nuclear secrets
Look to lesbians for fusion solution
A successful fusion reactor is the Holy Grail of physics, as it promises to provide a virtually unlimited, safe source of energy. Fusion, which powers the sun, involves slamming isotopes of hydrogen atoms together at very high temperature and pressure in plasma.
The fuel, hydrogen atoms, is plentiful as it can be extracted from water. Fusion is safe. A fusion reactor produces 100,000 times less radioactivity than a fission reactor. Furthermore, a fusion reactor can't melt down and doesn't create air pollution or contribute to global warming. However, scientists have been stymied in their efforts to keep fusion reactions going much longer than in several-second pulses. The primary problem appears to be turbulence, which swiftly cools down the multimillion-degree reactor plasma and stops the fusion process.
I would suggest that the physicists and engineers working on this challenge are thinking too hard. Sleep on the problem. It's worked before. The 19th-century German chemist Friedrich Kekule discovered the molecular structure of benzene through a dream in which a snake had its tail in its mouth, forming a circle. He interpreted the dream to mean that the structure of benzene was a closed carbon ring.
We should explore metaphors, not hard reality. Less physics, more metaphysics. Journey into the collective unconscious, into the world of mythology and gods and goddesses. I have taken that journey myself. It began several years ago with Saddam Hussein and ended with lesbians and Homer Simpson.
I was always the student in class who vigorously waved his hand when he thought he knew the answer. I had a similar feeling in January 1991 when the US began its first war against Saddam Hussein. I had this idea about something Saddam might do during the Gulf War. I called the Pentagon, which referred me to Army Intelligence in Fort Meade, Maryland.
I told a soldier my idea over the phone. Two days later I got a call from an Army Intelligence officer who said he wanted to interview me. He came to my workplace, which was in Napa, California at the time. He said my idea sounded like the sort of thing Saddam would do and asked me if I had gotten it from classified material. I said no.
The idea seemed simple: Hussein had constructed a crude nuclear reactor in Kuwait and was prepared to melt it down if forced to retreat. The resulting radiation would contaminate the oil fields in Kuwait and cause illness and death among soldiers invading the country.
A successful fusion reactor is the Holy Grail of physics, as it promises to provide a virtually unlimited, safe source of energy. Fusion, which powers the sun, involves slamming isotopes of hydrogen atoms together at very high temperature and pressure in plasma.
The fuel, hydrogen atoms, is plentiful as it can be extracted from water. Fusion is safe. A fusion reactor produces 100,000 times less radioactivity than a fission reactor. Furthermore, a fusion reactor can't melt down and doesn't create air pollution or contribute to global warming. However, scientists have been stymied in their efforts to keep fusion reactions going much longer than in several-second pulses. The primary problem appears to be turbulence, which swiftly cools down the multimillion-degree reactor plasma and stops the fusion process.
I would suggest that the physicists and engineers working on this challenge are thinking too hard. Sleep on the problem. It's worked before. The 19th-century German chemist Friedrich Kekule discovered the molecular structure of benzene through a dream in which a snake had its tail in its mouth, forming a circle. He interpreted the dream to mean that the structure of benzene was a closed carbon ring.
We should explore metaphors, not hard reality. Less physics, more metaphysics. Journey into the collective unconscious, into the world of mythology and gods and goddesses. I have taken that journey myself. It began several years ago with Saddam Hussein and ended with lesbians and Homer Simpson.
I was always the student in class who vigorously waved his hand when he thought he knew the answer. I had a similar feeling in January 1991 when the US began its first war against Saddam Hussein. I had this idea about something Saddam might do during the Gulf War. I called the Pentagon, which referred me to Army Intelligence in Fort Meade, Maryland.
I told a soldier my idea over the phone. Two days later I got a call from an Army Intelligence officer who said he wanted to interview me. He came to my workplace, which was in Napa, California at the time. He said my idea sounded like the sort of thing Saddam would do and asked me if I had gotten it from classified material. I said no.
The idea seemed simple: Hussein had constructed a crude nuclear reactor in Kuwait and was prepared to melt it down if forced to retreat. The resulting radiation would contaminate the oil fields in Kuwait and cause illness and death among soldiers invading the country.
Experimental reactor chamber
Sex bomb Why hadn't someone thought of this before? I decided this mental block was caused by sexism. We are used to thinking of weapons in "male" terms: weapons that explode or penetrate. A nuclear bomb has "male" characteristics: It is a miniature sun; the sun is usually represented in mythology as a male god. Furthermore, the nuclear bomb explodes quickly like a male orgasm and is usually delivered in a phallic-shaped missile or bomb.
The male sexuality of the bomb was further emphasized by the introduction of the modern bikini at a Paris fashion show on July 25, 1946. The skimpy, female two-piece outfit was named after the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the site of nuclear weapon tests a few days earlier. Both the atoll and the woman wearing the swimsuit were "targets" for the male "bomb."
A nuclear reactor, on the other hand, has "female" characteristics: It provides a long continuous release of energy, like the female orgasm. Instead of killing by penetration (like a bullet) or by explosion, the reactor in a meltdown kills by radiation poisoning. Poison is the traditional weapon of the female. Note the double standard. Male weapons that kill by penetration or explosion are deemed acceptable in war; female weapons that kill by poisoning, such as germ or chemical warfare, are considered abhorrent.
The sexual dichotomy is also expressed in light and darkness. The "male" nuclear bomb produces a white-hot explosion; the black graphite of the "female" Chernobyl reactor suggests the darkness inside the womb. A nuclear reactor in a power plant could also be compared to a woman stuck in a kitchen, forced to cook all her life.
I would suggest, then, that a fission bomb (the A-bomb) represents a male form of nuclear energy. A fission reactor represents the female form. What are we to make, then, of a fusion bomb (the H-bomb) and a fusion reactor? I would suggest that these are the "gay" and "lesbian" forms of nuclear power.
Let us see if the metaphors fit. The hydrogen bomb, a thermonuclear device, is a union of male and male: A male atomic bomb triggers an even greater male explosion, a kind of nuclear sodomy. The first H-bomb consisted of a phallic-like cylinder with an "anal" sleeve. Ignition of the fission ball excited the cylinder elements: A membrane of U238 aroused the tissue of lithium deuteride, forcing the eruption of U235 or plutonium inside a urethra-like tube.
Two donuts That leaves the fusion reactor as the one incomplete part of the nuclear equation. Current fusion experiments use a chamber in the form of a torus or donut. The donut is a classic "female" geometric shape as it is all curves and no straight lines. However, as a donut represents only one female, one may conclude that a successful "lesbian" reactor must incorporate two donuts, perhaps one on top of another. Ellen DeGeneres can energize us.
However, a further study of lesbian relationships suggests that a double torus may not be enough to sustain a nuclear fusion reaction.
In the 1980s psychologists observed that over time, sexual activity, particularly genital contact, among many lesbian couples would decline and even become non-existent, a phenomenon dubbed “lesbian bed death.” One theory held that “fusion” between lesbians resulted in an emotional connection that resembled incest and thus inhibited sexual expression. Another explanation was that absent a “male force,” women revert to a passive sexuality.
Subsequently, many lesbians compensated for this deficit by incorporating more maleness into their culture and relationships. Trends included “trannie boys,” who took male hormones and had double mastectomies but kept their female genitalia, and “Bois,” lesbians who dressed and acted like men, including wearing a dildo under their pants.
Thus, to sustain a continuous flow of energy, a fusion reactor must also incorporate a male force, perhaps a phallic instrument that skewers the double torus, like a churro piercing two donuts.
The male sexuality of the bomb was further emphasized by the introduction of the modern bikini at a Paris fashion show on July 25, 1946. The skimpy, female two-piece outfit was named after the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the site of nuclear weapon tests a few days earlier. Both the atoll and the woman wearing the swimsuit were "targets" for the male "bomb."
A nuclear reactor, on the other hand, has "female" characteristics: It provides a long continuous release of energy, like the female orgasm. Instead of killing by penetration (like a bullet) or by explosion, the reactor in a meltdown kills by radiation poisoning. Poison is the traditional weapon of the female. Note the double standard. Male weapons that kill by penetration or explosion are deemed acceptable in war; female weapons that kill by poisoning, such as germ or chemical warfare, are considered abhorrent.
The sexual dichotomy is also expressed in light and darkness. The "male" nuclear bomb produces a white-hot explosion; the black graphite of the "female" Chernobyl reactor suggests the darkness inside the womb. A nuclear reactor in a power plant could also be compared to a woman stuck in a kitchen, forced to cook all her life.
I would suggest, then, that a fission bomb (the A-bomb) represents a male form of nuclear energy. A fission reactor represents the female form. What are we to make, then, of a fusion bomb (the H-bomb) and a fusion reactor? I would suggest that these are the "gay" and "lesbian" forms of nuclear power.
Let us see if the metaphors fit. The hydrogen bomb, a thermonuclear device, is a union of male and male: A male atomic bomb triggers an even greater male explosion, a kind of nuclear sodomy. The first H-bomb consisted of a phallic-like cylinder with an "anal" sleeve. Ignition of the fission ball excited the cylinder elements: A membrane of U238 aroused the tissue of lithium deuteride, forcing the eruption of U235 or plutonium inside a urethra-like tube.
Two donuts That leaves the fusion reactor as the one incomplete part of the nuclear equation. Current fusion experiments use a chamber in the form of a torus or donut. The donut is a classic "female" geometric shape as it is all curves and no straight lines. However, as a donut represents only one female, one may conclude that a successful "lesbian" reactor must incorporate two donuts, perhaps one on top of another. Ellen DeGeneres can energize us.
However, a further study of lesbian relationships suggests that a double torus may not be enough to sustain a nuclear fusion reaction.
In the 1980s psychologists observed that over time, sexual activity, particularly genital contact, among many lesbian couples would decline and even become non-existent, a phenomenon dubbed “lesbian bed death.” One theory held that “fusion” between lesbians resulted in an emotional connection that resembled incest and thus inhibited sexual expression. Another explanation was that absent a “male force,” women revert to a passive sexuality.
Subsequently, many lesbians compensated for this deficit by incorporating more maleness into their culture and relationships. Trends included “trannie boys,” who took male hormones and had double mastectomies but kept their female genitalia, and “Bois,” lesbians who dressed and acted like men, including wearing a dildo under their pants.
Thus, to sustain a continuous flow of energy, a fusion reactor must also incorporate a male force, perhaps a phallic instrument that skewers the double torus, like a churro piercing two donuts.
Bacon-salt churros
In 1968 I went to see the film The Killing of Sister George, about an aging lesbian who is losing both her TV acting job and her young lover. The film featured a controversial erotic scene near the end. After leaving the theater, I discovered that the battery had been stolen from my Ford Falcon, perhaps a metaphor for the dynamics of a “lesbian” fusion reactor. The central “male” core and “battery” of the reactor will have its energy “stolen” by the “butch” torus, which then flows to the other torus.
A dream I had suggests that my concepts may lead to success. In the dream, I have decided I must obtain a patent on my idea. As I begin to draw an illustration of a double torus, a corporation offers me a million dollars for my concept, although I know the idea is worth a billion dollars.
Next, I am in a tunnel that is part of a fusion experiment. A strong wind blows through the tunnel. Scientists are excited by the wind; they believe it means the experiment is a success. Scientists then find a dinner plate-size metal disk that has the name of a scientist, "Antichrist," engraved on it. However, the word is spelled slightly differently, as if it was in a foreign language. Again, the scientists are enthusiastic, believing the word "Antichrist" to be a sign of success.
Finally, in the dream, I see a complicated equation. I don't remember the formula, but I believe the letter "e" is repeated several times. The part about the money may reflect my fear that my ideas will never be fully valued although it could also mean my double torus idea would be incomplete until I added the value of the male element. The tunnel in the dream may represent a passage from the physical world to the spiritual realm. Perhaps the wind is the "breath" of a spirit making its presence known.
The word "Antichrist" may express duality. If Christ represents the spiritual world, the Antichrist represents the physical world. Thus, "Antichrist" is a material equivalent (fusion reactor) of a spiritual or symbolic idea (sexual metaphor). That "Antichrist" is in a foreign language could mean that the scientists are dealing with ideas that are "foreign" to them. The name may also identify me as the Antichrist.
Mandala The disk on which the word "Antichrist" is discovered is suggestive of a mandala, the "magic circle" representing balance and order in the dreamer's inner being, according to psychologist Carl Jung. The mysterious equation at the conclusion of the dream may represent my own efforts and frustrations in trying to decipher the secrets of creation. While the e in the equation may have some symbolic meaning, the letter e is also used in physics to represent energy. In some studies, -e denotes an electron, while e+ represents a positron.
I am not the only person who dreams of a fusion reactor. Let us visit the nuclear power plant in the town of Springfield, where safety inspector Homer Simpson sits at a control panel. He begins to daydream, not realizing that his subconscious is pointing to the creation of a fusion reactor . . . "Mmmm donuts" (or now, “Mmmm lesbians”).
Roswell and Hiroshima
In one of the most popular UFO mythologies, the US government supposedly recovered the remains of a crashed UFO along with its alien passengers near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947.
The Roswell incident began when a rancher reported to the local sheriff that he had found the remains of what might be a flying saucer. The sheriff then contacted military authorities at Roswell Army Air Field, who sent three people to recover the wreckage. On July 8, the public information office at Roswell AAF made the astonishing announcement that the remains of a "flying disc" had been recovered. However, the next day, the military recanted, reporting the wreckage was simply that of a weather balloon.
The Roswell event faded in the media until 1978 when a UFO researcher found witnesses who upheld the original "flying disc" report. Interest in the story further increased with the 1997 release of film purporting to show the autopsy of an alien recovered in the Roswell UFO crash. The Roswell incident and the alleged autopsy became the grist for several TV shows and movies, and innumerable conspiracy theories.
I don't believe that an actual flying saucer crashed in New Mexico. However, I do believe that the Roswell story persists in the public imagination because it represents an effort by the collective unconscious (spirit world) to convey an important message to the collective conscious in our material world. As in any mythology, the truth will be found in pursuing the metaphor, not the literal facts. A flying saucer is a medium for conveying a message from space (the heavens) to earth (the material world). The "alien" is a spirit or soul who, near Roswell, crashed and died. The purpose of an "alien autopsy" is to determine the cause of death. What, then, could kill a soul?
The commonly held belief is that the soul is separate from the material world yet is somehow connected to the body. Some cultures believe that the soul leaves the body during dreams. Most religions hold that the soul leaves the body at the time of death and enters a spiritual realm (heaven, hell or purgatory), and, as some believe, is reincarnated in another body.
If the soul occupies or is somehow connected to the body, can it truly be non-material? Is the soul a form of matter and/or energy that exists beyond our current comprehension? Maybe the soul exists in another dimension. In any case, a material soul is vulnerable to material destruction.
Location Ordinarily, death does not a pose a threat to the existence of the soul. Even when death is swift and violent, as in a conventional explosion, destruction may occur at a molecular level, but a soul that existed at the atomic or subatomic level might remain intact. But what if death was so fast and furious that it destroyed all patterns of energy and matter? Under what circumstances would such a death occur? We need only look back at Roswell and heed the real estate maxim: "location, location, location." Roswell is in New Mexico, home of the first atomic bomb test. Here then is a kind of deadly force that could destroy souls.
At Hiroshima, where the atomic bomb was first used against the Japanese, the temperature at the site of the explosion reached approximately 5,400 F. People within a half mile of the fireball were turned into "bundles of smoking char in a fraction of a second," noted Richard Rhodes in the book The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Such black bundles numbered in the thousands: the shadows of destroyed souls. In the explosion of a much more powerful H-bomb, the fireball can expand to three miles in diameter, claiming the souls of tens of thousands.
That the creation of a sun on earth could destroy souls is consistent with mythology. The sun god is often represented by a falcon or other raptor, symbolizing the soaring spirit. The earth goddess is usually depicted with a snake, representing the powers of the flesh and the generation of life. The god and goddess thus represent the duality of soul and body. The angry goddess would destroy the body; the angry god would destroy the soul.
The scientists who created the nuclear bomb were not unaware of the spiritual or mythic dimensions of their actions. Moments after the explosion in the New Mexico desert, Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project, recalled a line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita: "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." In communications with each other, physicists considering the ethics of the bomb cited the Old Testament, the teachings of Buddha and various works of literature, such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Yet, for all their soul-searching, apparently none of the physicists in the Manhattan Project ever considered the possibility that a nuclear inferno would destroy both body and soul.
The decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ultimately rested with the Commander in Chief, President Harry Truman, who apparently spent little time contemplating the unique destructive power of the atomic bomb. Hitler killed millions of people, but at least the essence of those people, their souls, lived on in the afterlife or through reincarnation. Truman was the first person in history to rob people of both body and soul, and thus he was more destructive than Hitler. Unless, of course, you believe killing souls is a good idea.
In one of the most popular UFO mythologies, the US government supposedly recovered the remains of a crashed UFO along with its alien passengers near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947.
The Roswell incident began when a rancher reported to the local sheriff that he had found the remains of what might be a flying saucer. The sheriff then contacted military authorities at Roswell Army Air Field, who sent three people to recover the wreckage. On July 8, the public information office at Roswell AAF made the astonishing announcement that the remains of a "flying disc" had been recovered. However, the next day, the military recanted, reporting the wreckage was simply that of a weather balloon.
The Roswell event faded in the media until 1978 when a UFO researcher found witnesses who upheld the original "flying disc" report. Interest in the story further increased with the 1997 release of film purporting to show the autopsy of an alien recovered in the Roswell UFO crash. The Roswell incident and the alleged autopsy became the grist for several TV shows and movies, and innumerable conspiracy theories.
I don't believe that an actual flying saucer crashed in New Mexico. However, I do believe that the Roswell story persists in the public imagination because it represents an effort by the collective unconscious (spirit world) to convey an important message to the collective conscious in our material world. As in any mythology, the truth will be found in pursuing the metaphor, not the literal facts. A flying saucer is a medium for conveying a message from space (the heavens) to earth (the material world). The "alien" is a spirit or soul who, near Roswell, crashed and died. The purpose of an "alien autopsy" is to determine the cause of death. What, then, could kill a soul?
The commonly held belief is that the soul is separate from the material world yet is somehow connected to the body. Some cultures believe that the soul leaves the body during dreams. Most religions hold that the soul leaves the body at the time of death and enters a spiritual realm (heaven, hell or purgatory), and, as some believe, is reincarnated in another body.
If the soul occupies or is somehow connected to the body, can it truly be non-material? Is the soul a form of matter and/or energy that exists beyond our current comprehension? Maybe the soul exists in another dimension. In any case, a material soul is vulnerable to material destruction.
Location Ordinarily, death does not a pose a threat to the existence of the soul. Even when death is swift and violent, as in a conventional explosion, destruction may occur at a molecular level, but a soul that existed at the atomic or subatomic level might remain intact. But what if death was so fast and furious that it destroyed all patterns of energy and matter? Under what circumstances would such a death occur? We need only look back at Roswell and heed the real estate maxim: "location, location, location." Roswell is in New Mexico, home of the first atomic bomb test. Here then is a kind of deadly force that could destroy souls.
At Hiroshima, where the atomic bomb was first used against the Japanese, the temperature at the site of the explosion reached approximately 5,400 F. People within a half mile of the fireball were turned into "bundles of smoking char in a fraction of a second," noted Richard Rhodes in the book The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Such black bundles numbered in the thousands: the shadows of destroyed souls. In the explosion of a much more powerful H-bomb, the fireball can expand to three miles in diameter, claiming the souls of tens of thousands.
That the creation of a sun on earth could destroy souls is consistent with mythology. The sun god is often represented by a falcon or other raptor, symbolizing the soaring spirit. The earth goddess is usually depicted with a snake, representing the powers of the flesh and the generation of life. The god and goddess thus represent the duality of soul and body. The angry goddess would destroy the body; the angry god would destroy the soul.
The scientists who created the nuclear bomb were not unaware of the spiritual or mythic dimensions of their actions. Moments after the explosion in the New Mexico desert, Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project, recalled a line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita: "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." In communications with each other, physicists considering the ethics of the bomb cited the Old Testament, the teachings of Buddha and various works of literature, such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Yet, for all their soul-searching, apparently none of the physicists in the Manhattan Project ever considered the possibility that a nuclear inferno would destroy both body and soul.
The decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ultimately rested with the Commander in Chief, President Harry Truman, who apparently spent little time contemplating the unique destructive power of the atomic bomb. Hitler killed millions of people, but at least the essence of those people, their souls, lived on in the afterlife or through reincarnation. Truman was the first person in history to rob people of both body and soul, and thus he was more destructive than Hitler. Unless, of course, you believe killing souls is a good idea.
The Enewetak omen
Kaaba in 1880, H-bomb building in 1952
Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The worst possible outcome in the conflict between Islam and the West was predicted in 1952.
The Kaaba in Mecca is the shrine central to Muslim rituals. During the annual week-long hajj pilgrimage, more than a million Muslims walk counterclockwise around the building seven times.
The Kaaba is also similar in size, shape and appearance to the building that housed the first H-bomb test. Indeed, Robert Jungk, author and anti-nuclear activist, noted that the structure “reminded some of the participants of the Kaaba.” The thermonuclear device was detonated on November 1, 1952 by the U.S. on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, yielding an explosion of 10.4–12 megatons of TNT and a large amount of radioactive fallout.
If we experience another Nine Eleven, a reactionary U.S. President might order the dropping of an H-bomb on the Kaaba. That leader may see himself as an agent of God in fulfilling the “H-bomb prophecy.” The “Kaaba” at ground zero at Enewetak would become the Kaaba at ground zero in Mecca.
It doesn’t need to end that way. The Kaaba must travel to a place where the material and spiritual worlds can meet.
Merge CERN and Mecca
The CERN collider complex in Europe, where physicists race particles in a giant circle, and the Kaaba, in Mecca, where Muslim pilgrims travel in a circle, should be united to achieve a balance between the material and spiritual worlds.
Muslims on the Hajj reach out to Allah; scientists at CERN reach for the God particle.
The Kaaba and the Large Hadron Collider, near Geneva, Switzerland, are polar opposites about 4,100 kilometers apart and represent the divisions between the West and Islam. This imbalance will not end until the two structures come together. As it would be impractical to dismantle the LHC and reconstruct it in Saudi Arabia, Mohammed must come to the mountain: the Alps. The Kaaba, a small building, could be taken apart and reassembled above ground in the LHC circle.
When the circling at the Kaaba and the LHC are synchronized, we may open the gate to Heaven or the gate to Hell, depending on what is in the hearts of the scientists and Muslim pilgrims.
The Swiss, known for their clockwork precision, would be better at crowd control than the Saudis, whose mismanagement of the Hajj rituals has resulted in thousands of deaths over the years. On the other hand, moving the Kaaba to the French-Swiss border could be interpreted as an introduction of the Caliphate into Europe.
The CERN collider complex in Europe, where physicists race particles in a giant circle, and the Kaaba, in Mecca, where Muslim pilgrims travel in a circle, should be united to achieve a balance between the material and spiritual worlds.
Muslims on the Hajj reach out to Allah; scientists at CERN reach for the God particle.
The Kaaba and the Large Hadron Collider, near Geneva, Switzerland, are polar opposites about 4,100 kilometers apart and represent the divisions between the West and Islam. This imbalance will not end until the two structures come together. As it would be impractical to dismantle the LHC and reconstruct it in Saudi Arabia, Mohammed must come to the mountain: the Alps. The Kaaba, a small building, could be taken apart and reassembled above ground in the LHC circle.
When the circling at the Kaaba and the LHC are synchronized, we may open the gate to Heaven or the gate to Hell, depending on what is in the hearts of the scientists and Muslim pilgrims.
The Swiss, known for their clockwork precision, would be better at crowd control than the Saudis, whose mismanagement of the Hajj rituals has resulted in thousands of deaths over the years. On the other hand, moving the Kaaba to the French-Swiss border could be interpreted as an introduction of the Caliphate into Europe.
Why God crippled Stephen Hawking
Scientists who debunk miracles have ignored a miracle among their own kind: the long life of British scientist Stephen Hawking, renowned for his theories on black holes and his book A Brief History of Time.
Diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) in 1963 when he was 21, Hawking lived to age 76 with the crippling neurological affliction, which typically ends its victim’s life within 39 months. Hawking’s longevity was described as “extraordinary” by Anmar Al-Chalabi, director of the Motor Neuron Disease Care and Research Centre at King’s College London.
Since miracles are associated with the curing of a disease, what could be miraculous about having a disease? The answer may be found in how divine design intersects with British and Egyptian culture.
Hawking received his diagnosis in 1963, the same year as the debut of the BBC TV series Doctor Who, which features an eccentric human-like alien who travels through time and space to thwart various evildoers, including Davros, creator of the robotic Daleks. Like Hawking, Davros is confined to a sophisticated wheelchair and speaks with an electronic voice.
If Hawking had not been humbled by a crippling disease, perhaps he would have used some of his great knowledge for destructive purposes. God may have split Hawking, creating two “half-men”: a crippled good Hawking who lives in the material world and a disabled bad Hawking (Davros) whose chicanery is confined to fiction.
The word “hawking” is a synonym for “falconry.” The falcon represents the central figure in the trinity of the Egyptian sun-god Re: Khepri (scarab) at dawn, Ra (falcon) at noon, and Atum (water lily) in the evening. In 1963, the Beatles represented the scarab god, bringing the power of resurrection and self-renewal after the world had “slept” and recovered from World War II.
The falcon power of Hawking, representing knowledge and authority, was “out of place” in 1963 and had to be restrained, even crippled, so that Khepri (the Beatles/scarabs) could create a cultural revolution without being challenged by other aspects of the trinity.
Hawking’s survival bears witness to how God works his will, however cruel and capricious, through both modern culture and ancient religion.
Dates Hawking died on March 14, 2018, the 139th anniversary of Albert Einstein's birth. He was also born 300 years to the day after Galileo died. Galileo (astronomy) + Einstein (physics) = Hawking (astrophysics). March 14 (3.14) is also Pi Day, a time to celebrate mathematics, a discipline essential to both astronomy and physics.
Scientists who debunk miracles have ignored a miracle among their own kind: the long life of British scientist Stephen Hawking, renowned for his theories on black holes and his book A Brief History of Time.
Diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) in 1963 when he was 21, Hawking lived to age 76 with the crippling neurological affliction, which typically ends its victim’s life within 39 months. Hawking’s longevity was described as “extraordinary” by Anmar Al-Chalabi, director of the Motor Neuron Disease Care and Research Centre at King’s College London.
Since miracles are associated with the curing of a disease, what could be miraculous about having a disease? The answer may be found in how divine design intersects with British and Egyptian culture.
Hawking received his diagnosis in 1963, the same year as the debut of the BBC TV series Doctor Who, which features an eccentric human-like alien who travels through time and space to thwart various evildoers, including Davros, creator of the robotic Daleks. Like Hawking, Davros is confined to a sophisticated wheelchair and speaks with an electronic voice.
If Hawking had not been humbled by a crippling disease, perhaps he would have used some of his great knowledge for destructive purposes. God may have split Hawking, creating two “half-men”: a crippled good Hawking who lives in the material world and a disabled bad Hawking (Davros) whose chicanery is confined to fiction.
The word “hawking” is a synonym for “falconry.” The falcon represents the central figure in the trinity of the Egyptian sun-god Re: Khepri (scarab) at dawn, Ra (falcon) at noon, and Atum (water lily) in the evening. In 1963, the Beatles represented the scarab god, bringing the power of resurrection and self-renewal after the world had “slept” and recovered from World War II.
The falcon power of Hawking, representing knowledge and authority, was “out of place” in 1963 and had to be restrained, even crippled, so that Khepri (the Beatles/scarabs) could create a cultural revolution without being challenged by other aspects of the trinity.
Hawking’s survival bears witness to how God works his will, however cruel and capricious, through both modern culture and ancient religion.
Dates Hawking died on March 14, 2018, the 139th anniversary of Albert Einstein's birth. He was also born 300 years to the day after Galileo died. Galileo (astronomy) + Einstein (physics) = Hawking (astrophysics). March 14 (3.14) is also Pi Day, a time to celebrate mathematics, a discipline essential to both astronomy and physics.
Images The sun, a natural fusion reactor, NASA, public domain; Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; bacon-salt churros, Jen Arr, CC BY-SA 2.0; Kaaba in 1880, public domain; H-bomb building in 1952, U.S. Dept. of Defense, public domain