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General: TEMPLE MADELEINE CHURCH GENEVA SWITZERLAND CERN INTERNET TIME TRAVEL TIME MACHIN
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Temple de la Madeleine Church - Geneva, Switzerland
Temple de la Madeleine Church - Geneva, Switzerland
Madeleine Church, Geneva, Switzerland. The Temple de la Madeleine Madeleine Church is located in the foot of the Old Town of Geneva, Switzerland
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INTERNET
It's internet time to bring back .beats
Night Water is coming to you tonight @166.beats
 Photo: Swatch
Suffice to say, the French Revolution left a lasting legacy on the world. To rattle off a few of the lesser achievements: the rise of liberal democracy, the weakening of the Catholic Church and feudal systems, and the plain decoration of the rights of men. Of course, none of these hold a candle to Internet Time.
You know the metric system? Depending on where you live, it’s either the natural order of measurement or a sick perversion of freedom. The metric system was one of the innovations borne out of the French Revolution. But not every unit of measurement devised by the French stuck. You’ve got your meters and your grams, of course, all divisible and multipliable by ten. But when was the last time you used a decimal minute?
 A French decimal time pocket watch. Photo from Svalbard, who still makes decimal wristwatches available for purchase.
There are 100 decimal minutes in a decimal hour and 100 decimal seconds in a decimal minute. A day has 10 decimal hours. Ten days make a décade—a week—and three décades make a month. Unfortunately, thanks to our planet’s pesky revolution around the sun, the calendar still needed 12 months, plus a few bonus days at the end of the calendar to round out the year. The French Revolutionary Calendar was introduced in 1793 and abolished by Napoleon just 13 years later, but decimal time didn’t even make it out of the First Republic—it was made “non-mandatory” in just 17 months after pretty much everyone decided to stick with their existing watches.
Fast forward to the turn of the century, and a couple of Swiss visionaries had a crazy idea for a new way of thinking about time. The year was 1998. The internet was on the rise and globalization in full force. More than ever, people were working across borders and across time zones. You know time zones—those fake bands of standardized time invented by railroad companies? They make it annoying as heck to schedule a meeting across the country, across the pond, or across the world. Which 9 A.M. did you mean? Why did Tim schedule a meeting during my lunch? So on, so forth.
Swatch—the watchmaker best known for their casual plastic watches—knew that this problem would only get worse as the internet developed and the world population became more intertwined. So, like the railroad companies of old, they created a solution.
Swatch Internet Time—or .beat time, if you prefer the generic brand—divides the day into 1000 equal parts, called .beats. Yes, that’s “dot beats.” As in, “dot com.” And you note time with an “@” symbol just like email—as in, the meeting is @625.beats (“at 625 dot beats”). It’s not decimal time, it’s internet time, baby.
 A Swatch MOON OR.BEAT III wristwatch.
A single .beat is 86.4 standard seconds long, so just under a standard minute and a half. There are no beat hours or beat seconds—though some implementations include “centibeats,” or 1/100th of a beat—no Daylight Savings Time, and, most importantly, no time zones. No matter where you are in the world, we march to the .beat of the same clock.
Unlike the French government, Swatch could introduce a ton of watches featuring decimal time to the masses. But .beat time wasn’t just limited to a few cheap wristwatches. Internet Time made it onto CNN, was implemented by the instant messaging app ICQ, and was even used as the time system in Phantasy Star Online, a groundbreaking online RPG.
But, just like the French back in the late 1700s, the world just wasn’t ready for decimal time. It never caught on, and within a few years, Swatch Internet Time was a mostly forgotten oddity. While it solves the problem of communicating about time zones by completely abolishing them, it makes it a lot harder to actually communicate about time. The internet clock resets at the same time for everyone—midnight in UTC+1, the time zone where Swatch’s headquarters in Biel, Switzerland is located, natch—but for everyone outside of that time zone, .beats just don’t line up with your actual day. While 11 P.M. means late night vibes around the world, the same can’t be said for @166.beats.
Swatch was on to something, though. They saw an interconnected future where people would need an easier way to communicate about time—something universal, divorced from local context. I don’t think we’ve come any closer to cracking that. Internet Time might not be a perfect solution, but the next time you’re trying to plan a meeting with someone on the other side of the globe, think of .beats and the world that could’ve been.
Want to keep Internet Time? While Swatch no longer sells watches with .beat displays, thanks to the magic of smartphones and smartwatches, it’s never been easier to keep Internet Time. I use a great app called BeatTime that works on pretty much every Apple device—you can set a lock screen widget on your phone so checking Internet Time is just a tap away. I can’t personally attest to the quality of this Android widget, but it looks to achieve the same effect. Of course, you can also do it all in your head—just multiply the current hour in UTC+1 by 3600, add that to the current minute in UTC+1 multiplied by 60, then take that number and divide it by 86.4. Round down the result, and you’ve got .beats.
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Watching Movies Tom Hanks Wears A Mickey Mouse Watch In 'Angels & Demons'
Everyone's favorite deputy trades in his Pixar ID for a Disney one.
Based on Dan “DaVinci Code” Brown’s bestselling novel of the same name, Angels & Demons (2009) follows the exploits of Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks) as he gallivants across Rome and the Vatican trying to foil the murderous exploits of the secret society known as the Illuminati. With his slicked-back-hair and action-movie pedigree, Langdon is reminiscent of Nic Cage’s character Benjamin Franklin Gates in National Treasure – only Langdon doesn't wear a Rolex. His wristwatch is far more playful.
Image courtesy, Columbia Pictures
It's the final day of Character Watch Week! If you haven't read our coverage ranging from Pokemon to the Black Panther, be sure to check it out. We even ranked our favorite Mickey Mouse watches of all time, which is where Robert Langdon comes into play. He may very well be one of the top minds in the field of art history and symbology (he's a Harvard professor, after all), but he doesn't let that get to his wrist.
While he most certainly has the means for all manner of luxury watches, he opts for a timepiece more fitting for a rumpled professor. That would be a Mickey Mouse watch, complete with moving arms that tell the time. (Happy now, Jack?)
Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) with the Vatican police, trying to solve the mysteries of the Illuminati with his Mickey Mouse watch. Screengrab courtesy, Columbia Pictures
Langdon's watch is an unassuming variation on the longstanding Mickey tradition. It's small and fitted to a black leather strap with the literal words "Mickey" and "Mouse" printed vertically on the dial. The history of these watches is long (and still continuing) but it dates back to the early 1930s, when the Ingersoll watch company (which would one day become Timex) unveiled a Mickey Mouse pocket watch – later followed up by the wristwatch which has been iterated on countless times over the years. Langdon's appears to be a Bradley Mickey Mouse watch, specifically.
Similar Bradley Mickey Mouse watch to the one worn by Tom Hanks in Angels & Demons. Image courtesy, Goodwill
This is a character watch no matter how you want to define the category. But the question lingers: Why does he wear this? Why not choose a more rugged timepiece fit for his continent-hopping adventures? While we don't find that answer in the movie, we do find it in the pages of Dan Brown's novels.
In The DaVinci Code, we learn about Langdon's history with the watch:
"Pulling back the sleeve of his jacket, he checked his watch – a vintage, collector's-edition Mickey Mouse wristwatch that had been a gift from his parents on his tenth birthday. Although its juvenile dial often drew odd looks, Langdon had never owned any other watch; Disney animations had been his first introduction to the magic of form and color, and Mickey now served as Langdon's daily reminder to stay young at heart. At the moment, however, Mickey's arms were skewed at an awkward angle, indicating an equally awkward hour."
Langdon, alongside CERN scientist Vittoria Vetra (played by Ayelet Zurer), in Angels & Demons. Screengrab courtesy, Columbia Pictures
It goes even deeper than that, believe it or not, and you can read the book for yourself if you want additional context. We're interested in the movie that brings the watch to life. And since Langdon's watch is covered up throughout The DaVinci Code movie, that brings us to Angels & Demons.
Nearly an hour into the film, Langdon is hot on the trail of the Illuminati's plans. Alongside Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer) – a CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) scientist, and the Vatican police – he arrives at St. Peter's Square hoping to catch the secret society in the act of wrongdoing. The setting is teeming with tourists, news trucks, and reporters. As he makes his way through the crowd, Langdon takes a moment to check the time [00:54:10]. This is when we get the money shot. Underneath his blue dress shirt sits a vintage Mickey Mouse watch, with its active hands busy telling the time. You don't often get such overt watch shots in films – and never a Mickey Mouse watch – but it jives with the absolute lack of subtlety at large on the part of this movie franchise
Screengrab courtesy, Columbia Pictures
In the third act, Langdon convinces the Italian police force to take him to the Piazza Navona where he's certain the Illuminati are planning to brand and murder a Cardinal. When they arrive on the scene, they see a suspicious van pull up and turn its lights off. The police make their way over to the van to investigate and are immediately taken out by an assassin (who happens to be wearing a two-tone Rolex Datejust). The assassin proceeds to wheel the Cardinal out from the van, on a rig with bench press weights attached and drop him into a fountain. Langdon jumps in – eventually aided by good samaritans and manages to save the drowning Cardinal. All the while he has his Mickey Mouse watch on [00:01:30], which becomes visible as he rests his drenched arm on the outside of the fountain. There's no way this watch has that kind of water resistance but … movie magic right?
Screengrab courtesy, Columbia Pictures
Angels & Demons (starring Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor) is directed by Ron Howard, with props by Trish Gallaher Glenn, and Federico Ciommo. It's available to stream on Netflix and rent on iTunes or Amazon.
Lead image courtesy, Columbia Pictures
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BIENVENUE
AVANT TOUTE CHOSE …
Nous sommes heureux de partager avec vous, amis pèlerins, la joie de la rencontre fraternelle ! Ce chemin se veut être une démarche de pèlerinage dans l’esprit de Saint François.
Accueillir la fraternité comme un cadeau, rechercher la simplicité et même la sobriété, vivre l’instant présent sans se soucier, c’est s’imprégner petit à petit de l’esprit de l’évangile tel que St François a choisi de le vivre. Le chemin est ouvert à toutes et tous et il apportera une joie authentique à celles et ceux qui auront au plus vrai d’eux-mêmes la paix du cœur.
Chemins de foi, chemins pour tous
Depuis de nombreux siècles, des pèlerins ont traversé l’Europe pour se rendre en Terre Sainte, à St Jacques de Compostelle, à Rome … pour des raisons spirituelles essentiellement mais ensuite aussi pour des raisons économiques et, plus récemment, pour goûter aux plaisirs de la marche, des paysages, du silence et de la solitude …
Aujourd’hui, de plus en plus de personnes, croyantes ou non, empruntent ces chemins tracés par les premiers pèlerins.
Un peu partout, des associations se sont créées pour redonner vie à ces itinéraires, notamment ceux vers Compostelle, mais aussi celui de Canterbury à Rome (« via francigena »), le Chemin de St-Michel, et bien d’autres. C’est aussi le cas pour ce « récent » chemin de 1500 km vers Assise.
Ainsi, elles témoignent d’un intérêt renouvelé pour la découverte du patrimoine culturel et artistique et pour une autre forme de ressourcement personnel ou de recherche d’épanouissement par un nouveau style de loisirs.
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The result:
The orbit of Venus narrowly misses the center of the SPS.
Everything does click, however, when we…
- Rotate LHC/SPS diagram ~3.4 degrees counterclockwise
- Use the (slightly larger) Moon size instead of the SPS
Now the orbit of Venus passes right through the center of the lunar SPS…
And it is no random point on Venus's orbit: The lunar SPS center is specifically pinpointing Venus's "ascending node". That's where Venus crosses northward the plane of Earth's orbit (i.e. the ecliptic or the plane of the solar system)!
The ~3.4 degrees rotation actually makes perfect sense here because:
- The ascending node is all about the inclination of the orbit relative to the ecliptic or Earth's orbital plane…
- In the case of Venus, the orbital inclination is 3.4 degrees, matching the ~3.4 degree rotation required to bring the (lunar) SPS center to the Venus ascending node
Ascending nodes will play a critical role later on as well so we can be certain this is no coincidence.
The curious position of the SPS has now been perfectly explained.
Line of Nodes & Transit of Venus
The ascending node of Venus is aligned with the Galactic Meridian or "longitude 0" of the Milky Way (which passes through the Galactic Center and is perpendicular to the Milky Way/Galactic Equator).
The line is also heliocentrically aligned with Earth around June 8 and December 9 every year right when Earth's orbital position coincides with the LHC's ATLAS and CMS detectors.
From Earth's perspective, the Sun is at the Galactic Meridian on ~June 8 and ~December 9.
It's right there at the Sun's ~June 8 position that what astronomers call the Transit of Venus takes place, which is a very rare celestial event when Venus passes right in front of the Sun due to a very precise Earth-Venus-Sun alignment (accurate in 3D):
The most recent transit pair (they come in pairs) was in 2004 and 2012 (June 8 & June 6 respectively). The LHC went live in 2008 which was right at the halfway point, i.e. 4 years after the 1st Venus Transit and 4 years before the 2nd Venus Transit. (The previous Venus Transit pair was December 1874 and December 1882; the next pair will be December 10–11, 2117, and December 8, 2125.)
Jun 8, 2004 Planet Venus completes transit
That's enough evidence for us to safely conclude that the LHC was fully cognizant of what was happening in the sky.
Secret Design #3 - Mars-Mercury-Earth Orbital Interaction
Let us go deeper into the rabbit hole through… Mars. It is through Mars that we will finally flesh out the "Orion Stargate.
 
What we'll do now is, instead of Earth's orbit, we'll use Mars' orbit as the celestial analogue of the LHC like this:
[Note: The LHC/SPS is still in its 3.4 deg.-rotated orientation]
While nothing seems to stand out initially, we do get our first confirmation after rotating the LHC so that the SPS would "kiss" Mars' perihelion i.e. Mars' closest point to the Sun (and to Earth's orbit), like this:
- Earth's orbit (green) passes right through the center of the SPS
- Earth's equinoctial axis (horizontal) is tangential to the SPS
Now we are ready for the main revelation which commences with the following observation…
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As we noted back then, Kylie is also striking an " Atlas pose"...
...supported by the fact that "Atlas" (atl) can mean "elevator" as researcher Andrew Collins writes in Gateway To Atlantis:
...in addition to meaning 'exalted', the Hebrew word atl, and indeed its variations, can also mean 'elevated'...
Since we know that Mount Atlas was deemed to be the petrified Titan supporting the heavens on his shoulders, Atlas' name is therefore intrinsically linked with his action of having elevated or raised up these misty heights. Clearly, then, this connection strongly suggests that the name Atlas does not derive from the Indo-European language of the Greeks but from the Punic language of the Carthaginians - furthermore, that the word root atl does not mean 'to bear' but 'to elevate' or 'to raise'... If this was the case, it tells us that, as a noun, Atlas, and indeed ATLA, might well translate as 'the elevator', 'the exalter', or indeed 'the exalted one'. (Andrew Collins, Gateway to Atlantis, p.200)
This is highly significant in our current context as the Atlas-Venus-elevator combination is exactly what was part of our decoding of CERN's LHC, as I noted in my article CERN's Orion Stargate (Oct 8, 2015):
- The LHC experiment installation ATLAS is right at the contact point of the SPS and LCH loops (which are geometrically tangent circles)
- The SPS's center pinpoints Venus at its ascending node (i.e. where Venus crosses the ecliptic plane northward)
- "Ascending" can imply "elevating/elevator"
Venus will be right there on June 6-7, 2016 - Prince's birthday - precisely at the time of its heliocentric alignment with Earth (superior conjunction)!
In addition to his birthday being a key clue, Prince from 1993 through 2000 was known as "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince" identified only with what came to be known as the " Love Symbol". Venus is the goddess of love and Prince's Love Symbol is based on the astrological Venus symbol.
Not only that, Kylie Minogue (= Aphrodite/Venus) revealed shortly after Prince's death via Instagram that she and Prince recorded an (as yet unreleased) "secret song" together back in the '90s:
The Devil is whispering...
To be continued.
[End of "Prince of Darkness - Part 1"]
So those are some of the more visually engaging clues pertaining to the upcoming window of late May-early June 2016. Let me go ahead and introduce one more big piece of the puzzle. This one ominously having to do with... "Deep Impact".
 
NASA's Deep Impact mission was all about smacking a comet near the orbital path of Mars and it was successfully accomplished on July 4th, 2005. As shown below, Comet Tempel-1 "kisses" Mars' orbit (i.e. tangent), and it was right there that the comet's encounter with Deep Impact took place, almost exactly where the two orbital paths converge. In this way the mission was implicitly a "Martian Deep Impact".
...right at the time of the dramatic Chilean mine rescue on October 9-13, 2010, (yet another event/clue from 2010 - aka "The Year We Make Contact"), featuring a lot of inverted pentagrams...
  [Kylie Minogue is from Down Under (Australia) or "Underworld"]
...and an elevator!
 
It was named Fenix/Phoenix...
...resonating again with Mars via NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander (2008):
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It will be fascinating to see what happens. Will it be subtle, as per "the devil's in the details", or a bona-fide "Deep Impact" event? We'll find out soon enough. There are other significant windows coming up later this year, notably one around early August. We've already looked into that one extensively on STRUG and it looks a bit... earthshaking, geologically, financially, etc. But we still got time before that.So that's enough for now. Let's get ready for the "hidden form"...
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Blackstar Shockwave
David Bowie, Super Bowl & Gravitational Waves
By Goro Adachi
February 10, 2016
On February 11, LIGO - the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory - is expected to announce at the National Press Club in Washington DC they have detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Some call it the most important breakthrough in modern science.
As expected, such a major novelty comes with intense multicontextual (i.e. symbolic/synchronistic) "whispers". In this article I'd like to quickly point out how this scientific discovery interacts with and was foreshadowed by the passing of David Bowie (Jan 10) and the Super Bowl (Feb 07).
    
Though a lot has already been said about the heavy symbolism of David Bowie's passing accompanied by his new song/video & album, Blackstar...
...no one seem to have paid attention to the typical depiction of gravitational distortion on the cover of the Blackstar single (song):
Per Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, massive objects like planets and stars warp the fabric of spacetime around it, producing an invisible pull called "gravity".
Gravity was discovered by Isaac Newton supposedly when he saw an apple fall from a tree...
...resonating with Super Bowl 50:
- A black star quarterback named "Newton" took a big fall
UPDATES:
- The Black Panther Party's founder/original leader was named Newton (Huey P. Newton)
- David Bowie in the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth played the main character named Thomas Jerome Newton
- Bowie's Blackstar (song) was used as opening music for the television series The Last Panthers directed by Johan Renck who also directed the music video for Blackstar. [h/t reader Szabolcs]
Gravity (Newton/apple) and black star(s)...
  [Left: Blackstar single cover | Right: Blackstar album cover]
Notice the "black star" creating a "gravity well" is invisible in the Blackstar single cover art... a la Planet X or more pertinently here a black hole. 1. Planet XStrong evidence for the existence of Planet X or "Planet Nine" was announced on January 20th, 2016, mere 10 days after the passing of David Bowie and 12 days after the release of his new album Blackstar.
The scientists did not see the planet. Instead, they inferred its existence from examining the peculiar clustering of six previously known objects that orbit beyond Neptune, theorizing that the clustering has been caused by the gravitational pull of the hidden giant, Planet Nine/X. An invisible planet - a "black star" - leaving behind only gravitation effects. 2. Black HoleBlack holes, by definition, are invisible. They are "black" because not even light can escape their extreme gravity. Not surprisingly "black star" or "dark star" is a scientific term for what is essentially a black hole, i.e. a star whose gravity is strong enough to trap light.
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It is in this context that we are seeing this announcement about gravitational waves from colliding black holes, 4 days after Super Bowl 50.
Astronomers may finally have found elusive gravitational waves, the mysterious ripples in the fabric of spacetime whose existence was first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916, in his famous theory of general relativity.
Scientists are holding a news conference Thursday (Feb. 11) at 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT) at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to discuss the search for gravitational waves, which zoom through space at the speed of light. [...]
...LIGO has detected gravitational waves produced by the merger of two black holes. The discovery will be published Thursday in the prestigious journal Nature...
We may even have seen a simulation of colliding black holes at the Super Bowl (halftime)...
Two "black forces" did collide in the form of Beyonce (and her all-female, all-black dancers dressed in black) and Bruno Mars (and his all-male, all-black dancers dressed in black) aggressively walking toward each other from opposite sides of the stage for a dance-off... where a black hole-like vortex ignited and released energy ("gravitational waves").
Planet X/Nine, gravitational waves, perhaps to be followed by a confirmation of CERN's possible LHC discovery announced back in December potentially having to do with dark matter, hidden dimensions, and/or... graviton. Also the issue of the blinking star/alien megastructure but that's for another time...
Hello from the other side... Seems we are entering a period of dark and heavy stuff coming out of the "Underworld". Are you ready?
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UPDATE - Feb 11, 2016
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