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    Outside The Box
    Outside The Box
    Outside The Box
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    Outside The Box

    By Geoff Musselbrook

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    This book is meant as a means of alternate thinking. As with all theoretical books, and ways of thought, there is always a certain amount of guesswork, hence theoretic. Most of this book is my way of thinking, but on occasions I may just give an alternative explanation, which I may not necessarily agree with, but I leave it up to you, the reader, to decide for yourself. There is very little, mathematics, or hard scientific formula within this book. It is meant for the layman, and written in layman’s words.

    When one looks at their surroundings one should look further than just the items themselves, and discover a whole universe just waiting to be explored.

    Theoretical book about the universe, God, Dimensions and everything else that gets one thinking "outside the box".
    This book is straight to the point with no puffing, there could be a book for every chapter. A very interesting read, with views and facts that really get you thinking, which is the whole idea of the book, to get the layman thinking about his surroundings and ask the questions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGeoff Musselbrook
    Release dateDec 1, 2012
    ISBN9781904741145
    Outside The Box
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    Geoff Musselbrook

    At the age of 0 I was born in Orpington, London, England. At the age of ten I had moved to the seaside, lost my Mother and lived in a hotel At the age of 20 I had an HNC a full time job and a house of my own (or the banks). At the age of 30 I had a PHD, my own business, a wife, two kids and a bigger house. At the age of 40 I had 10 employees, a wife, a bigger house and a fantastic life.

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      Outside The Box - Geoff Musselbrook

      OutSide the BOX

      Geoff.Musselbrook.

      Copyright Geoff Musselbrook 2012

      Published by ALCHEMIST at Smashwords

      OutSide the BOX

      By. G.Musselbrook.

      Published by ALCHEMIST

      ISBN 978-1-904741-14-5

      Outside the BOX.

      Preface:

      This book is meant as a means of alternate thinking. As with all theoretical books, and ways of thought, there is always a certain amount of guesswork, hence theoretic. Most of this book is my way of thinking, but on occasions I may just give an alternative explanation, which I may not necessarily agree with, but I leave it up to you, the reader, to decide for yourself. There is very little, mathematics, or hard scientific formula within this book. It is meant for the layman, and written in layman’s words.

      When one looks at their surroundings one should look further than just the items themselves, and discover a whole universe just waiting to be explored.

      Contents:

      Chapter

      1: The Magnificent Human Brain

      2: The Dimensions

      3: The beginning of everything

      4: Light and stuff

      5: Politics

      6: Having Tea with Aliens

      7: So who is this God person Anyway?

      Chapter 1

      The Magnificent Human Brain

      It is my belief that the human brain is one of the most wonderful machines ever created. I say machine because I believe that current computer systems follow a very similar model. Whether this is by construction of new machines based upon natural comparisons, or whether the complexities of brain power can only be created in one way, I do not know, but by using and understanding how the brain works you can manipulate it in very interesting ways.

      And when I say knowing how the brain works, I don’t mean the medical intricacies, I just mean; how it works!

      How do you remember the way home? Why do your eyes blink without you ever thinking about it? What is a dream? Your brain is in charge of all this and a lot more.

      The brain is the master of your whole body, and even your whole existence on this earth. It defines you, it runs the show; it never switches off, even when you're asleep. Not bad for a wrinkly grey sponge.

      So what makes up this marvellous machine and what is it actually doing, and what makes it what it is.

      The biggest part of your brain is the cerebrum. The cerebrum makes up 85% of the brain's weight. The cerebrum is the thinking part of the brain. It controls your muscles, you use it to solve problems, figure out video games, draw pictures etc. This would compare with the processor of a computer.

      But also some of your memory lives in the cerebrum, short term, medium term and long term memory. The cerebrum also helps you reason, think and decide. This would compare to DRAM memory, RAM memory and hard drive space in a computer.

      The cerebrum has two halves, with one on either side of the head. It is thought that the right half is for abstract things like music, shapes and colours. The left half is more for analysing, mathematics, and speech. Scientists do know for sure that the right half of the cerebrum controls the left side of your body, and the left half controls the right side.

      There are interesting human differences that can perhaps account for this left right divide. For example it is said that the Japanese way of speech is unlike any other form of language. This is because their whole language is made from short syllables. For this reason the opposite side of the brain is used for their language, the right half. Now as language is one of the most active parts of the brain, the Japanese people as a whole will lack the brain exercise from the left hand side, but will exercise the right hand side. This will make the Japanese people more attuned to art and music and less for mathematics and analysis. It is also said that the Japanese scientists who learn another language excel in their field. It might all be baloney, but it makes some sense to me.

      So what is the cerebrum actually doing?

      Well, firstly you need a central processor, a part that works things out, and processes things. Now in order to process things you need input. This is in the form of, eyes, ears and nerves. They are the keyboard and mouse. In order to be able to process all these inputs it is necessary to use various different types of memory. You need fast, quick access memory in order to process sight quickly enough to make any sense of it (Dram); this memory buffers the data before the processor can use it. The same goes with the hearing part. Also the processor needs a fast memory module to handle quick calculations, which it can use, then, forget and reuse the same memory. (RAM). It is said that people with a high IQ have a larger amount of this memory.

      There is a clever test that you can perform to test this part of the memory. Get someone to help with this experiment. Your helper must write down a series of three digit numbers on some cards. Try with two cards to start with. You helper reads out the two cards, 1, 3, 5, - 7, 3, 1. Now repeat the numbers back without looking at the cards, but you must do this straight away, after 30 seconds you will have forgotten it (for this experiment). Try some more numbers but do not repeat the same ones. If you can manage 12 numbers then very good, but now try this. When you replay the numbers, say them in reverse order. 12 numbers is very good.

      Other memory consists of short term, medium term and long term memory. The longer the term the slower it is. People, who have high IQs, are more likely to have more of the short term, fast memory as mentioned earlier. Whilst people like doctors and lawyers need to have more of the medium term memory, where access to large data, not necessarily quickly, is of preference.

      For those people the above experiment will require repeated access to the 12 numbers, but they recall them the next day.

      Athletes and people, who seem to be running at a different time scale to the rest of us, will have more input buffering memory. Whilst dancers will have more of the medium term memory, also known as muscle memory.

      Back to our makeup of the brain, next come the output, sound and motion. Speech, movement, and expression, all are examples of the brains output mechanism. You could equate this to the screen or printer of the computer.

      Now most of the above is handled by the cerebrum, but the part that buffers the muscles and the part that athletes need a more of is called the cerebellum. The cerebellum is at the back of the brain, below the cerebrum. It's a lot smaller than the cerebrum at only 1/8 of its size, but it's a very important part of the brain. Without it we would have no output, no printer if you like, it also controls some of the input as well.

      It controls balance, movement, and coordination. Because of your cerebellum, you can stand upright, keep your balance and move around.

      Another brain part that's small but most definitely needed is the brain stem. The brain stem sits beneath the cerebrum and is in front of the cerebellum. It’s kind of in the middle but

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