Mars Exploration and Earth Eco-recovery together

N.A.S.A. has just .2% of the federal budget. They are underfunded if anything.  It’s about 30 billion a year. The money sent to Ukraine for weapons is 174 billion comparatively. No one in either major party knows what ecological economics is. Getting the private sector to change its way of doing business to the degree that the Earth would be in recovery environmentally is nearly impossible. James Lovelock and Jacque Cousteau each believed the world would sustain human life just for 200 years more. It’s hard to predict the future yet exploration has tended to make more resources available for humanity. They just don’t know how to use them conservatively.

The federal budget for 2023 was more than 6 trillion dollars. Space programs are quite underfunded when one considers their value. There are weather satellites, GPS satellites, programs to track asteroids that might hit Earth, missions to study the ☀️ and inform the world of solar events that can effect Earth systems. Studying other planets and stars helps scientists understand Earth heating and cooling. Actually there is a Coursera course that lets one design their own solar system, planet and feedback loops. The greenhouse effect structure is actually fairly complex. Some of the heat from the sun hits the earth and the bounces back into the atmosphere and down to Earth again. It is important to study other worlds to understand volcanism and more.

 Space is also a contested area and is part of the high frontier of military completion. Spy satellites and space based weapons components are now part of the political economy. Humanity is corrupted by original sin, greed, I security, pettiness and would rather he does than cooperative as a matter of course. President Biden forgot what environment remedies exist if he ever knew any who h is doubtful, and Kamala Harris didn't concern herself with it either.

Hume's Guillotine; Moral Systems and God

The ought-is paradigm of Hume was largely developed to illustrate the basis of moral systems. He didn’t prefer the inference of natural law nor those inducted with reason (like Kant’s moral imperative). He wasn’t addressing the issue of divine command or revelation that is not promulgated by human faculties.

Humanity is corrupt and cannot create a perfect moral system. God is perfect and omniscient and it is remarkable hubris to imply that he would require moral correction or that there is any sort of ought in regard to I AM.

One could use an is ought phase transition paradigm for the singularity, big bang and inflation changing what is to an ought within space-time continua of an eternal now.

Hume believed sentiment was the basis of human morality, and as morality is a description of what rules or procedures of human conduct that are normative Hume’s paradigm is not inconsistent as a formalization of sentiment for normative conduct.

Cicero’s ‘On Natural Law’ expressed a different approach to moral norms yet it to is not inconsistent with sentiment adjusted inter culturally for different historical and environmental challenges prompting variations in response.

Hume was somewhat of a linguistic philosopher centuries before the existed. He thought he could disprove cause and effect with analysis of propositions. Rather he did not comprehend the analytic synthetic distinction or clearly understand the relationship between words and objects. Because he sought to jettison causal relationships the effort to negate is-ought relationships follows.

Not that I would say that one can find is ought relationships outside of physics. If something is out of place in a quantum configuration and ought to be somewhere else there must be a force acting up on it or it has hidden properties. On the other hand when one structures synthetic propositions with analytically valid propositions one hasn't proven anything about the world.

Natural law may exist yet they need be discovered with observation instead of analytic propositions. Divine commands and revelation transcends any paradigms of analytic and synthetic propositions since they are from the Author of Reality. Some would not accept that status plainly.

What is the nature of natural law embedded in physics pertaining to human morality? That would need to be discovered scientifically. When Hume jettison causality he hadn't knowledge of the singularity and inflation of a universal continuum. Physicists ordinarily write about T=0 at singularity to the present on the premise that a progression and arrow in space-time exists. T=2 follows T=1. One can know that certain changes occur in time as subsequent because of prior structures. That continuum is one of causality although like the increase of positive integers there is an order. One can know what follows at select positions. With quantum entanglement one can know the status of remote quanta given the value of proximal quanta when observed. One shouldn't let language structures eclipse knowledge of real structures and causality where a continuum of valid selection and ordinarily is.

On the Question of Soul or Life Existing First

Generally life is first, for humans though it is uncertain. Some believe in a well of souls, or that souls created by God have some status before life. Because humans have no knowledge of that one might take a neutral position.

Adam and Eve seemed to exist someplace else before being downloaded into space-time thermodynamics with aging, reproduction etc into an existing, populated world.

Necessity of Ecological Economics

Ecological economics has qualitative rather than quantitative growth. Actually I believe dead reckoning competence by political economists is necessary and possible. If leaders really don’t have the right world view no blind implementation of theory will meet the empirical challenges the human race has.

Physicalism and Non-locality

Physical just means made of stuff; fermions and bosons mostly. People are made of fermions though they aren’t fermions themselves. Fermions have angular momentum and people usually don’t.

Even if some properties of quanta aren’t determined unless observed, the matter of the universe in large clumps of mass is an entangled phenomenon in the Higgs. Still things are made of stuff even if it’s 2-dimensional massless particles waves entangled to seem like three dimensions.

I wonder if the idea of non-locality is overrated when it is applied to everything and everywhere. A wave function needs to be in a finite area or it’s value will return as 0. There is an allowable infinite number of dimensions in Hilbert Space yet even that might require a specific number for a wave function collapse to return a non- zero value.

I read a book by Zellinger long ago on the quantum teleportation experiments in Zurich, Zi believe it was, underneath a river. A good scientist. Philosophically though I don’t think that non-locality invalidates physicalism. Instead the 2022 Physics Nobel experiments show that some elements of quanta exist in a non-collapsed, undetermined state. It could also mean that a great many alternate field events could fit a particular observed position in an entangled system. 

That makes sense because everything is part of that larger Higgs field and meta-Higgs field system or phenomenon comprising the Universe. The cloud of quantum unknowing perhaps created with the unified field appearance and inflaton works faster than light still, and that is remarkable for one wonders, since the universe might be just 92 billion light years in diameter, where that faster than light cloud of 2 dimensional particles has travelled, what if anything constrains it, why it contains non,-local information ties, and if it is bound by relativity and space-time orbiting outside and through it like a ghost.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-universe-is-not-locally-real-and-the-physics-nobel-prize-winners-proved-it/

The standard meter Kripke used as an example of the existence of contingent a priori truths in Naming and Necessity is a paradigm that’s interesting not just because philosophers and physicists have used it to illustrate the criterion of space-time changes of objects in the general and special theories. The parameters are perhaps useful points for considering quantum valence intervals.

 https://philosophynow.org/issues/41/Kripke_Duchamp_and_the_Standard_Metre

Volume and Empty Space

Parmenides wondered about empty space and volume. There is the problem of the unified field dispersion and human entanglement in the Higgs field. Humans are made of fermions that have intrinsic angular momentum. Everything experienced is made of fermions or bosons. Humans don't know the gaps between things as nothing. Those gaps made just be different field content with fewer fermions or bosons in that vector or Hilbert space.

Parmenides thought only being exists. Logic seems to lead to nothingness existing too. For example if a space has a planet or other object in it and the object is teleported elsewhere the space where it was is empty and nothingness has appeared there.

   Of course it could just be that the space has fewer fermions or bosons yet isn't actually nothing. Time creates the affect of teleportation of the present into the future in a way. What was in the present like a mountain might disappear in a billion years, yet the space where it was in the past isn't empty at any stage; it has at least molecules of the atmosphere.

Subjective-Objective Distinction and Democrats

Mr McGoo saw others as roadhogs thus creating his own reality. When asked if the glass is half empty or half full he replied "It's all mine!". That is the way Democrats regard reality; because of evolution and the death of truth (the New York Times hasn't yet published that as a headline) social 

reality is malleable and nothing is meaningful except day care, homosexual marriage and abortion.

  If there are no differences between subjective and object concerns (the noumena is objective but Democrats can't see that) it is alright to lie about it. 

il est normal d'accuser des opposants politiques jusqu'à ce qu'ils soient condamnés pour des choses qu'ils n'ont pas faites-

Balance the Federal Budget

I have been for a balanced budget and deficit reduction since the Reagan era, and have written in support of that since 1991 or earlier. I tended to regard David Stockman’s budget approach as correct.

Suspending fiscal sanity in order to increase the military budget and end the cold war was Keynesianism on a Laffer scale and possibly excusable for one administration since it worked. Continuing it forever after was genuinely irresponsible; especially since the peace was destroyed and cold war resumed

Why Pantheism is an Incorrect Assumption

God being omniscient doesn't require that everything that exists be Himself. Scripture differentiated the Trinity as Father, Son and Holy Spirit and though they are One they are three. Pluralism begins with God and continues through creation.

  One may assign ultimate intention and authorship to God for all being, yet the protocols of function and purpose do not have God as level 1 operator present in all things. There needs to be room left in the containers for the container. If God was all things and things of the world just nominal presentation of omniscience a baseball would be self aware as it were flung toward a strike zone and could have omniscience, as would a batter facing a slider that could travel forward or backward in time, if time thinking for itself chose to exist right then and there.

  Pantheism would not let God have other than himself with limited sentience. The entire world universe of experience would probably not be present if God was everything with full knowledge.

Meaning of Exist, Real and Absolute Philosophically Speaking

 Was it Kierkegaard who hated the use of the word 'absolute'? That word is derived from absolve that means to free from blame. Most people don't use it that way. He didn't like Hegel's work much and Hegel used the word quite a bit. It doesn't add any meaning to anything really. Absolute is used as a sort of super adjective. For instance in Hegel's 'Realms of Absolute Spirit' (if I recall correctly that book is a kind of abbreviation of the Phenomenology of Mind). It is one of the more over-used words in philosophy, or was. Exist does stand apart. It means one is talking about the condition of being itself. Exist is a basic philosophical word; one of reflection on being. Real is a comparable term although perhaps a lesser one. It seems to mean that something does exist.

Diversity of Life Declines

A naturalist I read quite a while ago said that the most successful life forms are those that exist the most time, through disasters and mass extinctions and those are prokaryotes I believe it was. He said that large complex life forms like humans are far more vulnerable and tend to be short lived in the context of time. It's an interesting idea. The meek shall inherit the Earth.

If the Universe is deterministic that is consistent with deterministic evolution following a Hegelian or Designer's schematic, and obviously that is one of a large set of possibilities with a degree of uncertainty. If the future already exists and thought switches to an appropriate universe at each disjunct one should expect an infinite variety of apparent rather than actual evolutionary forms to appear to comprise the right elements for the thought.

https://www.udio.com/songs/98pufWd9j2QkhXUBGGGkoc

Universal Basic Income Should be a Doge Priority

It might prevent a lot of crimes and costs of incarceration. It could replace unemployment compensation, food stamps, etc and enhance efficiency. Should phase out at a third of the average income so people have a motivation to work.

Maybe it would make it easier for vets to transition to the civilian economy. It could nearly end homelessness; a million people were homeless in 2024.

Echoes of Ascension

Some people on S.S.I. that could work won't look for a job because it can take a long time to get it, and if a job ends for whatever reason they won't get the S.S.I. again since they showed they were able UBI would stop that cycle.

So many government programs cost a lot to operate with staff that could be reduced with UBI. Consider how many hearing officer bureaucrats that are well paid to adjudicate claims that could be eliminated.

Some Americans would rather not let people they don't like work because work and earnings make for a better life. They know cheap illegal labor and foreign college educated people cacan be imported so they couldn't care less if people are unemployed. UBC would let discriminated citizens have more lateral mobility to explore for a break in the maladjusted insider network defenses that exist to prevent people from working

Faith vs Original Sin/Matthew 18:2-3

 Sin means to miss the mark of.

The famous analogy is that of an archer missing the bullseye.

Humanity is in a containment facility for the sin of the first people. They came to reach self awareness and were as little Gods. That is the learned the difference between good and evil unlike animals that simply kill and eat without sin. Humans were given a temporal existence with brief life spans. God did not want people to live forever with their willful disobedience.

Children are born with original sin and are in the thermodynamic field inputting energy to exist. Most perped sins besides the original are related to that.

Children though have naive trust in their parents and faith in them (unless the parents are wicked, abusive or neglectful). Becoming as little children probably means having true faith in Christ-regardless of what sophists and scoffers say.

Matthew 18:2-3, which says, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven”. 

Salient Wars of Democrat Presidents Since 1960

 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was the upgrade to real war.Vietnam was a Democrat war. Eisenhower had only sent military aid with 700 soldiers to field it. Then he left office. Kennedy sent 16,000 advisers and they incurred the first US casualties. Then Johnson, another Democrat, sent a half million with more than 58,000 becoming dying there.

There is a bit more to the history of Democrats and war since Kennedy. Carter was different through. As a nuclear engineer on a submarine with ICBMs he well understood the need to avoid war. Clinton though bungled the end of the Cold War and took Ukraine away from Russia. Good historians noted that would be a problem for the future. It was the seed sewn for the present Ukraine conflict. He encouraged expansion of NATO instead of better relations with Russia.

 https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/02/13/the-clinton-era-blunder-that-set-the-stage-for-todays-ukrainian-crisis/

Clinton also involved himself in the Balkan conflict and the US went to war with Serbia. That tilted the balance toward Muslim terror expansion.

President Obama was a coordinator for the Syrian Civil War that cost more than 600,000 lives. He was an organizer and financier besides providing weapons and training. The he took a Kinetic Military Action, as his SecDef called it, against Moamar Gaddafi’s Libya who had signed a treaty with the Bush administration. That brought chaos and a haven for terrorists after the death of Gaddafi. He isn’t responsible for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that he inherited.

President Biden has rejected every opportunity to find peace with Russia and has applied every sanction possible on Russia. He has allowed US missiles to be launched into Russia, has contributed 174 billion dollars in weapons and finance to Ukraine and may be behind the sinking of Civilian ships of Russia transporting oil and technology. He is also providing intelligence to the Zelinski regime that has stayed in office beyond his elected term of office by suspending elections. Zelinski is lowering the draft age to 18 to force another 500,000 Ukrainians to the front lines. Russia is a nuclear state and forcing the war to continue instead of settling in in place runs a good chance of developing a nuclear war.

If Russia were losing ground and or NATO attacks Russia people will use nuclear weapons to stand. Biden has given Ukraine another 3 and a half dollars worth of weapons this month. World War 3 is not acceptable and normal relations should be restored with Russia asap to make for a better economy and work for a peaceful, verdant world.

Build A Baseball Hall of Deplorables Annex

Create a Hall of Fame Annex for deplorables. It could have all the stars banned from the side with those that would be welcome in the Harper Valley P.T.A. I saw Rod Carew steal second, third and home; he could be an honorary member.

Shoeless Joe Jackson, Pete Rose, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens; without those players in the Hall the math doesn’t add up.

News of the Dog Star Cult

 Transcript from the Dog Star Cult. “When the Big Bag spilled it’s guts and hyper inflated a split second later faster than light because the field expansion was quicker than particles of it tangling themselves up with mass confusion in a manner of speaking the swag was glommed up in fields breaking apart with traceable elements relativity detectives could use to trace the heist. Nobody in the unbelievers mob thought any big brain intelligence spilled the beans of the Big Bag and were unconcerned with police finding the m.o. or pros that took it for themselves”.

Metaphysics

Metaphysics expressed with language should be descriptive and construct images or portraits of the structures that it posits as meaningful or actual. The parameters could be like those of Ortega y Gasset's 'Some Lessons in Metaphysics' that might be described as existential realism, or extrapolations using synthetic considerations about deeper insights into being. I think the criteria for validity is the focus on meaning rather than disapprobation of another point of view on Metaphysics. The quality of insight is what should be regarded.

I have thought about some of the issues concerning scientific proofs of God that some atheists regard as necessary for themselves to believe or for believers to have valid defensible parameters for faith. I won't digress into the philosophy of history and the validity of the Bible and archeology or for them as scientific evidence. I'll continue toward the challenge to find absolute values from within the 'set' of being. Philo of Alexandria described an interesting theology yet realists might ask for a bridge of construction-for Gauss to show how he solved challenging problems, instead of a revealed structure such as Plotinus provided in The Enneads.

Apparently one cannot mathematically process infinite sets of real numbers regardless of Cantor’s diagonalization argument and comparative cardinality. Because God entails all infinity it will be difficult to mathematically ‘prove’ elements one regards as qualities of God. It might also be difficult to create a theorem, as if it were string theory being worked on 30 years so far without end, to make a theory explaining all of God rather than an ‘observable’ portion of God, or an wholistic portrait of God caught in time, like how He was when the wave function collapsed.

Determining the location of one quanta by collapsing the wave function wouldn’t not be sufficient to determine the location of God. For that, if it were possible, it might be necessary to collapse an infinite wave function product of all possible quanta of the universe.

Then, if God as spirit is actually quantifiable as a waveform and that waveform is synonymous with the quanta from the unified field that the universe theoretically stems from the collapse of that wave function could only result in the number of 1 I would think, or perhaps cancel itself out to zero since the summation of locations of the universe content reduced from itself would be nowhere.

A song

There is the additional problem that a wave function can’t be defined for an infinite region of space. Hilbert space allows infinite dimensions yet that won’t transcend the criterion of the former. For an infinite number of quanta and field across an infinite spatial area- even of nothingness, calculating wave functions for an infinite number of quanta wouldn’t be probable.

A while ago the question arose. I will repost the matter for it supports some of the issue of defining 'empty space volume with no borders'. defined because:

The elements of the sets are infinite in number and uncountable, so “adding” them isn’t straightforward.

Even if we attempt to define something like , this wouldn’t “cancel out” infinite quantities but rather produce a value based on specific rules.

Conclusion

Your intuition about symmetry between the intervals is valid when considering their measure (length). However, in the domain of cardinality or infinite sets, subtraction doesn’t yield zero due to the unique properties of infinities in set theory. Let me know if you’d like further clarification or a specific framework (e.g., measure theory, integration, or set algebra) to explore!”

Theory for Reducing Cost of Pharmaceuticals

 Reforming the patent system might be the simplest way. The USA produces 74% of the worlds new drugs so we shouldn’t do any harm to the profit incentive. New drugs are costly to invent and exclusive patents keep the cost of new drug sales high. Letting new drug patents become public domain after ten years so generic production would make the drugs cheap, yet 10% of sales price would go to the patent holder would lower the cost and keep the profit motive alive.

Some Want Scientific Proof of God

The wisdom of this world is foolishness to God ( a paraphrase). I suppose confirmation bias works for atheists in seeing no evidence. Jurors have different opinions about evidence. People definitely have different opinions about matters as present and objective as political matters like the history of Russian ownership of Ukraine or illegal migration. Cosmology definitely has different opinions. Just last week some decided that dark energy doesn't really exist and instead the expansion of space is an apparent effect of time and relativity.

One need have faith in order to interpret evidence in a particular way. It might be comparable to conspiracy theories that happen to be true yet are discounted and even ridiculed by many.

There is also the problem of the indeterminacy of translation of scripture written thousands of years ago. Many people today also have a particular concept of Genesis and what it means that is the standard metric for disbelief, and it to may be wrong.

Toynbee thought that Cain killing Able was a representation of technology of metallurgy and farming killing of the herding migratory political economy. There are lots of interpretations possible that those demanding scientific evidence aren't aware of.

  There are also personal experiences of life situations were one feels the work or grace of God. It is challenging to persuade people that it wasn't evident to them.

Science aka knowledge has developed numerous systemic approaches for inquiry about reality and empirical affairs. Most of that is irrelevant in regard to the Bible. After the Scopes trial evolution became an atheist doctrine, yet Genesis itself could have been describing an evolutionary approach when it was written on the Pentateuch 3000 years ago.

Science in a sense examines what may be observed and what is evident  it is a microscope while at the macroscopic level amorphous clouds of unknowing prevail. Extrapolations about Universe of infinite number and theories about recycling universes and  space-time origins and histories are without limit or proof of validity beyond a certain finite scale. Even at the quantum level scientists can have no certainty about what gauge bosons are made of. Knowledge exists in the midst of a 12th century map of the world with cloudy borders and inscriptions of 'there be dragon's all around.

 I like science yet it just a temporal interest. The eternal things of God are far more valuable to me.

Apparently one cannot mathematically process infinite sets of real numbers regardless of Cantor’s diagonalization argument and comparative cardinality. Because God entails all infinity it will be difficult to mathematically ‘prove’ elements one regards as qualities of God. It might also be difficult to create a theorem, as if it were string theory being worked on 30 years so far without end, to make a theory explaining all of God rather than an ‘observable’ portion of God, or an wholistic portrait of God caught in time, like how He was when the wave function collapsed.

Determining the location of one quanta by collapsing the wave function wouldn’t not be sufficient to determine the location of God. For that, if it were possible, it might be necessary to collapse an infinite wave function product of all possible quanta of the universe.

Then, if God as spirit is actually quantifiable as a waveform and that waveform is synonymous with the quanta from the unified field that the universe theoretically stems from the collapse of that wave function could only result in the number of 1 I would think, or perhaps cancel itself out to zero since the summation of locations of the universe content reduced from itself would be nowhere.

Happily nowhere in old English or some equivalent means Utopia. Ram Das I believe it was, wrote some small book of a size comparable to Roderick Chisholm’s ‘Problem of the Criterion’ named ; ‘Be Here Now, Now Be Here, Now Be Nowhere’ that describes the place fairly concisely.

There is the additional problem that a wave function can't be defined for an infinite region of space. Hilbert space allows infinite dimensions yet that won't transcend the criterion of the former. For an infinite number of quanta and field across an infinite spatial area- even of nothingness, calculating wave functions for an infinite number of quanta wouldn't be probably.

Stars Through Night Air (a poem)

 

Shadows of days disappear
families of forever silhouette silence
softly changing from being too past
outlines of darkness
in a veil of deep cold

Stars are loyal lights in the night
sky of oxygen and eternity
while life runs its course
children gazing in wonder at bright constellations
rediscover them again when old

Memories are visions
when the stars’ breath was mystery
and life was life, not history
fire of the sun placed to grow grass
lain upon after twilight

Stars remain forever
thrown across the Universe
like beaches of diamond worlds
joined with atmospheric heaven
in the smell of Earth’s moist lome

It was there and always shall be
a world without end
for a moment seeming personal
remembrance an old friend
others already gone away
where future too does send.