14a. a haunting echo / 14b. story five
You had quite a few hits on Facebook yesterday and today. Two of your former students live nearby. You feel good for having shared the material. – Ms. Havisham
1126. I do, and I am surprised that people were interested. Thank you for suggesting sharing. It feels odd to thank a part of myself, but . . . obviously, I am several parts; that is, my persona is diffused. It is strange to become conscious of a part of myself that is not connected to my heartansoulanmind; that is, the human spirit is something else again, and being human in itself is also something. The consciousness that tells me that even within being 'human' aside from heartansoulanmind, there is an afterglow, if you will, of creating the universe. This afterglow has a spirit all its own, perhaps the same spirit in all things living and not – a sense of 'being' as apart from not being. I don't remember thinking about this before. Perhaps it is possible that some people do not connect with the heartansoulanmind, the drive of being more than just existing, though existing is something in itself. 1140.
You drift into wonderment and imagination toying with the concept of there may be more your being human than what you have experienced, that in separating your spirit in a genuine sense, you find there is still something in being, in life and consciousness, that has to do with 'knowing' there is a separate dimension between being consciously alive and consciously something more; and perhaps something less than consciously alive but still being, as in a rock or stone is in being though not alive as such. A hum, if you will, of consciousness in all things that do not move of their own accord; but are at the same time physical matter. – Ms. H.
1153. A universal sense of a non-spiritual consciousness exists, of being a part of continuous creation, an echo of being First Causation, a haunting echo of The Creator becoming G-D is G-D. 1157.
At least you have worked this thinking through to a resting point. Enough for today. Take a break, and Grandma Earth will return with another story, Chapter Five. – Ms. Havisham
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Science Alert
An Astronomer Has Searched The Universe For a Potential Message From Its Creator
2 DECEMBER 2020
The Universe is a mysterious place. We don't know why it exists, and there are many unanswered questions as to how. But what if it was created, on purpose, by an intelligent entity? Is there some way we could find out?
In 2005, a pair of physicists proposed that if there was a Creator, they could have encoded a message in the background radiation of the Universe, leftover from when the light was first unleashed to flow freely through space. This light is called the cosmic microwave background(CMB).
Astrophysicist Michael Hippke of Sonneberg Observatory in Germany and Breakthrough Listen has gone looking for this message, translating temperature variations in the CMB into a binary bitstream.
What he recovered appears to be utterly meaningless.
Hippke's paper describing his methods and findings has been uploaded to pre-print server arXiv, (and is thus yet to be peer-reviewed); the work includes the extracted bitstream so other interested parties can study it for themselves.
The cosmic microwave background is an incredibly useful relic of the early Universe. It dates back to around 380,000 years after the Big Bang. Before this, the Universe was completely dark and opaque, so hot and dense that atoms couldn't form; protons and electrons were flying around in the form of ionised plasma.
As the Universe cooled and expanded, those protons and electrons could combine to form neutral hydrogen atoms in what we call the epoch of recombination. Space became clear, and light could move freely through it for the first time.
This first light is still detectable today, albeit very faintly, suffusing all known space. That's the CMB. Since the early Universe was not uniform, density variations at the epoch of recombination manifest today in very slight fluctuations in the CMB temperature.
Because of this ubiquity, theoretical physicists Stephen Hsu of the University of Oregon and Anthony Zee of the University of California, Santa Barbara argued - entirely theoretically - that the CMB would make the perfect billboard on which to leave a message that would be visible to all technological civilisations in the Universe.
"Our work does not support the Intelligent Design movement in any way whatsoever," they wrote in their 2006 paper, "but asks, and attempts to answer, the entire scientific question of what the medium and message might be IF there was actually a message."
They proposed that a binary message could be encoded in the temperature variations in the CMB. This is what Hippke has attempted to find - first by addressing the claims made by Hsu and Zee, and then by using the data to try and find a message.
"[Hsu and Zee's] assumptions were, first, that some superior Being created the Universe. Second, that the Creator actually wanted to notify us that the Universe was intentionally created," Hippke wrote.
"Then, the question is: How would they send a message? The CMB is the obvious choice because it is the largest billboard in the sky and is visible to all technological civilisations. Hsu and Zee continue to argue that a message in the CMB would be identical to all observers across space and time and that the information content can be reasonably large (thousands of bits)."
There are, Hippke found, several problems with these claims. The first is that the CMB is still cooling. It started at about 3,000 Kelvin; now, 13.4 billion years later, it's 2.7 Kelvin. As the Universe continues to age, eventually, the CMB will become undetectable. It may take another 10 duodecillion years (1040), but the CMB will fade.
Putting that aside, physicists found back in 2006, in response to Hsu and Zee's paper, that it's improbable the CMB would appear exactly the same in the sky to different observers in different locations. Besides, Hippke argues, we can't see the entire CMB because of foreground emission from the Milky Way. And we only have one sky to measure, which presents an inherent statistical uncertainty in every cosmological observation we make.
Based on these constraints, Hippke estimates that the information content would be much lower than that proposed by Hsu and Zee - just 1,000 bits. This gave him a good framework for the actual search for the message.
The Planck satellite and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) both observed and recorded the temperature fluctuations in the CMB. From these datasets, Hippke extracted his bitstream, comparing the results from each dataset to find matching bits.
The first 500 bits of the message are pictured below. The black values were identical in both Planck and WMAP datasets and are thought to be accurate with a 90 percent probability. The red deviate values; Hippke chose the Planck values, and they are only accurate with a 60 percent probability.
(M. Hippke, arXiv, 2020)
Changing the values, he found, did not improve the situation. Searching the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences returned no convincing results nor shifted the data to approximate the infinite future.
"I find no meaningful message in the actual bit-stream," Hippke wrote.
"We may conclude that there is no obvious message on the CMB sky. Yet it remains unclear whether there is (was) a Creator, whether we live in a simulation, or whether the message is printed correctly in the previous section, but we fail to understand it."
Whether or not any of these options is the case, the CMB has a lot more to tell us, as beautifully noted in a 2005 response to Hsu and Zee.
"The CMB sky does encode a wealth of information about the structure of the cosmos and possibly about the nature of physics at the highest energy levels," wrote physicists Douglas Scott and James Zibin of the University of British Columbia.
"The Universe has left us a message all on its own."
Hippke's paper can be read in full on arXiv.
Selected and edited from – sciencealert.com
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Scientists have tried, but so far, they have been denied. – Ms. H.
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The Cosmic Microwave Background mentioned in the article above appears apropos to Orndorff's recent creative consciousness background hypothesis. Not too far afield, I have a metaphysical theme in a working Chapter Five for your preview. – Grandma Earth
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CHAPTER FIVE
This story happened several thousand years ago. It was on an island off Southeast Asia. A woman and a man sit arguing which of the gods they want to place on their porch. The woman's goddess is kind and generous to a fault, and she thought that it would be appropriate to show their guest, whoever sheorhe was, that the guest is always welcome to their home.
The man replies that he feels his god best because he is the home's defender. This will show the guest that although sheorhe is welcome, home security is more important than hospitality—the two fight about this situation off and on during the next year. The two homeowners attempt to agree that each is better off choosing neither; than choosing the wrong one.
One might think the god and goddess would be offended because neither could stand by the door, but this is not the case.
In time the couple breaks into a physical battle because each strongly feels herorhis choice is better. She stabs him with a knife, and he strikes her with an ax. Both die. However, both continue fighting in a place after physical death that I, Grandma, call heavenanhellbothorneither. I don't think the spiritual remnants of either human being realize that each is physically dead even today. This is because the battle continues to be a metaphysical question. The highly conscious human minds of the once Living continue in an ethereal state, depending on herorhis mindset, heavenanhellbothorneither. I see the humor here, but those in battle don't see it that way. Too bad.
Grandma grins sharply and adds to the dilemma, "Those who consider the mind to be the same weight as the brain it stems from might consider how many human minds can be put on the head of a pen. No need for Angels here."
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A story state is a quantum state in these two little quatrains,
On how the ethereal mind is separated from the brains.
You measure once, you measure twice, and much to your surprise.
How fast and long the logic runs for the brain to theorize.
My goddess sits here; your god sits there on a porch laid bare.
The body to the brain sits stuck as the mind runs, seemingly unaware.
Yet, all the while, from Grandma Earth's tooth-filled gums.
Something new, yet familiar to the mind, this way comes.
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Like other consciousnesses on the planet, human beings only have so much to work within their thinking. These simple matters are time, distance, circumstance, relationships with their own kind, as well as health, memory, and experience in every daily setting. – Grandma Earth
Different orders of priority for each individual at any given time and circumstance. Have a good evening. – Ms. Havisham
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