Myths that Will Not Die

We have a lot on our plates today.  The academy awards are tonight.  Of course a lot of movies, even good ones of a historical nature are above all "Out to tell a good Story" which is what Tim Rice said about Jesus Christ Superstar.  You look at movies line "Lincoln" which omits any reference to Fredrick Douglas, or "Zero Dark Thirty" which appears to glorify torture to gain information- - - or others such as "JFK" or "Wall Street" or "Apocralipse Now" and thest movies too are basically out to "Tell a good story and so things have to be inserted that are perhaps of a non historical nature.  I don't know if we would have it any other way.  Perhaps of all the historical movies- - Schlinder's Life comes to portraying "things as they really were".  This is what Stu Sutcliffe believes, who was pre incarnate pre walk in as a member of the Nazi party then, and knows about their beaurocracy.  We have one of what in my oppinion is one of the four major auto races in this country.  That would be the Daytona 500.  The other three would be the Long Beach Grand Prix, the Detroit Grand Prix and the Indy 500.  There was a major chain reaction crash at the Daytona race track where the lead car tried to cut off the driver next to him from pulling ahead by going over into his lane.  That seems patently unsportsmanlike to me.  It caused a major crash involving about ten cars and injured about thirty people in all, many of whom were spectators as debris flew off into the stands.  But all of the drivers were all-right, and presumably all of them will be racing today.  Today is also George Harrison's birthday.  

You know I have thought a lot about about this Sequester of funds thing - - and prayed about it, which you don't often hear me say - - and I am convinced now that fears of disaster are way over-blown.  It may be that the Republicans are right on this one and that the President is just grandstanding and fear mongering, pointing to the worst that could happen.  But as Pete Richards said a few weeks ago "These people have so much extra slush money it'd be a long time before they genuinely missed any of it".  The fact is if you make a deal, you should honor it.  And you really shouldn't make a deal you honestly don't intend in some part of your mind - to follow through with.  It's kind of like "Never point a gun at anybody unless you intend to use it".  So we hear about destroyers not being built or head start kids languishing- - or air traffic controlors being laid off and planes crashing.  You know- - the Executive Branch still has an awful lot of inherent power to control the distribution of funds.  So everybody just chill out.  Everything's going to be all right.  The fact is they started out talking about a ten percent cut.  Then it was eight.  The figures I'm hearing now are three or four.  Anybody can live with that and we've endured a whole lot worse in California.  I've endured a whole lot worse.  

George Harrison was born at midnight between February 24th and February 25th.  I have refigured my own (real birthday) to be March 3rd.  Oddly this is the day of one of those Zachery mericals where a dead tree stump- - it had been dead for the eleven or so months I had lived there- - and now it butted new growth.  Some might say "well was there were rain".  We got rain in May of 1976 and the tree stump didn't bud new growth then.  I had a reason for picking February 25th before I even knew it was also George Harrison's birthday.  There is a story my Mom told me on my 42nd birthday in 1992 that in the remote mists of my mind I remember her telling a neurologist I went to in the fifth grade.  I remember filling out the form and there was a thing of "Do you smoke more than three packs of cigarettes a day" and I was thinking "Nobody could Possible do that".  There was another about do you ever get up at night to urinate, and my Mom said 'Just mark that one No".  I remember telling the doctor "I'm a little dirty".  I hadn't bathed but come directly from school.  And my Mom told this same "yarn" about having a perfectly full sized birth on Newyears Eve - - and things were fine.  But lo and behold "nine weeks later" they said "there is something wrong with his eyes".  Yeah, you and Mia Farrow.  And suddenly I was under-developed - - requiring hospitalization - - and the doctors came out with the notice that I would be both blind and severely mental retarded.  Where do they come up with this stuff?  Another Ziggy meracle was the plant miracle.  We had gone off on a trip and Larry was in charge of keeping things watered during a heat wave- - but of course he didn't.  But lo and behold you go into the room Zachery had formerly lived in - - the one with the yellow jungle animal wallpaper  ("Bungle in the Jungle' anyone?)  suddenly the plants had grown and radiated lush and verdent health.  I was flabberghasted.   As an aside they are playing a lot of good George Harrison songs- - many are fractured mash-ups from the "Love' album, and they did play "Cracker-box Palace".

Before we slip into the last paragraph and too many of you nod off in comotose boredom, we have some updates for you.  The LA Lakers beat the Dallas Mavoricks 103 to 99 in a vital road victory.  When it comes to George Harrison day on Breakfast with the Beatles, I didn't hear a bad song all morning.  I would suggest that "All Things Must Pass" would sound a whole lot better if they put out a version without all of the reverb.  Around here I had a psychic impression of spaghetti for lunch before even looking at the posted menu or hearing from anyone.  I turned out to be right.  Relations with Janet have improved remarkably from the absolute Low they hit just about a year ago this week.  She had become quite generous with her resources.  Today she gave me a big cup of - instant - coffee for free and sold me a pack of Swiss Miss for a dollar on credit - - with six packets in it.  If you had to buy so much as one serving out at the bakery or something - - you know how much that would cost.  Relations with Loretta Hill have also thawed finally from the Low they were at last March.  At least she is civil tword me now- - if not exactly warm and fuzzy.  I get to go to the ATM early Friday morning and hopefully Sarah will delay the Wall Mart trip till Friday- - so I can go with them and save eight or even twelve dollars- - I kid you not, and those aren't small potatoes around here.  Dr. Oz says they have a new term for the CO Q 10 enzyme now called "Ubiquinal", which almost seems like a name a doctor would tell small kids to impress them, but apparently it's the real thing.

Let's talk about myths that will not die.  I'm talking about Newton's 2061 end of the world myth where according to his calculations - or so I had once thought - all the laws of gravity would be suspended.  I took this to mean that something happens to the aether that pervades all of space.  But then I read on line somewhere that Newton got this from people studying the Bible and that the whole 2061 date was myth based.  There was one Star Trek I believe that placed Zepherin Cochrin's pioneering in space on the date of 2061, the guy that first invented the warp drive, or was the first Captain to pilot a starship with warp drive anyhow.  This is another of those things I've "thought - - and prayed about".  As you know like that perverbial Mountain in that Donavin song- - first there is an event horizon - - then is no event horizon -  and then there Is.  Let me ask you one question.  How many quotes from Federation people or Stu or whoever- - have you heard from me on the existance of Black Holes.  I'll make it easy for you.  There has virtually never been any talk about Black Holes.  They don't exist in Our World.  But then there is the whole hyperbolic world where an identical object can both Exist and Not Exist at the same time.  Logicians would say it has to be one or the other.  Perhaps.  I told you that something can have an Objective or Absolute Reality - - and lack a provable quantifiable reality.  Let's suppose a car were coming tword you on the freeway at ninety miles an hour and was due to run you over - at night - a few seconds later.  Who would see the headlights more vividly - you or a car a quarter mile away piering through his rear view mirror?   This is a strange thing about how aether works in that Reality is truely in the Eye of the Beholder.  If something comes Tword- - you with hyper light speed - - you don't see it and in keeping with the "What you see is what you get" theory about gravity ether waves - - there is really no way even a physicist can quantify it with his measuring devices.  BUT if you are moving the Same Direction - - Away from that location and AS the speeding object at roughly the same speed - - the speeding object will be in That person's event horrizon but YOU as the so called "stationary" observer will not even be seen as a blur because YOU will be seen as the guy who is breaking light speed.  So it's a case of "Is this MY space or Yours?  It was some time about four or five years ago that I stated that "Black Holes mathematically cannot exist".  But now I've brought back the event horizon, if not Black Holes.  But we do believe in Neutron Stars.  Moe Kelly was talking about Geometry and I was going to do a major lecture on what people Don't know about Geometry.  I told you for instance that anything that can be broken down in ninety degree angles - - or a ninety degree trig type triangle - - CAN well and easily have its Volume computed.  I told you about that racecar (or speeding trains) BASIC program - - where the computer on its own extrapelated to negative space and negative time with absolutely no problem.  With drawn parabolas - - the TIME value could be stated as Zero at the crest of the parabola.  Move the TIME value and you move the crest. Many times in solid geometry it's useful to visually extrapelate - - objects or lines that Aren't there - or are in some different form - - - as though they Were there.  In the blackness of space it's easy for one to lose his bearings.  In flying aircraft it's important for you to look at your horizon indicator.   Stuff like the "Odd man out" theory - - that is an optical illusion.  We have spoken of the four random white dots in the blackness of space and one of them "looks' out of place, but the trouble is you can make JUST as convincing an argument that any of the other three stars are out of place.  This what I call the "odd Beatle out' theory- - which the Beatles themselves have discussed.  You know that no matter what angel a chord (line) enters a perfect Circle at- - that it will Exit that circle at precisely the Same angle - - never more and never less.  You know if you shave off a stick of butter at the corner- - what you will see is a triangle face.  You learn in Sketch of the "value of flat faces" and knowing When you can be assured of having a "flat face".  People say that the outer part of Black Holes spin a whole lot.  Water spins clockwise as it goes down the drain.  But if you look UP at a Low pressure system - - or "Down" into the upward vortex- - this too from your angle of perception would also be clockwise.  So it's silly to say that "orbits always go counter-clockwise" because it just depends on which SIDE of the thing you are looking at.  Most likely there would be no "spinning' at all.  In fact it could be argued that under General as opposed to Special relativity - - this whole "shrinking space interval" thing is Real, which is to say it is not Recriprical - - which is just a tea party code word anyhow.  (he said only slightly in jest) So why does space "shrink".  Be glad to tell you.  Because of the "accelerating elevator analogy" of - - - the Black Hole if it's there - - would accelerate ANYTHING near it to beyond light speed with reference to an onlooker.  We said this can't happen (at least with approaching light.  Receding light has its own backward illusion world we've covered before)  Or put another way the G force of the Black Hole would be so great as to necessitate an acceleration that would be hurrendus.  But you people already knew that.  Here's two thoughts I had that might be useful to you here.  As we said above the question is "Is it MY space or Your space - because we seem to share it.  Because in MY space - - since I'm not being yanked into an eternity (Lennon and Bowie might way "wanked into eternity") then as far as I'm concerned YOU aren't even in MY world.  (as we showed earlier)  The other thought I had was this.  If I draw a horizontal line on a black board and railroad tracks going out to Infinity - - if I'm an imaginary person on that train then I'm headed down the road forever and never reaching eternity.  But if I'm the school teacher- - that intersection point of the three lines - - is just a localized and foxed point - - and no more.  So it's strictly a case with Black Holes it seems to me is "You think there is an Eternity of space - - but it's all in the eye of the beholder- - thanks again to the NON recriprical nature of General Relativity.  However normally things aren't that extreme.  Things collapse into a neutron star.  You know them.  One of those "holes" or indentations in the green golf course gravity grid.  I've always wondered that is Hydrogen fusion is lime crushing nucleai - - for a major Nuclear Reaction - - why wouldn't such explosions occur under the enormous pressure of Neutron Stars?  I don't know.  I'm just asking questions here.