"Bucky" Terrariums
Sudden idea occurred to me regarding the ongoing need to feed the worlds expanding population, while not depleting the natural world.
Geodesic Spheres (as designed by Buckminster Fuller) - at a certain size become naturally airborne (when in the sun) - due ot their lower internal air pressure (same way a hot air balloon rises).
Might such structures be used as giant Terrariums? In them plants growing Hydroponically (or in some similar method) while the sphere floats above land (or sea).
Doing this would mean no land would be required - so a city (say) might be able to literally feed itself if it chose to invest in such things?*
Now there's a thought.
Interesting to me - anyway (a bit of blue sky thinking - excuse sort of pun - to others maybe)?
* For instance by paying for one to be built - and locating it over an ocean.
Wednesday 12 January 2011
"Bucky" Sphere Electricity
Sphere
A geodesic sphere (as discovered and designed by Buckminster Fuller) a half mile or more in diameter could/would act like a hot air balloon and rise in the air as it warmed in the sun,
So much air within it - the expansion of that air would push such a weight of it out that the sphere would be lighter than the surrounding air and thus rise.*
Habitats was one idea Bucky suggested for these - but another that occurs is:-
If the surface of the sphere was made of Photoelectric (solar) panels then the sphere could simply rise up into where the sun is brightest and then generate power regardless of clouds, etc at lower altitudes
And could still function as habitat - energy on tap - while also providing energy for use on the surface?
A thought - perhaps a bit radical?
Be a neat solution tho!
* If the air pressure thus attained within the sphere was maintained - by valves and so forth - the sphere would stay airborne even when cooled.
A geodesic sphere (as discovered and designed by Buckminster Fuller) a half mile or more in diameter could/would act like a hot air balloon and rise in the air as it warmed in the sun,
So much air within it - the expansion of that air would push such a weight of it out that the sphere would be lighter than the surrounding air and thus rise.*
Habitats was one idea Bucky suggested for these - but another that occurs is:-
If the surface of the sphere was made of Photoelectric (solar) panels then the sphere could simply rise up into where the sun is brightest and then generate power regardless of clouds, etc at lower altitudes
And could still function as habitat - energy on tap - while also providing energy for use on the surface?
A thought - perhaps a bit radical?
Be a neat solution tho!
* If the air pressure thus attained within the sphere was maintained - by valves and so forth - the sphere would stay airborne even when cooled.
Kaluza-Klein Theory
Circling Gravity
Kaluza-Klein Theory -
Theodor Kaluza proposed that there were 5 dimensions (resulting from devpt of relativity theory) -
Oscar Klein then proposed that the 4th spatial dimension (resulting from relativity theory) was curled up as in a circle - which became known as Kaluza-Klein theory.
Then it was noticed that resulting from this theory a new (newly discovered) force seemed to result from this - the additional force being similar to electricity and magnetism.
The allure of Quantum Physics has drawn sciences attention away from this theory -
Apologies for stating the Obvious - Gravity seems to operate in a circular manner (ie round planets/stars/etc) - this is described in Kaluza-Klein theory (is it too simple and boring and obvious for theoretical physicists?).
Proposal - Quantum physics has distracted science from a real and practical Field Effect - the Kaluza-Klein Field effect.
Thing is GRAVITY is the elusive Force.
Physics still grappling with it - using ever more elaborate and abstract theories to try to describe it - and getting nowhere.
Maybe this is because a theory found it and then that theory got swallowed up in the apparent need for a theory of everything (the ole GUT)?
Might it be - that a machine that could generate that Kaluza-Klein force (gravity or not), might be useful for such practical purposes as space travel, protective force fields?
Is it the force that holds galaxies together - instead of "dark matter" and other theoretical things?
Amateur - questioning the geniuses - so I`m aware it won`t get anywhere. But bringing the theories back down to earth - for practical purpose . . . . . Worth a try?
Kaluza-Klein Theory -
Theodor Kaluza proposed that there were 5 dimensions (resulting from devpt of relativity theory) -
Oscar Klein then proposed that the 4th spatial dimension (resulting from relativity theory) was curled up as in a circle - which became known as Kaluza-Klein theory.
Then it was noticed that resulting from this theory a new (newly discovered) force seemed to result from this - the additional force being similar to electricity and magnetism.
The allure of Quantum Physics has drawn sciences attention away from this theory -
Apologies for stating the Obvious - Gravity seems to operate in a circular manner (ie round planets/stars/etc) - this is described in Kaluza-Klein theory (is it too simple and boring and obvious for theoretical physicists?).
Proposal - Quantum physics has distracted science from a real and practical Field Effect - the Kaluza-Klein Field effect.
Thing is GRAVITY is the elusive Force.
Physics still grappling with it - using ever more elaborate and abstract theories to try to describe it - and getting nowhere.
Maybe this is because a theory found it and then that theory got swallowed up in the apparent need for a theory of everything (the ole GUT)?
Might it be - that a machine that could generate that Kaluza-Klein force (gravity or not), might be useful for such practical purposes as space travel, protective force fields?
Is it the force that holds galaxies together - instead of "dark matter" and other theoretical things?
Amateur - questioning the geniuses - so I`m aware it won`t get anywhere. But bringing the theories back down to earth - for practical purpose . . . . . Worth a try?
Higgs Bosun and other (amateur) Quantum musings
Quantum time
If Quantum Particles exist that have no gravity and that are "immune" to Gravity (unaffected by it).
And the evidence seems to be that such Particles do exist.
Then here's a thought/possibility.
Time - according to Relativity - is a function of Gravity/velocity.
A Particle that has no gravity/that is "immune" to Gravity: Will thus exist "outside"/beyond Time.
Such a Particle - if paired/coupled with another (so if it is turned its pair/partner will turn also - will appear to operate impossibly - ie as if it is contravening Relativity -
By seeming to affect its Partner instantaneously (faster than the speed of light) -
But actually - as there is no Time for these (pair of) Particles - it has not gone faster than C.
It only appears that way for those not Immune" to Time.
Or so it seems to me.
Wonder what Dr Brian Cox, or Prof Hawking (or Albert himself) - might make of that?
Now that'd be interesting
Tbc maybe - with some interesting implications ........... Following :-)
Gravity, asks, questions
Light
A particle and a wave
As a wave - existing in the world of time
As a particle at home in the Timeless Realm
An interface between the two
An example of other Forms?
A Particle - travelling without Gravity
Timeless free - wandering
As a Friend seeks travelling companion
The Particle joins and forms the
Fellowship of the Wave
And in this association becomes the Form of Time
In this form - this Gravity
Many things become where the Fellowship can play
Higgs Bosun
Boat Swain is the origin for Bosun
Having been compressed over time
Swain is I guess a sort of Shepherd
Maybe a serendipitously suitable name
The Shepherd
The Particle for which so much energy
Cerebral, electrical and so forth
To find is being expended.
A Particle - the god Particle some have called it
Here's a thought -
Was it the first -
There from the beginning,
At Universe birth.
A Particle so hard to find
Is this because it is not in time?
Immune to Time -
Might it be, that Higgs Bosun is literally unique?
Around from the first - just tootling around
How may Bosuns needed to be all places eternally?
One is all that's needed
Every place a different co-ordinate
For the Timeless time is geography, simply another co-ordinate
The Bosun moving through Universe
Every place is visited - Timeless
Present in all places - as if simultaneously
Nothing more simple - each place a different time
Eternally present - everywhere
One is the many
Its Now is all eternity - Present in all locations.
(This post was also written out previously and then when published all but the title lost. Not sure of this retelling, but I've hopefully recaptured the gist)
Point being - if 1 Particle originally existed and if it exists in a reality not seperated by Time, then this 1 particle could conceivably be present at all times in all places without contradicting logic or known laws. The One that is the Many - omnipresent from the perspective of those seperated by/in time.
And from this Particled perspective its experience of Now comprising all places at all times.
Now
In the Timeless Realm -
For a Particle immune to Time -
What is Now?
Experiencing it the same as anyone?
Unaware of Time -
To us its Now
Might seem as Everything/Eternally?
Ordinary to itself - Mu is bigger Now
Clapping
In time
And when not in time
How many hands needed
To make a Sound?*
*from a time - separated - perspective
In the world of appearances (not experiences?)?
Participation
Now - is it created by the Timeless?
The Particle - that is not of time - that is always in Now -
Who's Now is everything / eternally
To Experience -
That Eternal - by sharing the Now
That it is Creating -
Always - left, right, up and down - in all and every direction.
Participating in its Experience - by Experiencing Now
One Now - for everyone -
Made by one -
Tiny, tiny (smaller than the smallest seed) -
Be-ing
(Possibly - or so seems to me, in all my fallibility, weakness and failure - and so I learned from my next of kin, in my " apparent" life that all colleagues apparently hated me in my last workplace. If only they had told me I mebbe could have learned what I could do to improve relations. Though the exclusion that foisted upon me - well one of those things you have to live with).
If Quantum Particles exist that have no gravity and that are "immune" to Gravity (unaffected by it).
And the evidence seems to be that such Particles do exist.
Then here's a thought/possibility.
Time - according to Relativity - is a function of Gravity/velocity.
A Particle that has no gravity/that is "immune" to Gravity: Will thus exist "outside"/beyond Time.
Such a Particle - if paired/coupled with another (so if it is turned its pair/partner will turn also - will appear to operate impossibly - ie as if it is contravening Relativity -
By seeming to affect its Partner instantaneously (faster than the speed of light) -
But actually - as there is no Time for these (pair of) Particles - it has not gone faster than C.
It only appears that way for those not Immune" to Time.
Or so it seems to me.
Wonder what Dr Brian Cox, or Prof Hawking (or Albert himself) - might make of that?
Now that'd be interesting
Tbc maybe - with some interesting implications ........... Following :-)
Gravity, asks, questions
Light
A particle and a wave
As a wave - existing in the world of time
As a particle at home in the Timeless Realm
An interface between the two
An example of other Forms?
A Particle - travelling without Gravity
Timeless free - wandering
As a Friend seeks travelling companion
The Particle joins and forms the
Fellowship of the Wave
And in this association becomes the Form of Time
In this form - this Gravity
Many things become where the Fellowship can play
Higgs Bosun
Boat Swain is the origin for Bosun
Having been compressed over time
Swain is I guess a sort of Shepherd
Maybe a serendipitously suitable name
The Shepherd
The Particle for which so much energy
Cerebral, electrical and so forth
To find is being expended.
A Particle - the god Particle some have called it
Here's a thought -
Was it the first -
There from the beginning,
At Universe birth.
A Particle so hard to find
Is this because it is not in time?
Immune to Time -
Might it be, that Higgs Bosun is literally unique?
Around from the first - just tootling around
How may Bosuns needed to be all places eternally?
One is all that's needed
Every place a different co-ordinate
For the Timeless time is geography, simply another co-ordinate
The Bosun moving through Universe
Every place is visited - Timeless
Present in all places - as if simultaneously
Nothing more simple - each place a different time
Eternally present - everywhere
One is the many
Its Now is all eternity - Present in all locations.
(This post was also written out previously and then when published all but the title lost. Not sure of this retelling, but I've hopefully recaptured the gist)
Point being - if 1 Particle originally existed and if it exists in a reality not seperated by Time, then this 1 particle could conceivably be present at all times in all places without contradicting logic or known laws. The One that is the Many - omnipresent from the perspective of those seperated by/in time.
And from this Particled perspective its experience of Now comprising all places at all times.
Now
In the Timeless Realm -
For a Particle immune to Time -
What is Now?
Experiencing it the same as anyone?
Unaware of Time -
To us its Now
Might seem as Everything/Eternally?
Ordinary to itself - Mu is bigger Now
Clapping
In time
And when not in time
How many hands needed
To make a Sound?*
*from a time - separated - perspective
In the world of appearances (not experiences?)?
Participation
Now - is it created by the Timeless?
The Particle - that is not of time - that is always in Now -
Who's Now is everything / eternally
To Experience -
That Eternal - by sharing the Now
That it is Creating -
Always - left, right, up and down - in all and every direction.
Participating in its Experience - by Experiencing Now
One Now - for everyone -
Made by one -
Tiny, tiny (smaller than the smallest seed) -
Be-ing
(Possibly - or so seems to me, in all my fallibility, weakness and failure - and so I learned from my next of kin, in my " apparent" life that all colleagues apparently hated me in my last workplace. If only they had told me I mebbe could have learned what I could do to improve relations. Though the exclusion that foisted upon me - well one of those things you have to live with).
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