Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Consciousness and parallel universes

If there are parallel universes perhaps similar incarnations of the same person can sense each other. This could be the basis for Self-awareness (seeing yourself from the outside). Self-awareness could come sideways from one parallel universe to another.

Also the similar incarnations of the same person could network together and perhaps be an arbiter of probabilities at the quantum level.

This could be the basis for a feedback loop that explains why the observer effects the observed. Even without parallel universes consciousness could possible enact the same feedback loop.

What are the other possibilities if we could network with similar incarnations of our selves in parallel universes? Could this make us more powerful or grant us additional abilities? Would it serve as a kind of back up if one incarnation dies but others do not? Is this where ESP or ghosts come from?

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Upper limit on largeness

To the extent that Plank’s constant places a lower limit on smallness there must also be an upper limit on largeness.Our universe consists of paired dualities.

This upper limit on largeness could mean that infinity cannot exist. The ramifications of this are not readily apparent but I suspect that it will screw up some mathematical formulas. Also there could not be an infinite number of parallel universes and every possible universe does not exist, only most of the possible universes do.

I’m not sure what the largest finite number is but suggest that it could more easily be represented as “infinity minus X”,than to try to list its number of zeros. This would give “infinity” back its usefulness as an expression even if stripped of its real world correlation.

And then again it is possible that this article does not mean anything or at least that we are not in the parallel universe where it means anything.(Or even that such a universe does exist).

Sunday, May 06, 2007

Rocket balloon hybrid

Picture a space ship inside a balloon. The shape of the outer balloon would be long and aerodynamic. The balloon would be a hot air balloon heated by the spaceship. The inner spaceship would be housed in a long tube of blast resistant material. As the main engine is used the inner rocket would travel up the tube to some extent to maintain equilibrium perhaps with some kind of spring loaded restraint.

The hot air balloon would be kept as near as possible to neutral buoyancy with the main engine performing acceleration. The buoyancy could be adjusted based on wind and external atmospheric conditions. The result would be that less of the thrust would have to fight gravity and more of it can be used to achieve acceleration. Once out of atmosphere there would be no need to jettison the outer balloon. Perhaps it should be closed at some point retaining some air and it may be that the outer balloon would be helpful for reentry as well.