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[Cathal]

One way in which a ball rolling along the ground could acquire more friction to mimic gravity would be to view binocular parallax as being originally separated such that the ball would have a different amount of foreshortening from each eye in such a way that the ball becomes symbolically more jagged!

[Cathal]

A flaw in quantum gravity is that not only can we be over-ambitious in optimism but also over-ambitious in pessimism as if to say the way in which a perfect circle might not physically exist doesn’t necessarily mean every oval is on a spectrum to a straight line so long as an oval was viewed more fundamentally much like the oval orbits of our planets around the Sun. So under monocular parallax if we viewed a rolling soccer ball getting smaller with visual perspective as being more like a wobbly rugby ball with mini diagonal jumps then it’s easier to see how the effect of gravity would be amplified!

[Cathal]

Einstein once tried to explain gravity as a wave by fathoming what a sudden non-existence of the Sun’s effect would be on Earth. So we could also do the opposite to see that if we suddenly removed every part of the Earth other than the segment you’re on then you’d continue rotating around the Earth’s core with finely balanced rocks to the core all remaining in constant freefall!

Amazing Man Who Reads Gravity - Mind Blowing Stone Balancer
“Michael Grab is a stone balance artist who will blow your mind!”

[Cathal]

“Secondary waves (S waves) are shear waves that are transverse in nature. Following an earthquake event, S waves arrive at seismograph stations after the faster-moving P waves and displace the ground perpendicular to the direction of propagation.”

So as the stone balancer in the prior post mentioned about finding little vibrations in the rocks so too could we re-interpret Einstein’s light speed of gravity more humbly as if gravity could also move at the speed of sound knowing that sound can increase in speed in denser mediums. So sound waves could function like cement in the Earth’s crust with little tremors in mimicking the stability of gravity.

“Ultrasonic welding is an industrial process whereby high-frequency ultrasonic acoustic vibrations are locally applied to work pieces being held together under pressure to create a solid-state weld. It is commonly used for plastics and metals, and especially for joining dissimilar materials.”

“Segovia's 1st century Roman aqueduct in 1911. No mortar or cement was used between any of the 20,400 blocks used in its construction.”

2012 (2009) - Yellowstone Erupts Scene (4/10)

[Cathal]

A paradox with the luminiferous aether is that to say light needs a medium to travel through because sound needs a medium forgets just how loud the moon would be were we actually capable of hearing the moon’s orbit on Earth. That way a luminiferous aether might have to preclude sound waves to prevent us being deafened! Perhaps one way to think of light waves travelling through empty space in outer space might be as if light almost teleports from the Sun to the Earth through the invisible light spectrum. That way even though we can’t directly see the Sun’s infrared rays or the Moon’s ultraviolet reflection it’s possible that the invisible light rays refract in the Earth’s outer atmosphere slowing them down to the visible light spectrum. Therefore we could only infer invisible light rays from how much bolder or more subtle a colour could appear from outer space as if the way the Sun can change colour from yellow to red might have been augmented by invisible light rays. So you’d need radio waves rather than sound waves not only to hear your fellow astronauts on asteroids but you’d also need radio waves to hear the asteroid itself so you’d have to ask them not to speak to loudly to prevent screeching background noise!

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Asteroid belt

[Cathal]

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Is it just sand in the atmosphere or is there a slight gravitational red-shift in the light orange glow from the desert moon here in Belek, Turkey? It’s as if a solution to quantum gravity is staring everyone in a hot country only for them all to take it for granted! Perhaps the way the stars can appear slightly magnified in a hot country like a mirage can appear stealthy as if the way you can inadvertently reject extra starlight might risk a descent into evil! I never felt deprived of starlight in Ireland yet the way there can be such contrast between a cloudy night and a clear night in a temperate climate means that I don’t fully know how clear the upper atmosphere ever is even if it still helps humility to not focus too hard on the stars!

"Collateral" Best Scene - “The only thing that didn’t show up was the Polish cavalry.”

[Cathal]

“Around 20 earthquakes are detected in Ireland every year, with the maximum magnitude being 2.5 on the Richter scale. That's not big enough to do damage but they certainly do occur.”

Quantum gravity might mimic a stationary wave from a tiny earthquake that shakes you back to ground level!

“Foreshocks are earthquakes that occur before a larger earthquake, known as the mainshock. They are essentially smaller earthquakes that can precede a major seismic event.”
“Aftershocks are smaller earthquakes that occur in the same general area during the days to years following a larger event or "mainshock." They occur within 1-2 fault lengths away and during the period of time before the background seismicity level has resumed.”

[Cathal]

An epiphenomenal version of gravity might be where the Earth stops rotating to isolate the variables such that the higher density of the Earth’s mantle has more leverage than the Earth’s crust for a downward pull on your body from an upward or downward convectional current far below. In other words the vertical momentum of a convectional current in the mantle might sometimes outweigh the higher centripetal speed of the Earth’s crust with lower overall momentum during the Earth’s daily rotation for a steep diagonally downward relative pull.

The hexagonal patterns of basalt rock in Giant’s Causeway made from lava might mimic the orderly flow of gravity from Earth’s uneven surface:

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“Basalt and granite are both igneous rocks formed from cooling magma, but their formation processes and resulting characteristics differ significantly. Basalt is an extrusive rock, meaning it forms from lava that cools quickly on the Earth's surface, while granite is an intrusive rock formed from magma that cools slowly beneath the Earth's surface.”

The density of precious metals deep in the Earth’s crust might be a capitalist version of quantum gravity as if gold mimicked the infrared heat of lava where the crust conducts the mantle’s heat while diamonds mimicked the ultraviolet coldness of the crust’s insulation against the Mantle. That way ground temperature in the soil can be proportional to air temperature and air pressure in connecting us to the Earth’s mantle for gravity above much like a plume of hot steam from volcanic explosion or like how the water and the sand below the water can remain cold in the sea for a swim even if the day is hot!

Perhaps the way the diamond is eventually thrown back in the sea wasn’t such a waste after all to increase the Earth’s gravity!

TITANIC SKETCH SCENE BEST PART - diamond painting

[Cathal]

Perhaps one way consciousness could be explained as a shadow is if you reify a shadow and then shine another light on the embodied shadow recursively you’d get closer to the reification of your own mind. String art might help explain the homunculus argument where the idea that one neuron alone could function as a face neuron could make more sense if a neuronal string traced the perimeter of a person. So a neuron could have so many branches that it could be viewed lenticularly as if from one angle it’d somehow convey the likeness of someone else’s face as if the brain were a 3d tapestry!

“In one patient, a single neuron responded to seven different photographs of actor Jennifer Aniston…” Scientific America

“The term "famous face neuron" refers to a specialized type of neuron in the brain that is highly sensitive to the recognition of specific individuals, particularly famous people. These neurons, often referred to as "Jennifer Aniston cells"…”

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Jennifer Aniston nude!

Who knows if shining a light on the interwoven dendrites of a neuron might resemble a projection of a starfish!

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[Cathal]

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Versailles fountain

While the Aztecs viewed the heart as the seat of consciousness during human sacrifices it’s possible a more modern panpsychist version might be to view not only the heart as being conscious but also the blood vessels. This way the relationship between the brain and the blood vessels supplying the brain would be reversed as if the brain directly controlled the wideness of each blood vessel like a fountain rather than just indirectly through the heart’s sino-atrial nodes to incentivise motor movements! It’d be as if your nerves to the muscle regulated blood flow too where your unconscious mind and not just your heart controlled your muscle pumps for your veins valves. The way our consciousness would be in the blood itself so to speak might mimic an atemporal value serving as a neutral mediator of mental time travel during sleep. So while the blood to the legs can be geotropic the upward blood supply to your brain can be phototropic as if the brain were like an electric radiator! The parable of “Let he who hasn’t sinned throw the first stone” could be taken at face value as a reward for not sinning only that you’re ironically even more perverted to not throw the stone and keep helping by the same line of logic in how so many countries with periods of evil in their history can still be helped!

[Cathal]

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Circle Arc

When we view the eye as a full sphere rather than just the semicircular retina then it might be possible to interpret a tachyon as the major arc of a circle rather than as the minor arc where light moves so fast that the source and hence direction of the light isn’t fully knowable. In other words if the light source is in the centre of the circle then the real number solution is the minor arc with a visible circumference while the imaginary number solution is where the torch spins around a reflex angle with an invisible circumference and only the two visible radii at each end to imply a greater speed of light that skipped past the circumference. So when you think of shining a laser light in rhythmic horizontal arcs into a convex side-mirror to the car driving behind you then the driver behind you might not notice whether there was a rapid 360 ° vertical component that got cut off if they could only see the afterimage of your laser.

“A reflex angle is an angle that measures more than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees. It's the angle that forms the larger part of a complete revolution when two lines intersect.”

[Cathal]

When it comes to a collective unconscious we could take the extroverted benefit of sleep more literally as if face recognition was somehow being enhanced. So perhaps the way we expressed past happy or sad facial expressions means that there’s a unique probabilistic relationship between our tendencies to express future facial emotions. That way a dream character of someone else almost functions like a dice in assessing how likely their face would respond to certain situations.

“Most commonly referred to as “the cross-race effect” or “own-race bias,” cross-racial identification is when one tends to be less able to recognize individuals of a race other than one’s own.”

[Cathal]

Perhaps strolling along a desert is the easiest way to fathom a Euler force as if the way you sink into the sand ever so slightly during each stride due to your feet being less dense than the sand ends up creating a harder muscular uplift for your next step as if gravity itself wasn’t actually needed to keep you on ground level!

John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum | John Wick Desert Scene

[Cathal]

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South Pole

Perhaps the way the ground is never as flat as possible due to the curvature of Earth at the horizon might contribute to the effects of a mirage were you to put your head to the ground to observe the horizon.

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Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia

[mosin jack]

This was quite the rollercoaster—from Fermat’s Last Theorem to mirror recursion to philosophical Egypt! I liked your visual take on trying to model the equation geometrically—it’s a creative mental stretch to imagine cubes and cuboids in that context. Definitely shows how even the most abstract theorems can spark some wild imaginative connections. Math may be rigid, but how we think about it doesn’t have to be!