(Conspiracy Nation, 06/28/05)
-- Conspiracy Nation is a reality; it is not the reality. It is an attempt at a
counter-reality, to confound the persistent dominant "reality"
constantly being propounded.
Were the events themselves of September 11, 2001 the ultimate upset?
Or was it rather the massive "reality" blitz concurrent with the events
which yielded such anguish? Night and day there was an enormous amount
of "reality" construction occuring. Almost simultaneously with 9/11 the
event had already been "solved" and stunned Americans, in a
psychologically weakened state, had endless castor oil poured down
their throats.
And then came the cry: "No more castor oil!" The "reality" of 9/11
was an instant monument and only blasphemers would dare to question the
sacred edifice.
A Roman author, Lucretius, once wrote a book describing "the nature
of things" (De Rerum Natura).
He wrote about the conservation of matter, that "nothing can be created
out of nothing." He wrote about "bodies" and "void." He wrote about
"time," which "exists not by itself": "no man feels time by itself
apart from the motion or quiet rest of things."
Isaac Newton came along, hundreds of years later, and added
mathematics to the mix. The mathematics "proved" certain things,
according to the zeitgeist. (See "Newton's Zeitgeist," http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Zeitgeist.html)
Newton is credited as the "force" behind the industrial revolution.
Is that good or bad? William Blake thought the latter, and ridiculed
Newtonian physics.
A limitation of "science" occured. There began to be an obsession
with measurement. (See "Can It Be Measured?" http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Measured.html)
Great pains were taken to measure the Speed Of Light (SOL). The U.S.
government, in 1963, officially declared it to be 186,281.7 miles per
second. But "Martin," responding to the Conspiracy Nation report on this
("Can It Be Measured?" op. cit.), posted this response in newsgroups: "oh, I should have pointed out that you got
the speed of light wrong two posts ago. What does that say about the
rest of the crap you've been posting?"
The SOL figure cited by Conspiracy
Nation had come from a book by Isaac Asimov, a respected science
writer. However Asimov's book is admitedly dated. Checking the
Wikipedia reference for "Speed Of Light," it is given as 186,282.4
miles per second. Furthermore, according to the latest rulings of
"science," this figure for SOL is defined,
not measured.
Seeking to clarify matters, in a newsgroup response posting, this
editor inquired, "Can it be that Speed of Light as measured is
186,281.7 miles per second but Speed of Light as defined is 186,282.4
miles per second?" To this, "Martin" responded "No." He states that
"length and time are derived from the speed of light" and adds "they
for a set of axioms that cannot be (well, are not) self-contradictory."
This last quotation is hard to decipher. It is taken to mean an
inverted situation, where "distance" and "time" are defined by the
Speed Of Light.
Measurement of "motion" once required The Ether, something "defined"
to be at "absolute rest." Otherwise, how could "motion" be measured? It
would be "real" compared to what? In "Ether Abandoned" (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Ether.html),
it was reported how The Ether was summarily dismissed as "no longer
necessary." This decision was later regretted by Albert Einstein. "Most
physics students learn from their textbooks that in 1905 Einstein
banished the ether from physics as part of the revolution initiated by
his special theory of relativity. What they generally do not learn is
that in 1916 he reintroduced the concept..." Einstein's New Ether
"differed fundamentally from the ether he had banished." ("Why Einstein
reinvented the ether," physicsweb review of book, Einstein and the Ether by
Ludwik Kostro. physicsweb.org)
To this, The Ether responds, "The 'scientists' are the ones who are
in 'relative motion.' As for me, I can sit and wait." ("Ether
Abandoned!" op. cit.)
Mr. "Martin" demands, "I STILL
don't understand your point in posting all this pseudo stuff."
(a.k.a. "the crap you've been posting"). The "point" is, as per above,
"an attempt at a counter-reality, to confound the persistent dominant
'reality' constantly being propounded." Einstein himself admits, "We
have seen new realities created by the advance of physics." ("History
Of Physics: Einstein, Lorentz, and the Ether," scienceweek.com) These
"realities" affect us as they are disseminated into public awareness
and too-blindly accepted. The previous Newtonian zeitgeist gave us the
industrial revolution. How shall the latest zeitgeist affect us? We
ought to be asking questions.
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