Whilst one does not wish to get too carried away with speculation, I for one never cease to be amazed at the ease with which STATIC ELECTRICITY can be generated. (What did our ancestors make of it, one wonders?). I'm not just talking about rare instances where someone shuffles across a carpet and then gets a shock when they touch a metal door knob. I have a more mundane everyday example: there's a metal pedal bin in my bathroom whose lid gathers dust at a rate of knots - it has to be wiped every two or three days. That's presumably due to shuffling of stockinged feet on the vinyl floor covering, generating a static charge that builds up on the lid of the bin, then attracting dust particles in the air.
So might it be possible to put together a credible narrative for hair and tracking ability based on static electricity? We all know that the hair is a splendid detector for static electricity, thinking of the spectacular response to placing one's hand on the charged sphere of a Van De Graaff generator:
That's despite the fact that hair is dead protein, a non-conductor of electricity. But that does not prevent electrons shifting from one end of a strand to the other, being attracted or repelled by surplus of negative or positive charge on something else.
So what happens to that surplus electric charge on the ends of each hair? It dissipates into the surrounding air, through inducing charges on air molecules; the latter being mobile, not static, are able to carry the charge away. Might there be a clue there to why someone can alter the state of air around themselves - being more or less ionized from their own hair, and then rendering themselves "trackable" by someone else whose hair is 'reversely' sensitive to that ionized air - maybe not just the tips, but the entire body of hair, the migrating electrons then reporting back to the scalp :"beware: electrically-charged air" where those living hair follicles are probably as stated connected and/or wired in to the nervous system via synapses and nerve endings?
Let's push the envelope a bit more. Suppose we have someone, or an animal quarry, in a dry desert being hunted, and knowing it's being hunted. It's generating static electricty as its feet make contact with the ground (would need to be dry) , or knees as well if crawling. Its hair starts to stand on end, a process that can also result from fear. The hair then starts to ionize the surrounding air. Our expert tracker may pick up the scent of fear, but maybe the presence of ionized air too, using his own hair as a sensor.
The great enemy of attempts to demonstrate static electricty is moist air - it causes the charge to drain away too quickly. But the plains of North America frequently have very dry air. Might that be a reason why the native inhabitants were especially able to exploit static electricity and ionization of air as a tracking tool, at least at close quarters (like sensing someone crouching behind a boulder)? But the hunter probably needed to keep his hair long, to maximise the collection of electricity. As for the hunted, he probably didn't recall enough physics from Wigwam High School to think of cutting off all his hair if suspecting he was being tracked!
This is very interesting.There is a video on youtube about "Djed pillars".In that video,an old men,a tourist guide,explain the meaning of the word "djed."He sugest that it means an old person or a grandfather in ancient Egyptian language.
I am from Serbia and the word djed or đed,ђед,deda,деда in serbian language also means an old man,grandfather.
You're making a lot of claims based on nothing solid. I could write as involved a piece on the idea that Snow White was a tale about the fall of an intergalactic civilization. I mean "there was a much brighter and more radiant Snow White goddess" Geez.
I believe one of the ideas of this particular site is to explore, entertain ideas. To ask the questions that are not being asked. Don't you. If not then you might be visiting the wrong site.
The egyptians did not use electricity of any kind ! And assuming i have not taken any classon electricity is your fault. Just because it looks, strange, dont mean it is super natural. Go spread your conspiracy crap somewhere else and using ancient pictures as a front, to spread it.. Give responses that fit what is seen. Its simply not understood yet.
Yes. Worn steps are a far cry from ruts with sharply defined edges that cut 10 inches into the stone, or 12 inches, or 24+ inches (like on Malta), and continue for kilometers, sometimes disappearing beneath the sea, only to re-emerge on a nearby island....or ruts that run right off the edge of a steep cliff, and continue on at the base of the cliff....or when there are multiple sets of ruts, all running back and forth across each other, all the same depth and clearly defined....
What I'm saying is, I did not mean to imply that stone could not be worn down. I meant that simple wearing of stone could not account for the nature of the ruts. This is demonstrable in many ways.
I think this DNA test on these skulls points to another interesting theory ... that the practice of skull deformation among Inca populations could be the direct result of these Indians trying to emulate those beings that were probably foreign leaders to them and teachers... ancient primitive cultures often speak of how they were taught by beings that descended from the skies. I doubt the Incas would have practiced this odd behavior of deforming youth skulls to mimic naturally occurring ones if those with the larger elongated skulls did not in point off fact occupy positions of power and authority and wisdom in these communities. And if their DNA was so different as to not allow interbreeding with them then the Incas must have believed that the shape of the head was what yielded their power and wisdom, hence the practice. Since we have found denisovan and neanderthal DNA in human lineage, but not the DNA of these long-heads, it would seem that it would point to the possibility of these beings as having not been of terrestrial origin. And because of the tomb rituals associated with their burials, it would also seem likely that they were held in esteem by the ancient locals. Better we all think freely on this subject I say, instead of wallowing in self righteous and smug skepticism as do some. I tend to think as the late Lloyd Pye did on this subject. I applaud any who seek ideas 'outside the box' that currently coagulate in rigid and conformist academia.
My elementart school was builtin before 1920. The steps were noticeable worn and receding by students from generations walking on them. I have seen the same form event a decade or less wear.
I have a picture of an Egyptian lady sitting at a table, looks like she is playing a game of chess. My mother in law passed away and I"m not sure if this print is worth anything? Any chance you
I'd love to hear your reasoning on that, since it is the professionals(academics) who define the field, define what is or isn't credible, and write the textbooks. Amateurs, by definition, are not really even in the field at all, so how could they poison it?
Whether or not the moon can be considered masculine or not could depend on what part of the world one is from and the relevant beliefs. In China for example there's the concept of yin and yang. Yin being solid yang not. The moon/yin reflects the sunlight/yang.
Whether or not the moon can be considered masculine or not could depend on what part of the world one is from and the relevant beliefs. In China for example there's the concept of yin and yang. Yin being solid yang not. The moon/yin reflects the sunlight/yang.
I don't mean to be disrespectful, but I do highly suggest you take a class on basic electricity and electronics. Electricity is not some mysterious magical concept. We've pretty much got it under control. A battery is basically like a bucket of electrons. It doesn't matter if you have Niagara Falls filling it, the most you'll ever get out of that bucket is decided based on it's construction. And most batteries, just like most other electronic devices, break when more voltage is applied to them than they were designed for.
The important thing is to maintain a sense a wonder, and not be too impatient in attempting to make sense of it all - prematurely closing down one option or another, shoehorning into one or other ideology or agenda, simply because it conflicts with one's 'world view', the latter the product of aeons of evolution (with occasional dead-ends!) .We don't just need better tools for probing our early origins. We need the humility to recognize that our earliest predecessors were not progenitors of our present selves, but transient chemical species all seeking ways of maximising the thermodynamic balance of entropy between themselves and their immediate environment, permitting pockets of chemical and biological complexity to survive and finally self-perpetuate, but IMPORTANTLY ones entirely different from those, like OUR PRESENT SELVES, that now dominate the relatively benign conditions and stable ecosystems of our mature modern-day planet.
That's it! Thanking everyone for their patience and forebearing - readers, contibutors and site manager9s).
Proto-sugars could have arisen initially as simple carbon compounds bristling with -OH (hydroxyl) groups that had useful water-binding, anti-freeze properties, allowing our little irradiated Oparin-puddles (remember Oparin?) of land-based high and not-too-dry reactants to remain liquid in alternating bouts of rainfall and drought. Dispute the details by all means, but it's the principle that is important. The early stages of biogenesis may have used precursors of present day macromolecules, ones that amaze us with their complexity and fitness-for-purpose, that were being tailored and re-tailored aeons ago for entirely different purposes, akin to that whale flipper that was originally a paw or hand in earlier evolution.
For what it's worth, I have proposed that archaeo/palaeo-DNA began as simple purine and pyrimidine bases that arose by random chemical interactions between simple precursors like cyanide, water, CO2 etc. They have strong absorption in the ultraviolet, so could have acted as sunscreen agents on primordial Earth, such that one could have exotic new chemical species generated by energizing radiation being protected by a sunscreen long enough to interact and further "evolve" into something more complex, like a nucleic acid. What about the ribose sugar of nucelotides and the phosphorus you might ask? Where did they come from?
We need to make the same leap in imagination if we're to understand how modern DNA, synthesised off DNA-derived templates, may have had its origins in a primitive DNA or nucleic acid precursors that existed for entirely different purposes, not just ones we can only guess at, but ones that we might not even strive to guess at, not having a time machine at our disposal.
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Lovely write up and amazing story, love the little houses that were built.
Whilst one does not wish to get too carried away with speculation, I for one never cease to be amazed at the ease with which STATIC ELECTRICITY can be generated. (What did our ancestors make of it, one wonders?). I'm not just talking about rare instances where someone shuffles across a carpet and then gets a shock when they touch a metal door knob. I have a more mundane everyday example: there's a metal pedal bin in my bathroom whose lid gathers dust at a rate of knots - it has to be wiped every two or three days. That's presumably due to shuffling of stockinged feet on the vinyl floor covering, generating a static charge that builds up on the lid of the bin, then attracting dust particles in the air.
So might it be possible to put together a credible narrative for hair and tracking ability based on static electricity? We all know that the hair is a splendid detector for static electricity, thinking of the spectacular response to placing one's hand on the charged sphere of a Van De Graaff generator:
http://wonders.physics.wisc.edu/images/Van_de_Graaff_2.jpg
That's despite the fact that hair is dead protein, a non-conductor of electricity. But that does not prevent electrons shifting from one end of a strand to the other, being attracted or repelled by surplus of negative or positive charge on something else.
So what happens to that surplus electric charge on the ends of each hair? It dissipates into the surrounding air, through inducing charges on air molecules; the latter being mobile, not static, are able to carry the charge away. Might there be a clue there to why someone can alter the state of air around themselves - being more or less ionized from their own hair, and then rendering themselves "trackable" by someone else whose hair is 'reversely' sensitive to that ionized air - maybe not just the tips, but the entire body of hair, the migrating electrons then reporting back to the scalp :"beware: electrically-charged air" where those living hair follicles are probably as stated connected and/or wired in to the nervous system via synapses and nerve endings?
Let's push the envelope a bit more. Suppose we have someone, or an animal quarry, in a dry desert being hunted, and knowing it's being hunted. It's generating static electricty as its feet make contact with the ground (would need to be dry) , or knees as well if crawling. Its hair starts to stand on end, a process that can also result from fear. The hair then starts to ionize the surrounding air. Our expert tracker may pick up the scent of fear, but maybe the presence of ionized air too, using his own hair as a sensor.
The great enemy of attempts to demonstrate static electricty is moist air - it causes the charge to drain away too quickly. But the plains of North America frequently have very dry air. Might that be a reason why the native inhabitants were especially able to exploit static electricity and ionization of air as a tracking tool, at least at close quarters (like sensing someone crouching behind a boulder)? But the hunter probably needed to keep his hair long, to maximise the collection of electricity. As for the hunted, he probably didn't recall enough physics from Wigwam High School to think of cutting off all his hair if suspecting he was being tracked!
This is very interesting.There is a video on youtube about "Djed pillars".In that video,an old men,a tourist guide,explain the meaning of the word "djed."He sugest that it means an old person or a grandfather in ancient Egyptian language.
I am from Serbia and the word djed or đed,ђед,deda,деда in serbian language also means an old man,grandfather.
You're making a lot of claims based on nothing solid. I could write as involved a piece on the idea that Snow White was a tale about the fall of an intergalactic civilization. I mean "there was a much brighter and more radiant Snow White goddess" Geez.
Why not?
I believe one of the ideas of this particular site is to explore, entertain ideas. To ask the questions that are not being asked. Don't you. If not then you might be visiting the wrong site.
The egyptians did not use electricity of any kind ! And assuming i have not taken any classon electricity is your fault. Just because it looks, strange, dont mean it is super natural. Go spread your conspiracy crap somewhere else and using ancient pictures as a front, to spread it.. Give responses that fit what is seen. Its simply not understood yet.
Yes. Worn steps are a far cry from ruts with sharply defined edges that cut 10 inches into the stone, or 12 inches, or 24+ inches (like on Malta), and continue for kilometers, sometimes disappearing beneath the sea, only to re-emerge on a nearby island....or ruts that run right off the edge of a steep cliff, and continue on at the base of the cliff....or when there are multiple sets of ruts, all running back and forth across each other, all the same depth and clearly defined....
What I'm saying is, I did not mean to imply that stone could not be worn down. I meant that simple wearing of stone could not account for the nature of the ruts. This is demonstrable in many ways.
I think this DNA test on these skulls points to another interesting theory ... that the practice of skull deformation among Inca populations could be the direct result of these Indians trying to emulate those beings that were probably foreign leaders to them and teachers... ancient primitive cultures often speak of how they were taught by beings that descended from the skies. I doubt the Incas would have practiced this odd behavior of deforming youth skulls to mimic naturally occurring ones if those with the larger elongated skulls did not in point off fact occupy positions of power and authority and wisdom in these communities. And if their DNA was so different as to not allow interbreeding with them then the Incas must have believed that the shape of the head was what yielded their power and wisdom, hence the practice. Since we have found denisovan and neanderthal DNA in human lineage, but not the DNA of these long-heads, it would seem that it would point to the possibility of these beings as having not been of terrestrial origin. And because of the tomb rituals associated with their burials, it would also seem likely that they were held in esteem by the ancient locals. Better we all think freely on this subject I say, instead of wallowing in self righteous and smug skepticism as do some. I tend to think as the late Lloyd Pye did on this subject. I applaud any who seek ideas 'outside the box' that currently coagulate in rigid and conformist academia.
My elementart school was builtin before 1920. The steps were noticeable worn and receding by students from generations walking on them. I have seen the same form event a decade or less wear.
I have a picture of an Egyptian lady sitting at a table, looks like she is playing a game of chess. My mother in law passed away and I"m not sure if this print is worth anything? Any chance you
Wait....what? It's poisoned by the amateurs??
I'd love to hear your reasoning on that, since it is the professionals(academics) who define the field, define what is or isn't credible, and write the textbooks. Amateurs, by definition, are not really even in the field at all, so how could they poison it?
too long too many words --- please break it down into one paragraph -- very clear and concise - thanks
Whether or not the moon can be considered masculine or not could depend on what part of the world one is from and the relevant beliefs. In China for example there's the concept of yin and yang. Yin being solid yang not. The moon/yin reflects the sunlight/yang.
Whether or not the moon can be considered masculine or not could depend on what part of the world one is from and the relevant beliefs. In China for example there's the concept of yin and yang. Yin being solid yang not. The moon/yin reflects the sunlight/yang.
I don't mean to be disrespectful, but I do highly suggest you take a class on basic electricity and electronics. Electricity is not some mysterious magical concept. We've pretty much got it under control. A battery is basically like a bucket of electrons. It doesn't matter if you have Niagara Falls filling it, the most you'll ever get out of that bucket is decided based on it's construction. And most batteries, just like most other electronic devices, break when more voltage is applied to them than they were designed for.
The important thing is to maintain a sense a wonder, and not be too impatient in attempting to make sense of it all - prematurely closing down one option or another, shoehorning into one or other ideology or agenda, simply because it conflicts with one's 'world view', the latter the product of aeons of evolution (with occasional dead-ends!) .We don't just need better tools for probing our early origins. We need the humility to recognize that our earliest predecessors were not progenitors of our present selves, but transient chemical species all seeking ways of maximising the thermodynamic balance of entropy between themselves and their immediate environment, permitting pockets of chemical and biological complexity to survive and finally self-perpetuate, but IMPORTANTLY ones entirely different from those, like OUR PRESENT SELVES, that now dominate the relatively benign conditions and stable ecosystems of our mature modern-day planet.
That's it! Thanking everyone for their patience and forebearing - readers, contibutors and site manager9s).
Proto-sugars could have arisen initially as simple carbon compounds bristling with -OH (hydroxyl) groups that had useful water-binding, anti-freeze properties, allowing our little irradiated Oparin-puddles (remember Oparin?) of land-based high and not-too-dry reactants to remain liquid in alternating bouts of rainfall and drought. Dispute the details by all means, but it's the principle that is important. The early stages of biogenesis may have used precursors of present day macromolecules, ones that amaze us with their complexity and fitness-for-purpose, that were being tailored and re-tailored aeons ago for entirely different purposes, akin to that whale flipper that was originally a paw or hand in earlier evolution.
For what it's worth, I have proposed that archaeo/palaeo-DNA began as simple purine and pyrimidine bases that arose by random chemical interactions between simple precursors like cyanide, water, CO2 etc. They have strong absorption in the ultraviolet, so could have acted as sunscreen agents on primordial Earth, such that one could have exotic new chemical species generated by energizing radiation being protected by a sunscreen long enough to interact and further "evolve" into something more complex, like a nucleic acid. What about the ribose sugar of nucelotides and the phosphorus you might ask? Where did they come from?
We need to make the same leap in imagination if we're to understand how modern DNA, synthesised off DNA-derived templates, may have had its origins in a primitive DNA or nucleic acid precursors that existed for entirely different purposes, not just ones we can only guess at, but ones that we might not even strive to guess at, not having a time machine at our disposal.
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