I think that you will find this an interesting and absorbing story
Previously unseen pictures of Winston Churchill’s private burial
if you are a Churchill fan you may find these photographs moving
Published by the UK Daily Mail on the 28th of January 2015.
Insightful history of Henry Ford and Ford Motor Cars
Hermann Goering’s war train
Herman Goering was amongst the top ten of Nazi Germany’s ruling elites. He was a first class fighter pilot in WW1 and commanded the German air force (Luftwaffe) during WW2. It was not unusual for German leaders to have their own luxury trains. Hitler had one too. Goering set up a sophisticated command center on his train and it was used for accommodation purposes too. There is some rare Goering’s train footage in this video.. If you enjoy reading and viewing unusual stories relating to war history I think you will enjoy the information contained within the various links of this blog.
Top Nazi leader’s Mercedes car found ruined in old derelict barn
An almost unbelievable story of how a car that once belonged to one of Germany’s top Nazi leaders [Reinhard Heydrich] was discovered forgotten and forlorn in a barn in Denmark, and the fascinating story of its owner and his violent demise.
The car is a 1938 type B model 320 Mercedes of which only 34 were made. See its postwar history in this video.
If you like unusual World War Two stories such as this you may also enjoy these two vehicle related links are compelling viewing as well.
Link one: The Mystery of Hitler’s Missing Mercedes
Link two: The Blue Goose – Hermann Göring’s Mercedes
Is science’s weirdest realm responsible for photosynthesis, consciousness and more?
Some scientists believe that quantum mechanics is controlling our thoughts
In order to introduce this topic I will quote an extract from this BBC article.
“The American physicist Richard Feynman said this about the notorious puzzles and paradoxes of quantum mechanics, the theory physicists use to describe the tiniest objects in the Universe. But he might as well have been talking about the equally knotty problem of consciousness.
Some scientists think we already understand what consciousness is, or that it is a mere illusion. But many others feel we have not grasped where consciousness comes from at all.
The perennial puzzle of consciousness has even led some researchers to invoke quantum physics to explain it. That notion has always been met with skepticism, which is not surprising: it does not sound wise to explain one mystery with another. But such ideas are not obviously absurd, and neither are they arbitrary.
For one thing, the mind seemed, to the great discomfort of physicists, to force its way into early quantum theory. What’s more, quantum computers are predicted to be capable of accomplishing things ordinary computers cannot, which reminds us of how our brains can achieve things that are still beyond artificial intelligence. “Quantum consciousness” is widely derided as mystical woo, but it just will not go away.”
I will address the topic of this blog by quoting a full article from Discover magazine dated January 13, 2009. Although this article is now aged, I fell that it does seem to support the ideas I have shared with my readers in other blogs in my website. These are:
“Einstein Or Tesla, Who Understood the Earth More?…”
Einstein believed in his later life that the past, present and future all exist simultaneously
He talks about the concept of ‘now’ in his new modelling
Unlike in his earlier life in his 1952 book ‘Relativity’ Einstein tells his readers that he had changed his mind and that the past, the present and the future all existed simultaneously. He believes that there is a single existence along the lines I suggest in this blog*. In this sense Einstein is debating that physical reality is a four dimensional existence. He extends these words by saying:
“What nature demands from us is not a quantum theory or a wave theory; rather, nature demands from us a synthesis of these two views which thus far has exceeded the mental powers of physicists. Do not be troubled by your difficulties with Mathematics, I can assure you mine are much greater..”
In material contained in the links below Einstein reminds us that “…it is an illusion to think otherwise…” about simultaneity as being the dominant property of the universe. The late distinguished physicist Richard Feynman talks about this possibility in his book ‘Sum Over Histories’ and seems to summarise his point with these few words (as quoted by another author):-
Quote:
“…Events in nature are probabilistic with predictable probabilities P.
The probability P for an event to occur is given by the square of the complex magnitude of a quantum amplitude for the event, Q. The quantum amplitude Q associated with an event is the sum of the amplitudes associated with every history leading to the event.
The quantum amplitude associated with a given history is the product of the amplitudes associated with each fundamental process in the history...” *
*A belated complimentary quote from this article:-
“… Yet even the great Einstein despaired of understanding the flow of time and the meaning of now. Einstein’s quandary was described by Rudolf Carnap:
“….”Einstein said the problem of the Now worried him seriously. He explained that the experience of the Now means something special for man, something essentially different from the past and the future, but that this important difference does not and cannot occur within physics. That this experience cannot be grasped by science seemed to him a matter of painful but inevitable resignation. So he concluded ‘that there is something essential about the Now which is just outside the realm of science.’ “…” (I emboldened the text)
In another blog (also cited above) I talk about this topic in relationship to Bohm’s Holomovement theory and predeterminism. This blog also includes a link to a BBC video on the same subject. I feel that this video is compelling viewing.
*I believe that the Planck line in physics is a field of symbolic ‘nows’. Now’s are without time. Temporal fields (with time) exist on one side of the Planck line and ontological fields (relating to the rules of quantum mechanics) exist on the other. Both the temporal and ontological fields are in a concurrent relationship with each other as well as the Planck field of now’s. I think that this is what Bohm might be saying with his Holomovement theory (also known in other works as the implicate order).
Click here to view a copy of the original quoted text that I gleaned ideas and quotes from.
Also see my earlier complimentary post here. You might also find what Carlo Rovelli has to say in Nature magazine of interest as well. Also see this physics explanation.