Work proceeds apace on The Octavo (Roundworld Edition) A Sorcerer-Scientists Grimoire. We now have the Eight Spells/Equations, some of which have several secondary equations. Although the Eight Equations just about fit on a single page they have several hundred pages of verbal explication, diagrams, and illustrations with them to show their practical uses. Plus all sorts of oddments have arisen as side effects of investigating the Discworld Mythos including precise values for the Thaum and Prime both there and here, and a consistent set of rules for quantum mechanical chess.
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In connection with the hypothesis derived from 3 Dimensional time theory that neutrinos will annihilate against each other, I note increasing interest amongst physicists in the idea that the neutrino may act as a Marjorana Fermion rather than a Dirac Fermion. In other words that it acts as its own antiparticle. The neutrino oscillation experiments appear to indicate that it must have a small mass and that it must therefore fly at speeds slightly below lightspeed, thus a speedy observer could in theory overtake it and see it behave as either a particle or an antiparticle. Plus neutrinos from recent supernovae seem to have arrived here a little after the photon flash, indicating velocities slightly below lightspeed.
I await evidence of Marjorana Fermion behaviour by neutrons, but no experiments seemed planned to test this heretical idea yet. As yet the Higg’s boson has failed to appear and it seems unlikely that the LHC will manage to disconfirm existence for a couple of years yet, but we live in hope that it will, and open the way for further investigation of higher dimensional explanations.
NEWS. October 2009
The Apophenion has lift âoff, and it has attracted some glowing reviews. Some excellent artwork illustrates the text and a noted fantasy artist has donated a very striking design for the cover.
It has taken 10 years to create this Magnum Opus, perhaps the strangest book ever written. It attempts to integrate quantum panpsychism, multimind, neopantheism and a general theory of magic and physics based on a hyperspherical vorticitating universe with 3 dimensional time in an eight dimensional universe with supporting algebra and geometry.
Plus a new goddess showed up, Apophenia, sister to Pareidolia and Eris, thus completing the Three Wyrd Sisters of Chaos.
A new edition of Psybermagic has also appeared with a substantial amount of new material included. Basically I filled in all the blank spaces that I left for results when retiring for a long sabbatical
Arcanorium College now continues with its fourth year. It has become furiously productive with two courses going on simultaneously during most semesters and with a great deal of discourse in progress in the Common Room and the Bar.
It has attracted members and contributors and staff from all over the world, and has already produced 2 editions of its online magazine âAbracademiaâ which you can view in the public sections, we have a third edition in progress.
See www.arcanoriumcollege.com.
I have spent the summer preparing a metaphysical sculpture/machine entitled Apopheniaâs Chaotic Torsion Pendulum which serves as a free public oracle for discerning enquirers. Arrangements proceed for The Octavo. The goddess/muse has guided me to the 8 equations; we have the publishers and a superb graphic artist in place for the cover and the illustrations. Expect something next September or thereabouts. .
We also present an upgrade to the lensing equation paper using algebra rather than trigonometry for clarity.
