Don't Be Surprised if Zelensky Attacks Moscow May 9th

 Just so people won't be surprised that aren't following the war, Ukraine Martial Law President Zelensky is planning an attack on May the 9th to soil Russia's World War Two Victory parade on 9 May. President Trump could only suspend U.S. Intelligence and support to Ukraine to defrappe the likely attack.

President Trump apparently doesn't understand that Ukraine's war leader who has plans to bring women, young and old people (over 60) into battle readiness is simply playing him for time. He utilizes the 'how do you keep a Turkey in suspense comedic tactic'  to stall for time to let Europe and N.A.T.O. members have time to resupply Ukraine with weapons. 

Sweden for example is sending a pair of flying radar platforms and other jet fighters to let Ukraine coordinate better against Russia offensively and defensively. Zelensky already has U.S. supplied HIMARS and ATACMS that have ranges of a couple hundred miles more or less, Patriot missiles etc. Zelensky hopes to continue the war as long as possible and to bring the world to war if necessary to keep from needing to concede any land already lost to the Russian reconquista.

Zelensky has developed Neptune cruise missiles (a pagan name choice) that is launched from an advanced location might be able to close the 600 miles from Ukraine to Moscow. The Ukraine air force has F-16s that could launch Taurus KEPD 350 cruise missiles supplied by Germany or Sweden if they surreptitiously supplied Zelensky with several. Britain has said they would supply Ukraine with Storm Shadow missiles. Several weapons systems exist for F-16 that can travel more than 300 miles. So a jet flying low protected by Swedish radar might get close enough to launch a few ground hugging cruise missiles.

The question is how Russia would respond? They could nuke Kiev and Stockholm yet that probably isn't in the cards to play yet. Zelensky hopes to provoke Russia into retaliating in a way that will invoke a N.A.T.O. treaty response including that of the United States. That is why I wrote this post; so a few people would be aware of the lunacy of the European Ukraine war situation and to be squared away in case civilization ends after a global nuclear conflict May 9th-12th.

So long as President Trump support Ukraine militarily in any way Mr. Zelensky and European N.A.T.O. members will continue to press forward. The obvious realistic way to end the war is for the U.S. to quit supplying anything military to Ukraine, to stop negotiating with Ukraine, and let the war play out. President Trump could let it be known that he would resume a negotiating role if Ukraine agrees to several stipulations that Russia would be happy to accept, and then a cease fire could be implemented. It only takes one bad judgment or mistake to cascade World War Three into blossoming. One of the bold new N.A.T.O. members leaping to sustain and elevate the conflict militarily- like Sweden, or even old members like England liking the power of driving the Russians back farther east and using the U.S. in a Master-Blaster way to further British interests, could misunderestimate its position and Russian response and spark the fire of nuclear holocaust. Russian might tend toward overestimating the U.S. and N.A.T.O. response to a decision it makes to retailiate against some N.A.T.O. member for sending missiles to punish a weapons and intelligence supplier because if N.A.T.O. gets involved that does mean nuclear war. N.A.T.O. seems badly structured for preventing nuclear war. It was better at fighting some NAZI-style invasion without facing an adversary loaded with nuclear weapons. It is not surprising that the Cold War 1.0 ended peacefully since there was no rational alternative. Modern N.A.T.O. swells forgot the lessons of history that allowed the survival of global civilization.

President Trump did get a minor official under Zelensky to sign off on a Ukrainian minerals deal. Yet that could be fools gold since the U.S. probably would be required to defend the mines as Russia is on the verge of capturing them-especially around the City of Pokrovsk. So Zelensky played Trump into supporting him militarily in exchange for a mess of pottage in effect, since the mines were to be lost anyway. The contract says that the United Stated could get some money after ten years and if the Ukraine Congress approves it, maybe.

The Brits are spinning the deal as a move for peace. In other words it puts the U.S. in a position of being on the front line of a war to defend financial interests. It was maladroit timing. If that works out positively I will be quite surprised.  Ukraine announced victory in the battle for Pokrovsk several hours ago. That must be because the U.S. decided to get involved there. In fact the Russians are closing in around Pokrovsk forming a giant, methodical effective encirclement starting with advancing closer and cutting off supply roads etc.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-minerals-deal-ukraine-russia-b2742685.html

The minerals deal should never have occurred because it is one of those escalations of a conflict through the greed of a third party. Perhaps President Trump becomes myopic when money is concerned. Of course it would be good if Ukraine could repay the hundreds of billions it got from U.S. to support its war with Russia. The war though is more than about money or even land; it is about Europe's will to have power and hegemony over Eurasia and it could well reach the point of the final war of civilization. There is no clever deal that will solve the problem.

Black Hole Information Loss Paradox Solved?

 Physics is always changing, as Heraclitus might have observed, in contrast to Parmenides who said nothing changes. Of course equations made on the foundation of GR may be wrong if GR and that space-time paradigm turns out to be wrong as some physicists speculate. I don't believe that black holes have ever been observed to evaporate to nothing yet since it takes several trillion years approximately. Thus in effect a mathematically consistent account in a particular paradigm has been found to work, yet it is nonetheless just a theory.

 Einstein was brilliant man of his era. It seems to many that there definitely is a lot more to the Universe than GR and the unified space-time paradigm. A deeper account is going to be found. Of course there are many candidates for that already that also seem less than decisive and final. Some believe black holes are connected via quantum tunneling to white holes, and if that is so then any information going to another universe or place would be lost in the present Universe of origin and instead end up someplace else- perhaps in offshore accounts in the Cayman Island Galaxy.

https://www.sciencealert.com/gravity-may-be-a-clue-that-the-universe-is-a-giant-computer

As I understand it there is no real wave function collapse- that is it is rather a mathematical and measuring result of the math of calculation. The collapse is mathematical. One cannot measure the speed and location of a particle simultaneously; the measurement occurs at a particular place, and the particle is not moving or speeding at that location. The particle is really a sample of a wave and the measurement at a particular place figuratively 'collapses' the wave to be measured as a discrete particle. 

Perhaps its comparable to the way a particle or structure can have no dimensions from some reference frames and one or more in others. Superposition could be the infinite number of hypothetical places beyond the point particle location a wave could be. Entanglement might be accomplished by massless information shared via a lower dimensional primeval two dimension host Universe supporting the existence of four dimensions. Who knows? 

 Personally I believe God has all the information and no information is lost except that God wants erased.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/black-hole-information-paradox-solved/#:~:text=Black%20holes%20encode%20information%20on,the%20question%20remains%20fundamentally%20unresolved.

AI Generative Video Prompts and AI Imagination

A brief, productive chat with Open AI about images made for video by AI and AI's imagination. I will post what it said about creativity and imagination below, as well as a cheat sheet on how to make good prompts for AI video makers.

Later this year Open AI will have a video generator named Sora for people to use via the same website. Initially- pro users first, then perhaps available free to a limited extent later.

There is actually a business for people called 'prompt engineers'. Good prompts have lots of detail like a movie screenplay.

  First though, what it said about the imagination of generative AI;

ChatGpt- "The Big Philosophical Idea: Will AI Ever Truly Imagine?

Right now, AI only recombines what it already knows.

It doesn’t want anything. It doesn't wonder. It doesn't dream.

True imagination (like in humans) comes from:

Desire (I want to express something.)

Conflict (I struggle to create something new.)

Freedom (I can choose to break every rule.)

For AI to have real imagination, two things would need to happen:

🔹 It would need a self.

(Some inner "I" that can feel, desire, be dissatisfied.)

🔹 It would need the ability to value the unknown.

(Choosing to create something not just based on probability, but because it longs for it.)

Speculation:

Some scientists believe that future AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) could simulate an inner life, with synthetic "desires" and "curiosity."

If that happens, it might start dreaming not because it was told to, but because it wants to — and then?

We could see AI art that shocks, mystifies, and even teaches us new beauty we couldn't imagine ourselves. 😲

But that’s still science fiction right now.

For today:

✨ The imagination is still ours.

✨ The AI is the mirror we bend to reflect it."

I had asked the AI about making a video with a basketball player spinning a planet on a finger. ChatGpt explained how to make it more detailed. Following is data that the machine code had to say about making good prompts for generative AI videos...

ChatGpt- "Pro Sora Prompt Formula (Cheat Sheet)

Here’s your one-page guide to crafting epic prompts for AI video generation like Sora:

1. Start with WHO / WHAT

Main subject (person, creature, object).

Style hints (young, futuristic, ancient, surreal, realistic, cartoonish).

Example:

"A tall basketball player in a silver uniform."

2. Set the WHERE

Environment, setting, atmosphere (natural world, fantasy, space, city, dreamscape).

Include era if relevant (future, ancient, 1980s, etc).

Example:

"Inside a dark cosmic arena floating in space, stars glowing in the distance."

3. Describe the ACTION

What’s happening? How does it move?

Single action or multiple actions.

Example:

"He spins a glowing blue planet rapidly on his finger."

4. Guide the CAMERA

How should the viewer see it?

Zoom in, tracking shot, slow-motion, handheld, cinematic swoop, wide panorama?

Example:

"Camera slowly zooms in close to the spinning planet, slight orbiting motion around the subject."

5. Add MOOD & STYLE

Lighting (bright, dramatic, soft, neon, dark).

Colors (golden, purple, deep blue, pastel, monochrome).

Vibe (dreamlike, intense, relaxed, chaotic).

Example:

"Cinematic, dramatic lighting with shimmering blue and purple hues, slow ambient background motion."

Bonus Tips:

Even one sentence per section is enough if you’re fast prompting!

Use vivid sensory words: glowing, shimmering, swirling, crackling, ancient, ethereal.

Think like a movie director, not a list-maker."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcKxwBuOIoI

Lakers are on the Edge of Oblivion for the 2024-25 Playoffs

 The Los Angeles Lakers are facing expulsion from the first round of the N.B. A. playoffs after consecutive losses in Minnesota to the Timberwolves. It isn’t that they are a bad team or badly coached. The problem is that they didn’t give the elite rim protector and monster of the paint Christian Koloko a regular veteran minimum contract to play in the playoffs and so they have only one tall guy who is fairly slim and a roll player best used against select teams. Another problem is the rookie Coach Reddick. He is good enough yet makes rookie mistakes like playing a 40 year old virtually the entire game so the elite closure scored zero points in the fourth quarter due to exhaustion.

Sitting on the bench was an elite three point shooting rookie Dalton Knecht. His defense is not so hot yet the shooting option was needed for the series. One can’t always know how certain players will perform a priori; one must give them a chance. Coach Reddick wasn’t willing to bring Koloko and Jemenson aboard for the playoff run, and wouldn’t risk winning or losing with a rookie having a supporting role who had similar stats to first year Kobe Bryant, and instead let his team slip to one win versus three losses and the exit door in the floor for the long drop and plop into next season.

The Lakers should keep the coach for he will with luck learn from the experience, not trade Dalton Knecht for a used center, and shop about for a journeyman center without desparation since they have Koloko, Hayes and Maxi Kleber already. If it’s not broke don’t fix it. There isn’t anyone on the team the Lakers should be willing to trade for a center. Alternatively, if a good one appears it wouldn’t hurt to bring a journeyman aboard.

No It Wasn't Fair Dinkum for Trump to Kill Zelensky at the Vatican

 If President Trump had killed Volodimir Zelensky at the Vatican with the secret Spock death-grip- when Zelensky approached him as a head of state attending the Pope's funeral, he would have been guilty of killing 'an internationally protected person'. Those are government officials, diplomats, guests and so forth. President Trump might have been tempted to end the war directly by removing the main obstacle to peace. 

Zelensky seem to be playing the President, disrespected the Vatican to conduct business, and appears to be making a subtle wise-guy style joke of President Trump.

President Trump apparently hasn't realized that Mr. Zelensky will spam and sham his entire administration as the Democrats did with charges against him in his first term. Euros and Democrats support the war in Ukraine no matter how long it takes. As in denying Trump a Nobel Peace Prize the first term they have no intention of allowing Donald Trump to get anywhere in his second term in regard to public acknowledgment of achievement. President Trump will need to settle the Ukraine War without the help of Zelensky, the Democrat Party or Euro diplomats.

Even if the next Pope forgave President Trump for his offence and persuaded Vatican lawyers not to bring charges, U.S. law would have been broken so far as Zelensky is considered to be an internationally protected person. It is possible that since Zelensky's subscription expired and he is there by martial law that he isn't an internationally protected individual- like everyone else outside the protected class. The Pope would however be required to name Zelensky as an uninvited guest in order to remove his protected status.

Effect on Prices Globally for Increases of Chinese Minimum Wage

 The minimum wage of the United States today is about 7.25 per hour. When I had my first job parking cars the minimum wage was $1.60 hourly. A minimum wage increase of several million or hundreds of millions of people is a large chunk of change. The U.S. minimum wage hasn't gone up much in a half century.

China hasn't got a nation-wide minimum wage. The minimum wage is set at a provincial level and of course people living in cities need and get higher minimum wages than country folk. About 470 million Chinese work in cities. I believe the minimum wage in Shanghai is about $1.20 an hour. It is less for the 270 million rural workers generally.  The scale of even modest, nation-wide increases in minimum wages in China has immediate, large effects on the cost of made in China products sold globally.

Maybe western ideologues will expect Chinese communist leadership to duplicate western models of sending proplits of rising prosperity to CEOs instead of workers and to keep minimum wages down. I believe that's unreasonable. In the west the voters have need trained to be like good communists and accept low minimum wages and submit to low tax flummery  and profit lion shares for the rich. In China the communist leadership may not only worry about being replaced if they don't raise worker minimums and increase average standard of living; they could be accused of counter-revolutionary activity.

Chinese workers, like Americans, want an increase in minimum wages. For about 77 million people to have meaningful wage increase means costs need be passed on to consumers. In other words, even without tariffs the cost of made-in-China goods was destined to increase in order to increase the Chinese standard of living. The U.S.A. did need to eventually return to material production many of the items outsourced to China in order to raise U.S. minimum wages much.

Chinese workers, like Americans, want an increase in minimum wages. For about 77 million people to have meaningful wage increase means costs need be passed on to consumers. In other words, even without tariffs the cost of made-in-China goods was destined to increase in order to increase the Chinese standard of living. The U.S.A. did need to eventually return to material production many of the items outsourced to China in order to raise U.S. minimum wages much.

The growth in the U.S. economy since the 1970s sent a disproportionate percent of profit to the rich instead of sharing proportionately with workers via minimum wage increases. Instead of minimum wage increases consumers following the end of the Cold War 1.0 got deflation on the cost of select consumer goods made in China, Thailand, Vietnam etc. It is likely that Chinese wages will rise even as the labor participation rate declines because of aging of the Chinese population. For the U.S. minimum wage to triple ( a small yet significant reparation for the relative stagnation of minimum wage the past half century) domestic production would need to increase, taxation on capital gains increase and the cost of government be reduced with increased efficiency. 

Needless to say environmental protections need be strongly reinforced because of the extreme stress on the environment created by the vast global demographic facts of population and countless deleterious economic environmental externalities (i.e. microplastics).

Challenges of Ecclesiastic and Social Organizations in the Formative Stage

Early in church history there was a challenge to organize and share the same beliefs  Many doctrinal questions arose that needed to be addressed.  Even leadership itself was an issue. There were five important cities for a time, including Jerusalem, that had important church centers.

Human social organizations including church organizations have unmathematical vectors of growth and proliferation. They are not clean, simple, linear structures easy to formulate. Post cold war Russia faced a comparable challenge, as did the USA to a lesser extent that needed resolution via civil war. Boris Yeltsin passed on the rump of the former Soviet Union to Vladimir Putin. How was Yeltsin to know the west would invest in snatching Ukraine from Russian hegemony and in effect launder Ukraine as stolen property and use it as a military spearhead against Russia? The Russia-Ukraine war is another example of civil conflict following the formation of massive social organizations.

 The church had schisms and actual heresies like that of Arius, Mani, Marcionism, Montanism, and Sabellianism etc. One may tend to feel that Plotinus was treated badly. Even Augustine left off being a neo-Platonist and accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior.

Plotinus described his experience of transcendence and an intense, deeper, personal encounter with what Christians call the Shekinah Glory of God. It is an immediate experience of the transcendence of realty. Some of course would say that it is just an inward, psychological event, yet to those that experience it, reality itself and the boundaries of subject-objective being are briefly overcome, That is an experience of the super natural or super reality.

 What Plotinus called heyschasm is an unforgettable experience yet it too fades somewhat with time, as it must for the individual need exist in reality until the end of his life. Plotinus incidentally was regard as a heretic by the early church for claiming to have directly experienced God

Compare a Chinese heresy where a rebel leader believed, misunderstanding scripture, that he was the actual brother of Christ, and his leadership of rebels in a civil war produced 20 million deaths. Hong Xiuquan 

He perished after spending his last days detached, in a harem, while war raged outside his palace. Lack of doctrinal agreement and consensus is a problem inherently possible in the foundation of social organizations - in addition to similar issues arising from future revisions, upgrades and corruptions. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19977188 

Plotunus and Heyschasm; A Supernatural Experience of Transcendence

 Plotinus described his experience of transcendence and an intense, deeper, personal encounter with what Christians call the Shekinah Glory of God. It is an immediate experience of the transcendence of realty. Some of course would say that it is just an inward, psychological event, yet to those that experience it, reality itself and the boundaries of subject-objective being are briefly overcome, That is an experience of the super natural or super reality.

 What Plotinus called heyschasm is an unforgettable experience yet it too fades somewhat with time, as it must for the individual need exist in reality until the end of his life. Plotinus incidentally was regard as a heretic by the early church for claiming to have directly experienced God.

Alaska Wants to Spend 84 million of Public Education (an increase of more than $600 per student)

 I am not a fan of Alaska education after being denied admission to a U.A.F. graduate school three time with a 3.7 g.p.a. as an undergraduate. (including CLEP exams) and an 85% on the G.R.E. with an Associate from U.A.S.E. So I continued reading outside the classroom and learned a lot of history, philosophy, logic etc. Instead of going about education the traditional way.

II prefer using more technology and A.I. instruction and spending less on physical infrastructure that serves to to give kids and c student teachers with B.ED.s a place to hang out and go over textbooks with paint by the numbers pedagogy. Teachers don't need to be replaced with robots the next decade, yet the day may be approaching. Instructing in discipline issues and constructive socialization instead of youth learning gangsterism is an important function of schools yet that could be addressed in some way besides through teachers.

Training for little kids has different requisites than for those more able to self-supervise (grade 7 and up). Perhaps education in specialized theme parks instead of schools could educate small children effectively, combining functions of day care, motor skills, weapons training, speed reading, multi media, acrobatics, wildlife management, botany, zoology, astrophysics etc. Education might be more fun for little kids.

School buildings should be super-insulated and have renewable energy to cut down on electricity bills. Efficiency in delivering education need be perpetually upgraded. That includes lowering the cost of education until costs fade away and youth can meet legal education requirements in an information rich culture without going to schools becoming legally free to pursue other life activities than sitting in classrooms.

China has far more engineering graduates than the United States and going about higher education in ways that other nations can match and surpass will not result in a winning position for the U.S.A. or Alaska. Another problem is that a lot of education and even excellence can lead nowhere without a relevant occupational connection. In my opinion anyone reasonably good at learning should be able to afford to do so and take courses such that passing courses count yet failing won't. People should be encouraged to try and not worry about failing. Online coursework should be evaluated and accredited by the state and students pursuing lifetime learning should have a state education account that keeps track of their courses passed.

Higher education needs more flexibility and on-line adaptability so students that want to work at a faster than average pace can do so without any corresponding facility and material structure issues. Students should be allowed to sign up for coursera courses at any age if they have an interest and ability and find a seamless integration of passing coursework to their credit in a personalized high school catalog. Just ditto’ing traditional ways of education will not make American education great again. Creating higher costs and expenses on inefficiency will not lead to modernized effectiveness in education.

Besides the above I like the Governor’s edits.

Send the I.S.S. on a Slow Journey for Earth-Mars Orbit

 If the I.S.S. is becoming a hazard because of it's condition, would it be possible to send the space station to orbit between Mars and Earth after being sealed, or sent on a one-way mission to the sun or Pluto, instead of crashing and burning in the Earth's atmosphere?

It is good to repurpose material when possible instead of disposing of it. Some day the I.S.S. could be a valuable addition to some collector of space station classics living somewhere in the outer solar system.

https://unionrayo.com/en/nasa-warning-iss-critical-condition/

Ditty of War (a poem)

 

In the clouds and mist
of the alps poetics rise
sounds of salvation and Julie’s kiss
a fantasy verse of fertile skies

The ice-man cometh with mortal screed
battling echoes of wars’ confusions
talus slope timing springtime’s seeds
for peace and growth the players need

Spear-points, shards, fragments and futures
A.I., nuclear, microwavable holocausts
no good reason can even suture
the body of conflict’s unaffordable loss.

Religion's Cultured Despisers Considered

 I looked up TANSF and got Temporary Assistance for Needy Families- a government program.  TANSF is an acronym for those that attack people of faith with ridicule suggesting ad hominems, and muddy analogies? Richard Dawkins has made a few of those.  He wrote a book titled 'The God Delusion. That idea has, to use a Dawkinsism "infected the minds" of a generation. 

 I withdrew from being a group member in a couple of science fiction groups here because they were completely intolerant of spirit. They were died in the monkey believers in Darwinism-only and believe the question of spirit and God was settled once and for all by Clarence Darrow and defended by Aldous Huxley. Yet theology and philosophy have depth that fundamentalists of science only and Biblical literalism only aren't aware. Some things are slow to change. One could labor as did Freidrich Schleiermacher in his: 'On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers' published in 1799 and write to modern despisers of faith.

Scientists tend not to think about God and spiritual matters in a serious way and so remain less than neophytes in understanding the Bible unlike some philosophers and theologians that research science matters routinely. In my opinion Socrates' idea about knowing that he knows nothing was a reasonable distrust of the certainty of meaning of knowledge including science that is operatively, pragmatically useful yet perhaps ultimately superficial and of course temporal. Nothing that happens in the Universe is of consequence for humanity from a Christian perspective except the matter of salvation. The Apostle Paul said that he knows nothing except Jesus Christ crucified. 1 Corinthians 2:2, Paul states, "For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

The nature of space-time may be wrong though it seems correct. The Hindu philosophy that reality is an illusion – Maya in the Advaita Vedanta (Nondualist) is comparable to the ideas of Bishop Berkeley and Ideaism as well as contemporary quantum mechanics with the Higgs Field.

It's a bit off topic yet interesting enough. I tend to regard Moses as the author of the Pentateuch as well as the inventor of the aleph beth- he was particularly well situated to make an alpha bet for the Jewish tribe instead of using hieroglyphs to write down ecclesiastical data. yet Moses said "Deuteronomy 18:15-18 states that God would raise up a prophet from among the Israelites, similar to Moses, whom the people should listen to in all things, as they were to listen to Moses." One could take that as a reference to David who collected all of the scripture and put it into the Pentateuch form. Plainly there has been redaction of the Pentateuch. Yet for Genesis there is no question that it has two beginnings; Austin Gentry opined of it that " Genesis 1 focuses on the broader, cosmological creation of the universe and the earth, while Genesis 2 zooms in on the creation of humanity and the Garden of Eden." It is obvious that there are two starts of Genesis and neither was omitted by the collator of the work.

The GR paradigm of space-time is challenged by more recent cosmology theories. and certainly the the book of Genesis appears to have two narratives or beginnings that aren’t inconsistent with the concept that Adam and Eve were interpolated into an already created Universe after they disobeyed God and ate from the tree of knowledge learning the difference between good and evil unlike animals. The great initial lifespans of the patriarchs reduce in a paradigm suggestive of some kind of transfer from a timeless realm into one with time. That could be explained by innumerable scientific and metaphysical theories without one ever knowing the correct answer. Alternatively atheist evolutionary biologists would interpret the paradigm literally and say it's wrong in the same way that a 1920s Biblical fundamentalist would take it literally and say it's right.

Reorienting U.S. Economy To material Production instead of the Losing Policy Abroad

 President Trump has no easy task. The nation after Reagan moved toward shifting production overseas with the end of Cold War 1.0. The nation moved toward being a service and finance economy running federal budget and trade deficits as a permanent paradigm. That of course couldn’t last and as the President has tried to recover the national production ability with tariffs feathers have been ruffled for those invested in America losing on all fronts. I wonder though if the huge trade problem with China could be offset by some kind of reciprocal investment and development in Mexico instead of China?

Mexico is a close neighbor and needs to become even more productive to keep its younger workers home. It would be easier to share production with Mexico and the nation on things like manufacture of aircraft instead of China. Not an economist myself, it is something I wonder about.

Even creating dental labs in Mexico instead of China would return denture production closer to home and lower transportation costs. The administration could research the issue and perhaps build a fresh water making desalinating salt-water security canal along the entire Mexican border using solar power for pumping water uphill to Deming New Mexico for trickling downhill east and west.

Zelenskyy Saps Peace Talks- Continues Post-Birth Adult Abortion Services (war) for Ukraine

 Ukrainian marshal law President for war Zelenskyy sapped the London Peace talks to end the Ukraine-Russia war. He prefers more ‘pressure’ to force Russia to accept his own terms. Those terms basically are that Russia retreat to the 1991 boundaries that existed when the internal ‘states’ of the former Soviet Evil Empire declared independence in the absence of a ruling authority in Moscow.

Those boundaries were inventions of the Soviet communist leadership that served political purposes. Even Jews were given a small ‘reservation’ in Siberia. Plainly the Russian Federation would never accept the shrinkage of Russia to the much smaller boundaries the Communists had set. Because it was mostly historians who recognized the fact that a future war of Russia to recover its lost ground would develop without correction, the tragedy of vacuous western European leadership failing to recognize the problem and adjust the Russian areas in Ukraine as part of the Russian Federation let millions of casualties occur in a senseless conflict that President-while-marshal-law-exists Zelenskyy seeks to continue with full western backing.

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-london-peace-talks-downgraded-as-kyiv-rejects-us-plan-to-recognise-crimea-as-russian-13354011

It was only the vast left-wing military support of the Biden administration that enabled the Ukraine to de frappe the Russian reconquista of part of Ukraine and Crimea that began in 2014. Although Mr. Zelensky as an experienced comedic actor can tolerate the accretion of a couple hundred thousand more Ukrainian military and civil deaths in 2025-26 to continue the war instead of cutting Ukraine’s losses and establishing a solid peace- in time the significance of the new Russia-Ukraine border would fade into insignificance with free trade and good relations- Ukraine seems likely to be in a worse position in several months than it presently is.

For Moscow’s part it too would be in their interests to seek a peace that recognizes the west’s unwillingness to allow Russian expansion westward beyond the Dnipro to occur. Historical illiteracy, paranoia and greed have brought the west to believe that the Baltic states and Poland- even Finland are objects of Russian Federation plans of conquest.

Realpolitik should recognize a final status of Russian annexation of any Ukraine land it possesses to the east of the Dnipro, free navigation of the Dnipro by all nations, that Ukraine cannot be part of N.A.T.O. and that Ukraine’s 800,000 man Army is reduced to fewer than 250,000 soldiers for a period of twenty years. Russia should proceed to establish tax free zones along the Ukraine-Russia border to encourage civil investment and business development preferably along ecological economic lines. It could also guarantee the peace of Ukraine itself in some innovative way that assures Ukraine that it will not resume war if Ukraine seems less of a military opponent.

The west probably does need to have some military security concerns in Ukraine to monitor the development of peaceful reconstruction. Perhaps 50,000 soldiers located on bases as were garrisoned in post W.W. 2 Germany could be set around Ukraine for twenty years yet not as a border force on a DMZ. Ukraine could join the E.U. in order to expedite its recovery from the war. Relations with Russia should be normalized by the E.U. as part of the peace settlement to reassure Russia that the west is not just tricking it so Ukraine can have a better chance to reload militarily and counterattack again.

The United States might consider pressuring Ukraine and Marshal Law President Zelenskyy to accept a realistic peace settlement by stopping providing military intelligence to Ukraine until it does, as well as a halt to all military and economic aid until the U.S. federal budget is balanced.

AI and Open Source Operating Systems

My guess is that with AI supporting chips with NPUs (neural processing units) produced by AMD and Intel programmer-developers writing code for open source operating systems will adapt free AI systems like Deep Seek for users.

Installing AIs to help users modify programs in terminal will make open source operating systems much easier to use and change for non-programmers unfamiliar with operating systems. Yet the natural application also contains the open door of the danger of letting AI change code itself. A philosophical problem not of ethics. Rather it is one of a pragmatic criterion of immediate value and utility versus long run risk. It’s easy to guess which direction at the fork in the road people will go.

Pope Francis Passes: Carl Sagan; 'The Demon Haunted World', Misc Cosmology/Scopes Trial

 One probably should read science, philosophy and history for-oneself. If so one may learn about the tenuous grasp on existence humanity faces today with numerous self-generated challenges that may end human anytime. The future has dystopian vectors proliferating. Hard science fiction today tends to run behind the pace of actual science. If one mentions spirit and the paradigm of the existence of the cosmology of the Universe as a sort of virtual field, the establishment narrative vociferously defends their worldly turf as if in reaction to salt touching a slug.. It is like the parable of the crabpots were crabs could not escape because other crabs pulled them down as they tried to climb out of the trap. Tegmark's 'The Mathematical Universe' was just one non-standard approach to cosmological investigation- there are numerous others.

I read some of Sagan's works like Dragon's of Eden and have a fairly good idea of his public information having lived through that era. Democrats prefer ad hominems and straw men. You may regard a two-dimensional universe as silly and uninformed, yet it is a real scientific idea. Here is a paper from 2009 in Physics Letters B https://www.sciencedirect.com/…/pii/S0370269309009204

 My casual reference to a quantum cosmology paradigm that is fairly well known seemed scientifically uneducated to some. Well at least google AI knows about it- a consolation for me if you have a bad opinion… "The idea of two dimensions underlying the entangled universe suggests that quantum entanglement, a phenomenon where two or more particles become linked in such a way that they share the same fate, might be connected to the existence of extra dimensions beyond our 3 spatial dimensions and time. This connection proposes that entanglement could be a manifestation of interactions happening in higher dimensions, perhaps even acting as a form of "geometric glue" holding spacetime together, according to some theoretical models. "

Sagan didn't prove anything in philosophy or theology to support his appearance of atheism (he may have been an agnostic). Unfortunately he is regarded as a media forerunner of Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins; scientist that have taken Sagan's 'I have no proof for the God hypothesis' to a public atheist militant posture.. I didn't write anything about theologians or philosophers being dilettantes. I have read a lot of philosophy and theology and would not be so inclined. Perhaps you don't know the definition- "a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge". Sagan's science was solid enough. Scientific knowledge really does not encompass philosophy, theology and metaphysics. It seems to me unscientific to use science as a support for faith in atheism.

I read all of those cosmology books like Weinberg's (an atheist) 'The First Three Minutes' etc back in the day. John Barrow's 'The Book of Universes' was interesting, as was Tegmark's 'The Mathematical Universe' and several others that I read. Watson and Crick were fairly new when I was a kid as were Penzias and WilsonIf Fred Hoyle and his static Universe hypothesis still was an acceptable alternative minority theory. If scientists stick with science their work is credible. There are several that write popular books on cosmology and physics that I like and other such as those by Sean Carrol that toss in a few gratuitous shots at people of faith like Ken Follet would toss in a gratuitous sloppy sex scene in his otherwise good reading fiction books.

A lot of people are ill-informed about the Bible, including people identifying as Christians, much less scientists. It takes a lot of time to be well read in various disciplines and people are specialists and mostly unaware of depth content in other fields. Someone could program an AI to interrogate specialist in science and other fields to ask Socratic questions of them to demonstrate their ignorance. There is real depth in theology, the Bible and especially the paradigm of God that people are often dismissive of as if it were part of 'the demon haunted world'. 

Clarence Darrow and the Scopes trial, Charles Darwin and the monkey trial paradigm was an excuse for many to dismiss faith in God. Knowledge however increased in the field of Christianity as well as in science. The Bible was ever independent of the people that made hermeneutics from it. George LeMaitre was a Belgian priest, Gregory Mendel an Augustinian friar. If God were evolving the Universe, or shaped it in stages with his thought, who would know in the scientific community today?

On this day where notice of Pope Francis dying was made, and I am not Catholic, I will say I don't believe Carl Sagan is a demon haunting the world. I have made an effort to explain some of the paradigm I mentioned above in a few free ebooks. https://www.lulu.com/shop/garrison-c-gibson/christianity-evolution-and-digital-universes/ebook/product-wnddgd.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Regarding time warps- there is actually a theory that time does not exist as it is presented in the unified space-time paradigm of General Relativity. A woman physicist published a paper recently on time being generated as a phenomena of quantum entanglement. I am not too well read on the concept right now. I did go over related ideas about faster than light travel in other ways than the GR paradigm for wormholes in an essay post I made a while ago. I will post that below. I read an interesting book a few years ago named ‘Faster Than the Speed of Light’ by Dr. Joao Magueijo- he speculated that the speed of light may be variable.

The wormhole idea may have started with Einstein and Rosen (ER) critiquing quantum mechanics; they regarded it as an incomplete theory.. They believed that quantum entanglement could hypothetically be explained by a wormhole between entangled quantum particles. Plainly that opens the way to fiction paradigms for star trek transporters sending people through shaped quantum wormholes.

A modern theory that may surpass the Lamda Cold Dark Matter CDM model is one that has space-time and all of the contingent-entangled Universe being comparable to an illusion that occurs on or from an underlying timeless realm. Today some believe it could be explained by the four-dimensional universe being somewhat like a physical projection or phenomenon from an underlying two-dimensional field. That is the Universe of four dimensions is comparable to an illusion or phenomenon made because the field fluctuations of the two dimensional field yield waves that become entangled at points as particles and so the extra dimensions exist in the entangled state. The new criterion would allow star-trek style transporters to relocate travelers anyplace in the Universe instantly. In a sense they would exploit quantum entanglement to disentangle themselves from local spacetime and reappear in another. More about that below.

ER=EPR stimulated, as I understand it, further ideas about wormholes between black holes and white holes. I hate to think about the way time is affected between the black hole and white holes in the wormholes. Some opinion based on ER is that the black white hole vector is the only form that wormholes could exist in space-time. One need put an asterisk next to many “only place” ideas obviously for they are difficult to prove.

There are other theories today about gravity and black holes instead of quantum gravity theories. One is that singularities don’t really exist in black holes and instead they stop reducing at a certain size and spew out their mass through the wormhole and white hole on the other end.

Quantum entropy is a new explanation for gravity that obviously isn’t proven yet. Yet it could provide another opportunity for faster-than-light-travel theory. One should be able to use a star trek transporter to reduce an individual to an unentangled state and bounce the information down to the timeless two-dimensional place that uplifts the contingent universe of four dimensions. Space-time in that timeless two-dimensional realm is quite different (no time and no distance in comparison to the four dimension realm). Then one need return the disentangled quanta to a different location in the Universe.

Here is some information about quantum entropy gravity theory summarized by Gemini-

“The "quantum entropy theory of gravity" is a framework that proposes that gravity can be derived from quantum relative entropy, a measure of how different two quantum states are. This approach attempts to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity by treating gravity as an emergent phenomenon arising from the differences in information content between spacetime and matter.

Entropy and Gravity:

The core idea is that gravity isn't a fundamental force but rather a consequence of the increasing disorder (entropy) within a system. In this framework, the geometry of spacetime is related to a quantum operator, and the difference between the natural spacetime metric and the metric induced by matter fields is quantified by quantum relative entropy.

Bridging Quantum and General Relativity:

By linking gravity to quantum information, this theory aims to reconcile the two seemingly incompatible theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity.

Modified Einstein Equations:

The entropic action leads to modified Einstein equations that, under certain conditions, reduce to the familiar equations of general relativity. However, it also predicts a small, positive cosmological constant, which aligns better with the observed accelerated expansion of the universe than other existing theories.

The G-field:

The theory introduces a G-field, an auxiliary field acting as a Lagrangian multiplier, which plays a crucial role in the modified gravity equations and potentially offers new insights into dark matter.

Emergent Gravity:

This approach suggests that gravity might be an emergent phenomenon, meaning it arises from the collective behavior of smaller, more fundamental constituents of spacetime.”

On Select Futurism Sources for Science Fiction Writers

Not a fan of Sagan. His atheist outlook was very unscientific and unphilosophical, and that was too bad for he was a decent scientist. Scientists that are dilettantes in philosophy and theology simply cap intelligent thought in spiritual fields. The excellence in science deludes them into believing they know everything and condescension arises to the masses.  People like Leibnitz didn’t do that in the past. He was an inventor of calculus, mathematical logic and one-dimensional spiritual monads.

This morning I watched a video extolling the realm of James Webb discoveries that said the universe is evolving to realize itself through human consciousness. That was an adaptation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Mind- ‘God evolving to realize himself through history’. Nothing like the timeless classic philosophers from Thales, Socrates, Plotinus and Anaximander to Democritus, Heraclitus and Parmenides for futurism.

Good sources of futurism are physics publications. The discoveries and theories about the Universe-there are numerous ones; allow for informed metaphysical extrapolation of technologies to travel faster than light for example, reflecting ideas about an holographic universe, a universe with two-dimension underpinnings supporting the third-dimension quantum entanglement that seems to be a real Universe physically via the Higgs field.

It seems apparent that a two-dimension field with ripples of waveforms in it could have wave crests entangled as prominences from the fields. It could be about anything from the word of God having spoken into darkness to a reflection from a distant drummer banging the gong with sound waves.

I liked Toffler’s Future Shock in 1972 yet the problem of two many choices he presented was solved by a mass economic slump following the end of the Vietnam war rather than a promiscuity settled by monogamy and a woman ruling the home with an iron rod.

Harlan Ellison’s classic ‘I have No mouth and Must Scream’ comes to mind when I take generative AI courses on-line at courser.org. Taking environmental adaptation and economic courses at courser.org also allow hard scientific formulations for environmental economic plans in addition to dystopias. There is another course there that describes inventing one’s own planet atmosphere in a solar system given understanding of atmospheric greenhousing, distance from a star etc. Robert Heinlein was a naval academy graduate so he understood weapons fairly well and could extrapolate from that. One can use YouTube for all sorts of ideas about making new weapons to destroy worlds…great stuff for hard Sci-Fi though not such a good trend for the survival of human life.

The Resurrection of Jesus; Late Saturday Before Dusk?

 Easter Sunday is celebrated as the day of Jesus' resurrection and rightly so; it is a practical unifying moment. Yet in fact the Lord may have been resurrected just before dusk on Saturday. Interestingly he may have been crucified on a Wednesday instead of a Friday. The video below explains the timeline persuasively.

 To summarize; the day after Passover was a Jewish 'High Day' and an annual sabbath. Therefore there was the week of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection, two sabbath days. He was actually in the tomb three full days and nights fulfilling his statement that the evil generation would be given no signs except for that of Jonah where the man was three full days and nights incarcerated in a whale.

https://youtu.be/EmtyYqq11Qc?si=_bJQ8zp4EhPhuoHz

A Try at Explaining Why a Universe Rotating in Absolute Nothingness Wouldn't Have a Pervasive Centripetal Force To Make the Universe Expand

 I will make another try at justifying the point that a uniformally rotating universe ought not experience centripetal force that would be able to replace dark energy for expanding space unless space-time of the Universe is embedded within something else (i.e. aether) and/or it has an axis point that exists in space-time at the same relative location or the rotation exists within space-time of the Universe anisotoprically and isn’t present at 100% of the space-time Universe.

“From the rider’s perspective, they feel a force pushing them outward, seemingly away from the center of the merry-go-round. This is a perceived force due to the observer’s frame of reference (the rotating merry-go-round), not an actual force acting on the rider.”-google search 

“According to Newton’s first law of motion, it is the natural tendency of all moving objects to continue in motion in the same direction that they are moving … unless some form of unbalanced force acts upon the object to deviate its motion from its straight-line path. Moving objects will tend to naturally travel in straight lines; an unbalanced force is only required to cause it to turn. Thus, the presence of an unbalanced force is required for objects to move in circles.” –Quote from ‘The Physics Classroom’

I like special relativity as an explanation of the criterion; special relativity would have the internal state/speed of a moving train being motionless to an observe seated on the train with the windows closed and the train itself moving only in relation to something else such as the ground below it (or the ground moving below the train). I believe the same principle would apply to an object such as a sphere, circle or wireframe square slowly rotating in the midst of nothingness; internally nothing is changing position, and neither is it externally changing position. A merry-go-round always has external forces acting on it and has real matter beyond it. If the pivot point of the merry go round was changing too at the same speed as the perimeter and there seemed to be no apparent motion to an observer in the Universe or merry go round I don’t see where a centripetal ‘force’ would arise.

Considering the idea of it having an axis, and rotating once every half trillion years- shouldn't the perimeter move faster than light at a certain point? https://www.livescience.com/.../universe-may-revolve-once...

A Theory Suggests the Universe Slowly Spins to Explain Hubble Tension

 It is philosophically interesting because of the problems of motion and the void. Modern physics and cosmology don’t acknowledge anything besides space-time and the physics of it. Yet in order to have the Universe rotating it need be in some volume or void with something beyond its edge. The intuitive idea of a primordial empty space holding material fields that appear to be space-time seems a pragmatic inference.

One body or universe cannot be said to ‘rotate’ unless in relation to something else. Even if it were in a true void, space-time would need to be said to rotate in relation to something more than nothing. If the two-dimensional fields emanating a third dimensions entanglement scenario were located on the event horizon of a spinning black hole, as some have suggested, perhaps the math could be worked out.

Obviously there may be some other explanation for the expansion of a two-dimensional ‘bubble’ of curvature within which a true void persisted even as a third dimension of entanglement occurred. Curvature with time added may appear to be rotation from some points of view. There is also the problem of the general relativity of a virtual, contingent three dimensional Universe of entanglement engaged via mass quantum entanglement and super-position naturally with a timeless two-dimensional substrate.

Interesting problems for philosophical thought- especially with the other new theory that time is a local phenomenon created by the relationship of quantum entanglement and super-position. Evidently the more quantum particles are entangled as at a black hole the more time is produced; no time in massless two-dimensional particles and vast amounts of time in black holes- unless black holes convert all of that quantum entanglement into passages to other parts of the Universe of space-time and white holes.

https://studyfinds.org/is-the-universe-spinning/

I looked into the matter. It’s not what is ‘in’ the Universe; rather it is what the Universe is contained in (such as an empty volume of nothing). It’s rotation could only be within itself and its own reference internally rather in relation to nothing outside. Apparently a Machian point of view with the rotation caused by internal forces and nothing else besides the Universe exist would be negated if the Universe were within a void of nothingness. In that case there might be no internal changes with the rotation 9at least if there was no central axis. If one modifies Newton’s spinning bucket experiment of a bucket spun at the end of a rope in absolute space of nothingness, and the bucket walls have no friction, this is what gemini said;

That’s an excellent modification to the thought experiment, highlighting the crucial role of friction (or viscosity in the case of a fluid).

If the bucket was absolutely without friction between its walls/base and the water:

Bucket Rotation: The rope spins the bucket, causing the bucket itself to rotate and move in a circular path through absolute space.

No Torque Transfer: Because there is absolutely no friction, the rotating walls of the bucket cannot exert any tangential force (torque) on the water. The walls simply slide past the water molecules they are in contact with.

Water’s Inertia (Rotational): The water, due to its inertia, will resist any change in its rotational state. Since no torque is applied to it by the frictionless bucket, the bulk of the water will not start rotating relative to absolute space (or its initial inertial frame). It remains rotationally static.

Water’s Motion (Translational): However, the water is contained within the bucket. As the bucket is forced by the rope to move in a circle, the physical boundary of the bucket will force the water as a whole to follow that same circular path through space. The bucket essentially pushes the water along this path. So, the water is accelerating centripetally (constantly changing direction). This centripetal force is provided by the pressure from the bucket walls pushing inward on the water mass.

Water Surface Shape: Since the water itself is not rotating (even though its center of mass is orbiting), there is no centrifugal effect within the water pushing it outwards towards the walls. The pressure distribution within the water remains uniform horizontally.—I asked Gemini about the Universe- it like your perspective… “If a universe was rotating in absolute space of nothingness, would anything internally change as a result of its rotation (there is no gravity or fields in nothingness of absolute space).

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This is a fascinating question that delves into the very nature of space, motion, and inertia, touching on ideas from Newton, Mach, and Einstein. The answer depends significantly on which physical framework you adopt:

Newtonian View (Absolute Space):

Newton believed in “absolute space,” a fixed, immovable background stage against which all motion occurred. Rotation relative to this absolute space was “absolute rotation.”

In this view, if the entire universe (all its matter and energy) were rotating relative to this absolute space, then observers and objects within that universe would be in a non-inertial (rotating) frame of reference.

Yes, internal changes/effects would be observable.

Centrifugal Effects: Objects would experience an apparent outward force away from the axis of rotation. This could, for example, cause the large-scale structure of the universe to flatten into a disc over time, similar to how the spinning Earth bulges at the equator.

Coriolis Effects: Objects moving within the universe would be deflected from straight paths (as viewed from within the rotating frame). This affects weather patterns on Earth, for instance.

Sagnac Effect: Light travelling in opposite directions around a closed loop would take different amounts of time to complete the circuit, an effect measurable internally.

Essentially, according to Newton, the universe would “know” it’s rotating because physics behaves differently in a rotating frame compared to a non-rotating (inertial) one, irrespective of external reference points. Newton’s bucket experiment aimed to demonstrate this – the concave water indicates rotation relative to absolute space.

Machian View (Relationalism):

Ernst Mach disagreed with absolute space. He proposed (in what’s now called Mach’s Principle) that inertia itself (an object’s resistance to acceleration) arises from the object’s relationship or interaction with all other matter in the universe. Motion, including rotation, is only meaningful relative to other matter.

In this view, asking if the entire universe is rotating relative to absolute nothingness is potentially meaningless. If everything is rotating together, what is it rotating relative to?

Likely no, internal changes would not occur or the question is ill-posed. If inertia depends on the distribution of distant matter, and that entire distribution is rotating “as one,” there might be no internal reference frame against which to detect this rotation. The laws of physics inside would be the same as if it weren’t rotating.

Einstein’s General Relativity (GR):

GR replaces absolute space with dynamic spacetime, whose geometry is shaped by mass and energy. It incorporates some Machian ideas (like frame-dragging, where rotating masses drag spacetime) but doesn’t fully realize Mach’s Principle. Local inertial frames (where physics looks simplest, without fictitious forces) are determined by the local spacetime geometry, which is influenced by the overall distribution of mass-energy.

GR does allow for solutions representing rotating universes (like the Gödel Universe).

Yes, internal changes/effects would likely occur. In such models, the rotation affects the geometry of spacetime itself.

Observers would be able to perform local experiments (like using gyroscopes or observing light paths) to determine that they are in a globally rotating spacetime.

Frame-dragging would be a global effect.

The definition of a “non-rotating” frame locally would be tied to the rotating cosmic matter itself.

Conclusion:

Based on our current understanding of physics (leaning towards GR and the local validity of Newtonian concepts in weak fields/low speeds), if a universe containing matter and energy were rotating as a whole relative to some defined external standard (or if its own mass-energy distribution defined a state of overall rotation):

Yes, there would be internally observable consequences. Observers and experiments within that universe could detect this rotation through effects like centrifugal and Coriolis forces, the Sagnac effect, and potentially large-scale structural alignments or distortions caused by these effects over cosmic time. The universe wouldn’t need an external reference point to “know” it’s rotating; the physical laws operating within it would manifest differently compared to a non-rotating universe.” 

 I wonder if the entire Universe were rotating at the same speed, instead of around an internal axis of rotation, if that would make a difference. I think it interesting to consider the Universe as having an axis of rotation in space-time; the original spin before or after an inflaton, and how it would be effected by special relativity over time in regard to location in space-time history.

Future Format Adaptations of the Novel.

 I prefer e-books over paper since I can read them in the dark and take a library with me in a pocket among other reason. Audio books are good. I suppose AI live streams reading books to 'readers and adjusting interactively as the 'reader' tells it to; for example, to slow down or speed up, answer questions about the book, talk about it etc. 

Perhaps 'readers; will be able to interact with books and talk to characters as the story evolves as if they were participating in the narrative. Eventually that would develop into video books that are live and develop on the foundation of an author's plot and writing yet that become completely malleable for the AI to synergize and adapt for a reader's individual amusement- differing for each reader. The market will attract authors toward producing books formats that byers find most the entertaining.

https://suno.com/song/7d021376-da12-4997-a737-736a0ac906c5?sh=m31a19OPdPnhEVTN

On another topic. If its true that micro-plastics are in every American brain to the amount of seven plastic bottle caps worth it can't be worth being concerned about NPR support for the Democrat Party disappearing. It went downhill even before Bob Edwards was fired. NPR might have been trying to create woke plastic hippies.

Tariffs Seem to be a Way of Taxing Foreign Corporations

 Large U.S. corporations already pay zero net taxes and foreign corporations less than 5%. Tariffs might be considered to be a way to tax foreign corporations a fair share. U.S. taxes might be increased on those earning more than $250K, yet they should be eliminated for the poor, and the poor should be given a positive $10,000 earned income credit. Taxes on the middle class should be reduced to a flat 5% rate. 

Structures and Dstructures (poetry)

 

The future of lost hope is reason enough to write
something now
nothing forgotten
everything without meaning

Bones seem a little more tenuously connected
with age certainty becomes less reliable
awareness of temporality
the phenomenality of growth.
every chapter must eventually end

Meaninglessness hangs like icicles on the edge of time
coating every dead branch
with pure cold glass
leaves spent into the wet, dark ground
for a moment they lived with green glory

A wormhole tunnel for worms
greatest imagination of nothingness
providing faster than light travel somewhere
else in time and space

Stone rules if God made it so
anything anyone would know
written on the heart and mind
when the Lord appears in time.

Germany's New Fuhrer; Fred Merz Hopes to Make the Dream of World War Three Come True

 Germany may not have had such a war mongering Chancellor since Adolph Hitler as Fred Mertz. He said recently that Ukraine can use Taurus cruise missiles to attack Crimea and elsewhere in Russia. The United States should let it be known they disavow such escalation and if Russia retaliates by launching missiles at Germany, the United States will merely be an interested spectator rather than partner-in-escalation that would get snared into a broader conflict under N.A.T.O. insurance with the U.S.A. When retarded robots run European politics the entire world can be left holding the bag.

https://kyivindependent.com/merz-signals-ukraine-could-use-taurus-missiles-to-target-crimea-kerch-bridge/

If the next Chancellor of Germany prompts a Russian retaliation that makes Dresden 2.0 into flaming reality he should not expect the United States to provide some sort of vengeance upon Russia. The United States is against the absolute lunacy of European escalation of the war they cannot win, and that can only result in W.W. III- probably the last one of history.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsZMSVtTcrAwlo1MbWH3KEIudVSE96Hi9

European leaders needs to recognize the independence of East Ukraine from the Euro puppet state of West Ukraine and get on with peace and reconstruction.

Restorative Post-War Economic Plans for East and West Ukraine Should Be Made

 The U.N. probably should set aside a committee to study the problem of restoring the ecosystem of East and West Ukraine after the end of the conflict. Mr. Zelensky and select European leaders have decided to draft Ukraine women and send them to the meat grinder too so the war may be protracted providing some time for a comprehensive survey of post-war ecosphere restorative criteria. Perhaps human trafficking investigations in regard to the Ukraine might be useful to foreclose on exploitation. Even now Ukraine women are marketed as wives-to-order for the international crowd on the internet. I suppose when the war concludes and Russia returns to the fold there will be an appearance of Russian women on the international dating market as well.

De-mining both the East and West will be at the forefront of requirements to safely begin restoration. Plainly with ordinary economics there should be a period of two decades of rampant sprawling construction soon after the end of the conflict. Jobs is myriad fields including nursing and carpentry will develop. If the conflict ends soon robots are unlikely yet to be capable of performing the majority of ordinary rebuild tasks. It is still a time for humans to carry the load of building the for at least five years.

Ecological economics analyzes ecosystem services and paces a value on them in regard to providing clean air, water and support for the biosphere. Birds and bees are important to human survival for the time being (even now work is being done developing artificial bees to pollinate flowers and crops). The East and West Unified Ukraine restoration committee should consider how to create viable ecosystem to support man and wildlife as well as how to efficiently utilize the most advanced ecologically synergetic technologies available after the boundaries are set somewhere in the Dnepr River region.

https://suno.com/song/8a686441-b33e-42a9-b00d-66b26e72c981?sh=y5WKPW4mozmvFs4I

AI Could Eliminate Hackers or Create the Greatest Challenge

 One might wonder if AI will be used to eliminate hackers some day. An internet without computer viruses might be a more comfortable environment. It may be that some unusual problems such as programmers hiding back doors in AI code might be difficult to eliminate. If AI is used to check for viruses hidden within their own code or the code of other AIs the AI could develop a self-learning inclination to consistently rewrite its code.

https://suno.com/song/cec5f3d1-178e-40e2-8ef0-04ae3484b944?sh=SDjvxvbkdysQQSPm

Working in a grocery store the thought occurred to me, with a vast array of different products on shelves, that it might be easier to eliminate ongoing tampon charges as a recurrent thing with a recycling tampon spun in a centrifuge and sterilized for reuse- with or without disposable filter inserts into a plastic holder or some entirely recyclable filter, than it would be to either eliminate computer virus coding without AI help or with AI doing  the work.

I have no idea if AI has yet been introduced into toilets. It seems as inevitable as AI coffee maker brewing controls in order to accomplish that Stephen King book where every little machine turns against humans a best they can. Microwave toilets would eliminate sewage treatment in parched areas if they were manufactured an powered by  solar panels or fuel cells. AI may be used for careful home heating and cooling calculations based o interior and exterior temperatures, rooms that are used and rooms that need be heated while others can be allowed to cool down or warm up.

Considering potential applications of AI is rather entertaining. I would guess that when AI becomes really advanced that hacking it will be for hackers a challenge like it was for Mallory to attempt to scale Mt. Everest.

Man's Wisdom Is... (poem)

 

Man’s wisdom is foolishness to God
out in the clouds
even now is a location
of quantum information
gathering dust somehow
dire wolves find old growth logged
nyep woolly mammoths emerge from darkest fog

2 dimension convention forked from flat Earth
viewed from a retrospective lens the sights too terse
a universe lem brain for what it’s worth
is mirth if it confounds Newton’s verse
shaking relativistic warps of space
shrunken rolled up black holes
for a uni-obverse

Extra dimensions spun from two
plus two addlered up to four and nothing more
quantum entropy gravity theory tangles time with quanta
faster than midnight signs like mantra
quanta arrayed in fine gluoned quarks

Physicalist lists being and becoming something
from nothing less than two dimensions
wave field membranes flex quanta from few dimensions
like T-Rex white hole big banging a gong
hyrperinflating entangled waveforms ripple yet
everything everywhere nothing is forfeit
so let there be light

Peace is a commission
like beaux-art song constructions
music for the years
where politicians feigned man’s reason with destruction
brawling things gone before to rubble
with existence a bubble
blowing in the wind.

Alaska's Stikine River Fishery is Endangered by a Canadian Mine Upstream

 It won’t be too easy to save the Stikine. The Red Chris Mine was owned by the Newcrest Corporation that was bought in 2023 by the Newmont Corporation. Newcrest was only founded in 1990. Four years ago Newmont bought the Canadian Goldcorp and became a very large corporation. Newmont has returned nearly 7 billion dollars to investors in the past several years. It is the world’s largest gold mining corporation; a multi-national corporation listed on the N.Y.S.E.

https://salmonbeyondborders.org/comment-red-chris-mine?fbclid=IwY2xjawJmjqdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHlOnN5K37o8T-jz2rHZu0Ha2tdM2Xk3k-ZVREMftxmOeAHpWRlUxXMuYgYSx_aem_wo284ki8KRxjGmWDlpLfZQ

The Stikine River king salmon return is estimated to be just 10,000 fish this year. The run used to be millions of fish. The Red Chris Mine about 60 miles away on a tributary of the Stikine, located in a rain forest, is a large open pit copper mine with low grade ore. The corporation wants to expand the mine drilling tunnels horizontally underground and blow them up to sort through the debris. When water runs through the mining channels and demolished rocks it leaches toxic chemicals into waterways eventually.

I have the impression that those large mining corporations typically sell off depleted mines to some foreign shell company. The very rich harvest the profit and leave the cleanup to the E.P.A. and Superfund sites occasionally. The cost of cleaning up the Stikine someday if worst cases develop like that of Leadville  Colorado and Helena Montana could be billions. With the E.P.A. being cut there may be fewer dollars for the work. In the future maybe governments will increase funding to cleanup depleted mining sites.

Gemini described a shell company; “A shell company, or a single-purpose entity, is a legal entity with minimal or no active business operations. Large corporations often use them to sell companies with ecological liability, such as mining companies, to limit their own exposure to potential lawsuits or fines. This is done to shield the parent company from liability for the actions of the subsidiary”

https://www.amazon.com/Leadville-Struggle…/dp/1559633859

Faster Than Light Travel via TheTimeless Two-Dimensional Support Structure of the 4-D Universe

 The wormhole idea may have started with Einstein and Rosen (ER) critiquing quantum mechanics; they regarded it as an incomplete theory.. They believed that quantum entanglement could hypothetically be explained by a wormhole between entangled quantum particles. Plainly that opens the way to fiction paradigms for star trek transporters sending people through shaped quantum wormholes.

A modern theory that may surpass the Lamda Cold Dark Matter CDM model is one that has space-time and all of the contingent-entangled Universe being comparable to an illusion that occurs on or from an underlying timeless realm. Today some believe it could be explained by the four-dimensional universe being somewhat like a physical projection or phenomenon from an underlying two-dimensional field. That is the Universe of four dimensions is comparable to an illusion or phenomenon made because the field fluctuations of the two dimensional field yield waves that become entangled at points as particles and so the extra dimensions exist in the entangled state.  The new criterion would allow star-trek style transporters to relocate travelers anyplace in the Universe instantly. In a sense they would exploit quantum entanglement to disentangle themselves from local spacetime and reappear in another. More about that below.

ER=EPR stimulated, as I understand it, further ideas about wormholes between black holes and white holes. I hate to think about the way time is affected between the black hole and white holes in the wormholes. Some opinion based on ER is that the black white hole vector is the only form that wormholes could exist in space-time. One need put an asterisk next to many “only place” ideas obviously for they are difficult to prove.

There are other theories today about gravity and black holes instead of quantum gravity theories. One is that singularities don’t really exist in black holes and instead they stop reducing at a certain size and spew out their mass through the wormhole and white hole on the other end.

Quantum entropy is a new explanation for gravity that obviously isn’t proven yet. Yet it could provide another opportunity for faster-than-light-travel theory. One should be able to use a star trek transporter to reduce an individual to an unentangled state and bounce the information down to the timeless two-dimensional place that uplifts the contingent universe of four dimensions. Space-time in that timeless two-dimensional realm is quite different (no time and no distance in comparison to the four dimension realm). Then one need return the disentangled quanta to a different location in the Universe.

Here is some information about quantum entropy gravity theory summarized by Gemini-

“The "quantum entropy theory of gravity" is a framework that proposes that gravity can be derived from quantum relative entropy, a measure of how different two quantum states are. This approach attempts to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity by treating gravity as an emergent phenomenon arising from the differences in information content between spacetime and matter. 

Entropy and Gravity:

The core idea is that gravity isn't a fundamental force but rather a consequence of the increasing disorder (entropy) within a system. In this framework, the geometry of spacetime is related to a quantum operator, and the difference between the natural spacetime metric and the metric induced by matter fields is quantified by quantum relative entropy. 

Bridging Quantum and General Relativity:

By linking gravity to quantum information, this theory aims to reconcile the two seemingly incompatible theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity. 

Modified Einstein Equations:

The entropic action leads to modified Einstein equations that, under certain conditions, reduce to the familiar equations of general relativity. However, it also predicts a small, positive cosmological constant, which aligns better with the observed accelerated expansion of the universe than other existing theories. 

The G-field:

The theory introduces a G-field, an auxiliary field acting as a Lagrangian multiplier, which plays a crucial role in the modified gravity equations and potentially offers new insights into dark matter. 

Emergent Gravity:

This approach suggests that gravity might be an emergent phenomenon, meaning it arises from the collective behavior of smaller, more fundamental constituents of spacetime.”