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For eleven years, Steve owns an Old English Sheepdog which he calls Beethoven, (wav file embedded in page) much to everyone's derision;- "You can't call a dog that!" is the standard reaction but the dog accompanies him to recording studios and film sets all over the UK on guitar-fixing trips and is well-known to many rock stars, producers and publishers. It is not for several years that the film "Beethoven" is made... "You can't call a dog that!"... The dog is around music and hears guitars being tuned most days and definitely has a strong sense of rhythm. Example:- this barking was real-time and live on the original tape version:- wav file in media player(1980) |
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The "String" idea is Born:- In 1980 Steve goes for a holiday on Crete and his imagination is captivated by the ancient remains of the Minoan civilzation, at Knossos in particular. It is the first time he's seen any massive and ancient stone edifices up close (except for Stonehenge, of course). The legend of Thesius and the Minotaur and the rescue / escape by use of Ariadne's famous string spark a completely new turn of direction in his ponderings on gravity synthesis and rock cutting...
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Of the many images there that influence him, four figure more than any others... Such very specific images!. For "snake", read "sparks" - controlled plasma!
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the "double-axe"
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The Minoan "Shield"
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The "Snake Godess"
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The "Bull's horns" (click picture)
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The "shield" looks more like an electric plasma field surrounding a vibrating string to Steve and he starts to put two and two together. "Daedalus revealed the secret of the labyrinth only to Ariadne, daughter of Minos, and she aided her lover, the Athenian hero Theseus, to slay the monster and escape by use of a piece of string. In anger at the escape, Minos imprisoned Daedalus and his son Icarus in the labyrinth. Although the prisoners could not find the exit, Daedalus made wax wings so that they could both fly out of the maze. Icarus, however, flew too near the sun; his wings melted, and he fell into the sea." |
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Looking
at it logically and open-mindedly, it seems that these people could
cut rock and fly it around with ease - which meant that since there
are no "runways" (see
"Plains of Nazca" link) around for winged craft, they had
(obviously temporarily) control over gravity - and whatever gave them
that power had been bequeathed to them and had eventually run out.
High tech manufacturing was not theirs to command, so they were unable
to replenish supplies. String?
Also, if one has a machine
that defines the localised direction of gravity
then it's probably true that one could hang upside
down from it (?).
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~ and String, he realises, figures large in many ancient legends. The snake eats its own tail, The Gordian Knot etc., Hmmm...
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"From my very meagre knowledge of Particle Physics and the on-going quest for cheap energy derived from torus-like plasma containment devices like the Tokomak, I knew that because of the elastic & springy nature of the plasma, scientists find it very difficult to maintain its central position within the vacuum chamber. It has occurred to me that, rather as the rifling of a gun barrel induces stability to the projectile by making it spin, if the "spark" (plasma) could be made to spin then the same kind of stability might be achieved. This would be too difficult in a torus but how about inside a music string?"
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(a miniature particle accelerator), will fit together and has
finished his drawings and filed a provisional patent. Only a music string mechanic
could have seen the connection but here begins a long string
of rejections and ridicule. Typically for the lone inventor, nobody will
take his hypothesis seriously; he has no official qualifications and cannot
afford to even begin to build a prototype. He just knows it's the only
possible design that will explain most of the ancient mysteries, including how
the Pyramids were really built...
