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July 6, 2017
Sam’s Note 2
No Proselytism
I also need to make it very clear right from the start… there is absolutely no intent at proselytism on behalf of the author. I’ve stated and restate, I belong to no group, no Church, no religious organization. I have no intention of joining anything or anyone and certainly not of establishing any organization.
At the most there’ll be a group or community for those who want to be informed of the material I’ll be covering in these follow-on books and my Unlock Bible Meaning via Biblical Hebrew courses. it is likely there’ll be presentations, classes and discussion groups or Q&A sessions and other activities along that line but there will be no religious services of any kind. This will take place on internet which covers both geographical location and time zone considerations as well as continuity of materials for anytime-consultation.
Be assured that each individual is totally free to follow their own convictions, including myself following my own convictions.
All the material (print, image and vocal) can be re-used and re-distributed openly and freely just as I do from the website www.TheExplanation.com The only stipulation in the copyright is that such distribution be accompanied, in all instances, with the indication of the source: Produced by The Explanation with Sam Kneller at www.TheExplanation.com
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July 4, 2017
Archaeostronomy
Audit 1.3 image in draft
Archaeostronomy
What about the four directions, and the ways in which ancient monuments and megaliths seemingly ‘mirror’ the position of the heavens? Galacti transports the ancient Irish temple New Grange into the landscape, and next transports Stonehenge several feet away—along the ley lines, Galacti says.
In the new area of archaeological study known as geodesy, Ley Lines hypothetically link ancient monuments and megaliths, which fits with the tradition in many societies of building points of use according to straight lines. Think of the Ley Lines as train tracks or a city planned on a grid. The builders of ancient pyramids in Mexico appear to have planned their structures as if on an axis, for example …
Suppose Stonehenge or La Grange or the Pyramid of Kulkulkan in Chichen Itza in Mexico are the nexus of electrical, magnetic, ‘mystical’ or psychic energy—or landmarks for UFOs to navigate by. Skeptics and believers put equal faith in disproving or advancing this idea.
Just as you rarely think of ancient navigation aids, you probably don’t think of the role the stars still play in navigation today, in a way.
Eye on Satellites
Consider that a handful of countries can now blast powerful rockets loaded with satellites into space. A lot of them are in a “geo-stationery” orbit around earth. At an altitude of 36,000 km they revolve at the same speed as earth, and hence always stay in the same position. Three such satellites can have communications beamed up to and then between them thus permitting round the world instantaneous verbal, TV, video, web exchanges. It’s absolutely brilliant, out of this world.
Just as if you go to the top of a 50 floor skyscraper you can see further in the distance than if you were on the ground, so, too, with 120 satellites in the Earth’s orbit, every square inch of earth can be seen and watched. It’s possible to capture the number on a car’s license plate as well as monitor military movements, missile launchings and even self-defense. Hundreds of other uses like weather forecasting, measuring the height of mountains, the size and topographical changes of the polar caps, and the search for precious elements like lithium for long life batteries. Today, thousands of specialized satellites revolve incessantly around in this void, gathering and transmitting unimaginable amounts of data earthward. But what exactly is that data telling us?
We can actually view, with the naked eye, one of the global positioning satellites allowing us to pinpoint our location. There are 24 GPS satellites in orbit creating a man-made GPS constellation.
Although we’ve been traveling using the ‘Galacti Positioning System,’ we’re aware of GPS technology during our journey because of our cameras, smartphones and iPads—all of which use GPS technology. Consider that we can speak into our cell phones, or go to a virtual map and search for whatever it is we want to find—a café au lait, a computer shop or a planetarium.
Contrast that with the newborn rats and the navigating monarch butterflies from our zoo filled with ability in Inventory Chapter 6 and our human-animal comparison in Inventory Chapter 10. The rats are born knowing where to find food, and butterflies have their own sunlight-activated biological GPS.
Satellites are also conduits for television, radio, cell phones, atmospheric and weather information and tools to gather and send scientific information, such as data on cosmic X-rays, gamma rays and electromagnetic radiation back to science centers all over the world.How do these satellites accumulate and transmit data? The satellites record “internal data,” a status report cataloguing where the satellites are pointing, whether or not the satellite is functioning, whether the satellite is in danger of colliding with any other object…which surely doesn’t happen frequently, does it? We might be surprised. In any case, the ground crew regularly checks the satellite’s ‘vital signs’ to make sure everything is functioning.
Then we come to the fun part: the images of stars and planets, light spectra, measurements, count rates, and other figures describing Mercury, for example. Fortunately for scientists, the majority of data the satellites transmit is for our weather stations. Scientists have two options here: They can wait for a fresh batch of data every orbit or receive the data streamed to them live in realtime. However, Galacti notes that the data is only as good as the instruments used, so it is worth paying attention to the housekeeping data to make sure the instruments are calibrated properly. Seeing new dwarf stars, new space phenomena, trying to understand the Big Bang, prompt us to reach farther, to launch the Mars Rovers.
The result of all this satellite technology? Without being aware of it, we use space, as a medium, every day. When we connect to the Internet or make a cell phone call or check the weather before we leave for work or play, we’re using satellite signals crisscrossing above the exosphere. Space is not just an ideal, space is part of our everyday lives…when we look to the heavens and wonder, we also forget that we are using ‘outer space’ to accomplish tasks we all take for granted, with the same confidence with which we have accepted putting a man on the moon, Mind-boggling.
Also, via satellite we can locate sub-surface resources such as underground water. India has launched remote sensing satellites that help to create maps of underground water in order to identify locations for drilling wells. In addition, international space agencies have put satellites in orbit that track the groundwater disappearing beneath the farmlands of northern India and the stretch of 258 km (160 miles), or the length of the Paris-Roubaix bicycle race, between Jaipur and Delhi. We learn from satellite data from NASA’s GRACE Project collected between 2002-2008 that the groundwater in Northern India is being used to irrigate crops at a faster rate than the water cycle can replenish the underground aquifers. The naked eye cannot detect changes in water levels, but twin satellites can measure how much groundwater is withdrawn from the earth…one foot per year for the last several years. By measuring changes in the gravitational field between the two satellites, changes recorded by a microwave ranging system, and analyzing data recorded by the satellites’ instrumentation, the scientific team can create a ‘map’ of groundwater gains and losses (the map shows a ‘red alert’ spot in northern India). By diagnosing the problem the scientists can help the Indian government conserve water—a positive development to be sure!
Satellites ‘see’ and record everything…do they see too much?
“Big Brother”
Imagine international satellites scanning your phone conversations for ‘keywords’ connected to global terrorism. You may make a joke and say something in all innocence, ignorant of the consequences. Meanwhile a computer is flagging those words as the satellite transfers the data at lightning speed into a detection-analysis computer program. Yes, this keeps us ‘safe’ from global crime and terrorism and while some think it is necessary, other members of our group have concerns about their private conversations being monitored in this way by a sophisticated computer system connected to data-gathering and defense satellites.
And how about cameras in ‘communities such as Glasgow, Scotland, the safest community in the UK, yet the use of public surveillance cameras are on the rise (408 cameras compared to 326 in my home city of Paris), what is the purpose? Do the surveillance cameras contribute to public safety? How about London, where crime rates have not lowered since the 1980s, yet according to reports the average citizen in London appears on camera 300 times per day? We can debate the efficacy of surveillance systems, that’s one of those ‘glass half-full’ or ‘glass half-empty’ questions, yet as Galacti says, many people worry about their privacy while others think, ‘If you’ve done nothing wrong then you have nothing to worry about.’
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June 29, 2017
My life – a Sliver from Sam’s Personal Notes – What’s behind the Books.
Sam Kneller has lived in numerous cities, in various countries, on three continents.
My Life – A Personal Pathway
Let me digress and tell you a part of the story of my life. You’ll better understand both why and how I undertook this writing.
I grew up with no religious roots. Yes I was born into a Jewish family but my parents were non-practicing and we always lived in a secular part of the city, in other words with no religious influence whatsoever. We never went to Synagogue or Church and at home there was no ostensible display of anything in particular bar gefilte fish and chalah occasionally on Friday evenings. Which, by the way, I enjoy, but which certainly didn’t relate me to Jewish tradition.
My life involved learning some Hebrew at the age of 10, but this was actually in a classroom at my regular school in Johannesburg just prior to starting normal morning school classes. These classes were limited to learning the alphabet, vocabulary, and grammar. Approaching the age of 13 in Vancouver, Canada, again according to tradition, it was time for my Bar Mitzva and its preparation. Dad wanted it.
What struck me is that I read and sang (if you could call it that!) excerpts from the Bible in Hebrew but was given no understanding of the meaning of the texts, and frankly, at the time it didn’t even interest me. To go a step further as to how naïve, if not dumb, I was… I didn’t even ask what it all meant. Ah, the innocence of being 13.
For whatever reason my parents felt I should at least learn about my life origins and I moved to Israel where I spent a couple of years in Ramat Gan outside of Tel Aviv. My uncle, Dad’s brother, whom I met for the first time, was his ‘opposite’—from a religious point of view—being a practicing Jew. Throughout those 2 years I stayed with a family with 3 sons: non religious, semi-religious and religious. Frankly, it was very enjoyable and a nice immersion, which was my Dad’s desire, to get a ‘feel for it’.
My stay in Israel changed my life in that I came of age and matured. Living in the Middle East, getting a taste of living outside my family, a new language and culture changes a 17 year old. My world went from a house near Stanley Park in Vancouver to a globe of nations. The USA was in the midst of the Vietnam war and I was subscribed to Time magazine which I read religiously, cover-to-cover, every week. It was a time when I knew practically every capital of every country worldwide. I was awakened to the world.
A couple of years later I ended up in Antwerp, in the diamond industry and, the reason for this personal note, a religious environment. Until this point I’d been gradually maturing, gradually becoming aware of ‘religion’.
My life was about to take a 180° flip flop.
New Life
My mathematical, scientific oriented mind had not pondered metaphysical, philosophical or literary endeavors… until I heard a broadcast on Radio Caroline, one of the offshore emitters braving the BBC radio wave monopoly in 1966. ‘I can prove the existence of God’ the suave voice asserted as I happened to tune in one day. What intrigued me was the word ‘prove’. OK, let’s see, as I wrote off for the literature.
That booklet offered ‘7 Proofs’… 5 of which left me quite cold, 1 of which intrigued (the concept that a watch needs a watchmaker and therefore the creation needs a Creator) and 1 of which caught my attention (the fulfillment of prophecy or the idea that major world events could be foretold). The latter, not because I believed it, I really didn’t have any knowledge about it at all… but here was someone asserting that ‘history was written in advance’. Mankind has already been notified of events that were going to take place in the future. That these events were recorded in a book… and inviting me to go check it out.
That’s what I did. And I began to see the most amazing things… but that’s another long story which I will spare you here.
Years later I realized that the ‘prophecy proof’ is relative and many years later, as the idea of writing this series of books, The Explanation, began to gel, I pondered, for a long long time, about what approach to take.
When it comes to discussing an ‘outside force’ with regard to ‘mankind on Earth’ there are as many ideas and emotions as there are people on the face of Earth. These cover the gamut of fanatical belief to outright rejection, the right to kill opponents by both those that believe and those that reject and literally everything in between.
Considering an ‘outside force’ with regard to ‘mankind on Earth’ awakens as many ideas and…
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I felt that whatever stance or approach I took in writing The Explanation some, maybe most, were likely to be turned off. I’m resigned to that, knowing that all I can do is invite you to read the books and check them out.
New Approach for Books
Originally I was going to jump into ‘Origin of the Universe’ and get on with a Bible Explanation starting in Genesis. But I then realized that in so doing I was eliminating one eventual audience—those that don’t believe in a Higher Power and/or those that don’t think the Bible has any value.
I also realized that most people who do read and/or believe the Bible don’t necessarily see the relationship between its context and the daily world we live in. This might sound like a minor point but, in fact, it’s fundamental. As I wrote in the preface, if we don’t see the real world around us how can we know what it’s all about? How can we even ask the right questions as to its and our existence, presence and function?
Hence the need to write Inventory of the Universe—to explain what the Universe is. And Audit of the Universe—to explain the state of Earth and Mankind’s role and function on this planet. In Origin of the Universe—I will refer you back to contexts in both those books so you can better grasp the relationship between the Bible and today’s world. I guarantee you, even Bible readers will be amazed.
This post is an excerpt from the Preface and Notes 1 of Origin of the Universe.
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June 27, 2017
Sun, Moon, Stars – From Atoms to Astral Bodies – Grandiose and Quizzical
Humanity uses the Sun, moon and stars for navigation and worship. They light up our sky and both awe us and leave us quizzical with their grandeur and mysterious presence.
Humanity uses the Sun, moon and stars for navigation and worship. They light up our sky and both awe us and leave us quizzical with their grandeur and mysterious presence.
Navigation – Guiding the Way
Just as we’ve gently led our travelers on a journey to find all the puzzle pieces—with many more before we have the complete picture—so the stars have directed humans to find their way.
Audit 1.2
We watch sailors using Ptolemy’s maps and then orienting themselves north or south by watching the positions of important navigational stars: the North Star or Polaris, which we find in the constellation Little Dipper (Ursa Minor), itself a navigational point, and the Southern Cross that points towards the celestial South Pole.
The North Star never moves, in contrast to the stars around it, so that it is a fixed point for seafarers to determine their latitude; in fact, no matter what your latitude, you can view the North Star at the same angle in relation to the horizon. As we look into the sky, we observe the North Star.
Someone uses a GPS to read our latitude. In centuries past he might have used an astrolabe, a spherical handheld analog calculator that contains a moving disk to represent the position of the stars, or a cross staff, which uses several “vanes” or slats sliding on a central staff to measure the angles between stars and height of the Pole Star as well as of the sun.
Galacti has produced replicas of these, as well as the back-staff, a device outfitted with mirrors so that when we look through the sight vane, with the top ‘lens’ or vane reminding us of a submarine periscope, we can see Polaris. In daytime we can view the Sun without any harm to our eyes.
Look at the GPS, with its easy digital readout, and compare it with the ancient navigation tools. Both are obviously of human origin, but very different. The GPS doesn’t use the stars in any way in order to determine our latitude. So you might think. But consider this: a satellite and this computer receiver have replaced the astrolabe and the back-staff.
We all agree this is something to consider. Something we’ve never thought of. Likewise, we have never thought of something else the sun, moon and stars have provided us with: the calendar.
We have discussed the seasons, which man could observe unaided without calculation. The calendar, however, is another matter. While we can’t observe the orbits of the Earth and Moon to count days, we now know that it takes 365 days for the earth to complete its orbit around the sun.
However, imagine that we are ancient Chinese, Babylonians, Hebrews or Greeks. While we observe the change of the seasons, we watch the phases of the moon. The lunar phase cycle is 29.5 days, or a month, and during our accelerated month we observe two full moons. We soon discover, however, that the number of days in a month is not fixed, unlike the solar calendar.
Also, we learn that a lunar calendar year is thirteen months in order to match the seasons, in particular the harvests. Ancient farmers needed the moon, as well as the solar calendar, to tell them when to plant, and when to harvest. Also, the phases of the moon are associated with specific festivals and celebrations of the passage of life. While this may sound complicated, the lunar months are still part of the Jewish calendar; each month begins on the New Moon.
Imagine living by the lunar calendar, and performing astronomical calculations to mark the passage of months (as the Egyptians did), and marking religious observances and agricultural cycles by the phases of the moon. Our observers talk about stories and beliefs they’ve heard about the moon, stars and sun, dating back to ancient times.
Worship – Good and Bad Omens
“You humans believe in good or bad omens,” Galacti says, shaking his head, “I’ve been reading up on it, accessing the library of the universe. You’ve seen what a star is made of and you’ve seen the Big Bang. Who can honestly tell me you believe in omens or ‘divine favors’ as you call them? Seeing a halo around the sun and believing it foretells rain? Wishing upon a shooting star for example? Anyone here from Chile?” A woman who admired our South American plants in Inventory of the Universe, Chapter 5, raises her hand. ”It’s said that if you see a shooting star in Chile, you will have a year of good luck.”
This lady from Chile has heard this tale, but never given it much thought.
We all pause to consider the cultural omens and stories we have been taught. For example, the positions of stars and lunar eclipses often herald the birth of a major world figure. We ponder every belief including the warning that a full moon on Christmas Day will bring bad luck.
The ancient Greeks worshipped meteorites, which were thought to represent the stone Zeus’ father, Cronos, swallowed instead of Zeus, whom he thought would dethrone him. Many Greek temples enshrined meteorites as objects of worship. Meteorite veneration exists in many cultures on Earth. Why would a rock from the heavens become something people pray before?
Planets as well became signs of good luck and of the gods. The Babylonians associated Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, Saturn and Mars with their deities, and if Babylonians could read and interpret the motion of the planets, they could understand and predict major world events. Even the New Moon, which was not associated with any god, was a source of study—if it appeared earlier than expected, cattle or crops would fail and die.
The earth revolves around the sun, which gives the sun a premier place in the universe. The sun is the source of life, determines the seasons, and is essential to life on earth, which is why it is commonly associated with power, for example, as the Eye of Zeus in Greek mythology and linked with Egyptian gods. Japan is called the “Land of The Rising Sun” and King Louis XIV of France called himself “The Sun King”.
To see the sun rise at Stonehenge on the winter solstice signifies that the following year will be a favorable one. Galacti observes that even sun tanning acquires a bit of an exotic mystique, as ‘sun-worshippers’ who deliberately tan are trying to project success, a tropical and desirable lifestyle–though exposure to the sun has many benefits in improving health and mood! In any case, ‘sun signs’ populate the world, most notably in astrology.
This blog post is an excerpt from chapter 1.2 of Audit of the Universe.
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June 22, 2017
Audit of the Universe: Technical progress–Yes, Peace of Mind–No
Our Audit of the Universe reveals that humankind’s technical progress has been astronomic but their peace of mind has not followed.
Audit of the Universe led us through a ‘what’s up’ with all those pieces, (of Inventory of the Universe) how are they faring in 2017? Plus we took a closer look at how humankind functions, their social institutions, endeavors and ways of reasoning. I tried to leave it up to each reader to decide whether the glass of peace and prosperity on Earth is getting fuller or emptier.
(Origin Preface 2)
Objectively, I think you were able to detect that while I feel ‘technically’ the glass is without a doubt getting fuller, humankind’s ‘way of life’ is getting emptier. Humankind’s mental outlets, their interior fiber, that part that makes them a very particular species: their mind with its capacity to conceive, their body with its capacity to manufacture and create the most marvelous endeavors. Humankind is not using those awesome abilities to be fulfilled, they’re in a continual and perpetual search for an evasive, illusive ‘something’.
They’re progressing at an exponential rate and at the same time there seems to be a void, they don’t know where they’re headed and the emptiness seems to be engulfing them. Something like accelerating into a black hole, they’ve got all the gadgets for a life of ease but inner peace and prosperity elude them. When humankind steps off the motorized treadmill where they’re running for health and well being into a stationery position where do they really stand? If they puts aside all their ‘life-toys’ what do they really have… deep down?
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In Audit of the Universe we discussed Science, Philosophy, Religion, Mythology, Government. The common denominator amongst these diverse disciplines is their search for answers. I came to the conclusion that given the present state of affairs… there’s been an awful lot of searching, which still continues, but we’re awfully short of answers… real answers about the fundamentals of life.
How do you explain this or that? Why this or that?
I’m including in these interrogations: Is there some extraneous ‘force’ out there that we’re maybe not fully aware of? You can name it whatever you want… the question is: is humankind alone in the universe? Whether we think there’s intelligent life on another planet or some sort of spirit being… the question remains.
In Audit of the Universe I discussed how we are thriving. We surveyed the immense inventory, the universe of animate and inanimate to see how it is faring asking the basic question: Is the glass of peace and prosperity in each of these fields getting emptier or fuller? An intermediate conclusion concerns the ‘singularity of humankind’ … who, alone, can take such an ‘Inventory’ and proceed with such an ‘Audit’. Who alone has the culture to survey, evaluate, write down and transmit such conclusions.
Given this unique propensity of humankind we discussed four characteristics that set them apart from and above all known creatures on Earth and, to this point, in the known Universe.
These include how humankind’s mind functions, their human nature and free will that lead to their behavior. The fact that for any type of social interaction there needs to be ethics and their application with justice for all. This includes the ability to modify one’s own behavior and be forgiven so that they can not only integrate society but contribute to its peace and prosperity.
We then touched on the social co-habitation of humankind. Our society is made up of individuals who sexually reproduce with other individuals, each one, worldwide, going through a growth process in an environment of mother and father, family, extended family, village, city, nation and beyond until we reach ‘globalization,’ the 21st century buzzword referring to migration and intermingling of peoples and cultures.
These combined individualities with their human minds have accomplished incredible progress, particularly in the last 6000 years with emphatic emphasis on the last century. Progress has accelerated and it is mind boggling to see where we are in agriculture, biology, technology and so many other fields. The endeavors of humankind have led to the type of societies we live in today. Experimentation, conception and realization of humankind’s thoughts, plans and dreams have given rise to the 21st century way of life.
We ended our Audit of the Universe by considering the tools and methods at humankind’s disposition to reach conclusions–find solutions. Their basis for believing and doing what they do to both live on Earth and promote peace and prosperity for all of humankind. I ended Audit with ‘How humankind reasons’ including the four pillars:
Humankind’s experience—Humankind’s government, leadership, his history and lessons learnt
Science—Humankind’s study and explanation of Nature
Philosophy—Humankind’s intellectual approach to life
Religion—Humankind’s incorporation of a Higher Power Intelligence (of all sorts) into their life
When it comes to humankind the common denominator amongst Experience, Science and Philosophy is how all of humankind searches for their OWN answers. This is in contrast to Religion where humankind acquiesces to revealed knowledge from an OUTSIDE Higher Source.
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Audit of the Universe is an analysis of all humankind’s answers to see how far we’ve come, what we’ve done with those answers, whether they’re yielding peace and prosperity and opening up a bright future.
In Audit we also, very briefly, looked at the impact of religion on our present state of world affairs. Can we say that religion is filling the glass with peace and prosperity? Even those within any particular religion would have a difficult time with that one. I’m not talking about what they think the impact of religion (in general) is going to be on world peace and prosperity. The answer to such a question is speculation. The real question is what is religion’s impact NOW?
I came to the conclusion that given the present state of affairs, after all this searching and sifting of data we’ve located, and which is on-going, we’re still quite short of answers… real answers about the fundamentals of life and what brings peace and prosperity. Witness the world around us.
And there are certain questions which none of the first 3 disciplines can answer. Many would add the 4th, religion, as well: How do you explain Life? Where did it come from? Why are we here? …
I’m including in those unanswerable and improvable questions: Is there some extraneous ‘force’ out there that we’re maybe not fully aware of? You can name it whatever you want… the question is: Is humankind alone in the universe? Whether we think there’s intelligent life on another planet or some sort of spirit being… the question remains. And the first 3 disciplines can only conjecture, they certainly cannot answer these types of metaphysical questions.
That’s why there’s a sequel, this book, The Origin of the Universe, when we not only begin to question the why’s but also answer them.
This post is an excerpt from Preface 2 of Origin of the Universe.
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June 20, 2017
Nuclear Power and Waste – A Dilemma of the 21st Century
Nuclear power has become one of the major controversies of the 21st century. Clean cheap power versus dangerous waste and possible accidents. The issues are many and the stakes are high
“Imagine the unimaginable.” Galacti intones the phrase.
We stand on the spot where we first touched down in Inventory of the Universe Chapter 2 when we journeyed through the atmosphere. The night is so black we see only the vague outlines of trees and perhaps a house or two nearby with the faint glow of electric light in the windows. House lights cannot compete with the sight above our heads.
(Audit chapter 1.1)
The starry sky beckons our gaze. There is no light pollution where we are, so we can see the star-filled pavilion in its entirety. There are no clouds—however, clouds of gas play a role in the formation of the star spectacle that entrances us.
No wonder Carl Sagan said that “… the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.”The number of objects in the universe is mind-boggling–estimated at 10 trillion galaxies, each with 100 billion stars–that’s 1 followed by 24 zeroes.
Observing the stars and planets and thinking about baby stars being born right now as we stand here leads us to ponder: what more is out there? Gazing up at the stars has led man to expand his knowledge outward as he explores the universe with what tools he creates and inward as minds think about the possibilities of life
By now we are used to these moments of considering what was right under our noses, or above them in this case, and have learned to expect the unpredictable.
Before we can proceed with a plan to understand the why of the origin of Earth and mankind we need to know where we are, what’s going well, what’s going wrong, what needs tweaking, what needs a makeover or total replacement.
We’re going to do an audit, starting with the atom. We’re starting another journey with Galacti filled with real-life examples to help us analyze and even decide whether the half-empty/half-full glass is getting emptier or fuller.
Atomic Power and Earthquakes
We have seen the atomic and subatomic level—but atomic and nuclear power forces are at work every day, in minute and large-scale ways. The following three stories presented by Galacti will invite us to explore this topic.
The idea of nuclear power evokes everything from awe to images of atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and its ensuing destruction.
The idea of nuclear power evokes everything from awe to images of ‘mushroom clouds’ as well as the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima with the ensuing destruction of the ‘Atomic Dome.’
Galacti is quick to point out that Japan shut down 52 of its 54 nuclear reactors following the meltdowns at Fukushima-Daiichi.
Also, Russia has harnessed atomic power to transport liquefied natural gas from Norway to Japan via the Arctic/Northern Sea route—through the ice. In this story, a Greek-operated carrier shipping the clean natural gas follows three Russian atomic icebreakers that embark from the Norwegian port of Hammerfest and cut swaths through the ice of the Bering Strait.
The route, shorter than the traditional southern shipping lanes through the Suez Canal, saves fuel and reduces pollution…all of this is possible thanks to atomic power, to the small reactors, 52 kilograms (114 pounds), the size of a female Japanese judo champion, that power the icebreakers.
The Northern Sea Route. Nuclear powered ship break ice in Bering Straits to allow regular cargo to pass through.
Galacti and our tour group find both a negative and positive aspect to nuclear energy: bombing of cities, meltdown, contamination and the powerful icebreakers which are helping to supply the natural gas Japan has been relying on ever since the nuclear power
Imagine a string of earthquakes 4.5 and above on the Richter triggering a nuclear meltdown in Rajasthan, India or Laguna Verde, Mexico or Angra, Brazil. If you are in such ‘earth-shattering’ events, you may not think to ask, ‘By the way, is there a nuclear power plant in the neighboring country? How many? How many under construction?’
We all have heard of the disaster of Chernobyl and the tsunami/earthquake (8.9 on the Richter) that triggered the meltdown at Fukushima-Daiichi, but seismic activity in the regions surrounding locations with one or more active nuclear reactors as well as ones under construction seems like a scenario out of a James Bond movie. However, with North Korea’s September 2016 nuclear test triggering a 5.3 earthquake, citizens around the globe have taken notice.
Nuclear Waste Buried
German protesters converge on a nuclear waste storage site in Gorleben, Germany. The nuclear dump is notorious, with its tunnels closed off, as a sign in red German letters warns. This facility contains barrels of toxic radioactive waste such as irradiated nuclear reactor fuel, liquid and solid waste byproducts, nuclei formed by the fission of heavy elements.
Protesters from all over the world, whose voices are amplified by news reports from CNN and the BBC, protested this train at its point of origin in France and at the Gorleben facility. The train’s nuclear containers, massive white hulks containing 123 tons of spent fuel, carry the dangerous waste (one Greenpeace scientist measures the radiation at about 4,000 counts per minute or the same level as Chernobyl) to the abandoned mine in Gorleben, just as trains will carry spent fuel for reprocessing from East Germany to a facility in Russia.
Hundreds of antinuclear protesters lie on the tracks in an attempt to stop the train from reaching the temporary ‘dump’. The abandoned mine facility is the closest solution to a high-level repository for nuclear waste. None of the 31 countries that have nuclear power plants or the 45 countries considering nuclear power possesses an advanced nuclear waste storage facility.
The Gorleben mine site or the hotly contested Yucca Mountain site in the U.S. are the most advanced solutions mankind has yet proposed. Gorleben is only a temporary storage site and as of this writing still awaits its ultimate destiny.
International peace teams believe that the Gorleben radioactive waste is a threat to safety and liberty. Already international groups note that, inside a similar converted salt mine now serving as a storage facility, radioactive brine has been leaking into the ground for two decades, and there are serious doubts about the viability of the long-term salt mine storage.
Rather than preserving the metallic, off-white or yellow silo-like CASTOR (cask for storage and transport of radioactive material) containers of nuclear wastes, the salt may corrode them, since geological drillings have proved the salt is unstable, and cause leakage long-term. Already policymakers in India are pointing to Gorleben as a sign that India should not rush to expand its nuclear program.
We leave off this ‘hot topic’, since there is much more to explore in the topic of atoms and in the realm of space.
This post is an excerpt of chapter 1.1 from Audit of the Universe
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June 15, 2017
The Seeing Person is Lost, the Blind Person is Cognizant
Wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans continue to break personal records and show fans and friends amazing feats. The Blind have a perception the seeing don’t possess.
They know exactly where they’re walking and what’s on their left and right.
Their sense of hearing and smell are at a high pitch so they can pick up the minutest indications, that’s the bakery on the left, and now there’s a vendor selling chestnuts, that’s a Honda motorcycle that just went by… and he sure is traveling fast, that parked car just got here because the heat coming off the engine is fierce.
(Origin Preface 1)
You and I with 20/20 vision or at least with good visibility, by comparison, jaunt along and don’t notice a thing, it’s the same old routine getting to the station or work each day. In fact some days you get there and you can’t even remember HOW you got there! You don’t even remember the stop light or turning… you’re totally oblivious, you just do it out of sheer habit… without even thinking.
Who’s blind?
We lead our lives like that too, we listen but we don’t hear, we see but we don’t grasp, we smell but we don’t savor, we taste but we don’t flavor, we touch but we don’t feel.
Inventory of the Universe
Inventory of the Universe, the first book of The Explanation series revealed what is to our left and right. It awakened us to the intricacies of our Universe, the vastness of outer space and the minuteness of fundamental particles. It made us aware of the interplay between space, atmosphere, water and land, the inanimate aspect of those visible and invisible objects, waves and particles around us.
It focused us on the animate world of flora, fauna and man with their multi-functioning processes of life to generate, maintain and reproduce themselves. It zeroed in on the brain and especially the mind of man to reveal its complexity in running the most sophisticated of computers, the human brain for us to have the incredible mental and intellectual capacities we possess. Porpoises can’t play poker, man can.
Inventory gave us insight and brought home all those daily objects around us we’ve always taken for granted. It awakened our senses to really hear, grasp, savor, flavor and feel the beating of our environment. It roused us to different terrains under our feet, it stirred us up to the throbbing in our neighborhood, country and beyond…
Inventory of the Universe is our white cane to tap around and make us aware of really what we’re surrounded by. Only then will our eyes begin to be opened… and we’ll start to see where we’re going and where this world is going.
The seeing person is lost, the blind person knows where they are.
The ‘supposedly’ blind person actually ‘sees’ more and is more sensitive than the 20/20 person.
Inventory of the Universe is devoted to taking stock of ALL things physical and non-physical, visible and invisible that man could investigate with regard to his small and large environment. This investigation into space, atmosphere, water, and land has and is still pushing man into the confines of the smallest of particles and the outer limits of space to the edge of the Universe.
When it comes to the animate: flora, fauna, life and mankind itself, man is now pushing hard at the last frontier: his own brain and mind. Man has reached into his very own thoughts, perceptions, conscious and unconscious depths. There is no doubt that more outstanding discoveries are on the horizon.
The minuteness and immensity of sizes and shapes of sheer matter on earth and in space defy the imagination. I compared it to a puzzle with intricate pieces that fit together precisely and perfectly, with each piece in its one and only position. They may seem to fight against each other but are really working together in a fine-tuned equilibrium that allows humanity here on Earth to exist and, one would wish, thrive.
Inventory of the Universe turned over all the pieces of the puzzle, taking you on a whirlwind tour of our universe from Big Bang to the mind of Man.
This post is an excerpt from Preface 1 of Origin of the Universe.
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June 13, 2017
Audit of the Universe – A look into the State of Affairs of Earth and the Universe
It’s time to take a look at the state of affairs of our Inventory of the Universe. What is humankind’s impact on our planet Earth and beyond?
If you have followed our travelers from Inventory of the Universe, Volume I of “The Explanation,” you are no doubt ready for a brief relaxing pause before embarking on the journey of the state of affairs of our surroundings in the pages that follow.
(Audit Preface)
To begin our interlude, as I chat with Galacti: The other night I happened on a TV program about migrating birds and a ‘must stop’ on their South to North flight, in Eilat, Israel (where Good Samaritans are trying to provide a safe haven for the birds) after a 1500 to 3000 km journey across a foodless, waterless, harsh, sere and unforgiving Sahara Desert.
Majestic Nature
Majestic eagles waiting for the sun to allow the desert heat to create thermal updrafts, then circling effortlessly as the warm air helps them ascend so high they can’t be seen by the naked eye, then gliding for miles and miles until they zero in on another thermal which again whisks them aloft into the altitudes. Powerful birds barely batting their wings, saving energy, using nature, covering some 300 km per day.
The peregrine falcon, sometimes called the duck hawk, uses convection currents to rise into the gulfstream air passage and travel at over 300km per hour! Structurally the bird has to have wings, muscles, lungs and metabolism, down to the last detail, all engineered for this perilous mission.
The same program pointed out how bird watching has soared to new heights through emitters attached harmlessly to these flying wonders. Equipped with GPS, movement measurement, memory and sophisticated transmission, the devices make it possible to know where the birds are and what they’re doing every ten minutes. Reams of data for tracking purposes useful, amongst other things, during concentrated migration periods, as birds can be a heavy threat to aviation.
Galacti nods in agreement as I talk about the wonder of nature and technology, the natural world and human know-how, the clash or concord of earth’s environment and man-made equipment.
Ponder the pride of majestic lions that sleep 20 hours a day and siafu ants traveling in colonies of 20 million with jaws so strong that in emergency medical circumstances they have been used to replace ‘stitches’ to close a wound, these are instinctive killers, yet they only stake out the territory they need, they’ve never taken over a neighborhood, let alone a country. In the natural habitat there’s always equilibrium.
Not so… when the equation of ‘Man’ is introduced.
Today, as never before, with a world population expanding exponentially, wherever humankind steps it leaves its trace… even managing to turn majestic Mount Everest into a garbage dump. What is our planetary environmental state of affairs?
In Inventory of the Universe we turned over all the pieces of the puzzle, from A (atmosphere) to Z (zoology), from the largest most impenetrable galaxies in the universe to the minutest now confirmed Higgs Boson particle revealed by the LHC particle accelerator in Switzerland. From the inanimate minerals to flora and fauna life, down to Humankind’s body and mind. We opened our eyes to survey our incredible inventory.
Together on our odyssey we travelers have completed the inventory, and although it’s a hostile place outside of earth’s atmosphere, we agree that it’s spectacular and enticing. That for us humans, the air we breathe and the water we drink are just right for our needs. Earth is a very hospitable place to live, providing us with all the greenery and animals we could ever need for our sustenance, development, enjoyment and wonderment.
Yes, we have all the pieces to do with our universe, we know what we’re working with. It’s time to see the interplay between these pieces. The impact of one on the other, with a particular emphasis on humankind’s role, after all, by whatever design, it is the main ‘instigator’ on this planet. We have to take a look at our effect on our environment. But we need to go further. How does humankind function? How is humankind organized? How does humankind interact?
Galacti wants to know: What is the state of affairs?
Some readers may be wondering: how do we decide? What are our criteria? Fair warning: yes, this is going to be subjective. We have only so much space, so we can include only so many examples, I have to make a choice. On the other hand, that’s also the reason I’ve decided to self-publish this work, allowing for ongoing edits and additions as well as using the power and unlimited ‘memory of internet’ to be able to include reader contributions.
As people are increasingly ‘mobile’ and information shoots around the globe, information accumulates and is shaped, interpreted and edited on websites and apps (Facebook, Twitter, Google+)—we will of course talk about this ‘event’ when we talk about the institutions of the world, of which the internet is one.
Likewise, the ‘state of affairs’ of our planet is anything but immobile; it evolves each day all around the world.
Therefore The Explanation welcome creative, constructive contributions or articles and references to other works to enhance comprehension of all the pieces of the puzzle. A combined contribution of solid information from various sources brings us better awareness of what we’re dealing with.
In browsing the ‘social media’ and in talking to people in my travels, I find everybody believes there are both wondrous and awful events going on simultaneously around us. That the proverbial glass is both half full and half empty. The squabbling is over the tendency: is it getting fuller or emptier, are we getting better-off or worse-off? In this argument we can and do use statistics, observations, examples to push home our feelings; this is where subjectivity enters the scene.
And where there’s subjectivity there’s divergence and discord, ‘your ideas are as good as mine,’ and the deceptive adage ‘there’s no right or wrong.’ Enter conflict, controversy and tension, which can lead to ill feelings, outright hostility and rigid extremism.
But, on the other hand, can anyone stay ‘neutral’? My feeling is that there’s some good, some bad. Some would say it’s always been that way and we’re going to continue like that ad infinitum. That is a way of looking at it but it’s really a cop-out, after all you know whether you’re drinking from or pouring your favorite beverage into the glass.
Likewise, in Volume 2, ‘Audit of the Universe’, we’ll see the tendency of the glass, getting fuller or emptier. Some readers will agree, others will disagree, so what I’d like to say here is this, that starting with Volume 3, Origin of the Universe, I’ll explain WHY the glass has the tendency it does and what humankind’s role in this tendency is. The role of The Explanation is to put the whole puzzle together.
Volume 2 is ‘Audit of the Universr.’ Doing an evaluation of where we are at the beginning of the 21st century is just that, an assessment, a measurement of where earth and its inhabitants are. It does not yet explain ‘how earth got that way,’ ‘why it is that way’ or ‘where earth and humankind are going from there’. It is simply a ‘spot check’. But, to give The Explanation of the how, why and where, we must first assess the state of affairs of our inventory.
Let’s begin our audit of the universe.
This post is an excerpt from the Preface of Audit of the Universe.
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June 6, 2017
Is there Truth Anywhere? Is Truth Dead? No … but Can We Find It?
A take-off of Time magazine’s famous covers: Is God Dead? and Is Truth Dead? Can we just let these two major question be? No.
Have you ever heard of ‘postmodernism‘ or ‘post-truth‘? The former is characterized by adopting an attitude of skepticism and irony towards truth while the latter appeals to emotions rather than facts. I suggest you read the first couple of paragraphs in Wikipedia, regarding postmodernism and the Oxford Dictionary for post-truth to grasp a deeper comprehension. This last concept has hit such a high that it was named ‘Word of the Year’ for 2016 by the Oxford Dictionary.
Unfortunately Western society is buried in these two phenomena promoted by Facebook, Twitter, debates, anybody saying anything, statements by celebrities … ‘what I feel’, ‘what I believe’. These two notions have become probably the major factor motivating our discussions and lobbying to get our ideas across. Facts are out there … oftentimes distorted or misquoted to push our ideas ahead. Over here in France there’s a radio program that analyzes political speeches and statements to see if the facts are right or wrong.
When you read the post-modernism article in Wikipedia it dates its origin to the end of the 1800s and post-truth to much more recently. I’m going to suggest that they go back 6000 years!
Whether you believe in the Bible or not doesn’t matter. There’s a story in Genesis, chapter 3, about a postmodern serpent using post-truth tactics:
Genesis 3.2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
The facts were clear and both Eve and serpent know them: There was a tree and if you ate its fruit, death ensued. The serpent was skeptical about the truth and appealed to Eve’s emotions with false arguments about ‘being as god, having a better life …’ And she fell for it … putting the facts aside.
The bottom line is: Facts were abandoned and replaced by fantasy. Reality was replaced by imagination. That’s what postmodernism and post-truth are.
Why am I telling you this?
Because I’ve reached a milestone with The Explanation. The first book, Inventory of the Universe, is now completely finished online in blog format as well as being a published book that is available free as a pdf, as well as in ebook and softcover published format (see the right margin for information).
But, all Inventory of the Universe does is lay the foundation by explaining WHAT the Universe is. With an emphasis on HOW it works. In particular HOW everything is interconnected. This book simple shows the grandeur of what, for the present time, is a unique planet with a unique environment, allowing unique life to exist in a unique way. Frankly, there are dozens of books and authors out there who have detailed many of the aspects of Inventory both with scientific facts, informative graphics and exquisite images. Inventory is designed to give you an overview of this wondrous planet we call home.
What’s next? TWO books in parallel and simultaneously: Audit of the Universe and Origin of the Universe.
Now that Inventory is complete I’m moving to the next step which is blogging both Audit and Origin at the same time starting next week. This is quite an undertaking but I feel it is necessary.
Starting next week, subscribers to The Explanation Blog will receive a post on Tuesday from Audit of the Universe and on Thursday from Origin of the Universe. Both will run parallel.
Audit of the Universe
This book helps you answer the question: Is the Glass of Peace and Prosperity getting Fuller or Emptier?
It takes the 10 chapters of Inventory and runs through contemporary examples of how humankind is using Space, Earth’s Atmosphere (President Trump’s recent decision about withdrawal from the COP Agreement fits in here), Water, Land, Flora, Fauna, Life, Body, Brain & Mind and the Singularity of Humankind.
Audit will end with 4 chapters on: How humankind functions (Behavior), How humankind socializes (Organization), What humankind has produced (Accomplishments), How humankind reasons (Solutions).
This is the second book in The Explanation Series. By the end of this book you’ll have a clearer overall picture of what humankind is (remember, ‘post-truth’ … you might think you already have a clear picture … but how sure can you be?) and where humankind is in its quest for Peace and Prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century.
Origin of the Universe
This book is where we begin to see the ANSWERS. Origin of the Universe answers the most basic questions:
Why Space?
Why Earth’s Atmosphere?
Why Water?
Why Land?
Why Flora?
Why Fauna?
Why Life?
Why do we have a physical Body?
Why do we have a Brain & a Mind?
Why is Humankind unique?
Why does humankind function as it does?
Why does humankind socialize as it does?
Why does humankind produce what it does?
Why does humankind reason as it does?
These are the BIG QUESTIONS in life. It’s time we had the TRUTH … not post-truths.
Yes, I hear you … ‘these are Sam’s truths’ or ‘who is Sam to say that he can tell us the truth?’ I shall broach this but let me simply say that this is: The Explanation WITH Sam Kneller … NOT Sam Kneller’s explanation. There’s a huge difference. It’s not my explanation … I’m just like any other flawed imagining human being … my explanation, if I were even to give one, would be just as worthwhile or rather just as worthless as your explanation.
I’ll explain where The Explanation comes from and HOW to reach this Explanation. You’ll be able to reach it yourself … if you’re courageous enough and open-minded enough to looks at the REAL FACTS instead of confiding in our fictitious imagination.
Quite a challenge awaits both me and you in the coming weeks and months, are you ready to pick up the gauntlet with me?
Is Truth Dead? No … but Can we Find It?
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May 30, 2017
The Universe … an Infinite Number of Puzzle Pieces … Assembled Perfectly
The Universe is the most amazing puzzle. A puzzle assembled perfectly from point particles to mankind’s mind. Inventory of the Universe has painted the broad picture for you.
We’ve turned over the inanimate and animate pieces of the puzzle, witnessing the origin of our universe and going down through the atmosphere to the water and land on planet Earth. We’ve seen plant and animal life, and we’ve also delved into the ingredients of life themselves.
(chapter 10.12) Epilogue
We then focused on man’s body, brain, and mind, pointing out that man is a unique creature that has a vast number of traits that differentiate him from animals. We learned that this gives him huge potential far and above what any animal could ever accomplish.
This potential is essentially in the cognitive field and includes thoughts, imagination, creativity, analysis, and planning. We also pointed out that the area where this takes place is called the mind. So far, science has not been able to put its finger on the mind. It remains a mystery, but we understand that it is the key to the uniqueness of man.
This book, Inventory, has opened our eyes to various aspects of our day-to-day environment that we have a tendency to take for granted and not pay much attention to.
My hope is not only that we experience a renewed respect for the “wonder” of it, but also that we see it as a whole. All the processes of each aspect of our environment fit together.
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For examples, see the nitrogen cycle, the water cycle, and butterflies, wasps, and bees pollinating flowers and plants. These processes impact, intermingle, and create an interface so that other processes can express themselves. We live in a fully integrated, interdependent environment with no missing or redundant parts.
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We have opened the doors to reveal a bird’s-eye view of our surroundings as well as some of their attributes and functions. The goal is to imbibe a general and global idea of what we’re working with, in our quest to understand if and how it is possible to establish peace and prosperity here on Earth.
We have turned all the pieces of our puzzle right side up. We’ve identified each of the major pieces, and we grasp how complex each one is and how elaborate the edges are.
We see that the puzzle is one masterpiece, which is in turn composed of multiple interwoven, smaller masterpieces. The sun’s heat relates to wind, which relates to the rain and currents of the Gulf Stream as air is pushed to rise over a mountain, dropping rain on agricultural fields, replenishing the groundwater with some runoff into the ocean—and water continues its cycle.
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We can put it together and see it in our mind’s eye, but frankly, it is beyond any of us to comprehend the complexity. We cannot fully grasp this incredibly well oiled, purring machine we call the universe.
We know that man has managed to scrutinize and influence the equilibrium of this perfect puzzle as of the beginning of the last century. Man has tended to forget that these separate pieces really fit together.
It’s like asking six blind people to describe an elephant: the first touches the trunk and thinks it’s a snake, the second runs his hand down the pointed tusk and takes it for a curved spear, the third is wrapped up in the large ear and declares it to be the leaf of a palm tree, the fourth stretches his hands out along the immense back and says it’s a house, the fifth wraps his arms around a leg, thinking it must be a tree, and the last man grabs the tail and shouts that it’s a heavy rope. They are all wrong because they have only parts of the story.
To get it right, you have to take the sum of all the parts and see how they fit together. You have to see the big picture. That’s what putting the puzzle together is all about. This book has set out all those parts. Our quest is to look at the puzzle as a whole and see where and how all the pieces fit together.
The next book does an Audit of the Universe of the pieces we’ve turned over. How are we progressing? What state are the pieces in? Man has been playing with the puzzle. He has been taking it apart and looking at pieces individually, nationalistically, and continentally. He’s been shaving off the edges or adding bits and pieces to each puzzle piece to suit him.
Audit of the Universe also takes a closer look at how man’s mind functions. At the center of the puzzle, so to speak, we’ll zoom in on how man has exercised his mind to generate successful approaches and practices dedicated to bringing peace and prosperity on an individual, national, and global level.
We’ll witness his successes and failures and examine where we stand at the beginning of the twenty-first century. When seven billion people are playing with the same puzzle according to their own different rules, can it resemble the original one for long? Can its masterpieces retain their perfect fit, each filling its position, functions, and responsibilities properly within the entirety of that intricate puzzle? Just what shape is our puzzle in? Is it still recognizable?
How much sincere interest is there in trying to understand the original shape? Is there a limit to how far man can go in breaking off the edges of the puzzle pieces before the puzzle falls apart? What is the state of our universal heritage? Do we have peace and prosperity? Is it attainable for all? If so, how?
This post is the Epilogue of Inventory of the Universe.
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