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Encoding Hologram On Photon

10/08/2007 6:25 PM

Years ago I had a vision similiar to Borges Aleph, only my vision came from an alternating period of boredom and bliss.

I was caused eventually to feel that over time we would capture holographic images made by other beings on other planets by using solar sails as antennas and decoding 3D images encoded on photons.

I've been arguing with physicists and poets about this for about 30 years now.

This seems as good a place as any to continue the argument.

Originally I envisioned using a solar panel as an antenna, but now the solar sail, which is very large seems more likely to succeed.

In past arguments some said that the energy required for the possible transmission would be too great to enable the transmission of such a communication method.

I believe that since I first came up with the concept that I called a 3DSpace Tv in a book of poems published in 1974, I have seen some trace of secret laser methods of communicating with submarines that approximate some of my concepts concerning the use of the photonic aspect of light.

In about 1978 I submitted the concepts to a contest in Ommni Magazine, to which I got no reply.

At any rate the idea is to use a solar panel, or solar sail as an antenna to capture holographic images encoded on photons from people who can see, who are different beings than ourselves in reaction to the fact I can't understand foreign languages on the radio from the otherside of the planet and think tv and radio in the wave spectrum likely to degrade to static over very long distances and times in outer space.

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10/08/2007 6:36 PM

Is this New Age Engineering? Wheeo! What a concept!

I would think that the biggest issue is in trusting the "other beings" to accurately (and truthfully!?) encode the photons. We could be the brunt of a cosmic JOKE at best and leave ourselves wide-open to invasion at the worst.

By the way, do you have any references (theory, supporting math, etc.) for your idea?

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10/08/2007 7:00 PM

One problem with using solar panels to receive holographic images is that of coherence. A solar panel does not image, ie, the panel indiscriminately converts the energy of some of the impinging photons into electricity. As solar panels are far from 100 percent efficient, about 90 percent of this energy goes into merely heating the panel. In either case, the panel destroys all information that an arrangement of the photons might encode.

Solar sails depend for their operation on the fact that photons convey momentum. A solar sail is most efficient when it is a perfect reflector. And to where are all those photons reflected? Back into space! Nor does it matter whether those photons encode information or whether they arrive randomly. The only thing a solar sail "knows" is whether it is being propelled by photonic momentum and by how much (that is why it is called a "sail," after all). You could project a holographic image onto its surface and it wouldn't be any wiser. The same goes for solar panels.

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10/09/2007 4:35 PM

Dear Europium,

I really do appreciate your taking the time to set me straight on some of the facts. I was functioning from the idea and hope that because solar panels will generate electricity and that seems to be caused by the particle, photon, that then it might be possible to use it as an antenna.

During my working day I have been wondering about it while I was digging a ditch.

So finally I wonder if it is my proposed antenna that is the limiting factor for the sucessful transmission of a hardy image over long long distance and time.

I wonder if there is another material that would be more appropriate, or if one would do as well to simply put a photo album in a ball and send it into space.

Sometimes people find messages in bottles, but it is not a very effcient way of communicating.

I still wonder if it would be possible to even encode a photon with an image.

Is television the zenith of transmitable imagery?

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10/09/2007 8:33 PM

"Is television the zenith of transmitable imagery?"

No. The higher the wavelength the more information you can encode on it per given unit of time.

However, anything you send you want to be easily found. So, sending modulated X-Rays may not be the most obvious transmission you could use to tickle another's curiosity.

For fun, read Carl Sagan's book "Contact".

We speculate that the hydrogen spectra is a good start for receiving a message intended to be found. So we listen to that frequency and hope to find an intelligible signal.

Meanwhile we have broadcaster messages into space and we even created a laser disk on the Voyager spacecrafts on the off chance they get intercepted one day.

There are a number of ongoing projects to both detect and contact extraterrestrial life. Check them out.

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10/10/2007 10:29 AM

Europium, a good and nicely simple explanation of problems. May I add some more. A photon is a particle(?) or wave(?) of electromagnetic radiation. Nothing can be recorded on a photon but a series of photons can be used to carry information. Under the proper conditions, this information can be captured on some sort of device, let use say a photographic plate. By transmitting a stream of photons through that plate, a new image of the information recorded can be produced. Should the record been recorded form coherent photons, i.e., laser light of the same wave length, then it can produce what is called a hologram. Then the hologram will produce a 3D image when a coherent stream of photons passing through the record is interfered with by a second stream of photons of the same frequency.

As for detecting photons from space, I would like to refer you to our astronomers. They do this as a matter of course with their numerous devices. They are not observing photons from radio frequencies all the way to cosmic frequencies. They are also continuing to try and find ways to observe even the unknown frequencies of dark matter and dark energy. I even presented a related question a month or so ago when I asked how one can observe a particle, wave, or photon with a velocity greater than the speed of light.

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10/10/2007 11:56 AM

Thanks, but see my post.

Btw, I used to work at McDonald Observatory. The observatory site is in Ft. Davis, TX. I worked at McDonald HQ at the University of Texas in Austin. (Steven Weinberg worked several floors below mine at RLM). I've also made a number of holograms of everyday objects. One is of my Accutron watch as viewed through a magnifying glass! That one, especially, turned out quite well. Remember the Accutron Spaceview?

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10/10/2007 1:14 PM

I don't specifically recall seeing the hologram but I do visit NASA's science sites often. I am specifically looking for the latest and greatest with the plasma rocket turned fusion rocket. I was under the impression they were building a magnetic mirror fusion rocket but the latest I can find is back in early 90's. My guess is that the subsequent work has gone under the cloak of secrecy. I do find some mention and hints in some university papers. It is my understanding that the P+He3 fusion produces copious amounts of electric power as well as mechanical thrust with no neutron radiation to contend with. If this is true, than it could be an interim fusion energy power source right here on earth and well as the launch rocket for very large scale space exploration vehicles. The one fly in the ointment is the lack of He3 on earth but the moon seems to have a plentiful supply which could (can) be minded. I do believe that teh Boron fusion reaction is also being investigated and is also neutron radiation free. In that case, who needs space elevators?

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10/20/2007 5:57 PM

Your whir. Now I know why you communicate with me at all. Sorry I missed this post till now. Seems that you are aware of the site link to the space elevator site.

I am incapable at this point of really understanding equations. P+He3 is not understandable to me.

Is He3 darkmatter?

If the stuff is on the Moon it makes some excuse to go there, since Earth is the best place to be.

Science ficiton and science have proved that outerspace is not a vacation destination. Mars is not a vacation resort or much of a destination at all.

I am for building a support for a brain and mind out of geneticlly modified materials in recognition that some may see this as a heresy. My justification for building a genetically engineered being capable of living on Mars, is that I've suffered in my body and mind being created however it was I was, here on Earth, which is actually deadly for beings that weren't made from here to be here.

The battery discussion and question about simple powerful batteries and then the SepticTank battery, cell, that comes up as a sewage water fuel cell design of Vanter and his company means to me I am in the mindweather.

Last I knew of computers the most powerful would be those that had a liquid filled vessel that made the sort of connections a brain does.

There is a science of Artificial Intelligence, but it is supposed to be "pure" and have no biology,from what I know. The progress in academia has seemed to lead to a fusion of biology and chemistry so as to blur the separations between them.

At this point I am convinced we have the technology, and that my work now is to decide on The Systems to implement the technology.

Hence it is that I am unlikely to ever file or post on this site as a Guest, which may be a member filing anonoymously. - Once you go as far as to endorse the creation of a liquid brain, you have crossed the line.

For us, I have decided that here,the solution for the gobal warming that threatens us, is that we stop burning trees, and oil and whatever else we find around to burn,and go to an urbanized electric infrastructure grid system powered by geothermal, solar and tide scavenged forces.

The effciency of trains and my past with slotcars, combined with my perceptions of the present and the ambitions of individuals in China, plus my love of the Bible and the IChing, recommend power rails and switching junctions for slotcars made big enough to carry me and my family.

The thing to do would to make the anonoymous system that sensed the vehicles movements on the grid, but hid the identity of the vehicles.

The obviating factor in the mix would be the license plate.

Japanese history has two instances of success that I wonder how to apply to the current crisis in civilization and our time. One was the outlawing of firearms that lasted 200 years from the 1300s to the 1500s. The other is the maintainance of their forests.

If you cut down all your trees and destroy your water, your civilization is doomed.

The skew of more powerful weapons in the hands of mercenaries is an issue that now must be more examined and addressed than even when the Japanese outlawed firearms in relation to Weapons of Mass Destruction like the Atomic Bomb.

It is a very sad thing that the two edged sword of Nuclear Power and its corruption as becomes a Bomb, inhibit Nuclear Power so much when humanity actually needs the power to run its infrastructure during this transitional and dangerous time.

Over the long haul nuclear power will always have value in regard to planet protection, but has no value as a war weapon between nations or tribes anymore, even though it did have value during a particular period called The Cold War.

We need Space Elevators since the Space Station is flawed by its stresses on humans in too long weightless conditions.

The calicum losses and other physiological impacts on the body by being weightless are equivalent to being debilitated by something similar to when I fell a story and landed on a slab of concrete.

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10/20/2007 10:01 PM

not even close, He is helium. It's normal isotope is two protons and two neutrons, thus, He4. He3 is two protons and one neutron and is very, very scarce on Earth. However, our Moon expeditions found large quantities of He3. The P is actually Hydrogen without its electron, thus a plasma. It does, under high pressure and temperature, million or more degree, as created with a linear magnetic mirror fuse to produce He4 and many megavolts of energy, far more than our conventional rockets of today. The one beauty of this fusion reaction is that it does NOT produce any high energy Neutrons nor any other residual radiation. In addition, it does produce large amounts of electrical power and would be a major candidate for generating fusion energy here on earth except for the lack of He3.

As for computers, Nanotechnology has taken us to the threshold of quantum computing. In addition, it seems that nanobots are likely to be created that can be injected into a human body and interact with the brain to form a computer-brain interface. Already we have implants that can give hearing to the deaf and sight to the blind. We are at the stage with Nanotechnology and genetics where we can say the cure for cancer is at hand. We are also about to find cures for may other prior non-curable diseases and genetic disorders.

The implementation of the technology is my goal, too, It is the main point of "My Earthbound Space Station" and my scifi novel, "Alien reports" ot tp advance the latest technologies to date that can combat pollution and global warming. Since it seems you have the same goal, why not continue your efforts and when you find something that can help, give it to the world. I have an extensive reading file for science, including Nanotechnology. My principle interest is in Physics but many advances are being made in computer technology and medicine. Take your pick and see where things are going. BTW, NASA Science is one of my reading files.

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10/08/2007 7:15 PM

Some questions for you:

  • What experiment could you devise here on Earth that would convince you one way or the other of the veracity of your concept? Merely thinking about something does not make it so. Are you so easily convinced by your own ideas, or do you want verification?
  • What is the difference between a hologram and a holographic image?
  • A holographic image is a three-dimensional, spacial reconstruction of a wavefront. Can you think of cases where such wavefronts exist naturally and with which you could demonstrate the viability of your concept?
  • One good experiment is worth ten thousand theories. You have been ruminating about this for thirty years and apparently you've not convinced many of the viability of your ideas, yes? Would it, then, be in your best interest to construct the means to actually demonstrate your idea to those whom you wish to convince? Nothing reinforces the veracity of one's ideas better than an honest, working demonstration. So, which is it? Do you wish to argue, or do you wish to convince? The ball's in your court.
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10/08/2007 7:38 PM

laser/maser/direct/light use communication with submarines as successful over low low frequency radio spectrum communications would imply success in inner and outer earth of the photon phased and manipulated concept.

the simplicity of the antenna that in radio turns into a transmitter in passive or active mode implies that the solar panel or solar, light sail reflectivity is a good thing and only is to be understood.

Same as the antenna that receives that can be turned to transmit.

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10/08/2007 7:50 PM

And so you've prepared a convincing demo? As they say, "Show me the money."

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10/08/2007 9:56 PM

As far as my research of the past 3 days, low frequency 30 to 300 hertz communication systems with submarines has been much deactivated, and is currently not the primary way of communicating with submarines.

What the replacement is is not fully known to me, but I would like to believe there is a very good one considering the threat of nuclear armed submarines wandering around out of contact.

In my original post in indicated a past trace of information that would imply that there had been an advance that relegated low frequency communication methods to secondary status.

The implication, is that laser and or maser devices have been created that will carry information with great durablity into earthwater, obviating the need for earth resonate low frequency earth cavatation radio frequency communcation devices.

This also would imply that my concept of photonic phased becons similar to FM radio with laser encoding on photons, was not out of the question.

The "Money" or evidence may well be found in current communication systems for the most dangerous of submarines.

Of course I could be wrong and they may well be traveling around looking for the best time to surface and get a message over the Motorola, or the Harris, but I hope they are able to keep in touch without coming up.

Maybe they are traveling now in predicable paths on the ocean floor where the cables are laid to point transmit.

That would seem consistent with the stupidity we are used to.

I remember when guys were putting GPS in their airplanes, but weren't supposed to use it, as if it was cheating.

It would be cheating to use a compass for Columbus by the same logic.

Anyway.

In my original post I said I had a vision, I felt that you could put an image on a photon, and that I had been arguing about it for years. I also said that the only trace of evidence of my theories as useful was some bit of news that the submarines were being communicated with via laser tech devices.

Diminuation of the Low Freq Com System would imply there was a replacement system, and that is the best I can give right now.

I thank you very much for your interest and thoughts and hope you will continue to argue with me on this subject of encoding photons with images and transmitting and receiving them on long distances or through dense materials.

This might be a bit off topic as far as I understand the concept since a bit of of the political is mentioned. RSD

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10/09/2007 12:09 AM

Okay, but I'm not quite sure from your post how (or why) you are relating ELF submarine communications to the original purpose of this thread, namely impressing a holographic image upon a photon.

Insofar as ELF submarine communications is concerned, electromagnetic waves in the ELF frequency range can travel through the oceans and reach submarines anywhere. Building a ELF transmitter is a formidable challenge, as they have to work at incredibly long wavelengths: The US Navy's system (called Seafarer) operated at 76 Hz, the Soviet/Russian system (called ZEVS) at 82 hertz. The latter corresponds to a wavelength of 3658.5 km. That is more than a quarter of the Earth's diameter. Obviously, the usual half-wavelength dipole antenna cannot be constructed, as it would span the width of a large country.

Instead, one has to find an area with very low ground conductivity (a requirement opposite to usual radio transmitter sites) and bury two huge electrodes in the ground at different sites and feed lines (wires on poles) to them from a station in the middle. Although other separations are possible, 60 km is the distance used by the ZEVS transmitter located near Murmansk. As the ground conductivity is poor, the current between the electrodes will penetrate deep into the Earth, essentially using a large part of the globe as antenna. The antenna is very inefficient. To drive it, a dedicated power plant seems to be required, although the power emitted as radiation is only a few watts. Its transmission can be received virtually anywhere. A station in Antarctica noticed when the Russian Navy put their ZEVS antenna into operation.

Due to the technical difficulty of building an ELF transmitter, only the US and the Russian Navy owned such systems. Until it was dismantled in late September 2004, the American Seafarer system (76 Hz) consisted of two antennas, located at Clam Lake, Wisconsin (since 1977) and at Sawyer Air Force Base near Gwinn, Michigan (since 1980). Before 1977, the Sanguine system was used, placed in the Laurentian Shield in Wisconsin. The Russian antenna (ZEVS, 82 Hz) is installed at the Kola Peninsula near Murmansk. It was noticed in the West in the early 1990s. The British Royal Navy once considered building their own transmitter at Glengarry Forest, Scotland, but the project was cancelled.

ELF Submarine Transmissions (US Navy)

The method employed was a 64-ary Reed-Solomon code, meaning that the alphabet had 64 symbols, each represented by a very long pseudo-random sequence. The entire transmission was then encrypted. The advantages of such a technique are that by correlating multiple transmissions, a message could be completed even with very low signal-to-noise ratios, and because only a very few pseudo-random sequences represented actual message characters, there was a very high probability that if a message was successfully received, it was a valid message (anti-spoofing).

Two facts should be noted: First, the communication link is one-way. No submarine could have its own ELF transmitter on board, due to the sheer size of such a device. Attempts to design a transmitter which can be immersed in the sea or flown on an aircraft were soon abandoned.

Second, on such low frequency, information can be transmitted very slowly, on the order of a few characters per minute (see Shannon's coding theorem). Although the actual codes used are secret (their meaning only - the transmissions can be received all over the world), it is reasonable to assume that no specific orders are given, but rather commands like "come to periscope depth and await orders by satellite radio."

Seafarer's decommissioning implies that other, better systems for submarine communications are now in place and operational. For my part, I've wondered if the USN is modulating power transfer between sections of the US power grid on a predetermined schedule. If so, these signals would easily be detectable by submarines. Friends as far as Finland routinely detect load changes in the US grid, as even the basic US' 60 Hz hum is detectable even from there using only modest ELF gear.

Alternatively, some have suspected that the Alaskan HAARP system is using the ionosphere to generate a signal which then propagates in the Earth-Ionosphere Waveguide. If so, the USN is using one or more of the Schumann resonances occurring at 7.8, 14.3, 20.8, 27.3 and 33.8 Hz for submarine communications.

Of course, other more exotic means may be used to facilitate such communications, though I seriously doubt that laser/maser techniques are used. Laser light simply cannot blanket the globe efficiently, and masers can't be used because microwaves do not penetrate seawater by more than a few meters or, at most, tens of meters. In contrast, ELF radio wavelengths penetrate hundreds to thousands of meters, depending on frequency (the lower the frequency, the deeper the penetration).

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10/09/2007 9:52 AM

Actually, there is a working system for at least one-way communications between satellite and submarine using a blue-green laser. I read the abstract for a two-way version, but I have no idea if that concept or any other exists yet.

The laser communication has been in use for decades, but I have no idea on its limitations.

The correlations that the original poster has claimed seems totally unsubstantiated. I am not well versed on the subject of laser communications, but just because we have technology to encode data on coherent light does not an alien com center make.

Regardless, there is a wide spectrum of electromagnetic radiation from which to choose a communication channel. Far brighter minds than mine have spent exhaustive hours working out possibilities. I am certain that there is yet to be discovered clever methods to encode information for communications. All, and I mean everyone, have the same set of limitations.

First, they are all subject to a transmission speed of that of light.

Second, most are obscure and not something easily picked off. That is good for secretive work, but the whole purpose of contacting, or attempting to contact other worlds, is to be heard!

To that end, many believe that the obvious place to look is at the spectra frequency of hydrogen, the most abundant element known and second only to stupidity.

The next giant hurdle is temporal coordination of signals. The universe has been here for billions of years and we have only been cognizant of it for a few decades. That is a very slim window for which to have two races coincidentally start communications over many light years of space. We don't know how long we will continue to exist as a species, nor do we know ow long other species may reach a point where they are technologically able to broadcast a giant CQ into the void and hang around for an answer.

Personally, with my limited knowledge set, I really believe the limiting factor for extraterrestrial contact is time. The timeline of the universe is incredibly long and civilizations may have long come and gone before we even wake up and realize that we think, therefore we are. Not every civilization starts the race at the same time, if others exist or existed.

Our best hope for contact right now sadly lies on HBO.

I am sorry to rain on your parade, but 30 years of banging your head on the wall should now be taken as a sign. Perhaps you might seek to broaden your knowledge a little more and you might find something more effective to engage yourself into for the next 30 years. Or, at least do so in a more productive fashion. The best investment you can make is in yourself.

I am trying to give you constructive feedback, not be condescending when I recommend that you get more "wetware" programming between the ears.

Good luck.

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Clear seawater is most transparent in the spectral range 460-540 nm, with the minimum occurring at around 490 nm. Still, the seawater penetration depth at these wavelengths is fairly limited. Experiments conducted off the coast of Iceland (where the seawater there typically has a very low turbidity) reveal a 90% absorption rate at only 20 m depth for laser light at 500 nm. The absorption rate at typical submarine operating depths is very nearly 100%, making laser communications via airborne or satellite impractical for all but submarines at periscope depth. Satellite-to-submarine communications can be further complicated by the presence of clouds which completely occlude the signal. Airborne aerosols and other contaminants contribute their part in reducing the SNR, but to a much lesser extent.

At any rate, such communications are practical only for submarines at shallow depths. Typically these submarines have been commanded to periscope depth by other means; typically via ELF radio broadcast.

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10/09/2007 3:50 PM

That may be all so, but that is what they are doing. Search the web. There is a lot of stuff out there, but what the real abilities and limitations are is probably closely guarded.

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10/09/2007 11:32 PM

You said earlier: Actually, there is a working system for at least one-way communications between satellite and submarine using a blue-green laser. I read the abstract for a two-way version, but I have no idea if that concept or any other exists yet.

Is this abstract available on the web or did you find it some other way? I'd be interested in reading the full paper.

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This is what I cited:

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10/10/2007 12:08 PM

Thanks! I may be able to get a copy of the full paper through my account at the university. If so, would you like a copy?

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I looked the abstract up as linked myself and found nothing that I could use, or make heads or tails of. Did you find more, or understand more of what you found? I did note the trail went to Harvard edu, and wondered about that.

My referance to the laser phased communication methods was to buttress my theories concerning photonic encoding using holographic technology for hardy signals.

The most difficult and most dangerous machines to communicate with are nuclear weapon carrying nuclear powered submarines.

Discussions indicate that ELF and underwater cables similar to VOR transmission points are the primary communication technologies for Submarines, plus Grid 76 hertz notes to transition bypassing purpose built technologies.

It is disturbing that I know this and have figured it out, since I'm not that well educated, or that smart.

The good thing is that machines to co-opt the communications and turn assets into threats depends on codes.

The one time pad really better be what my country is using for communicating with my nations most deadly weapons systems.

If the laser communications work two way with submarines to a depth of a reliable 40 feet, then they are right strong in the mix.

My fear as far a nuclear weapon armed submarines is that they would ever be out of touch to two way communications with confirmable codes for who was really saying what as far as orders.

The history of the Maritimes and Navies is a great study since it is certain that Captains did what they did with no instant twoway communications.

My other fear is that the submarines are locatable because they travel to cable node transmission points to keep in two way touch, and are then therefore predictable.

In the jungle, if your schedule is predictable, you are food.

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10/13/2007 2:28 PM

Dear Europium,

I have now re-read your post which I have accepted as most likely concerning submarine communication methods. I was wrong to think that the laser enabled wavelength had much utility with submarines, though if it works two way from even 20 meters, that may be better than surfacing.

The reason I brought the laser commnication methods up was that I had a vague notion that lasers were powerful and were required to make holograms, and wanted to make the hologram on the photon somehow.

In part of this difficult discussion, at least for me, since I am married in my mind for some reason approaching pathological denial that somehow somewhere some thinking being figured out how to transmit 3D images on what feels to me like light itself and that to recieve the images we have to make what they made.

Maybe eventually DVDs and DVD players will be passed back and forth between civilizations through worm holes? I read an article in Scientific American awhile back about the possiblity of Worm Hole Wave Encapsulated Space Ships that could possibly achieve the mythic Warp Drive. -At least that is what I recall of the article, as I understood as much as I could without talking with someone that understood it better than I did, which I suspect is highly likely.

Certainly even if I am forced to recognize the facts and some prospect that what I have envisioned is impossible, it has been a joy to read yours and others writings for both their focus on the possiblity, or impossiblity.

I'll be withdrawing a bit to study. As last thoughts I have wondered how it might be possible to marry darkmatter to matter in a cluster of halfphoton half darkmatter so as to maintain more than matter for the equivalent of film as dark and light turned from the negative in trays that makes the photograph.

Phased and sent in a direction, it might not explode aye?

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10/13/2007 3:26 PM

I'll be withdrawing a bit to study. As last thoughts I have wondered how it might be possible to marry darkmatter to matter in a cluster of halfphoton half darkmatter so as to maintain more than matter for the equivalent of film as dark and light turned from the negative in trays that makes the photograph.

Phased and sent in a direction, it might not explode aye?

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10/13/2007 5:52 PM

I fail to see the light and try as I may, I cannot grasp the dark that surrounds me. The wedding of the two is at a loss.

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10/14/2007 2:01 AM

Dear Trans,

The nature and properties of dark matter are thus far a complete mystery. Dark matter is known only through its gravitational interaction with ordinary matter. Nothing else is known about it, much less knowing anything about how to manipulate it. Dark matter is called "dark" because it does not interact with ordinary matter in any way other than by exerting a gravitational pull on it. Dark matter cannot be seen, doesn't clump together the way ordinary matter does to form stars, planets, etc., doesn't interact with energy (such as light, radio waves, etc.) directly, and is known only by way of its gravitational interaction with ordinary matter.

A little bit about Dark Matter: Dark matter was first "discovered" (inferred, actually. No one has ever detected dark matter directly) when astronomers noticed that galaxies behave as if they are far, far more massive than can be accounted for simply from the ordinary matter that seems to be present in them. It is not known that dark matter as such actually exists, but something is there and that something , whatever it is, appears to account for more than 70% of the known mass of the Universe.

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10/14/2007 10:23 AM

It seems that the latest thought on dark matter is that is is subatomic particles. It seems that there is some evidence to this conception of dark matter. Also, the latest is that the shadow(s) of dark matter have been seen.

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10/15/2007 12:39 AM

Lets call it Dark Matter then if there is evidence of it.

Well, a little twisted, but on topic: 70 percent seems high.

I'd prefer no more than 50or51 percent in a conflict flux so as to shoot through the wormhole the constantly changing stasis of the big universe weather report between us and them fighting time together to encourage each other.

What I prefer may not be.

The topic is how to overcome time and space as limited by the speed of light and coherence for the proposed antenna.

Comes to be discovery of darkmatter and matter halfcombination, or halfcom so that the antenna as a solarpanel will not destroy the energy and the message at the point of contact.

Putting it all into connected boxes that work is upcoming as success, but not done without all who have decided to think about it, and some with some hardware.

Antenna decoder, encoder, box with the pictures and active sender, reciever of holograms protected and exchanged in the dark and matter recip mode are encouraged by evidence of dark matter, which may be light to the other universe beings, who like us are blind to us as we are blind to them because of the opposing physics that are the same only separated by something like time.

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10/15/2007 10:33 AM

If we cannot perceive it, then it is dark to us. We cannot perceive an object with a velocity beyond that of light, thus, such an object is dark to us. If dark matter has a velocity beyond the speed of light, we have no means to detect it, thus, it remains dark matter. If dark matter is parts of an atom, the stuff each neutron or proton, even an electron, is made than we do have ways to detect them. In fact, they have been detected, and thus, they have been perceived. The trick is to determine what dark matter is so that we might perceive it. BTW, the same is true of Dark Energy. Both are called dark because we cannot perceive either, all parts, speed, size, etc., of their character is DARK to us. Studies are underway, but until we know more, all theories about them are nothing more than speculation; the wishful thinking of dreamers and poets.

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10/15/2007 8:04 PM

In this case I am working from a vision, and not a dream, or a hallucination.

Possibly I ought to have put this all in the question category, instead of the discussion category.

My original personal question was "How will we see people from outerspace?"

Since I didn't see them on my TV, and was aware that even though light is right fast, there is a great deal of distance between myself and other creatures that see and talk and dance etcetera.

It is weird to me that light acts like a wave and a particle and slows down going through glass. If it slows down can I speed it up?

Is the speed of light anything like the sound barrier?

Last I knew, it was not.

But Hell, we couldn't even fly at all a hundred and 4 years ago, so maybe there's hope for breaking the light barrier.

What if chemistry and physics were so alined that you could make paintings from subatomic particles and then send them in and out of reverse universes?

Is a wormhole just like a tornado now that we know there are vast vacums where there really isn't anything there? -like a low pressure zone.

Even if we figure out how to make a cluster of holographically encoded photons go through a wormhole and be recievable, is this something that is controlable or directable? Can we direct the signals towards a likely planet?

I did read that there was a band of things in the Galaxy where, in general conditions were recognized as most likely to support beings in any manner similar to us.

Is the Worm Hole like some sort of universal aquifer, or is it a leaping pin prick?

I don't know.

It is something I will study though.

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10/09/2007 11:40 PM

I guess I'm a bit lost in all this. I understand a photon to be a single packet of energy, which I would expect could convey a single point of electromagnetic data. To encode a hologram (which I would expect to contain a myriad number of data points) would require a multiplicity of photons.


What am I missing in this concept?

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10/10/2007 12:07 AM

What am I missing in this concept?

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Nothing, really. You're quite correct. Photons are fundamental elementary particles which obey quantum principles. To speak of impressing a holographic image onto a photon makes about as much sense as saying you're gonna paint the wind. A photon is not like a ball or physical object which can somehow "contain" or "bear the image of" something else. There isn't even a way to say exactly where a photon is at any given moment, let alone its size, for that matter. And we're not talking about wavelength here (rather, coherence length). You're not missing a thing, actually.

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10/10/2007 1:42 AM

Its to bad we don't know how to entangle atoms so we can move them any distance and communicate. That would give real time remote control, no lag time or line of sight issues. Even might lose the traces in circuits.

If you can envision it you can conceive it. Helps to be real flexible though.

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10/10/2007 12:13 PM

Entangled photons are created by a number of sources. Mercury-arc streetlights produce entangled photons in pairs! But I think I know what you mean. It would be nice if we could entangle photons that are already at a great distance from each other. But there still remains the very fundamental problem of using such to actually transmit information. Quantum mechanics so far says 'No!'

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I had thought of clustering and crawling down of the holograms on the photons and then wondered if the antenna, ought to be two part, one reflective, and one receptive as I was digging the ditch.

Overall the reason for looking for a hologram on a photon was my suspicion that it would be a hardy signal.

I do not fully understand the hydrogen spectra since I am not as well educated as the rest of you appear to be.

Possibly it will be of help if I describe the vision that inspired my concept.

Please forgive me, I am primarily a poet.

What the vision looked like was a better than a football, and better than an eggshape, filled with active trapezoid crystallines that together emitted light. Or in otherwords the perfect oval full of life, or souls.

It was as large as anything gets, and as small as anything gets as I saw it and felt it.

Now I am of the opinion that if you have "visions" you might be crazy, one is all I've had and it has changed my life and is a touchstone in my head, or mind, or whatever you want to call consciousness.

I was influenced by Kenneth Knowlton's book Einstein History and Other Passons to continue to think of this sort of stuff since Mr. Knowlton indicated that Einstein had departed from the scientific method and worked from intuition and feeling that was not substantiated at the time.

Two things came out of my vision.

I had two questions. One was how could be prevent Apocalyptic Riot, and how could we see people from outerspace.

The vision over time as I touched it indicated that a country of airports internationally confederated and under the protection of the UN and International Laws would moderate the conflicts enough to to prevent Apocalyptic Riot, or Nuclear War as I used to think of it.

The other was that to see people from outerspace we would need to capture holograms encoded on photons.

To make a nation I am typically enjoined to start a war with someone. In current times who has Disneyland gone to war with? If the Vatican is part of the UN with such status, and I was in charge of Disneyland, I'd be asking for the same status as the Vatican.

As far as seeing people from outerspace on a 3D TV set, it might be important that we insure our survival where we are long enough to make some better recievers than the ones most common in our living rooms.

To all of you who have written to me and each other on this subject I am extremely grateful for your thoughts. The problems of the proper antenna materials for photon hologram transmission and reception etal are apparently understood by you as a crew.

My Pilot hero James Boy once said, when we were trying to fix a DC 4 enough for a freight flight to Puerto Rico with chickens and groceries, "We Are Not Here To Figure Out How Not To Do It."

Most people heard that as, "We Are Hear to Figure Out How Not To Do It."

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10/18/2007 8:55 PM

If part of a solution is possible, and the unknown exists, then that implies that something is unknown that will make the entire solution possible. I have accepted and tried to address the coherance problem as far as my original antenna envisioned as a solar panel, in desperation, going so far as to consider somehow combining darkmatter and matter and a two layer reflectant antenna to feed the decoder/encoder box. I am aware that so far Quantum mechanics says "No". I am aware that what would be nice may not be possible. I am also aware that it may be impossible for us to get to the point of where a black hole is balanced with regular light so as to tap into the acceleration point.

Where I am at as far as creating hardy signals is that it would be good to do since there is some prospect that the speed of light could therefore be overcome similar to the way the speed of sound was overcome.

I have accepted and really didn't think originally that clusters of photons where not part of the answer to the quest.

The wormhole concept of encapsulating the ship in a protective slipstream of all matter and curved time for real realization of the Warp Drive as Roddenberry posited in his Star Trek show, and posited as possible in a Scientific American article, does encourage me to think further of possible solutions to longdistance communications machinery. (I did actually have dinner with Mr. Roddenberry when I was in college. He was very urban and liked girls a lot and based all of his work on Greek Mythology.)

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10/18/2007 9:09 PM

mythology, all of it, is a very interesting study. It is also interesting to draw the comparisons among the different myths, including the old and new testaments.

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10/19/2007 7:24 PM

The St.John Chapter if read as a photographer concerned with light is my favorite.

I had in the course of our discussions about light and overcoming the coherence problem et al, in pursuit of holograms on photons wondered if some of my dreams had nothing to do with me.

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