For many, Iowa is heating up to be a prime indicator of how the political field is about to turn in 2012; but for one researcher, there is another fascinating story involving heat that may lend itself to rethinking the intelligence of some of our cousins in the animal kingdom.
Every year, we are able to look back on the last twelve months or so with certain wonder with regard to some of the items that captivated minds everywhere and became newsworthy. Many are the instances where such stories involve our animal kindred, and the amazing feats they manage to accomplish that sometimes leave us thinking, “gee, maybe we aren’t all that different, after all.” Such was the case for me, when I first observedphotos of Kanzi, a bonobo from the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, who has been in the care of Dr. Savage-Rumbaugh for a number of years.
There are many striking things that bonobos and chimpanzees have managed to learn to do over the years, ranging from swimming to the use of tools. Therefore, it was particularly “striking” (and you’ll have to pardon the intentional pun here), when Savage-Rumbaugh began to observe Kanzi striking matches, lighting fires, and cooking food in a frying pan!
At his recent speech for TEDx in Brussels, physicist and ufologist Jacques Vallee argued that, in order to advance, we must break ourselves free of our standard models of physics, and learn to think beyond our present notions of dimensions, time, etc.
Kudos, Dr. Vallee… this is precisely the kind of forward-thinking we need. And yet, somewhat remarkably, there are actually people out there who make remarks along the lines of, “there may be strange aspects about our universe that have yet to be discovered or understood fully.” No, really? I mean, come on… surely there aren’t still discoveries to be made anymore out there. By now, everyone should know that the religion of science (like most other religious institutions) is virtually already complete. We’re not looking for ground-shaking new truths anymore… we’re just looking for confirmation of the old ones.
Yeah, right. Over the last few months alone, the CERN researchers in Geneva have not only claimed that they may have observed neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light, but now they claim they may have even spotted evidence of an elusive particle known as the Higgs Boson, further shaking the accepted foundations of our concept of how the universe works.
Cancer is among the leading afflictions recognized for causing death worldwide, despite an overall drop in cancer-related deaths reported by the National Cancer Institute this year. The disease results from particular varieties of cells that grow and divide more quickly than others within the body, becoming malignant in the event that naturally protective “killer” cells fail to destroy them before their growth becomes untenable.
Typically, there are molecules present in healthy individuals that aid in the necessary interactions between two key players within the body: antigens and lymphocytes. In the event that such molecules are lacking in numbers, these naturally protective processes can falter, resulting in cancer cells spreading more quickly throughout portions of the body.
Part of what allows cancer cells to proliferate is the fact that they utilize metabolic changes to process oxygen to their benefit. However, since 2007, lab studies have found that a low-cost substance called Dichloroacetic acid (DCA) works effectively toward restoring the original metabolic processes, and thus promoting the self-destruction of cancer cells. Though it’s attractive cost (estimated at being about $2 a dose) should, in theory, have made it widely available as a cancer treatment, the fact that no patent has been owned on the drug–thus helping ensure it’s profitability in the pharmaceutical market–has prevented it’s use from becoming widespread. However, this minor economic setback may be about to change…
Seldom do most of us in ufology circles get to enjoy the sort of presentation that the video above details; here, we are treated to an outstanding presentation at the recent TEDX event in Brussels where physicist, computer scientist and UFO researcher Jacques Vallee takes a few minutes to describe “a theory of everything (else).”
In addition to discussing physics and space-time in a non-dimensional, illusory way, he does touch briefly on subjects here that include synchronicity, UFO cults, and a number of other fascinating subjects. Providing a bit of commentary on Vallee’s work, my colleague Dr. Maxim Kammerer notes at his blog that:
“Vallee (illustrates) that the universe is a subset of a meta-information structure. This is the first insight on which to build a physics of the future. Another foundational point is that dimensions are control artifacts, and we should do away with them in the physics of the future. Lastly we should recognize that consciousness by traversing information associations creates the illusions of space and time. Thus, in a physics of the future which will unify Relativity and quantum physics, the very ideas of space and time will have to be abandoned, being recognized as approximations rather than actual properties of the world.”
Indeed, it seems that bridging the gap between Relativist and Quantist perspectives of our universe may rely on such bold thinking… thus, it’s great to see a well-respected ufologist provided with time to address such things in a well respected (and well attended) forum such as this.
