Societal collapse to below family level
Andre Willers
12 Apr 2013
Synopsis:
Surprisingly , this has happened so frequently in the past that
social institutions like organised religions and child-military have evolved to
ameliorate the effect .
Discussion :
1.Primary symptom : children (usually ages 3-7) are expelled
from the family group to make their own way . Today’s street children .
Children ages 0-3 simply die .
See Appendix I
2.Secondary symptom : the children band together for
self-protection , usually in age bands of 3-8 , 8-13 , 13+ . The bonds are
fanatical . They are still human with language and mirror-neuron structures .
3.Tertiary symptom : if resource-deprivation pressures
continues , the adults of groups descended from children like these have no
empathy . Evolutionary sociopaths . See Appendix III and Appendix IV , where
this has actually happened . The society has collapsed to below family level .
Children are only born out of ignorance . A child only has an utility as a better
predator than rats , mice and other pests .
Can these adults still be defined as human ? fMRI of
mirror-neuron networks should be able to give a better answer .
4.Societal adaptations :
4.1 Organised religion : really bad collapses like these led
to the formation of storehouses of knowledge and materiel (usually called
monasteries ) and distributive organizations (missionaries , charities , etc)
4.2Military usage .
See Appendix II
Child auxiliaries have always been used .
Children can pull a trigger and follow orders fanatically .
So , Child Gangs , with their fanatical bonding and ability
to use modern firearms have an economic utility greater than free labour .
This premium utility has been exploited not only in Africa ,
but mainly in urban settings , where most of the children had been abandoned .
Organised crime , especially drugs and extortion recruit
heavily from these strata .
Children with firearms make good soldiers .
An Interesting recent example :
The Central African Republic .
An elite South African parabat unit (200 highly trained men)
was dealt a smarting defeat by about 1 500 child soldiers .
The main point is that the child-soldiers kept on coming ,
even after suffering heavy losses (about 2/3 of their numbers) that would have
routed adult units . This is WW I stuff .
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Johnston_(Medal_of_Honor)
. An 11 year old kept steady when the adults ran away .
Now give him an AK47 instead of a drum , and you have the above result .
5.Rehabilitation :
They will need strong group-bonds and strict boundaries . Like any military
unit or monastic unit .
They will do very well with Canine or Dolphin units. After
all , dogs taught humans about the rules
of pack behaviour .
Their children should be ok , but epigenetic effects might
play a role . Historical experience suggests that after 3 generations , the
effects disappear into the wash of general human cruelty and indifference .
6.An Interesting Aside : Dogs , dolphins and religion :
Dogs (like combs) are so ubiquitous that they hardly
mentioned .
6.1 Monastic orders with dogs :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Skete
(General canines .)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustinians (St Bernard)
6.2 Dogs are generally regarded as guardians to Heaven or
Hell . Symbolically , this indicates awareness that rules of doggish pack
behaviour are applicable to human social packs .
6.3 Something similar can be observed with dolphins . See
Appendix V
7.What happens if you don’t rehabilitate them ?
We have two graphic examples that did not go well or end
well : Mamelukes and Janisseries . There
are many more .
Child slaves were intensively trained and indoctrinated .
Well , children grow up .
The state lost the monopoly on armed force .
Essentially , they took over the state , but never
assimilated (This was cleverly designed in) . Eventually they had to be annihilated
.
Something similar happened at the collapse of Bronze Age
Civilization . See Appendix VI .
“Under the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo, mamluks
were purchased while still young and were raised in the barracks of the Citadel
of Cairo. Because of their particular status (no social ties or political
affiliations) and their austere military training, they were often trusted.
Their training consisted of strict religious and military education to help them
become “good Muslim horsemen and fighters."[“
“From 1380s to 1648, the Janissaries were gathered through the devşirme system.
This was the recruiting of non-Turkish children, notably Balkan Christians;
Jews were never subject to devşirme, nor were children from Turkic
families. In early days, all Christians were enrolled indiscriminately; later,
those of Albanian, northern Greek, and Serb origin were preferred.[6][7]
The Janissaries were kapıkulları (sing. kapıkulu),
"door servants" or "slaves of the Porte", neither free men
nor ordinary slaves (Turkish:köle).[8] They
were subject to strict discipline, but they were paid salaries and pensions on
retirement, and were free to marry; those conscripted through devşirme formed a
distinctive social class[9] which
quickly became the ruling class of the Ottoman Empire, rivaling the Turkish
aristocracy in one of the four royal institutions: the Palace, the Scribes, the
Religious and the Military. The brightest of the Janissaries were sent to the
Palace institution Enderun, where the possibility of a glittering
career beckoned.
According to military historian Michael Antonucci, every five
years the Turkish administrators would scour their regions for the strongest
sons of the sultan's Christian subjects. These boys, usually between the ages
of 10 and 12, were then taken from their parents and given to the Turkish
families in the provinces to learn Turkish language and customs, and the rules
of Islam; these boys were then enrolled in Janissary training. The recruit was
immediately indoctrinated into the religion of Islam. He was supervised
24 hours a day and subjected to severe discipline: he was prohibited from
growing a beard, taking up a skill other than war, or marrying. The Janissaries
were extremely well disciplined (a rarity in the Middle Ages).”
8.What to do ?
Well , good luck with that .
Most of the problem lies inside the really big cities . This
is where society has already collapsed below family levels . Not in some third
world wasteland .
9. The core of the problem lies in a surprising source :
Robert’s Rules of Order for meetings .
See http://www.robertsrules.org/
for a summary of the rules .
The strength of a Democracy can be subverted by a small ,
organised group using the Rules . Especially the Chairman rule .
Once control of the Chairman and the Secretary is assured ,
the self-perpetuation of the cabal is ensured . The Secretary controls the
official minutes , venue of meeting and who is notified . Any hostiles that
manage to sneak through , simply is not recognised by the Chair .
This is how Stalin managed to take over the Russian
Revolution . How the USA establishment works .
Three critical things have to be amended : try Wiki
principles combined with Ostrum principles .
9.1 The Chair’s control on who is able to give input into
the assembly .
9.2 The right to refer to a sub-committee .
9.3 The Secretary’s control over the minutes and meeting
procedures .
You will notice that all three enables control of the
democratic process . (Deny a voice , bury
it in committee , doctor the minutes or not notify somebody of a meeting) .
These are time-honoured techniques that result in hundreds
of millions of child-soldiers infesting the cores of the cities .
10 Will anybody do anything ?
You must be joking .
Most likely , a Church Militant will evolve using these discarded
husks of humanity to force a New Order .
But not a New Order as fondly imagined by the Bilderbergers
.
More like something with Auschwitz as a Basic training camp
.
The Ecstasy of
Apoptosis . This translates as Martyrdom . Pleasure at cellular level in
self-sacrifice . This is programmed in at a deep level . Some very strong
protocols to prevent external hijacking by opportunistic bacteria and viri .
Much more addictive than any opiate . After all , it can
only happen once .
11.It has happened before . Many times .
12.Capsaicum and Death Cults .
Notice that cultures that eat a lot of capsaicums all have
Death Cults . Without exception . Mexican (chili), Japanese (wasabi ,etc) ,
Hindu Kali(curry) , Hitler(peppers) and so forth . Why ?
http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/29/1/165.full.pdf
see it for mitochondrial spin rates .
Capsaicum induces apoptosis by interfering with the
mitochondria spin rate . Speeding it up to destruction is apoptosis by cellular
ecstasy . It hurts , but is pleasurable at cellular level .
Of course , you can make it always lethal . Look at the
capsaicum molecule .
There is lots of space to tack on H2S groups . This will
stop parts of mitochondria . Generate shear forces that rip mitochondria apart
.
But in a cellular pleasurable way . The nervous system will
perceive a mild burn .
Add an aerosol of melatonin to make the process irreversible
(terminal anti-oxidant)
13. Why haven’t plants killed off animals ? They certainly
have the capability , as seen above .
Remember PT Barnum . There is a sucker born every minute .
And all animals are the suckers .
14. Estimate the size of planetary human population that
Gaia will tolerate .
The answer is 16 billion .
The method is delicious , but very hot .
Every unit on the Scoville scale generates an apoptosis .
Note that it is a naturally occurring substance (euphorbia for euphoria of apoptosis)
, and as expected , there is no habituation in the apoptosis effect .
15. Old age , in other words .
The balance between euphorbia latex release , releasing
resiniferatoxin and the gymnosperm density governs population control of humans
, including old age . See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2008/12/flower-dinosaur-and-puff.html
Look at the molecule . It is basically a molecular
monkeywrench in three dimensions . The old capsaicum molecule rotated and
twisted around about 2.5 times , with some gripper oxygen teeth on the inside .
There are 4 . They grip the mitochondrium by the balls and regulate speed of
spin . These can be selectively neutralised . Increasing lifespans by roughly factors
of 2 , 3 , 4 , 4.5 .
“The Scoville scale may be extrapolated to
express the pungency of substances that are even hotter than pure capsaicin.
One such substance is resiniferatoxin, an alkaloid present in the sap of some species of euphorbia plants
(spurges). Since it is 1000 times as hot as capsaicin, it would have a Scoville
scale rating of 16 billion. “
17. This molecule (Resiniferatoxin) is actually a real life
Andre’s Demon . A close relation of Maxwell’s Demon .
See Appendix VII . Evolved to spin up mitochondria . But the
problem with mitochondria is that they generate too much energy .
Just look at the molecular structure : the paddle side gets
hammered by random molecular impacts . This gets transmitted to the half-moon
structures , rotating them . The paddle side is asymmetrical , giving a net
force . Quite nifty , actually .
Much more efficient than photosynthesis .
18. I wish I could tell you how to control the contraption .
It works , but too well .
Melatonin is like shooting the horse to stop the cart . Too
drastic a brake . The various epigenetic controls (eg methylazation) . I simply
don’t know. The molecules seems a bit large , but it is 3-dimensional and they
can squeeze out at the sides , enabling a brake on the system .
It seems ridiculous that we die of old age because we can’t
figure out a reliable way of braking mitochondria .
What we need is an app that taps and uses superfluous spin
energy in the body .
The good news is that I can intuit that can be done .
The bad news is that I am not smart enough to do it .
Lest you think I am
drifting , consider what it would be like to produce and consume not half your
bodyweight in ATP per day , but 400% or 500% . Which you can do easily .
That runny tummy after a curry? That is not the oil . That
is disposal of dead cells after apoptosis because of the capsaicum in the curry
. Ditto for alcohol .
As they said in Rome in the time of the Caesars : Ben Hur
for curry in a hurry .
19 .I shudder to think if they developed the bicycle (high
probability: they had roller bearings) .
We know that bicycles with firearms will beat horses with
firearms . (Dien ben phu)
But will bicycles with pikes beat horse with swords or
lances ?
I think the bicycles will win . They will quickly evolve to
the modern equivalent of cross-country bikes . And these are superior to a
horse as a weapons platform , except for mass in a shock charge .
The same problem of phalanx vs legion , pike against horse .
If the pike have same maneuvaribilty as the horse , the mass
does not matter .
Would a Roman Legion on bicycles have defeated the same number of Huns on horseback ?
More important is training time . Chain the troopie to the
bicycle . Then you have near zero training time. Not nice , but when is war
ever nice ?
20 What does this mean now ?
Combine fearless child-soldiers , mountain bikes and
fire-arms and cellphones and you have a formidable combination .
In all big inner cities .
Enough
Andre
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Appendix I
“Street child is a term for a child experiencing homelessness who primarily
resides on the streets of a city”
“UNICEF estimated that 100 million children were
growing up on urban streets around the world.”
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Appendix II
Children were used in every age . But modern
firearms (AK47) puts them pari-passu with soldiers .
USA : The second recipient of the Congressional
Medal of Honor was a 13 year old for an act of bravery when he was 11 years old
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Appendix III
“Children by age three are at least sometimes
permanently expelled from the household and form groups called age-bands consisting
of those within the same age group. The 'Junior Group' consists of children
from the ages of three to eight and the 'Senior Group' consists of those
between eight and thirteen. No adults look after the children, who teach each
other the basics of survival. However, it is not certain whether this practice
is typical Ik tradition or merely triggered by unusual famine conditions.
Tainter[1] proposes this
fragmentation to be an artifact of the dire circumstances where each person
must depend on their own resources alone to find food and the age peers band
together primarily to protect themselves from older stronger children who would
take their food. He also argues that the present social fragmentation is the
result of extreme deprivation on a more complex and functional culture, an
argument also made by Turnbull.[2]”
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Appendix IV
I’ve just finished Joseph
Tainter’s The Collapse of
Complex Societies, and found the depiction
of the Ik people of Northern Uganda to be fascinating, here’s an excerpt:
The Ik are a people of
northern Uganda who live at what must surely be the extreme of deprivation and
disaster. A largely hunting and gathering people who have in recent times
practiced some crop planting … They are a morbidly fascinating case of collapse
in which a former, low level of social complexity has essentially disappeared.
Due to drought and
disruption by national boundaries of the traditional cycle of movement, the Ik
live in such a food and water scarce environment that there is absolutely no
advantage to reciprocity and social sharing. …
Each Ik will spend days
or weeks on his or her own, searching for food and water. Sharing is virtually
non-existent. Two siblings or other kin can live side-by-side, one dying of starvation
and the other well nourished, without the latter giving the slightest
assistance to the other. … The motivation for marriage or cohabitation is that
one person can’t build a house alone. The members of a conjugal pair forage
alone, and do not share food. …
Children are minimally
cared for by their mothers until age three, and then are put out to fend for
themselves. This separation is absolute. By age three they are expected to find
their own food and shelter, and those that survive do provide for themselves.
Children band into age-sets for protection, since adults will steal a child’s
food whenever possible. … Groups of children will forage in agricultural
fields, which scares off birds and baboons. This is often given as the reason
for having children.
Although little is known
about how the Ik got to their present situation, there are some indications of
former organizational patterns. They posses clan names, although
today these have no structural significance. They live in villages, but these
no longer have any political meaning. The traditional authority structure of
family, lineage, and clan leaders has been progressively weakened. It appears
that a former level of organization has simply been abandoned by the Ik as
unprofitable and unsuitable in their present distress.
Tainter’s book is an
exhaustive study in how the marginal utility of complexity ultimately reaches a
point of decline for all complex human societies. Complexity, from
organizational hierarchies to defense, is administered to solve problems, but
ultimately the payoff from increasing complexity dwindles and societies pursue
further complexity to only maintain a status quo of living and governing
conditions. And thus, as crises surge, the society is less able to cope and
ultimately reaches a critical point when the dissolution of the society itself
is the most optimal solution.”
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Appendix V
“Drawn
with an anchor, the dolphin represents alternately, the
Christian soul anchored by Christ's teaching and guidance or Christ Crucified.
Shown with a boat, it symbolizes the Christian or Church being
guided by Jesus. If entwined around a trident, the dolphin portrays Christ Crucified. When
pictured with an octopus, the dolphin shows Christ triumphing over Satan.”
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Appendix VI
Great Gla .
Andre
Willers
2 Jun 2011
Synopsis :
Gla (Arne
in Homeric terms) was the greatest Fortress construction and irrigation works
of the late Bronze Age .
After it's
destruction , waves of devastation spread out all over the Eastern
Mediterranean (Sea Peoples) . Trade partners in Western Europe and Britain also
suffered decline .
Discussion :
The name
:
"Gla"
is proto-European , meaning Fortress . Remnants can be seen in
"Glacis" and
"Glacier" .
"Glacier" .
"Arne"
: See Appendix A .This was local and has vanished .
What happened to the Bronze Age ?
1.Population
increased .
2.Trade
increased pari-passu .
3.Elites
increased even faster .
4.Climate
started deteriorating .
5.Food
supplies were under increasing pressure .
6.Twofold
strategy to counter it:
6.1 Short
term :Gla was constructed . Lake Kopais was drained .The area fed most of
Greece. (See Appendix C)
6.2 Long
term : Food was imported from cheaper production areas around the Black Sea .
7 .Pesky
Trojans :
Troy was in
a position to control food to humans and horses (military) in Greece
The
choke-point through the Dardanelles .
Analogous
to oil today .
8.Trojan
War :
Homer is
often criticized as having too large a
number of combatants . The suspicion is that the actual number was much
larger towards the end .
It was a
resources war . To the knife .
What was
supposed to be a short , sharp war ended up in a long , drawn-out affair as
more and more resources were thrown into the fray . Think WW I .
9.
Logistical Mutual Destruction (LMD)
A variant
of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)
9.1 The
Trojans bribed the Thessalians and Desmontes (the governor of Gla) to lay waste
to the Gla foodbasket .
9.2 The
Achaeans landed enough horses at Troy for cavalry to lay waste to the
countryside around Troy . The Trojan Horse . Denying food .
10. Both
sides collapsed , with refugees spreading out to all sides
11. Also
called the Sea Peoples .
Thousands
of veterans no longer had any homes to return to .
Odysseus
was one of them . The suitors for
Penelope were desperate refugees .And he was a pirate .
12.The
Inverse Sea Peoples .
Every armed
man at Troy meant one not at home , ensuring law-and-order .
The
cessation of an assured food supply from Gla
meant food riots .
Also plain
revolution . Settlement of old scores (the Greeks were good at this) .
The major
city-fortresses like Mycenae , Tiryns , etc were sacked , destroyed , burnt The
surrounding peasants that supported the whole shebang skedaddled , and never
returned to this day .
The
self-styled rulers were not too popular . A peril of globalization , high
interest rates and predatory banks (temples in those days) .
13.The
Dorians
They moved
into this power-vacuum , pushing the refugees even further out .
What we
would call ethnic cleansing .
(Something
similar happened when the Angles and Saxons moved into Romano-Britain after the
Roman Legions left .)
14 . A
suitably Dark Age ensued , enabling new things .
15. The
old was not forgotten , just not given a veto .
This is
true after any revolution .
16. Population levels :
The
archeological evidence from graveyards in Greece indicate a 95% depopulation during this period . This seems
excessive . Much more likely that they simply ran away , especially since they
would have had ample warning . Refugees .
17 Written
records :
Some
die-hards would have carried written records . Look for Linear B in Canaanite
countries . The Western and especially north-western shores of the Dead Sea
should have the highest probability of old Linear B scripts . Refugees derived
from the Sea Peoples would not hide things where religious sects would .
Think
"Where would Odysseus hide it ?"
He would
have hidden them on the South-eastern
and Southern slopes of Crete .
The Thera
tsunamis would have reached about 100 meters , so ; look for caves above this .
18. A clue
: the Cyclops legend . The Greeks did love their legends . The stupid
man-eating giant with one eye is a perfect metaphor for their view of
civilization .
This is
where he would have hidden the libraries of Troy and the Greek version of the
war .
Homer's
description of the site is fairly exact . The shorelines at the time is
available .
Anybody
want to do a Schliemann ?
The Library
of Troy would be extremely valuable .Homer does not even mention it . Yet this
was what the whole war had been about .
The
Contracts and the Contacts .
19. Look at
what did not happen : trade between Black Sea states and Europe did not resume
. Why not ?
Because
Odysseus had scarpered with the whole lot . The real Treasure of Troy .
And he hid
it . But ,by the time he got home , there was no longer a single state capable
of utilizing the knowledge . He tried the Phoenicians and Carthaginians (Dido
did not get diddled) .
Hoist by
his own petard .
So ,
somewhere on Crete , the whole Troy library is still intact . There has been no
ripple effects of it's existence till now . Well hidden , as expected .
I give it
away for free just to spite jocks of his persuasion .
A bunch of
kraters .
Andre .
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Appendix A
Arne (mythology)
"In Greek mythology, Arne (Ἄρνη)
or Melanippe (Μελανίππη) was a daughter of Aeolus and Melanippe (also Hippe or Euippe), daughter of Chiron. She was born as a
foal as her mother had been transformed into a horse as a disguise, but was
returned to the human form and renamed Arne. Aeolus entrusted her to the care of
one Desmontes, however Poseidon fathered Aeolus and Boeotus with her while he was in the form of a bull. Enraged, Desmontes
entombed and blinded her and placed her twin sons on Mount Pelion. She was
later rescued by her sons and married king Metapontus of Icaria, and Poseidon
restored her vision.
Through Boeotus, she was the ancestress of the Boeotians. A city named after her was recorded in
he Iliad's Catalogue of Ships which has been tentatively identified
with the ruins of Gla."
Translate this from mythic terms
Arne was a Colony of mainly the Argos plains cities (Mycenae ,
Tiryns)
Betrayed by Desmontes (presumably a governor) , the city fell to
the Thessalians (a rival nearby group) , then to the Dorians . The rich
refugees fled east to the island of Icaria , while the poor ones became
Boeotians . See Appendix B
Appendix B
"Sixty years after the
capture of Ilium, the modern Boeotians were driven out of Arne by the
Thessalians, and settled in the present Boeotia, the former Cadmeis.... Twenty
years later, the Dorians and the Heraclids became masters of Peloponnese;"
Thucydides
Appendix C
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gla
http://wikimapia.org/6872027/Gla-Mycenaean-Citadel
Gla (rarely Glas) (Greek: Γλα or Γλας) was an
important fortified site of the Mycenaean civilization,
located in Boeotia, mainland Greece
Location
The site is located on a limestone outcrop or hill that jutted into Lake Kopais (now
drained) or formed an island within it. The flat-topped outcrop rises up to 38m
above the surrounding area. It measures circa 900 x 575m (at the widest point).
The ancient name of the site is unknown, it is unclear whether it is one of the
Boeotian places named by Homer (some scholars suggest that Gla is Homer's Arne). The scholarly
designation "Gla" is from the Albanian word
for fortification, the modern local population calls the site Paliokastro (Greek for
"ancient fortress").[1]
Size
Excavation revealed much detail about the
fortification walls (which were always visible) and, on the interior, remains
of buildings from the Mycenaean period. The fortification encloses an area of
nearly 20 hectares, about 10 times as much as the Mycenaean citadels of Athens orTiryns.
Walls
The walls are built of medium-sized limestone blocks, mostly in
theCyclopean masonry technique (ashlar masonry
is employed at some of the gates). They have a total length of 2.8 km, are up
to 6.75m wide and 3-5m high
Elaborate built ramps led to the
gates. The fortification can be dated to early LH III B, that is, circa 1300
BC.
Draining
of Kopais
Much of the area within the walls
is vacant, leading archaeologists to believe that it served as a refuge
for farmers in the area of Lake Kopais in the event of attack. It is suggested
that the land dominated by the citadel of Gla served as the "bread
basket" of the Mycenaean world. This is supported by the fact that Lake
Kopais, the largest lake in southern Greece, had been drained by a system of
dams and canals (one of the most astonishing achievements ofprehistoric engineering) at about the same time as the
erection of Gla, producing a large fertile plain. The drainage system collapsed
from destruction or neglect at or after the end of Mycenaean Civilisation; in Classical Antiquity,
the lake existed again. It was drained a second time in the 19th century.
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Appendix VII
Negative Kelvin Update .
Andre
Willers
17 Feb 2011
Synopsis :
Laboratory
achievement of negative Kelvin energy storage devices should be done during
2011.
Discussion :
See
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com
"Negative Kelvin" Feb 2009
(Copied in Appendix A for ease of reference)
The experimental set-up is explained in
NewScientist
4 Dec 2010 p15 "How to venture below absolute zero"
And set out
more formally in
Physical
Review Letters , DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105..220405
(Work by
Mosk , Rosch and colleagues.)
Interestingly
, this model also suggests that atoms in the negative-temperature state has
relatively higher energy .
In other
words , an energy storage device .
Their model
does not use spin (ie chirping of laser-lattices) to speed things up .
Use of the Algorithm-generating tool in
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com "P
vs NP" Feb 2011 might give faster , sharper and stabler results.
The
Lady is only Fair if she can Dance All
Night .
(With
apologies to Audrey Hepburn)
Andre
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Appendix A
Negative Kelvin
Andre
Willers
11 Feb 2009
Synopsis :
Negative
degrees Kelvin temperature and high-density energy storage .
Sources
:
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412493
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0511651
ScientificAmerican
Nov 2008 p40
Discussion .
The Second
Law of Thermodynamics is found to hold for linear momentum transfers , as long
as non-equilibrium systems are examined in fine enough detail , though extra
dimensions of descriptions have to be added .
The problem
lies in transfers of linear momentum to angular momentum and vice-versa .
This is easiest shown with thought experiments :
1.The
Maxwell Demons :
The Demons
directs higher-speed molecules to one side and the lower-speed ones to the
other side . After a large number of iterations , one side boils and the other
side freezes .
2.The
Andre Demons :
The Demons
direct molecules onto target molecules to increase their spin (paddlewheel
principle) . After a large number of iterations , you have a matrix of
molecules with zero linear motion , where all the energy is locked into the
spin .
This is a
material at negative degrees Kelvin . Any impinging particle will first have to
soak up some of the energy in the spin before influencing the linear momentum
(especially if the rotating molecules are locked in a matrix) .
These
are theoretical ideals .
Ironically
, Andre demons are much more feasible than Maxwell demons .
We use
existing technology , mainly magnetrons(as in microwaves) and laser tweezers
for the finishing touches for really high-density storage .
How to make a strong energy storage capsule:
Take a very
well temperature- and electronic
insulated capsule of hot water , put a strong electrical field across it
to give a directional bias to the linear momentum of the water molecules .
In the same
direction as the electric field , chirp the output of a magnetron at decreasing
harmonic frequencies of 2.45 gigaHz .
The chirp
has to be integrated with the Doppler-feedback from the spinning
water-molecules(like a laser tweezer) . Some fancy electronics might be
required .
This
feedback process satisfies the Beth(1) requirements .
This spins
a statistically significant number of water molecules using heat vibrations .
The
capsule's measurable temperature decreases .
Repeat
until desired energy density is achieved .
To tap it :
We can use
the Reciprocity Relation (for which Onsager received the Nobel prize) to get a
burst of electromagnetic-waves (laser weapon up to gamma ray wavelengths ) , or
tap the EMW for electrons like a battery .
Biological systems .
It bothers
me that present theory allows only mitochondria to use rotations .
Biological
systems use anything available .
What about
things rolling around on the cell-surface between receptor sites ?
Most
viruses (like HIV) follows a circular configuration . A simple physical block
preventing rolling between the CD4 and CCR5 receptors might prevent HIV
infection.
Or spin the
HIV virus using electromagnetic radiation at a resonant frequency , reducing
the incidence of docking .
This is a
Beth(1) technology .
And so it
twirls .
Andre .
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