System Engineering & Design Architecture - Sander R.B.E. Beals (books to get back into reading txt) 📗

towards the open oven door, and put both my little hands on it in order to feel what this thing was that she called 'Hot!!!!'....

She could do nothing else but put ointment against burns on them, wrap them in bandages, and put me to bed. Nothing bad eventually came of it, but I guess it didn't really still my hunger for 'Hot' ;-)...

Since we need more info on the world around us, in our practices of Integrity we aren't always fool-proof, let's draw another SevenSphere, which might give some more insight into this thing called Integrity. Of course, to us humans it has more meanings, but we'll connect those dots later. First I'm going to explain this for a Generic System, because I do not think the book of Genesis got its name for nothing:

If our holy books tell us that God or any other deity made us in his or her likeness, and we see the similarity between ourselves and the various expressions of Nature also, then I guess the image shows us we are all in essence variations of that one which in my book would be called a 'Generic Sistem' (alternate spelling intended). Because let's be honest, the Bible itself talks of concepts that appear within a given environment, a void or nothing. But since that void itself already existed, we cannot simply call it creation and be done with it. Like we see for all lifeforms, the embryo or egg(s) are for a certain period imbedded in the parent, before being freed to inhabit the environment out there. But being the one infinite being we are, that concept is not a possibility for the totally infinite System that goes by different names: it can create, but only within its own being (since it has no 'outside', being infinite)....

And just at that moment, my JetAudio player chose from 37888 tracks: “the real thing”, and “Can You Feel the Force?” Don't you just love it when that happens? I DO!!!

OK, a generic system, and its take on Integrity. You make not like what comes next, because my random choice of movies to watch as side inputs to the writing process has fed me nothing but serial killers these last few days...

“We kill the weak, so the strong survive!” says the bad guy in Cobra just now... What follows is a taunting game of provocation, where he challenges Cobra to arrest him and take him in. The Law will then judge him he says: “Because even I have rights!” Now I would probably try to do as he said, but not Stallone: “This is where the Law stops,... and I start!” And all that coming from a guy called Marion (yes, both in Cobra and Demolition Man he is called that....)

And then, out of the blue a new movie crossed my path, randomly chosen from a case containing exactly 444 DVD's belonging to my good friend and neighbor Paul. The Eye it is called, and it is all about a young lady who has been blind since age five. She gets a second cornea transplant, and it introduces her to the world which isn't quite what she expected. It is bound to thoroughly shake or stir my insight while creating the Integrity SevenSphere while it plays...

Now as the serial killer movies made obvious, the intention is often a crucial point in ones Integrity. Even they are running entirely on that intent, although their choices in that area are of course strongly disapproved of by normal everyday humans. So the example of our now sighted young lady getting used to the mixed signals she is getting from her extra sensory input channel (vision) may be more appropriate. First of all, she doubts the consistency of her inputs: she is seeing things that her other senses say are not there! Terrified by the sometimes violent nature of the visions, she doubts her integrity as a Human, not in the way that she has no good intentions (the outsiders view of this SevenSphere), but in the way that she considers herself to be not entirely sane (her inside view of the same SevenSphere). But her psychologist does not believe her when she tells him she is seeing things that happened elsewhere, or people who walk right through her as if she isn't there...

Now you may call this fiction, and even quite possibly horror as well, but any subset of the world around us may be used to illustrate stuff in order to help people understand other mechanisms. In this case, the lady's Integrity is based on the four things she has always depended on to make her not doubt herself:

Sensory Inputs

Relevant Knowledge

External Actions

Feedbacks (inputs recognized as effects of actionsbased on inputs and knowledge)

With her sensory inputs radically enhanced, her mind cannot make the inputs match the relevant knowledge in her brain, because it has always gotten by without the extra vision. She clings to the only information that is making any sense to her, a number of stories about transplant organs actually also carrying vital information of the donor to their new body. Since the building blocks of the DNA are said to be the design schematics of the human body, that isn't difficult to believe at all. I'll even throw in what I said to a fellow train passenger just this afternoon: “My kids have turned out to already have the knowledge implanted that I had by the time they were conceived. Even the differences in their view of their environment can be attributed to their being born two years apart. Two years in which I myself had learned quite a few things about our world.”

Yeah, I know, this kind of talk doesn't go down too well during birthday parties: once a couple of people get into that kind of talk, the others mostly nod wearily to one another, and go on with their talks about work, kids, diseases, recent deaths and new cars, phones or televisions. Nothing wrong with that, but neither is it wrong to ponder such questions. Right and Wrong are but divisions of the One, and any division in itself creates growth, from one to two, and onwards until Infinity.....

But let's get back to the five images with the ever smaller satellite spheres. Do you know what it reminded me of just now on the trip home? A diagonal cross section of a soap bubble: a ring of soap molecules stretching to keep an amount of air captured. Well, as a cross section that won't work of course, but you can easily rotate it across any axis, and come up with a transparent sphere, with lots of colored little soap molecules enveloping it. And the lead into that idea? Just figure this: I saw a car I didn't recognize, and looked backward as I turned the corner, seeing it had the type designation CROSSFIRE all across its very nice behind. Then at the next traffic light I needed to stop for a CROSS COUNTRY car (Volvo I thought). Then, before working on the book I viewed a few TED talks, and one of the presenters use the word 'CROSSHAIRS'. And thus, with the CROSS on my mind, the SECTION came up quite easily....

Now I put to you, that given Occam's Razor, the circle and sphere are basically the simplest solution to expansion: with opposing forces, the stretching effect will simply make the sphere the smallest surface to envelope a given volume. In the image on the right it is somewhat distorted, because the internal pressure of the bubbles cancels out where they touch. Hence the flat surfaces. But you see quite clearly that the colored soap molecules of a cross section do look quite similar to the colored satellites on the fivefold image shown above. Mind you though, in this case we are talking about pressure stretching a set of soap bubbles to the maximum surrounding form possible, but the opposite can also be true: the surrounding satellites doing their utmost to keep a given vacuum from collapsing. In both cases, the failing of a certain number of them will make the balance disappear, in an explosion in the first case, or an implosion in the second case. Just think of balloons and old-fashioned television tubes as the two examples of such a collapse...

Now let's go from the small everyday space of soap bubbles to the huge vastness of space: Since space is a mere human distinction, I put it to you that the same mechanism of enveloping the largest possible volume with the smallest possible sphere is also that which holds the Universe (or even the Cosmos) together. I once read a book that said the Universe was made up of huge bubbles, which probably needed a certain amount of cold dark matter, and all the stars, galaxies and superclusters and stuff are on the separating planes between these bubbles. To relate it to current insights cost just one Google search, to come up with this:

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/gclusters/soap.html

The original book and even this page said they couldn't give a plausible mechanism for the formation of the dark matter that was supposed to be there, but there is a simplist approach: the Big Bang is generally believed (or even proven) to have had an entirely homogenic (and extremely high) density. But you would probably agree with me that even the slightest local variation in density would cause the matter there to be more attracted towards one another than the surrounding matter a little further off. And since the law of Gravity has the force decrementing exponentially, this effect will be quite pronounced. So the very first minute instabilities in local density soon became the bigger concentrations of mass, which were kept apart by the expansion of the entire Cosmos. Now give the fact that between any two masses there is a plane where the gravitational forces of both cancel each other out (the logical 3D extension of the Lagrangian point is a plane), it is easy to see how the remaining matter eventually became trapped there, because their mutual attraction far outperformed the balanced out effect of the dark matter. So we end up with a huge reality of soap bubble like structures, where physical gravity and mass is concerned. And this gravity field between the super massive black holes that are called cold dark matter is even like the soap bubbles in more than one way: where the sheet between to soap bubbles is one layer of water suspended between two layers of soap molecules, the three layers in space are one layer of local gravity caught between two layers of Langrangian planes, that exist between the smaller local systems and the far-out super-condensed cold dark matter.

But now comes the leap of faith: Can you see how this same model is applicable for the interactions in the business market, the atmosphere around our planet, and the weather patterns? Companies that grew the first became the greatest, and nowadays are hardly ever noticed: Paramount features prominently on our screens, as do many production companies with the most fantastic names. Likewise, MGM and many others are part of the News Corporation, which may not have many direct customers, but plenty of leverage because their daughters and sons do produce consumer goods. Paramount is owned by Gulf + Western, as the small print on the movie screen says. Originally a company that started making stamped metal car bumpers, they diversified and added more 'mass' to their company, by for instance acquiring Paramount Pictures and SEGA. Their combined employees would be the soap molecules that held the company together, as they exist on the boundary between home and work, slipping in and out every day. Even Star Trek and Mission Impossible were their products. So even here as the cold dark matter they are hardly noticeable, and the light is generated at the layers in between, as the stars are in