Peter Cobbold
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Keep dogs, cats away from glycol, its sweet tasting and can be fatal if ingested.
IIRC it was used to make vinegary wines more palatable, way back.
Peter
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6 hours ago, john.r.davies said:
Thank you, Peter. I know you well enough to respect your scientific background. But it is unfortunate that the first lines of your draft quote "catholic clerics, physical mediums, and poltergeists" as evidence for the hypothesis, stripping it of all confidence.
Such charlatans have been discredited by, among many, James Randi who is himself a professional magician. If a few examples escape that condemnation, so do the Standard Models of sub-atomic and universal structure, both of which cannot explain fully what is observed. Quantum Theory is one of the best tested in all science, but it cannot account for gravity, for which no 'graviton', the energy transmitting particle, has never been demomstrated.
In seeking explanation of the structure of the Universe, the Many Worlds theory does suggest that other universes exist alongside our own, "juxtaworlds" if you like. I would suggest that your hypothesis should be directed towards the interpretation of Richard Feynman and his successors.
John
Read Dennett's book John. Levitation IS real. Once you have assimilated the evidence then we can have an informed debate.
Many Worlds is completely different from the Juxta hypothesis. Juxta builds upon local anomalies in 'time' . And gravity is an acceleration with 'time' as component. Unfortuentely physics does not understand 'time', different branches use different concepts. Most deny it flows, adhering to Einstein-Minkowski block time ( also needed for MW). The Pons family of physicists have proposeed time is a property of matter, not a universal dimension ( https://cordus.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/time-as-a-property-of-matter-rather-than-space/ My idea looks similar in that 'time' can be local to matter, but I argue from a large observational base, not theory.
Gravity is defined in classical physics by Newton's G which has no deeper origins. G has to be measured and put in by hand. Physics has assumed G applies cosmos-wide. But the only place where G has been measured is on earth and within the soalr system ( satellite trajectories) The entire Dark Matter effort ($billion) relies upon G being the same here as in other parts of the milky way and other galaxies. Here is recent paper outlining the problem with the lack of any deeper base for 'big G': https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/8/9/454 section2: "The gravity constant has SI units of m3·kg−1·s−2. It would be strange if anything physical had units: meters cubed, divided by kilograms, and seconds squared." Now....we ask 'how long is a second?'. The paranormal events that interest me reveal that their seconds can be much bigger, or much smaller, than our familiar ambient second. That's why levitation is important, as is its opposite when experiencers become mcuh heavier than usual !! - see Dennett for several examples.
Peter
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1 minute ago, RogerH said:
There is so much we do not understand in every walk of life.
Only the flat earthists can easily deny the unexplained because they can only see/touch their reality.
However jumping out of ones 'reality' is a very brave step.
I don't bother with UFO's etc as they don't bother me but 'odd' reality needs an eye keeping on it.
Roger
Hi Roger, For me it's good fun exploring the unknown.! Peter
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12 hours ago, john.r.davies said:
Of course Blaine uses a 'trick' - he's a magician. If I knew how he did it, I wouldn't explain, becaue that spoils the pleasure of 'magic', but if that trick were as mundane as inserting a video clip, where the crane hoisting him isn't seen, why are his audience amazed and surprised? Or, are they all actors?
They cannot be actors. Magicians perform their magic in front of paying audiences, who would storm the stage is something as crude as you suggest is shown them! Much stage magic is as amazing to the audience as anything that might be described as "paranormal", but if the 'trick' is explained the viewers are always disappointed, because it is clever, but so mundane, which why magicians never do explain! But the 'trick' NEVER involves paranormal powers or extraterrestrials!
John
John,
There is a saying about horses and water....................You need to read the book in order to make informed comments.
I have read extensively into the paranormal and UFO/UAP phenomena, around 300 books. And it is blatantly obvious to me that current science cannot explain these events. And hoaxing and your magic are also impossible explanations. As a scientist well versed in research - with five papers published in Nature - i am shocked by the sheer weight of evidence for human levitation. It is enormously important that it be studied with new measurements. Here is the rough abstract of a paper I am writing:
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Juxtatime.
A testable hypothesis of an adjacent world with reciprocal time and gravitation.
Peter H Cobbold, Emeritus Professor of Cell Biology, University of Liverpool, UK
The 'juxtatime' hypothesis embraces a second form of time and of gravitation as a local property of matter. Juxtatime is reciprocal to ambient time, as is juxta-gravity. This symmetry ensures as one diminishes the other increases. It is a testable,working hypothesis derived from time and gravitation anomalies reported in the 'paranormal' literature. These rare but repeated events embrace human levitation, poltergeists, physical mediums and UFO/UAPs. The hypothesis has potential for explaining time-related psi phenomena such as NDE/OBEs, precognition, remote viewing, reincarnation. Juxtatime and juxtagravity point to new physics. Tests are proposed.
Outline of the hypothesis.
Levitation of matter, including humans, is established beyond reasonable dismissal by informed scientists. Numerous reports are found in the literature on catholic clerics (Grosso,Eire) physical mediums, and poltergeists (Dennett). The levitator's mass loss conflicts with the fundamental physics imperative that mass-energy must be conserved. To take one example, the reduction in weight reported for the Warsaw medium Kluski of at least two-thirds ( ca 50kg) should have released enough energy to obliterate most of Poland. The Hiroshima weapon converted just 700mg of matter to energy, as predicted by Einstein's E=mc^2. So we must ask: where does mass go during levitation? The hypothesis proposes mass enters another gravitational field. This juxtagravity is reciprocal to familiar gravity: as the levitated matter loses mass – reported as weight in familiar gravity – it gains mass in juxtagravity. The effect is local to the levitated matter. Gravity is an acceleration with 'seconds' as a unit. Juxtagravity therefore predicts 'juxta-time' and conceivably a 'juxta-world' in which we ourselves have a 'juxta-corpus'. The juxta concept has broad explantory power throughout paranormal phenomena. Measurements of time-rate in levitating experiencers should be a priotity for science.
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In short, I see a paradigm shift in understanding 'time'
Peter
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18 hours ago, RogerH said:
If a magician can do that imagine what God could do
Roger
16 hours ago, Hamish said:Quite a lot, he got his son to walk on water after all.
'Impossible' events in biblical tales also appear in the paranormal literature.
Shadrak, Meshak and Abednego displayed fire immunity. DDHome the victorian medium could hold a glowing coal cupped in his hands.https://vdocuments.mx/nandor-fodor-encyclopaedia-of-psychic-science.html?page=312
The resurrection from a cave sealed with a rock is frequently reported as 'matter-through-matter' events experienced by UFO abductees, mediums and poltergeists. https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/matter-passing-through-matter
Ezekiel's wheel resembles descriptions of some UFOs.
There are parallels between UFO phenomena and the miracle of Fatima: https://evilangel.blogs.sapo.pt/46233.html
God moves in mysterious ways !!
Peter
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Blaine's hoax uses video trickery, inserting a sequence in which he was hoisted off the ground.
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Human levitation is fascinating, it is impossible in physics, and in our experience. We are certain it just cannot happen. Period.
But human levitation is real, it happens and cannot be wished away as hallucinations etc. I strongly recommend this book by Preston Dennet for a detailed excursion through the literature with ca 350 examples, from catholic clerisc, spiritualist mediums, poltergeists, to current experiencers.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Human-Levitation-History-How-Guide/dp/0764325477
One levitator was seen to float up the the ceiling and pass through it. That happens often in UFO abductions. Something very odd is going on, that science cannot explain, and the ostrich defense takes hold of most scientists.
Enjoy !
Peter
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Anyone following this thread will see that this Harvard astronomy prof is barking up the wrong tree. But at least he is barking, unlike 99.99% of academic scientists who assume he must be barking mad.
However the Sol Foundation have taken him under their wing so his paranormal horizons are being extended beyond ET. The late Prof John Mack the Harvard psychologist who studied UFO abductees was nealry fired by Harvard, but saved when Rockefeller threatened to remove funding of the university. Money talks !
Peter
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note that the rotor arm turns anticlockwise
Peter
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I'd use it...........in a museum exhibit. But not in a car for driving. It conducts heat worse than water so it increases detonation risk, the enemy of supercharging.
Peter
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My guess it its firing at 11 After TDC, as in Andy's post above. Especially if the farts and bangs are in the exhaust.
Peter
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The Americans might know if the tractors are still at the pole. BAS does not have a base there.
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South Wales, 1983. Night of the triangular ufos. UFOs are not peculiar to USA !
Peter
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I must be the only soul on here who still avoids on-line banking. Its because I simply dont understand how on-line safety can be guaranteed. And in view of the Post Office and smart meter fiascos I do not trust the bank to be on my side either. Years ago I had a credit card replaced as its details had been in a hack in USA. The only purchase it had been used for in USA was for an anti-virus package !!
Peter
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The book camber settings will not apply if springs are non-standard or if rear anti-roll bar has been fitted. Camber changes markedly with body roll and spring compression. Spring compression makes camber more negative, body roll makes the loaded suspension more positive. Ideally we want the loaded tyre to be flat on the road surface during hard cornering, and that cannot be set statically.
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Is retorqeuing advised with Payen gaskets that have the heat-activated varnish coating ? loosening might break that seal.
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Thermostat stuck closed ? What did temp gauge show?
Not sure what your coolant is, do you know its boling point ?
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The pressed steel diff hanger can part-fracture and give a single knock upon taking up drive from a standstill. The crack can be diificult to see. It fractures on the right side (driver's side) vertically from the lower edge and towards the curvature of the bush seat.
Peter
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5 hours ago, john.r.davies said:
Peter, I thought that the Zinc was just a convenient atom and ion to balance the phosphate, which was what the oil - and the surfaces it protects - needs?
Shouldn't we discuss phosphate content, rather than zinc?
John
John, AFAIK the ZDDP molecules remain intact but polymerise under heat and pressure to form a glass-like film on rubbing surfaces. The dithiophosphate moiety can be of several lengths allowing it to be tuned to different tmep/pressure applications. As there is one Zinc atom per ZDDP the ration of Zn to P will indeed vary with the oil type. A good level of sulphur ( in the 'dithio-' moiety) is another measure to look for, but it is not usually specified. Unoftunately the labelling by suppliers leaves us uncertain what they mean - as in the Iain's Motul oil above. The oil techies will know but they wont write the labels. My view is still to avoid classic oils that are safe to use with a catalytic convertor.
Peter
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Summary document about USOs by a retired US Navy rear-admiral:
https://thesolfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Sol_WhitePaper_Vol1N1.pdf
To me, USOs are just another example of 'impossible' matter-through-matter behaviour. Mtm is observed in UFO aductees passing through walls or celings, physical spiritualist mediums joining rings , poltergeist apports such as stones passing through walls. Mtm is thought to be impossible according to Pauli's exclusion principle giving matter its stability. But mtm is real. As Gallaudet says the stigma associated with UFOs and the paranormal has ensured 'mainstream science' has ignored these phenomena. Physicists are missing out on a revolution.
Peter
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11 hours ago, iain said:
Here’s the Motul data sheet for reference. ZDDP is above 1800ppm…..so what does that mean?https://azupim01.motul.com/media/motulData/DO/base/classic_performance_20w-50_en_fr_motul_20210222.pdf
""of high-Zinc (ZDDP content above1800 ppm)""
That is confusing. IF the ZDDP content really is 1800 ppm then Zn content would be around 250ppm- which is not 'high zinc'.
IF the Zn content is 1800 ppm then the ZDDP will be about 7 times that ( because Zn is about one-seventh of the weight of the molecule).
I suspect the scribes that write this stuff dont understand the chemistry.
Peter
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3 minutes ago, harlequin said:
I have just ordered a 20 litre drum direct from Westway, good value at £76 including delivery
George
The blurb about Zn and P does point to a very good level of ZDDP. BUT the label on the container says "1500 ppm ZDDP: https://prnt.sc/nPUu7fG0cNVd
I think Westway are confusing themsleves, and us !!
Peter
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3 minutes ago, trchris said:
Just checked my 20lts of westway 20/50 mineral oil it states 1500ppm Zinc 1450ppm Phosphorus and 2900ppm Sulphur if this helps anyone perfectly ok for me
Chris
Looks good to me. The similarity between the Zn and P figures suggests they are both in the ZDDP and not some other source of Zn.
Peter
Woodburner for sitting room
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It should be enclosed with glass in the door(s). If not the chimney will rapidly pull warmed air out of the room.
We burn smokeless fuel 24/7 all winter in the main room, about half a bucket daily. Not green I know, but the fire does not fail when the leccy supply does ! A flat top allows a pan to be heated. The fire never goes out, a covering of ash over new nuggets will easlly smoulder for 12 hours overnight. However smokeless fuel is sulphur-rich, the tailings from oil refiining, so check the specs.
A carbon monoxide alarm/monitor is wise if there is the possibility of combustion gases leaking.
Peter