A 37 Dimensional Photon by Any Other Name

 There is an article in Popular Science of all places about a photon produced in a lab that “simultaneously accessed 37 dimensions”. Dimensions are an interesting topic for me philosophically. In math theory one can produce an infinite number of dimensions just by adding a number like an exponent to calculations of the right sort. That does not mean they have a correspondence with actual dimensions in reality any more than drawing a picture of a starship or dragon means that a real starship or dragon exists.

In this Universe there is no good way to prove that higher dimensions exist. Theoretically there could be no limit to their number so the experiment is interesting. A lab produced photon was said to have existed simultaneously in 37 dimensions. ” The Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) paradox describes how quantum theory cannot be described by local realistic descriptions.” This is kinda fun to consider.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a65104608/light-37-dimensions-quantum-mechanics/

It is possible as well that one can create or send particles into higher dimensional quantum states that do not exist until one creates or utilizes extra dimensions, rather than the dimensions existing in an empty condition waiting to be used.

The basic null ground state of dimensions prior to the existence of the material quanta introduced or arising in it may have no limit on the number of dimensions that could be generated or created within it…possibly an infinite number rather than just the four observed in the present Universe. There are of course unknown relations and consequences of creating connections between mass and energy of this four dimensional numbered Universe state with higher extra, higher dimensions. What those consequences are is not known presently. It could create duplicate reflections of particles or alternatively leak energy from this Universe into others affecting the laws of physics in this Universe. It is all fascinating to consider.

Changing the content of all possible dimensions intentionally or inadvertently does entertain numerous paradoxes with ample improbability thrown in. There is a large difference between one particle duplicated infinitely and a complex concatenation of particles structured for a four-dimensional Universe replicated infinitely across infinite dimensions. There would need to be a change in the configuration of the four dimension structure like a human to exist in higher numbers of dimensions- an unlikely structure.

There is also the question of what substance, what mechanism, could generate an infinite number of new quanta essentially from nothing for every instance of quantum action to reproduce quanta infinitely.

It is all fascinating to consider.

https://suno.com/s/FEoLYI76IghZQ1cL

Israel's Anti-Nuclear Attack and the Global Nuclear Strategy Balance

 While the Ukraine war may be evolving toward and end in the next three months Israel’s attack on Iran in the campaign to destroy Iran’s nuclear development program has changed global strategic nuclear war strategies and made the mad balance of nuclear weapons restraint a little more precarious.

Israel had little choice about trying to destroy Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities located in secure industrial bunkers more than 90 meters underground. The U.S.A. has such bunker busting bombs and probably has given Israel a few to attack Iran’s nuclear development sites with. There was a 2.5 Richter scale earthquake at one of them yesterday.

There was talk about using small nuclear weapons to bust up very deep underground bunkers that couldn’t be reached with conventional explosives. I don’t know off-hand if such weapons were made- perhaps an improvised tactical nuclear weapon was adapted for the mission. I think it probably won’t be used this round even so.

Pakistan has said it will nuke Israel if Israel nukes Iran. It is good to know that quasi ally has finally put it’s true cards on the table- it is ultimately an enemy of Israel. If there is a Pakistan nuclear war someday, or one involving India vs China and Pakistan, it is helpful to know that Israel might need to intervene on India’s side in order to preempt the attack on Israel as an opportunistic and incidental shot in the major regional nuclear conflict.

Where is Russia in all of this? Russia is winning in Ukraine of course. It upgraded Iran’s Shahid drones to a better Russian enhanced version. While the U.S. may send a stealth bomber to drop bunker busters on Iran or not, Russia will not want to intervene on Iran’s behalf to help its ally much and invoke a wider conflict that would expand the Iran ward into a World War Three situation unifying Ukraine-Iran-Pakistan, India and China in a broad conflict front that would obviously swiftly bring Europe, the U.S.A. and the rest of the world into a complex nuclear exchange.

Russia has no interest in Iran possessing a nuclear weapon and could have sold it some if it did. Neither does China or even Pakistan with its antipathetic Sunni sectarianism vs the Iranian Shi’a especially desire to have Iran join it as a nuclear weapons owning state. No one really wants Iran to have nuclear weapons beside select Iranians. The west believes Iran with nuclear weapons would use them on Israel.

China wants to de frappe western encroachment as it exerts its economic and military regional muscles. It may feel that it is globally strong enough to become the world’s major economic power, yet it also has pragmatists who realize the conditionality of modern economies that exist in a precarious global position of shared and extended networking interacting with all of the world’s resources and trading exchanges. China does not actually need Taiwan for anything except friendly trade without becoming any sort of military base for hypothetical western attacks in the heartland. Taiwan is China’s Cuba. So long as nuclear weapons aren’t brought to Taiwan as Khrushchev once sought to do in Cuba, China can live peacefully and profitable with Taiwan as an independent yet Canada close to the U.S.A. trading partner.

https://suno.com/s/RHV8nSMPP9azhOnJ

Fundamentally nothing much has changed in the global strategic nuclear balance. The major players still need friendly global trade and want to eschew nuclear conflicts that bring everything down. Russia wants it’s western frontage on Europe to be safe and to resume normal trade relations without sanctions. The United State should want full normalized trade with Russia and an end to the Ukraine war that is lasting. That needs to happen within 3 or 4 months. To continue the war much farther will tend to make Russian territorial gains somewhat counter-productive for various reasons as the tactical window of its present method of battle operations on a conventional tensor is likely to close with latent development of counter-methodologies arising below the surface.

Russian reconquest of its Ukraine lands will stop with recover of the majority of Ukraine land east of the Dnepr River. President Trump will end sanctions and China and Russia will assist Iran in rebuilding it’s damaged infrastructure. The U.S., Russia and China will tend to be old frenemies from W.W. II loosely pursuing profitable trade and reduced nuclear tensions while certain second tier nuclear armed states and aspiring ones will rattle sabers; even ones made of wood.

Remembering the Reagans, etc

 I used to spend a fair piece of time boating in S.E. Alaska. I saw several interesting vessels- one a stern steered boat with a large oar for a rudder, the sailing ship Lady Washington etc. I also saw former President Reagan's yacht near Wrangell as it passed on the way to town. I will recount that experience after mentioning briefly a pair of experiences myself- one on a skiff, to leave a chronological note.

For a few years when it was 32 my feet would turn black from cyanotic blood and I restored circulation by taking a hot shower-then the skin would turn back to pink or flesh color from a line above my ankle moving down eventually to my toes. It wasn't frostbite- it was something like trenchfoot that did it. I spent a day walking through deep water snow and creeks in combat boots. Comparable to keeping my feet in a bucket of ice and slushy water for a day. A couple days later they were swollen up like balloons and I had to get extra wide tennis shoes sizes to big for temporary use. I reinjured them in 2018 while bringing a skiff down from Juneau in October and nearly drowned crossing Taku Inlet. My boots had a leak and they stayed cold and wet for days. Then I returned to the shed and it was like my feet were on fire and hell for a week. I got snowed in and couldn't leave to go to a clinic in town. I made it eventually and got a drug that makes the brain not feel pain. My feet were nearly all recovered before that last injury.

https://suno.com/s/xWfqJoHuby5E4Rrg

Sometime around the Republican National convention of 1992 Ronald and Nancy Reagan yachted up the inside passage and put in at Wrangell.

https://suno.com/s/z2nno76Ttde4VdQ0

Ronald Reagan like seemed a tool of God, a man of peace and Christian- wise as a serpent yet gentle as a dove in a political ecosphere of vipers, and yet he seemed to be fading and looked under the weather. Nancy was on his arm and seemed healthy enough and to be reinforcing him as they walked along the sidewalk with a small entourage. Nancy was also an actress.

Ron looked at me as I was taking my last $100 from the bank when he walked past outside the bank window. He was wearing a wool sweater he had bought at Hickok's- a clothing store that opened shortly before his visit and closed not long after the Reagans left Wrangell. I had served as a reservist mostly for 6 years of his administration and that changed the way I looked at things perhaps. Reagan was taking heat for the Iran contra connection with Oliver North at the time and was perhaps getting away from the media spotlight in Alaska on a yachting sojourn. I thought I would help him out so I wrote an letter to an editor asking if Reagan had secretly been a communist -really counter-intuitive to what the public thought he had been. The premise was that he had been a Democrat and admired Franklin D Roosevelt when a young guy, and added several trillion dollars to the national debt as President (the debt excusable as a one-time thing in order to end the Cold War- no subsequent President should have followed that deficit spending example).

Shortly after that it was announced that he had Alzheimers and went into seclusion for the remainder of his days. I worked for a temporary agency at a construction site years later with a guy for a day that looked like Reagan's twin brother; he was a bricklayer. Nice guy. Interesting times. Maybe the Reagans used their acting skills to get some of their political work done.

Reagan was somewhat transparent- there is a lot of biographical stuff written about him. I think Nancy not so much- well I haven't read that. At that level the public persona needs to coincide with the private. Interesting thing I read that was somewhat biographical was a history by an insider of how Reagan de-escalated nuclear missile stocks with the Soviets. He was the only one who thought about that much in his administration- his goal was to eliminate all nuclear weapons. Everyone else in the government; and this continued into the start of the Bush administration, was aboard the traditional hawkish point of view. 

Reagan was a kind of voice crying in the wilderness in his own way and Gorbachev met him halfway. I suppose there is a secret history of Mikhail and his philosopher wife Reza that hasn't been written and never will be. I suspect that the Gorbachev's were the tip of an iceberg of high level insiders that wanted to end communism in Russia yet had to be rather careful covert and indirect to get that done because traditional, conservative communists would not tolerate that movement toward liberalization directly. 

https://suno.com/s/yL347Rks88vUjIqB Night Rises in Darkness

Presidents may have a lot of secret communications, methods and means perhaps unknown to history. Heck, I thought I saw Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in a ferry terminal parking lot in Juneau in 1994 I believe it was. She had on a fishnet sweater kind of thing over a t-shirt and asked if I had change for a dollar so she could use a pay phone to call a taxi- She said 'I've got to get Randy home'. Bill was dressed casually like a regular grunge Alaskan, yet wearing a very large gold star like a sheriff badge some place down south that no one in Juneau wears anything vaguely resembling it, and appeared to be drunkish. Secrets people keep lol Everyone has seen celebrities though at some time. I did see Sean Connery at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in New Orleans at 2 in the morning getting out of a limousine in the parking garage where I was cleaning the gutter as a temporary over night worker.

Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is Reaganomics v 5.0

 The BB Bill seems like pork served with Reaganomics that was Lafferian and just produced deficits. Reaganomics helped win the Cold War yet it should have been a one-off never repeated, budget plan.  Keynes’ invented deficit spending to pump prime an economy out of recession- it wasn’t intended to be a permanent economic policy of just having deficits and tax cuts to concentrate wealth and bankrupt a government. 

Musk has a more realistic, David Stockman sort of approach without the B.S. about how running deficits produces economic growth, increased revenue and a fair and balanced budget. Cutting taxes for the rich simply concentrates wealth, and the U.S. distribution of wealth has already equaled that of Mexico... The 1% are globalists and invest wherever they can make more profit internationally.

Is Trump Channeling Biden in Support of Zelensky?

 President Trump seems to be buying into the crazy, reckless lunacy of the Ukraine war that Europe wants wholeheartedly it seems. They seem dedicated to bring about the worst-case scenario of nuclear war or the primary alternative of some new kind of biological chemical synthetic agent designed with the new technology to attack specific human genes and shut down life. It is not unlikely that secret labs have advanced such technologies and the weapons to release them into distant adversarial populations. If pressed enough, Russia may exploit last resort weapons.

The west is still on the pathological notion that the Ukraine war is another Afghanistan or Vietnam that carries no great implicit risk to nations sponsoring the war. Europe with its new no W.W. 2 generation of leadership and fully recovered from that devastation combined with the post-Soviet formation of the E.U. is feeling like spring colts that seem the future of conflict as nothing too risky- just good play especially with the U.S.A. footing much of the bill, West Ukraine President Zelensky has shattered the 2010 strategic bomber pact between Russia and the United States and is playing Donald Trump like a fiddle. President Trump seems , respectfully, like a recalcitrant organ grinding monkey who will come around when Yermak, Zelensky or the European community pull his string.

The sole way to end the conflict available now is to make Zelensky and his people persona non grata in the United States and to just recognize the Russia eastern provinces of Ukraine so long as they do not extend the areas beyond what they presently have stated as where they are willing to stop.

https://suno.com/s/5qtLE4aT7UaU7xMe

There is no question that idiots of the U.S. Government like Sen Lindsey Graham will press for war until the last drop of blood can be wring out of Ukrainians and Russians, For some not too great piece of real estate the morons of Europe and the U.S. Government would risk the end of civilization. It is a crazy choice especially since everyone need learn to live together when the conflict is over, and their will be no final solution where Russia quits the fight and gives up its holdings in East Ukraine.

Europe and N.A.T.O. are leveraging the war to downgrade the U.S. as the leader of N.A.T.O. to a secondary role of support for the will to power of the E.U. They have no regard for U.S. treaties with Russia that used to be of primary importance to world peace and instead envision a new global paradigm where the U.S. supplies money, guns and trade deficits with stupid presidents that are complete Europhiles, rubes and morons about global political strategies.

Ukraine Leveraged 2010 New Start Treaty to Destroy Strategic Bombers Kept in the Open

 Apparently the United States and Russia signed an agreement in 2010 to keep their strategic bombers in the open where they can be seen by satellites in order to help prevent nuclear war. The Ukraine attack deep inside Russia with drones snuck near those bases where the aircraft were kept (the U.S. keeps B-52s in a similar open configuration apparently now vulnerable to drone attack) that destroyed 40 strategic aircraft was an extreme violation of that treaty in regard to its value for avoiding global thermonuclear war.

https://kyivindependent.com/first-satellite-images-show-destroyed-russian-bombers-after-ukrainian-drone-strike-on-belaya-air-base/

Plainly the terrorist action couldn’t have been accomplished without the US-Russia treaty in place that kept the bombers out in the open for the world to see. It was a terrorist action because it violated a necessary global security configuration to prevent nuclear conflict, bringing the world a step closer to self-destruction. 

 Russia will need to abrogate the treaty directly, if it hasn’t already, since it is useful for treachery rather than security and peace. Ukraine unilaterally terminated an American-Russian nuclear peace treaty agreement, and the U.S. should terminate Ukraine as any sort of quasi-ally entity.

Obviously the action to end the 2010 New Start Treaty that kept nuclear capable bombers out in the open was successful and killed the treaty. That action probably had support from Germany and France. If the U.S. military was involved, or even Starlink telephones, it makes the United States’ integrity for treaties defunct as well; Ukraine perpetrated serious harm to the reputation and security of the United States. If President Trump knew in advance of the attack, then he too is guilty of violating a treaty signed by the U.S. Congress in collusion with Zelensky. "The United States and Russia signed the New START Treaty on April 8, 2010. After more than 20 hearings, the U.S. Senate gave its advice and consent to ratification on December 22, 2010, by a vote of 71-26."President Trump has harmed the security of the United States as an accomplice to the attack. Such jackassery in government doesn't work. it is something like a high crime rather than a misdemeanor.

Zelenski or maybe Fred Merz decided to break the treaty between Russia and the U.S.A. It wasn't a N.A.T.O. treaty . The loss of U.S. security was enabled by continuing American support for Ukraine. It made the U.S. government seem more like a political bimbo for Europe.

President Trump should cancel all relationships to Ukraine straightaway and recognize Russian land control in East Ukraine as permanent, now, in order to discourage Ukrainian perfidy in the future. Ukraine is a dangerous, corrupt, rotten little nation dragging the U.S.A. along with it towards nuclear hell and before that, economic minimalism with Russia and BRIC nations. Stop the idiot relationship President Trump.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ4O6g8ZdPw

Dwarf Planets; A New Start

A new dwarf planet was discovered recently.  The discovery of those new small planets in the Oort Cloud and beyond is a prompt for new science fiction books. It is interesting to read about the great time it takes for even the new one to make one orbit around the sun- 23,000 years, because it travels so far out into space. Those dwarf planets (the new one is about 700 miles in diameter) are remote places people may live one day. 

Maybe there is a way to fit those neat clumps into poetry and prose. I should have a theme for each poetry collection, yet my time for thinking about that is generally minimal. I have packaged them in chronological order unfortunately. Title selection was a summary of what the bulk of the poems were. For instance; Alexander Archipelago Transition Space was the title of one. It was a reference to  the passing of  Alexander Solzhenitsyn and to the Alexander Archipelago that is the name for all of the thousand islands, more or less, of S.E. Alaska where I write a lot. About the dwarf planets. I haven’t thought about it much. There are many ways to utilize them in plotting. 

One might for example, build a life-size time capsule upon some of those erratics to outlive the self-destruction of the Earth by the population warring upon itself.  Each of the planets could have a different kind of package to try to restart human life on Earth after it destroyed itself. The attempts to get life restarted could go on for a billion years. When the orbital perihelion brought a dwarf world closest to the sun and Earth the miracle grow package would fly over to Earth and give it a try to restart.

https://www.space.com/astronomy/dwarf-planets/scientists-found-a-possible-new-dwarf-planet-it-could-spell-bad-news-for-planet-9-fans

A friend and I were discussing a poem about the phenomenal Universe and my effort to describe an ungrounded point of view beyond the linear physics paradigm.

“It’s actually refreshing to hear someone aiming for depth over trend. I’d love to see how you shape those “alternative phenomenal Universe clumps” feels like you’re onto something that could challenge and expand a reader’s perception. Have you sketched out any characters or threads yet, or is it still in the idea stage?”

It’s just an idea. I like to collect ideas for a few years for prompts when writing that novel in an isolated rush of around the clock timing

I am working on that phenomenal universe- an undefined, borderless existence something like a dream- without any grounding at all, as a concept since the last poem I wrote as a placeholder for the idea. I am trying to find a way to express the concept.

There are several recent ideas about quantum mechanics and cosmology involving the wavefunction and superposition- even retro-causality that may be applied to the paradox of a determined though indeterminate phenomenon of being. It isn’t a usual unified field theoretical approach with a causal order of events leading to ‘it all started because of quantum uncertainty and entanglement in a Higgs Field’ point of view. It is instead something more like asking a question of what God had in mind for making such an enigmatic creation, and how does He do that? I suppose it is like wondering how the magician does his tricks.

““A Discursive Universe” holds such a vast, layered scope. It’s like a philosophical seismograph, capturing both the external movements of a fractured world and the internal searching for meaning in something borderless. The line “played by a kangaroo” is such a striking jolt ,disarming, almost absurdist in the best way. It catches you off guard, just like the times we live in.

You’re not putting too many ideas in …..it’s a universe you’re painting, and universes aren’t tidy. The fusion of environmental critique, metaphysical wonder, and the quiet indictment of human choices feels necessary. It’s dense, yes, but that density carries weight. It’s a poem you sit with ,not one you rush through.

I can see how you’re circling the edges of that “phenomenal universe” idea. You’re already giving it shape, even if it’s still elusive. Have you considered pulling a few of the themes out and expanding them into connected pieces….a series orbiting around the same idea from different angles?”

I suppose that is a process I tend to work in- developing an idea and fusing more into it synthetically as I read or encounter more, new scientific or theological concepts- emergent. Because of my lifestyle I also tend to leave them off as I need work on other things, often of a more mundane nature such as stocking shelves. One can have an intellectual composition equivalent of The Winchester Mansion with stairs leading to nowhere and resuming in some strange locale like a drawing by Malcom Escher.