The world’s largest independent ebook store, Diesel Books is now the latest place to carry “Oceans of Light: A Users Guide to the Multiverse,” the definitive treatise on Multiverse Wave Theory (aka MW-Theory) by Peter Oakley. Understand how our repetitive personal habits contribute to the larger repeating waves of history and provide clues to guide our movement through an overwhelming multitude of universes. Learn to use the power of mind, free will, and the new physics of light to alter reality and bring you and all your loved ones to an ever better place in time and space.
Tags: eBook, Energy, Light, Multiverse Theory, MW-Theory, Peter Oakley, Physics, space, spacetime, Time, waves
“Oceans of Light – A Users Guide to the Multiverse” by Peter Oakley now has an iTunes Preview: http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/isbn9781452370217. Available on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iBooks. If you own this ebook, consider writing a review and it will be shown on this iTunes Preview page.
Tags: Apple, eBook, Light, Multiverse Theory, Oceans of Light, Peter Oakley, photons
Ok so here’s the deal. Tame Bear has had a Facebook page since mid-December 2009, in “stealth mode,” using an alias and applying best geek judgement to set all Facebook privacy settings (available at the time) as tight as possible. I use Facebook to visit with family members in a private group… and that’s it.
THE CHALLENGE: See if you can OUT ME on Facebook! Winner of this challenge must provide the unique username I am using on Facebook, and demonstrate the exact path of public information on the Internet that led you to discover my identity. NOTE: No social engineering allowed! I don’t want any fake air conditioner repairmen chatting up my second cousins to divulge my Facebook username, got it? You must find me through clues on this web site, or in my podcasts, or on other web sites; use the search engines, YouTube, forum posts, comments on other blogs; and of course you’ll probably need to scour Facebook to track me down.
I don’t think you’re gonna find me. At least I hope you don’t. Because if you do, then 100 million other Facebook users who don’t necessarily care as much as I do about security and privacy should be concerned, very concerned.
Winner must present their evidence publicly so that anyone else can follow the information trail and links to find me. The qualified winner must be the first person to post a comment to this blog, and either describe how they found me, or include a link to such description on their own web site, blog or Facebook page. I will be awarding prizes to
- FIRST PLACE: The first person to out me on Facebook!
- SECOND PLACE: The person who, in The Bear’s estimation, attempts the most clever or audacious hack to out me.
- THIRD PLACE: The person who brings the most embarrassing attention to Facebook for having outted me.
First Place Prize will be a beautifully framed 16″ x 20″ photograph from Wisdom Road, winner’s choice, professionally matted and framed, ready to hang, and shipped or personally delivered to the first place winner. (Value: $119.00 US)
Second and Third Place Prizes will be 11″ x 14″ matted and framed photographs from Wisdom Road, also winner’s choice. (Value: $49.00 each US)
There is no deadline, whoever wins first (and second and third among the running) takes first prize, uh, whenever, ok?
Here’s to the winners! And may NO ONE WIN!
When you’re looking for something specific on the Web, a search engine (Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.) is the way to go. But what if you just want to discover, without searching for anything in particular? Genuine surfing for the sheer thrill of discovery? Finding web sites you never would have found by searching, because it doesn’t occur to you what to search for? The best way by far to do this is with Traffic Exchanges. Millions of web site owners link their sites to traffic exchanges in order to attract more visitors. Millions of visitors surf the traffic exchanges in order to discover new web sites, new products and services, new opportunities they would never have found any other way.
Here’s the basic idea of how a mutual traffic exchange (TE) works.
- You join for free.
- You add a description and URL link to your own web site.
- You bookmark the surf bar. This is how the traffic exchange displays other web sites to you.
- You begin surfing other people’s web sites (Discover sites you never knew existed, and never would have searched for!)
- You earn “credits” for viewing other people’s web sites.
- You apply those credits to your own web site, which adds your site to the surf bar, so other people can view your site.
- As you click and visit web sites in your TE surf bar, other web site owers are discovering your own web site!
That’s the essential idea behind TEs. Visit lots of web sites, and a lot of new visitors will be visiting your web site too. This is the “mutual exchange” that is facilitated by traffic exchanges. The more sites you visit, the more people come to your own web site.
Beyond these basics, there are additional ways to use your time effectively and bring even more visitors to your web site:
- Join multiple TEs.
- Load a bunch of TEs into tabs in your web browser, and surf them all together. (Some TEs reward you for doing this.)
- Grab bonus credits whenever they appear. (Watch carefully or you may miss them.)
- Upgrade your TE account from free to paid, in order to increase your credit ratio. (Usually to 1:1. For every page you view, someone else views your page.)
- Attract more web site owners into your “team” and earn additional credits through their surfing.
The Bear does all these things, and spends about an hour or two per day surfing web sites and discovering gems on the World Wide Web. It’s a bit like panning for gold though — there’s plenty of dirt to sift in order to find a few gleaming specks. Yes, surfing traffic exchanges takes some work, but it’s not difficult or hard work. My advice is don’t over-do it, surf only as much as you feel like, don’t let it interfere with other work you’re already doing. But try to do it everyday if you can, because then it becomes part of your routine and brings new visitors to your web site regularly.
I do my surfing on a laptop so I can do it lots of different places. I use a powerful light-weight MacBook Air, and have all my TEs in one bookmark that opens eight tabs in a single click. I surf in bed while sipping my morning coffee. I surf in front of the TV in the evenings, keeping one eye on the show. I can go to the local (free wifi) coffee shop or cafe and pan for gold there. I can spend an hour cooling down in the lounge at the gym after a good workout. And as opportunities appear, I test and try them out to see if they are golden.
What qualifies as a golden opportunity? That’s different for everyone, but as a general rule, it is some kind of information. It usually comes in the form of a PDF or an eBook. Often it is free (like this web page you’re reading right now), though some information is definitely worth paying for. But normally the only “cost” to you is to disclose your email address and opt-in to an author’s list.
So now you know how Tame Bear Surfs. Here are eight favorite traffic exchanges I use to bring loads of new visitors to my sites. If you want to try out some of these TEs, click each link and sign up. OR better yet, join the Tame Bear Team and I’ll send a generous portion of the traffic I’m generating to your web site. Once you’re on my email list I’ll be able to tell you more about the golden opportunites I have found by surfing traffic exchanges. Hey, I’m looking forward to working with you!
Tags: discovery, eBooks, golden opportunities, Internet, leisure, publishing, traffic, your web site
Help The Bear test these two banner ads. Which one is better? Click the one you like best…
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I’ll ask why on the other side.
When studied deeply, down at the subatomic level of particle physics, the material world we live in appears to be nothing more substantial than wisps of smoke. There’s hardly anything there! Everything that seems solid and hard to the touch consists mostly of space. The vast open spaces between particles is startling. Even the particles that are there can not be pinned down in spacetime; their location, speed and direction are all known only as probabilities, not actualities. And what’s more, the space between is not pure empty vacuum… at the quantum scale it is a molten froth of activity where particles are momentarily popping into existence, exchanging energies with other particles, and them vanishing moments later.
In this BBC production, “The Illusion of Reality,” narrator and theoretical physics professor Jim Al Khalili presents the pioneering discoveries in particle physics in the early 1900s, and describes how the unifying theories that arose from the work of Marie Curie, Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, Paul Dirac and Albert Einstein, have dramatically changed our view of reality, cosmology, and the physical world around us.
Thanks to Jesse Miller’s “Mystic Mind Podcast” for introducing me to this BBC documentary some time this past December 2009, as I was out shoveling snow.
Tags: Light, lightspeed, many worlds interpretation, Multiverse Theory, Physics, spacetime, Universe
Saw the new summer movie (sure to be a blockbuster) “Inception” this evening at our local Linway Plaza theater. It was amazing — a movie about dreaming, that leaves you wondering what is real, and what is dream. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that one of the most original ideas in this movie is regarding time. Five minutes in the “real” world is an hour or more in the dream world… and when you have a dream within the dream, it can seem to last 20 hours… and when you have a dream within that dream… it may last 10 years. One more level down and a dream lasts long enough for a lifetime.
The last scene in the movie is of a spinning top. Whether it continues spinning, or it slows and wobbles and falls, is a way of telling whether we’re in a dream or not. In the end, we don’t know what the top does. The movie is over. We’re back in reality as we know it. We’re left wondering: this me sitting here watching the credits roll, here in this movie theater, is this reality? Is all this real, or is it a dream?
What if we follow this time idea backwards. If this reality-as-we-know-it is actually a dream, and we can live an entire lifetime here in this dream always thinking it’s real… then the next level up above is a dream that lasts only about 10 hours or so. And the dream above that is perhaps an hour. And the dream above that is no more than five minutes. And the dream beyond that… is it still a dream? Or is it the reality of our true lives? A true life where this lifetime we experience is but a moment of imaginative reverie, in which we’ve briefly dozed and will soon awake — and know, only then, that this dream within a dream within a dream within a dream, was in fact, only a dream.
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Are you a lucid dreamer? For those of us who are not (and The Bear is not), there’s technology: PASIV MV-235A for Lucid Dreaming.
Tags: dream, dreaming, future, Inception, multiple universes, mystery, reality, spacetime, wonder
In the ongoing effort to reduce his environmental impact on the planet, The Bear this week has installed a “TED-5002″ on the home electrical panel. Other weblogs have described the T.E.D. installation process, so I won’t go into that here. Instead I’ll share some details about our particular grid-tied solar electric production system, and how the TED-5002 will help us monitor our solar production and total household electricity usage.
Here in Indiana, most of our electricity is produced from coal. By learning to live with less electricity, we can help reduce the production of global-warming greenhouse gases that result from burning coal. Our first steps in that direction focused on conservation — there are many ways to reduce the amount of electricity we use. (For that story, listen to the 2005 TameBear Radio Podcast #11 – “Preparing for Solar.”) Then in 2006 we hired local solar contractor Home Energy, LLC to install a pole-mounted array of solar panels in our backyard, along with an inverter to convert DC electricity from the sun to AC electricity that our house could use. Our system is “gried-tied,” meaning that when the solar panels are not producing enough electricity to meet our needs, we get the extra juice from the local utility grid; and when our panels are producing more electricity than we need, the excess is pushed out onto the grid. (We also have a battery pack in case of a power outage; more on this in a moment.) We have a net metering contract with our local utility, Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), which specifies that we receive a credit for all excess electricity we generate, at the same rate that we are charged for electricity we draw from the utility. (For more details, check out TameBear Radio Podcast #26 – “Solar Powered.”) Here is a simple diagram of our solar electric system:
Our Solar Electric Generation System |
After our system was installed, Treesh and I diligently read and recorded the numbers from two utility meters on the outside of our house. One meter measures how much electricity we’ve used from the grid, the other measures how much electricity we’ve delivered to the grid. We put those numbers into a spreadsheet and were pleased to see that the solar electric system was producing electricity to meet 90% of our needs. But after the first year, the nightly checking-of-the-numbers became too tedious, and we stopped recording. Furthermore, our total electric usage has been gradually creeping upwards over the past four years, and that’s been kind of a downer.
Because our power to and from the grid has this ebb and flow based on how much electricity our solar panels are producing on any given day, it’s been difficult to know exactly how much total electricity we’ve been using. We can see our net grid usage each month when we get our NIPSCO bill, but that doesn’t tell us anything about the total amount of electricity we’re producing, and how much of that we’re using.
So along comes T.E.D.to the rescue! The Energy Detective (TED) is a device you install in your electrical panel which measures and records electricity usage over time. We learned about this from a friend just last month. He helped us install two measuring devices (MTUs) and get our monitoring set up. One MTU measures that ebb and flow on the line connecting our house to the grid. Sometimes we are using power from the grid, sometimes we are pushing power to the grid (when our panels are pumping out more electricity than our house can use.) So this meter can read negative (drawing power from the grid) or positive (pushing power to the grid). The second MTU measures the total load our house is drawing. And the sum of these two numbers tells us the total amount of solar electricity our system is producing at any moment.
So for example, it’s about 10:30am on a sunny Wednesday morning, and MTU2 shows the house is using a total of 550 watts of electricity. MTU1 shows 60 watts going out to the grid. (It’s a positive number — excess solar electricity.) Adding these two numbers together tells us our solar production system is currently generating 610 watts of electricity (give or take a few watts). So at this moment, the solar panels are providing all the electricity our house needs, and putting a little excess out onto the grid. Nice!
MTU1+MTU2=solar power production |
(These meter readings are from the “TED-O-Meter” app on the Bear’s iPhone.)
We learned early yesterday morning WHY it’s called “The Energy Detective.” We had expected that NET reading (our total solar production) should never go below zero — that would be negative solar production. But when I got up this morning at about 6:30am, NET was -0.800kW! Was something wrong? What could be sucking that much power, and why wasn’t it showing up on our house load? We’ve figured out that our Outback charge controller was doing it’s scheduled 3-stage battery charging. That’s something we had not been aware of prior to the TED. So keeping the backup batteries charged uses about half a kWh of electricity each day it recharges. (We don’t know yet if this recharging happens every day, or once a week or what. We will see!) Prior to the TED we had no way of knowing the “energy cost” of the battery backup power. Now we know.
When did we stop wondering? Wondering… what is that, how does that work, who was that, when did that happen, where did I put that, why should I do that. When did we stop wondering what, how, who, when, where, and why? This simple wondering about stuff is at the heart of what we call “the sense of wonder,” a feeling that the world is full of mysteries to be discovered, of a magical or mystical source flowing through and within our material world.
Somewhere between youngster, kid, adolescent, teen, young adult, and grownup, most of us lost that sense of wonder. We stopped wondering about things and just started taking it all for granted. Seeing it all on “face value,” as surface with no depth. Perhaps some incident caused us pain or embarrassment, or we got pissed off at some bad luck, or we were sorely disappointed. It doesn’t take much. In the movie “Breaking Away,” young bicycle racer Dave Stoller says “Everybody cheats.” The world changes, we learn some lesson, we vow never to be taken in again.
We have lost the sense of wonder. Some will say that’s just part of growing up. Fitting in. Getting along. Making do. Paying your dues. We have so many ways of rationalizing our way out of wonder. From then on life becomes dull, routine, predictable, painful, hard, angry, dark, scary, and defeating. Wow doesn’t that sound like fun. And after a so-called “disillusionment” we resign ourselves to the “fact” that life in this world is simply not wonderful… End of story. No more hopeful wondering. No more sense of wonder.
Truth is though, we can return to the sense of wonder in a moment, whenever we want. Doing so is actually easy but we may feel too hopeless to know it.
Here are some ways to re-cultivate that sense of wonder — again…
- When someone uses a word that you don’t know, ask what it means. (Or look it up yourself.) When someone describes some thing or some process or some event that you’ve never heard of, make a mental note to learn more about it.
- Take time to figure out how something works. Read up on it. Take it apart. Consult an expert. Build one yourself. Roll up your sleeves, dig in, and learn something new. Nothing expands your sense of wonder at the boggling complexity of the world than learning.
- If someone drops a name you don’t know, find out who that is, and what they did to become worthy of name-dropping.
- If it ever arises that you don’t know or can’t remember when something took place, track it back and find out.
- If you can’t place a location — where you left something, or where something happened — track it back. Find the closest or last known place and trace back from there.
- When someone reacts in a way you did not expect, reflect on your interaction to understand why. When someone expects you to behave in a certain way, or do something in particular, and you don’t know why, ask why. And if you don’t understand the answer, ask why again. And keep asking why until reason or exasperation prevails.
The child-like ability to repeatedly ask what, how, who, when, where, and why is at the core of wonder. It is enchanting to those who share your wonder, and swiftly annoying to those who don’t.
Wonder. Child-like wonder at the sheer magnificence of the richness and depth of the world at large is a blessing shrouded in disguise.
It looks like the eternally pestering nitwit, postures as a dim-witted clown, but in the end is an age-wrinkled guru revealing wisdom for all to share.
Tags: child-like, disillusionment, illusion, learning, sense of wonder, wonder
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“Oceans of Light” |
The new ebook, “Oceans of Light: A Users Guide to the Multiverse” by Peter Oakley is now available in the Sony eBook Store! They are offering a small discount off the already low price of $3.99 (but you can buy it for two bucks less at the Apple iBook Store — for a limited time!)
Tags: eBook, iBook Store, Light, lightspeed, many worlds interpretation, multiple universes, Multiverse Theory, MW-Theory, Oceans of Light, Peter Oakley, photons, Sony
