Nov 15, 2011
Mankind has failed the test of responding logically to the Creator’s gift of fossil fuel.
The consequences of this failure will consist of a mass extinction of the population count and severe cutback in lifestyle of the human species.
Before the appearance of Homo sapiens God had taken on the task of energy management himself. In the broadest sense, it is the optimum allocation of resources and the creation of checks and balances among all life forms, vegetable and animal, which allow an harmonious flow of millions of different living lifelines in parallel.
The preparation for the creation of human beings was conceived at the beginning of life creation. The Creator had always intended to transfer the management of energy flow and checks and balances on Earth to humans who were created in His likeness in the power of the mind, not physiological similarity. Mankind has no clue yet as to the nature and numerical count of God. This is not important, and we may picture God as a single human-like being, a group of three personalities, or an infinite collection of viruses, or EIP (External Intelligence Phenomenon) as I have proposed. It is important to realize the pictured image of God is only for the ease of communications, not in fact.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Getting To The Root Cause
The fossil fuel experiment, which is a one-time-only affair, challenges human judgement in what is possible and what is impossible. There had been much folly in attempts to build a perpetual motion machine, an anti-gravity device, and communicating with the dead, etc. At the highest level, Clausius' statement of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is about an impossibility.
In today's crisis-ridden world, human behavior can become sane and rational again by stating the impossible in explicit and understandable terms.
In today's crisis-ridden world, human behavior can become sane and rational again by stating the impossible in explicit and understandable terms.
- Eternal life for human individuals, either in the Christian afterlife format or the Buddhism previous life format is impossible. But God's design is eternal (up to the burn out of the sun in our solar system) by extending life in new genetic combinations of the DNA from parents. Isn't His scheme better?
- The bubble economy of the last two decades in the world is caused by people trying to do the impossible--increasing energy supply to meet the demand of the boundless appetite in lifestyle and population count. The correct conduct is to live within the energy supply that the Jehovah Cycle can produce.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Nature's Laws vs Man-made Laws (II)
In creational science the most important laws of nature are the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics. The First Law defines quantitatively the equivalence between units of heat and units of work. But this is incomplete. We must distinguish between high intensive heat whose work equivalence is destructive, and the weak units of heat used by God in the design of water-based life which is constructive and capable of self-propagation. The Jehovah Cycle which I flow-charted in this blog (July/2010) uses sunlight 8 light-minutes away, not at the sun's surface. Thus life must proceed at its own leisurely pace. In my book, I pointed out that the Creator probably made a feasibility study such that the time required to create Homo sapiens on planet Earth could occur before the burn-out of the sun.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics can be stated in many ways. I choose the following by Clausius: It is impossible for a self acting machine working in a cycle process without any external force, to transfer heat from a body at a lower temperature to a body at a higher temperature. The important point that demands notice is that this basic law is stated in a negative sense, to define what is outside of the domain of desirable result by whatever action a designer may have dreamed up. It is a limit, or constraint in the real physical world. In the next installment, I want to point out that mankind's response to the discovery of fossil fuels, while highly beneficial in numerous aspects, also contains doubly impossible pursuits of greed and selfishness.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics can be stated in many ways. I choose the following by Clausius: It is impossible for a self acting machine working in a cycle process without any external force, to transfer heat from a body at a lower temperature to a body at a higher temperature. The important point that demands notice is that this basic law is stated in a negative sense, to define what is outside of the domain of desirable result by whatever action a designer may have dreamed up. It is a limit, or constraint in the real physical world. In the next installment, I want to point out that mankind's response to the discovery of fossil fuels, while highly beneficial in numerous aspects, also contains doubly impossible pursuits of greed and selfishness.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Nature's Laws vs Man-made Laws (I)
The first step in understanding why mankind has blundered into a bad decision is to recognize the difference between a law of nature and a law written by men. In fact, it is a mistake in the language to use the same word "law" in these basically different applications. The original use of the word refers to rules of conduct of a community as it advances into higher grounds of civilization. Because knowledge comes to men in stages, it is to be expected that early laws may contain incorrect rules due to insufficient knowledge of the truth before the truth is discovered. This progressive modifications of the rules of proper conduct can be highly beneficial. On the other hand, we are all aware of the evils of stubborn law makers who cling to outdated judgment rulings just because once upon a time it was accepted.
A law of nature can exist for all times without human knowledge. Only the most talented researcher in science or engineering have a chance to discover or formulate one such law at a time, after careful observation and measurements. Sometimes the concept requires very advanced understanding of higher mathematical physics, beyond the knowledge of political or business leaders in a nation. Under these circumstances, a decision maker may easily decide to take a pathway in violation of a basic law of nature--with disastrous results.
A law of nature can exist for all times without human knowledge. Only the most talented researcher in science or engineering have a chance to discover or formulate one such law at a time, after careful observation and measurements. Sometimes the concept requires very advanced understanding of higher mathematical physics, beyond the knowledge of political or business leaders in a nation. Under these circumstances, a decision maker may easily decide to take a pathway in violation of a basic law of nature--with disastrous results.
Monday, September 5, 2011
My Effort to Close Out this Blog Before the End of 2011
Time is precious to the elderly. While my life may exist medically beyond this year, the clear thinking mind that I possess is fading fast. By posting this publicly I am, figuratively speaking, forcing myself to walk the plank--do it now, or never.
The thought that I have today is the following: mankind is in the midst of an experimental test of epochal significance. This test, conceived by the Creator, is to observe and determine mankind's response to the free gift of fossil fuels.
In spite of the seriousness of the consequences of this decision, a decision to spend it all, as fast as possible, without debate or discussions, was lightly agreed to by the world leadership--we can't even say when! It just happened.
But it is not too late. This wrong decision can be reversed. I tried to do it with my book, but the language was too polite, too subtle. I have a hundred days to present my case...
The thought that I have today is the following: mankind is in the midst of an experimental test of epochal significance. This test, conceived by the Creator, is to observe and determine mankind's response to the free gift of fossil fuels.
In spite of the seriousness of the consequences of this decision, a decision to spend it all, as fast as possible, without debate or discussions, was lightly agreed to by the world leadership--we can't even say when! It just happened.
But it is not too late. This wrong decision can be reversed. I tried to do it with my book, but the language was too polite, too subtle. I have a hundred days to present my case...
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Understanding Creation versus Welfare
Today I want to briefly explain how mankind’s misconception of creational economics has led to entirely unrealistic promises in our welfare program.
(i) CREATIONAL ECONOMICS
(ii) GOD’S LOVE IS NOT BOUNDLESS
(iii) GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO SET LIMITS
Creational Economics :
I wrote a story, “A Christmas Carol for 2009” to try to explain how God utilized the waste product of star formation (radiation energy) to recover O2 from CO2, itself the waste product of combustion or respiration which had produced useful work. I used the format of science fiction in the hope that eight year olds can find it interesting and understandable. This story is online at my website.
There’s more. Clean water, which is essential to life, is also recycled from waste water through sun light. Surplus life in the vegetable and animal kingdom are prematurely destroyed through complex bio-engineering pathways to become fossil fuels, suitable for extremely long term storage. A flow-diagram of the Jehovah Cycle is also on my website.
God’s Love is NOT boundless :
The gift of life on planet Earth is tied to numerous constraints of engineering feasibility. Religious concepts of boundless love may sound good, but not possible when equating activities (including procreation) to the energy source. The Roman Catholic doctrine of endless conversion to the Christian Faith cannot survive reality.
Government Needs to set Limits :
The current copy of Newsweek has an editorial on “WELFARE 2.0 FOR THE POOR”. I like it. Governments are making promises to their people beyond what God could make to his own creation. Are humans more powerful than God? The union delegates who negotiate with management (companies or public sector officials) never consider reality, just opponents to be crushed with threats of strikes. I believe God gave us a mind smart enough to determine what is negotiable and what is not. We cannot work at a level below rationality.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Comments on WSJ headlines
1/13/2011
Today's WSJ page A1 shows two mid-page headlines side by side:
1) Tuna Fight Muddies Waters Over Damage From BP Spill
2) Crop Prices Soar on Supply Warnings
My interest here is not to report in detail WSJ's findings in these matters, but to try to relate by association how these events strengthen the theme of my book "reflections..."
Headline "1" demonstrates how globally we're mired in a state of an 'activities’ bubble. Japan is known to be in financial difficulties for the past two decades, but last week a bluefin tuna caught off Japan sold in Tokyo for ¥396,000, to be eaten as sushi. And the US is trying to soak BP with additional billions of dollars for damage. My book recommended a 5000 year margin of safety in fossil fuel usage. We simply cannot afford to burn oil, a free gift from God, at the rate we're doing it.
Headline "2" has to do with the class struggle that I described in my book. The big surprise is that it's happening now, instead of when the supply of fossil fuel shall begin to decline severely. China is buying US soybeans to fatten livestock. The ethanol industry is buying corn to feed their machines to increase production. Some analysts say US farmers need to plant an additional eight million acres; but where is the land? How many billions of people need to vanish from planet Earth in this Century?
Today's WSJ page A1 shows two mid-page headlines side by side:
1) Tuna Fight Muddies Waters Over Damage From BP Spill
2) Crop Prices Soar on Supply Warnings
My interest here is not to report in detail WSJ's findings in these matters, but to try to relate by association how these events strengthen the theme of my book "reflections..."
Headline "1" demonstrates how globally we're mired in a state of an 'activities’ bubble. Japan is known to be in financial difficulties for the past two decades, but last week a bluefin tuna caught off Japan sold in Tokyo for ¥396,000, to be eaten as sushi. And the US is trying to soak BP with additional billions of dollars for damage. My book recommended a 5000 year margin of safety in fossil fuel usage. We simply cannot afford to burn oil, a free gift from God, at the rate we're doing it.
Headline "2" has to do with the class struggle that I described in my book. The big surprise is that it's happening now, instead of when the supply of fossil fuel shall begin to decline severely. China is buying US soybeans to fatten livestock. The ethanol industry is buying corn to feed their machines to increase production. Some analysts say US farmers need to plant an additional eight million acres; but where is the land? How many billions of people need to vanish from planet Earth in this Century?
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
My Farewell Gesture
My farewell gesture to a world in crisis: there are so many interesting developments around the world that the temptation is great to wait and observe how things work out--how well they fit my predictions in the book. But reality intervenes; I am rapidly getting too old to have the luxury of watching events as they unfold. I must stop being a perfectionist and get my thoughts down quickly on the internet in some fashion while my brain still functions.
With this in mind then I will selectively re-examine some of the big problems in human misbehavior which I enumerated (perhaps not in great enough detail). This approach will allow me to take up any related topic in random order and gradually build up a collection of meaningful epiphanies.
Topic (I) Understanding the gift of life
The flow of energy from sun light to a living cell, and thence to work or activities performed by various life entities is graphically expressed in a flow diagram in my Blog dated July 24,2010. This “diamond” version of the J-cycle should, in time, become as familiar and globally accepted as the solar system diagram of Copernicus. This free gift of life, however, has constraints and limits not negotiable by human authorities. The most essential limit is the time rate of conversion of sun light to activities-giving energy through photosynthesis. This is accomplished by using a weak source of radiation energy, eight light-minutes away, so that water based cell life would not be destroyed. Needless to say, a hydrogen bomb detonated on earth can only destroy life, not hasten the conversion rate. Therefore, for a very short time, mankind may exceed this limit by burning fossil fuel to create additional energy. The lifestyle and population count so happily enjoyed by developed and developing nations of the world will collapse disastrously with the approaching exhaustion of FF.
***to be continued
With this in mind then I will selectively re-examine some of the big problems in human misbehavior which I enumerated (perhaps not in great enough detail). This approach will allow me to take up any related topic in random order and gradually build up a collection of meaningful epiphanies.
Topic (I) Understanding the gift of life
The flow of energy from sun light to a living cell, and thence to work or activities performed by various life entities is graphically expressed in a flow diagram in my Blog dated July 24,2010. This “diamond” version of the J-cycle should, in time, become as familiar and globally accepted as the solar system diagram of Copernicus. This free gift of life, however, has constraints and limits not negotiable by human authorities. The most essential limit is the time rate of conversion of sun light to activities-giving energy through photosynthesis. This is accomplished by using a weak source of radiation energy, eight light-minutes away, so that water based cell life would not be destroyed. Needless to say, a hydrogen bomb detonated on earth can only destroy life, not hasten the conversion rate. Therefore, for a very short time, mankind may exceed this limit by burning fossil fuel to create additional energy. The lifestyle and population count so happily enjoyed by developed and developing nations of the world will collapse disastrously with the approaching exhaustion of FF.
***to be continued
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