The Times of Our Lives Transits

In this chapter, I focus on the slower-moving planets, beginning with Mars and ending with Pluto. I consider the conjunctions and oppositions that those planets make to your natal chart. And I try, as best I can, to highlight the possibilities that they open up for you. Transits don t change your natal chart. 

Like it or not, your birth chart is eternal. But they can help you achieve the potential contained within your horoscope. And that, as they say, is priceless. 

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Strassman speculates that DMT, released by the pineal after death, could diffuse to nearby brain areas, allowing the soul to transit. His hypothesis is that the pineal gland produces psychedelic amounts of DMT at extraordinary times in our lives and at death. As we die, our life force leaves the body through the pineal gland, which releases a flood of DMT. Pineal DMT may be produced for a few hours even after we are dead, which could affect any lingering consciousness. The pineal gland is close to the brain s visual, auditory, and emotional centers and thus would be strategically positioned to alter our inner experiences. 

The compound nucleus is a relatively long-lived reaction intermediate that is the result of a complicated set of two-body interactions in which the energy of the projectile is distributed among all the nucleons of the composite system. How long does the compound nucleus live From our definition above, we can say the compound nucleus must live for at least several times the time it would take a nucleon to traverse the nucleus (10-22 s). Thus, the time scale of compound nuclear reactions is of the order of 10 18-10 16 s. Lifetimes as long as 10-14 s have been observed. These relatively long times should be compared to the typical time scale of a direct reaction that takes place in one transit of the nucleus of 10-22 s. 

If the coupling is zero, the bound states will live forever. However, immediately after we have switched on the coupling they start to decay as a consequence of transitions to the continuum states until they are completely depopulated. Our goal is to derive explicit expressions for the depletion of the bound states l iz) and the filling of the continuum states 2(E,0)). The method we use is time-dependent perturbation theory in the same spirit as outlined in Section 2.1, with one important extension. In Section 2.1 we explicitly assumed that the perturbation is sufficiently weak and also sufficiently short to ensure that the population of the initial state remains practically unity for all times (first-order perturbation theory). In this section we want to describe the decay process until the initial state is completely depleted and therefore we must necessarily go beyond the first-order treatment. The subsequent derivation closely follows the detailed presentation of Cohen-Tannoudji, Diu, and Laloe (1977 ch.XIII). 

With a similar setup as used by Ippen et al. for pump-probe experiments, except for an intensity stabilizer in both beams, we performed experiments on the electronic origin at 6027 A and vibronic transitions at 5933 and 5767 A. The results of these experiments are shown in Fig. 22. Except for minor details, the transient on the purely electronic transition is in agreement with our expectation that the singlet excited state is long lived (19.5 ns) on a picosecond time scale. The transient on the 261 cm vibration confirms what was already known from the optical absorption spectrum, namely, that it is very short lived. From the near Lorentzian lineshape at low temperature we calculate a 3.3 ps relaxation time in... 

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