DHS Study of Critical Infrastructure Risks from GPS Disruptions

I've blogged about how we are to reliant on GPS, for example see: Are we to reliant on GPS/GNSS? Royal Academy of Engineering says we are. Now the Department of Homeland Security is saying the same thing in the report:

National Protection and Programs Directorate Department of Homeland Security
National Risk Estimate: Risks to U.S. Critical Infrastructure from Global Positioning System Disruptions
The Office of Infrastructure Protection

Bottom Line: U.S. critical infrastructure sectors are increasingly at risk from a growing dependency on GPS for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services. Such dependencies are not always apparent

"Human skills for using manual techniques could erode due to lack of training and practice as GPS becomes more ubiquitous", means that just because we have calculators and computers does not mean we should not teach and learn to do math with paper and pencil, and how to use a sextant. Also few understand how the banking and stock market have become dependent on timing synchronized transactions, at the nano-second or better levels of accuracy and precision.

For more information visit, http://www.dhs.gov/criticalinfrastructure, today. The day-after-tomorrow may be to late. Space Weather is reporting that sunspot AR1748 may release more X-Class flares this week, this time directed toward Earth. See Geomagnetic Storms: An Evaluation of Risks and Risk Assessments, 2011.

See also, The National Infrastructure Advisory Council Final Report and Recommendations on the insider threat to critical infrastructures, 2008 and Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council 2012 annual update.

Faster than light travel due to lose connectors. Faster than light neutrinos.

Unless your Internet connection has been off or you have just returned from some interdimensional travel, you have probably seen the news about the velocity of Neutrino's exceeding the velocity of Light, Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam, which according to conventional physics is not possible. Followed by CERN et. al. succumbing to the Guardians of Status Quo saying "Oops, it was just a bad connector".

Really? People that are given billions of dollars don't have good connectors? What is wrong with this picture?

When you want to do super accurate time and distance measurements you start to have to worry about obscure things like the Sagnac Effect. While we rarely think about the Earth is a rotating body in space, it makes a difference if you are talking your Atomic Clock for a walk from East to West or West to East. I know the people at CERN are aware of this level of details, but not real world connectors? Something is very wrong here.

More details on the original, now discredited, experiment: Time transfer techniques for the synchronisation between CERN and LNGS, and CERN to Gran Sasso Time Transfer.

Poul-Henning Kamp [PHK Is the author of FreeBSD's 'Time Counter', wrote the following on the Time Nuts list:]:

There are three quantities involved here, and most of the [Media] coverage and quite a lot of physicists overlook that:

1. Speed of neutrinos

2. Speed of photons

3. Constant 'C' From relativity.

Until now the assumption have been that 2 = 3, but this is only an assumption, based on the fact that we had no measurements that said otherwise.

If 1 > 3, as most press-coverage seems to posit, because they forgot the above is an assumption, then both the standard model and relativity is in trouble.

If 3 >= 1 > 2, then only the standard model is in trouble, relativity unaffected.

Do quantum entanglement experiments with photons qualify? Einsteins "Spooky Action at a Distance".

Does any one remember Einstein's said about Aether, particularly his obscure speech Ether and the Theory of Relativity; October 27th, 1920, University of Leyden?

Why are we so quick to always want to cling to theories that appear to work, in only some cases, but not all? Is the establishment so afraid that if they started to consider other newer and much older theories like Dynamic Aether (which has 150 different names in every civilization for millenia) that we would soon have Free Energy and Anti-Gravity (or at least ways to reduce the mass of massive objects?).

As the book Faster Than Light: Superluminal Loopholes in Physics, by Nick Herbert, PH.D., tells us, Einstein's theory of special relativity does not rule out faster-than-light (FTL) travel.

A particle like the theoretical Tachyon will always be traveling at faster than the speed of light. By virtue of being born above the speed of light, they are free to travel on to infinite velocity. Their minimum bound is that of the speed of light.

When enough people reach the consensus that Anti-Gravity and Free Energy are not only possible, but here right now, reality itself will transform to match the new consenses...

Gravitational Reflections in Plain English and Cold Stone

The following introduction is from "Gravitational Reflections in Plain English and Cold Stones" by Pierre Charles of Sacramento, CA. It seems fitting to almost all of the information presented in these pages...

Introduction:

I hesitate to discuss the new physics with most of the population, not that I do not want people to know, but because of the built-in opposition from the population's academic training and the possible misuse of this recently rediscovered source of understanding and power. Following close behind is the possible impact on the economic and control systems over the masses.

We are all slaves to this closed system of things to a degree. For example, we now live in a world of great knowledge and power; unfortunately, it is misdirected, so to live in relative comfort we hold an 8 to 5 job, wear clothes, drive cars, eat food all brought to us by others, and live in a house built by others and usually owned by the bank. Net result: both partners must work away from the home to support it. Meanwhile, the government takes back [more than] 50% to support those who cannot or will not work, and, of course, maintain the existing framework. The children spend most of the day being trained by others to fit into the existing framework, etc., etc.

This bring us to the opposition from academic-trained people, most are copies of copies, 10th generation receivers of what is unquestioningly taught as the eternal truth. Most are so far removed from the original information and thoughts that they do not recognize it and they oppose with great tenacity anyone who dares to defy their implanted ideas. This information will also disturb the traditionally religious people; I don't need to expand on the dangers there...

The New Physics:

To Truly grasp the new physics we must keep two things present in our minds:

1) The New Physics is actually a retrieval of the old or ancient physics,

2) The ancient physics encompassed all things; therefore, you must look at all things, you must remove all academic barriers from your present, considerably large body of knowledge and merge this with the eastern and ancient thoughts. If you find yourself laughing or ridiculing, then you will not find the valuable thread of information that you need...

Little remains of the ancient physics but it can be found nevertheless - for it has been preserved, often by those who had little or no true knowledge of the symbols that they considered sacred..."

Earth's Temporal War Leaps to 2015, one Leap Second at a time

Back in August of 2011 I covered The current Temporal War on planet Earth. Which documented the factions that wanted to keep Leap Seconds as used today, and those that wanted to abolish Leap Seconds.

In our current methodology of keeping time, an extra second is inserted or removed in the Clock-On-The-Wall-Time to keep it in sync with the Look-Out-The-Window-At-The-Sun-Dial-Time (the distinction between Synodic, Solar, Sidereal, Stardates, UTC, UT1 and the myriad of other time scales would make for a much longer blog entry). Those against Leap Seconds say they are to hard to deal with over long spans of time where accuracy and precision are required. The people on the other side of the temporal war want to look out the window and have the clock-on-the-wall agree with what they see out the window. You see that if Leap Seconds are removed the two time scales drift apart. Someday High-Noon Wall-Clock-Time, would be the middle of the night Sun-Dial-Time.

This week the body that governs the time scales was set to vote on keeping or eliminating Leap Seconds. Seems there is no agreement on how to 'fix' the Leap Second 'problem' so the vote has been moved to 2015:

ITU Radiocommunication Assembly defers decision to eliminate the leap second

Geneva, 19 January 2012 – The ITU Radiocommunication Assembly has reached an important decision to defer the development of a continuous time standard in order to address the concerns of countries that use the current system of the leap second in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

The decision has been reached to ensure that all the technical options have been fully addressed in further studies related to the issue. These studies will involve further discussions within the ITU membership and with other organizations that have an interest in this matter and will be referred to the next Radiocommunication Assembly and World Radiocommunication Conference scheduled for 2015.

Adjustments made in one second steps, known as ‘leap seconds’, have been implemented since 1972 to compensate for variations in the speed of the earth’s rotation within the framework of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

UTC is defined by ITU’s Radiocommunication Sector and is maintained by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) in cooperation with the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS). Measurements from timing centres around the world are used in the determination of UTC, which is adjusted to within 0.9 seconds of Earth rotation time (UT1) by IERS-determined values of the Earth’s rotation.

The suppression of the leap second would make continuous time scale available for all the modern electronic navigation and computerized systems to operate with and eliminate the need for specialized ad hoc time systems. This however may have social and legal consequences when the accumulated difference between UT1 – Earth rotation time – would reach a perceivable level (2 to 3 minutes in 2100 and about 30 minutes in 2700).

ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré considered the decision taken by the Radiocommunication Assembly will ensure that all stakeholders have been adequately associated with a step which will clearly influence our future.

So we tick on with the Status Quo in our Embedded Systems...