Life Forms In Meteorites?1
Few could have escaped the recent gushy press coverage of NASA's
announcement that an Antarctic meteorite, possibly of Martian origin,
seems to have carried vestiges of life forms from that planet to ours. No
need to recapitulate all that hype.
What we do add is the observation that this same sort of excitement
has swept through the scientific community at least twice before. Back in
1961, B. Nagy et al discovered tiny particles resembling fossil algae in
carbonaceous chondrites. They called these particles “organized
elements.” Ultimately, these curious particles were explained as natural
crystals and terrestrial contaminants.2
Figure 1: Some of the “organized elements” found In carbonaceous chondrites in
the early 1960s. They turned out be terrestrial contaminants.1
Marinov Motor
The late Stephan Marinov worked for years on electromagnetic
phenomena which apparently violated the second law of thermodynamics.
In particular, he developed a design and constructed a
motor which almost violated the second law, that is, which acted like a
perpetual motion machine. A perpetual motion machine is one which
runs forever without any source of energy.
Since Marinov's death last year, several have been working on his
engine. This from Jeffrey D. Kooistra via email:
It has likely practical applications, particularly when the ring is
fixed and the magnets rotated, especially in cases where simplicity of
design is important (i.e. nanoscale motors and the like, provided one
can fashion high strength magnets at that scale.) The biggest impediment
is that conventional motors have been around a long time, and
work pretty well in there own right.
It is probably a challenge to Relativity. Last week it up and defied
Newton's 3rd law on me, and I still can't get it to obey Lorentz either.
I made a video of this — I'm still not sure how I'll distribute it to interested
parties.
I would not be surprised at all to find out that the Marinov motor
(I've been calling it the “Warlock's Wheel” since last week, actually,
Marinov didn't understand this thing at all in my opinion) demands an
ether theory to explain how it works, which is what I take it to mean
when one says “indicates the existence of the Firmament.” But we
have plenty of evidence for a physical ether anyway — the Sagnac effect
being just one [example].
More Hubble Trouble
No, I'm not talking about the Hubble space telescope, this Hubble
trouble relates to the expansion rate of the universe “near” the earth.
When astronomers look at distant galaxies, their light waves appear
longer and longer the further away they are from earth. This
phenomenon is called the redshift. Using special kinds of objects which
are very bright yet very much alike (supernovae, Cepheid variable stars,
brightest galaxy in a cluster, elliptical galaxies, globular clusters, etc.),
astronomers have developed a distance scale. It is this scale which determines
the redshift.
Back in the thirties, when the first measurements of the redshift were
made, the brightness of the galaxies was used and the expansion rate was
measured at 620 km/sec/Mpc. That is, the expansion rate of the universe
increases by 620 km/sec about every 4 million light years. The
”problem” with that value was that the universe appeared much too young
not only for evolution to take place, but for the stars to “age” to their
evolutionary “ages.” Since then the values have settled in a range between
30 and 100 km/sec/Mpc. Indeed, the value observed depends on
the object being used to measure the distance. Using the surface brightness
changes among the brightest galaxies, for example, has recently
been found to be quite consistent, but the value it gives for the Hubble
constant, as the expansion rate is called, is 89 km/sec/Mpc. Supernovae
have recently been touted as giving an expansion rate allowing for the
oldest stars to be younger than the universe, but apparently the Hubble
constant (H0) is really high.
If the universe were not as dense as observed, then for a given value
of the Hubble constant it could be billions of years older. For the time
being, however, the expansion rate of the universe must remain too fast
for the stars to have evolved in the big bang model for the origin of the
universe, so the push has been on to explore and promote models of the
universe which are more rarefied. These models are called “open”
universes because the expansion will continue for ever instead of slowing
down to eventually collapse in upon itself.
Regardless of the fate of the evolutionary time scale of the universe,
the Hubble constant remains geocentric. The expansion rate is centered
on the earth's neighborhood and is measured as the distance away from
earth. It is inherently geocentric. No matter how hard astronomers try,
they cannot avoid geocentric evidences. 1 2 3
Much earlier, in 1881, Hahn, an eminent German geologist, asserted
that he had examined thin sections cut from chondrites and found fossils
of sponges, corals, and crinoids. In fact, the extraterrestrial coral that
Hahn found even received the scientific name Hahnia meteoritica! In the
end, though, Hahn's meteoric life forms met the same fate as the
”organized elements” of Nagy et al.3
Marinov originally thought his motor was a kind of perpetual motion
machine, but obviously could never get it to work that way.
[Nevertheless,] it is a genuine phenomenon.
The significance of the late Stefan Marinov's research is that he was
trying to draw energy from the firmament. The firmament has an inexhaustible
amount of energy, enough in one cubic centimeter to power the
universe for trillions of trillions of years.