. All that there really is is electric charges and energy that can overcome the basic rules of electric charges.

66) Our dual-charge universe is the way that it is because there are two electric charges. Each dimension of space is a line of alternating negative and positive electric charges. That means, from any given point, in one direction the charges are negative--positive-negative and in the other direction positive-negative-positive. That is why there are two opposite directions in each dimension. If there were other than two charges that would be different. However many opposite charges the universe was composed of that is how many opposite directions there would have to be in each dimension of space. This would not affect the number of dimensions, just the number of opposite directions in each dimension. The Inverse Square Law is also because there are two electric charges. If there were three electric charges it would be the Inverse Cube Law.

67) There was no answer to be found as to what exactly time is. I started wondering about it myself, which is what led to my cosmology theory. But it is simple. Particles, such as electrons, are actually strings in four-dimensional space. We perceive one of the dimensions as time, which is the dimension in which the strings are primarily aligned. Our consciousness moves along the bundles of strings comprising our bodies and brains at what we perceive as the speed of light. This explains both what time is and why the speed of light is what it is, which cannot be otherwise explained. If a string or bundle of strings is at an angle relative to ours, in the other three spatial dimensions, it appears as an object in motion. If a string or bundle of strings is at a right angle to ours we perceive it as moving at the speed of light. The speed of light appears as the maximum possible velocity because a right angle is the maximum possible angle. 

68) Another thing that my cosmology theory provides a simple explanation for is memory. The part of the brain that holds memories and information is about the size of an apple. How can this possibly contain all of the memories and knowledge that a mature person has? It can't, it's absolutely impossible. But if my cosmology theory is correct, that what we perceive as particles such as electrons are really strings in four dimensions because we can only see in three of the dimensions and perceive the other as time, then the brain has a whole other dimension to it and we are electrically connected to our past.

69) The Higgs Boson is unique as a fundamental element of the Standard Model in that it has no "spin". In other words, it doesn't "point" anywhere. But the Higgs Boson gives matter it's mass. In my cosmology theory there are four dimensions of space in which the matter of our universe exists. Matter consists of very long strings aligned mostly in the dimension of space that we perceive as time, and cannot move around in at will. Gravity is trying to pull all matter back together into this plane, this acts on the matter's mass. The Higgs Boson actually is "pointing" in this direction but we cannot see or measure it because we cannot access this fourth dimension at will.

70) Antimatter is like matter but with the electric charges reversed. Positively-charged positrons are in orbitals around a negatively-charged nucleus. Both consist of electric charges with like charges being held together by energy against their mutual repulsion. This internal energy is what gives matter mass and is known as the Mass-Energy Equivalence. When matter and antimatter are reacted together the internal energy of both is released in a fantastic burst of energy, and the electric charges in both rearrange back into the alternating checkerboard of empty space. This is where Einstein's famous formula, E = MC squared comes in. Energy and mass are equivalent but with a small amount of mass equivalent to tremendous amounts of energy. This is because energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. The speed of light is squared in the formula because we are moving along the bundles of strings that comprise our bodies and brains, at what we perceive as the speed of light, and electromagnetic radiation only moves at right angles to that, thus forming a square. We can also only see and receive light, and other electromagnetic radiation, from right angles to our bundles of strings.

71) Electron Dependency is the fact that we are entirely dependent on electrons to receive light or other electromagnetic radiation. The energy of the radiation knocks electrons out of atomic orbitals, in our eyes or equipment, thus creating an electric current. But an electron has a whole electric charge of -1. This makes us only able to see or detect electromagnetic radiation that has been created with whole electric charges. But quarks, of which protons and neutrons are composed, have fractional electric charges. Is this why quark stars are theorized to exist, but we have never detected them? Could it explain what dark matter is? It appears that there is a kind of iceberg structure of matter. The portion of the matter that we can see is the "tip of the iceberg", based on "whole" electric charges. The majority that we cannot see is what we can detect gravitationally as dark matter. This also causes us to perceive electrons as mere point particles. But this is because we cannot discern any internal structure in electrons if we are dependent on the electrons themselves for information. Remember my principle that our basic presumption is that we have an unbiased view of the universe, but we don't.

72) We tend to confuse the infinite, the finite, and the infinitesimal. We might think, at first glance, that the center of mass and the center of gravity of a planet is one and the same, but it isn't. The center of mass is constant but the center of gravity isn't, it depends on our distance from the planet. Gravity operates by the Inverse Square Law, but the near side of the planet is closer to us and therefore has a stronger gravitational effect than the further side. The closer to the planet we are the greater is the difference between the gravitational effects of the two sides and therefore the more difference between the center of mass and the relative center of gravity. Only if we are at an infinite distance from the planet are the two centers one and the same. This explains, for one thing, the gaps in the rings of Saturn. Another example is odds. If you are playing a casino game with 1 / 20 odds of winning, and you have played 19 times, you are due for a win, right? Wrong. No finite number of plays guarantee a win. Only if you play an infinite number of times must the wins conform to 1 / 20. 

The following diagram shows the internal layers of Saturn, with layers getting denser toward the center. The black dot, Point 1, is it's center of mass. The diagram actually looks like the rings of Saturn, and that is no coincidence. An object in orbit close to Saturn might have it's center of gravity at the red dot, Point 2. An object in orbit still further away might have it's center of gravity at Point 3, the blue dot, and one still further away at Point 4, the green dot. Only if an object were an infinite distance from Saturn would it's center of gravity be the same as the planet's center of mass. But having the center of mass in a higher density region means the object must have more orbital energy and thus must be in a higher orbit. If the density layers within the planet change suddenly then the higher orbital energies must also come suddenly. This is why there are gaps in Saturn's rings. It is a reflection of the internal structure of the planet.

73) With the atmospheres being roughly equivalent, the coldest planets tend to have the strongest winds. The winds on frigid and distant Neptune are like the shock waves from a nuclear bomb. But why should this be when winds are caused by heat, actually a difference in heat? The answer is not just a difference in temperature but a proportional difference in temperature. The closer the temperature of a planet is to absolute zero the greater the proportional difference of any given difference in temperature would be, and thus the stronger the wind that difference in temperature would produce.

74) The centrifugal force of the earth's rotation should cause rivers, at least major rivers, to tend to flow either toward the equator, or eastward with the direction of rotation. This is the way it usually is, but there are a few exceptions. The Nile and Rhine Rivers flow northward, away from the equator. The Niagara River also flows northward, as well as westward, although it is technically more of a strait than a river. The Narmada River flows westward, against the earth's rotation. The Congo River flows toward the equator but then loops around and flows away from it. The principle I came up with is that a tectonic collision is required to get major rivers to flow in these opposite directions.

75) What I refer to as "the perfection of technology" means that if we have to understand how a given technology works in order to use it then the technology has room for improvement. When there is no need at all to understand how the technology works in order to use it then the technology is "mature" and has no more practical room for improvement. When personal computers first came on the scene the average person couldn't imagine using one. This does not apply to the casing or packaging of the product, only to the technology itself. 

76) How can there be meteor showers at the same time every year, as the earth in it's orbit passes through dust left behind by comets? It must mean that the dust particles don't orbit the sun like the earth does but they do orbit the center of the galaxy along with the whole Solar System. This shows that there were nova, a blasting off of the outer layers of the star that preceded the sun before it exploded in a supernova. The sun and planets formed as some of the matter from the exploded star fell back together by gravity. The planets orbit the sun because they were formed together but the dust just continues to orbit the center of the galaxy because the comets existed before the supernova. The orbits of the comets, or dust that comes from them, cannot be changed by an internal rearrangement of the mass of the star from which they came, which is what the present sun and Solar System is. 

77) In my information theory living things with consciousness, senses and, free will are at a higher level of complexity than their inanimate surroundings. This is why this is required and why they can be wrong about things. There is not enough potential complexity in their surroundings for everything that they can conceive of to be true. Plants are alive but do not have consciousness because they are of the same complexity as the inanimate surroundings but are of greater intricacy, meaning more complexity per mass. This is why we require multiple plants for an optimum balanced diet, either directly or indirectly through meat. No single plant, no matter how nutritious, can provide a balanced diet. 

78) The earth is tilted 23.5 degrees on it's rotational axis, relative to the plane of it's orbit around the sun. This is what causes the seasons but it is also a higher information state that requires a special explanation. The continents are moving around tectonically, driven by the spin of the earth. They have moved from the southern to the northern hemisphere, which is why today most of the earth's land mass is in the northern hemisphere. This movement affects the mass distribution of the earth but the line from the center of mass of the earth to the center of mass of the sun must remain constant. To keep this line constant the earth has tilted on it's axis. 

79) The Big Bang is known to have given off a lot of radiation in the form of very short wavelength gamma rays. We can still detect this radiation although it's wavelength has been stretched by the expansion of the universe. The first atoms that formed was hydrogen, with only one proton and one electron. I believe that the radius of the hydrogen atom, the distance between the proton and electron, is a function of the wavelength of the first radiation.

80) The thing that first got me thinking that there must be a dimension of space that we cannot see, but perceive as time, is the radiation that we can detect from the Big Bang. If we live in three dimensions we should be able to determine the direction to the location of the Big Bang, and the radiation should be coming at us from that direction. The radiation is actually coming at us equally from all directions and we perceive the Big Bang as an event in the past but cannot determine a direction for it. The fulfillment of String Theory is that the particles that comprise matter, such as electrons, are really strings in four dimensions of space but we perceive them as particles because we can only see in three of the four dimensions. This goes back to the false presumption that we have an unbiased view of the universe, but we don't. 

81) Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, about mass, time and, length being relative and revolving around the absolutely sacrosanct speed of light, has been proven beyond the slightest doubt but yet cannot be literally true. The theory is from 1905, before it was found that cosmic rays are actually particles, such as electrons and alpha particles moving at or near the speed of light. In Einstein's theory the mass of an object increases with velocity until it reaches infinite mass at the speed of light. But gravity is also proportional to mass and if an object had infinite mass then it should also have infinite gravity. If this theory was literally true then a single cosmic ray particle, moving at or near the speed of light, should wrap the whole earth around it with it's tremendous gravity. But yet clearly it doesn't. What is happening is that the theory is the way it looks to us. Time is the movement of our consciousness and the speed of light is the maximum possible speed because a right angle is the maximum possible angle, as described in my cosmology theory.


Remember that all around you, every day, are things that no one has ever pointed out.