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.