In the Light of Love (poem)

My love, I count you near my heart
wind rushing sounds of beating together
moving like quick quark art
lighting the darkness with ineffable ether

Starting with time rushing farther
breaking away from yesterdays fast
love can make one a martyr
it that’s the way fate is cast

Take me to your heart
for us let love never part
let it be shadows and silence that are leaving
as we share each other
in bright light of the sun

Starting with each other
there can never be another
way to live if you were gone
love will find a way to weather
never will love be wrong.

https://suno.com/s/Ao3xoRN31jeSl7Av

Love and Sacrifice- The Question of When Does it Count

 What if a man make a sacrifice for the wrong reasons, or fails to make a sacrifice when he should if he were virtuous- is anyone counting in eternity? That seems to be the question at the heart of love and sacrifice, although one may simply choose to give up their life entirely for secular reasons.

Someone asked about love and what can be learned from it. I shouldn't have replied to the question like it was the essay portion of an exam. I might have written more about love and honor, judgment and social reality. It is needful to express one's love in person. I of course have thought about sacrifice in many forms from that of Christ to war and wondered if everyone besides Christ, who was acting for God, made sacrifices that were generally meaningful. Sacrifices made in the name of love.

Everything is complex socially speaking. It is far worse than  that game where one persons has a message and they pass it down a line of people and at the end it is changed from the original. Sociology researches such issues, as do mathematics and physics, about the number of relations between individuals that are possible- in a world with 8 billion plus people there is so very much fragmented, distorted, misunderstood and lost information that it makes developing optimal political course very rare. Actually Gemini said there are 32 trillion possible relations among 8 billion people... more than I could keep track of.

On a personal level the most meaningful thing I was told counting as advice was from a man who had been a pallbearer of General Patton whom I was painting for. He said; "Don't make anyone's life more difficult; they all have their own battle to face". I once knew a lady with a tattoo on her arm from Auschwitz; that was the best advice I ever saw.

How to Make Cowboy Bead

 I will tell you how to make bannock (bread). It is cowboy bread and super easy. Good to know for emergencies. It actually works great over an open fire in a heavy iron skillet. Get a 5 gallon paint bucket and lid and fill it full with a twenty pound bag of flour. As you are filling it mix a can of Clabber Girl baking power in with the flour and mix it up well- then it is ready and stores fine for months. When you want bread take some of the flour mixture from the bucket and add cold water mixing it together until you have a ball of bread dough. Flatten it out to fill an entire frying pan about an inch  and a half thick. Grease the frying pan with vegetable oil and heat the bread slowly. You can flip the bread like a pancake if you are skillful. Brown both sides of the bread and make sure the center is cooked too. Never cut bannock; instead break it. I used to cut it horizontally and fill with tuna or meat from a can and whatever sauce I had- or jelly or ketchup. Instant bread, low fat and good. The five pound bucket provides enough bread for the better part of a month. If you add some Krusteaz instant blueberry pancake mix to the five gallon bucket the bread turns out somewhat like a giant blueberry muffin.

Expiring Date Info Colored Stickers for Grocery Shelved Items Would be Useful

 It might be useful for grocery store items like canned food to have chemically timed sell by date stickers that change color as they move toward expiration. Certain batteries do. The stickers could be installed by the manufacturer and might be available to grocers to buy and apply labels themselves that activate on exposure to air perhaps.

It isn't always easy for workers rotating stock to know when it expires... Customers to aren't always aware of the freshness of merchandise and it would save much time if a glance provided as much information as a check of small print on each product for shelf stockers to see if some stock needs to be rotated or taken down.

Alternatively there might just be a simple standard colored code different for each month of the year manufacturers could place in a small round sticker on each item sent to grocers so there is at least approximations of an expiration date.

A Universe Structured for Optimizing Intelligence?

 An interesting story by Wired reviewing research investigations comparing the difference structurally between human, bird and octopus brains to achieve intelligence brought me to consider that quantum super-position could be structured physically, spatially in a comparable unconventional configuration than is usually regarded through quantum mathematical and dimensional extrapolations to account for the apparent faster than light phenomenon.

https://www.wired.com/story/intelligence-evolved-at-least-twice-in-vertebrate-animals/

I imagined various spherical dimension continua containing the entire Universe wherein time is discrete and local throughout, and within the shell is another, smaller sphere containing the entangled phenomena that seems to observation to be the apparent Universe humans inhabit. Quantum activity from the inner sphere would be contained and reflected by the outer sphere as super-positions faster-than-light, because of the transcendence of time locality brought into effect by the entanglement.

A different kind of brain structure that processes thought from a core to a structured, integral surrounding sphere an infinite number of times- as a kind of all possible locations method before collapse of a wave-function into a single thought might get more bang for the buck from minimalist structures.

I have a lot of ideas about criteria for possible structures of the phenomenon bouncing around in my thought to illustrate the point that I haven't the time to pursue, so think for yourself how the Universe might work.

I asked Gemini for a critique of the idea and to feel free to add any mechanics suggestions.

Gemini wrote; "That's a fascinating cosmological concept, sparked by an equally interesting article on the convergent evolution of intelligence! It seems the article you're referring to, likely "Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals" (often discussed in relation to Quanta Magazine), highlights how complex intelligence and the neural structures to support it have arisen independently in different evolutionary lines, such as in birds and mammals, and remarkably, also in invertebrates like octopuses.

Insights from Evolutionary Neuroscience

Research in this area suggests that:

Convergent Evolution of Intelligence: Different species have developed sophisticated cognitive abilities through distinct evolutionary paths and brain architectures. For instance, birds and mammals appear to have evolved the neural pathways for intelligence independently, rather than inheriting them from a common ancestor.

Diverse Brain Structures: Octopuses, for example, possess large, complex nervous systems that are fundamentally different from vertebrate brains. A significant portion of their neurons are found in their arms, allowing for a unique, distributed form of processing. This underscores that there isn't a single blueprint for high intelligence.

Unconventional Configurations: The way these different brains are structured—vertebrate brains with their layered cortices versus the distributed ganglionic system of an octopus—shows that nature has found multiple, sometimes "unconventional," ways to achieve complex computation and problem-solving.

Your Cosmological Idea: Nested Spheres and Entanglement

Your idea of nested spherical dimensions with discrete, local time, and an inner sphere of entangled phenomena influencing an outer observational sphere is an imaginative way to conceptualize the universe and phenomena like apparent faster-than-light effects.

Here's a breakdown of the concepts you've woven together:

Nested Structure and Entanglement: You propose an "inner sphere" of entangled phenomena whose quantum activities are reflected by an "outer sphere" (our observable Universe)

<My note (GG)- actually the configuration I thought of is in the reverse order with the inner sphere being our Universe> .

 The entanglement is key to the "faster-than-light" effects due to a "transcendence of time locality."

Connection to Physics Concepts (General): While your model is unique, it touches on themes explored in theoretical physics, such as:

Higher Dimensions/Braneworlds: Some theories (like string theory) postulate extra spatial dimensions, and in some "braneworld" scenarios, our universe is a 3-dimensional "brane" embedded in a higher-dimensional space. Interactions or effects from the "bulk" (the higher-dimensional space) could influence our brane.

Quantum Entanglement: This is a real quantum mechanical phenomenon where particles become linked and instantaneously influence each other's states regardless of the distance separating them. However, it's generally understood that entanglement doesn't allow for faster-than-light communication of information, though it does challenge classical notions of locality.

Locality and Time: The idea of "discrete and local" time in various continua, with entanglement transcending this locality, is an interesting conceptual leap. Physics currently grapples with the nature of time, especially in unifying general relativity (where time is relative and continuous) and quantum mechanics. Some speculative theories explore discrete spacetime.

Analogy to Brain Structure: Your comparison to a brain processing thoughts from a core to a surrounding sphere, using an "all possible locations" method before wave-function collapse, is a creative analogy. It suggests a kind of global processing or resonance within your cosmological structure, where the "inner sphere" sets up potentials or superpositions that resolve in the "outer sphere." This resonates with the inspiration you drew from how different biological structures can achieve complex processing.

Theoretical Mechanics and Cosmological Models

When you mention "theoretical mechanics," it's worth noting that while classical mechanics provides foundational principles for physical theories, the kind of cosmological structure you're envisioning would typically be explored using the frameworks of:

General Relativity: This is Einstein's theory of gravity, which describes the large-scale structure of the universe, spacetime, and how matter and energy curve it.

Quantum Field Theory: This theory describes quantum mechanics in the context of fields, providing the basis for the Standard Model of particle physics.

Quantum Cosmology and Speculative Theories: Attempts to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics (like string theory or loop quantum gravity) delve into the fundamental nature of spacetime, the origins of the universe, and potentially the existence of other dimensions or novel structures.

Your idea is a thought-provoking synthesis, creatively linking biological evolution with fundamental questions about the universe's structure and the nature of quantum phenomena. It highlights how inspiration can come from diverse fields to tackle some of the biggest questions we have."

Make Air Force One Better in Hostile Skies

 The donation by Qatar of a 400 million dollar luxury jet to President Trump that he plans to retrofit and use as Air Force One is a useful way to make an upgrade of the older personal aircraft used by Presidents to get about the world. Democrats say its a national security threat, perhaps because they had the old Air Force Ones wired for sound and video and will no longer be able to surveil President Trump on a new aircraft.

In the modern world of stealth drones and high speed micro attack vectors the flying whale mega-jet sort of Air Force One may be a tempting target for new vectors that can disregard electronic, ir and other counter-measures to thwart conventional anti-aircraft missiles. A President probably should have a tougher aircraft capable basically of persisting to exist for a while in an aerial war environment. A retrofitted B-1 bomber would be somewhat Spartan and eschew cocktails and the press. If there was a larger, stealth air vehicle for the President of the United States that would be better. That would require a new design and production though. Possibly a manufacture of five aircraft in a one-off phenomenon would be adequate until the next generation. If the stealth aircraft were able to take off and land like a Harrier as a VSTOL that would be even better.

The Unregenerate (a poem)

 

Spun a world’s fun
replete with charming quips
of hernia mesh knits
holding atmospheres intact
when planetary facts
indicate forward causality retrofit gas lines
embargoes of warmest springs
signs an atmosphere is thick
enough to greenhouse bounce photons
starting with nothing tricky
8 minutes distant to melt the arctic ice
bounce back to the ionosphere
and down to Earth thrice

No one knows on fatuous shows
the power of ostrich to deceive
even unregenerated, faithless strivers
to rebuild nuclear powered lives
a hundred billion humans grow while forests die
high albedo surfaces fade away
tech sprawling absorbent warmth unto AI
high temps arrive night and day

If the moon were made of green cheese
it would weigh 2.64554715 × 1019 short tons
even it could not compare
in odor to global heating denial ones
trusting skynet to keep the sky cool
and the machine to filter the air through
politician's profit
media spinning the world on a precise middle finger

God may watch over all
of the stage with players strutting about
to find everyone else’s doings
inevitably worth a shout
and in the beginning
of an impossible void
an electro-magnetic like field
sourced light without anyone annoyed
its power inflated faster-than light
yet for a fraction of eternity
nothing was in sight

Teleology is just the power to draw
all those fields quarks forward toward it
every particle way directed toward thine
field strongest for cosmic expansion/attraction.
viewed from cities with plastic bags overhead
warming the Earth until all the dead are dead.

-an explanation of the poem above-  It is perhaps, circumstantial ontology. A philosophical paradigm of the circumstance of being. I was influenced by reading James Lovelock's book 'The Final Warning'. The discoverer of the ozone hole, Lovelock and Margulis coined the Gaia hypothesis. Lovelock said, about ten or twenty years ago that humanity would last only 200 years before the world becomes uninhabitable with global heating- hence my reference to ostriches. The commitment to take upon itself the Herculean task of  correcting the approaching environmental disaster created by 8 billion people is something humanity hasn't been able to face up to, and is absent. Regeneration is a Christian term about salvation and spiritual renewal from the condition of being spiritually dead. Humanity needs a political regeneration too in order to survive if Lovelock is right.