Who’s the seller in this case, an improbable god? More to the point, what are those who read the message, as consumers, actually buying?

It’s almost like trying to sue the people who put the recycling labels on grocery packaging given that much waste material that could be recycled is still landfilled, incinerated, or sent to China to be ground up and used as hardcore for building roads.

If there were a god, would she really let stucj stupidity prevail?

spurgeonblog suggests that the ASA may have to make an official ruling on the existence of God. I think this could have serious repercussions if the religious protagonists fail in their mission as atheists step up to sue all those religious establishments that post ads for redemption and eternal life on noticeboards outside their hallowed halls.

Atheist buses are coming to a town near you, watch out for them, and don’t forget to smile as you step aboard.

(By the way, you can find out about the British Humanist Association and their part in this story here as well as donating to the cause.

There is a major problem with all of these “Forces.”  None of them fit the Law of Forces:  ” For each and every force there is an equal and opposite force.”

A shift of viewpoint may give an explanation for all of this. The Law of Forces could be rephrased to fit a substance, in which case it would read, “Every change in pressure within a substance has a compensatory adjustment within that substance. ” If it can be assumed that there be a “Universal Substance,” then all true forces are simply pressure adjustments.

What in reality are the “Four Forces of Nature”  considered in this manner?   Electromagnetism and Gravitation are observational Phenomena, what are known as “Fictional Forces,” akin to the Centrifugal Force which children on farms used to demonstrate by whirling a milk bucket in a circle. in terms of some “Universal Substance,” Electromagnetism would be a description of the results of the interactions of two stable vortex entities, of counter-rotating spins and different sizes
 within the substance.*  Gravitation, an apparent “Force of Attraction.” would actually be a result of differential pressures in the part of the “Substance”  between two “Entities” which are part of the substance, and the rest of the substance, including that part between the two entities.  

The two “Nuclear Forces” fall into a different category.  Both of them would be constructs developed to justify a conclusion.  The Strong Nuclear Force is needed to justify the assumption that neutrons exist, as such within atomic nuclei, despite the fact that under any other known conditions they are unstable with respect to electrons and protons.   The “Weak Nuclear Force” has a similar origin from the assumption that electrons and protons can rejoin to neutrons to a an appreciable extent
within conditions to be found in the nuclei of atoms.

The concept of a “Universal Substance ” is very old. It was once conceived of as a liquid or gas called an “Aether.”  This idea of an “Aether” was supposedly destroyed in the early 1900’s by the Michelson-Morley Experiment which determined the probable constancy of the Speed of Light in the “Vacuum of Outer Space.” By another viewpoint, however, that Constancy of the Speed of Light could just as well have been taken as proof of the existence of a “Substance.”  The “Substance” simply has different characteristics  than had been assumed. While a solid, liquid or a gas, individually, would not be a valid characterisation of the “Substance,” something at its “Triple Point” where small disturbances will allow it to react as if it were any one of the three fits very well.  Particularly when it is considered that the substance will revert to the “Triple Point State” as soon as possible….

In this view, the “Speed of Light” is  the “Maximum Velocity of Information Transfer in the Substance at Rest,” or nearly at rest with the disturbance of that information transfer being such that the Substance appears as a “Temporary Solid” during that time of information transfer.

One explanation of this  is that the Substance appears to be made up of rotating entities which have a “standard,” or average, tangential velocity of “c,” the speed of light. (This would be a an angular velocity of “2Pi c ” for any readers who are into angular measurement and angular velocities.) Just as belts connecting rotating wheels will transmit information at the “tangential velocity” of the rotating wheels, any set of objects spinning at the same angular velocity are capable of transmitting information at that velocity as a “Carrier Wave.”

An analysis made by combining two constants of nature, Planck’s Constant, “h,” and the Speed of Light, “c,” indicates that the “Universal Substance” may be made up of a “family set” of oscillators having the above rotational characteristic and a constant torque (push/pull on one another) of “h/c.” *

It may be noted that even Space-Time Theory which appears to not accept the idea of a “Universal Substance,” actually, in its very name, not only suggests a Universal Substance, but, also, partially defines it. Mathematical Space is never empty, it is by implication always filled with dots.  Time is a measure of sequence which is always referenced to some known cycle.  therefore, it can be said that “Space-Time” implies that it operates to describe actions within a substance of tiny units undergoing cyclic motions….

To this writer, the concept of a “Universal Substance” is far more satisfactory than any of the various constructs which have arisen on the basis of the “Four Forces of Nature.”  
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*See the following referenced web site for “pages” which pertain.  http://groups.google.com/group/oscillatorsubstance-theory  

The moving  of one of our children from the outside group which is trying to maintain the merry-g0-round device at  a constant speed to being on the  merry-go-round and what would happen on the merry-go-round and to the group outside, corresponds very closely to the phenomenon of “quantization.”  The child climbing on corresponds to “a quantum of energy absorbed,” the merry-go-round gets heavier and must contract to keep rotation constant, the outside “crowd” expands slightly.   When a child jumps off, there is a “quantum of energy” given off, the group on the device expands slightly and the outside group becomes more tightly packed. The readjustment motions in both cases would be somewhat of “wave-motions.”

As there are indications, in at least one theoretical approach,* that the basic units of our existence may be constant-speed, constant-torque oscillators, we can extend the children’s playground device to three dimensions, have the rotating  object which we are seeing quantum interactions upon be made up of a group of these oscillators–as if the play ground device were made up of children–and the surrounding crowd be other independent oscillators.

  In other words, absorption of a quantum would correspond to additional oscillators moving from the external group to the central rotator which we are observing. Emission would correspond to an oscillator disengaging.  The  electromagnetic radiation which is involved corresponds to the readjustment of the two groups. Observed, of course, in the external group.

As the oscillators appear, at least in our universe, to be constant torque–that is having a constant ability to push or pull one another–which is independent of radius,  and to have a constant spin, or spin average, this “3-D-Merry-go-round as a model seems to be quite reasonable.

 * See  http://groups.google.com/group/oscillatorsubstance-theory

“It was a product of my anxiety,” admits Mr. Keats. “I’d recently had a couple museum shows, yet I was feeling that no matter what I made, it was hardly comparable to the creation of the cosmos. And though no one talks about it, the same issue faced Picasso, Monet, even Michelangelo. The Big Bang has artists beat.”

Taking on the cosmos as a creative challenge, Mr. Keats began researching an aspect of quantum mechanics proposed by Dr. Everett in the 1950s and later refined by scientists including David Deutsch at Oxford and Wojciech Zurek at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Everett’s theory addressed the question of how a subatomic particle can exist in a quantum superposition – for example being in two places at once – until someone observes it, at which point the observer finds it to be in only one place at a time. The explanation Dr. Everett gave, now widely accepted, is that the particle remains in both places when it’s observed, but the observer’s entire universe splits as the measurement is made, so that from that moment forward there are two separate observers living in separate universes, both identical except for the observed location of that single subatomic particle.

“When I studied Everett’s theory, I immediately saw how it could be put into practice,” says Mr. Keats. Liberated from his state of despair, the artist could deliberately cleave the universe whenever he desired, effectively creating new universes by subdividing our cosmos. “In creative terms, that seemed a lot more significant than going into a studio and making another oil painting,” he observes. “Not that I know how to paint.”

Mr. Keats decided that, rather than producing only one universe, he might as well fabricate them in quantity by building a quantum universe generator. His machine needed a steady supply of subatomic particles and a means of methodically observing them. “I figured the easiest approach would be to measure radioactive decay,” he says. “So I assembled a prototype out of uranium-doped glass and a sliver of scintillating crystal.” The components cost him a couple dollars on eBay. The drinking straw and chewing gum, which he found in his kitchen cupboard, held the pieces together.

After building several more efficient prototypes, and making untold trillions of universes, Mr. Keats started to feel guilty. “Creating all those universes seemed a little selfish,” he confides. “And the last thing I wanted was a god complex.” He decided that other people ought to have the opportunity to generate new worlds. “What could be a more fulfilling hobby,” he asks, “especially in this bleak economy?”

Accordingly, Mr. Keats designed a $20 do-it-yourself universe kit, with simple instructions as well as manila envelopes containing the uranium glass and scintillating crystal. “A six-year-old could assemble it in under ten minutes,” he promises, noting that purchasers need to supply their own chewing gum and drinking straw, as well as a mid-size mason jar. Manufactured by Mr. Keats’ new company, Universes Unlimited, the kits will be packaged in small metal tins, and sold exclusively through Modernism Gallery in San Francisco. A grand opening has been scheduled for Thursday, November 20th from 5:30 to 8:00 PM.

At the opening, Mr. Keats will also unveil the next phase of Universes Unlimited, revealing plans to fabricate universes at an industrial scale. His first automated universe factory has been designed for the U.S. government’s proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository in the Nevada desert. “The radioactivity of the dump makes it ideal for making new worlds,” Mr. Keats says. His plans, which call for sinking two-mile-long scintillating crystal stacks into Yucca Mountain, has yet to be officially reviewed by the Department of Energy. However, the artist/entrepreneur is hopeful: “Now that we’ve pretty well destroyed this world, generating a googolplex of alternate universes with a googolplex of possible outcomes may be our only chance at redemption.”

“Universes Unlimited” opens at Modernism Gallery on Thursday, November 20, 2008, with a public reception from 5:30 to 8:00 PM. The gallery is located at 685 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. The phone number is 415/541-0461. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 to 5:30. For more information, see www.modernisminc.com.

Jonathon Keats is a conceptual artist, fabulist, and critic residing in San Francisco. Recently he opened a temple for the worship of science with a grant from the University of California, and choreographed a ballet for honeybees as part of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts biennial. He has also exhibited extraterrestrial abstract artwork at the Judah L. Magnes Museum, unveiled a prototype ouija voting booth for the 2008 election at the Berkeley Art Museum, attempted to genetically engineer God in a petri dish in collaboration with scientists at UC and the Smithsonian, opened the world’s first porn theater for house plants in the town of Chico, and petitioned Berkeley to pass a fundamental law of logic, a work commissioned by the city’s annual Arts Festival.