Points of Reference

Citations for your research or your papers; for your life, when you walk or drive. We use points of reference to coordinate body movement in order to balance & execute a route to get from the bed to the shower or to the kitchen or garage. Movement & communication are the foundation of human life! 

People are using points of reference in all aspects of life with human eyes acquiring visual information about reality in an automatic system of motion control, proprioception, CNS planning & prediction using generalized motion control thinking to stimulate skeletal muscles in specific precisely timed sequences with adaptive feedback looping control with the spinal cord nerves & some muscle memory automation naturally in the self-assembling macromolecular human body! 

We are made of star dust, elements forged in stars larger than Earth's Sun that burned brightly for billions of years before undergoing a supernova death that spat those elements out at relativistic velocities over vast distances billions of years ago, where those dust particles from at least 126 different stars produce the similarly numbered chemical elements that comprise the chemical base constituents as precursors of all cells, all biomolecules, organs & flesh systems. Even human bones are being dynamically remodeled actively in response to gravitational pull towards the Earth. This is why astronauts on the international space station experience skeletal & muscle atrophy, the microgravity causes the bones to weaken because the body conserves the calcium & phosphorus without gravity requiring a strong skeleton to support the geometry of the body on a water covered rocky planets like Earth. 

DNA in the human body also present in all other living beings on Earth, in the dirt & soil & oceans & landscapes, in ecosystems connected such that pollution causes all life to suffer chemical toxicity fallout, pain & suffering that can be eliminated though the development & application of cleaner energy technology that does not require combustion of carbon or hydrocarbons to make thermal or pressure energy. 

Energy also never created or destroyed, so that chemical energy in these easy liquid & solid fuels only becomes long infrared (red shift) energy. This is why the new James Web Space Telescope using multispectral imaging of lower energy light photons in the "life" spectral energy range that can help NASA scientists unlock the real origins of life, facts about the Big Bang & how the universe came to be & most importantly to help mankind on Earth locate another habitable planet in the goldilocks zone close enough to a star like the Sun to support a temperate water vapor pressure system with similar pressures & atmospheric gas compositions as Earth. 

Genetic engineering will enable people to live on planets that are thermally & chemical different than Earth. Places that are hotter or colder, more or less radioactive, with different gases in the atmosphere & bodies of liquids made of fluids other than water. Imagine bromine lakes or chlorine gas cloud systems with weather raining corrosive liquids that are toxic, but a genetically engineered version of people that are perfectly adapted to live in such strange oxidation environments where something other than oxygen acts as the oxidize to power their citric acid cycle or metabolic processes.  

The edge of the sidewalk, the foot path boundaries, the fog line or lane separation line, edge detecting the road surface & dynamic visual assessment of the road surfaces, at great speed when a rally car driver & his navigator are blasting through less improved forest roads made of dirt & gravel & short sections of tarmac or asphalt or concrete. Our brains are constantly making sense of what is happening to enable safe piloting of vehicles & coordinating movements of the human body. Blind people utilize specialize sound processing in their brain to hear & feel the environment to make sense of what's around them. In France, teachers of the blind students are required to bind their eyes for many days & learn to live like that, blinded. Most amazingly, when these teachers removed the eye bindings, it takes a few days for their sight to return. This proof of neural plasticity was presented in the book "The Brain the Changes Itself" 

You become more like what you are doing, as you do it more, up to a point. After about 8,000 hours you become an expert if you focused on improving constantly the whole time. I am not sure how many hours I have spent reading Wikipedia & other books or writing these blog postings. Hours per day but not every day, for years. I was listening to music on my laptop upon waking this morning & thinking about how my brain enabled me to get out of bed & to pick up the laptop & its power adapter & my headphones  & move & relocate it & turn it on & then how my brain coordinates my fingers to type, using the trackpad to control the cursor on the screen in the Windows 10 user interface. Its actually amazingly complicated & totally natural, what the brain doing to enable anything to happen! 

Brain injury studies prove that a person's persona, values, ethics, morals, beliefs, ideologies, preferences, patterns, choices & behaviors are all significantly affected when the brain is damaged by traumatic impacts or toxicity or anything that causes cell damage in the brain. Your mind & soul seem related but the science of both still shrouded in mystery & many questions remain to be answered. 

Ask yourself, what are your points of reference in life? What are you looking to in order to coordinate all your movements & choices? How do you choose to shift your focus with your free will & agency? What are you doing with your life? Who are you becoming? Be very careful with your brain, you cannot buy & new one & aging causes it to slow down & learn slower. Stay physically active to promote better blood flow to your brain. 

Eat clean & natural & organic foods that are good for your gut biota. The human gut has many neurons that talk with the brain to coordinate how all of those broken down by gut microbes, small molecules from foods & drinks, are to be used to replace dead cells & to repair living cells. These processes affect digestion and thinking, and have important implications to many diseases, especially cancers & metabolic syndrome disorders like hypertension & type 2 diabetes. 

Information Education Entertainment

Consider documentary films or news online via your touchscreen smartphone interface accessed with tiny finger movements over wireless 4G LTE or 5G NR networks. A 12 year old boy commenting on my wrist watch said "watches are useless" "I check the time when I am on my phone , so what is the point of having a wrist watch?" showing his utilitarian worldview & lack of interest in the predominate adult mail fashion accessory, wrist watch bling! Manual winding mechanical or a perpetual self winding mechanical automatic, they also come in solar PV battery electric quarts movements as Casio Tough Solar or Citizen Eco-drive. 

The most prestigious watch brands use automatic self winding mechanical movements, invented bt ROLEX, with jeweled bearing cups & sleeves to reduce friction. Synthetic D5 lubricant added to the interaction between a gear-train wheel & the capture jewel or slide bearing jewel & other mechanical parts. These low friction bearing interfaces with jewels are typically made of synthetic pink sapphire or natural or synthetic rubies, though diamond has also been used. The mainspring was made of spring steel alloys until silicon springs & other ceramics came into use. 

Sistem51 automatics by SWATCH have 90hrs of power reserve, the most I have ever heard of in normal watch movements. With only 51 pieces & 1 central screw, they are also anti-magnetic or a-magnetic mechanical works of revolutionary innovation within the automatic wrist watch domain of applied technology. I do not own one, but they are on my long term watch collection list for future acquisition. 

You know why I like automatic wrist watches ? No batteries! Powered by your body movements, a weight that swings in the back provides the kinetic capture energy to wind up the mainspring, which when released as potential energy back into regulated pulses of kinetic energy produce by the escapement, a cleaver little double sapphire ended dongle that rocks back & forth along with the balance spring / wheel assembly which can be tuned to increase or decrease the operating speed of the movement to tune the timing precisely. As you move, the spinning mass in the back of the automatic swings around converting your motion into kinetic energy recovery in the mainspring mechanical energy storage device that gives automatic wrist movements between 20-200 hrs of reserve time or runtime without being worn, resting on your nightstand or watch box or jewelry boxer whatever you store you watches in, like a Pelican case for protection. I am so obsessed with wrist watches that I bought a tool kit just so I can work on them DIY at home & my next posting about this! Stay tuned :) Thanks for reading! 

If you want to see a video about mechanical watch movements that inspired me to get into the watch scene, DIY, collecting, etc. Check this one https://youtu.be/iaVx5LJ7t_c I love this guys vocal accent & he is funny too!