Outside of space and time

One of the philosophical questions I have been grappling with recently is consciousness outside of space and time.

We live in a world bounded by space and time. We seem to live in a vast universe with time flowing from the past into the future. Trying to imagine things outside of these is all but impossible. 

I am reminded of a book I read in the 1960s where everything had just 2 dimensions. Thinking outside of these was almost impossible. An object passing through this world might get larger, then smaller, but it might be hard to understand this in a 2-dimensional world. 

The book may have been called Flatland. There are books called this on Amazon, although I am not sure if these are the same book in more recent editions? It was first published as a novella in 1884, so these may well be the same.

I sometimes think we might be like that: unable to think unless they are within the bounds of experience of our finite brains. 

We are used to think in our world view, but this may be a very narrow.

See https://www.amazon.co.uk/

Cycles

Today's Knowledge reports that some things appear to be cyclical. For example, big breasts are popular when times are tough like in wars or when times are hard e.g. with a possible market crash coming.

There is a popular saying, "what goes around comes around".

The Knowledge points out that people who sometimes complain (rightly in my view) about climate change fly around in private jets! 

My grandchildren will not eat anything past its "best before" date. I abhor waste.

In years gone by a wolf whistle was seen as a compliment by a girl. These days most men would be too afraid of being had up for sexual harassment. 

Now, I strongly believe everyone deserves respect whatever their race, creed, ability, colour, or sexuality.

Sometimes I wonder has the pendulum swung too far?

The Knowledge is a free daily email with a summary of the news from various sources.

Reverse beacon network

This is a useful resource that I have used infrequently, probably as it does not monitor the modes I most use. It can tell you where your CQs get, even if nobody replies. I think it supports CW, RTTY and PSK.

See https://www.reversebeacon.net/ .

6m 5W QRP FT8 (Sunday)

 My gear was turned on at about 1008z.

UPDATE 1139z: So far, spotted by 8 English stations. 

UPDATE 1218z:  Spotted by 16 stations including Eire and Germany.

UPDATE 1607z:  24 spots of my QRP today including some in mainland Europe. See map.

10m 500mW WSPR TX (Sunday)

My beacon was turned on at about 1008z.

UPDATE 1612z:  So far, spotted by 22 stations. Several from North America with one in Brazil.

Sunspots - Sunday November 2nd

 Solar flux is 115 and the SSN 24. A=14 and K=2. 

10m 500mW WSPR TX (Saturday)

The stand-alone beacon was turned on just before tea.

UPDATE 1914z:  7 stations have spotted me with several in North America.

6m 5W QRP FT8 (Saturday)

 

As we were in Cambridge, my gear was not turned on until shortly before teatime.

UPDATE 1907z:  18 spots of me so far including 3 in Scandinavia. See map.

Where we live

 

This is the view from our lounge window down our close. In the other direction is the windmill. 

CQWW SSB contest - LAST weekend

At one time I never missed this as a chance to work a few new countries and states. Since my voice has been poor I rarely go on this contest now. In fact I totally forgot it was on last weekend!

To me DX chasing is no longer important. I worked 10m QRP SSB DXCC back about 40 years ago, so I leave it to others these days.