A Brief History Of Time!

Today, as I'm feeling slightly better, I'd like to take a look at something which affects us all greatly. We can never get enough of it, we're always running out of it, although we can't see, smell, taste, hear, or touch it, and yet every single thing we do depends entirely upon it. I am of course talking about... Time!

What is time then? I don't have much, so I'd better get on with it. Time is a device we created to measure the passage of the seasons. The first measurements of time were probably developed around the same time as neolithic people began to experiment with agriculture. It's widely considered that the Neolithic stone circle builders were creating gigantic measuring devices, aligned to the Solstices, which would allow them to plot accurately the correct times for sowing their crops.

But, since time is a subjective matter, merely our mapping of numbers to the Earth's rotation and its cycle around the Sun, what if we were to be removed from time? That is to say, plunged into an environment where the passage of time could not be measured. And, what if our theories about time are wrong? If time is not a constant at all!

What got me thinking more carefully about time, was some material I stumbled across on the Net, a year or two back, regarding the Serpo Project. It's the type of material most people would disregard off-hand as a hoax, but I'm open-minded, so I read through it. The basic premise was that alien technology was recovered around the time of the Roswell incident, of which, certain equipment allowed NASA to make contact with an alien race. An exchange program was set up and a dozen Earth astronauts travelled to an alien planet known to us as Zeta Reticuli. The crew members all kept separate diaries of their stay there. With me so far? I know, sounds far-fetched doesn't it?

The really interesting bit for me was the obssession with time that emerges from the "diary entries". They report that the planet is a binary star, that is, it has 2 suns, and because of this time behaves bizzarely. The astronauts lose track of time altogether and cannot adjust to the clock-cycle used by the natives (Ebens). If you have some spare time, I would recommend you read through some of that material, especially if you're a Sci-Fi fan. It really is like something out of Star Trek (with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy of course... always)!

My Ancestors Built Newgrange!

Continuing from yesterdays megalithic coverage, the image shows the Megalithic Passage Tomb at Newgrange in Knowth, Ireland. My parents went to the site 2 years ago, on a holiday in Ireland, but it was raining so they stayed in the nearby Bru na Boinne visitor centre, something for which I roundly chastised them, knowing as I do a little bit about the significance of the place.

Anyone who's read "Uriel's Machine", will no doubt hold the same fascination with the location as I do, enhanced in my case, because my ancestors lived in the vicinity, certainly at Ardee and Drogheda (5 miles away), and for all I know may even have numbered among the builders.

The site is especially significant as, being built (allegedly) around 3200 BC, Newgrange is older than the Great Pyramid (600 years older), although there are no signs of a large community ever having lived there, perhaps never more than 300. We're speaking about a period in which the average life expectancy was 25 and metal tools were non-existent (again allegedly). That shows how commited they must have been, and over generations. Consider that another 2 ruinous mounds of similar dimensions lie in the vicinity also. Like the pyramids and other ancient structures, Newgrange was previously considered to be a burial mound, but it was plainly a religious structure, like the pyramids, with corpses being added later, when the religious significance had been long forgotten.

The roof space of the passage is grooved so as to make it water-proof, and the passage is lined up diretctly with the Winter solstice. These guys who built it weren't stupid cavemen. The fact that megalithic cultures rose up independently of each other, all over the World, surely testifies to the fact that all of them were somehow connected to each other. It's almost as if they were part of one ancient race, which had been scattered across the face of the Earth, by some global catastrophe, and wherever the survivors found themselves, they sought to recreate what they had known before. Am I talking about Atlantis? Figuratively, yes! Call it what you like, but an ancient race with advanced technology clearly existed, and it's only a matter of time before conclusive proof of that fact comes to light. the truth can't be hidden forever!