Prime Ideas

I’m posting this entry into my blog to document some of the points I have in relation to organized religion and why I don’t believe. If anyone has any valid points they’d like to share about why I might be wrong in my beliefs I welcome the conversation.

Issues:

1) “You just have to believe”. In a word, a copout. A cult nearby would love to have you come and worship with them since you’re not going to be asking any questions about what they are selling.

2 ) First 7 days: In the beginning God had 3 days of creating things before he created the sun and stars. If one honestly tries to think about God on earth during a period of complete blackness with no light, and then thinks about what we call light, you’d quickly have a thought that something might be wrong with this story. First of all, light is created by our stars and sun, so to seperate them is to say you don’t understand them. Secondly, during that period, man believed the earth was the center of the universe and the bible does nothing to refute this belief. Man also named morning and evening, not God, so for what possible reason would God have made reference to a single day. A day is a man made term as well and is only a means of us seperating the time it takes for the earth to spin in a circle on its axis. God would have had no use for it!

God also created plants and other living things that all have a 100% dependency on the energy coming from our sun, before the sun existed. Religious people like to say that the earlier light was a source unknown to us that god created to help things grow, however, if this were true, there’d be no reason to mention days in the creation. The earlier writer wrote those to make it obvious how powerful god was, however, they were a huge mistake on his part as it opens up the door for many confusing aspects of God and the creation story.

We know for an absolute fact that the Sun and its heat are the only things keeping life on this planet alive. So having 3 days before the sun was even created makes no sense at all.

3 ) The bible is full of errors and contradictions yet is suppose to be ordained by god.

4 ) Why on Earth would God care if we gave 10% of our money to the church?

5 ) God himself, in the Bible, on more than one occasion, started wars and told people to kill other people. Yet he supposedly condemned killing…

6 ) Whats with the change of heart? In the Old testament God was a hard guy to keep happy, having to worship him and cook animals in his name. Only certain ordained people could even go into his temples. Then all of the sudden he changes his mind and decides that we only need to believe in his only son to get saved. All very confusing from a God that is suppose to see the future and know everything that we feable humans couldn’t possibly know.

I could go on forever with this argument and the fact is, no one can counter them. The only thing that could ever be offered up is that we must just have faith and keep giving money to the church (most important!). Oh and lets not forget the argument is moot anyway because none of us are smart enough to possibly understand the grand plan. He put us down here with a bunch of dishonest humans, let them write the book, make the book, distribute the book and explain what the book means and all us dumb souls are suppose to just believe on faith that we’re not be lied to… Boy what a grand plan that is!

And if you are wondering why I think all this is stupid? Almost every war we’ve ever had on this planet was in the name of God! The bible describes it over and over again. People kill each other because they think our God wants it that way. All the wars going on now in Iraq and other places are the results of holy wars and nothing more. If their God is so powerful then why doesn’t he just wipe us out? Why does he need these bone heads to blow themselves up to take care of the problem? Sounds like a pretty weak god to me.

And for those of you that try to counter with statements like, “but god has to exist because look at the universe and life itself”. Well, I never said there wasn’t a God, or Gods, only that we have no idea who or what he or they may be. These books we all read to explain things were written by generations past trying to make themselves feel better about being so damn alone on this planet. The Gods didn’t write anything for us to read and they sure didn’t take any time out of their day to write the Bible. If it did, I think it would have done a much better job.

as always, have a good one,

–glenn hancock

I’ve been busy trying to think through more test results, setting up new tests and trying to come up with any explanation at all that explains the results.  The old claim that light moves as a wave and a particle just doesn’t sit well with me and I hope that I can either make sense of the claim, or show that its not true.  Perhaps we’ll do nothing more than confirm the old results, but along the way, I hope to gain more understanding into the movements of our only true friend.

The real problem outside of me not understanding the claims, are that I can’t confirm them.  I’ve done a pretty good job of setting up my tests in ways that should have duplicated the old test results seen by others, yet I am unable to see them.  While I do see lines on the wall, they can’t be explained using wave theory as has been used by so many before.  The reason, it would seem, is that waves interact with each other, requiring more than a single wave.  Something has to happen to cause the wave to change, such as it running into another wave and creating a third wave formation.  To explain a single wave, simply brushing by the edge of an object and causing an interference pattern at some point just makes no logical sense.

As an example, I took 2 books and set them up in a dark room and used an LED flashlight to shine between them.  The result was a pattern on the back wall, yet, thinking through this using wave theory, you’d have to be looking for a second wave.  What I should have gotten is a single wave coming out from the slit and spreading uniform across the back wall, not a pattern of light and dark lines.  I then removed one of the books and allowed the light to flow past the book.  Again, if you look, you will see more patterns of light and dark lines.  While a water wave for example would bend around the edge of the object, it doesn’t cause a pattern of high and low spots on the back wall that it eventually contacts.

Moving to my shop and getting back to testing with the laser, I confirmed the results I saw inside with the LED’s.  I removed the slits and used a single piece of material, both thin and thick to see what differences they made.  The results consistently were patterns on the wall. 

Then I tested using a single peice of thin aluminum to split the light with no other objects around to interfere with its path.  The result this time was no pattern, which again somewhat conflicts with stories I’ve read on the tests performed.

So, I may regret ever sharing this information but I want this blog to be a real time log of my thoughts and experiments so to keep things honest, here is what I think today:

I believe the statement that light moves as a wave and a particle is just wrong.  I think its only a particle and that it moves at a constant speed as it passes by objects on its way to the eternal abyss.  I think that the fact that light moves at a constant speed is a very important aspect of why we see what we see when it hits objects.  I think this consistancy in speed is what makes the uniformed patterns we see and then try to explain using formulas that just don’t fit.

If one thinks of the movement as a particle, then what logically would happen as it hit an object?  Some of the particles would be injected into the main stream of particles and would bounce off.  Not only would they bounce off, but they would also set off a chain reaction of other particles bouncing back and forth into a pattern that we might see on a wall as it strikes the wall.  In fact, the initial particles would be bounced off the main stream and at some angle outside of the main stream, causing the appearance that they were bending around the object.

This chain reaction could also explain the patterns we see on the wall, as well as why I didn’t see them with a single thin object in my earlier tests.  The reason would seem to be, that as the stream bounces off both sides of the object, they are bounced back into the main stream on the other side and no pattern is seen. Adding a slit where the two sides are actually injected into the larger stream, you would have a much larger flow of injected particles into the stream and therefore might expect that things eventually make it out the other sides as they bounce back and forth.

Again, this is only a theory at this point as I have nothing substantial to back up my claims.  I will continue to experiment and see if there is something I can do to prove my theories, right or wrong…

–

glenn hancock

Light has been of interest to me for some time, one of those strange things that most people don’t even consider, yet drives our very existence.  Through the years I’ve read many books and articles on what science thinks of the strange substance, how we think it moves, how fast it moves and so forth, yet, for all the things we know about it, there are that many more we don’t.  One of its most fascinating properties to me, is the fact that it moves as a wave and a particle, or at least that is what we believe.  The duplication of the experiment that proved this, is the purpose of this article.

The experiment is called the “Two Slit Experiment”, and its mentioned in many of the books I’ve read related to Quantum Physics, Physics, Light…, yet despite many hours of searching, I’ve found very little on the actual experiment itself.  As a result, I’ve set out to try to duplicate the experiment and see for myself what it proves or disproves. 

The Proof: 

It was believed for many years that light was small packets of energy that moved in straight lines through space, bouncing off things that it hit.  But there were other strange properties that were seen, and eventually Thomas Young performed a rather simple experiment where he broke a beam of light into two pieces and documented what he saw.  To do this, he used a card, positioned edge wise, and shined a tight beam of sunlight across the edge.  He was thinking that he’d get two seperate areas of light with a darkspot in the middle, but what he really got was much more strange.  He saw a series of light and dark bands across the wall which resembled in every detail, what you’d expect to get if you crashed two waves together.  The light spots being spots where the two waves enhanced each other, and the dark bands where they destroyed each other.

As the single light wave hit the edge of the card, it creates two seperate waves that continue to move towards the back wall.  However, once created, they continue to spread out like a water wave would do, and begin to bump into each other on the other side of the card.  These interactions cause the wave to begin cancelling and enhancing itself until it eventually runs into the back wall and is shown for what it is, A Wave!

The Setup:

I wanted to be sure that I built a device that allowed me to change different parameters of the test without having to build a bunch of different pieces.  The design I ended up with consists of 4 pieces, mounted on a board which is then mounted to a tripod for easy placement.  The 4 pieces are designed to allow me to change the center divider thickness so that I could test different variations.  Once the divider is in place, the other two pieces are opened in order to create the slit openings.  So with this basic setup, I can change the slit width as well as the slit openings themselves.

I then purchased a lazer pointer to use as my light source because its necessary to use a light source that is steady.  Otherwise, it would cancel itself out due to the variations of light waves being sent and would never provide a good test subject.  Perhaps its what my problem is and I”m looking into it, but for now I have to assume the $60 I spent on the pointer was worth it.  I purchased a little nicer pointer to be sure it was steady.

Results:

I started the test out by leveling and aligning all the pieces.  I wanted to start out producing the lines and then work through the math to see if I could determine the wavelength of light I was using (which of course I already know).  But no matter how many times I redid the math or changed the position of the elements, I couldn’t get anything close to what I expected. During the process of moving things around, I removed the divider to try a new one, but when I removed it, I noticed that I still had an interference pattern on the wall.  This shouldn’t be possible!  I should only see the pattern if I’m breaking up the light, but I’m seeing a clear, absolute pattern, just by breaking up the beam.  Not by splitting it, just by interferring with it.

I’ve done the test over and over and get the same results.  I’ve tried narrower pieces of material to see if the pattern changed due to the thickness, but nothing changed.  The closer I put the two walls, the wider the pattern on the wall, but its there and its very steady.  So now you are probably wondering like me, what gives?  Well, at this point I can’t offer a solution to that question, but am still experimenting to see if I can figure it out.  I’ve also been in contact with the local high school to see if I can figure out how they do these experiments, but so far its been a complete dead end.

I’ll post new material when I get more information on what is going on.  At this point, I can only assume I’m doing something wrong, but will keep looking until I determine what is happening.

Here is the result with the dual slit in place:

And finally, the result with only a single slit in place:

–glenn hancock

I know, there are literally thousands of websites that make one claim or another about why its illegal for the United States Government to charge taxes on a citizens wages, and I’m not going to get into which are right or wrong.  One of the problems with people’s positions are that they take up too many.  There is but a single example of why these taxes are illegal and it’s in such a simple form that not even a judge or attorney can wiggle his way out of it. 

Fact 1:  In The Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), the government is required to have an OMB Number assigned to each document in which a citizen is required to supply specific information.  A document not containing this official number is NOT a required legal document and a citizen only needs to quote this law to have the requirement thrown out of any court.

Fact 2: OMB Numbers expire in either 1 or 3 years depending on the document needs.  Afterwards, the document must be sent back through the review process and receive a new number.

Fact 3: There are 3 forms for receiving OMB Numbers.  The Form 83-I Paperwork Reduction Act Submission is a form used to submit a future OMB candidate but does not list any of the Regulations or laws referencing the requirements.  Form 83 Request for OMB Review, is the official document that places the forms requiring OMB approval into review.  This document must list the appropriate laws and requirements for the forms so that they can be researched by the appropriate departments to make sure the questions and requirements are met by law.  Form 83-C allows a previously approved form to be modified and puts in for what was changed and why, in order to get it approved.

Fact 4: The 1040 Personal Income return that we all fill out has had the same OMB number for over 23 years.  A Form 83-I is filled out every year requesting a 3 year extension on the form, despite the fact that NO tax return is ever used more than 1 year.  NO Form 83-C has ever been filled out for it despite the fact that EVERY year things are changed on the form.

Fact 5: Starting in 2005, the IRS has started using that same OMB Number on a multitude of other forms. Despite the fact that they all had their own numbers in previous years.  Don’t get me wrong here, the other forms were all illegal as well due to the fact that they’d all had their numbers in most cases for over 20 years as well, but they at least did have different numbers.

So what does all this mean?  Well, it appears that the #1 form used by most United States CITIZENS is not an officially approved document and therefore is not a required document for a citizen to fill out.  If this is the case, and it is, then we should all call the IRS and ask them for the approved document for us to file our taxes this year.  Of course, they won’t provide one, because its physically impossible (without corruption) for them to receive a number, because they CAN NOT list the regulations forcing the requirement on a citizen.

Before anyone raises too much of a fuss though I have a couple questions to ask that I doubt many of you realize.

Your 4th amendment right states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Therefore, unless our government is accusing all citizens of some crime and have court orders, we are protected with our papers.  They cannot pass a law requiring us to give up personal information without directly opposing this amendment.  It’s therefore impossible for anyone to ever pass a law stating directly that a citizen has to give up his papers for purposes of paying a tax.  So, how can you have a right to protection, but the IRS have the right to ignore it?  Our system of government does not work that way unless everyone turns their heads and ignores it!

Without going into great detail, your 5th amendment right contains the following words: “nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;”.

The question is now: “Do any of you think the IRS will, and does, take your tax returns and put you in jail because you filed something incorrect?  They do it everyday!  This means they are doing nothing more than twisting your arm behind your back, threatening to kill you by taking your life away, unless you sign the document giving them the right to do just that later on if they want. 

The IRS is able to take property, papers and such without any due process at all, and worse yet, seems to be able to FORCE a citizen to bear witness against himself by forcing him to fill out incriminating evidence.  Hmm, I wonder who’s really breaking the law here?

Lastly I want to give you direct evidence that the IRS breaks the laws on a daily bases for those of you that still somehow think its all legal.  I’m sure you’ve all heard of the IRS garnishing a person’s wages or bank accounts.  So lets take a look at the exact code in that huge impossible book that we all must know by heart and see where it says they can do this.  (Anyone wonder why we have to understand all that code but they don’t?)

Tax code: Sec 6331 is the only place in the entire manual that gives this right and its part of what they send to an employer to force the issue.  However, it’s interesting that they only send section 6331 paragraph (b) to the employer.  Paragraph (b) states what is required and what will happen if they don’t follow orders.  Why is that pesky paragraph (a) not sent?  Maybe to save paper?  Or maybe to mislead?

Paragraph (a) of the tax code states that they have the right to levy accrued salary or wages of anyone owing taxes and having not paid.  Or does it?  Actually it states the following:  “Levy may be made upon the accrued salary or wages of any officer, employee, or elected official of the United States…”.  Looking the code section up in the regulations that are meant to better define what each code section is talking about, further states the fact that they only have the right to levy wages against an employee of the government.  It says absolutely nothing about a citizen of the country.  Yet, they send this to employers everyday to force them into sending hard earned money to them.

Have you ever wondered why that huge volume of tax code never just says the word citizen?  It says alien all over it, but never says citizen.  Everything is worded very broadly in order to confuse the issue in order to accomplish the trickery.

Lets not get too upset with only the IRS, for they could not have accomplished this on their own.  The politicians, judges and the president himself are all guilty of allowing this to continue in order to put more money into their own pockets.  So if you want to pay taxes, thats all fine and good, but quit taking the high horse and blaming those that don’t as being Anti-American.  True Americans are supposed to think for themselves, yet somehow most do not!

Oh, and for all those other people attacking from all different fronts?  Turns out they are ALL correct! There are literally hundreds of different attacks that can be placed on the issue, however, to win, you have to have an opponent worthy of an argument, and most IRS officials and definitely all their employee’s are as dumb as rocks when it comes to their own supporting laws.  So until we can do something about that, we’re fighting an un-winnable battle.

Have fun and here is a link to a video that talks about all this in more detail.

Video from PenaltyProtestor.com 

–glenn hancock

For those of you out there watching my blog that are religious, I want to go ahead and apologize up front.  It is not my intention to offend anyone and I’m only offering my own beliefs as I see them.  I, like you, could be completely wrong in my beliefs and only time shall tell.

With that said, I want to go on record to state, that my life has not been spent believing or not believing in God.  I actually spent my entire childhood going to church, sometimes more than once a week.  I spent my youth in church camps and being taught the word of God.  I spent a good part of my adult life studying in depth the bible and what it has to say about all sorts of things.  The conclusions I have, are based not only on the fact that the God that created this universe didn’t write that book, but also on what religion has been used for throughout history.

After years of studying the Bible and trying to put myself in the minds of the people that lived during the times when these stories were written down, I’ve come to the conclusion that what it contains are the truths of the times.  By this, I mean that the Bible contains a lot of facts.  Mixing historical content along with the stories of God was a natural combination of thoughts.  People that don’t understand something that we know happens naturally today, would almost always assign some higher meaning to it.  However, we only need to look at all the things done on a daily basis today, to realize that people’s beliefs or truths can get rather mixed up.  Just poke around the Internet for a while and you’ll see that there are literally thousands of people out there that have beliefs that we view as completely rediculous.  Yet they believe them with all their minds.  What if all the information of the world were destroyed except for those papers,  and thousands of years from now they were found?  What would human kind in the future think about us?

Almost all religions on earth today make fun of the Greeks and their pagan gods as well as their ridiculous beliefs.  I however, see things a little differently.  I see religion as a necessary mechanism for all leaders.  Religion is something to tie things together and allow them to control the people in which they claim leadership.  Is there a single leader in this world that doesn’t use religion to control its people?  Has there ever been a leader on this earth that didn’t speak of God in some sense to lead credence to what he spoke? Heck, there have even been leaders that have changed their nations religion to a single religion when they saw that having more than one was tearing their countries apart.

Countries like the United States, which have allowed more than one religious belief to exist, have fallen apart over time.  Once too many different beliefs start to exist within a single region, you loose any hold you have over the masses.  How many wars have happened in this world throughout history in the name of someone’s God?  How many different God’s are there?  Everyone believes something different, everyone has written evidence, yet none can summon up his/her God for anything.

Is Science correct?  They are as religious in some respects as the churches themselves.  As an example, lets take a look at evolution and how many years it’s existed.  Evolution in a word is stupid!  There is no way that evolution controlled the creation of this planet and the universe as a whole.  People just don’t think, and as such, it’s easy to control their directions.  Take something as simple as the chicken and the egg question and most people laugh.  But seriously, explain it with evolution, I dare you…  You can’t!  Evolution is still taught as fact in schools and on every Discovery Channel special that comes on TV, yet there is not one shred of proof that its correct.  In fact, there are tons of evidence that say its not right, but its still taught as a religious belief.

The fact is, this universe is much more mysterious to us now than ever before.  Scientist are not getting closer at explaining life, they are getting farther away.  However, I tell you something that gives me comfort like no Bible or religion ever could.  Looking at the universe and its complex nature has all but convinced me that we’re not alone.  There is something more to life that can’t be explained and its much more magical than any Bible or religion could ever speak of.

The fact is religion is used to control the masses and make the very few crooks rich.  Governments use it to control their seats of power, churches use it to get more money and power for themselves.  Churches throughout history have even killed people of science or anyone else that threatened their business.  Wars have been waged and in fact, we find ourselves on the brink of WWIII, all because of different religious beliefs.  If people thought with their own minds instead of allowing themselves to be controlled by the crooks, the world would be a much better place.  We’re all different people, with different beliefs, but at some point, we are all people inhabiting the same planet.  We have to get along, or we are doomed to killing each other off and allowing the animals to be masters once again.

No God that created everything we see would ever care what us humans believe.  We are but specks of dust coming in and out of existence so quickly that he’d barely notice us.  Why would he write a book chocked full of errors and contradictions and threaten us with punishment if we didn’t believe in him?  What is with the Hell stories anyway?  They are stories you tell to children to get them to do right.  Yet at some point the children grow up and realize they were all just stories.  As useful as they were to keep them out of the street when cars drive by, they were all tools of more use than adult stories of going to hell if you don’t believe in the one true God.

Instead of trying to condemn the people of the Middle East for their beliefs, why don’t we all try to imagine what it would be like to live their lives?  We have our firm beliefs ONLY because they were taught to us from childhood.  Not because God gave them to us, but because society taught them to us.  The people of the Middle East, Israel, Germany and all the other countries of the world were raised and taught their beliefs the same way.  So us condemning another for their beliefs makes as much sense as them condemning us.  God didn’t come speak to anyone on this speck of a planet despite what people tell you!  All we can do is exist and try to get as much out of life as possible.  Fighting each other over differences of belief in a God that isn’t real, is just stupid, ON ALL SIDES!!!

–glenn hancock