To: Captain Jim,

Thank you for your comments. Your participation is greatly
appreciated. I would thus like to continue along these lines, and
respond a little to your post.

You Wrote:
That's an interesting premise... that astrology is linked to
tachyonics. Astrology is based on a sort of "action at a distance"
principle... the idea that stars and planets billions of miles away
can have an almost instantaneous effect on people and things on earth
in general. Maybe it isn't exactly instantaneous but just really,
really fast (ftl... like a tachyon). Its interesting to note that
action at a distance is the phrase that is also used to describe
Newtonian gravity. And gravity is also postulated to be the result
of tachyonic action.

My Response:
Actually, the concept of instantaneous action-at-a-distance for
gravity was not Newton's idea, and he disapproved of it.
It was the contention of another scientist named Cotes, whose
suggestion happened to become popular, and is still with us.
Newton himself believed in what you hinted; that gravity acts at a
distance, but not instantaneously (i.e., not with infinite speed).
He believed that there was indeed an agent of some kind, and that it
acts faster-than-light (though not infinitely so), yet he left the
question as to the true nature of this agent quite open to debate.
My thesis on gravity, which involves a special type of tachyon as the
gravitational-exchange particle, answers that question.
[ See "Tachyonic Gravity" at www.TachyonicsSociety.com ]

You Also Wrote:
As far as the idea of the seat of our emotions being tachyonic. I'm
not so sure. I think most of it is just simple biochemistry,
however, I'm not willing to rule out that some component of our
nervous system might be influenced by quantum effects. And quantum
effects are, again thought to be the result of tachyonic activity.
So while I don't see emotions as purely the result of tachyons, they
could very well be a factor in the workings of them but I think
acting on an even more basic level than emotions. They might be the
origin of our "soul". Which brings us back to the idea that the soul
works or exists in some "astral" plane. The connection of course is
the astral- part of astrology.

My Response:
Allow me to clarify. By suggesting that the "seat" of our emotions
is tachyonic, I do not rule out the biochemical factors, and agree
largely with what you said. Obviously, detectable external stimuli
will cause our emotions to change, but so will undetectable stimuli,
such as our thoughts.
When we hear an old song that brings up either happy or sad memories,
it can stir our emotions quite effectively. But what exactly is doing
the stirring?
I believe that our emotions, our mind, and our life-force are all
interrelated at the quantum level, just as you noted, but view them
as significantly different from each other.
The life-force, it seems to me, must be a tachyonic field that
permeates the entire universe, and our physical bodies are animated
by merely interacting with it.
Our minds also work because our physical brains interact with another
kind of tachyonic field, and our emotions have their field too.
In that sense, therefore, because tachyonic fields of any sort must
be represented as actual-imaginary fields, mathematically, then they
can logically be labeled as spiritual (astral) in nature. Hence the
connection to astrological influences from the planets and stars;
assuming, of course, that celestial objects emit tachyonic radiation
of different kinds, in addition to detectable forms of radiation,
such as photons constituting electric and magnetic fields; the quanta
of gravity alreacy assumed to be a special type of tachyon [although
there is evidence that photons themselves have tachyonic substructure
(are made of very small tachyons)].
Put more broadly, Tachyonics allows us to postulate a superluminal
foundation for the observable universe. That is, the ultimate
building-blocks for everything we know (whether you view such
constituents as string-like, as point-particles, or as something
else) are probably super-small tachyons. And, therefore, many of the
interaction energies assocaited with life, the universe, and
everything, in addition to detectable energies, will necessarily be
tachyonic in nature.