posted September 08, 2002 01:13 PM         

Quantum theory and Relativity were significant, because they introduced what is termed as a Paradigm shift in the way science viewed the Universe. Infact many books are written on how the Einsteinian Universe would behave and all its peculiarities.

I am surprised the Scientists aren't expecting any more Paradigm shifts! They are expecting revolutionary breakthroughs similar to Einstein's - but no paradigm shifts! Surprise. Surprise.

Newton back in the 18th century, was the first to investigate - to start the controversy. The raging controversy has been going on among the academics for 300 years - the question is this - Whether Light is a particle or not? The answer is still not clear!

So what if Light is a particle or not a particle? A particle is something you can touch - it is matter unless it is very minute so that your fingers can't feel them. Energy on the other hand isn't anything. For eg, when you strike a gong, it sets the atoms in the air which stays nearby into vibration - this vibration would agitate the atoms which are still further - and so on - until you hear the sound of the gong. Sound is not matter. It is energy.

What this has got to do with Linda Goodman and Spirituality is what I would come on later. For the benefit of non-technical backgrounds, I eliminate them - even a child would understand it.

posted September 08, 2002 01:16 PM         

When all else fails, make something up.

posted September 08, 2002 01:31 PM         

Newton proposed that Light is a particle (his famous corpusclar theory of Light, which he was working on during his end). But experiments after experiments were proving that Light behaved the same way Sound does. Except the scientists couldn't know what its medium was! Because Light could travel through a vaccum. It is around this time, the hypothetical 'medium' called Aether was invented. Proponents of Aether theory argued that aether pervaded everywhere - so Light could pass through it even if it is a vaccum. Known as the Wave Theory - it was held for 200 years.

Skeptics insisted that the existence of Aether be proved. Because unless it is known that Aether exists - it is not possible to determine whether Light is a particle or not. It may be a particle or a wave. The experiment was to decide whether Newton was right in the first place - Newton couldn't be wrong.

Since nobody knew how to suck out Aether, and see whether Light travels or not - for eg. if you sucked out all aether in your room, you can lit your lamp, heat would emanate from it - still you won't see any light. Theoretically. So a circuitous route was discovered.

posted September 08, 2002 01:43 PM         

When the experiment was done with electrons - which during the time was accepted to be a particle - the electrons too were diffracted. Literally, it meant the same electron passed through both the slits

posted September 09, 2002 07:53 AM         

At around the same time, when the academic circles were still unsettled as to how the speed of light remained a constant and the dichotomy Matter and Energy proved to have - Albert Einstein (Whom Linda kept referring as Abstract Al) propounded that Matter could be converted to Energy - and Energy could be converted into matter. It was a fundamental paradigm shift - The world was no longer divided into two neat compartments called Energy and Matter. Not only one can be the other - one can also be converted into the other. Einstein derived much of his conclusions from mathematical deductions rather than experiments. What they showed was when you approach higher and higher speeds, you would lose matter and turn into energy - and at the speed of light, your mass(how much matter, you are) would be ZERO! When you 'overtake' Light (Superluminal velocity), the Universe takes on a new strange behavior - described as Time dilation when a mere 10 years would have passed for you, your fellow beings much below your speed, such as in earth, for them thousands of years would have elapsed. At Superluminal velocities the Space and Time are no longer separate - they blur together. This again, was another revolutionary paradigm shift. The Universe was no longer two separate entities called Space and Time. Rather it was one and only one now known as Spacetime.

posted September 09, 2002 08:21 AM         

When we put this scientific knowledge of superluminal velocity into Linda's findings - a surprising new result emerges - it has been generally disregarded by academicians that all matter vibrates. That the atoms and molecules just dont stand static, but vibrate with a small frequency. There is a critical frequency, similar to the constant speed of light - which Linda described in such an elusive manner - she hers-elf might have not understood it better - termed as Extra Low Frequency - If you need to experience Time Dilation, you need not go on a space trip - you can just lower yours frequency beyond the critical frequency - time would slow down, so when a 10 minutes would pass for you, actually an hour would have moved in earth - It is a very common experience, when how you are absorbed in your work, very little time appears to have passed. If you reduced your frequency below the critical frequency (Extra Low Frequency), you would eventually turn invisible, simply because the vibration of your atoms would be too high, that photons (light particles) wouldn't get reflected, but instead would pass through.

At Superluminal velocites, Mass turns negative - which is yet another implication of Einstein's discovery. By the same token, at Extra Low Frequencies, your mass would turn negative. You could not only be unseen, you cannot be touched. Ghost.

By Newton's Laws of Gravitation, Gravity would repel a ghost (negative mass). Thus the pictures describing a ghost standing a few inches high above the ground weren't the result of a fantasy or a super power attributed to the ghosts. Earth repels the ghost.

posted September 09, 2002 08:42 AM         

The same consciousness manipulates different corporeal bodies all of which look like, but differ only in their vibratory frequencies.

posted September 09, 2002 08:51 AM         

The material world, is as mysterious to the spirits as the spiritual world is to those who occupy the material plane. For one thing, spirits find it difficult to understand or convey through words! (Have you ever had dreams with lengthy conversations or monologues?). So even Alladin's simple requests, if unfamiliar would be very difficult for the spirit to understand, let alone materialize. Alladin probably got fed up with the strange objects the spirits brought up for him, and stopped using his lamp!