I love it when wujo stories start to pile up in the inbox.  Assuming you know that “wujo” stories are more reliable than regular woo-woo stories, since they are gathered here from first-hand reports, rather than thrice-told-tales, I should explain that our fascination is with their existence related to how they may indicate yet-to-be-found new areas for Science to investigate.

I don’t know if you caught George Noory’s  Tuesday Coast-to-Coast AM show, but his guest included Vernon Neppe and Edward R. Close who talked about new work coming out of psychiatry and quantum physics that seem to point to a universal substrate of consciousness that permeates reality.  Close had a book out a while back called Transcendental Physics which will get you started.

Between them, Noory got them into a familiar topic around here:  Wondering whether we’re coming along to the end of the Reductionist path…which is where simple “if-then” science needs to start looking at larger frameworks of reality.

So with that as background/foreplay, we (eventually) get to this morning’s “case report” from reader Jane:

Hi George,

Had to share this, I wrote you late last year about a Wujo loss of time and place in central Indiana.  Well, I had another experience today, and have to share.  Last time, I had been at a statewide meeting in Indpls, and lost 2 hours of time during the last day of meetings.  Going home, the landmarks and scenery were WRONG, and when I questioned this, I turned my car around and found that the scenery was back to normal.  AND I know this part of the state (IN), have been here my whole life, and went to school at BSU in Muncie.  I now live about an hour and a half north of there, but continue to travel frequently to this part of the state for business.

Today, I had a meeting in Muncie, which went well, and when I left, the road I had traveled to get to the meeting, less than 3 hours earlier, was CLOSED.  Barricaded, with lots of heavy equipment onsite.  Weird.  The detour took me west, and I knew where I was, and there were a couple of other cars following the same path.  They all turned off into residential driveways, and then I was alone.  Suddenly, really, suddenly, I felt like I didn’t know where I was.  I have known this area for over 25 years!  Somehow, I drove into a small town named Cammack, and then almost made it to Yorktown, which was in the opposite direction that I was traveling!!! I called my office manager and said “help, I am LOST”  and she eventually found me on google maps, as I was giving her county road numbers and landmarks.  I ended up over 15 miles from where I should have been.  Absolutely no explanation for this.  None. Except for Wujo.  Totally unnerving!

Thanks for all you do, and for allowing me a chance to share. 

About the only thing missing from Jane’s report is whether she’d  taken statins or any of the other medications which can result in temporary global amnesia (TGA).  But this is not the only report like this one. 

Remember a year or two back the case of the fellow who parked his car in a parking garage, walked down several flights of stairs, opened the fire door from the stairwell, and emerged on the roof?

This kind of report reminds us that there may be some ‘wormhole-like’ occasions that (thanks to better communications) we can actual spot nowadays, and share/discuss, rather than simply denying that they happened and going on about Life, leaving important clues about what Neppe and Close call the C-substrate carefully buried.

CERN is nice for pushing the Reductionist limits a last bit, but it seems to me Neppe and Close are much more likely to kick in the doors of some really fundamental breakthroughs in science than just writing infinitely large checks…

WuJo 2:  The Case of the Self-Walking Shoes

Longtime reader D.O. has another wujo encounter to report…one that tweaks reality even more…

So here is one for the Wujo….

Monday night the wife’s brother surprised us and stopped in from an interview, he lives 5 hours away and it was nice to see him so we were a little distracted. In the meantime my 5 year old son was in the backyard playing in the rain flooded sandbox.  Beforehand he took off his sandals and left them on the ground.

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Kidnapping prevention, jail break plans, and coping with loose nukes is on the menu this morning.  With the increase in public concern about potential terrorist threats, I wanted to see how we stack up against new terrorist (terrs) tactics. This morning we’ll look in on the thinking of al Qaeda and what we Americans can do in response.  But we won’t do this until after a cup of coffee and some cogitation on the meaning of a new Army manual explaining new doctrine (principles) called  “monetary shaping operations….”  Say what?

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Also this morning:  Freebie Alert!  Gaye over at www.backdoorsurvival.com is giving away a Rocket Stove…so go sign up…odds are better the chance of you winning the big PowerBall!

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Sometime in the past week, or three (time blurs when laboring hours on the new website), I promised to tell you about my personal encounter with an LDE or long delayed echo.  The reason is that this is very special territory for the inquiring minds who want to know and it is very well-established by real science as being a replicable phenomena.

So what, exactly, is a “long delayed echo?”  A clip from Wikipedia in the interest of being concise because I could go on for hours about it:

“Long delayed echoes (LDEs) are radio echoes which return to the sender several seconds after a radio transmission has occurred. Delays of longer than 2.7 seconds are considered LDEs.^[1][2] LDEs have a number of proposed scientific origins.

These echoes were first observed in 1927 by civil engineer Jørgen Hals from his home near Oslo, Norway. Hals had repeatedly observed an unexpected second radio echo with a significant time delay after the primary radio echo ended. Unable to account for this strange phenomenon, he wrote a letter to Norwegian physicist Carl Størmer, explaining the event:

At the end of the summer of 1927 I repeatedly heard signals from the Dutch short-wave transmitting station PCJJ at Eindhoven. At the same time as I heard these I also heard echoes. I heard the usual echo which goes round the Earth with an interval of about 1/7 of a second as well as a weaker echo about three seconds after the principal echo had gone. When the principal signal was especially strong, I suppose the amplitude for the last echo three seconds later, lay between 1/10 and 1/20 of the principal signal in strength. From where this echo comes I cannot say for the present, I can only confirm that I really heard it.^[3]

Physicist Balthasar van der Pol^[4] helped Hals and Stormer investigate the echoes, but due to the sporadic nature of the echo events and variations in time-delay, did not find a suitable explanation.^[5]

Long delayed echoes have been heard sporadically from the first observations in 1927 and up to our time.”

My own LDE experience occurred in 1966, or thereabouts.  It was a weekend morning,and I was on the 20-meter band using my old Johnson Pacemaker SSB transmitter at 90-watts and my somewhat improved-upon NC-300 receiver.  I was on upper sideband, I was not running the amplifier, the antenna was multi-band inverted-vee at 40-feet (strung off the top of a piece of 4” irrigation pipe that another ham and I had carried on our shoulders 13-miles to get it to my house).  The season was fall or spring, since the band was just opening up, and it was sunny as I recall since sun was coming into my basement ham shack which would have placed the time about 10:00 to 11:30 AM because that was when the sun came in….our house was on a hill so the basement window only got about 2-hours of sun at best.

I was calling “CQ 20, CQ 20” which is radio-ese for “Looking for someone to talk to…

As I un-keyed the mic to listen for a returning station, you can imagine my shock when I heard….ME!  Except it was me delayed by 3.4 seconds, calculated from saying my then call sign and measuring the portion I’d heard on a digital sound rig much later in life. 

Significantly, the signal was dead-to-nuts on frequency and it was S-9 to 20 dB over S-9 so it was stronger than heck against a very low noise level (S-2 to S-3).

I didn’t learn about LDE’s until after I had aced my First Class Commercial ticket around that time frame, so thinking back on the issue date of that (December ‘66) I reckon this took place in the fall when I was a high school senior and a nerd’s nerd in things electronic. 

For the period right after the event, I was convinced it was someone simply recording my signal and playing it back with a tape recorder.  But when I heard a good chunk of myself asking “…are you playing with me?” come back, I realized that there was almost no chance that someone could record and retransmit my signal that quickly for technical timing reasons that would bore you to tears.

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One of your readers, Ken, has a pretty snazzy way of explaining how something as complicated as economics works:

“The story I used to describe how the economy works to my grandkids is this.. the economy is like a table with a puddle of water on it.. if you place a noodle on it..( money) and buying and selling is equal (the water) then you can push the noodle back and forth..

Now take a wet noodle..( printing more money) and put it on the table.. as long as there is plenty of water for the cooked noodle to float in you can push it back and forth .. a little bunching here and there but it will move.

Now the economy starts to dry up.. ( increase of fuel prices, reduction of home and car sales, loss of durable goods sales, etc.. and people start shifting their money to another avenue like from buying durable goods to buying fuel or food..( double insert here.. decrease the amount of money being allocated for food stamps..

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It’s not very often that we nail use-case and software development as accurately as this, but  a couple of weeks ago I wrote up for www.peoplenomics.com readers [SUBSCRIBE] how to develop a scoring algorithm for electronic surveillance of an entire country.

After you go here and read how “NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet‘ come back here and read how such systems, even using meta data, can pose a serious risk to personal freedom.

In the interest of wider public discussion, here’s the “How it could work” part of that Peoplenomics report from July 20th:

— Peoplenomics extract —

“Let me run through an example of how this can work.  As a practical matter, the first thing you’ll need will be a huge government data center. As luck would have it, exactly such a center is now under construction in Utah. In terms of what will feed into this megalithic computer empire, we already know that bank and credit card transaction information is likely to be there, metadata about cell phone calls and possibly landline communications as well.

As long as we’re at it, let’s also toss in a real-time feed from Google which can be traced back to your Internet protocol numerical address. That could give government keen insight into the kinds of websites we’re visiting, which in turn will reflect our personal tastes and philosophies of life.  Sexual peccadilloes, too, if any.

In the book I begin with the example of a John Doe who wakes up to the sound of a colleague from work calling him on the phone.

“Hello, this is John, who’s this?”

“Hi John, this is Abu and services in IT at the office, and I wanted to talk to you about your computer. You know, I have been working on it and I would like to have your permission to backup your hard drive over the Internet because you’ve apparently had a head crash at some point and you’re experiencing errors. Would that be okay with you John?”

“Well, sure Abu of course you can and thanks for calling. I have some pictures of my wife on their from her birthday party and I wouldn’t want those to get lost, but you guys in the IT department do what you need to do.  I’ll be in early on Monday in case anything needs attention that.

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Although I can fairly be accused of being something of a whiner about how the US economy is managed, I’m usually right more than 50% of the time in the end. And president Obama’s likely nomination of Larry Summers, if it happens, likely would improve my batting average even further. Nevertheless, I’ve come up with an idea this week which would – at a stroke – make congress, the White House, and the American people seem 50 IQ points smarter when it comes to money and economics overnight.  While you let that one roll around in the noggin, we’ll stop to smell the headlines and the coffee…Say, did I mention growth sucks?

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