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  1. Posted

    The speed of light is actually known to be faster than it has ever been before! It is far from constant. Much of what you say it true however. We DO only know things from our tiny perspective, and this is far from entirely objective. Laws DO have to be ammended from time to time as new discoveries are made. Einstein's laws themselves prove that Newton's laws do not hold true at extremely high speeds and under the influence of extremely high gravitational forces.

    On the other hand, relativity is a theory that came from the mind of a genius, and since then, has been proven to be correct under every circumstance that we can test. And yes, they have been tested in space. The sun itself gives off the amount of radiation that Einstien's equations predict for the mass it loses. Time dilation has been proven to be accurately predicted by these theories too. In the future, there maybe new laws discovered that make Einstein's laws slightly incorrect under special circumstances (in fact, quantum theory could be said to do just that. But that is a whole other textbook), just as his laws altered the implications of Newton's, but you must remember, that the laws devised by Newton centuries ago and these laws alone, are used today to land craft on other planets, something that could not be tested in Newton's day. So just as newton's laws are aplicable for the motion of object on earth and at low speeds (when talking about low speeds in this context, we can mean hundreds of times the speed of sound) in space, Einstein's will always be applicable for making nuclear reactions anywhere in the known universe (this is how all the light of the stars in the night sky is created), for strong gravitational fields, and for high speed travel. That is, speeds approaching that of light.

    The warping of spacetime and subsequent dilation of time caused by the rotation of a large mass (in this case the earth) has only been possible in the past couple of years because of advances in the accuracy of atomic clocks. However, a couple of years ago when this was tested, Einstien's predictions of almost a century ago proved to be true. The light from stars that are hundreds of lightyears away are redshifted to exactly (by the most accurate human measurements possible) the degree that these equations predict. I think you underestimate the universality mathematics and the predictive power of the works of the physics geniuses, and there are many more of those than just Einstein and Newton.

    -Zac

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    I was thinking about agar before, but I didn't think a virus would grow in it because it requires a host, so I kept silent. It's interesting to learn that it can. I'm not that interested in biology, but I might do some research on that, because it sounds interesting.

    -Zac

  4. Posted

    Yeah. Post me some frozen mucus and...On second thoughts I think I'll stick with the alkaloids. :P I don't think many are going to be interested in experimenting with this possiblity, but that makes you a pioneer. Maybe you'll be the first person to isolate/develope a psychedelic virus.

    I'm not sure how long your immunity for the virus will last after your body defeats it. Maybe you will never be able to reinfect. If you could find enough people who were interested, you could send it on to the next person, who would infect themselves and then send it on to the next person and so on and so forth, untill it has mutated enough that when the last person sends it back to you, you can infect yourself with it.

  5. Posted

    BTW, most of the information in that link is incorrect (as far as I know). Here is a link that I think is a lot more accurate http://library.thinkquest.org/C003763/pdf/origin06.pdf I think requiring cells is a fairly arbitrary difinition and it is the only one according to this source that viruses don't posess. Like it says, it is a matter of great debate and a grey area. If we met concious beings from other solar systems, whose bodies were not made up of cells, I would like it if we still considered them lifeforms. I would also like to think that any machine that displays all of these traits apart from being made up of cells would eventually be thought of as living.

    -Zac

  7. Posted

    I personally would not put up with the negative effects of a cold, even for a spiritual experience, but if it is worth it for you, then there is nothing wrong with it. Even the most enjoyable entheogens have negative side effects. Are you sure it was JUST a cold. Maybe your immune system was lowered by a flu virus, thus enabling the cold to come on so quickly. You would still experience the cold, but another virus might be responsible for an hallucination inducing fever. Just a thought.

    -Zac

  8. Posted

    A Virus is not alive

    Well...It depends on what definition of life you use. Viruses do not move under their own power, and they reauire a host to survive, but they multiply, utilize a food source, and adapt.

    "Virtually all authors who have considered life from the point of view of molecular biology have regarded the property of self-reproduction as the most fundamental aspect of a living organism." —John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle

    "What is the characteristic feature of life? When is a piece of matter said to be alive? When it goes on "doing something," moving, exchanging material with its environment, and so forth, and that for a much longer period than we would expect an inanimate piece of matter to "keep going" under similar circumstances. When a system that is not alive is isolated or placed in a uniform environment, all motion usually comes to a standstill very soon as a result of various kinds of friction; differences of electric or chemical potential are equalized, substances which tend to form a chemical compound do so, temperature becomes uniform by heat conduction. After that the whole system fades away into a dead, inert lump of matter. A permanent state is reached, in which no observable events occur. The physicist calls this the state of thermodynamical equilibrium, or of "maximum entropy." —Erwin Schrodinger, What is Life?"

    I don't think Schroedinger's definition in anyway rules out viruses, but that again is a matter of opinion.

    The scientific community is still very much divided on whether a virus is alive or not, but it is all just a matter of semantics. We know what a virus IS, we just differ on definition. That is, it is various peoples opinions on the definition of life that differs, not their opinions on the mechanics/biology :wink: of the virus itself.

    As for the question of keeping a cold alive. I have no idea. Try smoking lots of cigarettes, eating poorly, and living on the street. :P

  10. Posted

    Here's a dxm inspired artwork that I knocked up on paint shop pro. It depicts something that I always see on dxm and I'm not sure if it is a common visual for dxm, or something personal. I think I did a pretty good job of depicting it though (minus the movement of course). I am working on another one of a completely different visual, but have not been able to get it right as of yet. I will probably come back from time to time and post new ones. Maybe hand drawn ones too, and some music...all dxm inspired. I think the dxm experience is very diverse, and thus is a great source for inspiration. I am going back there sometime in early January when one of my friends is doing his first third plateau, and I will probably go into it with the plan of bringing back some artistic inspiration, so I might have some really good stuff then. Hope you like what you see :)

    -Zac

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  12. Posted

    I should have said equalateral triangle as the ratio of one arm lenthening while

    the one or both of the other shortens is apparent.

    Many together would form a Bucky ball. Would be interesting to know the angle as it would be a universal number.

    Yeah, matter is the condensed sum of the arms of a equalateral triangle as the total energy/space and time would remain constant but the existential expression of such if manipulated is a matter for physicist not me to comment about.

    Bosen condensate, laser light speed slow downs, who knows a good example..

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    But for the pyramid type of polyhedron the fourth arm might be consciousness or conscouness might be the condensate while the four surfaces would be interesting and different as each is delineated by only three of the four possible dimensional parameters.

    I wonder what sort of 5th D bucky ball that would produce.

    The nucleous of a atom flutuates in a remarkable fractal manner.

    But consider tetrahedron ratios is way too confusing and unprovable.

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    I was thinking to much of the masonic emblem on the dollar bill showing a pyramid with Gods eye in the center and considering it might represent a short of social equation. In equal proportion the social equation would produce a stable society while in unequal proportion, a doomed one.

    This still all sounds like a bunch of unrelated stuff all joined together into sentences. What are you talking about? If any one of the sides of any equilateral polygon/polyhedron shortens, it will no longer be equilateral. A triangle will become scalene or isosceles.

    How did buckyballs come into it? As far as I know, the carbon-carbon bonds (i.e. every bond) in a bucky ball, produce pentagonal spaces in the framework not triangular. Would be interesting to know the angle? WHAT angle? The rest I'm not even gonna try to figure out what you're trying to say. Maybe if I was on acid I would think you were saying something that actually makes sense, and I was just not in a state to understand it, but I'm not, and I can recognize gobledygook when I see it.

  13. Posted

    What the hell are you guys on? :wink:

    Are we talking about a tetrahedron? If so, then as one edge increases or decreases in length, so must the other five in order for the vertices to remain equidistant. All the other stuff I have no idea what you guys are talking about. Is this some secret code? Because it doesn't sound like physics.

    :blink:

    are we talking coriolis force here?

    What did that have to do with the coriolis force?

    Energy does not = mass times the square of the speed of light.

    If we're talking physics and this isn't a metaphor that has gone COMPLETELY over my head, yes it does. It's been proven time and time again that matter is just energy 'frozen' in spacetime. Because the same quantity of matter will always liberate the same quantity of energy when annihilated, E=m. Or, to put it in a less cumbersome way (because an enourmous quantity of energy is liberated from the destruction of a tiny quantity of matter) E=mc^2

    But...It sounds like you guys are talking about something completely different. You're posts all seem almost unrelated. So tell me, Is this a secret code or something? :P

    Anyway, to repeat myself in a way, Amulte was essentially right when he said that no edges/sides can be shortened. This is true of the sides of all polygons, and edges of all polyhedrons.

  14. Posted

    As far as glow sticks go, I actually think if you are tripping mainly for fun on a substance like LSD (as opposed to looking for a spiritual experience), they can be kinda fun. And the visuals are often very obvious with the high contrast at night (I can see trails coming off them when I'm straight!). I have juggling balls that have high intensity LEDs in them, and they can look amazing. I also have a contact juggling ball that reacts to UV light with an intense purple glow. But hey, contact juggling always looks best with a plain crystal ball. The one thing I don't understand is why glowsticks have caught on with the extacy culture seeing as MDMA is not really visual. I prefer sitting around a barbie with close friends and just chatting most of the time on E, just as I do when I'm straight. Come to think of it, that's probably what I'd prefer when I'm on psychedelics. Although something trippy that glows can be cool on psychedelics in any setting, be it a glowstick, a bike light, a cigarette, or :wink: a blank sheet of paper. But yeah, I don't think many people use glowsticks as a tool on the path to enlightenment :)

    -Zac

  16. Posted

    I brought this up in some correspondance between Gerbil and me, but he could not conclusively answer the question. Maybe someone else here has an idea. Everyone here talks as though violacea is a synonym for tricolour. I have read otherwise in the past (not sure where), and I found this: http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/57559/index.html (scroll down to RON_CONVOLVULACEAEs comment)

    I don't know the validity of his comment or of the information in the linked pages, but it sounds quite plausible.

    Can anyone shed some light on this?

    -Zac

  17. Posted

    Also, I personally shun the concept of a 'bad trip'. This was a hellish experience for me, and I have had hellish experiences on lsd too, but they served a purpose for me at the time which could not be served by anything else. As long as the experience does not trigger a mental illnes, or disturb you enough that you choose to end your own life, I think all trips, both confronting/difficult experiences, and pleasant experiences, are good trips. It is often the diffucult experiences that we learn the most from.

  18. Posted

    i dont think theres anything wrong with saying u have a shamanic experience at all or the need for inverted coma's. Its not like calling urself a chartered accountant, which requires professional exams for a specific reason of qa and law.

    I think my reason for this was more that I don't know enough about shamanism to make this claim. I don't want to inadvertantly say something that I am not meaning to say. To use an extreme example, someone might get a tatoo of a swastika because they like the design, not realising what it signifies in post wwII society.

    "I think therefore I am"

    Think you are a "nutcase on drugs" and you are.

    Think you are a "Neo-Shaman" and others think you're a nutcase on drugs :wink:

    I'm not sure I know exactly what I think. But I believe that these states of mind are far more than just a simulation of mental illness. I believe there is some fundamental truth that is inherent in them. Maybe it is just the realisation that reality is not set in stone.

    I know, I have been there.

    I have actually been there before too. The only difference this time is that my current girlfriend wishes to overcome it and take responsibility for the way she feels NOW. My ex on the other hand would take the role of the victim in every situation in life and would also force other people to suffer to make her feel better about her own suffering. Eventually I had to decide in that relationship that I could't keep telling myself it wasn't her fault for the way she is, because it was destroying me. Most abusers have been abused themselves and it is never an excuse.

    I am glad this topic sparked some interest. I actually thought I might never get ONE reply!

  20. Posted

    I Know that shamans of old would probably laugh at neo-shamanism and the shamanic experiences of non-shamans....

    I had an experience in which I died and was not reborn, but instead, undeaded! This experience took me to the very darkest recesses of my mind and forced me to face issues that have been purcolating below the surface (mainly relating to the sexual abuse my girlfriend suffered when she was a child)

    I was very careful in the title to put inverted commas around the first word, because I don't want to be throwing that word around like it has no meaning, and I am not exactly an expert on shamanic theory.

    This is the culmination, and conclusion, of my dxm research.

    I'm speechless

  21. Posted

    I don't know very much about this subject, but...

    Spores ARE legal, but the ownly way a spore ring can survive is with the cultivation of the fungii. I doubt THAT in itself would be enough evidence for prosecution, but it MIGHT be enough to obtain a search warrant.

    It's an exciting prospect though :)

    -Zac

  22. Posted

    just wanted to add.. that post wasn't an intentional plug really... if there was anything i knew of better i'd be gushing all about that...

    That's cool :)

    If you are selling them quite cheaper than other companies, I might actually be interested in buying one at some stage. Keep me posted.

    -Zac

  25. Posted

    Thanks for the links. I was actually hoping this would generate more discussion about tripping toys in general. Maybe I should've titled the thread 'tripping toys'. But yeah, I made these glasses http://www.hackcanada.com/homegrown/wetware/brainwave/ with high intensity LEDs, yellow on top, green on the bottom, and red on either side, although I'm gonna change the yellow ones to blue at some stage (I have them in a DIL chipsocket so they're easy to change). I used them the other day with the program brainstar2, when I had a really bad, dry cough :wink: and set it to rem inducer at high hz and it was unbelievable. One of my mates had a bag of three nangs with the glasses on and fell asleep instantly, it was like he was entranced. My girlfriend and I had to stop him from falling out of his chair. Anyway, like I said, I would be interested in hearing about what other people use as tripping toys for various drugs, even things like a snugglepillow for comedowns and Es. Cheers.

    -Zac

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