Presentation 37

The Future and The New Past
Presentation 37 of 52

Presentation 37
Presented by Roger Weir
Saturday, September 12, 2015

Transcript:

Let's come to what is now the 37th presentation this year of preparation, 2015. Preparation for 2016, which indeed is an epical year coming up.

We're looking at, currently, the way in which a knot became tied in the middle of the 20th century. A knot that only has tightened in fact has complexity aside in the six or seven decades later. And so, it, it behooves us to be able to go back and not untie the knot. That will take some doing, if that were possible. But we're going to apply the Alexander the Great technique of taking a Sword of Truth and cutting the knot. It's a strangling knot. And we are choking to death. It is so difficult to have even a precis of what it is that we have been living, most of us all of our lives.

One of the most ignored figures who was immensely important is General George C. Marshall. I brought this large stack of volumes. It's three very important biographies of him. The middle four volumes are by Forrest C. Pogue. P-o-g-u-e. And Forrest Pogue was for many long decades, the head of a foundation devoted to the papers of George C. Marshall.

George C. Marshall was the man who directed World War Two to victory. He was a very rare five star General, almost the first. He was preceded by one day by Admiral Leahy.

Pogue's fourth volume was published in 1987 about the statesman after World War two, 1945 to 1959. He was born in 1880. So one of the early photographs of him in the late 1930's, just as the planning for World War Two was beginning to be in shape, shows him in Washington, D.C., on a horse.

To Franklin Roosevelt on the inside, the threat of what was quickly becoming World War Two on two different fronts, with a third front in between. The Nazis in Europe, the Imperial Japanese in Asia, and in between the Soviet Empire. So that the spectrum of conflict and threat was literally worldwide.

When Marshall was approached to become the chief of the armed forces. Remember, the Air Force was still a part of the Army. The United States Army totaled 189,000 men. Six years later, it totaled eight and a half million men. They were on horses, and they were not battle hardened. And six years later the United States Armed Forces were the most lethal weapon ever conceived on the planet. But something even more lethal had occurred that dwarfed human power. And Marshall was at the book ends of how that came into focus as the true dimension of its threat.

In these six volumes and all of the other volumes on him, none of the poignant pair of documents occurs. There's no mention of the incredible a challenge that was apparent already by 1941. And that by 1947 became almost a devastating quality of realization of what it was that we were, and this is a capital WE, of what we as a species were up against.

The book that has the two documents is Majic Eyes Only Earth Encounters with Extraterrestrial Technology Ryan S. Wood. His father, Robert, would, raised him right as pioneer families used to say. And Robert did a lot of early research on UFOs, but it was Ryan who in Majic Eyes Only collected. Through painstaking research, the documents.

The first document from 1941 is how the IPU was founded on recommendation by Marshall and signed secretly into law by FDR. It concerned what had been a recovery of an alien who is dying from a crash of his vehicle in southeastern Missouri. And it wasn't so much a cover up. It was absolutely unreported for the fact that there again was a very small newspaper article. Not really a report. And it's Ryan Wood's credit that he was able to search out and find all of these things. And the testimony also of the last living relative of the doctor, the country doctor, who was summoned in the middle of the night to tend a crash victim who was wounded. And of course, he and his family and everyone else were sworn to secrecy on pain of death. And it was only a granddaughter late in her life who managed to get out of her dying mother the story.

The IPU stands for Interplanetary Phenomena Unit. To investigate and to take the remains technologically and put them into research.

In February of 1942, just months after that and months after Pearl Harbor when the West Coast of the United States was preparing for a possible Japanese invasion. Steven Spielberg did a film 1941 based on that made a comedy out of it. Centered in Los Angeles, which in its preparation had immense searchlights. We are, after all, Hollywood land even then. And anti machine gun emplacements and the beginnings of radar. And unknown vehicles were spotted. Lights focused in the search lights, the beams. And Ryan Wood managed to find a rare secret photograph of that.

Two were shot down. One in the hills of crashed in the hills of San Bernardino, finally. The other crashed and the waters offshore. And the Navy recovered one and the Army recovered the other. And they were put together with the 1941 incident. And that triangle made the IPU a super-secret quality that was run by literally eyes only, voice only in person with FDR and George C. Marshall and very few other others who had any comprehension whatsoever what all of this was about.

The second was the Roswell crash in 1947. By that time, FDR was dead. The Second World War was over. Japan was defeated. The Nazis were defeated. But the Soviet Empire had already begun. The movements towards what eventually became called and was the Cold War. There were two crashes again. One just half hours' drive outside of Roswell. The other about 75 miles to the northwest. And the second crash site, in fact, though misreported consistently, even in secret reports. Ryan would again did his incredible homework. And the second crash site was in the small circle perimeter fencing off of the first atomic bomb blast, the Trinity site in New Mexico.
Roswell was the Air Force base that had the only bombers in the world that were equipped to carry atomic bombs. And they were the home air squadron that carried out Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The one they were carrying the bomb. The other they were the, for running defense penetrating part of the pair that actually did the bombing.

So that atomic weapons and atomic warfare became some kind of an issue that outside of our star system peaked a tidal wave of interest. Because of the physics, the mathematics, the organizing of technology that all of this was it identifiable, apparently in interstellar histories as being something that very rapidly is going to occur. It's no longer even a fast evolution. It is like a catastrophic explosion of capacity that will outstrip the species in its ability to control one way or the other. They will either destroy themselves or they will become a menace that is almost impossible to deal with if they're successful and do not destroy themselves. All of that is 70 years ago.

Though, the IPU was set up as the Interplanetary Phenomena Unit, the Magic 12 was set up for an interstellar who knows how far, crisis of civilization and species. That became exacerbated by the early 1950's. And resulted in 1954 of the new President, Eisenhower, who was under martial in the Second World War. He was in charge of the allies that were fighting the Nazis in order to come into the ability to finally have an invasion at D-Day to recover Europe. But always under the aegis of Marshall, who had been comfortable under the aegis of Franklin Roosevelt. But Roosevelt was dead. The Second World War was over. And Marshall was no longer there. And Truman, who had come in through the tragic death of FDR early, just months into his fourth term.

And so, the Roswell situation outclassed the ability of the White House and the executive branch to handle the sudden explosive scalar that now was there. The ability of six or so years of IPU was literally shredded by the Roswell situation the day after Roswell by Philip Corso, who was in World War Two and received a Bronze Star for bravery. By the time of the Roswell situation, he was coming up. And eventually the recovery of some of the technology ended up in a filing cabinet of his commanding officer. And he was in charge of feeding this technology into the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned against in early 1960 when he was saying his farewell after eight years in office as President. In 1954 he was at Edwards Air Force Base and held a meeting with extraterrestrials that was not able to be understood or digested by any of the participants whatsoever. Because the only participants on the interstellar side who were present constituted not original developers, but rather pirates. Yes, interstellar pirates. Pirate civilizations. Semi barbaric. Not really civilized.

And we find ourselves currently in a situation which is untenable on every count. Including any solution that there might be in trying to unravel it. Because the knot is booby trapped, that if it unravels, it works like a Chinese puzzle. It re-ravels in more complexity in terms of other dimensions. And the other dimensions that are involved have to do with the mind. They have to do with the brain. They have to do with species. And so, the more that it becomes unraveled, so that one feels that one is solving it because you're doing the technology and now, you're gaining on a par, you are losing the ability for the mind to remain open. Because it is now being co-opted into the knot and as it does the world becomes sucked into this like a whirlpool.

The most famous whirlpool in world literature is that in Homer's Odyssey. Given the name Charybdis. And Charybdis is a whirlpool that has a periodicity. And when the time of day comes in the morning for it to swirl down here, in The Odyssey Homer says it reveals the black sand at the bottom of the sea. And only late in that quote day does it reverse its chirality. And again, the water comes back up. And Odysseus must cling to a withered old branching weed herb all day. He says, Homer says, a long day, as if one spent a intense day in litigation and a court that is in endless session.

One of the witnesses at the second site, at the Trinity site, who was called in because of the location was Robert Oppenheimer from Los Alamos. Not yet The National Lab was still the Los Alamos Research location. It was very difficult. So that Oppenheimer wrote of very rare book, for him. In 1955 it was published. It was written in 1954, because he understood what was happening. And the book is called The Open Mind.

The background of The Open Mind goes back to 1932. One of the world's greatest mathematicians of all time, and certainly in the 20th century. One of the top four or five mathematicians of that century. His name is Hermann Weyl. W-e-y-l. And his book published by Yale University Press and translation in English 1932 The Open World: Three Lectures on The Metaphysical Implications of Science. While at the time 1932, Professor of Mathematics, University of Göttingen in Germany.

His next book, very rare for a while to be writing little, tiny books as well, is called Mind and Nature. Published University of Pennsylvania Press in Philadelphia, founded by Benjamin Franklin. And it was published in 1934. 1932 in Germany. 1934 and the United States. Because 1933 was when the Nazis took over Germany and the Reich said, Jews are not to be included anywhere. And so, Weyl went where Einstein went.

Einstein who is in Los Angeles in 1930. He was at Caltech. But he fell in love with the American spirit that even in what was becoming the depression, there was this freedom of an open mind still and an open world still here. Still viable. That whatever was a challenge could be seen as an adventure. And in the 1930's and in the early 1940's, that American milieu was that we're ready for whatever adventures come to be. We are ready for whatever challenge.

The simple phrase, I can still remember it as a boy, can do. Whatever it is. Whatever the challenge. Whatever the situation. Whatever the adventure can do. Not by some grand, rich, powerful individual or oligarchy, but because the American people as a people who are free, largely, in an open world. And we have seen in our own history time and again how that really is challenged almost to the breaking point. The Civil War. World War One. The Depression. World War two, etc. The Cold War. And who knows what else?

The volume from 1934 by Hermann Weyl at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. Because it had been founded for Albert Einstein who agreed to be there to anchor the Institute for Advanced Studies. And the fame and genius of Einstein, his person, the spirit of that man, that Jewish German man who was not only a citizen of the world, but a citizen of the universe, was identified as if there is a universal man in our time. He's it.

And so, while Hermann Weyl was the second person at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. Just a pair. And very quickly, word spread on that level. And almost every genius in Europe who was fleeing and some 70 to 90% of them were Jewish, headed to try to be there, constellating around them. And eventually there was a new center on the other coast that was founded and that was in Los Angeles. Like Einstein and Weyl founded the East Coast at the Institute and Princeton, on the West Coast in Los Angeles. Yeah, in part of Hollywood and part of Santa Monica. You had Thomas Mann and Igor Stravinsky. So that you began to have this influx of the creme de la creme of the world come together almost as if it were like a nuclear bomb of conscious capacity and dimensions.

The open world became a theme. The Challenge of an Open World: Essays Dedicated to Niels Bohr and published by the Niels Bohr Foundation in Copenhagen. And many languages. I have the English version. This was 1989 University of Copenhagen. And this volume set the tone that we need to have a re-discussion of what happened then and what has happened since. And what vectors are leading towards. And how it is that the open world is the only solution to the staggering complexity of not only what is wrong, what has been wrong, what is going wrong, but what will inevitably be wrong beyond belief. And when this was published in 1989, we had just two years before 1991 when the great metronome of civilization on this planet, in this star system, hit a gong of a new carrier wave for the next 2000 years of the energy time cycle of the structure and trance structure of civilization.

We're going to take a little break.

But in 1952, when the atomic bomb went off as a detonation for the hydrogen bomb, which vaporized the atoll that was the center of it. Not just a nuclear test site of the atomic bomb, but the first hydrogen bomb. Its range was the size of a very major metropolis. Not just square miles, but scores of square miles vaporized.

He, Weyl, published a little book again, Symmetry. And in Boston, the cover is a snowflake. And Symmetry is Weyl's presentation published by Princeton University Press 1952. One of the sections is Translatory Rotational and Related Symmetries. That one of the things about a snowflake's structure is it's interesting, paired chirality. And the fact that every single snowflake is unique. There are no two snowflakes alike. And the first person to do the math about that and show that in a monograph was Johann Kepler back in the early 1600's. It's in English. I'll bring in a copy next week.

No matter where in the star system, if it snows anywhere every snowflake will be different. It will be individual. But it will be a snowflake with symmetry and chirality. And that this is something that not only The Open Mind and The Open World fit into the scalar of complete freedom. Of infinite freedom. That the mind is at home in freedom. And not in some super science closed dot.

Let's take a little break.

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Let's come back.

Let's come back to Oppenheimer. Because of his incredible involvement and witness that spanned an immense range of what was being knotted together, the director of the Manhattan Project had his security clearance taken away from him by The House un-American Activities Committee under Joseph McCarthy hearings. And the number one person accusing him of being a subversive commie was a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, of which Oppenheimer was the head. The star. He was the man. David Strauss, who was put up to it by Edward Teller, who was looking to upstage the atomic bomb by his hydrogen bomb. And Oppenheimer was one of the impediments in the way. So, he had to be discredited.

There's a famous photo of Oppenheimer receiving the Presidential Medal of Honor. And there's Edward Teller pretending that they're friends. And, well, we've known each other a long time. And Kitty Oppenheimer, his wife, for all those decades, looking on with a grimace. There he is.

Oppenheimer's The Open Mind was followed towards what was the end of his life. He died in 1963. Absolutely wizened and shrunk beyond belief. Almost as if all of the fluids of his body had been sapped out.

In 1962, his last public lecture series, because of the way that he was manhandled by man eaters in Amerika with a K. He accepted a lectureship and gave the Whitten lectures at McMasters University in Canada, in Ontario. They're published, again, it's a very slight book. It's called The Flying Trapeze: Three Crises for Physicists. It's not even the three transcripts come to about 64 pages all together. He was not well and what he had to say was really a high wire act indeed. The flying trapeze. No net.

In 1955 his book, The Open Mind, was a conflation of the two volumes of Hermann Weyl. Hermann Weyl's 1932, while he was still at Göttingen University, the mathematical center of the world at that time. The Open World. Open. And 1934 the Mind and Nature [Mind and Nature: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics]. The Open Mind. The conflation of these two.

And the reason to a great extent of this was the incredible scene, not just of 1933. But going back to the beginnings of the First World War, which involved a Kaiser, a Caesar in German. Kaiser Wilhelm building up a Reich. Remember, the Nazis were the Third Reich. Because we have the ability that we learned from Bismarck that you can flick the French off the map. We took over Paris in 1870. We can do it again whenever we wish. And that goes for you. And you. And you. And you.

In 1915 at Göttingen University the great mathematician was David Hilbert. This is a later translation into English of Hilbert's very, very, very great work, Zahlbericht. Zahlbericht, The Theory of Algebraic Number Fields. And Hilbert was the great mathematician.

The great biography of him is by Constance Reid. R-e-i-d. Published by Springer Verlag, the great science publisher in Europe for generations.

And this is the old Hilbert. The young Hilbert. And they old Hilbert. He died almost as wizened as Oppenheimer. He died in Germany in 1943.

But in 1915, Hilbert used his world class clout to hire the only woman professor in European History and Mathematics Department at Göttingen. Her name was Emmy, not Emily. Emmy. Like in the Emmy Awards. Noether. N-o-e-t-h-e-r. Born in 1882. Born just two years after General Marshall. And she lived till 1935. No, she wasn't killed by the Nazis. She fled because she was Jewish. And she finally made it to America with a C, not a K. But she had cancer and died just a couple of years later. She had become a professor, a female professor of mathematics at Bryn Mawr. Bryn Mawr was a woman's college. One of the seven sisters in Welsh. Bryn Mawr means a big hill. Bryn, Hill. Mawr, great. Means a great, not just big, a great hill.

The King of Cornwall, when Joseph of Arimathea, 2000 years before, had taken all of the sisters of Jesus and their husbands and his friend Nicodemus, who had helped him take Jesus off the cross. And Lazarus and his sister. And one of the, the only niece of Jesus named Anna, whose father was Joseph of Arimathea and whose mother was Suzanne, Susanna. Their daughter, Anna, married King Belomor. King of the great good. Who was the king of Cornwall, that whole Cornish region that was the ancestral home later on of King Arthur, 500 years later. And of the two sons that Anna and Joseph of Arimathea had, one became the King of England, Lud like in Ludgate in London, and the other Louse, like in Louis, the King of France.

So, when Emmy Noether was invited to Bryn Mawr, there were all kinds of dimensions of literate comprehension that she was the carrier inheritor of the genius of creative mathematics in the world.

This is a first page. It's a page of our presentation notes. First page on Wikipedia. Here is just a few sentences. "She was described by Albert Einstein, Hermann Weyl, Norbert Wiener as the most important woman in the history of mathematics." She mastered algebraic theory fields in such a way that it became possible to begin to have a mathematic that was not only infinite and infinitesimally accurate. But was eternally free. Showed that the mind when it is real is dimensionally open. There is no such thing as artificial intelligence.
"Born to a Jewish family in the Franconia town of Erlangen. Her father was a mathematician, Max Noether. She originally planned to teach French and English after passing all of the required examinations, but instead studied what she really loved." And that was mathematics. She snuck into lectures at the University of Erlangen, her dad's and her dad's friends, and it was, let alone.

"After completing her dissertation in 1907 under the supervision of Paul Gordon, she worked at the Mathematical Institute of Erlangen without pay." They couldn't hire her. Women are not allowed. Then after seven years somebody who read her papers was David Hilbert. And he said, you come and be a professor here at the world center of Mathematics in Göttingen. And it's there in 1930's, Göttingen that Robert Oppenheimer studied as the young genius.

If you're not able to begin to get the picture, you're not looking. What we are presenting, not lecturing, presenting. It's a gift. Is that the situation was stolen progressively out of the hands of the few who understood all of the dimensions of what was real and became the private purview of those who considered power as what is real. And privilege. And what is the phrase the devil takes the hindmost? I think that is the phrase.

What originally for George C. Marshall and setting up the IPU, the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit, by the time of Roswell became impossible. Impossible to deal with, because what had been considered far out as interplanetary was actually interstellar to what degree no one knew. And it wasn't as if there was a group that one could deal with, it was that there was a whole scale of craft and visitors and complexities. And that much of what was potentially available to help were not able to do so because there was nothing real in the control of the access of doing anything about it. And those who could were progressively subjected to attempts to control their minds. Yes, we can control the world, but yeah, the danger is because of open minds. So, we need to learn to control the minds. Let's get them young and let's keep it current.

Very few human groups have more experience than the Jews to fend off and to not be impressed by power over control.

One of the central pivots of Noether's genius and work that Hilbert had recognized and brought her under his wing and kept her. Kept her there after there for almost a generation. Free to develop. Towards the end, the beautiful stalwart lady had grown prematurely old. These are all in the illustrations to the notes.

What's not in the notes is a page from a whole sheaf of Wikipedia short articles on mathematics that's necessary to understand what all this really means. This is a single page and just a little notation here. It's called Aleph Number. Aleph in the Hebrew Alpha, alphabet is A. This is how it begins. This is how the written language begins. And here is an alpha in Hebrew and the sub is a zero. Alpha zero. Aleph zero. "What is Aleph number in set theory. A discipline within Mathematics the Aleph numbers are a sequence of numbers used to represent the cardinality," or size. "of infinite sets."

Now you're having to imagine that set theory is superior to a kind of a theory that at the beginning of the 20th century was considered by some to be the pinnacle of mathematical logic. And it's said so in the three big volumes of Principia Mathematica by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead. So complex, those three big Cambridge University press, dark blue, hard covers. Sets like so. If you take a graduate level philosophy of logic course they will say yes, it's the sine qua non of logical inquiry at the time and one must be acquainted with it. So, they give you a paper. A Cambridge University paper version of the first 56 little numbered Sigalas. And it's a couple of hundred pages and almost nobody is able to get through that.

Russell's theory of types was the way in which the codification of intelligent mind structuring of ideas and capacities for ideation. And thus, **inaudible word or two** source, to use a German term, of ideology was founded.

Carl Jung's first real book was The Psychology of Types. Yeah. Set theory dwarfed it.

One of the earliest geniuses to work with it in the 1920's. By 1928, Hermann Weyl was able to write his massive Theory of Groups [The Theory of Groups and Quantum Mechanics] that sets group in such a way that there is an awful lot that one can do. And that theory actually in this is not just a branch of mathematics but is a whole tree of branches of mathematics. And you can go on for a long time.

Oh, what do they say? Transfer finite number. Uncountable set cardinality of the continuum set theory. Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory. Russel's paradox type theory. You see what I mean? Aleph number. And then it goes on with William Rowan Hamilton and all about Hamilton mathematics. Leon, Leonhard Muller with his Institutionalize Calculate Differentialis. And oh, the pair volume to it Institution Calculae Intergalis, differential calculus and integral calculus as a pair. But the differential calculus volume is the difficult one. And then one has to go to differential equations. Oh, my goodness. There are integral equations in calculus and differential equations. And well, there are quite a few. And not only differential equations, there are partial differential equations to many orders.

Then you have to go to Lagrange. Joseph-Louis Lagrange. It sounds very French, doesn't it? He was Italian. Giovanni Luigi Lagrange. Lagrange's Four-Square Theorem. Lagrange's Identity Mathematically Disambiguation. Getting it clear so there's no ambiguity. You have to get rid of it. And oh, this is a mathematics to get rid of what you don't want. Lagrange's identity the boundary value problem. Oh, you have to watch out for the boundaries. You have to control the boundaries in order to get the value logically structurable. Greens, identities. Greens functions. Fundamental solution. And it goes on and on. Clifford algebras. Weyl algebra. Lie algebra. Infinitesimal transformation rotation group SO3. Or **inaudible word** group orthogonal matrix conjugate transpose adjectives, get matrix, etc. etc. etc.

You don't get PhDs in math anymore.

You get awards for trying to enter into the conversation. All of this is unclear to the closed mind. The closed mind in a closed world has no chance in logic whatsoever to understand anything about any of this. So, if you want to control the species you make it impossible to have not an education. Oh, you can have an education of any kind that you want. It's all within the bounds that are well worn by now. But you're not free to learn. But unfortunately for the wardens some have spiritual wings, and they don't need boundaries to course it.

More next week.

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