Prime Ideas

Well, they’ve about done it. They have almost turned the Internet into a dead zone. I have a blog and a forum located on this site that I use and enjoy getting feed back on, both of which I’ve now had to shut down. No one can create accounts on my forum without me personally approving them and that is becoming a problem due to the number of spammer faggots posting new accounts on the forum daily. They of course can’t create the accounts and can’t get their ill-formed garbage for anyone to see, but none the less, they waste their time as well as mine trying to get the accounts created.

Then, I open my email today and have 80 comments on my blog that I had to go through and delete because another bastard posted his junk on there. This site is not a job for me and I can’t allow it to take up all my time just trying to keep it clean. So now I’ve had to turn off the ability for anyone to post comments to the blog. What fun this has become!!!

I really don’t understand how these people are getting past all the security features such as emailing you authentication codes and pictures you have to describe before you can even create the account, but somehow they are. Hopefully some time soon I’ll find a way to stop them for good and can open things back up, but for now the spammers win. Or rather, they loose. Do they not realize when we all get so tired of this shit that we stop fighting that they loose for good? And who the hell is paying these faggots anyway?

Anyway, I”m a little upset as you can tell. I think we should open up burning at the stake again and throw all these bastards on top of each other and light them up.

After my last post I’ve had a number of people giving me scripture that prove me wrong here or there and I wanted to document which ones and what they say in order to portray a fair and balanced thread. The main topic of today’s post will be the first 3 days and the remarks about how I just don’t understand the scripture. First a refresher on my previous statements.

Basically, it is my opinion that the Bible, while historical in content, contains no revealing comments what so ever that only god could know. As an example I covered the first 3 days and the fact that there was no Sun, yet we had morning, evening and plants growing here and there. To refute this, people have been telling me that God is light and he did not require the sun for things to grow. They also like to tell me that plants and life could exist without the Sun and therefore did not require it to get started. There is also the line of logic that states that a day was not a 24 hour period of time (this of course to try to explain why bible time provides the earth and the entire universe with a mere 6500 year age).

In response, I am going to read directly from the Bible and provide commentary that you can ponder if you’re interested.

1) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. This simply tells us that God created everything, yet really doesn’t give us a time line for any of it taking place. From this we could surmise that the earth and universe are indeed older that 6500 years of age, but that nothing should have lived or existed during this time period since he had not created anything yet.

2) Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. At this point, God seems to be floating about the earth, but it further defines that the earth was without form and empty. Water seems to be the only thing it speaks of existing at this point. The key element to pickup from this statement however, is that their was darkness. If indeed God “IS” light, then there would not have been darkness during this floating period. To further clarify this, the claim was that plants and life existed from his light and not the light from the Sun. If this were indeed true then his light would have to fill the entire sky since the earth is not flat and a single source of light could not have produced the same effect across the entire surface.

3) And God Said, “Let there be light”, and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he seperated the light from darkness. God called the light day and the darkness he called night. And there was evening and there was morning - the first day. This verse creates quite a few problems in a number of areas for those trying to make verses written before man understood the planets, into fitting what we know today to be fact. First of all, God made light. This further refutes the claim that “God IS Light”, because it would mean that he was creating himself. Secondly it speaks of him naming night and day, yet we understand night and day to only be those periods as the earth rotates around its axis and the sun appears to set and rise, when in fact that is not at all what happens.

We also know that light is either on or its off, or its hidden in the case of our Sun and rotation. For him to have created night and day without the Sun, he’d actually either have to not be floating on earth as the bible says and be off somewhere in the distant, or he’d have to be turning himself on and off like a christmas light to give a similar effect.

The bible makes it a point to meaure this period of time as 1 day, morning and evening, not simply a period of time or some other means of measurement. As stated in earlier blogs, I think this was done to show how powerful god was, but it makes no sense for a number of reasons:

First, a day as we know it is a man made unit of measure to mean when there is light. More definately when the Sun is shinning, and more to the point, when the side of the earth you happen to be standing on is pointed at the Sun. So unless you were standing at a specific point on the planet, to call something day would have no meaning at all without the Sun existing and the earth spinning. Yet, none of these simple facts of reality exist in the bible. In fact, it is very obvious from many other versus in the bible that the earth was indeed flat and the Sun actually rushed around it in order to come up again on the other side. Here are a few versus for you to read about the planet actually being flat: Isaiah 11:12, 40:22, Revelation 7:1, Job 38:13, Jeremiah 16:19, Daniel 4:11, Mathew 4:8, Psalms 104:5 Ecclesiastes 1:5.

Note, that despite people’s comments about the bible stating the earth was round, or a sphere, there are no actual verses that make these claims. Its actually quite clear the people that wrote the Bible truly believed that the earth was flat and everything we see revolved around it.

And God Said, Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water. So God made the expanse and seperated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. God called the expanse sky. And there was evening and morning the second day. On this day God supposedly created the atmosphere, yet it appears to me the people really didn’t understand what the atmosphere was when they wrote this. They talk about water in the sky like they believed their was a great ocean above them and it spilled out when it rained. And that God kept them seperated as if they were two different bodies of water. Again, there are no earth shattering revelations in this verse so we’ll just move on.

And God said, Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear. And it was so. God called the dry ground land and the gathered waters he called seas. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, Let the land produce vegetation:… You get the point. Again, we’re still marking each period of time with a morning and evening which refutes all the claims that these days were longer than a single day. It specifically states that god named day and night and that he named them after light and dark. So the constant remarks about how these were longer than a single day, seem to go against the statements in the book completely. Its also entertaining to me that God created light and saw that it was good. Did he not already know that it was good? And since we know now that light only comes from the burning of stars, exactly how did he create it without the stars being in place. The bible never speaks of him transfering his light source over to that of the Sun later on.

We also have vegetation growing without the Sun, moon, stars or anything else. Only the light source of god which would have to have somehow lit the entire sky in all directions and provided just the right amount of heat to let things get to cooking. All very strange that he’d disrupt the entire universe during these early years and now be completely gone to never again bother anything. Its also quite strange why if he truely created the universe that he’d have caused the entire thing to expand instead of just having things hang in the sky in one place for us to view. In fact, for what specific purpose did he create all the stars and the Sun? You could argue the Sun for keeping us warm, although that is quite stupid, due to the fact that he could have just left the original light source in place since it was obviously perfect for our existance.

And finally, on day 4 he finally creates the Sun and stars and the person that wrote it never mentions anything specific. Only that he created them and that they would govern night and day, yet he never mentions how night and day existed without them. Total oversite if you ask me! Consider that if God was your source of light and he was making night and day, he was only doing it to entertain himself, since there was no other reason for it to happen. Also, since he was the light source, he was actually having to turn himself on and off every 12 or so hours in order to make himself have a night and day. Then he pitched in the entire universe with all the stars and moon, and Sun at an instant, all in perfect balance and expanding forever.

Its all quite strange to me how today, people go to church and listen to all the sermons, and give their money like blind men doing as they were taught. NEVER, picking up the book and reading it to see what it really says. I take a lot of heat because I actually read the book and question what it says. Most people tell me that I’m not suppose to question, I’m suppose to just believe! That I can’t possibly understand God’s mind, so don’t try. All the while being completely blind to the fact that they’re in a cult. Cult leaders look for people that they can manipulate and keep under control. They can convince these people that they shouldn’t ask questions and should just believe his/her every word. Telling the people that they speak for God and explaining to them what he wants them to do, but without any real meat to the story. Oh, and don’t forget that old parental trick, fear of pain! You will go to hell if you don’t believe in Jesus!

Christians are quick to tell you that the terrorists are criminal, they are evil itself. Yet, not a single one knows a thing about what it would take to believe in something so much that you’d be willing to die for your god. These people don’t blow themselves up to be evil, they do it because they truely believe their God told them to do it. There isn’t a Christian alive with that kind of faith. Yet, its faith alone, because the terrorists are no better than the Christians with their god as they also practice the same blind faith.

People do not want to be alone, they don’t want to accept it. As a result throughout mankind’s history, we’ve created religions of all kinds to help us feel better. These religions have mainly served to help kings rule its people and to keep people scared and in constant search of God’s favor. They continue to pay a church that has never really done a thing for those that pay. Its all a mind game to make them feel better and nothing more. Show me a single person that lives a more gifted life than me, just because they go to church, give them their money and GOD rewards them. If God does exist, he doesn’t care about anything that is going on down here. We’re but a virus that has started growing on the planet and thinks that it’s important. We’re only important to ourselves, and cornered we’ll more than prove that.

Its a shame that we kill each other and take each others rights to live in the name of religion. We should all just live in peace and stop trying to harm each other. When a man steps up and says lets fight, we should only fight to have him sit. ALL Wars have been waged and fought by the people, as a result of the actions of a single Man thinking himself King. People follow and do as they are told and there are those that take exteme advantage of it. We should all just say enough, sit down and shut up, let us exist peacefully!

–glenn hancock

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