Thursday, June 18, 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".   

England's South Coast

The following stops around the south coast of England begin in the west and move eastward.

THERE ARE FOUR IMAGES WITH EACH STOP. ALL IMAGES ARE FROM GOOGLE EARTH OR STREET VIEW.

St. Michael's Mount, in Cornwall, has the same name as it's French counterpart, across the English Channel. This was originally a monastery from the Twelfth Century. Both are built on tidal islands.





Plymouth is in the county of Devon, near the boundary with Cornwall. What would be called a county in North America and Ireland is called a "shire" in Britain because this predates "county", which was introduced by the Normans. The Pilgrims, who landed in Massachusetts, left England from Plymouth.  That is why their landing site of Plymouth Rock and the town of Plymouth are so-named. The first four images are of the old area of the city and the monument where the Mayflower left.





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

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Torquay is a seaside resort from Victorian times that is on the stretch of coast known as the English Riviera. Temperatures are warmer than what they would usually be at this latitude due to the Gulf Stream.





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Exeter is a city from Roman times that was long known for wool production. Remember that the names of cities in England reveal their origin. The -ter ending of Exeter reveals it to be of Roman origin, as are city names ending in -caster, -cester or, -chester. Cities with names ending in -by are of Danish origin. Names ending in -ham or -ton indicate Anglo-Saxon origin. These images of Exeter include it's castle and cathedral.





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Bournemouth is of more modern origins. England is very protective of it's green space. Considering it's population density, it is really amazing how much green space has been preserved. I am trying to help with the color of this blog. 

Instead of allowing cities to "sprawl". What will typically be done is that "new towns" will be started. Milton Keynes was the prototype postwar new town. Bournemouth began as such a new town. Bournemouth has one of the beach piers that are common at resorts on the south coast. They offer food and amusements. Remember that these beach resorts are where many Londoners used to go for vacation after the development of trains but before air travel.






Salisbury Cathedral is one of the best-known cathedrals in the world. It was built in the 13th Century and one of the original copies of the Magna Carta is here. 





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Southampton is Britain's most important seaport. The Titanic left from here on it's Ill-fated maiden voyage in 1912. Which city is the most important port depends on relations with continental Europe. If Europe is hostile then Liverpool is safer for ships because it faces away from Europe. But if relations are friendly then Southampton becomes the most important port because it faces toward Europe. Southampton is known for it's medieval gates and fortifications.






These shipping containers are awaiting transport by truck. There are rail lines alongside the port but I don't think that Britain uses freight trains very much. Long distances are necessary to make freight trains worthwhile and Britain is kind of a compact country. Cities are also compact and not too far apart. This makes passenger and commuter trains worthwhile but freight is better transported by truck.


There are grain silos reminiscent of those in Buffalo.


These parking ramps are holding imported cars.


Portsmouth is another extremely busy port. Portsmouth is the naval center while Southampton is the center of commercial shipping. The Spinnaker Tower is built in the form of a sail.





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Southampton and Portsmouth became so important as ports not only because the Isle of Wight creates an excellent natural harbor but because it plays tricks with the tides, causing a double high tide known as the "Double High Water". In the following image, from Google Earth, Southampton is indicated by the red line and Portsmouth by the yellow line.


Look at how white the seaside cliffs are at Dover. This is caused by the chalky limestone of the area and are known as the White Cliffs of Dover. Images from Google Street View.



Reading, inland and not on the coast, was an early medieval trade and religious center. It is a favorable place to live, being away from the prices and congestion of London but close enough to easily visit. The first two images are of the ruins of it's abbey. An abbey was the church of a Catholic monastery, which the Protestants closed after the Reformation.






Canterbury Cathedral was one of the two cathedrals of archbishops when England was Catholic. There was Canterbury in the south and York in the north. The archbishop at Canterbury was the senior of the two.

The city of Canterbury goes back to ancient times, with an early abbey and a Norman castle. After the Reformation it became the center of the Anglican Church. The actual residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Anglican Church, is Lambeth Palace, across the river from Parliament in London.

The Anglican Church, or the Church of England, was created by Elizabeth I after the Reformation in an attempt at compromise between the Puritans and the remaining Catholics. The Anglicans, one of the four main branches of Protestantism, kept much of the liturgy of the Catholic Church, but led by the British sovereign, rather than by the pope.

The compromise did not please everybody. Some, particularly in northern England, remained Catholic. Some Puritans wanted nothing to do with Catholicism or any compromise with it. These left the country altogether to set up their own Puritan society in Massachusetts.

When the U.S. declared independence the Anglican churches there were separated from England and was renamed the Episcopal Church. Today, America's national cathedral in Washington is an Episcopal Church. All are now, once again, part of the Anglican Communion.

The Anglican Church would eventually become known for it's "high church" side, meaning more Catholic, and "low church" side, meaning more Puritan, sides.

Another denomination, the Methodists with their emphasis on social justice, would spin off from the Anglican Church. But it is a separate church and Methodists are not part of the Anglican Communion. An example of the charitable emphasis of Methodism is the Salvation Army, which was founded in London by a Methodist.

Here is Canterbury Cathedral.