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Our objective is to share ideas and experiences and to stimulate thought. It is up to the reader to "get lost" in a book - any book. Most often, there will be resistance, because it is human nature to resist change, or ideas -- or at least that's the way it was before television. If a book theme happens to agree with the readers' state of mind and personal philosophy, the rapport will be immediate and the pleasure, assured. If, as it often happens, the content is unexpected, arcane, contrary to "preset reckoning," or too intense, it may take time to overcome a natural resistance before accepting.
Multiverses (The Calling, Odyssey)
Reference to parallel worlds or multiverses (multiple universes) was relegated to the realm of science fiction, the occult, or lunacy. It has recently become much easier for scientists to speak up in these terms without being subjected to ridicule. We owe it to the emergence of the string theory.
String theory aims to describe nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a tiny point in space, but as a loop of vibrating string. A string can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty. A tuning fork sounds harsh because it produces a pure tone rather than the higher overtones that a piano or violin can give. These overtones also give music its richness and beauty.
In the case of the string, it oscillates in many different forms like a piano string does. String theory interprets different forms of vibration as different elementary particles. Quarks, electrons, photons are different forms of vibration of the same basic string.
With our present understanding, there is nothing more basic than the string, however, the newer versions of the theory also describes membrane-like objects that are called branes .
Branes (Odyssey)
A brane is like a slice through the higher dimensional world that string theory says exists. "Perhaps the particles that we're made of and the forces that hold us together might be living on one of these branes?" asks Joe Lyyken (Fermi Lab). "In a sense we might be trapped on one of these walls on a slice in the higher dimensional world of string theory"
This idea is known as the brane-world hypothesis. It's not something that anyone has been able to explain in great detail, but the concept is consistent with the mathematical calculations and understanding of the string theory.
The matter we see around us is made of open-ended strings, with its ends attached to the 3-dimensional membrane of our universe.
Gravitons, "G," on the other hand, are closed-loop strings, as shown on the illustration to the right. In String Theory, gravitons are able to migrate to other branes. One of our works, "Odyssey," still in early conceptual stages, lives this near- future "reality".
Law enforcers in Unde Bou's world refer to this illegal practice as "jadding" - jumping across dimensions.
Broadbent's 1958 Filter Theory (The Calling)
Microbot Technology (Getting It)
Unamuno, Kierkegaard, and Existentialism (Getting It)
VCASS (The Kids, Odyssey)
Vibroacoustic Disease (The Calling)
Mind-Body Concept: The conventional notion assumed that "The mind" resided in the brain, from where it directed thoughts, emotions and voluntary actions, while the non-cognitive functions were handled by the autonomic nervous system and the obscure workings of the subconscious mind. More recent thought and study is returning the western concept of mind with ancient beliefs and Eastern practices that expand the mind-body concept to a much wider area, down to the level of the synaptic vesicle, the neurotransmitters within - and beyond our body boundaries.
Hypnosis (The Calling, Getting It, Odyssey)
Hermetism
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