Have you ever wondered how great scientist can come up with profound ideas in a short period of time. All people seem to have creative moments or inspirational moments in their lives. We can explain these ideas to some degree by what has been placed in a persons memory in the brain, by there senses throughout their lifetime. However, it appears that another sense (sixth sense) is needed to access additional information beyond the five senses. This may be called inspiration.
A postulated method for this to occur may be similar to Wi-Fi which on a local bases, uses radio waves to propagate world wide internet information, at near the speed of light, to multiple receivers within a small distance such as a home or city depending on the strength of the signal. The source of this information is stored on super computers such as those owned by Google. To access any of this information, a person must reason out what type of information he wants, or desires, using algorithms in his mind and/or inspiration to get at the finite data he is searching for. It is recognized that the information placed in the super computers is semi accurate and is always subject to revision.
Let us assume that somewhere in our universe, or parallel universe, there exists computers containing all of the existing knowledge of the universe up to this point in time (the computers "now"). The problem appears to be that the signals cannot exceed the speed of light, which would be too slow to cover everyone in the universe some distance from the super computers. If we assume that their exists a carrier of information, such as the Light of Christ, that can be everywhere at the same time, and is in all things (Mormon Doctrine and Covenants 84:44-46), and travels instantaneously; (this could require worm holes) supplying the needed information using the universal Wi-Fi. Then there is a creator who controls the super computers and he may allow us to have access to the needed information using our sixth sense.
This sixth sense allows all people in the universe to communicate with each other in their search for truth.
Monday, September 9, 2013
Friday, January 4, 2013
Spiritual vs magnetic compass
In the Book of Mormon, Lehi and his family and others left Jerusalem for the promised land about 600 B.C. It became apparent that they needed some method to find their way. A spiritual compass became the means. In 1 Nephi 16:10, Lehi's son Nephi records that his father Lehi found in front of his tent door ..."a round ball of curious workmanship; and it was of fine brass. And within the ball were two spindles; and the one pointed the way whither we should go into the wilderness." Later in the Book of Mormon in Alma 37:38 ..."our fathers called it Liahona, which is interpreted, a compass; and the Lord prepared it." In 1 Nephi 16:16 "And we did follow the directions of the ball, which led us in the more fertile parts of the wilderness." In 1 Nephi 16: 27,29 we read "And it came to pass that when when my father beheld the things which where written upon the ball, he did fear and tremble exceedingly, and also my brethren and the sons of Ishmael and our wives." ..."And there were written upon them a new writing, which was plain to be read, which did give us understanding concerning the ways of the Lord; and it was written and changed from time to time, according to the faith and diligence which we gave unto it. And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things."
Directions of the party are mentioned in 1 Nephi 16: 13 and 1 Nephi 17:1 where they built a ship by the sea. They also, probably, used the compass on their ocean voyage to the promised land. This additional information, obtained from the Lord, was apparently of much greater use than what could have been supplied by astronomical sightings, such as the rising and setting sun, to give them a near eastern and western direction -- assuming they knew the appropriate time of year to "correct" for the sun's location above or below the path of the sun, due to the 23.5 degree tilt of the earth.
Scientifically, it is doubtful that the Liahona was a magnetic compass as we use it today. The description of the brass ball, given above, appears to be more like an instrument that is non-scientific. From early times, brass has been used as a metal which has the appearance of gold. In the time of the Olmecs in Central America, they had a magnetic compass, between 1400 to 1000 B.C., which used a polished lodestone (iron oxide--hematite) - which was magnetic and polished with a groove on one end for sighting within the earth's magnetic field. See "The Physics Book" by Clifford A. Pickover, on page 34, and published in 2011. This type of compass was a type of a magnetic compass and is not like the brass ball. When the Mormons came west to the Great Salt Lake Valley, Orson Pratt used a chronometer and a sextant to determine longitude and latitude of their location as they moved in a westerly direction which is unlike the description of the brass ball.
It is interesting that the Book of Mormon describes a compass that is somewhat scientific in nature, as a necessary means to direct Lehi and his family, and friends, rather than using astronomical observations. The other option would be to use revelation - without the help of a compass.
Directions of the party are mentioned in 1 Nephi 16: 13 and 1 Nephi 17:1 where they built a ship by the sea. They also, probably, used the compass on their ocean voyage to the promised land. This additional information, obtained from the Lord, was apparently of much greater use than what could have been supplied by astronomical sightings, such as the rising and setting sun, to give them a near eastern and western direction -- assuming they knew the appropriate time of year to "correct" for the sun's location above or below the path of the sun, due to the 23.5 degree tilt of the earth.
Scientifically, it is doubtful that the Liahona was a magnetic compass as we use it today. The description of the brass ball, given above, appears to be more like an instrument that is non-scientific. From early times, brass has been used as a metal which has the appearance of gold. In the time of the Olmecs in Central America, they had a magnetic compass, between 1400 to 1000 B.C., which used a polished lodestone (iron oxide--hematite) - which was magnetic and polished with a groove on one end for sighting within the earth's magnetic field. See "The Physics Book" by Clifford A. Pickover, on page 34, and published in 2011. This type of compass was a type of a magnetic compass and is not like the brass ball. When the Mormons came west to the Great Salt Lake Valley, Orson Pratt used a chronometer and a sextant to determine longitude and latitude of their location as they moved in a westerly direction which is unlike the description of the brass ball.
It is interesting that the Book of Mormon describes a compass that is somewhat scientific in nature, as a necessary means to direct Lehi and his family, and friends, rather than using astronomical observations. The other option would be to use revelation - without the help of a compass.
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