Found in my local supermarket. 'nuff said.

THE BIG PICTURE

1. We don't know how old the universe is, nor whether it has a beginning or an end. There is no evidence to support the Big Bang. Any ideas about this are pure fiction and despite preposterous amounts of money being spent to “prove” it, there is no real evidence or any way to prove the big bang ever happened. Besides, what meaning is there in it?

2. Our world and Solar System have been modified. Our Moon is not a normal or naturally occurring moon. It is much too big and does not orbit the Earth in a normal orbit compared to other moons in our own Solar System. What exactly it is remains to be discovered.

3. We are not alone. There is a constant stream of sightings of UFOs that cannot all be explained away and thanks to the plentiful supply of mobile phones with cameras there is more evidence than ever before of many somethings or someones in our skies and out in space.

Life on Earth exists in almost every type of environment – extremes of heat and cold, high and low altitudes: why would we then assume that it stops when we leave the surface of Earth? More likely life exists everywhere in forms we don't yet know of, even out in space.

4. Humans have been on Earth for a very long time. There are fossils that prove humans, or something resembling humans have been living here for millions of years. Not thousands, MILLIONS of years.

5. We are not the same as all other life on Earth. Humans have two genes fused together which all other animals have separated. There are many other biological differences that suggest we are at least partly modified from standard Earth stock. Our mental capacity is clearly limited – we can know this yet we cannot surpass some serious limits.

6. We are probably not the most advanced culture to ever exist on this planet. There is plenty of evidence of previous cultures that could create advanced technology in our past.

In various places there are examples of advanced metalwork, stone and ceramic works that prove someone was here in ages past and they were not primitives.

7. Our societies are awful and primitive. Our sciences are primitive and so bad we haven't even got a workable theory of gravity. There is evidence that suggests previous cultures had nuclear power and nuclear weapons were used in places in Earth's distant past. Mars also has suffered from nuclear explosions in its distant past. Clearly these previous cultures were no better at keeping peace amongst themselves than we are. It looks like all previous cultures were smashed either by natural or man-made catastrophes and that this has happened repeatedly on this planet.

8. We are not just meat machines. There is plenty of strong evidence that we as beings remain in existence after body death and at least some of us come back again.

In addition there is the unsettling discovery that those who are killed violently may return with traumatic physical deformations that match the way they died in their previous life.

This means that any violence caused to people in one life can continue to adversely affect them beyond the grave – the message is clearly to be good to your fellow humans.

This also suggests that this world is only a small part of some bigger reality: the main problem we then have is that we don't know why or what is the point of the whole thing.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Here I can theorise that we are here to learn how to get on with each other nicely despite our differences, do good things for each other and so on – and this then grows into much bigger questions we must deal with as humans – morality and justice, for example:

but these are all ideas formed from this existence. The fundamental problem is that we don't know what this other existence is all about.

Some think we are just here to experience but that does not have meaning for us here since we have it regardless.

The best overall theory of existence I have is this: Life here on Earth for us is a sort of training ground. We are being trained for some other, more complex existence. This may well be only one level of a series of training “schools”.

Where are the “Teachers”? They are never seen, never heard by us. If someone gets outside of the playground limits they may clean up the mess but we will probably never hear or see it happen. We will never get to the same level of “technology” as them because that would cause trouble for the Teachers. Perhaps these are what some people call the “Men In Black”?

We might make technological or social progress but the important part of this “school” is that we must learn how to deal with things like justice, morality, inequality and suffering, thus all of these things will remain with us here on Earth since they are “baked in”.

Key to this is our limited mental capacities and our combination of both intellectual and emotional minds in the one form.

These limits are one of the crucial matters to consider: in any game, the limits are what make the game. If we have a world where people can easily read each other's minds, for example, there is little need for verbal communication and if these mental messages are always perfectly remembered there is no need for writing or physical records of any kind: as long as someone around can remember what was said all those years ago, why bother writing it down?

Complete telepathy with all life would create a situation where killing or causing pain to any other creature would cause instant pain for yourself too: this could cause many other connected beings to die at the same time. This would therefore not be terribly practical.

This is by no means the end of the story: things are far more complex than the simple sketch provided here, there are more questions than answers but it does give me a starting point.

All of the claims 1 to 8 above are supported by real evidence but I am not going to provide bibliographic references: do your own research. 

You could, of course, email me and I'll provide clues , but I'm betting that you won't, so come on, prove me wrong!

The Myth Of Magic

This is the essence of all of the grandiose claims by religious or mystic types: that they (and you too, if you pay enough!) can influence reality simply by thinking about it.

What is truly bombastic is when such fantasy is proclaimed as “science”.

The latest version of this is the so-called observer- experiment interaction, where somehow the outcome of a precise experiment can be changed merely by someone (or something) observing it.

Here is an example:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/02/980227055013.htm

and also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)

The experimenters claim that they placed a sensitive electron detector near to the passage of a flow of electrons and that when the detector was activated, the flow of the electrons changed its behaviour. They claim that this detector cannot influence the flow, yet it does.

How about a much simpler theory: IT DOES affect the flow when switched on.

I bring this up because it is an example of magical thinking in science – well, pseudo-science actually. This is NOT science because it is attempting to prove a faulty premise.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I am not a “skeptic”. I am not doing this to “debunk” anyone: I am only after the truth.

There are some things that are definitely real, yet they don't have any “scientific explanation”.

The big thing to look for is the origins of the ideas. I recently discovered that the “Big bang” theory came from a Catholic Priest! Apparently he was looking for a way to reconcile his religious ideas with scientific thinking. No wonder the idea always stunk to me: where is the supporting evidence? There is NONE. The theory was NOT derived from evidence of any kind, nor did it derive from a previous theory with weaker evidence, it was just pulled out of thin air!

The point is that if any human could really affect reality directly they would be something more like a god: but not only that, the strong suspicion that such a thing was really possible would mean societies, governments, corporations and individuals would immediately start work on duplicating this power for themselves: a magical arms race. The fact that there is no power that can really do this is proven by the total lack of any evidence to support it.

I suspect that most, if not all of - the stories disguised as “science” that try to convince us that things such as “observer – experiment effects” are true are actually lies to confuse and cloud the picture of what is really going on.

It gets fools hard at work searching for this phenomenon so that they may waste years and millions looking for it.

It also allows those who have more “mundane” technologies to conceal them by claiming that such phenomena are caused by much more spectacular sources, thus keeping their technological advantage. - and that may be the real game: keeping the “secret weapons” secret while trying to get everyone else wandering around in the dark looking for magical sources for the results of far more real weapons and processes.

Is there a deliberate planned dumbing down of our science? That is a hard question to answer. I can point to some clear indicators that suggest that progress has been crippled by bureaucracy and the needs of people to collect a wage and hold a position, but that is not to say any of that was planned.

Consider the progress of a young University student: first, to get into University level physics, he or she must have already absorbed the official models and methods of science and been able to regurgitate them on demand. Then to reach further up the ladder to masters degree and beyond to become a professor, he must not only have the official views down but be able to make new and slight variations on it BUT nothing that challenges the views of his seniors or their fellows as this would be heresy. All papers must be submitted to peer review for approval and if that committee of “peers” is already decided that your idea CANNOT be true, tough luck: no funding, no commercial contracts, no degree, no job, nothing. Just take a look at what happened to Pons and Fleischmann when they tried to get official science to look at an effect that was outside of the narrow norm. I won't go into the details of it here - they were careful researchers and had no interest in deception, but that didn't count for much.

This system ensures that any idea which does not conform will not get support - and if the idea threatens any of the existing corporate bodies, it will either get absorbed or squashed: no water powered cars or never-run-flat batteries will get funding from the big boys. Don't get the idea the patent system will help here either: anything of significance will either get co-opted by the military industrial complex or you won't get a patent in the first place – or both.

It seems more likely that the social systems we have constructed cannot cope with too much progress and tend to stop all scientific and technological progress once they are established.

This is not all bad mind you, and we should note that we have recently been through a very anomalous event where the progress of microelectronics has sped forward – but this is now probably not going to continue at the same rate as before because of physical limits being reached.

The suspicion is that we are looking at a sort of progression of social units: when young and flexible, they will try anything but as they grow older and bigger they also become more conservative in their outlook until the structure becomes burdened by bureaucracy and fixed ideology. The next step would then be the collapse of the rigid structure when faced with unavoidable truths that prove the ideology false . . except that when we look at religion in the modern world it seems to mutate and adjust when new facts appear rather than collapsing outright. It took centuries for the Catholic Church to admit Copernicus was right and even now, they still exist. 

Thus I must conclude that the only way forward for those of us who want a better world and a better world-view is to do it ourselves and not even bother trying to convince the fixed minds of new ideas - make them, use them and show people that they are real and workable.

If you dare. 

I previously posted Rupert Sheldrake's Dogmas of Modern Science:  

Make no mistake, dogmas are not a good sign. 

 

THE GPU COOLER PROJECT PART 2

From the start, my GTX 1080 Ti video card would overheat. It had one of those blower style coolers and obviously this was not good enough after less that a minute running full power. (How do they get away with selling a card that overheats when run at full power? I don't know ) - but this must be fixed.

(Before the coolers)

I had already bought two different GPU coolers and three fans with the intent of using them to get the GTX 1080 Ti card running properly – but there were problems with these ideas:

First idea: Noctua NH-D9L – a great CPU cooler but needs a special mounting plate made to fit it to a GPU. Also takes up so much space that only one GPU can be fitted. 

Second idea: Raijintek Morpheus II - a very good cooler, up to 360 watts TDP and it fits on the GPU and comes with lots of extra parts to cool the card chips that need them BUT it takes up more than three PCIE slots (more than 60mm wide with fans on it) so once again, you can only have one GPU unless I want to replace the entire motherboard and case.

Soooooo . . . . . 

Having looked over the specs and carefully checked everything, I bought a second used GTX 1080 Ti Blower design and two Arctic Accelero III coolers, which DO fit inside the 3 PCIE slot 60mm width and thus allow me to have two 1080 Ti's that can run full power without melting down.

Okay, so they don't blow air out the top of the case as I wanted in the previous post but hey, at least

they work.

HOW I INSTALLED THE ARCTIC ACCELERO 3 COOLER ON A GTX 1080 TI

After doing the first card I decided to make lots of notes for anyone out there who wants to try this.

First, please remember that THIS WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY. Don't know why some folks are so worried about this, but there you go, no doubts there.

You will be replacing the cooler on your card but if you are careful and not stupid you will not harm the actual working parts of the card itself in any way.

Tools you will need

Work surface (in my case, a towel. )

Phillips Screwdriver Medium

Phillips Screwdriver small

Tweezers

Fine hobby knife

Fine tipped pliers

Disposable alcohol soaked computer cleaning cloths (come in a plastic bottle)

Magnifier

Disposable gloves – wear them whenever you work on the insides of your PC.

Vernier Caliper

Earthing wrist strap (yeah, okay I didn't use one. I'm an expert :D I still suggest that you use one though. )

1. Removing the existing cooler

Take all of the tiny screws out of the card anywhere you can see them apart from those holding the end plate (the mounting plate with the output sockets in it).

Then gently remove the cooler, making sure that you don't pull it hard as there will be at least one cable and plug joining the two parts. Next, carefully remove these plugs from the board. The plugs are fiddly things and may need persuasion with a small screwdriver at either side – but don't break the socket.

Watch out for the thermal transfer paste (grey goo) as you pull the thing apart, don't let it touch anything or it will make a mess. It may also be toxic so if you get it on you, clean it off - and wear disposable gloves while you do anything inside your computer, not just for your protection, your sweat and dirt could damage electrical components.

2. Cleaning the GPU chip

This is where we get out those alcohol soaked cleaning cloths. Clean all of the thermal paste off the chip in the center of the card, GENTLY clean the surface and watch out for the tiny bits around it – those tiny rectangular bits are electronic components and if you knock any of them off you are in deep doodoo.

On the first card I did ( Asus ) there was a lot of thermal paste in the gulley around the chip and I got rid of most of this by gently brushing with an old soft toothbrush. Once again, be very gentle, you don't want to put pressure on the tiny components stuck down there – if any of them are damaged you will need specialist help to repair them. Maybe. If you can find the bit that came off. If you can find a tech who can do it.

(Bare Card)

3. Fitting the spacers

First, according to the instruction sheet you need to pick the right spacers for your card. Then you need the Vernier Caliper to measure those tiny spacers to get the right ones. These things are light and very small, make sure you don't lose any by opening the packet into the box lid. 

(The spacers with rings stuck on)

Next up is sticking the adhesive rings onto the spacers: this is very fine, I needed tweezers, a fine tip knife and a magnifier to do this.

(mounting plate with spacers, tools)

Then sticking the spacers with their sticky rings onto the mounting plate was also a fiddly task since it was hard to remove the backing paper ring from the double-sided sticky ring – I used the knife tip for this and the magnifier and it was still fiddly.

You will also need to make sure that you stick them over the correct holes according to the instruction sheet too. Fortunately there is a bit of slop and even if you get the sticky ring over the bolt hole a bit it doesn't matter, the bolt should still thread in.

Once that was done, there was a second set (this time they were black and already had the sticky rings stuck on) to stick onto the back plate. Finally, there is a black foam rectangle that is to be stuck onto the back plate in the center. 

(back plate parts)

Once that is done, you only need to screw the mounting plate onto the cooler itself.

4. Fitting the small radiators

Put the inside of the old cooler above your bare circuitboard so you can see where the heat transfer pads were – this is where you need to put all those small aluminium radiators.

(card and cooler)

Clean these off with more of the alcohol cloths or the glue might not stick. In the instructions they recommended using an eraser for this but it didn't seem to work very well when I tried it and then I had to brush the erasings off afterward. One of my cards had something like oil on it and only the cloths got this off.

Fit the biggest ones you can but don't let them overhang the board or they might come off during installation.

You can also use the clear tape to insulate parts of the board if needed too. I wish the tape was coloured though, it was hard to see.

I found the rads that had cutout bases most useful. It is a good idea to lay them out first without glue to make sure you have everything neatly covered.

(fitted radiators)

Once you have the layout, stick the rads down with the thermal glue supplied. I only used a small amount and wiggled each mini-radiator to try and spread the glue all over the chip and rad – it might not have completely covered all of the chip face but I don't like the idea of having the glue all over the board either and so far nothing has failed.

Make sure that the radiators you stick on don't touch anything else on the board – this is where the magnifier comes in handy. The glue takes an hour to set so once you have all of them stuck on you can easily spend a few minutes checking the positions of all of them and adjusting without concern.

5. Fitting the cooler to the card

First, be very careful with the cooler- it comes with thermal paste already applied and both times I managed to smear this which was not ideal. It seemed a good idea to set it back in the plastic tray it came in which has a depression for the pasted area – but both times I still managed to smear it a bit, not enough to worry me but still . . .

When you go to fit the cooler onto the card, put the cooler face down on the bench, then put the card on top, then the backplate on top of that and then fumble with one screw at a time getting them in and started before going on to the next and finally screwing them all down a little each at a time so they all go down evenly.

All that remains is to plug in the four-pin fan plug and it's done.

(both Accelero3-equipped 1080's fitted)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Relocating the Wifi card

This had to be moved since the second Accelero 3 takes up the end PCIE slot where it was – so I came up with a way to keep it working that only required some holes being drilled for a special fitting. I picked up a PCIE riser cable to connect t to the same slot as before and all was good to go.

(ready to drill holes)

This drilling was not going to be simple since I do not want any metal filings in the computer case: that is a very bad idea. I also did not want to take everything out of the case just to drill the holes so I came up with a way to do it: I found a small box that would fit around and under the area and cut it to slot over and around the area and capture all of the metal shavings. This worked very well – after I had finished I could just throw it away and then install the card in it's new place once the GPUs were in.

(new improved tools)

There was a little more to the wifi installation, actually – I had to chop off the top of the slot fitting and drill two holes in it to bolt the card into the case. The final fitting was achieved using a rubber band and some blutack. The rubber band went around the handles of the pliers to hold the nut and the blutack went on the tip of the screwdriver to hold the screw on when fitting them. I also used a cable tie to fix the card in place before fixing the first bolt and nut because it was otherwise impossible to do with only two hands.

(Wifi card mounted with cable attached)

After all of that, I hooked everything up, closed the case and Pop! Everything worked first time which made me very happy. I adjusted the GPU cooling curve to fit that supplied by Accelero in the box but I did it in NZXT's CAM software rather than MSI Afterburner as they recommended as I like to have CAM running minimised in a corner of my screen giving me CPU and GPU temps – Afterburner seems to have no equivalent mini – display, instead having an exhaustive array of graphs and such.

The Results

I have a special DAZ Studio iRay Render file that I use to test the system – it takes about 15 minutes to render and all three processors run full steam (99 to 100 %) for that time.

CPU Temps – 79 – 83 degrees

GPU Temps – 70 – 73 degrees

Anything else I threw at the GPUs never went over 70 so I am happy with that and I am sure that I could overclock the GPUs without any problem if I choose to later on. For the price of $150, the Accelero 3 Cooler is excellent – even in the three PCIE slot space, it is so good that I would recommend it to anyone – particularly when GTX 1080 cards with fancy coolers are still very pricey: I got a used blower style 1080 Ti for $800 AU and with the $150 AU Accelero 3, I paid $950 for what could otherwise cost well over $1200 new (if you can get one) – and it is guaranteed to stay cool.

Is it quiet? Well, it's pretty quiet: there is no point even trying to make a silent AND full power computer - not unless you want to shell out BIG money – and besides, hearing the fans ramp up is a clear indicator of what the system is doing. It's still a lot quieter that any of my previous computers at full power.

So why didn't I get an RTX 2080? Because I don't think they are worth getting at the moment: where's the software to make use of the new chips, and why should I pay twice the price for less than twice the performance? Two 1080 Ti's are a better deal.

Footnote: If you are looking to game with this sort of system please note that you CANNOT get an SLI bridge onto the cards once you have put the custom coolers on.

THE GPU COOLER PROJECT

What I want is a GPU cooler that blows air in the usual “reference blower” direction – from front to the back and out of the case – but it should be three bays wide: my motherboard is nothing special but it has the 16x PCIE sockets 3 bays apart: why not use all of that space (60mm wide by about 120mm) to run a duct with radiators in it endwise? Then you could mount two of them side by side with no cramping and maybe get enough airflow to cool them quietly.

After searching the net I discovered that there are very few aftermarket GPU coolers for recent video cards and none of them really use the whole area to cool the GPU. There are several coolers that come on the card that blow air out everywhere inside the case and I think this idea is not a good idea: that will heat up things that should not be hot and worse still, hot air going into the CPU cooler is a very bad idea. The only thing going for these coolers is that they are simple and use easily made radiators.

I bought one of these, the Raijintek “Morpheus II” and it's pretty good, comes with all the extras to make it work, but there is a new problem: the whole thing along with fans is too wide to permit a second GPU to be fitted.

My motherboard has a gap of three PCIE slots between the GPU (PCIE 16x) connectors but the standard “blower” cards are only two slots wide. This does allow room for air into the blower but surely it would be more efficient to expand the cooling space to cover all three bays: that way we get more outlet area, more radiator area and a simple flow-through from end to end. This then suggests an ideal fan system of two 60mm blowers on the far end.

I have drawn this design idea up below.

The one area I am unsure about is the layout of the radiator for such a cooler: the fins must be in line with the airflow but I am unable to find any existing unit or parts that could be modified to do this job. You can get solid metal radiators that would fit this area but they have no heat pipes so they would need to be added – but most important is the design : such things must be designed right. I am unsure of how exactly to do this. Oh yes – you also need to make sure certain parts of the card apart from the GPU chip itself are cooled too.

The simplest idea is to get a chunk of heatsink about 265mm long, 55mm high and 120mm wide and then mount heatpipes under it to spread the heat out.

The ATS 2206-ND is an aluminum extrusion 300 x 93.4 mm in size and has fins 40mm high.

This might be used -or at least tried out – but there are problems with this idea:

1. Will it cool well enough? I cannot get heat data on the 1080 GPU other than the vague “250 Watts TDP” and the max temp of 90 degrees, at which point it thermal throttles itself.

2. Attachment? This is a big issue because it is Alu and there will be electrolytic issues to consider.

I have posted to a forum hoping that someone will help with this . . .  but I'm not holding my breath.  

I just had another idea too: maybe I could chop off the end of the card cover where the fan is and fit a bigger fan endwise with a shroud to adapt it . . . . .

 

PC Update December 2018

 Corrected PC Parts Prices

CPU Intel Core i9 7980XE                                               $2775

GPU Asus Geforce GTX 1080 Ti                                   $2000 (approx)

Motherboard Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 3              $530 (approx)

Case Silverstone FT05B                                                 $419

CPU Cooler Noctua NH-D15S                                      $141

SSD Samsung 2TB                                                        $890

PSU Corsair HX1000i                                                  $326

Wifi Card                                                                      $79

Windows 10                                                                 $199

TOTAL                                                                        $7359

32in Display                                                                $1304

TOTAL2                                                                     $8663

This is therefore pretty much even with the $9000 iMac Pro price wise. On the other hand, having now used Win 10 for a long time I am quite happy with it.

Since I put the second fan on the CPU cooler, according to NZXT's CAM software (which puts a small readout on the screen), the CPU now never gets above 67C which is very good for a 7980XE.

Everything is working fine . . . . well, apart from the GTX 1080 Ti GPU: when I run The Valley it gets to 85C after about 15 seconds which pops up an alert. Note that this occurs regardless of what I run including Nvidia iRay, the whole point of getting the PeeCee - any time the GPU is run full power it gets hot and the card cooler is noisy and inadequate. This version of the card (ASUS Turbo GTX) cannot run full power without overheating. Well, that's how it looks on my PC. I am sure it works just fine for the average joe – but when I want to render it will be running full on.

The Video Card Fix

Okay, I know they try to keep GPU cards small but the downside to that is that when they cool them they cram a radiator and fan into a small space and that alone means noise, never mind the low efficiency of this design. In theory you could fit two video cards on an ATX board but the cooling would then be even worse – unless you upgrade the cooling.

so the next stage of my PC project is the GPU fix.

First, I had this idea at the start of the whole thing thanks to an English chap who does the YouTube channel DIY Perks - he made a GPU cooler without a fan for his silent PC project. I definitely need a fan but his work suggested that this might not be too hard, so off I went and got a Noctua NH-D9L as this looks like it will fit the space once the old cooler is removed . . . buuuut then there is the WifI card. My Mobo does not have Wifi built in so I had to get a separate card and wouldn't you know it, this will block the radiator on the GPU.

After some digging, it turns out the next model up, The Aorus 7, does have built in Wifi so I could buy one before I swap the cooler over, then sell off the current board and wifi card - but I wonder how much it will get.

This also doesn't mention the technical issues here either: I don't know what sort of special tool heads (screwdriver tips) will be needed to take the radiator off, the fan header will need to be changed, a special adapter plate must be made to bolt the rad to the GPU card and of course while all this goes on the PC won't be running – and then at the end of it all, will it run cooler than the original? I can only hope: in theory it should all be fine, and worst possible case I can always fit a second fan just like the CPU cooler.

I don't like the idea of buying more expensive parts and then trying to sell off the old ones so I think I have found another way: First, a different GPU cooler, the Raijintek Morpheus II.

The downside is that this cooler will have fans that blow horizontally which is not the best airflow according to my ideal of all vertical airflow. There is a lot of room “under” it however and I am hoping that I can make my own ducting to get the airflow out the end. Or in the case of my case, the top. Got that? On the other hand, maybe two GPUs can fit with this type of cooler in the space at hand . . . provided you can cheat more space by moving the wifi card – so I got a PCIE riser , basically an extension cable for the last PCIE slot that can then mount the wifi card alongside the GPU cards and thus provide room for the second GPU. I will need to create a new mount for it but that is a relatively easy job.

Just waiting for the cooler to arrive next month. I also bought two new fans (Noctua NF-12's) to mount on it . It's tempting to buy another 1080 Ti but I will wait and see how modding the first one works out first – and a used one can only get cheaper.

Final comment: Note that my preferred CPU cooler, although very good, still needed an extra fan to keep it properly cooled. It is no surprise that the GPU also needs better cooling from stock: but if Ihad got a Mac instead there would be no choice: you take their cooling solution and that's that.  I am much happier having a choice.

What about overclocking?

According to estimates on YouTube, I can gain at most 10% speed boost by overclocking. That's hardly worth the time and trouble for me - I want to focus on actually doing something, not tweaking.

Alright, I confess. I got another Mac. In this case, a Mid-2011 Mac Mini Server with a 4 core i7 and 16GB of Ram. It sits next to the PC and plays music and lets me surf the net while the PC renders. No, it's not a new Mini either. That came out after I had already got this one and it cost a lot more for something that does not need to be very new or powerful for my purposes.

The Asus Turbo GTX 1080 Ti

REAL SCIENCE

Have you ever had the idea that our science has become a rigid, bureaucratically defined fake?

I had that idea from childhood - even though I liked the idea of scientific study itself, our science seemed disconnected from the real world – all math and vagueness. Just consider the idea of “dark matter” - preposterous! Something is very wrong with your theory if you must invent some invisible “thing” to try and make your math add up.

Where is the evidence for The Big Bang, the Higgs Particle or the speed of light? 

We have been lied to, often and in detail. The first place I have seen where real intelligent people are discovering what the universe really is can be found at

The Electric Universe, from The Thunderbolts Project (thunderbolts.info)

This vid is quite long but it is full of amazing stuff if you have the patience.

This is what I really think is the truth: our universe is of unknown age and size, it is all alive and energy flows everywhere – we can't see all of this with our human eyes but it is going on. No big bang, no heat death, no invisible dark matter, no black holes. Life grows everywhere it possibly can and we are definitely not alone, and never were. 

Welcome to the living universe.

I gladly sponsor Wal Thornill and the Thuinderbolts Project as our best hope for a better future.