Maybe to order it directly from Red Pill Press...?I'm looking to get Vol 2 STRIPPED TO THE BONE but Amazon have it priced up at £72.00. Anyone have any ideas where I could get it a wee bit cheaper.?
Or order it from Amazon.com not .uk?
Maybe to order it directly from Red Pill Press...?I'm looking to get Vol 2 STRIPPED TO THE BONE but Amazon have it priced up at £72.00. Anyone have any ideas where I could get it a wee bit cheaper.?
YesHello, the meetings are in English?
Maybe to order it directly from Red Pill Press...?
Mari, thank you for those suggestions but I've just checked and neither post to the UK.
I'm looking to get Vol 2 STRIPPED TO THE BONE but Amazon have it priced up at £72.00. Anyone have any ideas where I could get it a wee bit cheaper.?
You can order any of the Wave books from Pilule Rouge for much cheaper than that and they will ship to the UK.
What about Kindle?
Hi strategic enclosure, I do have Kindle but for the purpose of the reading meetings I'd like to have the book handy. Also I just love having the real thing. Thank you.
Hope you get better soon, Joan! See you soon.
We'll indeed discuss chapter 7 & 8 in the next meeting (May 9). Just consider that chapter 7 is the last of The Wave Vol.1, and Chapter 8 is the first of The Wave Vol.2
The video of the meeting will be ready on Monday ;).
Great meeting everyone!
Many algorithms, generated by both humans and artificial intelligence, have been programmed to look for repetitive, non-random signals or for correlations between the fluctuations on various parts of the sky. If the Universe were finite and closed on itself — if parts of it repeated in other places — the cosmic microwave background would hold the evidence.
We've searched exhaustively for it, and that evidence simply isn't there. But the lack of such a detectable, repeating structure doesn’t necessarily mean that the Universe doesn’t have this type of topology. It only means that if the Universe does repeat, if it is a closed hypersurface, and if we could theoretically re-emerge in the same spot after traveling in a straight line for long enough, it is so on a scale that’s larger than the part we can observe. Given that we’re limited to how far light can travel in 13.8 billion years, there’s plenty of room for this to still be the case.
But there’s a catch.
No matter how technologically advanced you imagine a human will someday be, so long as we’re limited by the speed of light we’ll never be able to find out, even if the Universe is really this way. Thanks to dark energy and the accelerated expansion of the Universe, it’s physically impossible to even reach all the way to the edge of today’s observable Universe; we can only get a third of the way there at maximum. Unless the Universe repeated on a scale that was less than about 15 billion light years in diameter today, we’d have no way to ever return to our original starting point by traveling in a straight line.
However, that doesn’t mean it isn’t possible for the Universe to be closed, finite, and for it to fold in on itself the way a Hypersphere or a Three-Torus does. It just means that the expansion of the Universe — accelerating as it is — forbids us from ever completing a single “circumnavigation” of the Universe and returning to our origin. Because of the combination of:
we may never be able to know whether our Universe is infinite or not, and what its true topology is. We can only see what we have access to, and that doesn't appear to be enough to be decisive concerning scales larger than what we can observe.
- the finite age of the Universe,
- the finite speed of light,
- the expansion of the Universe and
- the presence of dark energy,
All we can see is the part of the Universe accessible to us, which allows us to place constraints on what its topology is allowed to be. As far as we can tell, it’s flat, non-repeating and possibly (but not necessarily) infinite. Perhaps, as time goes on, and more of the Universe slowly reveals itself to us, or as our curvature measurements get more precise, we’ll discover a departure from what we’ve concluded so far. After all, we’re limited by what we’re capable of observing, but those limits will continue to change as the Universe ages. The possibility of a Universe that’s vastly different from what we’ve concluded thus far might lie just beyond the cosmic horizon.
- the finite age of the Universe,
- the finite speed of light,
- the expansion of the Universe and
- the presence of dark energy,
Q: (L) Any more questions?
(Ark) Yes. I want to ask if imagining that our 3-dimensional material universe is a kind of a brane floating in more-dimensional space, is it good picture?
A: Very close.
Q: (Ark) In that case, if this is very close, how many dimensions this external universe has?
A: Infinite.
Q: (Ark) Infinite! Very good... [laughter] I can go now happily to bed.
(L) Why?
(Ark) No, because infinity is a good number. It's not like 5 or 6 or 7. [laughter] I always had hope that it might be 12. But no, it's infinite.
(Joe) What did you say it was? A brain floating in space?
(L) Brane: B-R-A-N-E. Like membrane, not like a brain-brain! [laughter]
(Ark) So, if our universe is a brane in this infinite dimensional universe [laughter], are there other branes floating there? [laughter]
A: Yes
Q: (Ark) Can they meet?
A: Yes
Q: (Ark) And it has to do with unstable gravity waves?
A: Yes
Q: (Ark) And the information field that you were talking about, is it going only within the brane, or is it goes also between the branes?
A: Between, outside, inside.
Q: (Ark) And electromagnetism: Is it working only within each brane, or also between branes?
A: Both if conditions are right.
Q: (Joe) Is that what's going to happen as a result of the Wave? Two branes are going to intersect...?
A: Part of it.
Q: (Joe) Will that cause a Big Bang? Was that what the Big Bang was?
A: More or less.
Q: (Chu) I thought it all comes down to information...
A: Information is gravity.
Q: (Ark) Infinite dimensions. There are two kinds: countable like 1, 2, 3, 4 and so on, and uncountable like number of points on a line where you cannot count it.
A: Uncountable.
Q: (Ark) Oh! Okay. It gives me hope that other people will not get it. [laughter]
(Artemis) You say that the energy drains have been removed. So why is it that still I actually feel even more drained and tired lately?
A: Not paying enough attention to reality!
Q: (Artemis) Yeah, that's because I'm tired!
A: Read!
Q: (Artemis) Okay.
A: Sing!
Q: (Artemis) Okay, so... I need energy to do the things I need energy for.
(L) We need to organize karaoke.
A: Yes