ATDTDA (5.4) - Bad Ice After Midnight
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Mon Mar 26 18:07:34 CDT 2007
Carvill John:
- more mentions of 90 degree angles, which
I am convinced will play a role in our eventual
'understanding' of ATD, particularly in grasping
the nature of the underlying structure(s) that we
as readers suspect are there but cannot quite
perceive at present, which puts us ahead of
those reviewers who wrote ATD off as a
sprawling mess.
>From an earlier post:
Traverse and Transverse are etymologically equivalent,
both derived from the Latin "tranversus". The term "Transverse"
applies to the polarity of light waves:
A transverse wave is a wave in which particles of the
medium move in a direction perpendicular to the
direction which the wave moves. If a slinky is stretched
out in a horizontal direction across the classroom, and
a pulse is introduced into the slinky on the left end by
vibrating the first coil up and down, then energy will
begin to be transported through the slinky from left to
right. As the energy is transported from left to right, the
individual coils of the medium will be displaced
upwards and downwards. In this case, the particles
of the medium move perpendicular to the direction
which the pulse moves. This type of wave is a
transverse wave. Transverse waves are always
characterized by particle motion being perpendicular
to wave motion.
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/GBSSCI/PHYS/CLASS/waves/u10l1c.html#transverse
A transverse wave is vibrating at an angle perpendicular---in other words,
90 degrees away from---the direction the the photons are traveling.
Got that? Fast and Bulbous! Light waves are Transverse, that's where
the polarity comes in. And that polarity, as inflected by Iceland Spar
(Iceland: land of the myth that spawned the creature that ate through
the great city that awful night when the Hunter wandered off into the
future) is what makes bilocation possible..
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