James Webb Space Telescope

[greeneyes]

LaViolette: "My wife was with me---she's sensitive to energies and she could feel this energy. She used a pendulum for measuring the amount of energy and you could see... some of the larger rocks .... would give stronger reading with the pendulum."

 

[PipeWI]

Of course pipe smokers are ON this!

I'm not a theist, but also not an atheist. It's clear from the history if science that accepted truths are consistently overturned, and from the history of religion that theology adapts to new social facts. But I genuinely embrace the not knowing and the awe of it all. Richard Feyman once wrote that we may not be in the right geometric frame to ever understand gravity, and you can extrapolate out from that.

My own theory (seeing as various Pipe Smoke Philosophies Are being propounded here) is that if dark energy and matter are in fact 97% of the mass/energy of the universe, all the (what we call) ordinary matter and energy are just the residue of what's really going on. Thank goodness tobacco is part of what we got.

 

[sablebrush52]

LaViolette: "My wife was with me---she's sensitive to energies and she could feel this energy. She used a pendulum for measuring the amount of energy and you could see... some of the larger rocks .... would give stronger reading with the pendulum."

Why, oh why, would anyone give this guy any credence? Solar flares a cataclysmic event? Solar flares happen all the time. Carrington was an extreme event and those do happen from time to time, but this guy? Get out the butterfly net.

 

[brian64]

I hope I can make this post "before the lock."

Paul Alex LaViolette, fired in 1999 from the US Patent Office [LINK].

Holds a patent for a "Machine for slowing the flow of time and extending life" [LINK].

His work appears [HERE] on a website with which he's affiliated, much of which isn't peer-reviewed science. Much of it is "commentary." I'm still looking several of these up, one by one. The co-authors on several of them appear to be shadow-people, amateur "scientists", and persons with no degrees or institutional affiliation. Many of these papers were uploaded to 'Researchgate' which apparently doesn't check whether they're bona fide peer-reviewed papers. This one [HERE] is a good example. It's not an actual paper/publication, but presented as such. The first author, Brendan J. Darrer published once in 2015 and graduated in 2017; hasn't published anything real since and is not part of the LaViolette pseudo-physics echo chamber summarized [HERE].

I'm not sure how much of LaViolette's work is genuine, vetted science, but what I can discern from taking a couple-hours dive into his work is that he has built a sort of echo-chamber of shoddy credentials and websites to substantiate his unorthodox credentials.

He seems to be something of an L. Ron Hubbard in scientist's trappings, as a member of several pseudoscientific societies dealing with eccentric pursuits bordering on, or squarely in the realm of science fiction. One of these being "electrogravitics" on which LaViolette has (self-) published many works.

I have no psychological or emotional investment in LaViolette...and none of the info you posted about him bothers me in the least, or has any impact on the pertinent aspects of the book I referenced. It's a book I read many years ago and haven't even followed him since then, but it's an outstanding book and I will continue to recommend it to anyone with an open mind.

As for any of these notions that are considered too far out by most, whether it's about time or rock energies, or whatever, I have no problem with exploring any of those ideas. And if someone immediately scoffs at such things, well that just tells me a lot about them. There are more things in heaven and earth...

And for anyone who is convinced the standard notions we have about the laws of physics are completely accurate, just do an honest study of Coral Castle in FL. <------Ok there's another you all can have a good laugh over.........

 

[Winnipeger]

Richard Feyman once wrote that we may not be in the right geometric frame to ever understand gravity

Now we're talking.

 

[brian64]

I just don't see how you get from amino acids and formaldehyde and ribose, to DNA code. It's a deep mystery that Darwinian evolution can't account for. Can it? (Never mind consciousness.)

No, it can't account for DNA (and don't even get me started on consciousness).

Now sling away, all of you brainwashed atheist descendants of apes!

 

[brian64]

LaViolette: "My wife was with me---she's sensitive to energies and she could feel this energy. She used a pendulum for measuring the amount of energy and you could see... some of the larger rocks .... would give stronger reading with the pendulum."

Just had the chance to look at that and I just wanted to say thank you for posting it. I never saw him or heard him talk before and I really enjoyed that...I'm always interested in that kind of stuff, and nothing he said is the least bit outlandish to me. Doesn't mean I assume it's all correct or accurate either...I just don't subscribe to the limitations of your views on the nature of reality and what is possible or plausible. And I certainly don't subscribe to the mainstream academic view of human history and human origins. You might have guessed that by now.

 

[greeneyes]

@brian64 I'm glad you enjoyed the information I posted, and regard it in a positive context. The purpose of the posts was, after all, to provide information and context---less, apparently, for yourself, than for perhaps any other members who may not have noticed that behind the guise of credentials and scientific trappings they were, in fact, transiting beyond the realm of scientific fact into the realm of faith.

There's nothing wrong with faith. I hope that by having dug a little deeper behind the veneer I've given the other forum members a little more by which to make their own decisions about what to believe, or not.

 

[Winnipeger]

LaViolette: "My wife was with me---she's sensitive to energies and she could feel this energy. She used a pendulum for measuring the amount of energy and you could see... some of the larger rocks .... would give stronger reading with the pendulum."

Ancient Apocalypse anyone?

 

[bullet08]

So which genius said "oops" first?

 

[Winnipeger]

Why, oh why, would anyone give this guy any credence? Solar flares a cataclysmic event? Solar flares happen all the time. Carrington was an extreme event and those do happen from time to time, but this guy? Get out the butterfly net.

Having watched it now I don't understand your visceral disdain. Yeah ok...pendulums and T cells...but solar flairs could have been large enough in the past to melt glaciers. Why not?

 

[Winnipeger]

So which genius said "oops" first?

Descartes?

 

[Winnipeger]

And now, some JWST eye candy:


Oops. Disregard that last one.

 

[brian64]

@brian64 I'm glad you enjoyed the information I posted, and regard it in a positive context. The purpose of the posts was, after all, to provide information and context---less, apparently, for yourself, than for perhaps any other members who may not have noticed that behind the guise of credentials and scientific trappings they were, in fact, transiting beyond the realm of scientific fact into the realm of faith.

There's nothing wrong with faith. I hope that by having dug a little deeper behind the veneer I've given the other forum members a little more by which to make their own decisions about what to believe, or not.

Yes, that's quite alright...and I never for a second thought that any of the mainstream academic types here would be interested in his material...but the book I mentioned is not about any of that. Part of it is speculative to be sure, regarding the interpretation of ancient myths...but, going on memory, there's much in it critiquing issues in astrophysics and offering alternative theories.

The interesting thing is, this thread started about the discovery of these distant galaxies which was NOT predicted by the prevailing theories...yet LaViolette's theory DID predict it.

 

[Briar Lee]

One of the very best arguments for spending money on pure science like the James Webb telescope is it diverts scientists into the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, instead of developing instruments of war.

No matter how our world began, it is in our own power now, to end it.

 

[greeneyes]

Would love to hear more about your work.

“Anything that can be destroyed by the truth, deserves to be destroyed by the truth”

Seconded.

I clone the DNA

to put into the bacteria

to make the cells glow



From far away it's beautiful. Almost art. But the deadlines are killer.

And tomorrow is Monday...

 

[BarrelProof]

To what end?

 

[georged]

The book below was written by a good childhood friend (my immediate next door neighbor for 12 years), so I know the full backstory.

He and his brother wrote a send-up---an absurdist spoof---of a popular book at the time called "Charoits of the Gods" after having spent a year in Mexico on an archaeologial dig. (Both were PhDs). It was 100% intended to be a de facto literary SNL skit, and submitted to several book publishers AS a joke.

The fun part? A publisher wanted to print the book, but only if it was "played straight". Packaged and presented as legitimate research and science.

They needed the money and it was the only offer, so finally said what the hell and let it go to press.

I last saw Craig in the early 90's, and he said he was STILL receiving invitations to speak at paranormal/UFO/space alien/etc.-toned "science" conferences, was contacted by fans, and so forth, 15 years later.

His favorite story is how some follower-fans concluded that the US government coerced him and his brother to say it was all a joke after publication---because it was OBVIOUSLY all real---and wanted to communicate with him covertly, by code, so they could get the "inside scoop".

 

[sablebrush52]

Having watched it now I don't understand your visceral disdain. Yeah ok...pendulums and T cells...but solar flairs could have been large enough in the past to melt glaciers. Why not?

While a solar flare could result in an EMP, flares happen all the tine without being catastrophic, which a distinction that isn't mentioned, followed by a current of claims not backed up with anything like specifics. That's easy to do, just say whatever pops into one's head. What's in there to respect?

 

[sablebrush52]

Descartes?

before de horse?