This http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fq20080425a2.html Japan Times article describes Tokyo's latest observation deck. Click the Roppongi Hills link below for 360 degree daytime and nighttime views; you can just make out Mount Fuji by looking west. If you think you're looking at a densely populated city you're right: the greater Tokyo area is the world's largest conurbation with a population of 35 million.
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.--Ramana Maharshi
The mother of all assumptions is objectivity, the idea the world is made of objects, things. The word “reality” is derived from Latin res, meaning thing or matter. So objectivity is encoded in our language, our culture, our consciousness. We name everything we perceive. From subatomic particles, to molecules, to cells, to trees, to forests, to nations, to continents, to planets, and galaxies. I am Jack and you are Jill. You are there and I am here. It’s obvious, isn’t it?
Every thing is made of parts. Each part is in turn made of other parts. Those parts are in turn made of other smaller parts. And so on until we get to…. And this is where the trouble lies. Most people think reality is made of things, objects. But try proving it.Those at the forefront of proving the world is made of things are particle physicists. They are trying to build a firm foundation for the belief the world is made of things. Thing is they haven’t succeeded so far.
Next month at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67q_2V6xOxE will be switched on. LHC is a 27 km long circular tunnel, a particle accelerator, the world’s largest. It is the most expensive and sophisticated scientific experiment undertaken hitherto. Its aim is to find out what makes matter matter. What makes reality real, a thing? It must find the missing link that has eluded science from the time humans assumed the world to be made of little things that jiggle to quote Richard Feynman.
LHC will recreate conditions in the universe less than one billionth of a second after the supposed beginning of everything, the Big Bang (another assumption); it will do this by smashing subatomic particles into each other and seeing what happens. How did nothing, the Big Bang, become something, particles and the rest of matter leading to me typing away on my computer today? LHC bets they will find out soon.
The mother of all assumptions is in the collective mind of CERN scientists, however. Common sense sides with CERN. Yet even CERN scientists admit their model is incomplete. The Standard Model which is the heart of particle physics today is sick. It cannot explain why substance is substantial. All we can say about the world, assuming objectivity, is that it appears to be made of things. And this is why LHC, inspite of the huge cost and effort involved isn’t going to find the so-called Higgs particle, that which will finally prove that reality is real. The world isn't an object.
LHC’s sister experiment, the double slit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc experiment of quantum physics shows the observer measuring what happens cannot be kept out of the equation. The observer is crucial in our understanding of the world. The observer is the observed.
The politics of language conditions us to think the subject is at best irrelevant. To say one is subjective is to say one is unrealistic. To say one is objective is to say one is realistic. Yet, just because the "objective" mass media and the UN tell us an Arab caveman carried out 9/11 doesn’t mean it’s true. Just because the objective mass media never report on the necessity of abolishing fractional reserve lending doesn't mean modern banking practices are benign. Just because the objective mass media tell you your shopping cart GMOs are harmless doesn't mean they are. Just because objective Al Gore tells you plant food is more dangerous than Arab cavemen doesn't mean it's true. Just because object-obsessed society says you are your body doesn't mean your are.
The time has come to turn our attention back around 180 degrees and listen to the words of English philosopher Douglas Harding. The key to finding the Holy Grail lies not at CERN but in one’s own being, the First Person Singular. More on that later.
Torch Teams patrolling New York's subways carry these weapons because a caveman's kerosene bombs powderized the Twin Towers and Building Seven. Step by step, as Alex Jones bullhorns from Austin, the feds (and their variations thereof abroad) are building a prison planet. Do you feel safe?
This CBS 2 report says NYPD officers now patrol New York subway trains and stations in teams of six with each having a bomb sniffing dog. These "Torch Team" members carry MP5 submachine guns. They're protecting you from Arab cavemen.
Koinobori 鯉幟 or carp banners are carp-shaped windsocks flown in Japan at this time of year. They celebrate Children's Day on May 5th. Children's Day is really Boys Day. Carp banners celebrate sons and they symbolize strong, healthy boys. Girls have their own celebration on March 3rd, Hinamatsuri 雛祭, Doll Festival.
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