Universe may grow like a giant brain, new research finds

Here is a story worth sharing. We often speak of the universe being a reflection of ourselves, and point to how the eye, veins, and brain cells mirror visual phenomenon in the universe. As above so below right? Well check this out. How about the idea that the universe is one big brain? The idea of the universe as a 'giant brain' has been proposed by scientists and science fiction writers for decades, but now physicists say there may be some evidence that it's actually true (in a sense).

By Tia Ghose
 
According to a study published in Nature's Scientific Reports, the universe may be growing in the same way as a giant brain - with the electrical firing between brain cells 'mirrored' by the shape of expanding galaxies. The results of a computer simulation suggest that "natural growth dynamics" - the way that systems evolve - are the same for different kinds of networks - whether its the internet, the human brain or the universe as a whole.

When the team compared the universe's history with growth of social networks and brain circuits, they found all the networks expanded in similar ways: They balanced links between similar nodes with ones that already had many connections. For instance, a cat lover surfing the Internet may visit mega-sites such as Google or Yahoo, but will also browse cat fancier websites or YouTube kitten videos. In the same way, neighboring brain cells like to connect, but neurons also link to such "Google brain cells" that are hooked up to loads of other brain cells.

"The new study suggests a single fundamental law of nature may govern these networks", said physicist Kevin Bassler of the University of Houston. ""For a physicist it's an immediate signal that there is some missing understanding of how nature works," says Dmitri Krioukov from the University of California San Diego.

So this may seem weird, but let's think about this. We always talk about consciousness being the underlying fabric of the universe from which all things emerge (M-theory, string theory, Unified Field Theory, etc). Consciousness has been known to be the ground of being. So not only is the universe conscious like a brain, it is growing like a brain as well. But here's a question...a brain to what? Is it possible we exist as a thought within the mind of some Super Intelligence? Are we just cells in the mind of the Universe? Maybe, maybe not, but it's fascinating to think about.

NBC:http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49971212/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UTUg3zCLbzk

Original Study: http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121113/srep00793/full/srep00793.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/27/physicists-universe-giant-brain_n_2196346.html

http://www.space.com/18630-universe-grows-like-brain.html

Must Read!!

 Hello again everyone, 

Here is my Must Read...Recommendation!

I shared with you last year that a young woman named April Shadduck had written a book called Mischief & Magick: Wicked Wrong. (Book 1)

 Well,  am excited to share that she has just released Dark Delusions, Book 2 of the Mischief & Magick series. 

Let me give you a little background on Miss Shadduck. At the ripe old age of 23, she wrote her first book, and a year later her second. She is quite an accomplished and talented young lady.  As you can see on her Blog.. she loves painting, photography,  writing books and poetry.

  http://aprilshadduckauthor.blogspot.com 
 
April was born and raised in a small town in Nebraska until the age of 15 at that time she and her family relocated to Colorado Springs, Colorado.  After a year of big city life, the family again relocated to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Northern Colorado.

Not all of what lies between the pages of these books is fiction however. Some of the paranormal events have been experienced by April personally.

I am very Proud of her accomplishments, and wish her the greatest success. Please if you haven't ordered a copy, please do so today. Help support a young woman, doing what she loves to do...share her imagination with the world.


 http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Delusions-Mischief-Magic-Volume/dp/0989155803

http://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Wrong-Mischief-Magick-ebook/dp/B008JIRKYY/ref=pd_rhf_dp_p_img_1_WX8M

Romanek March 2013 Newsletter!

 

                                                  March 2013 

Happy Easter everyone!!!

 

Lisa’s 2 cents worth!

Spring has officially arrived, and we are READY! Stan and I have decided that the older we get, the less we enjoy the snow. Hopefully my grandson will snap us back into snowball fight mode. 

  

 I want to take this opportunity to thank my friend Dennis Rano for his wonderful ufologist toons. He also does ghost hunter toons as well.

 http://www.ufologistoons.com/

 http://www.cafepress.com /ufologistoons

 http://www.gravestonehotel.com/

 

 Stan’s Thoughts!

I am not sure everyone knows this but we design and maintain our own websites. For that matter, we pretty much do everything ourselves. The reason I am mentioning this is because my amazing wife just finished designing and publishing her own website. All I can say is, “You go girl, less work for me.” All kidding aside she did a great job you should go check it out www.lisaromanek.com

Lately I have been doing a lot of radio shows talking about the hybrid kids. For those of you that read the books know that these kids in the past have made an appearance and sometimes in front of a large number of people. Although we have not seen the kids since 2010 others say they have, and more witnesses are coming forward. Lucky for us that is what makes our case so strong. Validating and corroborating witnesses. Everything that seems to happen does so with people around below are just a few witness reports regarding the children.

 

 

Sadly despite the witnesses and the evidence the debunkers are still hard at work.

From Stan and Lisa

We had a great time at this year’s IUFOC (International UFO Congress) We have added pictures of a few of the people we met for the first time, and pictures of some of our dearest IUFOC friends from years past.  

We wish to send a special hello to Alec Brindell who we spent a lot of time getting to know this year. It was a lot of fun Alec. I didn't get a pic of us all together!!! 

 

 

 For those of you who can’t find Stan on Facebook try this link!     https://www.facebook.com/StanRomanek?ref=ts&fref=t

In May Stan will be speaking with an incredible lineup at the 2013 StarworksUSA UFO Symposium. For registration and details go to: http://starworksusa.com/ Space is limited, so register today!

                    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!         URGENT                 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

April 1st is the last day for early bird registration for the Starworksusa Symposium....that is tomorrow!!!

  

Then on June 7^th through the 9^th Stan and Lisa will both be Speaking at the Stargate To The Cosmos Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada for info go to http://stargatetothecosmos.com/ or http://www.stanromanek.com/events.html

 

Remember to go to the websites to get updates of upcoming appearances, radio shows, etc.

Also, if you want one or both of us to do a conference or an individual presentation in your area, contact conference organizers, and ask them to invite us. Stan hates being cooped up at home. Or if you yourself are putting on an event or just want to organize a talk in your area just let us know. Go to our contact page at  http://www.stanromanek.com/contact.html  

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1967-The Betty Andreasson Abduction

Betty Andreasson, who in 1967  experienced an encounter with UFO beings, became the subject of one of the first controversies over the claimed contact with extraterrestrials that engaged the whole community of UFO researchers. In 1979, Raymond Fowler wrote the first of four books discussing what became known as the "Andreasson Affair."

Andreasson's story began on the evening of January 25, 1967, in South Ashburnham, Massachusetts. The lights went out in her home, and her seven children and her parents, who were visiting, gathered in the kitchen. Her father looked out the back window, attracted by a pink light that was shining, and he saw several little creatures which he thought of as Halloween-like entities. He made a passing note of them, but did not do anything. The next morning, all appeared to be back to normal, except Andreasson had a strange feeling that something out of the ordinary had happened. Over the next few weeks she had flashbacks of humanoid creatures and an otherworldly environment, but it was not until 1977 when she underwent some hypnosis sessions that the entire story surfaced. It appears that soon after her father saw the creatures, all of the family was placed in a state of paralysis and several small gray beings entered the house and addressed her telepathically. They took her aboard their spaceship, an action requiring Andreasson to pass through the closed door of her house and to float toward the disc-shaped craft.

On board the ship she was run through a series of tests that included probes of her body with a needle and the removal of a small object from her head by a needle inserted into her nostril. She next had a visionary experience of traveling into another world where she met a being whom she, a Christian, saw as God. The voice told her that she was a chosen one. The events aboard the ship closed with a final lecture by an entity earlier identified as Quazgaa, who told her that she would forget what had occurred for a while, but that he and his companions loved humanity and had come to help. Humans needed to study nature to rid themselves of their self-destructive tendencies. They left her with a book, which she examined several days later, but again only remembered in 1977.

Her complex story mixed elements of what came to be known as UFO abduction accounts with contactee themes of a religious-like mission. While UFO investigators would study abductions intensely through the 1980s, they avoided contactee accounts (previously denounced as hoaxes or products of delusion) until a number of the abductee stories began to add contactee-like content. As her full story unraveled, Andreasson told of a series of encounters with the saucer entities that went back to her childhood. Following her marriage in 1978 to Bob Luca, she settled in Connecticut, where her home became the scene of a variety of psychic and unusual occurrences. Luca himself would undergo hypnosis to tell of a similar set of encounters to those already described by his new bride. New experiences continued into the 1990s.

The Andreasson Affair was integrated into the whole study of abductions during the 1980s, a study that continues. Though a number of leading UFO researchers have gone on record as believing the abduction stories, their work has yet to produce consensus or what many would see as hard evidence. Final evaluation of the Andreasson encounters awaits a final resolution of the issue of abductions. Skeptics have offered variant explanations from lying (the least credible hypothesis) to subconscious fantasy. Andreasson has continued to integrate her experiences, which she sees as evidence of the government of God over the world, into her Christian beliefs.


Book: Go to Amazon.com at this link!
  http://www.amazon.com/The-Andreasson-Affair-Documented-Investigation/dp/0926524259/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1364608794&sr=8-1&keywords=Betty+Andresson

Sources:

Fowler, Raymond. The Andreasson Affair. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979.
——. The Andreasson Affair, Phase Two. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1982.
——. The Watchers: The Secret Design Behind UFO Abduction. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1990.
——. The Watchers II: Exploring UFOs and the Near Death Experience. Newberg, Ore: Wild Flower Press, 1995.
Taves, Ernest H. "Betty through the Looking-Glass." Skeptical Inquirer 4, no. 2 (winter 1979/1980): 88-

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/betty-andreasson#ixzz2Oz58Bn3s

Colorado Shooter James Holmes' Guilty Plea Offer Rejected

Colorado prosecutors have rejected movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes' offer of a guilty plea in exchange for life in prison instead of the death penalty.

"While the defense suggested that the defendant be allowed to plead guilty on his terms, the prosecution indicated that it could not even consider such an offer without specific additional information, which the defense refused to provide," prosecutors wrote in their response Thursday, according to ABC News' Denver affiliate KMGH. 
 
Prosecutors also said they believed the defense's offer was a "calculated" move for attention.
"The circumstances surrounding the filing of the Notice indicate that it was filed for the intended purpose of generating the predictable pretrial publicity that occurred yesterday," prosecutors wrote, according to KMGH.

 
FULL COVERAGE: Aurora Shooting
Holmes' defense attorneys said on Wednesday that he was willing to plead guilty and spend the rest of his life in prison in order to avoid the death penalty. 

"Prior to arraignment, Mr. Holmes made an offer to the prosecution to resolve this case by pleading guilty and spending the rest of his life in prison, without any opportunity for parole," Holmes' attorneys wrote in an Arapahoe County court filing.

"It appears the only impediment to a resolution of this case would be if the prosecution chooses to seek the death penalty," defense attorneys wrote.

Denver defense attorney and former prosecutor Karen Steinhauser, who is not involved in the Holmes case, does not believe the defense's plea offer was a plot for publicity.

"I don't believe that this was a publicity stunt," Steinhauser told ABC News. "The goal of the defense is to do whatever they can to save their client's life."

"In Colorado, the death penalty is still the law and prosecutors have been reserving it for the worst of the worst," she said. "Most people would agree that if you're going to have a death penalty, this case represents the worst of the worst."

The Arapahoe County District Attorney's Office declined to comment on the case, citing a gag order.
Holmes is accused of killing 12 people and wounding at least 58 when gunfire erupted in an Aurora, Colo., theater last July during a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises."

Holmes' physical appearance has evolved over his time in prison, visible only in rare court appearances. He has gone from wild, Joker-like orange and red hair in his first appearance to his most recent look of brown hair and a shaggy beard. He has sometimes looked bug-eyed and confused and other times so despondent and drowsy that people questioned whether he had been drugged.

District Attorney George Brauchler has gone on the record in the courtroom that he would have a decision on whether to seek the death penalty at a hearing Monday, April 1st. He has been meeting with families of the victims in the shooting to hear their opinions on the issue.

Family members are divided on whether Holmes should get death, according to investigative sources. Some are philosophically opposed to the death penalty, others support it and still another group wants death for Holmes, but they don't want to endure a trial.

The next hearing in the case is set for April 1 and his trial is scheduled to begin Aug. 5.

Aliens Are After Our Oil

By Norma Lee Jennings

January 10, 2013 1:14PM

http://blog.trutv.com/conspiracy/2013/01/10/aliens-are-after-our-oil/index.html

Aliens may be trying to steal our oil — and there’s nothing you can do about it.
See, if we assume the laws of physics operate consistently throughout the galaxy, an alien spacecraft traveling millions of miles to Earth would eventually need some kind of fuel, maybe some form of hydrogen fusion or a gravity drive. Another possibly: a UFO would need something as low-tech as gasoline.
I know what you’re thinking – if aliens have the ability to fly across the universe surely they’ve progressed beyond the same fuel that powers weed-whackers. But new photographic evidence suggests that at least one type of alien craft does, indeed, run on gasoline.
Over the summer of 2012, crude oil was disappearing from an oil company in Cotulla, Texas. Thinking the culprit was a human rebelling against high gas prices, the oil company set up security cameras to catch the thief in the act.
But the cameras didn’t catch an earthly crook. Instead, on the night of July 5, video surveillance captured the image of what some experts believe is an alien spacecraft stopping by for refueling. The spacecraft is disc-shaped and has three visible running lights along its edge. It appears to be hovering at a least a foot off the ground.
The story and photo was reported to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in the last few days, and is already sparking controversy in the Ufology community. If it turns out that certain types of UFOs do indeed run on combustion engines, this would not only change the way in which ufology thinks about alien spacecraft, but it may also change NASA. If it only takes small amounts of crude oil to power interstellar flight, who knows what the future of space travel might bring?

Strange Lights In Detroit Point To Aliens

By Lyz Lenz

January 15, 2013 1:16PM

http://blog.trutv.com/conspiracy/2013/01/15/strange-lights-in-detroit-point-to-aliens/index.html#

It seems as if there is more life happening over Detroit than in Detroit. The Huffington Post recently reported that strange lights have been hovering over the Motor City. The local Fox 2 News documented the mysterious lights, while many Michigan residents wrote of similar sightings on the network’s Facebook page.
Shaun, one Facebook poster, claimed: “They were black triangle-shaped objects making circles over West Bloomfield and Farmington Hills. There was no noise and they had bright lights. I’m not making this up and I know somebody else saw these things.”
Click here for the full video.

While the Fox report dismissed the lights, noting that the Air Force conducted an investigation of UFOs and found no proof, something strange is definitely happening over Detroit.
It’s possible the aliens heard that there is some cheap real estate and have come to capitalize. Maybe they were invited by the government as part of an effort to fix the housing crisis. Or maybe the aliens figure, if they invade Detroit, no one would ever notice.
(One Huffington Post commenter surmised that it could be the Mayan gods coming back to earth, a month late. Another commenter noted that it might be an “interdemensional lab” apparently developed by the US and India. Or it could just be swamp gas.)
Whatever the case is, if the aliens are looking for intelligent life in Michigan or an internet comments section, they are going to be sorely disappointed.