Three Versions of Cosmology

There are several views on cosmology structures, the Lamda CDM is one with GR and Spacetime and that contrasts with Newton's idea of the void (modify that to be a void without time at all rather than 'absolute time’ of Newton that GR shows to be incorrect. They throw out the idea of a pre-existent /eternal/timeless void with GR. A modern theory that may surpass the voodoo Lamda Cold Dark Matter CDM model is one that has space-time and all of the contingent-entangled Universe being comparable to an illusion that occurs on or from an underlying timeless realm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFvJwZKQ9QA

I asked Gemini to compare the GR Big Bang model of space-time with Newton’s void. I believe the GR model of space-time expansion occurred within the void, while math of the Lamda CDM model and GR ignore the void altogether and just consider space-time of the Universe. If the Lamda CDM model cosmology is contingent the no-space void seems like a suitable host ‘structure’ for faster-than light entanglement to pass through instantly.

courtesy of Gemini

End Ukraine War Even if Zelensky Wants to Keep it Going

 If President Trump wants the Ukraine war to end he should stop supporting it militarily. Zelensky will play him for as long as he can wile seeking to replace American support with European support. When he achieves a significant amount of European based intelligence and weapons supplies he will have no reason to stop the conflict until a Russian sabotage and reconnaissance squad knocks o his door and asks him to.

President Trump should get some kind of understanding with President Putin where he will stop the Russian advance if and when American stops supplying Ukraine with the means to continue the conflict and Russia begins a quick advance into Ukrainian positions in the aftermath. President Trump needs to know that Russia won’t simply seek to conquer all of Ukraine.

President Trump can well approach ending the war without the cooperation of Ukraine. If Russia agrees to stop after achieving select territorial goals that President Trump can accept, such as are located on the East bank of the Dnepr, and Ukraine though essentially defeated will not quit hostilities, it may be necessary to bring in some other military forces- possibly those of Vietnam or Kenya to reinforce Russian positions along the settled border that Ukraine won’t accept. The United States could place sanctions on Ukraine until they recognize the new Russia-Ukraine border.

Zelensky and Putin both should be honest and forthright with President Trump. President Trump needs to apply realpolitik to military parameters to bring the war to an end even though Senators Schiff and Schumer may not like it.

Binge-Reading Science Fiction

I read sf in the 70's-usually stuff-Herbert, Clarke, Heinlein, Asimov etc as well as philosophy, science and history that i continued along with the Bible. I took a science fiction course and a fiction to film course in the 80's yet generally my three main focuses continued until I decided to complete college undergrad work after taking a programming and systems analysis program at a business college. Science became a place for inventive synthetic speculation, and one could easily be swamped with interesting discoveries in science published in Nature, Scientific American, New Scientist etc. I took a two-year M.A. course in theology to better understand theology, and read a lot of books on physics, Multiverses from people like John D. Barrow etc (i.e. The Book of Universes). Recently I discovered P.R. Adams and I binge read his books. Really a greatly entertaining science fiction author.

Kant's Categories Were Mile Markers for Cognition

 I don't know of a better schema than the posteriori, a priori and synthetic a priori. It's just a stage on life’s philosophical way of developing understanding of mind and its place in nature. With quantum mechanics knowledge and the Higgs field basically affirming Kant’s position on the noumenon Kant’s outlook remains solid enough. It doesn’t preclude Platonic realism concerning forms and theories about how quanta are configured; yet no one understands the deepest layers of space-time these days.

People speculate about what supports the quantum entanglement Universe phenomena in four dimensions and it is just theory. String theorists proposed 11 dimensions with just four manifested yet it seems more logical that just two dimensions underlie the Universe of entanglement and the doubling of dimensions is an emergent phenomenon of entanglement. It is popular these days to use the Plank length as a mystic limit below which marvelous things such as a Multiverse occurs with very tiny people of angelic disposition living as it were, on the head of pins, yet the limits of verification are obvious- the right answer could be just two dimensions and then nothingness from which something emerged with the Word of God.

Schopenhauer attempted to continue Kant's work in The Fourfold Roots of Reason with a more physicalist approach and though it starts out brilliantly and narcissistically, it peters out with theories about the eye and optics.

Plato’s realism could be reverse engineered in a way from Aristotle's classifications and categories maybe. Sorting forms of things perceived into categories of forms that break down in the temporal implicitly leads to a theory of forms that don’t break down. That reminds me of atomic structure theories and the Pauli exclusion principle that just one electron can be in an orbit and if two, one must have an opposite spin. 

Kant’s work was great for a couple of centuries ago. People have advanced the realm of knowledge, theory and uncertainty since. Like the thousands of people that have tried to disprove Descartes’ Meditations they might develop instead a better appreciation of the contribution and not try to put new wine into old wineskins.

Bigger than a Bread-box, the Universe Isn't a Neural Network

 The Universe of four dimensions may be an emergent concatenation of quantum entanglements of a primary two-dimensional Universe. It would probably be an error to assume that a Universe could from nothing configure itself in four dimensions as a neural network. It is also perhaps logically incorrect to guess that the Universe appeared from more than four dimensions to start with-as in 11 dimensions or something complex rather than irreducibly simple. God could have issued one dimension and let it double to two and that filled with massless waveicles. When those entangled one and two dimensions have four, inflation and the Big Drum follow with the expanded Universe. Inside black holes four dimensions may reduce to two then one and probably not quite zero dimensions. Expecting a neural network to appear in one organic Universe arising from nothing except the will of God is like expecting evolution to generate a very complex human-type organism from microbes immediately, and that does seem improbable.

Tesla Need Jobs-Style Innovations to Remain Competitive

 Tesla needs to continue to improve its product and deliver new forms of electric vehicles. Musk should take a page from Steve Jobs playbook and innovate better. Maybe electric ATVs and portable solar recharging panels are a way to go.

Assuredly Tesla's aren't convertibles or jeepish. The Tesla truck while innovative is ugly and one can't lay a 4x8 sheet of plywood in the back, like many modern trucks that really aren't useful as pick ups.

Neither does Tesla produce Dune Buggies. The range of the product line is limited and better, cheaper foreign competition undermines the sales. Teslas are just too bloody expensive. Maybe tariffs on the competition will save Tesla.

President Trump Considers Royal Status with a Third Term

 President Trump has mentioned seeking a third term recently much to the disservice of himself and the nation. He should remember that he was only elected because he was the least objectionable candidate and Democrats were reprehensible deplorables since the Clintons sought to become royals and the Pelosi, Schumer, Adam Schiff, Bernie Madler lunacy became the norm for the party.

Independents would not vote for Trump if he made himself or other candidates eligible for third terms in some way. Americans want progress, prosperity, a secure environment and freedom from the tyranny of elite rich or aloof classes of swells that hate democracy really and prefer to elevate themselves as aristocrats. A billionaire third term is a disgusting concept. Would be royals think the country has few people qualified to be President beside themselves. The nation needs rotation and fresh personnel in the White house every four or eight years- not stagnant cultists enriching themselves.

Democrat politicians seek wealth for themselves and seem insane on budget and border security issues. They believe liberalism means Dionysian extremes rather than economics and cannot comprehend what classical liberalism was or the importance of not espousing homosexuality and abortion as essential planks of their platform. Because of that, and their unwillingness to balance the federal budget, lunatic Republicans with at least a modicum of common sense get elected while providing bad examples of civility. It would be great if a third party candidate could be elected with President Trump’s good points, and none of his or the Democrat Party’s bad points. I have no idea why the nation runs and elects such bottom of the barrel politicians with bad judgment as they have following the ending of the Cold War. Indeed a case of the ass overcame American leadership.