M.J. Rose

Hidden In Plain View: The Physics Of Cloaking Time, Space And Experience

by Adam Frank (NPR)

The path light travels determines the image you see.

You never experience the world as it is. You only experience it in the way light brings it to you.

And light can be taught to lie.

Last week researchers at Cornell University announced they had created a time cloaking device. Using their machine they could hide an event from detection, even if it occurred in plain view of very capable detectors.

This “time cloaking” experiment comes on the heels of a series of results over the last few years of “space cloaking” technologies in which a stationary object could be made invisible to detectors…

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You may already be familiar with the ancient ruins of Gobekli Tepe,  but you may not have heard of the nearby site of Nevali Cori, which has received little press. It dates from about 8000 BC and is now submerged under water. Nevali Cori was an established village that continues the pillar cult of Gobekli Tepe, only it places the pillars inside an indoor temple. The sculpted art that is associated with this site is hair-raising: women being carried away by raptors; the earliest depiction of a kundalini serpent going up the back of a man’s head (photo below); half-human, half-bird men with sinister-looking faces.

I love to imagine the lives of the people who worshiped at these sites – so ancient are these places that it is assumed the people who created them were still in the hunger-gatherer phase of civilization. But Analysis of the seeds discovered from the site shows that farming in the form of domesticated wheat was practised at Nevali Cori as early as 7,200 BC – This confounds established science. Clearly these humans were not only farming, but they were advanced stone masons and masters of temple building. Not only that, but their spiritual knowledge appears to have been vast and their artistic skills were highly developed.

If they were merely hunter-gatherers on the dark edge of civilization, how then were they able to feed and manage the countless teams of people it must have taken to create these structures? How were the stones moved? What previous and even older civilizations had these people emerged from and how advanced were those civilizations?

For more on Nevali Cori click here. For more on Gobekli Tepe, here.

Stephen hawking says that heaven is a fairy story – what do you think?

Noted physicist Stephen Hawking calls heaven “a fairy story”

“There is no heaven; it’s a fairy story,” says Stephen Hawking. In an interview published in the Guardian on May 15, the renowned physicist said he does not fear death and dismissed the notion that there is life after it:

“I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”…

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