“RODS”: ANOTHER ISSUE IN THE WORLD OF PHANTASY

Some time ago, a Mexican-American named José Escamilla, TV and films producer and music composer, “discovered” the existence of something apparently strange that he named “Rods”.

As many other things that nowadays abound in YouTube and other Internet places, Rods have taken its place because there is a lot of people that loves speculation and the emotion triggered by the “unknown”.

Of course these kind of things can not support a serious and technical analysis that allows to discover and reveal their true nature.

That is the job brilliantly done by the member of our Group, Mr. Leopoldo Zambrano Enríquez, from México.

We are very pleased to recommend the reading of his meticulous analysis on 
http://meditacionesdeunfumador.blogspot.com/

And by the way, the name of his personal blog has been taken from one episode of the series “The X-Files” of which many of us have been fans.

“RODS”: OTRO TEMA EN EL MUNDO DE LA FANTASÍA

Hace cierto tiempo, un mexicano-estadounidense llamado José Escamilla, productor de TV y filmes y compositor de música, “descubrió” la existencia de algo aparentemente extraño que llamó “Rods”.

Como muchas otras cosas que actualmente abundan en YouTube y otros lugares de la Internet, los Rods se han hecho un lugar porque hay mucha gente que ama la especulación y la emoción que despierta  lo “desconocido”.

Por supuesto que ese tipo de cosas no pueden soportar un análisis serio y técnico que pemite descubrir y revelar su real naturaleza.

Ese es el trabajo realizado brillantemente por el miembro de nuestro Grupo, Sr. Leopoldo Zambrano Enríquez, desde México.

Nos complace mucho recomendar la lectura de su meticuloso análisis en
http://meditacionesdeunfumador.blogspot.com/

Y de paso, el nombre de su blog personal ha sido tomado de un episodio de la serie “Los Archivos X” de la cual muchos de nosotros hemos sido entusiastas seguidores.

PHYSICS: IS THERE A NEW PARADIGM NEEDED?

Are we satisfied with the concepts and formulae that we find in current Physics? Do they explain all the phenomena?  What about gravity, to mention just only one of them?

No doubt that along the 20th. Century, Physics saw big progress and tookd gigantic steps.

But now, from the perspective of the 21st. Century, some of that progress started to show that it is not enough to explain new things that are discovered –in Astronomy and in the sub-atomic world--  that defy old concepts.

There is a sensation that we are going through a very special moment in history in which we can expect new and very revolutionary concepts to come. Ideas that will create a new Physics.

With this in mind, we want to share with you some material for your reflection, that we hope you will find not only interesting but also inspiring.

Enjoy your reading!

Conscious Acts of Creation: The Emergence of a New Physics

http://tillerfoundation.com/ConActsCreation.pdf


Un nuevo Paradigma para la Ciencia del Tercer Milenio (specially recommended)

http://prof.usb.ve/miguelm/unnuevoparadigma.html

Quantum chaos - a new paradigm of nonlinear dynamics

http://homepages.cwi.nl/~mich/reviews/AAA_1202.html

Has new physics been found at the ageing Tevatron?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn15115

A New Physics for a New Millenium - In search of a "Theory of Everything"

http://jdejuan.activanet.es/

Into a New World of Physics and Symmetry

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000357

Alternative Science: New Physics (list of articules)

http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Alternative_Science/New_Physics/?o=a

New Physics  (specially recommended)

http://www.frontierscience.com/new-physics.html

Metamaterials: A New Paradigm of Physics and Engineering

http://www.rug.nl/zernike/research/opticalsciencecentre/amelandschool2008/Shalaev.pdf

Electromagnetic Metamaterials

http://people.ee.duke.edu/~drsmith/about_metamaterials.html

Metamaterials Hold Promise For Invisibility Cloaks

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/peripherals/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210001982

Here’s how to make an invisibility cloak
Theoretical cloaking device could soon become reality (sort of)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12961080/

Invisibility Cloak One Step Closer: New Metamaterials Bend Light Backwards

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080811092450.htm

Un metamaterial podría mejorar tecnologías ópticas y de comunicaciones

http://www.solociencia.com/ingenieria/06021119.htm

FÍSICA: ¿SE NECESITA UN NUEVO PARADIGMA?

¿Estamos satisfechos con los conceptos y fórmulas que encontramos en la Física actual? ¿Explican todos los fenómenos? ¿Qué pasa con la gravedad, para mencionar tan sólo uno de ellos?

No caba duda que a lo largo del Siglo XX la Física vio enorme progreso y dio pasos gigantescos.

Pero ahora, desde la perspectiva del Siglo XXI, algo de ese progreso empezó a mostrar que no es suficiente para explicar nuevas cosas que se descubren –en Astronomía y en el mundo sub-atómico— que desafían viejos conceptos.

Existe la sensación de que estamos atravesando un momento muy especial de la historia en el cual podemos esperar que surjan nuevos y muy revolucionarios conceptos. Ideas que crearán una nueva Física.

Con esto en mente, queremos compartir con ustedes algún material para vuestra reflexión que esperamos lo hallarán no sólo interesante sino también inspirador.

¡Disfruten su lectura!

Conscious Acts of Creation: The Emergence of a New Physics

http://tillerfoundation.com/ConActsCreation.pdf


Un nuevo Paradigma para la Ciencia del Tercer Milenio (especialmente recomendado)

http://prof.usb.ve/miguelm/unnuevoparadigma.html

Quantum chaos - a new paradigm of nonlinear dynamics

http://homepages.cwi.nl/~mich/reviews/AAA_1202.html

Has new physics been found at the ageing Tevatron?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn15115

A New Physics for a New Millenium - In search of a "Theory of Everything"

http://jdejuan.activanet.es/

Into a New World of Physics and Symmetry

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000357

Alternative Science: New Physics (lista de articulos)

http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Alternative_Science/New_Physics/?o=a

New Physics  (especialmente recommendado)

http://www.frontierscience.com/new-physics.html

Metamaterials: A New Paradigm of Physics and Engineering

http://www.rug.nl/zernike/research/opticalsciencecentre/amelandschool2008/Shalaev.pdf

Electromagnetic Metamaterials

http://people.ee.duke.edu/~drsmith/about_metamaterials.html

Metamaterials Hold Promise For Invisibility Cloaks

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/peripherals/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210001982

Here’s how to make an invisibility cloak
Theoretical cloaking device could soon become reality (sort of)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12961080/

Invisibility Cloak One Step Closer: New Metamaterials Bend Light Backwards

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080811092450.htm

Un metamaterial podría mejorar tecnologías ópticas y de comunicaciones

http://www.solociencia.com/ingenieria/06021119.htm

“GRAYS” ARE ALREADY FOLKLORIC

Who would have told us some decades ago?

But yes, put at the same level of a mythical mermaid and a bigfoot, there is an environmental coalition that has put ads using the also mythical picture of what is presumably an extra-terrestrial being.

They are shown at the Metro Center Station in Washington D.C., and probably in many other places where there go a lot of people.

And here is the explanation for this campaign:

Resources Defense Council (www.nrdc.org/about) and Sierra Club (www.sierraclub.org/inside/) launched the "Reality" Coalition, a national grassroots and advertising effort to tell a simple truth:  in reality, there is no such thing as "clean coal."  

Environmental experts agree that coal is the dirtiest fuel America uses to produce electricity. The "Reality" Coalition, then, is challenging the coal industry to come clean - in its advertising and in its operations. Coal cannot be considered clean until its carbon dioxide emissions are captured and stored.

LOS “GRISES” YA SON FOLKLÓRICOS

¿Quién nos lo habría dicho hace algunas décadas?

Pero sí, colocado al mismo nivel que una mítica sirena y un “bigfoot”, hay una coalición ambientalista que ha puesto publicidad usando la imagen también mítica de lo que presumiblemente es un ser extraterrestre.

Los mismos se exhiben en la Metro Center Station en Washington D.C. (la principal estación de subterráneo de la capital estadounidense), y probablemente en muchos otros lugares a los que acude cantidad de público.

Y aqui está la explicación para esta  campaña:

El Consejo de Defensa de Recursos --Resources Defense Council (www.nrdc.org/about) y el Sierra Club (www.sierraclub.org/inside/) iniciaron la Coalición “Realidad”, un movimiento nacional de base, y una iniciativa publicitaria para decir una simple verdad: que en realidad no hay tal cosa como “carbón limpio”.

Expertos ambientalistas están de acuerdo que el carbón es el combustible más sucio que Estados Unidos usa  para producir electricidad. La Coalición “Realidad” por tanto, desafía a la industria del carbón a ser limpia –en su publicidad y en sus operaciones. El carbón no se puede considerar limpio hasta que sus emisiones de dióxido no sean atrapadas y almacenadas.

A LETTER TO OBAMA - AMERICAN UFOLOGISTS SAID: “NOT NOW”

On December 21, 2008, I sent to a very restricted and selected list of American ufologists the draft of a letter to then President-Elect Barack Obama containing a simple but effective proposal of just three points.

The initiative taken pursued the goal to send the letter as soon as possible, with the signatures of all those who were invited to join the proposal.

Within 3 weeks I received the answers from all the people I have sent my proposal, exception made of two of them.

As a result of that, on January 10, 2009, I sent to the same people the following message:

To: Scholars, UFO investigators, UAP analysts 

Dear colleagues and friends:

You have spoken and I have listened.

You have said this is not the appropriate moment to raise the issue of a total disclosure about what the government knows on UFOs.

You have said President-Elect Obama will necessarily have to face more urgent and demanding issues like the economy and the international conflicts.

You have said that maybe certain discreet and personal contacts with people that is working in the Obama's transition team or later in his government could be more effective in terms of the goal we pursue.

OK. If someone of you are going to do something like that --I mean, getting in contact with people working very close to President Obama-- please let me know and tell me what are you planning to do or what specifically you are doing. Maybe I can help. I am living in the Washington DC area, a privilege few of you --if any-- has.

As a professional journalist I know quite well how to get in contact with people no matter their positions.

Therefore, please keep me posted.

And if nothing happens within the next 9 months, and nobody is doing anything at all, then I will think that we have lost the opportunity at least to let our voices heard.

Time will tell us.

Thank you for your time to read my messages and your kindness to answer.

And please, count on me.

Sincerely,

Milton W. Hourcade

 P.S.- Be it known that Mr. Richard Dolan was the only one that was ready to sign the letter I proposed to send to President-Elect Obama. Thank you Richard! - MWH