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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Norwegian Massacre

Massacre in Norway.

A car bomb outside a government building in Oslo and a peaceful youth Norwegian Labour Party meeting on the island Utoya in Norway ended up in a massacre that resulted in almost 100 victims after a cruel terrorist attack. A rambling 1,500-page tract written by "the suspect in Norway's twin attacks" Anders Behring Breivik said he has been preparing the "martyrdom operation" since at least autumn 2009. One of his topics at the Nordisk internet forum: "political strategies for crushing democracy". He counted on civil war and anarchism in The Netherlands after the assassinations of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh and sympathized with the Dutch politicians Pim Fortuyn (LPF), Geert Wilders (PVV) and Ayaan Hirshi Ali because they dare(d) to criticize the Islam. Some of his aims were to liberate Europe from Muslims, and Israel from the Palestines. If the majority of politicians wouldn't achieve this, he would consider a desperate massacre. We all know how it ended up in a terrible tragedy.

Manifesto? Crusaders, Knights Templar? Norwegian Freemasonry "St. Olaus til de tre Søiler" (Blue Lodge of St. John "St Olaus to the three pillars")? Am I dreamin' reading a book of Dan Brown about Templar's? No, unfortunately it's reality!

Can't find any words yet for the horrible attacks on innocent people and the Norwegian democracy. Am sincerely sympathizing with the Norwegian people.

nrc.nl/nieuws/2011/07/23/schutter-noorwegen-kondigde-daad-aan-in-manifest-en-filmpje

norwaynews.com

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Friday, June 10, 2011

Strings and branes

Strings and branes.

'M-Theory' is the name of the unknown theory of everything which would combine all five Superstring theories and the Supergravity at 11 dimensions together. It's not a completed theory but rather an approach for producing one. For me it's fascinating to read about (super)strings, (super)gravity, quarks, fermions/bosons, worldline/screens, (mem)branes, curled-up dimensions, supersymmetry, space and time. It makes me even more curious. Recently I heard about two interwoven, non-interacting, worlds at atomic distance. Can you imagine? Two worlds so close and not feeling their existence.

Strings and Branes

Came across a beautiful phrase: "String theory may have the capability to show that all of the happenings in the universe - from the dance of subatomic quarks to the movements of orbiting binary stars, from the big bang to the whirl of celestial galaxies - are reflections of one grand physical principle, one master equation, the theory of everything".

And what about this one?: "In string theory, the elementary particles we observe in particle accelerators could be thought of as the 'musical notes' or excitation modes of elementary strings. The strings in string theory are floating in spacetime. Nonetheless, they have tension".

A brane-world scenario with curled-up dimensions

We still don't know if string theory may be the right theory of nature:
As it stands, string theories are unproved, and perhaps unprovable, as they involve interactions at energy levels far beyond any we can handle. But they are beautiful, to those versed enough in the language of mathematics to follow them. And in their beauty (and perhaps in their impenetrability) they are the heirs to Einstein's - unsuccessful - attempts to produce a unified field theory.