Love Story: In The Web of Life (36 page)

He steps back and says, 'The p's are momentum:
if the mass isn't moving we can make those zero and then reduce the
equation to:

E=Mc
²

Who will ever do anything with that?" he
questions.

The commentator returns and says, "That's the
way Physics and Mathematics are. People create or discover things
that may not be of much use in their time. Sometimes much later it
gets used. Remember, in 1905 when Einstein came up with this famous
formula, most people rode in horse-drawn buggies and the airplane
had not been invented.

"Now, we will address another idea that was way
before its time, higher dimensional spaces, specifically
Minkowski's eight–dimensional spaces. We will let Geroiamo help out
in the explanation."

We see Professor Minkowski in his academic
robes speaking before a class, and drawing on a
blackboard."

"Let me introduce you to an eight-dimensional
concept of spacetime. The first four dimensions are those of common
experience. We can have one dimension of front-back, one of
left-right, one of up-down, and another for time that could be
before-later.

"Let me illustrate with this three-dimensional
checkerboard."

Professor Minkowski goes over to a structure
that is four 8 x 8 regular checkerboards, one above the other,
separated by plastic legs.

He places a black checker piece at the corner
of the bottom board and says,

"Here, we have a three dimensional space. For
now, we will let velocity equal zero. The piece can move forward or
back, let me call that
x
,
right or left, let me call that
y
, or up or down, let me call that
z
. Let's call this corner the zero
of all dimensions. Now, I will move this piece up four, to the top
layer, forward four spaces, and left four spaces. It is now at z=4,
y=4, x=4. How do we figure out how far the piece has moved from the
zero corner?"

Pythagoras appears in his toga from the side of
the stage. He says," All you have to do is use my theorem." He
writes on the blackboard:

(d)
²
=
(x)
²
+
(y)
²
+
(z)
²
+
(vt)
²
=
16+16+16+0=48

Minkowski produces a calculator from his pocket
and says,"
d
equals the square
root of 48 that is 6.93. If we had moved the whole checkerboard
structure through the time dimension such that vt=1, then d would
be 7 even."

"In these four dimensions, shown here, all of
what you might think of as normal physics taught in our k-12
schools applies."

Minkowski then places another set of four
checkerboards, made out of clear plastic, on top of the other four,
with the zero corner located where the piece is at 4,4,4. He says,
"Here, we are adding four mote dimensions that start from where the
piece is in after moving in the first four. Since we used our
normal four dimensions in the bottom checkerboards, we have to use
imaginary numbers here."

Geroiamo walks in from the side of the stage
and says, "Don't worry about the idea of imaginary numbers: they
are simply another kind of numbers that are convenient for
mathematicians."

Minkowsky continues, "The physical piece, here
at location x=4, y=4, z=4, can't move into the imaginary space.
That is the law of physics. However, information about the piece
can move into all eight dimensions. It can be up here in the
imaginary space at ix=4, iy=4, iz=4."

The commentator returns to say, "Here, we have
to say that this is a new theory. To prove Pythagoras' theorem, all
we have to do is go out and measure a bunch of triangles and see
whether it worked. We know that Einstein's
E=Mc
²
idea behind all our
nuclear power plants. Later, we will show you examples of how
information travels in eight–dimensional space."

Minkowski returns and continues,

"If our physical piece is at location x=4, y=4,
z=4, and has eight-dimensional information about the piece at
coordinates of the x=4, y=4, z=4, ix=4, iy=4, iz=4 and t=it=0 (so
we don't have to bother with time here) the information then, we
can calculate the information distance between the zero corner (on
the bottom checkerboard)."

Then, Pythagoras reappears and says, "We can
use the eight-dimensional form of my formula." He writes his
formula mumbling to himself:

(d)
²
=
(x)
²
+
(y)
²
+
(z)
²
+
(vt)
²
+
(ix)
²
+
(iy)
²
+
(iz)
²
+
(ivt)
²

He says, "Since we are letting t=0.we can
rewrite this as:

(d)
²
=
(4)
²
+
(4)
²
+
(4)
²
+
(0)
²
+
(i4)
²
+
(i4)
²
+
(i4)
²
+
(0)
^2
"

Geroiamo jumps up and says, "Since
(i)
²
=-1,

(d)
²
= 16 +
16+ 16
−16 −16 −16 = 0 "

Minkowski returns and says, "The
eight-dimensional information distance between the starting square
on bottom checkerboard and the physical piece is zero."

Einstein returns and says," When I first
learned about all of this I was a little tyke, when the words
Pythagoras and hypotenuse were beyond me. My uncle, Herman who
lived a few miles away, explained it this way:

To get to my house from your house, you have to
go down the highway for four miles, turn left on the crossroad and
go three miles, and there you are. Or, you could not go by the road
and take the shortcut across the field directly from your house to
my house. You calculate how long the shortcut is by squaring the
distances on the two roads adding them up and taking the square
root. 42+ 32= 25=52. The shortcut to my house is 5
miles.

I like the word shortcut better than
hypotenuse."

Minkowski says, "I agree, lets not confuse
people. Let's call the distance the shortcut distance."

The commentator returns and says, "What does
all this complicated mathematics mean? It means that, in
eight-dimensions there is a zero-distance information shortcut from
the corner square to where the checker started to where it is on
the fourth level. If you were at the starting square and wanted to
know some information about the physical piece (if it is heads-up
or heads-down) The information could come through the
shortcut.

"You don't need to care about or understand all
these mathematics. You do need to know that a valid, scientific,
paradigm exists for the many kinds of information shortcuts we use
and observe.

"We all have something I call the 'Magic Mirror
of The Mind.' In fairy tales, some witches, or sorcerers have magic
mirrors that they can command to get information for them. You
remember, 'Mirror-mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them
all.' Well, the one we all have is more limited. We can say, 'What
did I have for breakfast," and our Magic Mirror of The Mind makes
an information shortcut in spacetime, from where you are now, to
when and where you were having breakfast You might think it is a
memory stored somewhere in your brain, but it isn't. Scientists
with their MRIs can pinpoint areas in the brain active when you try
to recall breakfast. However, they have not found any area that has
the possibility of storing all the zillions of bits of information
you can recall. This is a new idea so there is not much research on
this yet because we think it is simply memory. This idea does not
fit the current scientific paradigm.

"Conventional scientists such as physicists,
engineers, chemists, medical researchers, and others who believe
that reductionist science has all the answers, are reluctant to
believe that any psychic phenomenon can be valid, because it
doesn't fit any scientific paradigm that they know. They would have
heard many anecdotal tales of people experiencing psychic
phenomena, but will dismiss it as superstition, ignorance, or lack
of education. Many will present an angry response to the mere
mention of the idea."

The film now shows interviews of a few people
who report of their own psychic experiences.

The first interviews are with people who made
changes in their routines, for no special reason, and avoided
accidents. They had a premonition.

One is an executive who refused to board an
airliner because of his visions of it crashing. The airliner did
crash on takeoff, and everyone was killed;

A second clip is a housewife who, for no
apparent reason, decided to pick her daughter up at school. The
school bus that her daughter would have ridden was hit by a drunk
driver and several children were badly injured.

A third clip is of a farmer who related that,
on his way home from town he decided to take an alternate route,
that he never used, past a lake. As he arrived at the lake, he saw
a car with a woman and child go off a bridge and plunge into the
water. He was able to save them.

This is followed by an extended clip of
experiments at SRI with people remote sensing targets in the
Stanford area.

The commentator returns. He is talking in front
of a slide show of people in laboratories involved in psychic
research. He says:

"Many university laboratories have done
experiments with psychics and other people to test the ability to
perceive things in spacetime. Little of that research is highly
valued in the academic community. Largely these studies document
and make statistics about observable psychic phenomena, stuff that
simply happens, that has no scientific basis. It falls into the
same general category of studies of UFO sightings. If there is no
scientific basis, the subject can be ignored by the scientific
community at large. This scientific response is as though science
is an ostrich, hiding its head in a four-dimensional
sand."

The movie ends with a picture of an ostrich
with its head in the sand.

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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR

Ken Rnshaw was Chief Scientist and Marketing
Manager at a company that manufactured communications satellites.
His job was to sell commercial satellites to companies like
AT&T and its foreign counterparts.

The trouble with selling satellites is nobody
can see them.

All he had to sell were the beliefs about
satellites we could build. His real job was being a "peddler of
beliefs" to very technical customers.

He made a lifelong study of recognizing the
beliefs and patterns in peoples' lives. This led him to write a
book,
"The Secret of Your Life Script"
about how
beliefs make the same things happen to us over-and-over.

Then, he tackled a really big belief. He always
had certain secret psychic abilities (which were most useful in
business) that he could never talk about in the presence of other
scientists. He set out to create a scientific explanation of ESP
phenomena. The product of all this thinking is the book,
"
Science, Remote Viewing and ESP: Beyond Einstein's
Horizon.
"

He decided that we are entangled in a psychic
web of life that guides our everyday existence. He shows this in
this novel,
"Love Story: In The Web of Life."

For more background on Ken Renshaw visit his
site
www.renshaw.info

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