I wonder what it would be like if all people understood this? Well, he did!

Groundbreaking physicist Stephen Hawking left us one last shimmering piece of brilliance before he died: his final paper, detailing his last theory on the origin of the Universe, co-authored with Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven. 

https://www.sciencealert.com/stephen-hawking-s-last-physics-paper-theory-on-eternal-inflation-multiverses?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Branded+Content&utm_campaign=ScienceNaturePageSign

“People think of time travel as something as fiction. And we tend to think it’s not possible because we don’t actually do it,” Ben Tippett, a theoretical physicist and mathematician from the University of British Columbia, said in a UBC news release. “But, mathematically, it is possible.”

http://www.thescinewsreporter.com/2018/05/new-research-shows-that-time-travel-is.html

More science coming but a change of pace, eh!

ANIMALS

 

Dating outfit

 

Deep water octopus

 

Could you please shut up!

 

Ah.....come on?

 

This fried egg jellyfish has some tenants living under its sunny-side-up dome: four juvenile Atlantic horse mackerel. Here, the fish find both protection from predators and a free meal, often feeding on tiny prey ensnared by the jellyfish. When photographer Jordi Benitez first pulled this shot up on his computer screen, he was shocked to realize he had captured both the jellyfish and not one, but four of its borders. “It was magical,” he says of the revelation. More from this year’s Big Picture Natural World Photography 

https://www.facebook.com/biographic.magazine/photos/a.1181199255233349.1073741829.1124522697567672/1916015935085007/?type=3&theater

Let's not leave out the plant people!

AND SOME PEOPLE WORKING REALLY HARD TO PRESERVE IT ALL!

BECAUSE THE ENVIRONMENT NEEDS HEROES. 7 people fighting to protect our natural world. The Goldman Environmental Prize 2018.

https://www.goldmanprize.org/blog/take-action-2018-goldman-prize-winners/

A little personal history

 

The record of my entry to The US in '45 as an immigrant

Innocence personified - 1958

I'm second from left, top row

Moving along with history here are a couple of interesting stories….at least for me!

Lion heart

In April 1199, the French King, Philip II, thanked God for the providential death of his great rival, Richard. Ever since the English king was freed from his prison in Austria in 1194, he had turned his war machine on the French, reclaiming the lands and castles that were taken while he was captive. Had he continued his relentless campaign, Richard might well have conquered the whole of France, and medieval history would have turned out quite differently.
But at the age of 42, Richard died. He was slain during a siege of a small and seemingly unimportant French castle, and certain aspects of his death struck the chroniclers of his time–and later historians–as strange, almost sordid. It was an anticlimactic end to the life of the Lionheart.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/05/04/richard-the-lionheart-in-1199/

The life of King Tut’s wife is filled with mystery, but archaeologists might be close to finding her grave and getting answers about her unusual marriages

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/04/16/king-tuts-wife-

The Roman Army – The Development Of One Of The Most Powerful Military Forces In The Ancient World

Worldhttps://www.warhistoryonline.com/ancient-history/roman-army-development-military.html

My own attempt at a historical novel; available on Amazon

MORE SCIENCE OF COURSE:

For the first time, scientists have identified the existence of a new DNA structure never before seen in living cells.

The discovery of what's described as a 'twisted knot' of DNA in living cells confirms our complex genetic code is crafted with more intricate symmetry than just the double helix structure everybody associates with DNA – and the forms these molecular variants take affect how our biology functions.

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-confirmed-a-new-dna-structure-inside-living-cells-i-motif-intercalated?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Branded+Content&utm_campaign=ScienceNaturePageSign

  "The sun began to be darkened". The strange cloud over much of the world in 536 AD changed history dramatically.

What could have caused such a sudden and dramatic change in weather? Experts are divided, and we may never know the whole answer. One theory is that the climate around the world changed based on one giant volcanic eruption, possibly from Central America. This could have resulted in a layer of ash and dust covering the skies of much of the planet.

Another suggestion is that there were two large volcano blasts within a couple of years of each other, specifically in 536 and 540, causing darkness and cold around most of the world. Clouds of smoke and debris from massive volcanic fires could have spread rapidly.

Evidence of volcanic eruptions was backed up by material found in both the North and South Poles. In both Antarctica and Greenland, sulfate deposits have been discovered dating back to the mid-6th century.

A third theory contemplates the impact of a comet or meteorite crashing into the Earth. Or the possibility of a near miss from a comet passing by that could have left thick dust clouds of particles in the atmosphere. Experts generally think this explanation is less plausible than that of volcanic eruptions.
Related story from us: The year 1816, the “Year Without a Summer,” saw floods, food riots, gorgeous sunsets, and “Frankenstein”
Whatever the cause, people living at the time noticed and recorded a rapid change in nature. Human populations around the earth were disrupted and to many it would have felt like the world were coming to an end.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/05/02/long-winter/

Speaking of water:

How about from a tree?

And other celestial events:

How Many of Earth’s Moons Crashed Back Into the Planet?

“On other planets we do see evidence for very large impacts that produced a planet scale topographic features, such as the so-called Mars dichotomy and possibly the dichotomy of Charon’s surface,” he said. “These had to arise from large scale impacts, but small enough as to make sub-global planet features. Moonfalls are natural progenitors of such impacts, but one cannot exclude some other large impacts by asteroids which could produce similar effects.”

There’s also the possibility of such collisions happening in the distant future. According to current estimates of its migration, Mars’ moon Phobos will eventually crash into the surface of the planet. While small compared to the impacts that would have created moonlets and the Moon around Earth, this eventual collision is direct evidence that moonfalls took place in the past and will again in the future.

In short, the history of the early Solar System was violent and cataclysmic, with a great deal of creation resulting from powerful collisions. By having a more complete picture of how these impact events affected the evolution of the terrestrial planets, we may gain new insight into how life-bearing planets formed. This, in turn, could help us track down such planets in extra-solar systems.

https://www.universetoday.com/139170/how-many-of-earths-moons-crashed-back-into-the-planet/

Can you imagine the skill and effort??

Hunyuan Monastery 

The 105-foot-long Hanging Temple consists of 40 halls, two pavilions (South Pavilion and North Pavilion), and a bridge connecting the pavilions. The halls are decorated with some 80 religious statues, with one of the halls containing statues of Sakyamuni, Confucius, and Lao-tzu.

ps://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/30/hanging-monastery-in-china/

 

 

Getting closer to understanding  5/23/2018

For those who were/are interested in how my throat tumor has worked out, here's the current update.

The Biopsy report: Yes, it was a cancer tumor. Called a “Carcinoma Metastatica”. This means it was a group of cells already cancerous that have moved from their origin and set up somewhere else (therefore metastatic). The RSO arrested the growth in my prostate but the cells from there have migrated (as I was warned) and may be anywhere in my body. There is nothing to be done any longer. The search, treatment etc would do me more harm than good as explained by my surgeon

He is certain he got 99% of it (the throat tumor) and assured me it would not return there. However, this puts a different light on my life doesn’t it? But first: I am in no pain, recovering well and have all kinds of people coming by. I continue to walk, do light OT/PT, drive, sleep well and continue to look good (I’m pretty vain about that). I can’t swim for another 10 days! I am in the place I want to be – you know this - embrace it, honor it and be grateful that my soul is here in all this beauty, love and tranquility. The ocean is Grandmother (“mi abuela”), source of all life and she is right out my door.

However, it is cancer, it has metastasized and it is untreatable. Fortunately the cells are the slow growing type and are not AGGRESSIVE like some (ie pancreatic). Any time estimates are totally irrelevant. My surgeon and now friend, Dr. Inzunza, said, “live; eat what you want, drink what you want, do what you want…..live”. To be truthful there is something positive in the news; I feel a calming certainty of things and it feels very right. This does not mean I am “resigned to my fate”, just more certain. I will not be stupid, still careful, I will continue to eat well etc. I just have a lighter sense of being.

I will not come back to The States, this is my home, these are my people; here I am with all my “critter” friends.

I intend to live sometime yet so let your concerns, worry etc. about me drift away – and if not, it has been an honor. I am at peace. Please, please, please do not let this letter be more than what is; I am simply telling you how it is in my world and reality. 

I am still seeking donations to help defray the costs of the operation, hospitalization etc. It was done here in Mexico for a multitude of reasons. The total was a bit over $7,000. I have no insurance to cover that so any help is appreciated. Please send donations to: Urmas Kaldveer, C/O Susan Janssen, 20 Highland Court, Ukiah, CA 95482 or online to: gofund.me/6j0prg

Thank you,

Urmas

I love this picture; sent by my daughter Kersti. Walking through the veil; becoming yourself.
And it leads nicely in my mind to this one.

Scientists Confirm Our Minds Can Influence Matter

 

Our thoughts are powerful.  We already know this.  Our minds have tremendous influence over our life and our body.  We already know this.  Did you know that our minds are interconnected to the world to such a degree that they have a direct measurable bearing on the flow of electrical currents?  Our thoughts, intentions, and energetic state actually have a scientifically provable impact on the flow of electricity.    More than 800 relevant experiments to the affects of consciousness on the world have been reported, with these just being a few.

https://www.qwaym.com/scientists-confirm-minds-can-influence-matter/

And look where it can take us. Free of the bonds of the earth.

 

 

  

Can you believe this little critter is still sending us information from space. Thank you, gallant traveler, we will follow soon.

Abandoned in space in 1967, a U.S. satellite started transmitting again in 2013   

After learning that a satellite that’s been silent for decades has suddenly started sending out new signals you may, of course, suspect that the device has been hijacked by aliens now trying to communicate with Earth. Perhaps they’re warning us that they are planning an invasion!

It’s possible such thoughts ran through the mind of Phil Williams, an English amateur radio astronomer based in Cornwall, who was the first person to pick up the strange signals coming in as “ghostly sounds” in 2013. It turned out that the transmitted messages were coming from an abandoned LES1 satellite, but experts needed three more years to authenticate that this was indeed the American satellite that was “lost” in 1967.

LES1 was one of several units produced and launched into space by the Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in between 1965 and 1967. These units, primarily designed for testing new satellite communication technology, were each labeled with numbers, running from LES1 to LES9.
As it turned out, the launch of the first four satellites did not go that well. LES1, in particular, failed to reach most of its planned objectives. Contact with the satellite was completely lost two years after its launch, and it has ever since revolved around our planet, staying entirely out of touch. Things went better for the later four, LES5 to LES9 units; the LES7 unit was canceled as the program was then coming to an end and there was no more funding for it.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/28/abandoned-in-space-in-1967/

Jupiter's North Pole Looks Totally unexpected in These New Photos From NASA

 

   

 NASA released a new 3D animation on Wednesday that was made using infrared photos of Jupiter's poles. Juno is documenting those mysterious regions of the enormous planet for the first time in history. "Before Juno, we could only guess what Jupiter's poles would look like," Alberto Adriani, a Juno team member at Rome's Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, said in a NASA-JPL press release about the animation.

Visible-light images taken by the probe's JunoCam show a bizarrely symmetric pattern of anticyclonic or backward-spinning storms. However, infrared images recorded by the a tool called the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper, or JIRAM, help researchers peer dozens of miles deep into the gas giant's poles.

The newly released pictures reveal the shape and structure of the jam-packed collection of storms.

https://www.sciencealert.com/these-latest-storm-choked-jupiter-images-from-juno-are-so-stunningly-strange?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Branded+Content&utm_campaign=ScienceNaturePageSign

ANIMAL TIME 😊

 

 

 

 

Swam next to one of these guys more than once - incredible!

 

Group photo

 Here's a couple of "hero's working in the field to help conserve these beautiful and invaluable critters.

With fewer than 7,400 remaining in the wild, cotton-top tamarins are one of the world’s most endangered primates. The species is listed as critically endangered, in part because 92% their historical habitat—the dry tropical forest of Colombia—has been replaced with cow pasture, farm plots, and palm oil plantations. One landscape architect-turned-conservationist has become an unlikely steward of the species, and her work has come to represent a new model for animal conservation: bit.ly/2koODRe (Photos by Ronald de Hommel)

https://www.facebook.com/biographic.magazine/photos/pcb.1874706082549326/1874705782549356/?type=3&theater

And here's a novel plan: 

While many see prisons only as places to lock people up, rainforest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni saw something different: tremendous potential. She saw eager minds, fresh perspectives, and people that could benefit from participating in meaningful research.

 In 2005, with Washington’s Cedar Creek Correctional Center, she hatched a plan. She wanted to bring science to the incarcerated—and share their findings with the world.

https://www.facebook.com/biographic.magazine/photos/a.1181199255233349.1073741829.1124522697567672/1862915363728398/?type=3&theater


Here’s an interesting side light. As most of you probably know there is still debate regarding the authenticity of many of the aspects regarding the man called Jesus Christ and of course the entire myth recorded in the Early Testament and the many discrepancies in The New Testament. 

I was first introduced to the “missing” years of the man called Jesus in The Urantia Book many years ago and of course intrigued. Not being of the Judeo-Christian-Muslim persuasion I looked at it all as information to be examined and evaluated for knowledge sake but soon lost interest as I became more and more “tuned” to Atheism and then Pantheism. Now I see it all as “The Great Mystery” as introduced to me by a Huichol shaman back in the day.  

My intellect was aroused once again however by this article because it related to other information I had gleaned over the years.

“The discovery of Jesus’s time in India lines up perfectly with The Lost Years of Jesus, as well as with the degree of significance of his birth in the Middle East. When a great Buddhist, or Holy Man (i.e. Lama), dies, wise men consult the stars and other omens and set off — often on extraordinarily long journeys — to find the infant who is the reincarnation of the Lama. When the child is old enough he is taken away from his parents and educated in the Buddhist faith. Experts speculate that this is the foundational origin of the story of the Three Wise Men, and it is now believed Jesus was taken to India at 13 and taught as a Buddhist. At the time, Buddhism was already a 500-year-old religion and Christianity, of course, had not even begun.”

https://moon-child.net/bbc-doc-claims-jesus-was-a-buddhist-monk-named-issa-who-spent-16-years-in-india-tibet/

Speaking of ancient times; and there is so much yet to learn and UNLEARN, here’s an interesting article for those interested in Marine Archeology. I was especially interested because I have been to Corinth in Greece.
“Some two millennia ago, Lechaion, one of the ports of the ancient city of Corinth, occupied a special place on the map of southern Greece. It was a strategic point that easily connected to a number of significant trade routes that snaked through the Mediterranean and led to Italy, Turkey, and Tunisia, among other territories, helping Corinth to prosper. For the past five years, archaeologists have been busy with underwater excavations to locate this lost ancient trade port, but it was not until 2017 that they came across some ground-breaking findings.

As a strategic center on the south coast of Greece, Corinth was initially diminished by the Romans in the 2nd century B.C. However, a century later, the Romans had gone after recolonizing Corinth, so the place was resurrected in 44 B.C. under none other than Julius Caesar himself (the same year of his death). The famed ruler even named the colony after himself: Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis.

The recent underwater surveying and exploration of the area have been conducted within the Lechaion Harbor Project, which commenced as early as 2013. Activities have been led by both Danish and Greek researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities. Some of their findings feature remarkably preserved remains of the 1st century A.D. harbor, while a portion of the underwater artifacts date to five centuries later.

The quest to locate the harbor has paid off in any case, revealing remarkable examples of ancient Roman engineering, included remnants of an island monument, which archaeologists believe served religious purposes, amid the restoration efforts of the entire Corinth.”

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/01/13/main-harbour-of-ancient-corinth-discovered-2/

Another intriguing question of the past and it’s importance to us today.

“Humanity’s cherished hope that we are building a long-lived civilization may be nothing more than a pipe-dream. Human endeavour, two scientists argue, may carry within it the seeds of its own destruction.

The two astrophysicists have turned one of the great questions in science into a way of examining the down-to-earth consequences of global warming, the pollution of the oceans with indestructible polymers, and the wholesale destruction of species in the last 300 years.

They put an innocent question: if there had been an advanced technological and industrial civilization on Earth several hundred million years ago, how could anyone know? What marks would have been left by a race of intelligent reptiles with motorised transport, housing estates, international trade and an arms race?
In what they call the Silurian hypothesis – a reference not to the geological period long before the first creatures crawled from the sea onto the empty continents, but to a 1970 episode of the British television serial Dr Who – they turn to the only testbed available to contemporary Earthlings: the evidence of the Anthropocene, the geologists’ name for a new era that could be considered to have commenced with the Industrial Revolution.”

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/162e3b87e6f5a0b7?projector=1

Water will be one of the primary factors in our civilizations continuation. Here are some facts about water that may cause you to wonder and appreciate it more.

Water Behaves Differently From All Other Liquids, And We Finally Know Why 

 “You might not think about it much, but water is super weird. It doesn't behave like any other liquid. Now, by thinking outside the box, scientists believe they have figured out why - and it has to do with the strange arrangement of its molecules.

"With this procedure, we have found that what makes water behave anomalously is the presence of a particular arrangement of the water's molecules, such as the tetrahedral arrangement," explained lead author John Russo.
"Four of such tetrahedral arrangements can organise themselves in such a way that they share a common water molecule at the centre without overlapping. It is the presence of this highly ordered arrangement of water molecules, mixed with other disordered arrangements, that gives water its peculiar properties."

Without water being the way it is, life as we know it wouldn't be possible. It doesn't compress easily, which means it can be pushed around - flowing through our veins carrying our blood cells, for instance.
And because it's such a good solvent, the water in our bodies can dissolve the nutrients we need to function. Even the low density of water ice helps life - if lakes froze from the bottom, life within them would die.
And that same low density is also why water expands when frozen - which in turn has helped shaped our planet when water seeps into rocks, freezes, expands, and breaks the rock apart from the inside.”

https://www.sciencealert.com/water-unique-properties-tetrahedral-molecule-arrangement?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Branded+Content&utm_campaign=ScienceNaturePageSign

The harder side of matter:

Courtesy  Brandy Johnson

For lots more really cool science stuff go to:

Tesla and Hashem’s site

https://www.facebook.com/ScienceNaturePage/photos/a.693601310772130.1073741828.693504594115135/1307749779357277/?type=3&theater

70,000 years ago, our keen-eyed ancestors may have noticed something in the sky: a red dwarf star that came as close as 1 light year to our Sun. They would’ve missed the red dwarf’s small, dim companion—a brown dwarf—and in any case they would’ve quickly returned to their hunting and gathering. But that star’s visit to our Solar System had an impact astronomers can still see today.

https://www.universetoday.com/138844/70000-years-ago-nearby-star-messed-orbits-comets-asteroids-solar-system/

"Goblin? Ghoul? Just an ostracod, a creature that has thrived for millennia “as little more than [a] floating head.” It’s an animal that lacks segmentation; the ostracod’s body, head, and appendages are all tucked away into its globular shell. This particular species also has mirror-like reflectors for eyes that it uses to locate tiny, floating prey in the deep. More “aliens” from 600-plus feet below the ocean’s surface:

https://www.facebook.com/biographic.magazine/photos/a.1168248919861716.1073741828.1124522697567672/1873947735958494/?type=3&theater

Some very cool whale stuff!!!

When Whales and Humans Talk

Arctic people have been communicating with cetaceans for centuries—and scientists are finally taking note. A wonderful example of why we must pay attention to our “Ancient Ones”

 

 

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/when-whales-and-humans-talk/

And amongst themselves?

 

Whale speak: Why does a humpback slap its tail?

A first attempt at explanation for a slapping humpback is simple: tail-slapping might merely be a feeding technique. The behavior is officially called “lob-tailing.” In studies of humpback whales off the coast of Maine, lob-tailing is often coupled with another feeding technique called “bubble-net feeding.” The whale slaps its tail to scare fish away from the surface. Then it descends, blows a giant bubble to corral the fish into dense schools, and lunges up with its jaws open wide.  The lob-tailing step is critical to keep prey from jumping out of the water away from the whale. Lob-tailing is particularly effective for capturing sand-lance, a type of fish whose population swelled in response to the collapse of Atlantic herring stocks. This explanation, though it paints lob-tailing as an innovative adaptation to take advantage of new prey, nevertheless suggests its function is no more than basic nutritional need.

According to studies of sperm whales, lob-tailing is a key coordinator of group and unit dynamics in whale communities. It may signal things like, “Please leave!”, “May I join?”, or “Let’s get going!” This explanation elevates lob-tailing to more than a basic tool for food. Instead, many scientists take the slap as evidence of the complex social dynamics in whale communities.

Energetically speaking, it is extremely expensive.

Surprisingly, the complex energy trade-off of a tail-slap might be the exact reason why it’s used. Biologist Hal Whitehead suggests, “Breaches and lob-tails make good signals precisely because they are energetically expensive and thus indicative of the importance of the message and the physical status of the signaler.” A tail-slap means that a whale is physically fit, traveling at nearly maximum speed, capable of sustaining powerful activity, and carrying a message so crucial it is willing to use a huge portion of its daily energy to share it. “Pay attention!” the whale seems to say. “I am important! Notice me!”

The whale’s tail represents a bridge between science, the complexity of natural systems, and personal investment in their well-being. Many months later, I’m still not sure why a humpback slaps its tail. A signal? A search for food? A mating cry? No reason at all? But I’ve seen it. I’ve felt it. I’ll speak and write about it. Each slap is here to remind us that action is rooted in understanding. Understanding arises from wonder and connection. So pay attention. Be amazed. Tell about it.

http://yalescientific.org/thescope/2015/11/whale-speak-why-does-a-humpback-slap-its-tail/


Let's not forget the little critters.

 

 

Tiny, pond-dwelling Hydras may look unremarkable, but the jellyfish relatives have a superpower: everlasting life. Their secret? A never-ending supply of stem cells, allowing each organism to continuously produce and fully replace its cells—and never age. A close-up of a creature that could live for thousands of years

https://www.facebook.com/biographic.magazine/

AHH……more science; an endangered species of education! How low we have come in the last year.

According to Nobel Prize winner inventor of quantum mechanics, Neils Bohr, reality is a truly misunderstood concept. Bohr notes that everything we perceive is composed of things we cannot credit as realistic or attainable.

https://www.qwaym.com/how-consciousness-really-affects-the-reflection-of-reality/

A last bit of fun, don’t take it too seriously! All those of us excluding the “First Nations” are immigrants here. Many from Europe and Asia. Here are some early names for where our people came from.

 

Till next time – adios!

 BTW: that’s my grandfathers hat I’m wearing; my only momento of THE BELOVED PATRIARCH of our family.