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Bed Bug Bed Protector Prototype

I have recently posted some stories on the emerging plague of pesticide resistant bed bugs and on my own battle with an invasion of bed bugs.

I have been struggling to isolate my bed, and I have found that mosquito netting is inadequate protection from bed bugs, since bed bug nymphs, when they hatch from eggs, are so small at this stage of growth that they are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can slip through mosquito netting. As well, bed bugs have a kind of homing radar that targets human beings, and also a means of detecting when humans are in the deepest stage of REM sleep, which is when they prefer to strike. They are extremely persistent creatures, and they have adapted to the strategy of isolating a bed, by climbing walls, walking over the roof, and then when they are directly over head their host, they release their grip and parachute down onto the bed. No bed bug defense strategy is complete therefore without protecting oneself from these attacks from above, for when a bed bug finds the bed posts are blockaded it will launch an attack from the roof.

Since mosquito netting is inadequate as a form of protection I have been sleeping peacefully and bed bug free in my tent which I have pitched on the living room floor. The tent has ‘no-see-um- netting' on the roof, which is then covered with a tarp to allow ventilation and since even no-see- um netting has a mesh size that is visible to the naked eye, it was necessary for me to block off the roof of my tent before I could take refuse from those bed bugs in my tent and get some sleep without being bitten by bed bugs. This strategy worked and it then occurred to me that the finest netting has a mesh that is like the no-see-um netting on my tent, which is inadequate as a barrier to the smaller stages of bed bugs, and I then became sunk into despair that I would ever be able to sleep in my bed again, and I had a vision of myself camped out in a tent on my living room floor from that day forward. I then imagined myself pitching my tent on my bed, which seemed like a stupid idea, and then suddenly I had a brainstorm. Since no-see-um netting is inadequate, what I needed was cloth which would then be used to construct a tent like barrier on my bed, which would be the final piece of the puzzle and allow me to take back ownership of my bed from those invading bed bugs.

I then realized that I already have everything I need to complete this task. I have photographic light stands that can serve as ‘tent poles'. I have a large sheet that can serve as a tent. What I plan to do is to improvise a solution using material at hand. I will go around the bottom of the tent structure where it attaches to the mattress numerous times with tape to hold it in place. I will cut open a doorway which I will seal shut with duct tape. It has also occurred to me that such a strategy might even make isolating the bed posts redundant, since if a bed bug climbed the posts it would be foiled by the bed bug tent bed protector. Even so I still plant to isolate my bed posts, since I intend to make life impossible for bed bugs and thus make life possible for myself once again, something that has not been possible ever since I discovered those bed bugs and have been fighting to reclaim my space from those invading bugs ever since.

This is a great idea, and it will work, and I am surprised I did not think of it before. I have been safe in my tent, and now I am going to reclaim my bed.

I have noticed that there are people who go to ‘arts and crafts fairs' where they sell home made goods and crafts. It has occurred to me that such a bed bug tent cover would be an excellent micro-business idea for someone with arts and crafts skills, and also an environmentally friendly bed bug elimination and management strategy. When blood sucking ecto-parasites lose their host, they are forced to wander in search of a new host, which is why bed bugs have adapted to be able to live up to one and half years without a host, thus giving them time to wander in search of a new host. Sleeping ‘tight', and not letting the bed bugs bite is therefore an optional method of getting rid of bed bugs as opposed to spraying bed bugs, which is no longer working, because bed bugs are now developing a powerful pesticide resistance.

I would like to declare this idea to be released in the form of an ‘open source patent'. There are ‘open source' software licences and so I do not see any reason why there cannot also be ‘open source patents', which means, you see, that I am ‘patenting' this idea, to prevent anyone else from doing so, and declaring the patent to be open, so that anyone can start a small micro-business catering to the emerging market for solutions to the emerging plague of bed bugs. If you read the bed bug blogs you will find that people are getting bit over and over again by bed bugs, while screaming for DDT to stop the bed bugs, as though there was no other way to stop a bed bug from biting, which means that there is a definitely an opportunity to expand the reach of those arts and craft markets beyond the usual strawberry jams and wicker baskets and so forth, by marketing an easy to use bed bug prevention tool that no bed bug can overcome.

The attached drawing shows my sketch of such a device. A very tight elastic band of some sort attaches the tent structure to the mattress. This must be a tight fit, because remember these are bed bugs we are fighting, and they can sneak through the tiniest cracks. One possible idea for a tent pole assembly would be a paddle which slips between the mattress and box spring, and has a hook which then catches rings which are attached to the cloth tent structure to give it support over the bed. Velcro is used to seal shut the entrance of the tent structure. Where-ever there are seams or stitching, it might be a good idea to seal the seams with some kind of ‘rubber' like material, since bed bug nymphs might be able to penetrate the holes left by sewing needles, since they are almost microscopic in size. I would also recommend wrapping the box spring and mattress to prevent bed bugs from by passing the blockade of the tent by exploiting any little rips and tears in the box spring or mattress which would then defeat the effectiveness of the tenting structure. If bed bugs are present, there is the possibility of contamination by bed bug eggs or nymphs after wrapping is completed, which can be eliminated mechanically by thoroughly vacuuming the wrapped mattress and box spring before attaching the bed bug tent, thus effectively excluding bed bugs and their invisible nymphs from the bed by ensuring that none are present within the area being protected by the protective tent.

For those of you with the appropriate skills, this product would make an excellent craft to be selling at those market fairs that happen from time to time, and with a bed bug plague on and people being so damned helpless, being held prisoner and tortured by a ruthless bug, there is definitely going to be a market for this product. It is an elegant solution to the bed bug problem, and it will work. It will both prevent the bed bugs from biting, and it will also eventually get rid of the bed bugs without using chemicals, because bed bugs have no known resistance to starvation, and they will move out. I feel a moral responsibility to my neighbor, since I am kicking the bed bugs out of my place, and they will of course head for the neighbor's place, and therefore I feel that I have fulfilled my responsibility to my neighbor by making this invention ‘open source' thus making it possible for my neighbor to not get bed bugs if they decide not to get bed bugs by giving them an alternative to that other business of getting bit every night and then screaming for DDT because they are helpless when attacked by some bug.

I also feel a moral responsibility to the bed bug species, and my strategy here would be to force those bed bugs to adapt not by faking their own extinction but rather by not being bed bugs anymore but rather by adapting by becoming a different type of bug. The choice they face is either extinction or further adaptation, and since being a bed bug is not going to work out for them, and since bed bugs are amazing creatures who refuse to go extinct and are constantly adapting I am confident that when put under enough pressure bed bugs can adapt by not being bed bugs anymore. For example, they could become ‘garbage bugs' and make their living by sneaking into everyone's garbage can in the dead of net. I would even leave the lid open on the garbage can for them, or better yet, I would leave a small dent in the lid so the bed bug can be real sneaky and slip through that dent and eat my garbage, and feel like it pulled off a sneak attack. Bed bugs can even be really stubborn about that new strategy by being garbage bugs that no one can get rid of no matter how many times they spray the place, thus being worse than cockroaches, which can still be exterminated, and that will be fine. Or better yet, bed bugs can eat garbage or perhaps flakes of skin, while still retaining their ability to suck blood, so that if someone tries to get rid of them by buying a tightly sealed garbage can the bed bug can then start sucking their blood instead.

You see, I have come to admire those persistent little pests, and I do not want to destroy them, but rather I want them to continue to evolve and adapt, only this time not to become sneakier blood sucking insects, but rather some other kind of bug. Given how ambitious and how fiercely determined a bed bug is I am quite sure that they can do it if they are pushed hard enough, since the alternative for them will be to go extinct.

If there is one bug that will never go extinct I am sure it is those amazing bed bugs, and I feel a moral responsibility to force those bed bugs to adapt, and faking their own extinction so they can be more sneaky is just not an option. For you see, it takes two to tango and I refuse to dance with some blood sucking bug, and the sooner the bed bug species gets that message the better it will be for them in the long run.

Bed bugs are notorious hitchhikers, and to preserve the sanctity of a bed bug free bed tent you should avoid carrying any small bed bugs into the sanctuary on clothing. I am adopting the strategy of a shower before entering the sanctuary to make damn sure they don't hitch a ride into that bed tent. Be d bugs are incredibly persistent and you must be an extremist to deal with such determined bugs.

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A Unified Field Theory

The Unified Field Theory
is also available as a zip file -> unified.zip

Introduction :The Pioneer Effect and the New Physics. A brief description of the new physics required to explain the 'Pioneer Effect', which is the constant deceleration of space craft as they fly through space.

Principles of Evolution: A Study in the Evolution of Bedbugs

A couple of years ago my bedroom was invaded by bedbugs. There were two variant genetic lines. One type of bedbug was an enlongated, thin, tubular insect, and the second genetic line was a flat, perfectly circular insect. The result of the cross breeding of these two genetically distinct variants was the production of a bedbug with charcteristics of both, an enlongated, flat bedbug with a central bulge (such that the shape of the bedbug was somewhere between 'long' and 'circular'). The long skinny bedbugs were such strange and unfamiliar looking insects that at first I did not recognize them as being bedbugs, and considered them to be a seperate species of insect. However, as the photographs of bedbugs above indicate, enlongated and skinny bedbugs are not uncommon, and the photographs also show the variants that are produced by genetic combinations that result in an insect somewhere in between 'circular' and 'enlongated'.

Therefore it is my hypothesis that evolution occurs by means of the transfer of dominate genes, with the production of such dominant genes being the product of 'biological algorithms', a genetic software program that brings physical characteristics into harmony with behavior, such that when behavior changes, and a conflict then exists, this acts as a trigger and causes the release of dominant genes. The result is rapid evolution of species. The bedbug is a relatively new insect, not the product of millions of years of evolution but rather an insect that is evolving in real time. The newly emerging dominant form of the insect is the flat, round ciruclar insect, well adapted to living in human bedrooms (it is flat, rather than tubular, thus allowing it to hide in the smallest cracks, living a stealthy lifestyle, and it is round, which gives the insect a maximum storage capacity such that it must endanger itself only a few times a month by emerging to feed.

Other examples of rapid evolution include the development of long legs in an invasive species of toad in Australia. As the toads move into the mountainous regions of Australia, and their behvaior changes, making them 'climbing toads', over the course of just a couple of decades the toads in the highlands have grown long legs specially adapted to climbing. It is worth noting here that the toads are poisonous, and are a successful invasive species because they have no natural predators in Australia, and so it would not be the case that the toads with long legs were 'the fittest survivors', because all the toads are survivors, and therefore predation does not explain the rapid emergence and spread of such well adapted, long legged toads. Once again we see evidence for the existence of biological algorithms and the rapid spread of dominant genes through a population, which once introduced proceed to overwhelm the older genes which are being replaced (making toad long legged and a bed bug round and flat).

A Theological Experiment

My interest in pursuing the Unified Field Theory is spurred on by my need to discover the theoretical explanation of a new form of propulsion (as explained on this page: Why the Unified Field Theory?). The experiment involving the bedbugs came out of nowhere.

I also believe that it is possible to justify theological propositions using experimental methods. If a thing is an objective truth then it can be verified and proven true by means of experimentation. Such a theological proposition is of more value than a ‘divine revelation’, since such revelations depend upon nothing more than establishing authority figures which requires the creation of artificial hierarchies, for the only reason why I might be encouraged to believe an authority figure who orders me to believe unsubstantiated opinions is if I could somehow be convinced that this authority possessed a mind that was somehow superior to mine, and thus was fit to express opinions as though opinions were unquestionable facts and thus worthy of being elevated to the status of absolute dogma.

There is a self evident human inequality which is visibly apparent. Some people are ‘beautiful’ and thus are the true elite on this planet, and some people are not. It is this sexual inequality and the degeneration that follows upon beauty that is the true driving force behind all the evil that happens on earth. The need for ruthless oppression and the pursuit of wealth and the consequent creation of suffering and poverty which must follow upon this practice is for the purpose of creating an artificial alpha elite.

The true elites are the young and the beautiful. The artificial elite are the rich and the wealthy. The elite aging rich artificial alpha male has no good looks, for he is physically degenerate, but he will be found escorting beauty because he has a beautiful wallet. If he loses his wallet he will be found at home with all the other unattractive aged beta males sitting in a rocking chair watching reruns of Bonanza. No money, no sex. It is for this reason that the alpha males are found to be so ruthless and so violent in pursuit of their goal. The alpha male has fallen. The beta male has arisen and now the whole planet is full of ruinous destruction for it.

We see in religion a confused and contradictory reaction to this reality. On the one hand religion preaches a sexless heaven where castration and the clitorectomy create ‘pure spirits’. Muslims throw women under sacks. On the other hand religion supports hierarchy and is the prop of the elite alpha male. It is for this reason that religion is incoherent when it comes to speaking about sex.

Now we see this same principle at work in all of nature. Guppies dance and show off their colorful tails and the guppy who dances with the most colorful tail is the sexually successful guppy. Therefore it is the doctrine of the ruthless oppressor which teaches that the solution to human sexual violence is to be found in castration and the creation of pure ghosts. This would be equivalent to damning an aardvark for having the ‘sinful aardvark nature’ or prosecuting an anteater for the high crime of ‘ant genocide’.

Therefore it was my theological hypothesis that the correct solution to this problem is to give every guppy a beautiful colorful tail. I compare this solution to the classic religious solution which is to cut off every tail since having a tail is ‘sinful’. If having a tail is sinful then God must be sinful for no human being has any choice in deciding whether or not they would be born with a colorful tail, or whether they would not.

When I was young I was a beautiful guppy with a lovely tail. So everyone seemed to think. I am older now. My nose became very badly sunburned and destroyed. It seemed good to me to test my hypothesis by using these ‘biological algorithms’ to correct this problem. I healed half my nose as you can see by the line separating the still very dark patch on the side in the photograph below.

I documented my experiment on these pages. one two t hree four fi ve six

I have confirmed to my own satisfaction that my theological proposition is correct and that religious dogma is erroneous, being based as it was upon nothing more than ‘divine revelation’ which is just a form of opinionated speculation. For the time being I am not continuing this experiment, for I must wait until the weather on this planet improves, and the dark clouds of ruthless oppression break letting a little sun shine come through so that I can show the world the truth about God, by showing people how God goes about giving an old guppy back his beautiful colorful tail.

Until then I will have to sit on the sidelines, while all my scientific breakthroughs are deliberately ignored, while I wonder to myself what ever in the world could be wrong with the human race, because what this all will prove at the end of it all is that there definitely was something wrong with the people on this planet.