A Discursive Universe (poem)

 

The ocean seemed bottomless
except over space and time
where tectonics plates and distant shores
opened and closed like an accordion
played by a kangaroo

Variations on a crustal wave
mountains rising, falling, subsided and subducted
coated by vegetation
slathered with sunrises and settings
lives by the billions misled
willingly to wars like surface tempests
wherein biologicals strive and sometimes die

Wild oceans teaming with life
thrown into nets cast with poisons
toxins dumped into catch-alls
stars would notice
if they thought like distant AI units
with their own fusion power supplies

While the wonder of quantum fluctuations
of a theoretical unification theory
is a semblance
-a portion of reason to formulate a theory
of plank lengths, and meters in a fathomless sea
where nothing calculable surrounded a quantum microdot

The beginning of a relativistic bootstrap of virtually nothing
the continuum of everything being and becoming
a phenomenon within a void without end
breadth or depth comprehensible
wherein the temporal stars and planets
are the measure of meaning
for-itself never to be understood
though mathematical phrases reflect it.

Western Leadership May Always Be Recalcitrant About Truthful Peace Negotiations for Ukraine

 President Trump needs to resist calls from war mongers to place sanctions on Russia or restore weapons supplies to Ukraine.  My opinion for years was that Russia should share Ukraine with the Western government of Ukraine, dividing the country roughly along the Dnepr. So far Russia has failed to accomplish that goal while the west has been pure war mongering full-war ahead oriented toward Eastern military movement.

https://www.youtube.com/live/qhngetm_UvY?si=v3GWlLgs4kBFkX6e

Russia will not capitulate to attack;they took a beating from the Nazis and kept on ticking like Duracell batteries until they reached Berlin. President Putin has more modest goals, and capturing land that rightly should belong to Russia along the East Bank of the Dnepr is probably so far as that goes. The sooner Russia accomplishes that objective the sooner the war can end. No amount of PR grandstanding or conniving and levering will get that done. 

https://www.barrons.com/news/trump-blows-hot-and-cold-on-putin-with-ukraine-war-in-limbo-3c883bc2?refsec=topics_afp-news

The West seems to be happy itself to continue the war, so long as the U.S.A. and Russia pay for it. President Putin is not crazy to resist having modern Russia be converted into a rump state intimidated by the West and its queer values that concentrate wealth to global elites while letting the global ecosphere decay. President Trump may be drowning in cries from Western leaders to throw more bombs and missiles into the pot of Ukraine, and that would be hard to hear. He may have no supportive international allies that share a rational point of view on the conflict with him. 

If the west agrees to simple terms after the Russians accomplish primary goals with Ukraine and N.A.T.O. President Putin should sign off on peace readily I would think. The West needs to demilitarize Ukraine except for an adequate self defense force de frappe, eliminate all sanctions, demands for reparations etc and recognize full Russian sovereignty over it's occupied lands of East Ukraine.

Most likely the West will always be disingenuous with Ukraine negotiations as they want simply to own everything in it and perhaps the entire world too. hey will assure the worst possible outcome short of nuclear war and won't sue for peace until they feel threatened by Russian encroachment. It isn't that Europeans can't fight- they can, its just that few are stupid enough to fight an unnecessary, unprofitable war except with other countries lives and treasure. Becoming recondite and truthful is something one cannot expect. P.R. B.S. always follows the clownish negotiating positions they put forward publicly. That is a problem that people that believe they have absolute power and have no reason to make concessions of an sort are bound to have.

The Big Beautiful Boondoggle- Trump Trends

 President Trump has done a good job working many things. It is useful at this point to evaluate a few positions that seem to be causing him trouble.

One is the Bug Beautiful Tax Cut bill that would add 3.8 trillion dollars to national public debt. That definitely is the wrong way to go. It is a big budget busting boondoggle. It isn’t even remotely an ecologically sustainable approach either. President Trump should restore energy credits for non greenhouse gas emitting technologies or at least pursue new ways to reduce greenhouse gassing from the U.S.A. although that seems beyond his capability.

The leaders of both parties don't know what austerity is. The mind set of the prosperous isn't capable of recognizing that the present way of economics is environmentally unsustainable. The system cannot balance a budget and eliminate public debt even by undermining the security of the poor since they haven't got much to take away as it is. Pioneers of the nation could face tough challenges in economics- they had no choice of avoiding them, The trick is to be able to have that pioneer mind set while prosperous and to leverage that prosperity to jump from a melting iceberg form of economic drifting south onto one going in a different direction. Escalating competence in environmental economics may be a talent the prosperous aren't capable that frontiersmen found easy in the foundation of the nation.

Obamacare should be repealed and a national health care system for the poor and lower middle class created with direct provisioning of service by federal employees, The prosperous would be excluded. This really is the cheapest and most humanitarian approach.

Reaganomics had the fatal flaw of creating massive public debt, it was a good way to end the Cold War yet a stupid government always brings those sorts of things back to life. The Zombie war in Ukraine is a result of Clinton era dumb and dumber Russia policy designs.

Forty trillion dollars of public debt is just morally and practically dumb and unsupportable. The war in Ukraine can be wrapped up if President Trump recognizes those Russian free state annexations of the East Bank of the Dnepr, ends sanctions n Russia, and assures neutrality of west Ukraine so far as to make it a non-military threat to Russia. President Trump seems to be willing to kick the can down the road on that however, as he is with his Big Beautiful Boondoggle bill.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/how-much-will-u-s-debt-increase-with-passage-of-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-heres-the-whopping-amount/articleshow/121346960.cms?from=mdr

Epicureans and Stoics Had Beliefs- True or Not

 Epicureans and Stoics were both believers in a god or gods. Stoics believed in a divine principle or Logos and Epicureans leaned toward an identity as Deists. The actual beliefs of ancient Greek philosophic schools are different from those of modernity generally. Some of the ancients would be closer to Spinoza paradigmatically. They tended toward regarding god as a divine principle or power in back of everything, if they weren't polytheists. There isn't much of a relationship, if any, between those ancient schools and modern people of faith or of those that aren't. There are no simple answers in the field. One may of course compare and contrast ideas in a secular sense, phenomenally. That too generates synthetic ideas for-oneself and not necessarily an objective sense of what is true concerning various kinds of faith.

In the Light of Love (poem)

My love, I count you near my heart
wind rushing sounds of beating together
moving like quick quark art
lighting the darkness with ineffable ether

Starting with time rushing farther
breaking away from yesterdays fast
love can make one a martyr
it that’s the way fate is cast

Take me to your heart
for us let love never part
let it be shadows and silence that are leaving
as we share each other
in bright light of the sun

Starting with each other
there can never be another
way to live if you were gone
love will find a way to weather
never will love be wrong.

https://suno.com/s/Ao3xoRN31jeSl7Av

Love and Sacrifice- The Question of When Does it Count

 What if a man make a sacrifice for the wrong reasons, or fails to make a sacrifice when he should if he were virtuous- is anyone counting in eternity? That seems to be the question at the heart of love and sacrifice, although one may simply choose to give up their life entirely for secular reasons.

Someone asked about love and what can be learned from it. I shouldn't have replied to the question like it was the essay portion of an exam. I might have written more about love and honor, judgment and social reality. It is needful to express one's love in person. I of course have thought about sacrifice in many forms from that of Christ to war and wondered if everyone besides Christ, who was acting for God, made sacrifices that were generally meaningful. Sacrifices made in the name of love.

Everything is complex socially speaking. It is far worse than  that game where one persons has a message and they pass it down a line of people and at the end it is changed from the original. Sociology researches such issues, as do mathematics and physics, about the number of relations between individuals that are possible- in a world with 8 billion plus people there is so very much fragmented, distorted, misunderstood and lost information that it makes developing optimal political course very rare. Actually Gemini said there are 32 trillion possible relations among 8 billion people... more than I could keep track of.

On a personal level the most meaningful thing I was told counting as advice was from a man who had been a pallbearer of General Patton whom I was painting for. He said; "Don't make anyone's life more difficult; they all have their own battle to face". I once knew a lady with a tattoo on her arm from Auschwitz; that was the best advice I ever saw.

How to Make Cowboy Bead

 I will tell you how to make bannock (bread). It is cowboy bread and super easy. Good to know for emergencies. It actually works great over an open fire in a heavy iron skillet. Get a 5 gallon paint bucket and lid and fill it full with a twenty pound bag of flour. As you are filling it mix a can of Clabber Girl baking power in with the flour and mix it up well- then it is ready and stores fine for months. When you want bread take some of the flour mixture from the bucket and add cold water mixing it together until you have a ball of bread dough. Flatten it out to fill an entire frying pan about an inch  and a half thick. Grease the frying pan with vegetable oil and heat the bread slowly. You can flip the bread like a pancake if you are skillful. Brown both sides of the bread and make sure the center is cooked too. Never cut bannock; instead break it. I used to cut it horizontally and fill with tuna or meat from a can and whatever sauce I had- or jelly or ketchup. Instant bread, low fat and good. The five pound bucket provides enough bread for the better part of a month. If you add some Krusteaz instant blueberry pancake mix to the five gallon bucket the bread turns out somewhat like a giant blueberry muffin.

Expiring Date Info Colored Stickers for Grocery Shelved Items Would be Useful

 It might be useful for grocery store items like canned food to have chemically timed sell by date stickers that change color as they move toward expiration. Certain batteries do. The stickers could be installed by the manufacturer and might be available to grocers to buy and apply labels themselves that activate on exposure to air perhaps.

It isn't always easy for workers rotating stock to know when it expires... Customers to aren't always aware of the freshness of merchandise and it would save much time if a glance provided as much information as a check of small print on each product for shelf stockers to see if some stock needs to be rotated or taken down.

Alternatively there might just be a simple standard colored code different for each month of the year manufacturers could place in a small round sticker on each item sent to grocers so there is at least approximations of an expiration date.

A Universe Structured for Optimizing Intelligence?

 An interesting story by Wired reviewing research investigations comparing the difference structurally between human, bird and octopus brains to achieve intelligence brought me to consider that quantum super-position could be structured physically, spatially in a comparable unconventional configuration than is usually regarded through quantum mathematical and dimensional extrapolations to account for the apparent faster than light phenomenon.

https://www.wired.com/story/intelligence-evolved-at-least-twice-in-vertebrate-animals/

I imagined various spherical dimension continua containing the entire Universe wherein time is discrete and local throughout, and within the shell is another, smaller sphere containing the entangled phenomena that seems to observation to be the apparent Universe humans inhabit. Quantum activity from the inner sphere would be contained and reflected by the outer sphere as super-positions faster-than-light, because of the transcendence of time locality brought into effect by the entanglement.

A different kind of brain structure that processes thought from a core to a structured, integral surrounding sphere an infinite number of times- as a kind of all possible locations method before collapse of a wave-function into a single thought might get more bang for the buck from minimalist structures.

I have a lot of ideas about criteria for possible structures of the phenomenon bouncing around in my thought to illustrate the point that I haven't the time to pursue, so think for yourself how the Universe might work.

I asked Gemini for a critique of the idea and to feel free to add any mechanics suggestions.

Gemini wrote; "That's a fascinating cosmological concept, sparked by an equally interesting article on the convergent evolution of intelligence! It seems the article you're referring to, likely "Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals" (often discussed in relation to Quanta Magazine), highlights how complex intelligence and the neural structures to support it have arisen independently in different evolutionary lines, such as in birds and mammals, and remarkably, also in invertebrates like octopuses.

Insights from Evolutionary Neuroscience

Research in this area suggests that:

Convergent Evolution of Intelligence: Different species have developed sophisticated cognitive abilities through distinct evolutionary paths and brain architectures. For instance, birds and mammals appear to have evolved the neural pathways for intelligence independently, rather than inheriting them from a common ancestor.

Diverse Brain Structures: Octopuses, for example, possess large, complex nervous systems that are fundamentally different from vertebrate brains. A significant portion of their neurons are found in their arms, allowing for a unique, distributed form of processing. This underscores that there isn't a single blueprint for high intelligence.

Unconventional Configurations: The way these different brains are structured—vertebrate brains with their layered cortices versus the distributed ganglionic system of an octopus—shows that nature has found multiple, sometimes "unconventional," ways to achieve complex computation and problem-solving.

Your Cosmological Idea: Nested Spheres and Entanglement

Your idea of nested spherical dimensions with discrete, local time, and an inner sphere of entangled phenomena influencing an outer observational sphere is an imaginative way to conceptualize the universe and phenomena like apparent faster-than-light effects.

Here's a breakdown of the concepts you've woven together:

Nested Structure and Entanglement: You propose an "inner sphere" of entangled phenomena whose quantum activities are reflected by an "outer sphere" (our observable Universe)

<My note (GG)- actually the configuration I thought of is in the reverse order with the inner sphere being our Universe> .

 The entanglement is key to the "faster-than-light" effects due to a "transcendence of time locality."

Connection to Physics Concepts (General): While your model is unique, it touches on themes explored in theoretical physics, such as:

Higher Dimensions/Braneworlds: Some theories (like string theory) postulate extra spatial dimensions, and in some "braneworld" scenarios, our universe is a 3-dimensional "brane" embedded in a higher-dimensional space. Interactions or effects from the "bulk" (the higher-dimensional space) could influence our brane.

Quantum Entanglement: This is a real quantum mechanical phenomenon where particles become linked and instantaneously influence each other's states regardless of the distance separating them. However, it's generally understood that entanglement doesn't allow for faster-than-light communication of information, though it does challenge classical notions of locality.

Locality and Time: The idea of "discrete and local" time in various continua, with entanglement transcending this locality, is an interesting conceptual leap. Physics currently grapples with the nature of time, especially in unifying general relativity (where time is relative and continuous) and quantum mechanics. Some speculative theories explore discrete spacetime.

Analogy to Brain Structure: Your comparison to a brain processing thoughts from a core to a surrounding sphere, using an "all possible locations" method before wave-function collapse, is a creative analogy. It suggests a kind of global processing or resonance within your cosmological structure, where the "inner sphere" sets up potentials or superpositions that resolve in the "outer sphere." This resonates with the inspiration you drew from how different biological structures can achieve complex processing.

Theoretical Mechanics and Cosmological Models

When you mention "theoretical mechanics," it's worth noting that while classical mechanics provides foundational principles for physical theories, the kind of cosmological structure you're envisioning would typically be explored using the frameworks of:

General Relativity: This is Einstein's theory of gravity, which describes the large-scale structure of the universe, spacetime, and how matter and energy curve it.

Quantum Field Theory: This theory describes quantum mechanics in the context of fields, providing the basis for the Standard Model of particle physics.

Quantum Cosmology and Speculative Theories: Attempts to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics (like string theory or loop quantum gravity) delve into the fundamental nature of spacetime, the origins of the universe, and potentially the existence of other dimensions or novel structures.

Your idea is a thought-provoking synthesis, creatively linking biological evolution with fundamental questions about the universe's structure and the nature of quantum phenomena. It highlights how inspiration can come from diverse fields to tackle some of the biggest questions we have."

Make Air Force One Better in Hostile Skies

 The donation by Qatar of a 400 million dollar luxury jet to President Trump that he plans to retrofit and use as Air Force One is a useful way to make an upgrade of the older personal aircraft used by Presidents to get about the world. Democrats say its a national security threat, perhaps because they had the old Air Force Ones wired for sound and video and will no longer be able to surveil President Trump on a new aircraft.

In the modern world of stealth drones and high speed micro attack vectors the flying whale mega-jet sort of Air Force One may be a tempting target for new vectors that can disregard electronic, ir and other counter-measures to thwart conventional anti-aircraft missiles. A President probably should have a tougher aircraft capable basically of persisting to exist for a while in an aerial war environment. A retrofitted B-1 bomber would be somewhat Spartan and eschew cocktails and the press. If there was a larger, stealth air vehicle for the President of the United States that would be better. That would require a new design and production though. Possibly a manufacture of five aircraft in a one-off phenomenon would be adequate until the next generation. If the stealth aircraft were able to take off and land like a Harrier as a VSTOL that would be even better.

The Unregenerate (a poem)

 

Spun a world’s fun
replete with charming quips
of hernia mesh knits
holding atmospheres intact
when planetary facts
indicate forward causality retrofit gas lines
embargoes of warmest springs
signs an atmosphere is thick
enough to greenhouse bounce photons
starting with nothing tricky
8 minutes distant to melt the arctic ice
bounce back to the ionosphere
and down to Earth thrice

No one knows on fatuous shows
the power of ostrich to deceive
even unregenerated, faithless strivers
to rebuild nuclear powered lives
a hundred billion humans grow while forests die
high albedo surfaces fade away
tech sprawling absorbent warmth unto AI
high temps arrive night and day

If the moon were made of green cheese
it would weigh 2.64554715 × 1019 short tons
even it could not compare
in odor to global heating denial ones
trusting skynet to keep the sky cool
and the machine to filter the air through
politician's profit
media spinning the world on a precise middle finger

God may watch over all
of the stage with players strutting about
to find everyone else’s doings
inevitably worth a shout
and in the beginning
of an impossible void
an electro-magnetic like field
sourced light without anyone annoyed
its power inflated faster-than light
yet for a fraction of eternity
nothing was in sight

Teleology is just the power to draw
all those fields quarks forward toward it
every particle way directed toward thine
field strongest for cosmic expansion/attraction.
viewed from cities with plastic bags overhead
warming the Earth until all the dead are dead.

-an explanation of the poem above-  It is perhaps, circumstantial ontology. A philosophical paradigm of the circumstance of being. I was influenced by reading James Lovelock's book 'The Final Warning'. The discoverer of the ozone hole, Lovelock and Margulis coined the Gaia hypothesis. Lovelock said, about ten or twenty years ago that humanity would last only 200 years before the world becomes uninhabitable with global heating- hence my reference to ostriches. The commitment to take upon itself the Herculean task of  correcting the approaching environmental disaster created by 8 billion people is something humanity hasn't been able to face up to, and is absent. Regeneration is a Christian term about salvation and spiritual renewal from the condition of being spiritually dead. Humanity needs a political regeneration too in order to survive if Lovelock is right.

Cosmology, Teleology and the Monkey Style

 I watched a pair of good videos on different yet juxtaposed topics today concerning spirit. One is by Sabine Hossenfelder- a physicist, on cosmological teleology. In a physical cosmology paradigm teleology is the idea that the Universe is structured in a way that the future inducts the present towards it. One could for illustrative purposes have a vast magnet set into a timeless void and atoms of iron set at a distant point far from the magnet that are drawn to it over time. There could be various conditions that create such a teleological structure, including spirit.

That brings me to the other video; one on the monkey style of Kung Fu. The instruction about human spiritual development in regard to health and shaping the body toward purpose and function is quite good and worth watching even for non-martial arts practitioners. The Holy Spirit is one of the three persons of one God. Human heath and understanding of philosophic depth relate to intellectual and spiritual dimensions (meaning aspects here) of being, inclusive of physics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS2WMCimRRY&list=LL&index=1&t=11s Physical Teleology

https://youtu.be/IeiPZyrK85c Money style Kung Fu

Will Russia Grant Ukraine a 30 Day Time-out so it Can Rebuild Its Army and Weapons Supplies Without Worry?

 European Axis leaders met in Ukraine to organize a demand for a 30 Day Time Out from war so the West Ukraine army can have a chance to recover from recent losses on the battlefield. Russia is expected to deny the time out from hostilities anticipating that would increase their casualties when war resumes.

A cease fire is good if it doesn't give advantages to one belligerent side in conflict who would then resume hostilities. It is an unreasonable expectation. President Trump is said to be capitulating to Axis demands for everything Ukraine and may put new sanctions upon Russia to drive the world closer toward nuclear war eventually.

Google Goes All-In for Nuclear Power

 Google's decision to sponsor construction of nuclear power plants is interesting for several reasons. One of course is the Three Mile Island/Chernobyl anti-environment concern; in times of war or just terrorism via drones and hypersonic vectors nuclear atomization and dispersion could be hazardous to the health of Californians and others downwind like Nevada. Google could obviously choose to locate nuclear plants across the border in Mexico and around the nation near its data centers creating more work for climatologists predicting fallout patterns and shadows for possible disasters.

The choice for Google to go nuclear to provide abundant power for AI like Gemini with the Silkwood factor forgotten in history exemplifies the human acceleration toward building up  semi-intelligence with the simultaneous externality of increased entropy.

 In less than one generation the country has gone from vacuum tubes and transistors with mainframe computers and no pcs or smartphones-instead rotary dial phones on party lines were the norm, to vast networks of sprawling AI data centers demanding power for everyone's AI assistant on their smartphone and devices, laptops etc. The attraction for more ease and convenience outweighs- easily, the social good sense to configure a real material environment where the biosphere is not itself made into an externality of 'progress' and reciprocally forced into decline. 

Some evolutionary biologists have speculated that the most successful life on other are prokaryotes because they have been around for billions of years and may outlast the ark of creative intelligence that appeared briefly in the brief time of the complex organism of homo sapiens before they destroyed themselves. It is good to know that at least the meek or rather the simple will inherit the Earth if humanity destroys itself for lack of good sense in quest of excess profit.

Google Goes Nuclear

This phenomenon of the accretion of technology without a corresponding increase in environmental conservatism brings me to consider the complex of compresent developments of war saturating the planet following the catalyzing effect of the Ukraine war field test and development laboratory.

The Russians have developed the marvelous Oreshnik hypersoninc, marved missile that is truck launched, flies to space and releases several multiple reentry warhead vehicles that travel down to Earth targets at mach 11 twisting and spiraling on their way to evade Patriot missiles. Concurrently the U.S. navy has hypersonic whaling guns that shoot missiles from the bow at distant military targets. On a single day Ukraine may send 500 drones to attack Moscow while Russia retaliates with Islander hypersonic missiles that are short range and low trajectory flying under radar. The world is being saturated by smart bombs that fly, crawl and swim under the ocean surface. I can hardly wait until the year 2040 to see how that works out.

Protect Status from Hate Crimes for Religions, Yet Not for Atheists?

Religions interestingly, were included as a protected status under hate crimes laws. Provocateurs attacking religious people with bias rather than simply hate and anger need be mindful of their actions plainly. I wonder though about atheists; if they are regarded as a religion then they too have a protected status- hence it would be illegal or rather a hate crime for a clan of people dressed as hooded big birds to burn Darwin's Origin of the Species on the lawn of prominent prosyletizers of godlessness on a dark and stormy night with a full moon breaking through foreboding clouds. Good historians might be able to attack various points of religious history, and good theologians might point out some interesting facts, yet it would probably be the uneducated that would most attack people of faith with the vigor of destruction.

Make McKinley Great Again

 Mt. McKinley looks like Mt. Snow to me. Great one No denial that the rock extrusion was referred to in Koyukon Athabascan as the Great One. Denali = Great one. Most people in Washington D.C. don’t speak any Athabascan languages. They like to name things for politicians. So make the name great again in English language. It is a pretty good hill after all. Adjectives to nouns is a very controversial post-modern phenomenon. Ascension to higher language can be challenging.

Pope Trump Will Never Happen- Separation of Church and State

 I believe the purpose of President Trump issuance of an AI image of himself in Pope's garb may have been to reference himself as the leader of the United States rather than someone living in Rome. The question about foreign allegiance of Catholic Presidents was a concern in the 1960s with J.F.K and of course former President Biden was Catholic and showed his allegiance to Pope Francis touching his head with his own.. The topic is not difficult to understand. What was surprising is that most politicians would not risk losing votes, yet President Trump is not running for re-election so he didn't mind trying to make America Great Again reminding Americans to invest at home rather than abroad and to follow his leadership rather than that of the Catholic Church. I seem to recall that Francis was for illegal migration to America and supported other policies that were antipathetic to the M.A.G.A. agenda. Beside separation of Church and state, the real question is, as Jesus asked rhetorically, if anyone will have faith when he returns?

VP Vance Doesn't Understand Russia and Seems to Have Fallen Under the Military-Industrial Complex Spell

 VP Vance seems not to understand Russia history, Russian security requirements or the utility of resolving the Ukraine war directly. He believes Russia need make concessions. He is wrong about that; the administration need cut the Palestinian drag on weird multiple locations for Palestinian territories approach and draw a rational line somewhere, soon.

The U.S. isn't going to become militarily involved lest things escalate and should supply Ukraine with any military support at all; that just kicks the can down the road after the Russians roll up all of Ukraine (clue-bad time to negotiate then).  The N.A.T.O. Euro-U.S. military industrial complex legacy is a juggernaut that needs conflict. It is a raging beast with razor sharp teeth hungry for yogurt. VP Vance should not become prey to the endless agitation for eastward military expansion by the military industrial complex.

Russia is starting the slow advance moving across the Dnepr to secure Transnistria presently since Ukraine has moved troops north for photo op invasions of Russia. Recognize all of the areas Russia presently has on the East side of the Dnepr as Russian, guarantee no N.A.TO. expansion in to Ukraine, reduce Ukrainian forces to 250,000, create a no tax free trade zone 25 miles on either side of the Dnepr River for the world to invest in, end all U.S. sanctions on Russia and that would cover most of the real issues. 

Don't complicate a fairly simple situation. No war crimes trials for either side, no reparations. Just pretend a vast left-wing tornado happened in Ukraine and move on. the U.S. needs Russia to at least be neutral in regard to a possible future Chinese military adventure attacking elements of the west including Western Taiwan.

Real ID for Homeless Vets via Fingerprints

 Since there are millions of homeless Americans- they are always undercounted since many don't loiter in places where they could be counted, the federal Real ID program should be upgraded to let some of those document challenged persons qualify with fingerprints. 

There are substantial challenges for many of the homeless including some veterans in keeping documents together. A lost wallet can mean no legal employment with cash and theory to begin the mission of document target acquisition. Many cannot afford to pursue the documents they need (sometimes across several states) to qualify for Real ID. U.S. military personnel are fingerprinted at some point so Real ID could use some sort of fingerprint database for the homeless to have their's scanned and voila- Real ID. Homeless veterans should not need to pay for a Real ID to travel on an aircraft should they decide to shower, launder and get a seat.

Advance (poetry)

 

Anticipate the work of social times
applications of shadows and silence
about each stage progressing like Jacob’s ladder
actions included are mercy ship beatitudes
apposite echoes of causes first and last.

Hannity Reported on Trump-Carney Meeting

 Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney was brave enough to face the dragon in his lair and talk with President Trump. Fox news is a good enough source for what the administration thinks about things. Obviously one should find more than one source to learn about many topics. 

Donald Trump is a brash natural sort of politician, and that isn't easy to encounter by some professional politicians used to spinning nuanced b.s. in order not to lose votes. Sean Hannity made a video on the meeting and described P.M. Carny as a leftist. He used the global warming concern as evidence for the P.M.'s leftist orientation and described global warming as a hoax designed to let government take the public's money.

Mr. Hannity might try not to sound so much like the uneducated on environmental issues- global heating isn't a hoax. One needs to be really ignorant to fail to understand the concatenated effects of 8 billion people acting on the environment. Populist low-brow conservative yippie dispositions just makes things worse; each American reportedly already as about a teaspoon of microplastics in their brain. Imagine Lysenko as environment chief, that would be the hoax. Mr. Hannity is right to be worried about censorship in Canada of course. Freeing the U.S.A. from Democrat party censorship was one very positive effect of the Trump administration.

America doesn't need Canadian water for the S.W. It would be easy to make lots of freshwater by desalinating saltwater through evaporation and condensation using the sunlight of the S.W. I would be annoyed at the lack of creative industriousness if Americans invested in bringing water from Canada instead of manufacturing it themselves. All that need be done is to use solar power to pump water from the Pacific to the continental divide along the Mexican border roughly, ans let in spill downhill in canals covered with transparent material that would collect evaporating water and let it flow down the sloped roof to twin fresh water collecting canals running back to the Pacific and Gulf of America. Obviously there would need to be many dams or locks along the way. Environmental engineering is an underutilized resource generating option.

Quantum Field, True Vacuums and Phase Changes

 I am somewhat intrigued by the idea of a true vacuum existing before the start of the Universe that had quantum fields in it. The paradigm of a true vacuum existing before the start of a Universe implies that some sort of quanta exist in a true vacuum too. Virtual particles that aren’t really particles,  just being disturbances in a quantum field, arise for some reason. In present theory the best guess is that some virtual disturbances exist eternally- even when nothing else does. Lots of room for speculation about spirit in that paradigm.

It does make sense logically that the Universe of mass and energy we live in doesn’t occur in a true vacuum. A true vacuum should have nothing in it one might think, instead of being filled pervasively with various sorts of fields including gravity and electro-magnetism. Perhaps that line of thinking prompted some physicists to research the concern that sometime the Universe could experience a quantum phase change and revert to a true vacuum rather than a false one. 

The false vacuum hosts all of the entanglements of quanta in a Higgs Field- the Higgs Field is regarded as existing before the Big Bang- before gravity, strong force, weak force and electromagnetism. Alternatively the Higgs unrolled from the initial state of virtual disturbance simultaneously and allowed the Unified force to exist through it even with inflation faster-than-light (light not existing yet and gravity not unbound enough for a split second to slow expansion or draw mass together when not much mass had begun to exist.

The Higgs boson is an excitation of the Higgs field. It is an elementary particle that can decay into gluons and quarks yet it does so through the Higgs mechanism rather than breaking up into other particles. Perhaps the Higgs boson returns to forever and its disturbance knocks gluons and quarks into being (I don’t know). This is interesting information. I believe the inference is that all of mass and energy is produced temporally by the Higgs field phenomenon including gravity.

That idea isn’t new. Some popular cosmology books described that sombrero hat analogy paradigm in the late 1990s wherein the true vacuum is the most stable and low emery state of the Universe and that [recently the Universe is stuck at a higher level of vacuum. What has changed are research methods to investigate that paradigm using qubits and quantum computers to model the way a phase change could take place. It doesn't seem like an evolution; it happens everywhere all at once. Plainly the science has a long way to go yet it is interesting to speculate about when the quantum fluctuation that kicks off a sudden complete collapse of the soufflé of a Universe to its lowest and true vacuum state will occur.

https://scitechdaily.com/quantum-simulation-shows-how-reality-could-collapse-like-a-house-of-cards/

Western Leadership Failed to Adapt to the New Post Cold War Russia

 The military industrial complex of the United States was conditioned for more than a half century to regard Russia as the main adversary. When the Cold War and Soviet Communism ended most of the American establishment failed to adapt to the change and to engage positively with Russia. Fundamentally they transitioned from anti-communism to anti-Russia.

Russia did move toward being a free enterprise country. It largely ended communism although elites and government made property rights rather exclusively. Without heavy western investment in Russia that conditioned worsened in the sanctions era. Even so Russia has one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the world.

Russians and communists are different. There is no reason to regard Russians differently from anyone else when the communist burden is removed and continues. Russia sought to reform its society, create an income tax (the Ukraine war helped with that as it did Abraham Lincoln during the U.S. Civil War). And establish institutions including government for a democratic society. With N.A.T.O. expanding eastward and the loss of Its Ukraine properties and hegemony over Ukraine the development of democracy in Russia was put on hold. War loomed with the west. Russia looked to its former communist brother in arms China for help and found China more than willing to move their relationship closer since China wanted to keep communist supervision and authority over its partially market oriented society.

The failure for western leadership to adapt after the Cold War to the new Russian political reality is costly. Toynbee observed the challenge and response nature of leadership of civilizations. Toynbee could have included adaptation in his formula paradigm as well. The west in effect has driven Russia closer to China, and has strengthen Chinese leadership because the west refused to adapt to recognition of Russia as a worthy, friendly potential fellow travelers in freedom, free enterprise and national security, Since Russia is not fascist or communist the de facto position of western leadership to Russia is racist (reductio).

The failure of American leadership to adapt to the new Russia (with some notable exceptions like Donald Trump) may cost the west dearly as it

Determinism and Free Will May Share the Same Space-Time

 One can have free will and determinism concurrently. It is not one or the other. There are multiple levels of protocols for freedom to act within. Some are determined, and others are not. Computer programs may be written that way for example. The Universe is itself contingent and emergent being- determined in some parameters and undetermined within others. It is challenging to guess accurately about God's pre-knowledge of quantum structures and relations. Presently scientists even guess about what consciousness is and how it arises. 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-does-consciousness-come-from-two-neuroscience-theories-go-head-to-head/

Priorities of Pork Chops and Mirrors (a poem)

 

Slim brackets and parenthetical recalcitrance
set in tall, dark forests where shadows roam with wolves
wild skyhooks to other worlds and futures
bear stripping the skin of salmon
peacefully
crunching down time
oysters plated
mushrooms sliced expertly
to adorn coldly created
pork chops of privilege

  Electro-magnetic stairways to heaven
sold by the pound with orbital threshold cannon shots
a thundering steed loses the doctor to a low branch overhead
that scythe awaited  fate
girders erected to be demolished
beryllium dampeners absorbing the neutrons of them all

  Life of a zillion zebra striped insects landing on a sailboat
driven offshore to rest a moment
zebranomics kicking at the goads
inventions budding with springy steps
giant leaps across a moon of reflective thought
pockmarked landscape of pogo sticks
past tense littering the silliness of war
where no-reason is the entry to death-of-others
bullets shot through gelatinous bags
to accurately measure the meter crossed
in time to stop

  Each point of a wave
-in fact an infinite number of points
was confined to one dimension of a line
slithering sinusoidal dancers
collapsed for the wave function 
whereof one cannot speak
thereof one must be silent
like the night before photons
before the Word spoke into darkness
that comprehended it not.