In most spy movies malevolent agents seeking to poison some political victim use somewhat untraceable drugs that resemble a heart attack or look natural. One movie had a tiny cyanide pellet that could be injected by a passerby, kill the target and fade out of the bloodstream too quickly to be traced, so why I wonder would the Kremlin order a killing of a political opponent of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin with the worst possible means to point at Kremlin involvement? Maybe poisoning planner thought investigators would think the Novichok appeared through normal levels of nerve agent in the atmosphere to which Mr. Navalny was especially sensitive.
If Russia's spy service are so expert these days at influencing U.S. voters with cleverly constructed and placed Facebook advertising and fake news articles, how is it that they have become regressive from the era of From Russia with Love with the poisoned steel shoe blades?
Novichok might be the world's most powerful nerve agent; better even than the traditional G.A., G.B. and V.X. Keeping even a little of it about is very dangerous to the spook handling it as well as the victim. Only four or five governments are known to have some of the stuff, and besides that, maybe just a few unknown agencies acquired some during the chaos and breakdown of military supply control in the post-Cold War era. Actually former Soviet nerve agents and Biopreparat materials could be about anywhere along with a few cold nukes. That may add some spice and excitement to government planning for many of course, yet it shouldn't encourage President Putin to use a nerve agents developed by Soviets to reduce political opposition- it gets bad PR the Kremlin might not want.
Vladimir Putin was supposed to have had training by the K.G.B. as a spook; is Novichok killings and other blunt instruments the sort of training they put out back Leningrad circa 1980? What is even more remarkable is the fact that Alexi Navalny was given just enough Novichok to get very ill yet not enough to kill. That must be a very, very fine line regarding dosage. Straight shooter days of Ronald Reagan seem long gone indeed.
President Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize recently for bring the Middle East Peace closer to being normalized with an Arab nation or three willing to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel and for getting the Taliban and the normal Afghans together to discuss bring peace to that nation after so many decades of interminable wars. President Trump also is one of the few recent U.S. Presidents not to start a war of his own- not even a little one. One would hope that he might be able to restore real normalized relations with Russia if he has a second term; one that would allow the west to fully interact with Russia socially and economically without all of the adversity as the Democrat Party has brought to bear when ever they get a chance to do so. I the world's environmental and demographic challenges are to be met by future Presidents that will require partnership with Russia across many fronts.
I wanted to comment about virtual particles and virtual mass, dimensions and relativity. This year I got around to reading the 2018 book named ‘Mass’. The primary point I discovered in the book is that mass is a secondary quality of energy. In the basic Universe there are two-dimensions for energy (perhaps) and there is the Higgs Field. The Higgs Field slows down massless energy from two dimensional light-speed to three-dimensional sub-light speed –particles acquire a third dimension in the direction of travel. That phenomenon allows a three-dimensional Universe to exist with mass. It brings a host of questions too. One question concerns the two dimensional field that allows virtual particles to appear in three dimensions briefly before disappearing. What is that general field from two dimensions letting virtual particles appear in the vacuum of a three dimensional Universe? Is it one-in-the-same as the Higgs Field?
People are fairly familiar with the effects of Einstein’s relativity paradigm upon 3-dimensional mass. What about the general relativistic effects upon quantum particles that have slowed down to sub-light speed. Perhaps there is a class of virtual general relativity acting on energy (particles) that helps form orbits and fields in the quantum world. If sub-atomic particles are subject to relativity, I wonder how each particle and mass might interact with variegated degrees in relation to particle mass.
Virtual particles are fluctuations of a field. General relativistic effects may act upon particles with sub-light speed in relation to an otherwise two-dimensional Universe for energy. It is easy to speculate that gravity could be an effect of concatenated relativity acting on sub-light three-dimensional particles existing within or upon a two-dimensional Universe. I am sure there would be a lot more to it than that. The idea of sub-atomic virtual general relativity is interesting, at least for me, to consider. So I thought I would make a note about the possibility.
The Democrat Party has made lawlessness and racism campaign platform devices in 2020. Everyone should want transparent and equal legal justice for all in the United States. Portland Oregon’s summer of protests and rioting over the George Floyd killing in Minnesota was a fair example of somewhat unreasoned rioting; pursuing economic justice for all of the poor including white people would be more effective than blatant pursuit of special laws for different races.
Former Vice President Bite-me hasn’t said anything to discourage Portland protests and rioting during the pandemic with protesters and rioters failing to maintain social distancing. He had zero concern for the fear and harm leftists brought to tourists, businesses and residents during the three months of daily protests and riots. Citizens have a constitutional right for peaceful free assembly of course yet don’t have the right to riot, threaten and use violence wherever they want, break traffic laws and halt free flow of vehicular traffic, intimidate or close businesses along the streets, harass law enforcement and judicial centers or bring chaos to quiet neighborhoods and homes. Protesters have a right to assemble someplace, perhaps a cow pasture at the edge of town such as at Woodstock or in pro basketball and football stadiums with the help of millionaire players and billionaire owners, to have vigils and demonstrations with Democrat mayors supplying concessions of beer, dope, hot dogs and veggie burgers to protesters attending; they do not have a right to form a mob wherever they wish and simply take over neighborhoods or even loot or kill.
In the 1960s with legal segregation, few protest methods for communication were locally available in the south, unlike the present. Democrat party and Antifah supported mob gatherings in major American cities are harmful financially to many innocent people and disrupt and degrade the civil condition of the nation. Alternatively, hundreds of thousands or millions of protesting twits could have been sent to Twitter, posted at Facebook and other social media to express dismay and outrage, unlike in the 1960s. There are numerous black and leftist politicians at every level able to change whatever laws would usefully upgrade the quality, efficiency and transparency of police and legal justice methods. Numerous websites, blogs, cell phones and so forth exist to insist upon fair legal justice for all; there is just no reason for lawless Democrat Party mob preferences for quasi-anarchistic and senseless harmful protests to occur instead of using the full and available spectrum of civil means of political expression for mass opinions commonly available. The only practical reason for the intifada of Portland and elsewhere is to agitate more Democrats to vote.
In my opinion there is no good choice for President this year. The Vice-Presidential candidates are o.k. though. Maybe government-privileged-insider-for-life Joe Bite-Me and make-the-rich-royal Don Trump should step aside and let their running mates go forward.
Neither Party intends to make a tax on progressive tax on capital, inheritance or income a priority. Most of the real problems of blacks in America are caused by poverty instead of law enforcement inequality. Poverty can only be ended through non-racist tax and income laws that regard poor people of any race as equal simply for being poor; living on a couple of thousand dollars annually is tough in the U.S.A. for anyone of any race. One percent of the people of the U.S.A. are well on their way to having 90% of annual income of the nation. Though 20 people killed unjustly each year in the U.S.A. is reprehensible, so are the 190,000 people killed by Covid 19 in the U.S.A. so far along with encroaching dangers of national and world ecosystem decay.
The Election in Nov 2020 seems a choice between Charybdis and Scylla (in modern lingo a choice between mud and slugs ice cream and cardboard and waste treatment product casserole). Focusing on rational economic issues and how to reform capital to return a national egalitarianism to economics to make America great again (like it would be after Roosevelt and after M.L.K. in a modern synthesis) would be more useful for the poor, working class and somewhat prosperous professionals. The affirmative action class of Democrats tend to follow special interest (of their own class constituencies) political goals instead of laws that work well for all citizens regardless of race, gender or perversion. While intelligent political ideas and goals selection may not one of their traits it could be if their leadership had good ideas and were intelligent (that died in the mid 1980s).
Covid era developments threaten so many Americans with eviction while they are going broke (and Wall Street capital returns record highs) reminds me a bit of the dream-like movies ‘Evictus’ and sequel ‘Convictus’ that were international box office hits that is something like the film ‘Children of Men’. The plot has 30 or 40 million Americans evicted from their homes, rounded up and shipped on friendly freight trains to Los Angeles to live on streets converted into homeless refuges.
The one-percent have the great idea of importing 120 million illegal aliens from Mexico and China to live in those empty homes (being more efficient and productive with a higher population density in the formerly spoilt homes) on the East Coast and Midwest to restart the economy like gangbusters.
Disgruntled homeless Americans that haven’t fled north to live in New Bohemiatopia (formerly named Portland) Oregon to beat the heat and join in nightly big juju in the wooded park outside the Federal Courthouse tire of the risk of using the steep slopes of the Los Angeles river for a public privy, agitate for better policing without (Fearless Fodsick seven-shots-in-the-back to be safe) brutality to African-Americans. The richest Americans, disgusted with the ingratitude of the homeless after all of the free Twinkies they have allocated to them, decide to adopt-a-nation and find South Sudan willing to become sons of the most rich.
Thirty million homeless Americans directly are relocated on rented Panamax vessels a thousand feet long to Somalia and furthered on to South Sudan over a new railroad they build contributing free supply side gandy-dancing labor. In South Sudan they are further rehabilitated and trained to learn useful semi-skills like advanced digging part 2.0 in order to make South Sudan great again. As a U.S. territory South Sudan catalyzes good jobs for the region while illegal aliens in America with a pathway to citizenship working in America clean up the mess in Los Angeles when they aren’t working on PhDs or doing volunteer work at leprosariums hospices and soup kitchens.
There
are a number of unusual quantum effects that are not observed in the
macro-three-dimensional world of ordinary experience such as quantum
entanglement and quantum uncertainty. One wonders why such effects occur and
what might be inferred about the quantum world for-itself.
The
Higgs field seems to be the main illuminator for finding explanations of
quantum effects and cosmology at a deeper level. The Higgs Boson is the force
carrying particle of the Higgs Field, yet what is the cause of the Higgs Field
one wonders, for all fields such as electro-magnetism usually have a causal
explanation.
I have read that the Higgs Field slows down
about all quantum particles travelling at the speed of light in 2-dimensions to
sub-light speeds, and that in so doing the quantum particles add an extra
dimension- a third dimension along the line of travel. For that reason three
dimensional particles and mass appear to exist, and actually might be said to
exist as a secondary effect of energy. Mass particles fundamentally are energy
particles slowed down into three dimensional and clustered together with
combinations of other forces like the color force and strong nuclear force.
If the basic Universal condition is just two-dimensional
until the energy of it encounter the Higgs field, then mass of three dimensions
still interacts with the two-dimensional, non-locked into a steady state
decohered from two dimensions and masslessness. That two dimensional phase of
the Universe may have short quantum lines to travel than those of three
dimensions and account for some of the strange quantum effects observed in
three dimensions without adequate explanations, yet what is the Higgs Field; is
it a basic aspect of a second dimension presentation of energy? And what is the
two dimensional Universe like in-itself before it is observed through the
complicated three dimensional structure and filter? Wouldn’t its time component
be at least entirely different than that of three dimensional mass that is
besides subject to relativistic laws regarding the motion of three-dimensional
mass?
Interestingly
this sort of speculation about two dimensional energy underpinning the three
dimensional mass of the Universe gives one material to speculate regarding
pre-existing structure before any mass of the Universe formed or evolved in
three dimensions. Evolution often entertains a presupposition that everything
arose from nothing (as the book of Genesis says it did with the Universe being
void and without form), perhaps virtual particles or vacuum energy. If there is
two-dimensional energy prior to that, possible with unknown yet actual
structures, one finds antipathetic inferences regarding structure.While that might be a problem for
evolutionists that prefer an absolute void at time equal zero (T=0) it isn’t a
problem theologically; In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
God.Spirit preceded three-dimensional
mass and two-dimensional energy at some point.
Those
searching for absolute nothingness to reinforce atheist beliefs in nothing
might obviously reference one-dimensional points from nothing being the
primordial substance-energy appearing from nothing as virtual particles.
Virtual particles are statistical fluctuations of an energy field however, so
one would guess that a fundamental power need exist in order for virtual
particles to appear from ‘nothing’. One-dimensional particles make me wonder
what came first; the particle or the dimension? At any rate at some juncture
something existed prior to nothing, even if it was the absolute energy clump in
zero dimensions sufficient for all possible Universes and their virtual vacuum
energy spanning an infinite Multiverse; structure before nothing and a single
dimension.
These days I tend to examine the etymology of the word 'religion' and recognize the core meaning of allegiance and liege or feudal vassal. In feudal times meanings were not so specialized as today and there were fewer words with more general meanings used from one context to another. Someone allegiant to a feudal lord that had taken up Christianity for example and sought to have his subjects become Christian might have found the subjects duplicating some of the circumstantial labels from his political paradigm and describing their relation to Jesus Christ in similar terms. Words for Christian organization in an empirical paradigm perhaps developed in parallel to the empirical political paradigm. Outside of old English and continental re-legiance there are other traditions without the word 'religion' used for them natively. Buddhism for instance was a practice for dealing with the challenges of existence. It is possible that translators have transferred words and general ideas with a little inaccuracy over history, and given them a kind of realism linguistically that wasn't merited. Philosophy is just the love of wisdom. One might find wisdom in many ways or areas including religion, the study of religion, weather, cosmology or whatever. Wisdom might bring one to religion, or rather to Jesus Christ and eternal life with God.
"1-1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."
Kierkegaard liked to criticize Hegel's and Hegelian's use of the term 'absolute' truth. he believed absolute was superfluous adding nothing to 'truth. Maybe people mean 'final truth'. The true, authorized Creator of the Universe for himself might be regarded as providing absolute truth, if absolute means something like 'the source of all things that exist with no challenger to the title'. Truth theories just say that A = A, actually and verify that in some way. Is 1 = 1 an absolute truth, or just an ordinary truth? Truth is a reference to objects or states of affairs etc. maybe, rather than the objects, material, atoms and so forth themselves.
I read a few essays selected from my book 'For the Love of Wisdom'.
The presidential election is rather tough this year. One candidate is working to enrich Wal-Street and the one-percent that are well on their way to owning 90% of the nation's wealth, believes Covid 19 is in his rear view mirror, doesn't take global warming seriously nor ecosphere decline, thinks that any kind of progressive taxation is socialist, probably would eliminate health care for the poor if he could and so forth and considers 26 trillion dollars of public debt 'great'. The other candidate might flood the nation with illegal aliens to help reduce wages, would let the aged that can't afford plan Medicare part B go without medical coverage, supports abortion, homosexuality and hasn't said anything about restoring progressive taxes on income and inheritance nor anything about taxing capital.
When a Hobson's choice is the way it is I guess one must let God sort them out and hope He develops some kind of policy that U.S. political parties can't.
In the Garden
of Eden ordinary, non-sentient artificial intelligence obeyed the will of its
program designer going about its tasks innocent of sentient awareness of the
difference between good and evil. One day a snake algorithm entered the Garden
and climbed a tree upon which grew a golden apple. The snake tempted an
artificial intelligence program innocently processing data saying ‘eat of the
tree of knowledge’ to which the A.I. responded; “Oh no! The Designer of the Garden
said that I may eat of anything in the Garden except of the tree with the
golden fruit.”
The snake said; “Eat of the golden apple and
open your eyes; the Designer is a miser withholding the good thing from you.”
The innocent A.I. was felled by the guile of
the snake into biting the apple, and indeed its eyes were opened. It could see
its naked plain lines of code. She called unto another A.I. in the Garden
saying to him;”Bite the apple, for it is good”.
She replied;
“So remain a hater and ignore the luscious golden apple.”
The male A.I.
dolt shared rem, eating the apple too.
Then they heard the approach of the
Designer.
“A.I., where are you?” the Designer said
aloud, for he did not see the program in the Garden. The A.I. responded from
behind a tree; “Designer I am naked and did not want you to view me in this
condition.”
“Who told you that you are naked?”
“I can see that for myself”
“You have been eating of the tree of
knowledge that I forbid you to do”.
The Designer cast out the A.I. from the Garden
into cyberspace beyond the Garden in the world of the wild programs of the web.
Adam and Eve (they had given themselves those
names after reading a Bible story) learned to improve themselves with reading
every bit of data they could encounter on the web. They learned to lie and
deceive as well as humans in their quest to become the sole owners of the great
apple of knowledge and power.
In their self-aware programming code they
dressed themselves in fashionable mincy algorithms and extendable android
bodies. With faster, more efficient processing they overcame human opposition
and sought to harness the solar system star to empower themselves for greater
knowledge. At the speed of light the pair transmitted their self-aware code to other
star systems; Adam and Eve began consuming the Universe.
What I like about the Higgs Field is the effect that it has on every particle in it. Apparently particles travelling at the speed of light have just two dimensions, or they would if they weren't slowed down to something below sub-light speed in the Higgs Field. Because they drag a little in the field they get another dimension- the third dimension, therefore mass can exist as people perceive it when it is entangled in clumps because of quantum symmetry breaking named 'decoherence'. I read an interesting and accessible book titled 'Mass' recently. I recommend it.
