Wall Street Virtual Bunnies Too Big to Fail (poem)

Quick like a virtual bunny
running through galaxies of political Universes
time exhaled mighty breaths
inflating fields of fantasy
called balanced budgets and e-dollars

Ships-of-state sailed over borders
eroded from below in waves of time's syncopated rhythms
crashed on shoals of semi-scientism edging forward
engines broke through bulkheads
firewalls on fire
melting steel in deep pools 
reflecting shiny precipitated prestige of power

Smoke and mirrors breezed through that subdivision's heat
stopped by nothing like snow, hail or sleet
broadcast spectra of extra dimensions
concentrated gravity like tomorrow's tornado'd pension
nothing structured to withstand the blow

Banking singularities too big to fail 
in the nest of Phoenix cuckoos of crisp design
wrote the new algorithms of Monte Carlo
harvest moons of reallocated cash
supplied on demand.

Neanderthal Oilcans Global Warming Death vs. EvoLizardFagocrats in 2016

U.S. politics leaves little to be desired in the tabloid paradigms clashing in dialectical mufsidoonisms. Backward looking Republican leadership squeezing more and more oil, SUVs and asphalt paving in wilderness and farmland run against godless atheist Democrat evolutionists with a 'nothing is real' ethos of anti-nationalism and homosexual center of effort of the ship of state.  Lizardcrats may believe love is the answer failing to realize that sin is a form of hate. Homosexuality is sin.

Neither major political party platform is very encouraging for just plain old poor, straight intellectual-athletes seeking change toward the ideal restorations of individual civil rights, ecosphere, national interest free enterprise with caps on the size of corporations, government, finance sector and with directed transition toward a fossil fuel free, no mass extinction of species America with zero involuntary unemployment.

At least the U.S.A. is no longer a good example for the world to follow on ecospheric friendly economic activity-if it ever was. The nation is stuck in the past or with its head up its a politically speaking, and shall remain in that dark place for some time I would think as the economic center of effort has shifted overseas through globalism.

A philosophical video on the Problem of Space treated as a Substance in General Relativity

A philosophical home-video on the problem of space being treated as a substance in Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.

Space is treated as a substance within General Relativity in order to model the actual cosmos. Logically thought, space is only a metaphor for the too-difficult-to-describe quanta of mass-energy comprising the physical Universe. Space in-itself is nothing at all-perhaps the ultimate contingent paradox. Space is infinite at all points, space has no location or extension, and is a volume of infinite extent without existing at all. Space ought not be regarded though as having vacuum energy. 

Instead spatial curvature in General Relativity should be refined to describe relationships of mass-energy tensors. Mass-energy relationship quantification in specific formulations ought to equal  gravitational fields of local systems in given time paradigms.

Logically mass-energy force tensors might take curved trajectories creating an appearance of spatial curvature.

Republicans Fail to Run Popular Candidates for President-Evolution of National Decline

Robert Redford starred in a film named 'The Candidate' long ago, one would think the Republican Party capable of comprehending political marketing strategy well enough to select a winner. But no, the Republican Party seems not to comprehend that Democrats run candidates with charisma and minimal qualifications economically speaking and that's good enough to win. In the meanwhile Toynbean historical cycle of national decline is overtaking the nation while no one is minding the store.

Marketing strategies for products work well for Republicans-they could rival George S. Parker in that field, yet they seem to pick the most uncharismatic candidates they can find for the White House without characteristics appealing to women. In the post-Oprah media world appearance is more valuable for getting elected than substance. Or rather, the substance is the appearance.

Voters don't want to feel saddled with an unpleasant President elected because the alternative is worse. Republicans need to pull out all the stops and use full court pressure even to have a chance at getting 50% of the vote in recent elections because they aren't running top-drawer individuals. Why not?

The answer could be that the U.S.A. just doesn't matter so much to the rich party anymore with China and Mexico being better places to invest capital for profit. Besides, the Democrat Presidents are doing the Republican's work in economics for them except for the debt, yet public debt perhaps isn't too meaningful to global capitalists networked abroad. If U.S. interests decline the value of their foreign interests shall rise.

Evolution theory has developed in politics as a buzzword for fate. Evolution political theory is a blind historical force determining political development rather than intelligent design inclusive of the well being of all U.S. citizens in the U.S.A. today. It is a convenient excuse enabling the concentration of wealth and political power in privileged elites. Political evolution theory applied as an equivalent of the oriental joss (fate) may be satisfactory for select scientific classes of epistemological extremists on the left and right with a point of view of human mind upgraded in the worst of B.F. Skinner's; The human body theory goes, is meat and mind is no more than a bio-chemical apparition within.

There is just no political demand for full employment and a balanced budget in the U.S.A.  with existentialist individual value satisfaction being the reality check on Wall Street. That is the Democrat Party does not run candidates with competence in economic realism any more. One postures and tries to fund partisan interests and lets the public debt absorb the not realistic approach to holistic national economics.

Every American needs a minimum income-there is simply a cost of living and jobs are hard to find. Even college graduates are unemployed or underemployed not uncommonly and the cost of getting good skills is very high especially with corporate permanence in the U.S.A. being decreasingly something to count on. Occasionally the nation selects a charismatic and competent individual with economic realism to be President, and that rare event seems like radical reform even if it is only moderately so. In 2016 the Republicans should actually make an effort to find an economic realist capable of generating full employment, ecological reform and moral leadership concurrent with destroying public debt in the short-term. The nation ought to step back from the brink of the 4th phase of the Toynbee cycle of decline from the universal phase.

Rectification of Names; Chess is Not a Sport

Chess is not a sport-it's a game, an intellectual game. Language has definitions within given ontological relativism of meanings. Lexicon A may or may not share some common terms with lexicon B, C etc. Lexicons are constructions and nominal rather than of a Platonic realist nature.

Chess and monopoly, tic tac toe and poker while competitive cannot be well said to be sports without Morphy'ing the meaning of sport so far as to relinquish its ordinary meaning.

We believe without bias that quadriplegics too can be champion chess players, or that even blind, quadriplegic chess players can rise to G.M. level if applying themselves with modern technology position-sounding chess boards (perhaps each piece would have a distinct pleasing sound when a hand is waved above it)for them. It would still seem an error to consider chess as an athletic instead of an intellectual activity.

Some can argue that the brain has neurochemistry that works-that it increases energy consumption with intellectual effort. That is true enough. Yet one can't regard chemical energy burning of plants as sport or  even that of an individual in a coma arising to r.e.m.sleep and increasing brain activity.

Intellectual activities are worthwhile ventures for-themselves. One would not use intellectual and athletic as synonyms, or consider Curlie, Moe and Larry as great intellectuals nor Albert Einstein a great athlete.

Philosophers assuredly do consider material things as well as abstract entities that have no material existence (if anything such could be said to exist) if that were possible. Within the greater metaphysics of monism-all things that exist would be material, spiritual or whatever other term one wanted to label everything that exists with.

The Olympics got rid of wrestling-one of the original sports, and might like to add chess one day in order that Norway could get more gold medals in areas besides sky jumping, giant downhill or shooting targets while cross country skiing. The most difficult question for the I.O.C. would be is chess a summer or a winter sport?

The Icon & the Axe, The Cross & the Switchblade, The Queers & The Rich- The Toynbee Cycle of Contemporary History

 The historian James Billington once served as the Librarian of Congress. Billington also wrote a book named The Icon and The Axe. The work of  history of the Rus from the arrival of Vikings to lead as royals at Kiev continuing through the arrival of orthodox Christianity and icons of the faithful is a portrait of the evolution of a civilization. Of course we know that Ivan the Terrible began a centuries long battle to recover land and political power lost to the Mongol invaders after Genghis Khan. Americans often lack a sense of history and fail to learn lessons of history, yet we have great world historians such as the late Brit Arnold Toynbee to help us understand the way of the world and its recurrent political cycles of evolution.

The United States experienced a manifest destiny on a lightly populated North American continent and a vigorous, healthful, rising culture of immigrants and new American-born sons and daughters of the frontiers of ingenuity, free holding pioneering, faith and invention. Democracy was a natural fit for people without an oppressive ruling class located in Europe. The American Revolution to cut away that cancer was an example for the world to follow. France and Russia would accomplish the same revolts against corrupt powers of concentrated wealth with different results.

The Russian revolution did not occur in a vacuum. Russia was faced with continental powers and even American military resistance yet overcame only to be co-opted by corrupt an oppressive ruling class leadership and bad political philosophy leading to the termination of individual free enterprise in the Soviet society. Today Russia as an emergent democratic society faces the challenge of an ad hoc global ruling class of concentrated wealth that would buy everything in Russia and repress the locals if they could. The ordinary people of the United States have already experienced their own post cold war reduction under the deregulated power of Wall Street banks, corporations outsourcing production, large scale immigration of cheap labor and bad political leadership that has failed to show any interest in ecological reform of economics or full employment for all U.S. citizens. Wealth and power is increasingly concentrated in the U.S.A. and globalism through a hoc Wall Street networking has progressively reduced individualism in economics in preference for ad hoc corporate and government collectivism.

 The Cross and the Switchblade was the title of a film with the actor Pat Boone highlighting the difficult moral choices of a New York gang member. We see that the weapon of choice had moved downscale from the war axe to the switchblade; a smaller, more concealable weapon selected for a modern urban culture. The sort of individualism that might have made Erik the Red a good Viking explorer and outlaw of Iceland had been suppressed by the N.Y.P.D.  Individualism in New York and America still flourished in the 1950s- an era before the rise of the World Wide Web and instant global stock trading.

While personal weapons have downsized, in the collective era social weapons have vastly increased in scale. Nuclear weapons, microwave cookers of mass destruction, designer biological society terminators and innumerable others have made the future of humanity dubious. As individualism has been drowned out by collective social environments and as the ecosystem has declined in health with a vast repository of insults by economic activity social irresponsibility has increased. Personal egoism developed as a Wall Street philosophy and the capitalist philosophy of Adam Smith was transformed into a Frankenstein monster running roughshod over the moderate purpose of democracy and its ability to adapt to the dense population era. The poor increased in the United States as wealth was concentrated consistent with party political theory.

 Contemporary U.S. political leadership has made this an era aptly titled The Queers and The Rich. The Obama administration made homosexual service in the military and homosexual marriage it's basic political goals along with creating a corporatist national health care infrastructure. It has failed to close Guantanamo Bay incarceration centers or prosecute 2008 Wall Street collapse actors sufficiently to put a single principle in prison. The administration has supported Federal Reserve printing of 90 billion dollars per month of free no interest loans to banks too-big-to-fail and supported development of war in Syria. These are the actions of a nation in Toynbean decline piling of vast national debt and moving into a Universal economic phase of civilization.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Study_of_History

 Before the modern trends of decline in the U.S.A. Arnold Toynbee wrote his 'Study of History' detailing more than 20 civilizations that had arisen and fallen and considered the reason why. America seems to have little interest in not proceeding to it's own fall. That fall may not coincide with the apocalypse at the end of the world foretold by three or more different religious faiths. Instead the failure of U.S. political leadership may simple place the U.S.A. in receivership or get its population decimated by global warming, mass epidemic or collapse of political institutions and infrastructure.

 The major political parties essentially serve the queers and the rich. Neither Democrats nor Republicans are mutually exclusive of ends or means. Democrats are the shop stewards to the global corporatists. With the Obama administration the apostles of global homosexual marriage propping of Wall Street the Democrat Party has no leadership cognizant of ecological economic reform or an interest in full employment. It has not even built trans-continental express bicycle lanes for the unlazy or those with electric engines for their bike.

 In the age of fracture with existentialist atheism supporting an ethics of social irresponsibility well serving to concentrate wealth and power ad hoc collectivism has repressed the American ideal of individualism. De facto collectivism in the ad hoc corporatist state has little interest in rebuilding or reforming public works. It seeks tax cuts for the rich-perhaps a flat tax-and is happy to pile up vast public debt to support Defense contractors for superfluous foreign military activities.

 Contemporary collectivism with an evolutionary stamp of godless approval finds no reason to believe in meaning or ethics. Nationalism and pursuit of national interest, the conservation of the environment or restoration of democracy through reallocation of the broadcast media wavelengths to citizen podcast broadcasts locally to take away the power of concentrated wealth to concentrate mass communications power a little.

 Then there are more elections in 2014 and 2016, yet there are few capable candidates with any visions of national change.

General Relativity and the Problem of The Infinite Curvature of Space at Time=0

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity treats space-time as a unified field. Space for much of the course of the physics was regarded as a real substance albeit thin rather than nothing at all. At time = zero in a big bang paradigm with general relativity spaces necessarily is infinitely curved to a singular point of effective non-existence. Mass and energy are requisite for the curvature of space-time with gravity in G.R.

 Physical processes can be modeled with time-space reversibility. If gravity did not exist in the early universe then the curvature of space-time shouldn't equal zero--the inference is that the beginning of the Universe would not be at time = zero but a little later instead. The tardy universe context can be overcome with hyperinflation theory evidently.

 Immediately after Time equaled zero (along with infinitely curved space) decayed or released its grip, or the word to begin was issued, an inflation of mass-energy and space-time developed for a small fraction of a second and in the absence of gravity (that didn't come into existence until a little later) the Universe increased its size remarkably. Space-time unpacked or decompressed quite a bit-it was the proverbial size of a grapefruit now- and the energy of the universe eventually converted substantially into mass. Apparently, when infinitely compacted, mass is entirely converted to energy-mass unification. Infinitely compacted space has no time or motion and has tremendous potential energy and mass.

 What is wrong with this excellent picture of space conceptually? In effect general relativity describes the relationship of mass and energy along with steady-state quantum spacing instead of space itself. Space itself is a volume of nothing. Mass and energy are the something described by general relativity, and the quantification of space-time curvature is the convention used to describe steady-state mass-energy relationships.

 Spatial volume itself is nothing at all. It is a remarkable philosophical point for me at least that every sort of infinity exists in space at every point. Space is infinite simultaneous with being nothing at all and not existing anywhere. Sartre called space non-being, however non-being can apply to absence as a condition instead of the physical fact of spatial volume.

 The quantification of mass-energy relationships with general relativity is fine enough and effective yet I think the implications for error in treating the quantum field of mass-energy of the Universe is substantial. Vacuum energy for one thing, or virtual particle energy is considered as arising from nothing rather than from a subtler quantum configuration of mass and energy.

 Like the force-carrying particles of the sub-atomic realm the macro physical universe as gaps and spacing configured by physical protocols of spin, momentum, quantum mass and so forth. The discrete nature of a quantum field is at once pluralistic and a continuum of monism. The mass-energy field initial endowment of the Universe may expand and smooth itself out through entropy yet it does logically seem to be something like a complex entanglement of knots that eventually unravel transforming into a sheet or membrane. That membrane may be at the opposite end of infinite initial compactness, yet it exists in the absolute nothingness of space.

 Perhaps each Universe membrane replete with its configuration of dimensions has an initial quantum value of energy. One must wonder if there is variability in the quantity of mass-energy that can be initially bound at a singularity such that the scale of potential expansion varies. If black holes are a comparable measure then Universe-singularities too might have different initial quantum value for possible scalar field increase.

 Transforming Einstein's General Relativity to a paradigm treating space curvature as macro-quantum mass-energy relationships might be a way to renormalize the philosophical criterion of space logically. What is missing is a theory of quantum gravity explaining the metric of general relativity as a subtler microcosmic event-process relationship without invoking space-time.

 A Universe regarded as quantum mass-energy embedded in the nothingness of space, finite in contrast to the infinity of nothingness of space-in-itself could take a variety of forms. The spherical universe arising from a singularity seems most logically satisfactory-especially as gravity seems to draw mass into 3 dimensional spheres such as planets. General Relativity allows gravity to reduce Universal mass to a singularity at Time = zero yet if the mass energy of the Universe is compacted to a size smaller than a graviton maybe the power of gravity no longer exists letting the inherent energy of the Universe expand. General relativity does not evidently treat the force-carrying quantum of gravity different from space-time.

 If there were four spatial dimensions perhaps gravity would compact mass into hyper-cubes. String theorists have developed the idea of membranes in an 11 dimensional Universe and given thought to a meta-Universal 'Bulk' mother-of-all-Universes field with 3-dimensional membrane universes drifting about in the greater dimensional Bulk Meta-verse-what Dr. Mario Gasperini in 'Before the Big Bang' described as a perturbative field with virtual energy from which matter might coalesce and form into an equal yet opposite Universe before the big bang and medial singularity between Universes (something like the narrow point of an hourglass).

 Steinhardt and Turok developed the concept of membrane Universes that collide acting somewhat like a Big Bang without a singularity. I think it's possible to develop the idea of a membrane Universe without so many extra-dimensions as String Theory.

 Strings on a membrane surface may be a basic invariant form of texture flux in the energy-mass of the Universal field. Gravity could be a subtler flux relation of the basic Universe-membrane that arises in the history of the Universe, and perhaps will fade out one day too when unknown quantum phase changes occur.

 Cyclical membrane Universes in a Bulk Mother-of-all-Universes field without space-time locality (or would there be space-time locality and general relativity in a Bulk hyper-dimensional field of all-possible Universes arising?) are interesting things to consider. Seemingly overlooked is the idea of a single membrane Universe with strings embedded in absolute nothingness without a perturbative vacuum providing an unlimited electrical supply for free.

 A Universe membrane field continuum of energy and mass without the space-time as a substance parameter of general relativity ought to be considered within the headlong rush to extrapolate greater and more complex recursive causal explanations for the mechanics of the physical cosmos. Perhaps a single membrane 3-D Universe field could account for phenomena such as dark energy and the accelerating expansion of the Universe. Could the field itself have subtle form changes in relation to the configuration of solid-state forms? Might the spacing of one-dimensional strings change in the field over time in a quantifiable way, or could a non-quantum continuum of expansion occur with entropy invoking something like Boyle's law of gases to draw mass-energy of the membrane into the oblivion of nothingness at a quickening, competitive rate?

 Whatever the original field of Being is, variegation in the form of its attributes described with quantification within a monistic Universe of mass and energy might reduce to the classic philosophical problems of being and nothingness existing since Parmenides. That mass could be reduced to infinitely small size as if scale and quantified attributes were stages of temporality on the way presents innumerable additional points to consider.

On the Marginalization of Philosophy

Pragmatic concerns are infused in contemporary philosophical method. That is one need earn a living, and control of Internet Communications for profit are quite real. If one writes philosophical analysis of society from a minority (intellectual) point of view it is inevitable that the managerial class will close that down eventually. As an independent writer in the U.S.A. I have experienced being banned from Helium.com and presently gather.com is frozen down after acquisition by Health Guru Media. There aren’t too many places to write philosophy for pay. Ghost Bloggers said my first post on the ‘Incoherence of Evolution Theory in Politics’ was incoherent.

If one tries to explain that lies do not inevitably harm people, but it is the lack of knowledge of the receiver of false data that is potentially harmful, the difference is too complex for the managerial class that thrives on populism and the need to reinforce cliche. If an individual hears a lie yet recognizes the lie having knowledge of the truth how has the individual been harmed? While putting out false data is wrong generally, analytic philosophers at least ought to have an opinion cognizant of Quine’s work in Ontological Relativity and keep a social epistemology theory that allows somewhat more existentialist subjectivism to individual responsibility regarding language meaning.

I believe that the problem of modern corporatism and networking will tend to marginalize philosophical thought. The managerial class is politically castrated a priori in order to advance in the business world wherein a happy peaceful repose in evolution theory applied to politics exists-mankind is meat without a soul and thought is meaningless goes the post-modern screed. In that paradigm philosophy is meaningless, yet of course for business phenomenally input of energy and power to politically empower meat is given priority. Such value theories generate innumerable ethics consequents inimical to democracy, free speech and meaning.

I appreciate Warburton’s work yet am skeptical about the potential for slowing the concentration of wealth and power in the United States at least as well as global warming, mass extinction of species or even cosmological speculation infused with metaphysics and theology to consider parameters of classical philosophy (e.g. Plotinus) with pre-inflation theory. Mass economic power taking over higher education tends to marginalize independent thought.

Letters & Photos- of Moose and Men/Women

Letters from the past and more recent photos- flotsam and jetsam in the stream of time that I find interesting to post to the cloud.

Spheres With Ice Shields For Earth-Mars Orbiter?

Buzz Aldrin described a permanent Earth-Mars orbiter that astronauts would catch when it neared Earth and jump off close to Mars. Constructing such a module in space with ice from comets melted to water and put into a shield around a round module as a shield could be feasible.
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-aldrin-colonize-mars.html#inlRlv


I believe 15 feet of ice are needed to stop most GCR's and SEP's. Ice already in space would be the cheapest to get perhaps.Injection formed spheres by the thousands could be built in space and provided with modularized components built on Earth, the Moon or maybe asteroids. I would think the mass of solar system planets ought not be changed much.

Researchers are studying radiation from Galactic cosmic rays and solar emitted particles-the first are worse and  the second most common. The Curiosity Rover spacecraft measured radiation in space during the trip to Mars from Earth, arriving in 2012 on the red planet.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130530.html

 http://phys.org/news/2013-05-exposure-journey-mars.html#jCp

image credit N.A.S.A./Cal Tech/JSC