As i head of to the Yucatan, and Chitchen Itza to play drums at the synthesis2012 festival i wanted to reflect on the visions of Terence Mckenna. And to remind people that it was 'coincidence' or 'meaningful synchronicity' that the Mayan long count cycle happened to correspond with his own historical graphing, and futurist ideas about exponential information explosion, I-Ching and the Genetic Code, wrapped up in his fantastical 'psychoactive' prose.
I think that Terence Mckenna had a good 'partnership' model for a co-operative, optimistic future, and his thoughts on 2012 still resonate with me and with www.raw360.net
--Steven 'fly agaric 23' Pratt
From Further Weirdness with Terence Mckenna" Paul Krassner, Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs - From Toad Slime to Ecstacy. Ten Speed Press. 2004
Q. What are your visions of alternative scenarios that are upcoming, either in December 2012 or before?
A. Well, i've spent a long time thinking about this, although i
realized about a year ago that, in a sense, it's not really my issue.
The funny thing is, here i have this wave, it predicts every second
between here and December 12, 2012, i show it to people and their first
question is, 'So what happens afterwards?" It dosen't address that. It
addresses all moments before that. nevertheless, i feel the
force question, and i've created a series of scenarios in ascending
weirdness which answer the question.
A low weirdness answer would be, suddenly everyone begins to behave
appropriately. This is kind of Buddhist, Taosit approach. Now, the
interesting thing about that scenario is, the first thirty seconds of
that we can predict - appropriate behavior would probably be to take
your foot off your neighbor's neck. Step back from what you're doing.
And then i always imagine - for some reason, i don't know why - that
everybody would take off their cloths and go outside. But after that i
can't figure - thats only the first thirty seconds of appropriate
behavior. Since we never had that, we can't imagine what it would be
like.
Then there's the transformation-of-physics scenario, which basically
says, "All boundaries dissolve." What that would probably be like, the
first hour of it would be like a thousand micrograms of LSD. After that
we can't imagine or predict, because again it would have so totally
changed the context that you could no longer predict it.
Then there are the catastrophic scenarios that revolve around the
question, "Death, where is thy sting?" And probably the most efficient
of those is the planetesimal-impact scenario. A very large object
strikes the earth and kills everybody, and that's it.
Q. A blunt object
A. It's a blunt solution. Sort of in that same category is the blue
star in Sagittarius. And then a kind of intermediate between those two
the sun will explode. That would certainly clear the disc and fulfill
the whole thing. The planet vaporizes, and collectively we and all life
on earth move into the shimmering capsules of the post-mortem realm,
whatever that is. Novel, novel.
When i worked with the timewave, i argued strenuously that it reflects
the ebb and flow of novelty, but somebody will come up with something
like the release of the Sergeant Pepper album or the O.J
Simpson trial, and then we see that it's lost in the noise. What the
wave seems most pristinely to predict, or what parallels the wave most
closely, is the evolution of technology, and i think technology is
something that we haven't really understood. In a sense, technology is
the alchemical journey for the condensation of the soul and the union of
the spirit and matter in some kind of hyperobject.
The rise of the web has been a great boost to my fantasies along these
lines, because now i can see with the Web from here to the eschaton.
Apparently, it's a technology for dissolving space, time, personally and
just releasing everybody into a data stream, something like the
imagination. Then that's why the ultimate technological fantasy along
this line of thought is what is conventionally called a time machine.
There's an interesting aspect to the time machine. The wave describes
the ebb and flow of novelty in time, but then you reach a point where
it's so novel that it fails beyond that point. Well, a time-traveling
technology would cause such a system to fail, because it's a description
of the unfolding seriality of linear events, which a time machine would
disrupt.
So it may be that it isn't explosion of the sun, or the coming of the
aliens, or the descent of the second person of the Trinity, it's simply
that a technology is put into place that destroys linear time and, from
thence forward, when you give your address you have to say not only
where but when. There are some problems with this.
And then here is a slightly more interesting and
woo-woo scenario. The thing that's called the grandfather paradox -
somebody pointed out it's not called the father paradox because
apparently you want to avoid an Oedipal situation - and it's simply the
following objection: if you could travel into the past, you could kill
your grandfather. If you killed your grandfather, you wouldn't exist.
Therefore, you couldn't travel into the past. Therefore, time travel is
impossible.
One idea i have for an end of history scenario: Time travel becomes
more and more discussible, finally there are laboratories working on it,
finally there is a prototype machine, finally it's possible to conceive
of a test; and so on the morning of December 12, 2012, at the world
Temporal Institute headquarters in the Amazon Basin, by a worldwide,
high definition, three-dimensional hook up, the entire world tunes in to
see the first flight into time. And the lady temponaut comes to the
microphone and makes a few brief statements, hands are shaken, the
champagne bottle is smashed, she climbs into her time-machine, pushes
the button and disappears into the far flung reaches of the future. Now,
the interesting question is, what happens next? And i have already
established for myself that you can travel backwards into the past, but
you can't travel further into the past than the invention of the first
time machine, for the simple reason that there are no time machines
before that, and if you were to take one where there are none, you get
another paradox.
So what happens when the lady temponaut slips into the future? Well,
i think what would happen a millisecond later is tens of thousands of
time machines would arrive from all points in the future, having come
back through time, of course, to witness the first flight into time.
Exactly as if you could fly your beachcraft back to Kitty hawk, North
Carolina, to that windy morning when the Wright brothers rolled their
flyer out and fueled 'er up. And that's as far as the road goes. That's
the end of the time road.
But the grandfather paradox persists. One of those time travelers
from 5,000 years in the future, on their way back to the first
time-travel incident, could stop and kill his grandfather, and then we
have this whole problem again. So i thought about this for a long time,
and i think i've found my way around it. But, as usual, at the cost of
further weirdness.
Here's what would really happen if we invented a time
machine of that sort. The lady temponaut pushes the button, and instead
of all time machines appearing instantly in the next moment, in order to
preserve the system from that paradox, what will happen is, the rest of
history of the universe will occur instantly. And so that's it. I call
it the God whistle.
This is because you thought you were building a time machine, and in
a sense you were, but the time machine isn't what you thought it was.
It caused the rest of time to happen instantaneously, and so the
furthest out developments of life, matter, and technology in the
universe can right up against you a millisecond after you break that
barrier, and in fact you discover that traveling time is not traveling
time, it's a doorway into eternity, which is all of time, and that's why
it becomes more like a hyperspatial deal than a simple linear
time-travel thing.
There's been a parallel development which has caused me to be more
confident. We're now beginning to build this parallel world called the
Wolrd Wide Web. And you can bet that long before we reach 2012, the
major religions of the world will build virtual realities of their
eschatological scenarios. There will be the Islamic paradise, the
Christian millenium, the Buddhist shunyata - these will be channels that
you tune into to see if you like it and want to join, so in a sense
guaranteeing we will have a virtual singularity.
It's all very well to try to understand the end point, but recall
that where we are relative to the end point is in resonance with the
year 950 AD. We're like the people in 950 AD trying to understand the
web, the hydrogen bomb and the catscanner. How can we? My God, we don't
even have calculus yet. Newton hasn't been born yet, let alone Einstein.
I mean we're running around - essentially we're primitives, is what i'm
saying. We don't have tools yet to conceive of the object of 2012. We
must build those tools between now and then. And good places to start
are with the web, psychedelic drugs, whatever is the most cutting edge
and most far out.
Q. So that saying, "May you live in interesting times," is supposed
to have been a chinese curse, but if the ruling class had control of
language, it would curse them, but it was a blessing to the people who made it interesting times.
A. I think it's saying the same thing as the Irish toast [heavy brogue], "May you be alive at the end of the world."
Q. Meanwhile, my Chinese fortune cookie predicted that you and i
would cross paths again and also that i will enjoy another repast soon.
A. We must meet in a Chinese restaurant and save the oracle unnecessary embarrassment.
- from Further Weirdness with Terence Mckenna" Paul Krassner, Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs - From Toad Slime to Ecstacy. Ten Speed Press. 2004
Paul Krassner is the author of One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Satirist;
he publishes The Disneyland Memorial Orgy at www.paulkrassner.com.
http://www.maybelogic.org/maybequarterly/06/0604FurtherWeirdness.htm
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
GENERATION P: An Interview with Director Victor Ginzburg
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Generation P
Generation P
An Interview with Director Victor Ginzburg
Friday, January 27, 2012
his year’s most stoner-friendly film during SBIFF is surely Generation P, which involves trips on both fly agaric mushrooms and LSD for our protagonist as he navigates the early days of post-Soviet Russia working in advertising man and caught up in a Babylonian cult that runs the world through media manipulation. It’s got lots of hilarity and trippy visuals wrapped up in symbolism and social commentary, plenty to chew on for even the most sober of us.
Director Victor Ginzburg recently answered a few of my questions via email.
There seems to be a wave of films coming out of Russia about the transition from the Soviet era. Does that mean that enough time has passed for filmmakers to reflect with some meaning on that time period?
There’s definitely a civil reawakening going on in Russian society today, and a certain re-evaluation of the past, but I don’t think the same thing is happening in Russian film (excluding documentary). Russian cinema hasn’t really dealt with the revolutionary period of the ‘90s, and the Putin era in any meaningful way. It doesn’t deal with political issues. The Russian film industry hasn’t produced any real sharp anti-government satire or political films since the ‘90s.
Filmmaking in Russia today is split between thre genres: Festival genre, the brooding, dark, and slow pseudo-Tarkovsky product for Euro festival elite, that don’t get released in Russia, because Russian viewers don’t want to see these films; imitation Hollywood B-movies; and “patriotic films” which are either period war epics or Special Ops films. All of the above are financed by the government and TV networks. There’s no foul language or politics, due to “self-censorship”, born out of fear of not getting the next project financed. It’s all toothless.
Generation P was a huge game changer in that sense. There was real fear on the part of my distributor and investors that Gen P will not be granted the “distribution license” due to foul language and politics, including a scene with “banned” oligarch Berezovsky, and the scene of the creation of Putin-like virtual president, and his virtual inauguration in Kremlin, where I used real footage of Putin’s inauguration.
But after four years in stop-and-go independent production, and lots of press, the buzz was so strong, and Facebook and Yandex (Russia biggest search engine) becoming our partners in the Russian release, nobody could stop us. So I believe Gen P is the only contemporary Russian film to meaningfully reflect on the ‘90s, and I’m happy to have helped to fill that vacuum.
Was the process of converting this book into a film difficult?
This is a story without a classic plot structure, there’s no conflict or a love interest or a bag full of money that we’re chasing. But that’s exactly what I liked about this story. It’s driven first and foremost by ideas and energy, and the suspense comes from punchy dialog and amazing characters. There was a lot of interior monologue and thought process in the novel, that had to be radically re-conceptualized, as well as the entire Babylonian storyline and the hallucination sequences.
Also, a lot of Pelevin’s dialog was so great, that I couldn’t get the script below 220 pages, as opposed to standard 120. My co-writer Djina helped my tremendously as we were rewriting it constantly on the set, looking for the balance in the story. I shot a lot of extra footage, as opposed to cutting out the pages. It was a calculated expense. You could say that the final draft was “written” in the editing room, where the film found its current pace, and I finally have a 120 page script.
I imagine that advertising was a pretty wide open business with the fall of communism. Is this based on personal experience, or on the experience of others who were in advertising?
Russian advertising was wild and crazy in the ‘90s, free of any rules of aesthetics, history, or regulations. It ranged from terrible to brilliant. Advertising serves a symbolic role in the film. It’s like an interface through which Babylen starts to see the new world. This matrix evolves right in front of our eyes and becomes the virtual world that we live in today.
Drugs are obviously a big part of the film. Was there a boom in psychedelics and cocaine with the fall of communism? How about fly agarics? Are those consumed by in contemporary Russian culture?
Historically, Russians prefer to hallucinate on vodka. LSD and hallucinogenic culture, such as Castaneda literature, arrived in Russia with the end of the Soviet Union, along with the branding and consumerism. For Babylen Tatarsky, it’s gateway to Ishtar, the goddess of these new values. It is also a way to enhance his creativity, but once there, he discovers new revelations about himself and the world.
So in way, LSD serves a spiritual purpose to Babylen’s search for meaning and self understanding, just like it would be for any young person in today’s complex world.
On а more strategic level, for the purpose of telling this story, drug-induced hallucinations serve to introduce the viewer to the concept of the alternative reality that we arrive at towards the end of the film, the virtual world of politics and branding, where you’re led to believe that a politician is more than a TV show or that a given product can bring you happiness.
What’s your fascination with Babylonian mythology?
We worship the same gods of glamour, money, and blood.
The idea of supercontrol of politics doesn’t seem too far from the truth, whether in Putin’s Russia or the corporate world’s America. Do you see films like yours calling attention to that, or is this just an absurd exercise in a fun movie?
I really hope that the film works on a few levels: as a fun ride with a real belly laugh, as biting political satire, and a philosophical tale about the contemporary world. There’s a wide audience out there of smart and interested people that can really dig this.
Generation P screens on Friday, January 27, 7:20 p.m., at the Metro 4 and again on Wednesday, February 1, 10:20 p.m., at the Metro 4, and Saturday, February 4, 1:20 p.m. at the Metro 4.
http://www.independent.com/news/2012/jan/27/generation-p/
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
Bioluminescence and Sensibility (Glowing Flying Agaricus Jellyfish)
HI, I would like to jump off here, and launch into a new hypothesis based upon my own research into bioluminescense, mycology and species symbiosis. The question is somewhat posed, and an answer already hinted at: that the glowing shrooms do so to possibly attract critters that like to eat insects, insects that would otherwise eat them; such as flies, beetles, ants etc. Here's the full quote:
The reason why mushrooms glow? well to communicate seems one sensible and very general reason. But, communicate what, and why. (the same chemical phenomena, Yes, I say Yes, the same, with a common, extra-terrestrial origin, maybe, who knows?)
Here I am, if you have eyes to see, generally sums up the glowing activity, for humans however, in 2012 ,the message from glowing mushrooms maybe interpreted to be more profound, more meaningful than simply saying 'Here I am', I think.
Maybe the mushrooms helps us remember the saying from Scotus Eriugena 'All things that are, are lights', also the title of a book by Robert Shea, co-author of Illuminatus Trilogy with Robert Anton Wilson.
Maybe the discovery of 'Luciferin' in Fungi from around the world, joining fungus with other glow in the dark' earth based life-forms like 'fireflies' 'jellyfish' 'anglerfish' 'Arctic Krill' 'squid' and many species of plankton and...here's the list from wiki:
Above: FOXFIRE (FIREFOX?)
So, to be bold, maybe the mushrooms glow and the fish and insects glow as a way to show how a special chain of evolution can teach us a lot about species symbiosis.
Micro-organisms, land fungus, insects, fish, must have some evolutionary chronology, how did bioluminesence pass from species to species and in what order? I wonder. Maybe in the planets long past, bioluminescense was more wide spread, and stronger in its effect?
Maybe 'Luciferin' the active ingrediant in Bioluminescense that makes stuff 'glow' will be found to have extra-terrestrial origins, and add moe evidence to the theories of 'panspermia' and the idea that life on earth was seeded from somewhere else outside the current biosphere, and futhermore that most probably this seeding was done by way of 'spores' travelling on meteorites? who knows, what are some of the other alternatives? Adam and Eve? Darwin's natural selection and evolution based upon the survival of the fittest? there are many more, I just wish to suggest that the recurring, unanswered question of the origins of DNA based life on this planet have a pretty good answer, to my mind, in the 'panspermia' model created by Sir Francis Crick and modified by the likes of Terence Mckenna, Paul Stamets and others.
The glowing mushrooms and the other bioluminescent species want to tell us that 'light' is very important, maybe we can somehow learn how to change from A FOSSIL FUEL AND CARBON BASED WORLD ILLUMINATION SYSTEM TO A BIO-CHEMICAL SYSTEM BY UTILIZING THE POWER OF BIOLUMINESCENCE CUTTING THE GLOBAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION MASSIVELY.
Why, this stuff even looks like Krytonite to major energy companies or lighting businesses. Natural organic light, free and glowing all day and all night if you want it!
HERE'S THE FULL ARTICLE:
Love and peas, fly agaric 23
Epoch Times Staff Created: July 6, 2011 Last Updated: July 6, 2011
A forgotten fungus found in 1840 has been reclassified and its
glowing properties studied to understand how and why it shines brightly
enough to read a book by.
In 1840, renowned English botanist George Gardner discovered the fungus over 170 years ago when he saw children playing with the glowing object, which they called “flor-de-coco.” Gardner sent a sample to England’s Kew Herbarium and it was classified as Agaricus gardneri.
The mushroom is bioluminescent, ie it produces a glowing light, like fireflies and some jellyfish. This phenomenon is also known as “foxfire” and is seen in some other fungi like jack o’lantern mushrooms.
However, what makes these fungi glow, and why, are questions that present-day researchers want to answer.
To find new specimens of the fungus, Dennis Desjardin at San Francisco State University and Cassius Stevani at the University of Sao Paulo went hunting in Brazilian forests. They had to "go out on new moon nights and stumble around in the forest, running into trees," said Desjardin in a press release.
Using digital cameras, the scientists took photos of potentially biolumiscent fungi to check the images for any glow invisible to the naked eye, and located new specimens of the forgotten mushroom.
After examining samples to determine the mushroom’s anatomy, physiology and genetics, they reclassified it as Neonothopanus gardneri.
The scientists have theorized that the mushroom bioluminesces like
a firefly, using a mixture of luciferin and the enzyme luciferase to
emit light via a reaction with oxygen and water. However, they have
been unable to locate these compounds in the fungus.
"They glow 24 hours a day, as long as water and oxygen are available," said Desjardin. "But animals only produce this light in spurts. This tells us that the chemical that is acted upon by the enzyme in mushrooms has to be readily available and abundant."
Yet the reason why mushrooms glow has not come to light. One hypothesis is this attracts insects and aids spore dispersal. However, in jack o’lanterns, the foxfire comes from the mycelium or root-like network that gathers food for the fungus.
"We have no idea yet why this happens," said Desjardin. "Maybe the mycelium is glowing to attract the enemy of these insects, and will eat them before they can eat the mycelium. But we don’t have any data to support this."
Desjardin has studied bioluminescent fungi from all over the world to determine why and how this happens, and whether it is the same chemical phenomenon occurring in each species.
"Yet the reason why mushrooms glow has not come to light. One hypothesis is this attracts insects and aids spore dispersal. However, in jack o’lanterns, the foxfire comes from the mycelium or root-like network that gathers food for the fungus.
"We have no idea yet why this happens," said Desjardin. "Maybe the mycelium is glowing to attract the enemy of these insects, and will eat them before they can eat the mycelium. But we don’t have any data to support this."
Desjardin has studied bioluminescent fungi from all over the world to determine why and how this happens, and whether it is the same chemical phenomenon occurring in each species."
The reason why mushrooms glow? well to communicate seems one sensible and very general reason. But, communicate what, and why. (the same chemical phenomena, Yes, I say Yes, the same, with a common, extra-terrestrial origin, maybe, who knows?)
Here I am, if you have eyes to see, generally sums up the glowing activity, for humans however, in 2012 ,the message from glowing mushrooms maybe interpreted to be more profound, more meaningful than simply saying 'Here I am', I think.
Maybe the mushrooms helps us remember the saying from Scotus Eriugena 'All things that are, are lights', also the title of a book by Robert Shea, co-author of Illuminatus Trilogy with Robert Anton Wilson.
Maybe the discovery of 'Luciferin' in Fungi from around the world, joining fungus with other glow in the dark' earth based life-forms like 'fireflies' 'jellyfish' 'anglerfish' 'Arctic Krill' 'squid' and many species of plankton and...here's the list from wiki:
Terrestrial organisms
Animals:- certain arthropods
- fireflies
- click beetles
- glow worms
- certain mycetophilid flies
- certain centipedes such as Geophilus carpophagus [9]
- certain millipedes such as Motyxia [10]
- a terrestrial mollusc (a tropical land snail)
- annelids
- Mushrooms (see Foxfire)
- Jack O'Lantern mushroom (Omphalotus olearius)
- ghost fungus (Omphalotus nidiformis)
- Honey mushroom
- Panellus stipticus
- several species of Mycena
[edit] Fish
- Anglerfish
- Cookie-cutter shark
- Flashlight fish
- Gulper eel
- Lanternfish
- Marine hatchetfish
- Midshipman fish
- Pineconefish
- Viperfish
[edit] Marine invertebrates
- many cnidarians
- certain Ctenophores or "comb jellies"
- certain echinoderms (e.g. Ophiurida)
- certain crustaceans
- certain chaetognaths
- certain molluscs
- certain clams, bivalves
- certain nudibranchs, sea slugs
- Octopus
- the order Teuthida
[edit] Microorganisms
- Dinoflagellates (e.g. Noctiluca scintillans, Pyrodimium bahamense)[11]
- Vibrionaceae (e.g. Vibrio fischeri, Vibrio harveyi, Vibrio phosphoreum)
- Members of the marine bacterial family Shewanellaceae, Shewanella hanedai and Shewanella woodyi have also been shown to be bioluminescent
- Fungi – A total of 71 species are bioluminescent[12] including species of Armillaria, Omphalotus, Mycena, Gerronema, Pleurotus.
Above: FOXFIRE (FIREFOX?)
So, to be bold, maybe the mushrooms glow and the fish and insects glow as a way to show how a special chain of evolution can teach us a lot about species symbiosis.
Micro-organisms, land fungus, insects, fish, must have some evolutionary chronology, how did bioluminesence pass from species to species and in what order? I wonder. Maybe in the planets long past, bioluminescense was more wide spread, and stronger in its effect?
Maybe 'Luciferin' the active ingrediant in Bioluminescense that makes stuff 'glow' will be found to have extra-terrestrial origins, and add moe evidence to the theories of 'panspermia' and the idea that life on earth was seeded from somewhere else outside the current biosphere, and futhermore that most probably this seeding was done by way of 'spores' travelling on meteorites? who knows, what are some of the other alternatives? Adam and Eve? Darwin's natural selection and evolution based upon the survival of the fittest? there are many more, I just wish to suggest that the recurring, unanswered question of the origins of DNA based life on this planet have a pretty good answer, to my mind, in the 'panspermia' model created by Sir Francis Crick and modified by the likes of Terence Mckenna, Paul Stamets and others.
The glowing mushrooms and the other bioluminescent species want to tell us that 'light' is very important, maybe we can somehow learn how to change from A FOSSIL FUEL AND CARBON BASED WORLD ILLUMINATION SYSTEM TO A BIO-CHEMICAL SYSTEM BY UTILIZING THE POWER OF BIOLUMINESCENCE CUTTING THE GLOBAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION MASSIVELY.
Why, this stuff even looks like Krytonite to major energy companies or lighting businesses. Natural organic light, free and glowing all day and all night if you want it!
HERE'S THE FULL ARTICLE:
Love and peas, fly agaric 23
Bioluminescent Brazilian Mushroom Shines Like a Night Light
Epoch Times Staff Created: July 6, 2011 Last Updated: July 6, 2011
Related articles: Science » Inspiring Discoveries
In 1840, renowned English botanist George Gardner discovered the fungus over 170 years ago when he saw children playing with the glowing object, which they called “flor-de-coco.” Gardner sent a sample to England’s Kew Herbarium and it was classified as Agaricus gardneri.
The mushroom is bioluminescent, ie it produces a glowing light, like fireflies and some jellyfish. This phenomenon is also known as “foxfire” and is seen in some other fungi like jack o’lantern mushrooms.
However, what makes these fungi glow, and why, are questions that present-day researchers want to answer.
To find new specimens of the fungus, Dennis Desjardin at San Francisco State University and Cassius Stevani at the University of Sao Paulo went hunting in Brazilian forests. They had to "go out on new moon nights and stumble around in the forest, running into trees," said Desjardin in a press release.
Using digital cameras, the scientists took photos of potentially biolumiscent fungi to check the images for any glow invisible to the naked eye, and located new specimens of the forgotten mushroom.
After examining samples to determine the mushroom’s anatomy, physiology and genetics, they reclassified it as Neonothopanus gardneri.
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"They glow 24 hours a day, as long as water and oxygen are available," said Desjardin. "But animals only produce this light in spurts. This tells us that the chemical that is acted upon by the enzyme in mushrooms has to be readily available and abundant."
Yet the reason why mushrooms glow has not come to light. One hypothesis is this attracts insects and aids spore dispersal. However, in jack o’lanterns, the foxfire comes from the mycelium or root-like network that gathers food for the fungus.
"We have no idea yet why this happens," said Desjardin. "Maybe the mycelium is glowing to attract the enemy of these insects, and will eat them before they can eat the mycelium. But we don’t have any data to support this."
Desjardin has studied bioluminescent fungi from all over the world to determine why and how this happens, and whether it is the same chemical phenomenon occurring in each species.
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Friday, February 3, 2012
RAWIllumination.net: Fly Agaric on RAW sharing with his readers
RAWIllumination.net: Fly Agaric on RAW sharing with his readers: Steven Pratt aka Fly Agaric announced his new piece on Robert Anton Wilson as an "article" for his Twitter followers, which of course inc...
Monday, January 30, 2012
Robert Anton Wilson via. Bell's Theorem, No-cloning theorem, holographic principle and black hole complimentarity
From reading aloud 'The Law's of acceleration by Robert Anton Wilson today, from his book 'Cosmic Trigger' I was reminded of his exponential, holographic prose, and his taking part in the Physics Consciousness Research Insitute in Berkeley where he met Saul Paul Sirag, Jack Sarfatti and other experimental, open minded physicists.
In Saul Paul Sirag's great epilogue to 'Cosmic Trigger' he mentions his interest in Arthur Eddington, and his imapct on his 1977 published paper 'A combination derivation of the Proton-Electron mass ratio' which includes the discovery that 'Baryon' numbers are created.
Baryon caught my eye in the wiki' entry for 'Black Hole' Complimentarity:
The stretched horizon is conducting with surface charges which rapidly spread out over the horizon.
Global symmetries don't exist in quantum gravity. Baryon number is violated, but only at very small scales, and the proton has a very long lifetime. But with a short enough time resolution, the proton oscillates between different baryon numbers and the time warping near the horizon magnifies that. Alternatively, the hot temperatures of the stretched horizon cause the proton to decay. But an infalling observer never has time to see the proton decay.--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_complementarity
So I jumped into wikipedia and here's a few cutting to allow you to follow my trane' of thoughts. Where do they go?
--Steve fly agaric 23 Pratt. January 30th 2012. Amsterdam
Bell's theorem and no-cloning theorem
members of the Fundamental Fysiks Group latched onto a topic, known as "Bell's theorem," and rescued it from a decade of unrelenting obscurity. The theorem ... stipulated that quantum objects that had once interacted would retain some strange link or connection, even after they had moved arbitrarily far apart from each other. ... Working in various genres and media, the Fundamental Fysiks Group grappled with Bell's theorem and quantum entanglement. ... In the process, they forced a few of their physicist peers to pay attention to the topic ... From these battles, quantum information science was born. The hippie physicists' concerted push on Bell's theorem and quantum entanglement instigated major breakthroughs ... The most important became known as the "no-cloning theorem," a new insight into quantum theory that emerged from spirited efforts to wrestle with hypothetical machines dreamed up by members of the Fundamental Fysiks Group.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_Fysiks_Group
NO-CLONING THEOREM
There is a classical analogue to the quantum no-cloning theorem, which we might state as follows: given only the result of one flip of a (possibly biased) coin, we cannot simulate a second, independent toss of the same coin. The proof of this statement uses the linearity of classical probability, and has exactly the same structure as the proof of the quantum no-cloning theorem. Thus if we wish to claim that no-cloning is a uniquely quantum result, some care is necessary in stating the theorem. One way of restricting the result to quantum mechanics is to restrict the states to pure states, where a pure state is defined to be one that is not a convex combination of other states. The classical pure states are pairwise orthogonal, but quantum pure states are not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem
BLACK HOLE INFORMATION PARADOX:
(Navigating the Holographic Labyrinth-Horizon's)
Hawking remained convinced that the equations of black hole thermodynamics together with the no-hair theorem led to the conclusion that quantum information may be destroyed. This annoyed many physicists, notably John Preskill, who in 1997 bet Hawking and Kip Thorne that information was not lost in black holes. The implications Hawking had opined led to the Susskind-Hawking battle, where Leonard Susskind and Gerard 't Hooft publicly 'declared war' on Hawking's solution, with Susskind publishing a popular book about the debate in 2008 (The Black Hole War: My battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics, ISBN 9780316016407). The book carefully notes that the "war" was purely a scientific one, and that at a personal level, the participants remained friends.[2] The solution to the problem that concluded the battle is the holographic principle, which was first proposed by 't Hooft but was given a precise string theory interpretation by Susskind. With this, as the title of an article puts it, "Susskind quashes Hawking in quarrel over quantum quandary".[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox
How The Hippies Saved Fysiks: Holographic Information Juxtaposition?
The group held informal discussions on Friday afternoons to explore the philosophical implications of quantum theory. Leading members included Fritjof Capra, John Clauser, Philippe Eberhard, Nick Herbert, Jack Sarfatti, Saul-Paul Sirag, Henry Stapp, and Fred Alan Wolf.[1]
David Kaiser wrote a book titled How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival which had as a thesis that the group's meetings and papers helped to nurture and advance the ideas in quantum physics that came to form the basis of quantum information science.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_Fysiks_Group
Black Hole Complimentarity
(Co-operation, mutual co-existence, collaborative, connected, network?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_complementarity
Leonard Susskind[3] proposed a radical resolution to this problem by claiming that the information is both reflected at the event horizon and passes through the event horizon and can't escape, with the catch being no observer can confirm both stories simultaneously. According to an external observer, the infinite time dilation at the horizon itself makes it appear as if it takes an infinite amount of time to reach the horizon. He also postulated a stretched horizon, which is a membrane hovering about a Planck length outside the event horizon and which is both physical and hot. According to the external observer, infalling information heats up the stretched horizon, which then reradiates it as Hawking radiation, with the entire evolution being unitary. However, according to an infalling observer, nothing special happens at the event horizon itself, and both the observer and the information will hit the singularity. This isn't to say there are two copies of the information lying about — one at or just outside the horizon, and the other inside the black hole — as that would violate the no cloning theorem. Instead, an observer can only detect the information at the horizon itself, or inside, but never both simultaneously. Complementarity is a feature of the quantum mechanics of noncommuting observables, and Susskind proposed that both stories are complementarity in the quantum sense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_complementarity
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