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I don't care if the clown down the street wins the election for president as long as it is NOT the moron orange fat ass delusional self-declared genius trump or only half there Biden. They are both embroiled in some sort of crime and neither of them should be allowed to be president of anything. ANYONE but either of them! I am sick to death of hearing about both of them and their families. Politicians should be doing their jobs without all this extracurricular drama. We should not have to put up with this everyday bullshit, bad behavior, ignorance, and cronyism from anyone. I cannot wait until a normal human being gets into office. I will not vote until a decent human being is presented to us for election.





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Exotic Places



Puma Puku Peru



Baja in the 80's - Part 1 (Tijuana to Mulege)
4 trips to various places between Tijuana and Cabo San Lucas, Baja California.



Baja in the 80's - Part 1 (Tijuana to Mulege)
4 trips to various places between Tijuana and Cabo San Lucas, Baja California.

Baja in the 80's - Part 2 (Mulege to Cabo San Lucas)
4 trips to various places between Tijuana and Cabo San Lucas, Baja California.



Baja in the 80's - Part 2 (Mulege to Cabo)
4 trips to various places between Tijuana and Cabo San Lucas, Baja California.

Jamie's Wedding Part 1
10/23/2004 on the SS Spirit of Newport.



Jamie's Wedding Part 1
10/23/2004 on the SS Spirit of Newport.

Jamie's Wedding Part 2
10/23/2004 on the SS Spirit of Newport.



Jamie's Wedding Part 2
10/23/2004 on the SS Spirit of Newport.

South America
Tiwanaku & Puma Punku Bolivia - Cartagena Colombia - Belo Horizonte Brazil - Machu Picchu Peru

 


Ay Caramba Colombia
Go to Colombia with Frank and Mark!

 



Have a look at some of Mark's 30 YouTube videos!



Bill Magee
A California Gem Miner

Michael Magee Productions - Switzerland

Bill Magee, Oceanside / Pala Ca.
10-5-1915 - 12-25-83 / 68 years old

Mineral Specimens Recovered From The Blue Lady Mine
Blue Lady Mine - Aquamarine Beryl. Mark Carter collection.
Aquamarine
Clevelandite
Blue Lady Mine Quartz Tourmaline Clevelandite. Mark Carter collection.
Quartz
Tourmaline
Clevelandite
Blue Lady Mine - Morganite Beryl and Quartz matrix. Found by Bill Magee and shown in the video. Now on exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Mineral Museum.
Quartz / Tourmaline / Clevelandite / Morganite
On exhibit at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Natural History Mineral Museum
Blue Lady Mine - Feldspar Quartz Tourmaline. Mark Carter collection.
Feldspar
Quartz
Tourmaline
Blue Lady Mine - Aquamarine Beryl. Mark Carter collection.
Aquamarine
Clevelandite
Quartz
Tourmaline
Pegmatite Gem Miners

Mark Carter - Frank Hines - Blue Shepard - Tom Michaud - Stewart Mine Mark Carter - Frank Hines - Blue Shepard - Tom Michaud - Stewart Mine Mark Carter - Frank Hines - Blue Shepard - Tom Michaud - Stewart Mine
2002 at the entrance to the old tunnels, Stewart Lithia Mine Pala CA.



Cambodia - Zircon and the Angkor Wat Temples





Alexandrite - what you need to know about Mark's favorite gemstone and the rarest and most expensive gemstone on the planet! Well - you could pay more for a red diamond. By the way, the above stone is the same stone under different light.





COLOMBIAN EMERALDS




Mark made this video with audio for Caribe Emerald Museum - Cartagena, Colombia.


Mark then made this video with text in English and Spanish and no audio for use in the Caribe Emerald Museum - Cartagena, Colombia.


Mark then made this video with text in English and Spanish and no audio for use in the Caribe Emerald Museum - Cartagena, Colombia.


Mark made this video for Caribe Emerald Museum - Cartagena, Colombia.


Mark made this video for Caribe Emerald Museum - Cartagena, Colombia.


Mark made this video for Caribe Emerald Store cruise ship advertisement spot.


Mark made this video for Caribe Emerald Store cruise ship advertisement.


Mark's Craps Analysis Program




30 years of loving companions.





The Last C17's Salute Before Leaving The Boeing Facility At Long Beach Airport In California Where 279 C17 Globmaster's Were Built Between 1991 and 2015.


The Last C17's Salute Before Leaving The Boeing Facility At Long Beach Airport In California Where 279 C17 Globmaster's Were Built Between 1991 and 2015.





Mark #78 lapping others at Irwindale NASCAR 1/2 mile oval track. 600HP NASCAR.

Mark #78 lapping others at Irwindale NASCAR 1/2 mile oval track. 600HP NASCAR.



How The US Map Has Changed In 200 Years.


How The Map Of The USA Has Changed In 200 Years.






Mark made this video just after the Las Vegas Strip shut down in April 2020. Additionally, as you will see in the video, the national debt is nearing 24 trillion dollars ($24,000,000,000) and growing. In June of 2022 the national debt had exceeded 30 trillion. That's 6 trillion dollars of government spending in 2 years. Things are not looking good!

Mark made this video just after the Las Vegas Strip shut down in April 2020. Additionally, as you will see in the video, the national debt is nearing 24 trillion dollars ($24,000,000,000) and growing. In June of 2022 the national debt had exceeded 30 trillion. That's 6 trillion dollars of government spending in 2 years. Things are not looking good!






Although HALF (50%) of the total number of people shot and killed by police in the U.S. are white, black Americans are shot at a disproportionate rate. African Americans account for less than 13 percent of the U.S. population, but are killed by police at more than twice the rate of white Americans. Hispanic Americans are also killed by police at a similiar disproportionate rate.

Below you will see that the rate at which black Americans are killed by police is more than twice as high as the rate for white Americans.

Black 36 per million - 1,512 killed of 42 Million.

Hispanic 27 per million - 1,058 killed of 39 Million.

White 15 per million - 2,890 killed of 197 Million.

Other 5 per million U.S. population - 240 killed of 49 Million.

Maybe black and Hispanic populations occupy more of other categories than whites? Involvement with caterories like gangs and crime would put black and Hespanic populations in contact with peolice more frequently than white populations. The notion that it is acceptable to run from police, innocent or guilty, most certainly contribute to the disproportionate rate of killings.

So here is a chart that shows the race and ethnicity of gang members from 1996 to 2011.

So, I think it is safe to say that there are significently more Hespanic and African American gang members than white.

I was going to show the crime data but it is long, complicated, and actually shows that even though there is evidence in the official police-recorded figures that black Americans are more likely to commit certain types of crime than people of other races (murder, robery, gambling), whites commit their proportional percentage of most other crime types.

While it would be naïve to suggest that there is no racism in the US criminal justice system, victim reports don’t support the idea that this is because of mass discrimination.

Higher poverty rates among various urban black communities might explain the difference in crime rates, although the evidence is mixed. There are few simple answers and links between crime and race are likely to remain the subject of bitter argument.

 



Website Development and Creation Information




So You Want To Build A Website? Beginners information about website creation and development.

So You Want To Build A Website? Beginners information about website creation and development.


Music


A Led Zepplin tribute in 2012 at the Kennedy Center.

A Led Zepplin tribute in 2012 at the Kennedy Center.






One of Mark's favorite female guitar masters - Orianthi playing Highly Strung with Steve Vai!

One of Mark's favorite female guitar masters - Orianthi playing Highly Strung with Steve Vai!


Wow! What can I say. Two of the best complementing oneanother.


The Latest On Black Holes - Before They Actually Photographed One 50 Million Light Years Away in 2019


Black Hole Sizes! Awesome Video.


Black Hole Sizes! Awesome Video.

OPINION

I am neither a democrat nor a republican. I do think the republican party needs to get as far away from the MORON trump and his corrupt family as they can before anyone like me is going to even think the republican party has any merit.

Unfortunately, Biden isn't any better - maybe worse. I didn't disagree with much of what trump did. I only find him and his family to be disgusting and repulsive. I do not agree with much of anything Biden has done. I appears that both of them are crooks as are their family members.

I had to pay for my education myself. I worked 40 hours a week to do so. That is why it took me 5 years to get a 4-year engineering degree. No one paid for my education. Why now is it appropriate for us to pay for the education of others?

Why is it the governments, my neighbors, or anyone else's business if I live or die? It is my choice and no one else's. If I want to take a drug or a treatment, it is my decision. If I die from that decision, that too is my business, no one else's, and between me and my maker (God).

Similarly, what happens to a person, or their body is their decision and no one else's. Everyone has the right to decide what happens to them and their body - period. If they do something that is against God, they get to take it up with him when they die. It is between them and their maker and none of our business.

Why must we keep saving drug attics from overdosing? If they overdose and die, that was their decision. Why must we keep bringing them back with Narcan so they can just do it all over again? People have the right to die if they so choose. Who are we to say they made the wrong decision?

I beleive creatures other than humans can go to heaven. Not just a few select humans who believe in a precisely pre-determined response or belief.

All lives matter - not just a particular color of life.

I am not going to apologize for being white.

If you want to immigrate to our country - great - just join our military for at least 2 years, get vetted, and you are good to go. Otherwise stay out.

Term limits need to be applied to all politicians.

Gangs are the scourge of many countries including the USA. Gangs must be dealt with and anyone who goes easy on gang members or lets gang members immigrate to the USA should be held accountable and dealt with harshly.

If you fly the flag of another country while in the USA you should be deported to that country immediately. How dare anyone protest in my country while flying the flag of another country.

The fact that our government can accuse someone of anything they want and make it stick or at least bankrupt a person is unconscionable. The fact that the police can determine that cash or assets you have were illegally gotten and take your property because they suspect guilt is ludicrous.

Who in their right mind takes a long gun into a shopping center to use against anyone? How about a nonlethal round gun or even a shotgun? But a rifle? What is wrong with our police today. My father was a California Highway Patrol Officer and his moto was only shoot if someone shoots at you - period. Today cops think it is a good idea to shoot way too soon. The guy had a box cutter, so the police shot and killed him. There are 10 police there and they could not figure out how to apprehend the guy without shooting and killing him. If I shot someone with a knife and killed them, I would go to prison for manslaughter. Today the cops think it is appropriate to shoot anything they perceive to be a threat. That is their f__king job. To protect and serve. Today, many of them are nothing but hired killers and vigilantes.

Why are the police allowed to shoot a dog that approaches them? Because the dog barked at them? Did the dog bite them, attack them, harm them in any way? Oh - they felt threatened by the dog. So that is a good reason to shoot someone's pet or guard dog or whatever. What is wrong with this picture?

Why is congress allowed to trade stocks? They often have information that would be considered insider information. When they trade on this information, why are their activities not considered insider trading like they would be for anyone else.


A word about mysterious places and ancient civilizations. The things someone did with stone thousands of years ago is incredible. Even more incredible is that there are examples of this type of handy work on all 6 continents. Are you into ancient aliens? How about explanations as to how they sculpted giant stones? Check out the links to see how some contend these mysteries are connected.Puma Punku Bolivia

The map shows the proximity of the sites in Peru and Bolivia that contain some terrific examples of these mysteries. There must be a reason for this. I think there is more to be found in the region that has remained hidden for all these years. This demands more exploration!

 

The most beautiful women in the world as derived from winners of the Miss Universe competition from 1952 to 2022. The USA has won 9 times. Venezuela has won 7 times. Puerto Rico has won 5 times. The Philippines has won 4 times. Sweden, South Africa, India, and Mexico have won 3 times. For the remaining countries, some have won 2 times, and many have won 1 time. So, there you have it.

 

Did you know that there are several Bible's that exist today? The King James version, the most famous version of modern times and assembled from accepted ancient writings in 1604, contains 66 books. The Catholic version contains 73 books. The Ethiopian Orthodox version, and historically the oldest, the Ethiopian Coptic Bible, contains 81 books. It includes books like the Book of Enoch which is a very old writing that other religious sects consider too controversial and even dangerous to be included in later Bible's. Enoch was the father of Methuselah who was the father of Lamech (the first man in the Bible to take 2 wives) and Lamech was the father of Noah. My point here is that these characters and writings go back a very long time and include The Book of the Giants, also an Enoch era writing. The Apocrypha is another book excluded from modern Bible's but is included in the Ethiopian Coptic Bible. The word Apocrypha means "hidden things". Again a book considered to be too “dangerous” for the common man.

These books talk about the watchers, fallen angles, or guardians of the sky. They speak of a time when giants roamed the earth and consumed human flesh. They talk about Noah and a flood that rescued man from the giants. They talk about the comings and goings of prophets via chariots of fire. They talk about a time where men walked with the gods.

I think there is much we do not know about religion and the various teachings we are all encouraged to believe in.

 




Now let me blow your mind!
Try to wrap your head around this.



At the equator the earth spins at 1000 miles per hour = 1609 kilometers per hour.





The earth rotates around the sun at about 67,000 miles per hour = 107,826 kilometers per hour.





The sun with all of the planets rotate around the galaxy at about 559,000 miles per hour (250 km/s according to Vera Rubin, the lady who discovered this in the 1970's). In fact, the majority of the suns in all galaxies rotate around their respective black hole very close to this same speed. One would expect the rotation to be much like our solar system where the outer planets rotate slower and the inner planets rotate faster. Not so for the stars in a galaxy. Stars, at many varying distances from the black hole at the galaxy center, are all rotating at the same speed. This results in the pinwheel shapes common to most galaxies. No one really knows exactly why this is. It is being explained as the result of dark matter. Because of this, Rubin is credited with discovering dark matter - something we have no idea what it is, but we can see its effect on stars in galaxies.

Our galaxy, along with the local group of galaxies, is moving through space at about 1,340,000 miles per hour = 2,156,521 kilometers per hour.

Astronomers speculate that space is expanding at about 152,112 miles per hour = 244,801 kilometers per hour.

Add it all up and we are traveling through space at more than 2,000,000 miles per hour = 3,218,688 kilometers per hour. Other estimates say upwards of 2.8 million miles per hour = 4.5 million kilometers per hour. That is somewhere between 550 and 800 miles per second = 1,288 kilometers per second. At that speed you could travel from the earth to the moon, 238,900 miles away, in under 6 minutes. In any case, it is fast - damn fast.

It's hard to imagine traveling that fast. It's impossible to relate to these speeds especially when we feel like we are standing still in space.

As a comparison, the speed of light is 6.706e+8 mph or 670,600,000 miles per hour which is about 671 million miles per hour or about 186,000 miles per second ~ 300,000 kilometers per second.


That is about 300 times faster than we are traveling through space.


Something I should also mention is that in addition to moving through space at such an extreme speed, our sun with the planets moves up and down through the plane of our galaxy like a merry go round while traveling around the galaxy. This merry go round up and down oscillation is on a 60,000 year cycle. So, this up and down movement through the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy takes us into areas of our galaxy that may be less desirable than others. It could take us through debris clouds or near magnetars or black holes that could cause havoc in various catastrophic ways for the earth.


Did you know?
The universe has more platinum atoms than silver atoms? Platinum is the pricier metal because on earth it is much rarer than silver. Billions of years ago, much of the platinum and gold sank out of the earth's crust and into its core. There is an estimated 6 times more platinum than gold in the earth's core.


Why Is Earth's Weather Changing?

Now let's look at the Earth's path through space and how it affects the weather. Global warming or cooling - absolutely. Manmade - a little but nothing like earth itself. No doubt humankind is contributing to weather change, but the earth's orbit will override and exceed anything man will do.

Why you ask?

The Earth's rotational axis is tilted slightly at 23.5 degrees. The Earth's axis rotates around this circle once every 20,000 years. The north star today is Polaris, however, 5 thousand years ago it was a different star altogether (Theban) and thousands of years from now it will be Vega. Today the orientation is the northern hemisphere is leaning away from the sun. This position is why the Sarah Desert is a desert where it was more tropical, wet, and green 15,000 years ago.



The Earth's orbit around the sun is also not constant and varies widely over time. Today the Earth's orbit around the sun is almost circular so summers and winters are mild.



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However, due to influences from the Sun and moon, Earth's orbit can go slightly elliptical. The cycle between elliptical and circular is 100,000 years. The effect of this orbital change will be hotter summers and colder winters.


Jupiter and Mars have an even bigger effect on Earth's orbit where a 405,000 year cycle takes the Earth's orbit on an extremely elliptical orbit. This orbit is thought to have been responsible for snowball earth several times in Earth's past.

Yes, Earth's climate is changing, and it is going to change way more dramatically than any of us can imagine. All these orbital changes have happened several times in the past and will happen again many more times in the future. 20,000 years from now there will be vast changes where the Sarah Desert will be green again. But these changes will be the result of the Earth's orbit around the Sun and will probably have little to do with human evolution.

Another event not often associated with weather disturbances is the occasional flip of earth's magnetic field known as geomagnetic reversal. Earth's magnetic poles are not static. The magnetic poles wander and occasionally reverse around every 200,000 to 300,000 years. The Earth's magnetic field has reversed nine times during the past four million years. The last known complete 180-degree magnetic pole shift last happened 42,000 years ago and took approximately 1000 years to complete the shift. As of late, Earth's magnetic North pole has wandered considerably on a path toward northern Russia. Scientists know that Earth's magnetic field has weakened about 9% in the past 170 years. The magnetic North pole has also been drifting more rapidly since the 1990s, at a rate of 30 to 40 miles per year.

The pole shift 42,000 years ago is suspected to have contributed to the demise of Neanderthal’s. While the poles were shifting, additional cosmic rays and high-energy particles from outer space would have depleted ozone concentrations, opening the floodgates for more ultraviolet radiation in the atmosphere over a long period of time. Shifting weather would have expanded the ice sheet over North America and dried out Australia, prompting the extinction of many large mammal species. Solar storms, meanwhile, might have driven ancient humans to seek shelter in caves. As competition for resources grew, our closest extinct human relative, Neanderthals, may have died out.

Problems in the near term.

Because the moon orbits the earth and the moon and earth orbit the sun, the two celestial bodies that affect earth the most are the moon and the sun. They line up in ways that influence how gravity acts on the earth. The phenomenon is what causes ocean tides to wax and wane. This gravitational pull differs from year to year.
To us, the moon appears to “wobble” in space. This is due to the tilt, velocity and shape of the moon's orbit which takes 18.6 years to complete. Half of the cycle suppresses tide activity by making high tides lower than normal and low tides higher than normal. But the other half exacerbates them. Therein lies the problem.
According to NASA. the moon is currently in the “tide-amplifying part of its cycle”. By mid-2030, when this intensified series returns, people living in coastal cities may be dealing with severe floods “every day or two.”
Why you ask?
This natural yet amplified lunar cycle will be coupled with higher sea levels caused by global warming, triggering a decade of dramatic surges in the number of days with high-tide flooding on nearly all mainland coastlines in the world. High-tide flooding is projected to exceed thresholds across the world more often and occur in clusters that last a month or longer, the NASA Sea Level Change Science Team of the University of Hawaii said. Their study was published last month in the journal Nature Climate Change.

These kinds of floods are already plaguing many cities on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. In 2019, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported more than 600 such floods, which occur when high tides reach about 2 feet above the daily average “and start spilling onto streets or bubbling up from storm drains.” The problem, researchers say, is that these events are often considered less important or damaging than floods caused by hurricanes, for example, because they involve smaller amounts of water.
But “it’s the accumulated effect over time that will have an impact,” study lead author Phil Thompson, an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii, said in a statement. “If it floods 10 or 15 times a month, a business can’t keep operating with its parking lot under water. People lose their jobs because they can’t get to work. Seeping cesspools become a public health issue.” What’s more, these repeated events will eventually occur in clusters in about a decade when the moon’s amplified wobble merges with future higher seas, the team says. The dangerous cocktail is predicted to spark increased high-tide flooding over a short period of time, creating extreme months of activity.
The bottom line - the world is headed for coastal flooding without rising sea levels. With rising sea levels coastal catastrophe is eminent.

We know greenhouse gases can change the climate based on multiple lines of scientific evidence point to the increase in greenhouse emissions over the past century and a half as a driver of long-term climate change around the world. Laboratory measurements since the 1800s have repeatedly verified and quantified the absorptive properties of carbon dioxide that allow it to trap heat in the atmosphere. Simple models based on the warming impact of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere match historical changes in temperature. Complex climate models, recently acknowledged in the Nobel Prize for Physics, not only indicate a warming of the Earth due to increases in carbon dioxide but also offer details of the areas of greatest warming. Long-term records from ice cores, tree rings and corals show that when carbon dioxide levels have been high, temperatures have also been high. The chart below shows the change in temperature vs CO2 levels over time. It is an obvious correlation.



Does the below graphic concern anyone?
Fires across Canada - summer 2023

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Something very cool and mindblowing!

New space telescopes are allowing mankind to verify structures in the universe that are contradicting much of what science has considered fact for many years. Galactic clusters are being found that have the experts conflicted. Recently a circular cluster of galaxies have been discovered that spans 1.3 billion light years. In fact, we are looking at a helix (corkscrew) structure on end, so the galaxies form a circle from our perspective. Prior to this, other large structures of galaxies known as walls have been discovered that are hundreds of billion light years in size.

Why is this so important?

The mere fact these structures exist contradicts the notion that a "big bang" started our universe some 13.7 billion years ago. All the theories regarding the notion of a "big bang" contend these galaxy clusters cannot exist. Matter must be distributed more evenly throughout the universe. These findings may well change the way we look at the beginning of our universe and its age.


But there is more to our travels through space than drastic changes in the weather.

Mass extinctions of life on Earth appear to also follow regular patterns based on our solar system traveling up and down in relation to the galactic plane.

Widespread die-offs of land dwelling animals - which include amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds - follow a cycle of about 27 million years.

Additionally, these mass extinctions coincide with major asteroid impacts and devastating volcanic outpourings of lava, rock, and a lethal amounts of deadly gases poisoning the atmosphere.

Global mass extinctions are presumably caused by the largest cataclysmic impacts and massive volcanism, perhaps sometimes working in concert.

Paleontologists had previously discovered that similar mass extinctions of marine life, in which up to 90% of species disappeared, were not random events, but seemed to come in a 26 to 27 million year cycle.

These new findings of coinciding, sudden mass extinctions on land and in the oceans, and of the common 26 / 27 million year cycle, lend credence to the idea of periodic global catastrophic events as the triggers for the extinctions.

Three of the mass annihilations of species on land and in the sea are already known to have occurred at the same times as the three largest impacts of the last 250 million years, each capable of causing a global disaster and resulting mass extinctions.

These impacts can create conditions that would stress and potentially kill off land and marine life, including widespread dark and cold, wildfires, acid rain and ozone depletion. The most infamous asteroid strike we know of is the one that killed off the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago, which overall wiped out 70% of the species on Earth.

It seems that large-body impacts and the pulses of internal Earth activity that create flood-basalt volcanism may be marching to the same 26 / 27 million year drumbeat as the extinctions, more than likely paced by our orbit in the galaxy.

And as for where we are in the current cycle, we are about 20 million years away from the next predicted mass extinction that's due to a comet strike or volcanic activity.

How could this be? Aren't asteroid or comet impacts completely random? Not so. Because our sun with the planets travels up and down through the plane of our galaxy like a merry go round while traveling around the galaxy, our planet will pass through a crowded part of our Milky Way galaxy about every 26 / 27 million years. During those times, comet and meteor showers are more likely, leading to large impacts on the Earth.

The above study was published 12/11/2020 in the journal Historical Biology.

BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE

Mark has had a theory for a very long time. We know from Albert Einstein that time and space are relative and therefore are not constant. Affecting one affects and changes the other. Gravity warps space and also time. Speed also warps time. Time runs slower wherever gravity is strongest. This is because gravity curves space-time. Also, the faster the relative velocity between two people or places, the greater the time dilation between one another. They say this rate of time diminishes to zero as one approaches the speed of light. This effect is not linear. It is exponential like the Mohs hardness scale or the Richter earthquake scale. For sufficiently high speeds, near the speed of light, this effect is dramatic. For example, a persons perceived one year of travel near the speed of light might correspond to ten years of time on Earth. That said, our time here on earth is influenced by speed because, as you know, we are traveling through space at somewhere around 2+ million miles per hour. So we can see that our perceived time is slower, about 0.5% slower, than the time of something standing still in space. We also know on earth we are influenced by the gravity of the earth, the sun, and the galaxy we are traveling through space in so our perceived time is also slowed by all that gravitational influence. This effect is also exponential where higher gravitational influence cause the most dramatic effects. Adding up the slowing of our time resulting from our speed and the gravity that is influencing us means that our perceived time is slower than actual time in space without these influences. So, when we look out into the universe, we see the universe not only expanding but speeding up (accelerating) because our time is running slower than what we are looking at. Therefore, Mark doubts that the speed of galaxies in the universe are accelerating away from one another as scientist's have speculated. The universe is expanding, maybe, but not accelerating. Mark has been mulling over this concept for years. Some think this concept has merit and many think it is nuts. What do you think?

One of the newest ways of looking at the expansion of the universe, and a remarkably interesting one indeed, speculates that the galaxies in the universe are all speeding away from one another as a function of their distance from the observer where some galaxies are traveling away from us at more than the speed of light. This is because space in that area of space is expanding at greater speeds the farther something is away. So, a galaxy 4 light years away is traveling away from us 4 times faster than a galaxy 2 light years away. If we were to travel at the speed of light in one direction, there would be galaxies disappearing before our eyes because they are so far away that they are moving away from us faster than the speed of light because, where they are, space is expanding faster than the speed of light. Furthermore, this expansion of space in all directions is going on relative to every other point in space. What makes no sence to me is that to some observer far far away, we should then be expanding faster than the speed of light but we do not see that kind of expansion in our area of space? And, this expansion is supposedly all caused by a substance we can neither see and apparently does not affect us - dark matter and dark energy. Called dark because we have no idea what it is but without it the universe, mass wise, does not work.

Moving on - they say the H0liCOW estimate puts the Hubble constant at about 71.9 kilometers (44.7 miles) per second per megaparsec (one megaparsec equals about 3.3 million light-years). In 2001, Dr. Wendy Freedman determined space to expand at 72 kilometers per second per megaparsec - roughly 3.3 million light years - meaning that for every 3.3 million light years further away from the earth you are, the matter where you are, is moving away from earth 72 kilometers a second faster. In 2015, another team, using observations of the cosmic microwave background, determined the rate was 67.8 kilometers per second per megaparsec. Time dilation in a gravitational field is equal to time dilation in far space, due to a speed that is needed to escape that gravitational field.
Here is the proof:

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A 110 carat yellow diamond named the ‘Cora Sun-Drop’ and was offered for sale at an auction on November 15, 2011 by Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels in Geneva, Switzerland   Blue-Diamond 29.6 carat found in Cullinan Mine South Africa.jpg