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Originally Posted by dleviwing
There is a philosophical phrase I was told to follow when giving scientific or technical presentations to our management. "If you can't convince them with facts, dazzle them with bull s$*@".
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Yes, I agree, dleviwing, there's a lot of 'dazzling' going on in some of the postings - we call it 'blinding with science' over here.
In Steadybang Theory, I think you'll agree, we've tried to keep explanations non-complicated and the terminology simple. The only unusual term we've used is 'vorticle' to distinguish our vorticular model of matter from the 'particle' concept of conventional physics.
The other thing about theorising, I always think, is that you should be able to visualise what's going on in the theory. If you can't do that, there's probably a flaw in it. As Steadybang Theory relies purely on kinetic energy to explain all phenomena, you can readily do this. The footnote to the website (
www.steadybang.com) quoted below illustrates this more fully.
Philosophical Footnote - LIVING/DYING = SURFING/SINKING. The beauty of Steadybang is that you can visualise everything that's happening in the Universe, from the little vortic(l)es, representing sub-atomic particles, radiating out to create the effect of gravity, sometimes aligning to form electromagnetic fields (super vorts), which then influence other spinning (when charged) vorts and accounting for electric and magnetic effects; then on to larger planetary-sized vorts that join up to form rotating solar systems, always radiating as they spin, though, to preserve that illusion of gravitational attraction; they in turn join up in spiral galaxies and so on and on ad infinitum. Not only can you visualise what's happening, but also what's happened and what will happen - it's all there like the rings of a tree - all time exists, but in layers of radiation.
Although we can visualise all time existing, it's hard for our consciousness to accept this. It clings to the illusion of time passing and only in one direction. It must do this for a reason and presummably that reason is survival. Without that mindset our organisms could not have evolved to their present complexity and I guess we should be grateful for that.
Instead of visualising all-time-existing, it may be helpful, from a philisophical point of view, to think of living as a form of surfing - surfing the vorticles or the radiating vorticular waves - quite an uplifting idea, especially if you like to play on the waves. The down side is that we all eventually fall off these vorts and sink. Sinking is, of course, dying and, put in this context, seems very final. But it may be that our fickle consciousness, which all through our lives plays tricks with time, has one more trick up its sleeve. In the same way that our consciousness creates many illusions to help us survive - time passing in one direction, we've just mentioned, the solidness of matter is another - when it feels its survival as an organism threatened it does the one thing that will give it a chance. It slows down time. A drowning man sees his whole life flash before his eyes and by trawling his memory banks he might just find a past experience that will help him escape from his desperate situation. Enough have, for us to know this! Anyone, in a life-threatening situation, has experienced this to a certain degree. Now take this to its logical conclusion. It could be that at the point of death, time stops for the dying consciousness and the last split-second of life takes an eternity! The brain is locked in a loop endlessly reliving its life. For someone with many regrets, this could be 'hell'! For someone with a clear conscience, it could be very pleasant - "heaven" even. It certainly would make it worthwhile, clearing out the conscience every so often, just in case of an untimely end. There's something to be said for the many religions that aspire to carry out this service for their converts, though they justify it in different ways. The Tibetan and Egyptian Books of the Dead were probably, in fact, LIFE-manuals with this purpose in mind.
Battybat