Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Sun, Moon and Earthquakes

[Post in development. Please be patient. It will take days until i can get screenshots with the moon for all earthquakes in the 20th and 21st centuries. But from what i've seen so far earthquakes do not occur always when Moon is full or new. I believe statistically without any filters there is still evidence of a link between alignements and earthquakes. But i also suspect if you eliminate cases when alignements occur when moon is farthest from Earth and in an "unfavorable" position.

(Moon does not rotate around Earth in the same plan with Sun but in a tilted one. Also orbit is not circular but elliptical with more than 10 percent difference in diameters.)

https://www.google.com/search?q=moon+motion+around+earth&biw=1215&bih=624&tbm=isch

The best way to prove a correlation i think it would be with the tides. Tides follow closely every variation and cycles of Moon orbit in fact giving a precise measure of the combinations of Moon-Sun gravity effect on entire Earth. Maybe it would be best if i put the screenshots on hold and try to find a link in that direction.

"Several recent studies, however, have found a correlation between earth tides (caused by the position of the moon relative to the earth) and some types of earthquakes.

One study, for example, concludes that during times of higher earth and ocean tides, such as during times of full or new moon, earthquakes are more likely on shallow thrust faults near the edges of continents and in (underwater) subduction zones." https://www2.usgs.gov/faq/categories/9827/3354

The only thing that does not fit with my theory is depth. Aquifers are almost near ground level, at rivers level. Can vibration from a big surface focus deep inside the earth and in the end fool measurements. In fact i really don't understand how they can say the depth of an earthquake if not from calculations between reflection times, phase of the waves etc. but all based on current theories.

I've been looking at a few sides with tide predictions and historic and realized that alone is not what i'm looking for. Calculation of Moon and Sun gravity towards large bodies of water on the surface of the Earth start looking to me like a nightmare. The pull comes from a different direction at every latitude, there is a horizontal and vertical component of the pull. Inertia also plays a role. Without computer simulation taking into account the shape of the body of water, impossible to make a correlation between Sun and Moon gravity and earthquakes.

Even more impossible in a body of water that sits in a sponge like irregular shape geological structure.

In the mean time i'be been thinking. What is the temperature at 100 km or where a deep earthquake occurs. According to google, 25 degree per km, that is 2500 degrees at 100 km? https://www.google.com/search?q=earth+temperature+depth

Lava temperature is about 1000 Celsius that corresponds to a depth of 40 km?

At 2500 most materials known to human kind are melted. How can they say an earthquake occured at 100 km depth or more and still believe in plate tectonics theory?

Boiling water temperature is in an area of just 4 km deep. I've been thinking. We know for a long time about the existence of thermal water. In some places water comes to the surface at high temperature. But imagine what happens when underground water sitting there in hard to imagine shapes of caves and reservoirs together with air bubbles of different pressures, tipped by Moon-Sun gravity and/or inertia moves suddenly into a deep cave or crack like 4 km deep and start boiling? Steam would build up pressure then what? Create a bubble of steam that would come back at the surface at high speeds or cracking the earth even further, collapse caves etc... Sending shock waves in the aquifers and surface... Then cool on its way to the surface and condensate back in the aquifer, like in a cycle.... Create an earthquake? Most likely but that would be indeed impossible to predict...

One thing is sure though. Building dams on aquifers is not a good idea. And aquifers are everywhere...

Mapping the underground with ground penetrating radar and/or other methods like seismic exploration or send robots in the aquifers... Then simulate everything on supercomputers to figure when large amounts of water are about to tip in a deep hot cave... But after such an event the configuration would change... Over and over...

Until i'm done with the screenshots... Anyone can see Moon, distance from Earth and from Sun, and all the other parameters during any earthquake with these simple steps.

Install Stellarium http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Installation

Start it.

Hit F11 to get into fullscreen.

Search for the Moon. <CTL><F> and type moon in the search box then enter.

Zoom with mousewheel until you like what you see.

Hit F5 to bring in the time window. Input the date of the earthquake.

Location doesn't matter so much. Moon is pretty much the same on all Earth within 24 hours or so.

But if you wanna be more accurate you can do so by bringing the location Window from the hidden menu on the left.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOGEyBeoBGM

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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Gravity and Electrical Waves

There are two types of waves they are not teaching about in school. Gravity and electrical. Both classical (Newtonian) mechanical and electricity. Gravity and purely (non electro-magnetic) electrical waves are explained by first, Newton's universal attraction law in case of gravity and attraction and repelling force in case of electrical. Very simply, if you move any mass or electrical charge it will exert a variable force towards anything else that has a mass or electrical charge in the Universe, but that force is maximum near the source.

Let's start with a simple gravity pendulum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum_(mathematics)#Simple_gravity_pendulum

For the purpose of this demonstration we will neglect the gravity force which actually moves the pendulum that manifests on the vertical. It could have been a spring or a motor or whatever and should consider only the gravity force developed by the bob m1 interacting with any other stationary bob m2 at a distance (X zero) from the center of the pendulum on the horizontal.

This could be also be proven, practically. If we placed two pendula of the same length, weight, etc. in boxes so we can eliminate any acoustic phenomena or even in vacuum and move one of them, we would see, after a while, the other starting moving, so we could be sure the only way for this to happen is through gravity waves.






Saturday, April 25, 2015

Electricity in Ancient Egypt

Pyramids are not only mounds of limestone or primitive concrete in slightly irregularly shaped blocks arranged by some strange but precise geometry. I mean they are for the most part. Inside there are complicated, outworldish structures that only a few on this planet understand.

All the drawings inside the pyramids (ideograms) are made to look at first sight as highly stylized and refined shapes and symbols representing everyday and mythical objects. I think they where drawn this way to mislead and be ignored by the unaware and the primitive. In fact they can be interpreted by every person's level of education and become apparent contradictory for those who can with higher education who can also emulate a lower level understanding (intuition) of the world.

They most likely contain instructions for designing of devices from a civilization that was in ways more advanced than ours, probably thousands of years more advanced, probably in a slightly different direction, most likely unsustainable.

Maybe localized or isolated here on Earth alien sophisticated and hostile ancient civilizations went in conflict. Could this be in conjunctions with other stories like Mahabharata. Or maybe they did something wrong and created Sahara or climate changes and had to move further north. Or maybe because of this http://georgesblogforfriends.blogspot.com/2015/01/great-pyramid-and-earth-precession.html

There are also strange coincidences in choosing the location of pyramids. One of their functions was and maybe still is interacting with the ionosphere. But this wouldn't have worked in a rainy area, because there would have been much fluctuations in interacting with ionosphere during rain. Also rain would have destroyed the outer limestone to a much greater extent. The location took advantage though of the rains further south. Coming on Nile, a body of water with predictable flooding, an ideal source of food. I mean, all you had to do was seed and rip. Also, Pyramids are located in the geometrical centre of the Earth. Could Nile itself had been changed course for the purpose? Etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_centre_of_Earth

And now let's take a look at some of the drawings.

There is little doubt to me that the four disks on a djed collumn represent high voltage insulators. But there could be more to it. Maybe entirely, if raised to full scale, they could be generators or receivers or resonators of wireless electricity from a distance source, that might have been (one of the functions of) the Great Pyramid.

The number of disks could tell an electrical engineer the voltage we are dealing with. Most likely AC but i'm thinking now...

For a century or so we all still digest Tesla's inventions. What if there's more to "basic electric devices" that he invented (generators, motors, transformers and coils)? (not thinking of the gadgets we use today). Devices deriving from higher science, all based on shapes and materials?

We all know they were writing with ideograms.
http://www.citrinitas.com/history_of_viscom/ideograms.html

In this type of writing or communicating visually ideograms or hieroglyphs represent abstract symbols. By the drawing of the djed we may realize that at least in part it was dealing with high voltage.

Starting with this, through extrapolation we can hypothesize this is a representation of a CRT... Or other type of high voltage tube.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=14651
I found many representations like this, but slightly different. In some, the serpents may represent sweeping electron rays in CRTs. Those with the head of snake inward maybe be for cameras and outwards for TV sets.

But they could be several valid interpretation of the same ideogram. Those devices could represent anti-gravity or impulse drives. Narrow beams of gases accelerated in the middle of a vacuum filled tube to relativistic speeds and returning at the lower speeds could generate a difference in momentum.

Here we might have a light bulb in top of a djed that might act as a wireless receiver or even some type of unknown generator or resonator that extracts electricity from some unknown or distant source (Pyramid maybe). But the 23 degrees angle of the djed and the shape of the top may also represent Earth and its magnetic field.
Here is Tesla with a wireless bulb in his hand. High voltage, high frequency. (Why is Tesla represented always in a Vulcan mind meld session with self, or maybe it was trendy back then).
Heating? Don't know how the weather is in Egypt year round. But what about the walking anthropomorphic figures on the sides? Could this represent periodic migrations due to ice ages? Different populations separated for thousands of years surviving then coming in conflict? Or an illustration of the fact that moving heat like in heat pumps is more efficient then producing with resistors?
And last but not least. Are these light sabers from the Star Wars movies inspired by the djed? Just think of... jedi...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrojet
"There are two electrojets". No there are four. LOL

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Great Pyramid and Earth Precession

Last updated 3.28.2023

The rotation axis of the Earth is inclined relative to the plane of its orbit around the Sun. Because of the inclination of the rotation axis, Earth is never exposed equally within a year to the illumination (and heating) of the Sun. That's why we have seasons. Seasons are in opposition between North and South, thus when we have winter in the northern hemisphere we have summer in southern and the other way around.

In the same time, the orbit itself is not a perfect circle, but an ellipse. But most importantly, the rotation axis which is constant around 23 degrees wobbles within a 23 thousand years cycle (pure coincidence of numbers). This rotation of the axis with a 23 thousand years period is called precession. But it is so slow it would not make any noticeable difference to others than astronomers within let's say 1000 years. However the ancient ones knew about it. The djed in Egyptian pictogram representing Earth's magnetic field and its true cause is inclined at 23 degrees.

(The images below are not distorted but exaggerated showing the orbit of Earth around Sun is not a circle but an ellipse with Sun in one of the centers and what ellipse shows only 5% difference between the two diameters).


And here's where the trouble begins. When let's say northern hemisphere is further from Sun in the same time with Earth being inclined away from Sun in that side of the elliptic we have an ice age in the North. Close to this theory we have

https://www.google.com/search?q=milankovitch+cycles&gws_rd=ssl

According to this theory the most livable time on the whole planet is right in between of maximum of glaciations or equal glaciations between North and South, or the present moment. And place, around Equator, probably most time. Soon, that is in a few thousand years or so, we're going to start freezing in the southern hemisphere.

This is known to astronomers and to many others as the "astronomical theory of ice ages", although by the general public is confused with pseudoscience. Also.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession#Astronomy

But here comes the real interesting part. I've been looking through the peep hole that is the northern shaft of the Great Pyramid. (With Stellarium, of course. That is i put in Stellarium - a free planetarium app for Windows and Linux - on the exact coordinates of the Great Pyramid and directed the view towards the direction of the shaft). What i've seen right away is... Polaris. I moved the time to the year 2105 when by astronomical predictions Polaris is supposed to point Earth's geographic North within about 14 minutes of an arc (not specified where on Earth from) . From the latitude of the pyramids, it's within just less than a degree.  http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/polaris.html

According to Stellarium, in the year -23650 there was also an alignment of the shaft within less then of a degree.

A few hundred years before 2105, it was within 1.5 degrees or so, so it will be a few hundreds after. Then it starts getting even further. That means Polaris will be the best indication for Earth's geographic North Pole around year 2105.

Through the shaft in that year, we can see it within less than a degree or so, a bit less than today (throughout daily or yearly cycle). That means we are 90 years away from the middle of the cycle.

So will be @ 27820. But Stellarium is not a true astronomical prediction tool. It only works with currently known orbits not affected by gravity. So it gives a predicted precession period of about 25700 years instead of other calculations of about 25920.


However Milankovitch cycles predict a complete glaciation cycle of about 23000 years (second paragraph).

At any other time, Earth geographic North Pole is away from Polaris, the furthest right in between, when Polaris is at double the inclination angle, 2x23 decrees, that is about 46 degree.

According to all these, 13000 years from now, "down under" will finally be winter at Christmas time... But in the mean time we will have an ice age at South Pole that would probably include Australia and a complete meltdown of the polar cap in North.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Interstellar Communications Through Quantum Entanglement

Brushed up 4/03/2023

Everybody has seen the news about Quantum Entanglement. They are not exactly new news but just revived ones. For some of us though, they are. And people of the whole planet reading about can now brainstorm and come up with ideas.

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/01/20/quantum-entanglement-what-it-is-and-why-its-relevant/

What came to mind is the possibility of interstellar communications. And not only in the future but probably since longtime ago in the past.

It has already been stated that "It thus appears that one particle of an entangled pair "knows" what measurement has been performed on the other, and with what outcome, even though there is no known means for such information to be communicated between the particles, which at the time of measurement may be separated by arbitrarily large distances."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement

Ok. If photons can spontaneously split into entangled pairs,  let's say that a number of photons arriving to Earth from a certain star can be entangled with photons arriving from the same star on a different planet at the same distance like that of Earth - source star.

All you need is a way to separate those from photons coming from all directions, filter them from non entangled ones and a way to measure them.

The communicating through measuring of the entangled photons is instant regardless of distance. However, in practice it can be real time duplex only if the two planets are at similar distances from the place of the splitting of the photons, because the entangled photons need to arrive at both ends simultaneously. The place in space where such communication can practically occur is on the surface of a sphere like in the picture in this article.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141112-will-et-understand-our-messages

And for planets in motion, that can happen only for brief periods of time, at certain times.

Or maybe there is a way to trap entangled photons during those brief moments and use them... later!

Needles to say, there can be already devices on Earth that just do that, for immemorial times.

Monday, June 16, 2014

BTU

Never knew what BTU was until recently. It is an abbreviation for British Thermal Unit. It is a non-standard unit for measuring energy.

Anybody who ever bought a small window AC unit knows about the abbreviation BTU. On the box, it is written the amount of BTU the unit can deliver. It's a simplified commercial abbreviation done for ease of reading because it should  have been written BTU/h. I've got an older 100 dollars unit that has a stated capacity of 5000 BTU and a a newer one of 120 dollars of 5000 BTU as well. With a P3 Kill A Watt power consumption meter, they each show a consumption of about 450 W, with the thermostat on continuously which coincides with the consumption written on their label.

From Wikipedia.

"When used as a unit of power for heating and cooling systems, BTU per hour (BTU/h) is the correct unit, though this is often abbreviated to just "BTU"

1 watt is approximately 3.41214 BTU/h

1000 BTU/h is approximately 293.071 W"

Thus for a unit of 5000 BTU/h, if written correctly, the equivalent of power in watts would be 1465.355 watts.

There are other ways used to approximate the power usage of an air conditioner which involves  the efficiency of a certain device, but they don't differ a lot from the scientific formula.

"For example, a 5000 BTU/h air-conditioning unit, with a SEER of 10, would consume 5000/10 = 500 Watts of power on average."

Please note that here is used correctly, BTU/h.

But according to the conversion formulas from the other Wikipedia page

5000 BTU/h divided by 3.41214 = 1465 W

That is how much a 5000 BTU/h AC  unit should draw from the grid. Instead, it draws a little over 400 W.

In reality they feel like they output 5000 BTU, not 1500 BTU as it results from multiplying the measured power, 450 with 3.42, the BTU/watt ratio. I don't believe it's a case of false advertisement.

Then anybody can tell me where the mistake is?

I personally think there is no mistake, the AC, as its cousin, the heat pump are truly over unity devices (output more energy than input). Do they violate the laws of physics as we know them? No, because heat pumps move heat from one area of space into another though they can move more heat than energy the compressor uses from the grid. It may appear so if you isolate the cold and hot part of a heat pump and see them as closed systems but not if you see the system as hole.

They manufacture, sell and advertise and use them for decades without the Universe being thorn apart or anything.

Proposed experiment. Feed both ends of an AC unit like this into a Stirling engine that has an efficiency of about 50%. At a consumption of 450 W you would have 10000 BTU entering the Sterling engine (adding both cold and hot output which for a small compact AC is lost) and hook a generator to it and see if you can get in the end more than 450 (input) watts.

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

A Theory on Alcoholism

The presence of Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH) at high levels in the human body triggered by the consumption of alcoholic beverages insures, as a side effect, protection against many types of alcohols including methanol and glycols because it helps metabolizing all those alcohols.

This is the reason ethanol is often used in emergencies as antidote for methanol or glycol accidental ingestions.

Heavy drinkers exhibit a continuous production of high level of dehydrogenase (definition framed here) for years or decades, production triggered in human body only by the consumption of ethanol.

Ethanol is as toxic to humans as methanol but by raising the production of dehydrogenase, the human body can metabolize it.

In the same time ingestion of alcohols other than ethanol generally does not trigger production by the human body of enough of the protecting ADH, thus their very toxic effect.

Both situations are due to genetic factors accumulated by human and other species throughout evolution.




Throughout the whole period of heavy drinking the human body does not need its immune system for fighting against methanol producing bacteria that live in the gut because the methanol produced by those is also metabolized by the ADH of which production is triggered by the ethanol from drinking (and maybe permanently reallocates those resources for producing dehydrogenase for metabolizing both ethanol and methanol and other alcohols produced by the bacteria in the gut or coming from a polluted environment).

It is possible that the immune system by not being used to fight that type of bacteria for so long looses the capacity of fighting it.

That's why they probably can not stop, because of the terrible hangovers given among other things by the methanol produced by those bacteria without the presence of ADH "normally" triggered by drinking alcoholic beverages, bacteria that their immune system abandoned fighting or forgot recognizing.

Maybe the solution could be as simple as vaccination against those so the immune system start recognizing them again.

ADH is always present in healthy individuals in amounts that insure protection against the amounts of all types of alcohols normally present in food. Although only ethanol raises ADH production, the other alcohols present in food or generated by other alcohols production microorganism are always reasonably proportional. Probably ethanol is most common and that's why the human body uses it as trigger in raising ADH production.

By overstimulating the production of ADH with heavy alcohol consumption it is also possible that the production mechanism to be depleted by overuse and/(or more likely) the triggering amount necessary for starting production to become permantely raised so the normal amounts present in food or generated by ethanol or other alcohols producing microorganism living in the gut do not trigger its production before (relatively low) toxic levels are being built, giving hangovers. In this case due to lack of further knowledge, all i can say is it can be imagined a lifelong treatment that may include ADH or other medication that can stimulate the production of it at normal levels.

Monday, August 12, 2013

Dust In The Wind

I did it once, let me see if i can do it again. But now, i'm no mood to make calculations.

Aproximately, how much weight brake rotors loose by wearing off? A quarter of a pound every 50 thousand miles would be fair? An average car front rotor is 10 pounds. 5 percent? Seems too much. Let's say 2.5%, a quart of pound of metal. Seems about right. It matches what i remember since i made the calculations.

I've been working at Les Schwab and resurfaced brake rotors. You can do that 2-3 times for a rotor and the rotor loses like 10% of the thikness in it's life time. But the rotor, besides disk, it has a bigger piece of metal in the middle that does not wear out.

Conservatively, i'd say a brake rotor looses in 50 thousands miles a quarter pound of metal just for braking. About the same for the pads. By 4 that is a pound of dust, plus ceramic and other stuff, including asbestos for older cars and some after market pads. So almost a pound of metal (heat resistant alloys, that contains, besides iron, up to 10% of all kind of heavy metals including chromium) per car per 50 thousand miles or the interval between two brake jobs.

In a city like Portland there are 2 million cars running an average of 20,000 miles per year. That is 40 billions miles per year. Divided by 365, we get 109 millions miles per day. Divided by 50,000 we get approximately 2200 brake jobs a day, with the same amount in pounds of dust metal and other good stuff released in the air (not talking about resurfacing but actual braking).

One metric ton of very fine, microscopic, heated, partly un-oxidized, metal dust released in the air in the whole Portland area. Is it much? Is it little? I'd say anything above zero in that category is too much.

But think about tires and road wear-out. How much asphalt dust, rubber dust? How much asphalt dust a studded tires car creates in a season?

Portland is kinda lucky because of the rain. During rain season much of this is washed out down the drains, into the river and into the Ocean. One ton of metal a day just from Portland.

That's why leaky oil pans, unburnt oil and fuel are good. All this stuff acts as a dust binder (including for mineral dust from insulation in the attics of houses near streets) and traps lots of it. However, in time it flies away from under the car, drys out but some gets trapped in the soil around streets and again into the drain. And let's not forget that engine oil contains as well high alloy metal and when it burns, it releases it... Fine metal in oil that does not oxidize and when burned, it is partly in metallic state.

That's why i think it's not a good idea to eat stuff grown in the cities or around busy highways.

Don't ask me what a good idea is to blow it with blowers on the sidewalks or parking lots.

With newer cars, less leaky, with catalytic converters that turn everything into CO2 is even worse. No binding of the dust. The hope comes from electrics and hybrids that do not use classic brakes except for failure of the regenerative braking system (turning braking energy into electricity and store it back in the battery). Smaller with smaller tires.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Do We Got It or Fungus Among Us

I remember one of my very first serious conversation back in the days where i could chat on IRC (now it's almost two years since i've got cut out, every time i try to connect to a server, it's either very slow connection or i can't connect or something like this). It was supposedly chatting whit a girl from Romania with a nick Oana_ or Oana29_ or something like that and i was peaking maybe 90 wpm and i was very excited. First i started on a channel #radionet or something on undernet, or it was radionet the network itself, can't remember for sure. It was late 2009 and she said she was recuperating from a broken leg from falling from a scooter. Funny enough, a while after that one of the TV stars from MediaPro managed by the same Sârbu did break a leg on a ski accident. She also said her husband or boyfriend spoke English, as i felt compelled to write some of the lines in English, but she was not very comfortable with those lines as it was exhausting just to read them. When i asked her what she was doing she said she was studying some books and when she was 5 years old she dreamed of being a doctor.

I wont forget Oana_ and the nice and attractive way she chatted with me.

One of the first days one of the first subjects was an idea i had about the most famous, large and old living organism on Earth, which is the 8.9 square kilometres (2,200 acres) acres fungus that happens to live here in Oregon, in ... Malheur county. (Thre are a few more smaller ones). My idea was more like a question, what if simple organisms like funguses can transmit nerve impulses from one cell to another and can configure as a humongous neural network and start thinking and communicating with us through some telepathic means?

As i was reading the news these days, about Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology that says we got aliens in us, i remembered the whole thing.

Don't know about that but ever since i kept asking myself who she was.

Oana_, i'm on facebook. If you can read this please contact me. I got so many other subjects on my mind i'd like to talk about!

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Maia

How many things are wrong and we ignore? May 1st, 1962. According to Stellarium, a free planterium program for Linux and Windows, the Sun is within the boundaries of Arjes. I myself am not a Cancer but a Gemini. According to the same program my wife is not a Scorpius but a Libra... Etc. However, the news publications always have a horoscope section. Always wrong...

Is the difference because of the differences between the Gregorian and Julian calendar? I don't know...Why astrologers don't get serious and fix this problem? The whole Zodiac is wrong because it does not use the actual, real, scientific position of Sun within constellations...

Stellarium screenshot

Monday, November 12, 2012

Antz

Remember the movie? We had ants back then too. At the other apartment. But those were bigger, more normal ants. These are tiny, 3-4 mm long. To take this picture in 12/29/2010 i used a 55 mm fixed length lens held by hand at about one inch in front of the 27-105 equivalent focal length from my Sony DSLR 300 camera with the zoom at maximum. It focuses on auto-focus. Can't remember the light source.

They are everywhere on the counter-tops. Especially on the one next to the window. Yesterday i had left about 2 ounces of pomegranate liquor in the bottle. After i drank that i went to sleep normally but woke up kinda wiped out, sort of lethargic. Cannot be the ants that possibly crawled on the bottle and touched the cap now can they? Back then when i took the picture i had traps with honey and borax but they still came. From where? The apartment underneath is vacated.

I looked again while writing this post. The ants disappeared, i can swear i saw them earlier this morning, i'm too used to them anyways. And i also heard a loud door noise and a Jeep noise under the window. The neighbor at Nr.5 left in a hurry.

Antz, eating honey&borax. Click on the picture for better view.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Heart Muscle Regeneration

I have always been intrigued by the muscular breakdown process during exercise. When exercising beyond your capabilities the next day you have pain and your muscles ache. But it does not help with muscle growth. In fact athletes know this and try to avoid using different techniques. (Those who cheat know that using steroids actually helps with minimizing muscular damage so they can exercise more, stimulating muscle build-up.) Then if you go for a blood test you will have the CK enzyme elevated. So what exactly happens to your dead cells after muscular breakdown?

Then i said to myself. Your own dead cells contain DNA fragments (if DNA theory is true) that can be used in different areas of the body if needed, like in heart, better than from any other source. What if when exercising your body deliberately creates muscular breakdown in areas of your body and uses the cellular remains to rebuild your damaged heart or increase heart muscle?

If this is true, how many times this process can repeat itself until your heart is not fixable anymore?

Maybe even during CPR, where sometimes there is required energetic action from the part of the reviver, some breakdown occurs in the chest area where rhythmic pressure is applied.

Then thinking even further. Maybe heart muscle can be regenerated indefinetley. And it may be a quick process, a matter of hours or even dozens of minutes. Cause that'a how long a moderate muscular breakdown lasts.

How about the nerve circuits that synchronize heart? If you take a heart cell and put it in a Petri dish with nutrients it will continue to contract, rhythmically. All heart cells can do that including the new ones. The problem is how to synchronize them. And that can take a little longer until new nerve circuits build and train themselves. In this interval, fibrillation may occasionally occur. So now how do you fix that?

Defibrillator is one way this may be done. There are people with implanted defibrilators. I always wondered why they only work occasionally. Maybe just only when the heart is at the end of a decompensated regeneration cycle. When muscle buildup has been to great to be retrained by heart's own means.

But they might exist other more or less "natural" methods. I think of the entrained walking. When one person can walk in the same rhythm of the beating heart. Some nerve impulses from other parts of the body can overlap the heart electric currents and help with the retraining process. Other methods can be brain entraining through music or noise, breath entraining, etc. Even mantras, or poetry.

I was looking on the web for a memorable phrase the guy from Computer Age Auto Service once told me, citing the Bible. It was roughly the equivalent of "in the end times people will eat their own flesh" or something like that. But there is no such thing in the Bible. He might have said one of the verses from the Bible like from Ezekiel and i didn't get it right. I was pretty messed up that day as not sleeping for days and prepared for that conversation.

On another occasion one of the more senior programers at Quadramed told me something about one's body consuming itself when starving. He specified that we consume our own muscles for staying alive when fasting.

Yet on another occasion a therapist in a hospital told me that we can use our own body fat to convert it into sugar and keep going. However that is not true. Fat can only be used for keeping body temperature and for a few other "minor" things. To have your body and especially your brain functioning you need glucose or other sugars. I think protein can be broken down to either fat or sugar.

However in all tree instances above your body shuffles his own muscles or fat in order to survive.


Sunday, October 28, 2012

Earthquakes

Number and strength of earthquakes >7.4 1900-2011, gnumeric, screenshot. Click to enlarge