Thursday, March 5, 2026

Introduction To This Blog System

                                                                                                                                                                                         

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

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

Other Blogs And Books

                                                                                                                                    

Lights at night 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ukraine

Ukraine is a geographically large country in eastern Europe. It became independent after the October Revolution, in 1917, before becoming a republic of the Soviet Union. It became an independent country after the end of the Soviet Union.

The western part of Ukraine has been ruled in the past by Poland, and the eastern part by Russia.

Kyiv is the capital city of Ukraine. It's historical importance is that it was the center of the kingdom known as Kievan Rus, which was the predecessor state of Ukraine, Russia and, Belarus. it is believed by many that St. Andrew, one of the apostles in the Bible and the brother of St. Peter, either predicted the future location of, or actually visited the site of, Kyiv.

The story of Kyiv revolves around a ruler of Kievan Rus, known as Vladimir the Great. Vladimir not only united the kingdom but made one of the most momentous decisions in history. He made a choice of religion for his kingdom, and investigated every practical choice. His emissaries were so impressed by the Hagia Sophia, during a visit to Constantinople (now Istanbul), that they could not be sure whether they were still on earth or had actually entered Heaven. Vladimir thought that Byzantine Christianity, from which the Eastern Orthodox Church of today is descended, was certainly the best choice.

This image, from Google Street View, is of the statue of Vladimir the Great, in Kyiv.


Other important figures here are the two Byzantine missionary brothers, Cyril and Methodius. The language of the region was Old East Slavic. Cyril was very good with languages, and created an efficient alphabet so that the Bible could be copied into the language. That is why the alphabet that is used by Russia, and other nearby countries today, is called the Cyrillic Alphabet.

Kyiv has been controlled, down through the centuries, by a wide variety of peoples. It was destroyed by the Mongols in 1240, and only fully recovered it's position in the Nineteenth Century. When the Eastern Church finally split altogether from the Catholics in 1054, it brought about a division in the region, with Catholics using the Latin script on one side, and Eastern Orthodox using the Cyrillic script on the other side. The Cold War was but a secular manifestation of this split of nearly a thousand years ago.

The best-known landmark in Kyiv is the green-and-white St. Sophia's Cathedral. The first six images are from Google Street View.







The cathedral appears very Orthodox, but has passed between Orthodox and Catholic control during it's history. The following scenes begin inside St. Sophia's Cathedral, which was begun in the 11th Century. The cathedral is named for the Hagia Sophia that we saw in the posting on this blog, "The House Of Holy Wisdom, Where The Modern World Began".

In Sophia Square, in front of the cathedral, is the statue of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. He led an uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, who ruled Kyiv, to bring about an independent Ukraine. He was allied with the tsar of Russia, and the involvement of Russia was the beginning of it being a great power. These two images of the statue and the square are from Google Street View.



As with most other conflict in this region, it was rooted in the 1054 split between Catholicism and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Kiev was Orthodox, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was Catholic.

The blue buildings, with gold domes, are the cathedral and monastery of St. Michael, it was destroyed in the Soviet era but reconstructed. The first seven images of St. Michael's are from Google Street View.








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The following scenes begin in Independence Square, around which Ukraine's government buildings are located. The glass structures on the square are skylights for an underground shopping center. The statue on a tall column is the Independence Monument. The first four images of Independence Square are from Google Street View.





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The Mariyinsky Palace is the residence of the President of Ukraine, and looks a typical Romanov-era palace. The building next to it is the Ukrainian Parliament building. The first six images of the government buildings are from Google Street View. 

This is the Mariyinsky Palace.


This is the Ukrainian Parliament Building.





This is the Cabinet of Ministers Building.





This is St. Andrew's Church, built on a hill in the Eighteenth Century. The first five images are from Google Street View.









This is the Kyiv Fortress, from the days when the Romanov Dynasty ruled Russia, and the nearby area. The first image is from Google Street View.



Kharkiv is the major city of the eastern part of Ukraine. It was founded in the 17th Century and so does not have the long history of Kyiv. Today Kharkiv is a very industrial city.

Freedom Square is the focal point of Kharkiv. The first three images are from Google Street View.




Holy Annunciation is a well-known church in Kharkiv. The first four images are from Google Street View.






The city of Lviv, founded in the 13th Century, is in the far western part of Ukraine. It was once under Polish control. There is an opera house in Lviv that is reminiscent of the Palais Garnier in Paris. These three images, from Google Street View, are of the Theater of Opera and Ballet.




This is St. George's Cathedral in Lviv. The first two images are from Google Street View.