The fault lies not in the hearts of men/women but where they stand. This partial truth prompted NASA launching its first fault finding laser beam reflector satellite LAGEOS I (laser geodynamics satellite) in May of 1976. See http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/L/Lageos.html Their continuing mission includes the detection of continental shift between the pacific and North American tectonic plates by measuring their displacement and direction. This area is the earthquake prone region known as the San Andreas Fault running longitudinally across the state of California. The perfectly straight reflected laser beams from 3 ground stations on either side of the fault were recorded to keep track of any changes that can serve as advance warning to seismic activities.
The pencil-thin pulses emitted usually from argon gas lasers and guided by telescopes to the satellite, on average, caused 2 miles wide diameter laser blooms for every altitude distance of 250 000 miles. However, the reflected intensity remains strong and more so during cloudless and moonless night observations. Accurate measurement of extremely small changes in length is accomplished using a device called interferometer. It uses a beam splitting partially coated mirror which divides a laser beam into two and made to travel through different distances before rejoining when entering the photodetector. The phase shifts allow the precise measurements of one part per few billions meters.
All these fault finding technologies are possible simply because the vacuum speed of light is, for all practical purposes, a constant of 300 000 000 meters per second. Hypothetically, what would be the differential speed of faulty finite consciousness versus infinite consciousness of good and evil?
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