The Massive Ark on the Moon (very OT, but of high interest)

I'll put up the clickable links later when I have more time.

Don't you know High Fructose Corn Syrup is bad for everyone? It is one of the leading causes now in our diets linked to obescity and many other serious health issues. Why would you choose that as on-line name?

And HFCS has been rapidly becoming one of the more bigmouth of the bullies, ordering us into his world of personal politics as though there were no other views possible.

"There is no need to post Klimmer's real name or pictures..."

"Teaching Credentials are available on-line. They are public. You can look it up."

There is no need to post Klimmer's real name or pictures. I find his conspiracy threads to be as funny as anyone else, but what happens on Supertopo should stay on Supertopo.

I lost a lot there, mostly the ability to tell some stories that I wanted to tell, and in that, most everybody on this site lost out. It bummed me, someday I may put them into a book form, and YOU and others can then PAY me for those stories, for what I was giving away for free.

"...there is a lot of info you can look up on a public teacher, but I didn't ask you to post it."

"I ask questions of interest that I think we would all like to know the answer too. I try not to attack anyone. I try to live by The Golden Rule. You can go back and edit what you have done."

"From another perspective, decision making (arguably the premiere feature of our species) leads to making decisions and taking stances. After much study, I decided long ago I would not be "agnostic" concerning the Gods of ancient Egypt or the Gods of ancient Greece or the Gods of the Ancient Mesopotamia (which includes God Jehovah, aka God of Moses, aka God of modern Christians and Muslims and Jews). -Anymore than I am "agnostic" about the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -Anymore than I am agnostic (i.e., without knowledge, unknowing) about a camalot's mechanical advantage or a granite rock's coefficient of friction."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100406172648.htm

Could our universe be located within the interior of a wormhole which itself is part of a black hole that lies within a much larger universe?

Such a scenario in which the universe is born from inside a wormhole (also called an Einstein-Rosen Bridge) is suggested in a paper from Indiana University theoretical physicist Nikodem Poplawski in Physics Letters B. The final version of the paper was available online March 29 and will be published in the journal edition April 12.

Poplawski takes advantage of the Euclidean-based coordinate system called isotropic coordinates to describe the gravitational field of a black hole and to model the radial geodesic motion of a massive particle into a black hole.

In studying the radial motion through the event horizon (a black hole's boundary) of two different types of black holes -- Schwarzschild and Einstein-Rosen, both of which are mathematically legitimate solutions of general relativity -- Poplawski admits that only experiment or observation can reveal the motion of a particle falling into an actual black hole. But he also notes that since observers can only see the outside of the black hole, the interior cannot be observed unless an observer enters or resides within.

"This condition would be satisfied if our universe were the interior of a black hole existing in a bigger universe," he said. "Because Einstein's general theory of relativity does not choose a time orientation, if a black hole can form from the gravitational collapse of matter through an event horizon in the future then the reverse process is also possible. Such a process would describe an exploding white hole: matter emerging from an event horizon in the past, like the expanding universe."
A white hole is connected to a black hole by an Einstein-Rosen bridge (wormhole) and is hypothetically the time reversal of a black hole. Poplawski's paper suggests that all astrophysical black holes, not just Schwarzschild and Einstein-Rosen black holes, may have Einstein-Rosen bridges, each with a new universe inside that formed simultaneously with the black hole.
"From that it follows that our universe could have itself formed from inside a black hole existing inside another universe," he said.

By continuing to study the gravitational collapse of a sphere of dust in isotropic coordinates, and by applying the current research to other types of black holes, views where the universe is born from the interior of an Einstein-Rosen black hole could avoid problems seen by scientists with the Big Bang theory and the black hole information loss problem which claims all information about matter is lost as it goes over the event horizon (in turn defying the laws of quantum physics).

This model in isotropic coordinates of the universe as a black hole could explain the origin of cosmic inflation, Poplawski theorizes.

Poplawski is a research associate in the IU Department of Physics. He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in physics from Indiana University and a M.S. in astronomy from the University of Warsaw, Poland.

Just what is it that lays sideways on the ground, yet possesses enough structural integrity to appear to have clearance under it and is about an eighth mile long of free hanging tubular material?

The question is why, when only one is admitted to?

I will do a thorough facial analysis soon with ratios of both images on Alexey. The ratios of certain facial features of the actual known image of Alexey and the one from Apollo 20 on the surface of the Moon. My hypothesis is that facial ratios will be exactly the same. Identical.

I feel really sorry for you guys.

It must be scarry in your little narrow naive private sheltered worlds.

No substance just ridicule. The definative evidence of a small mind.

"Wasn't Klimmer supposed to be at the Woodsonfest? Was he sighted there, and did anyone get a photo? Has anyone here met Klimmer..."

"There you go Klimmer, that's it in a nutshell. Your condescending attitude is what gets you the replies you get..."

"I don't feel sorry for you Klimmer- I hold you accountable for your ignorance."

"None of you ever really talk substance..."

Anyway, the people capable of believing in an Apollo 20 mission seem much the same as those who believe that Apollo never happened.

Gee, on this thread too much private info has been released. I have never done to anyone what has been done to me here on this thread.

Brain shuts off in response to healer's prayer

27 April 2010 by Andy Coghlan

WHEN we fall under the spell of a charismatic figure, areas of the brain responsible for scepticism and vigilance become less active. That's the finding of a study which looked at people's response to prayers spoken by someone purportedly possessing divine healing powers.

To identify the brain processes underlying the influence of charismatic individuals, Uffe Schjødt of Aarhus University in Denmark and colleagues turned to Pentecostal Christians, who believe that some people have divinely inspired powers of healing, wisdom and prophecy.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Schjødt and his colleagues scanned the brains of 20 Pentecostalists and 20 non-believers while playing them recorded prayers. The volunteers were told that six of the prayers were read by a non-Christian, six by an ordinary Christian and six by a healer. In fact, all were read by ordinary Christians.

Only in the devout volunteers did the brain activity monitored by the researchers change in response to the prayers. Parts of the prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices, which play key roles in vigilance and scepticism when judging the truth and importance of what people say, were deactivated when the subjects listened to a supposed healer. Activity diminished to a lesser extent when the speaker was supposedly a normal Christian (Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsq023).

Schjødt says that this explains why certain individuals can gain influence over others, and concludes that their ability to do so depends heavily on preconceived notions of their authority and trustworthiness.

It's not clear whether the results extend beyond religious leaders, but Schjødt speculates that brain regions may be deactivated in a similar way in response to doctors, parents and politicians.

I know NASA knows already.