The Glass of Silent Time

This is a video about fractal Skrying otherwise known as crystal ball gazing. The term Skrying comes from the old English word descry meaning to see or to observe. Skrying has come to be associated with clairvoyance. Originally, however, crystal balls were used as an aid to enhance vision. I really wanted to use Fractal Skrying as the title of my video but since only one out of one thousand knows what it means, I would have been guaranteeing my own anonymity.
Crystal balls work because of a property known as the index of refraction The index of refraction is a measure of how much the speed of light is reduced as it passes through a medium such as crystal, diamond, emerald, etc. It is unique for each substance and has historically been used (by me for example) as a tool in analytical chemistry. This video is called The Glass of Silent Time because (1) I think it sounds cool, and (2) Since light speed and time are inextricably linked, crystal balls or a glass full of water for that matter, silently reduce time, hence the title. The vast number of truly monumental events that occur in our immediate environment without our conscious awareness is of and by itself a clear expression of the divine nature of the cosmos. We do not need metaphysical explanations; the physical ones are sufficiently miraculous unto themselves.

Crystal has an index of refraction of 2.0. The crystal ball I use in my video, however, is a magical one because I can vary the index of refraction to view the exact place and magnification I choose. This has a specific advantage over the conventional zoom function because it enables simultaneous viewing of the base fractal plus the skryed region. In this way, a viewer can see that the enhanced region really is present in the fractal being viewed ... / abysimus on Youtube /