Albert Einstein vs. Robert Oppenheimer in Chess Game

I discovered Mato Jelic's replay of a chess game played between Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer recently.  Einstein used the E4 opening, and what followed was quite a good match. It's an enjoyable six minute video. A good crisp line.

The Philosophy of the Universal Widget ©2013GaryCGibson (science fiction excerpt)

"The Universal widget's origin is shrouded in mystery. It is the widget of widgets. Its form changes becoming what it is and not what it was. Simultaneously it is the producer and product and the extemporal quantum shape of actualized potential necessary to provide a solution to the problem."
Sounds like a handy thing to have around Mr. Saulobinsk. If your widget is so wonderful why haven't I seen one for sale around the galaxy?
"You have encountered derivative manufactures of the widget in various forms Dr. Voevoda. The widget itself never leaves Temprova and has never been absent until now. It is the producer of ideas developed into product and sale, not the definite article for sale in-itself."
Yvette asked; "And you are here seeking help from Patrick in finding that special trinket that might be anywhere in the Universe by now, in no particular form?"
"Precisely Dr. Yvette, for reasonable compensation of course."
And what would that be?
"Anything you wish from the Universal widget."
Not three wishes Mr. Saulobinsk?
"Yes, if you insist, three wishes of the Universal widget."
That sounds acceptable. Would you join us with a sandwich for lunch?
"A bowl of sweet grass would be excellent please."
You can eat grass?
"Yes. The survivors of biodiversity collapse on my home planet Usgov had to adapt somehow. We innovated a redesign such that we have four stomachs. Later I exfiltrated to the Higgsmasonic lodge of Temprova. This is not tobacco I am chewing, it is my cud."
I'd wager that's a pain to supply on some missions. Allright. About the widget. With computer aided design and manufacturing how does an individual unit differ in-itself from the potential of any artificial intelligence guided manufacturing system to accrete a new or necessary product Mr. Saulobinsk?
"Pat, I know where I can cut a fresh lawn for a bowl of sweet grass. Back in a jiffy", Yvette said before leaving her chair at the table set at the base of the pyramid and moving off toward the entrance of a lane between temples.
Our wonderful widget is a nexus for a quantum computer harmonic actualizer. It may draw upon unlimited resources of the non-steady state quantum Universe to form steady-state quantum entanglements that are temporal objects of spacetime."
What would happen if there were two of these Universal widgets simultaneously calling upon all of the content of the non-steady-state quantum Universe to become some particular object?
'I hadn't thought of that. There is only one known Universal widget after all. I suppose that each might draw together enough mass to create a giant black hole and terminate the development."
Good point.
Yvette returned with a bowl of grass and a few grass stains on her transparent body diaper-wrap that was then in fashion. It changed its opacity index from clear to transparent along with the mood of the wearer.
I asked our new acquaintance Conspiron a question about the Universal widget,
Conspiron, describe the relation of the Universal widget to the deep structure of quantum cosmology more fully.
He said after swallowing his cud and eying down the bowl of fresh grass,
The Higgs field is an expanding knot of quantum entanglements energized by the pull outward in the entanglement of more massless virtual particles from all possible locations in the non-solid-state Universal. The particle state probabilities of the quantum real are massless and faster-than light except as they are entangled. They are also without force or energy except potentially if entangled. For entanglement in a solid-state is a quantum phenomenality of an emergent and contingent phenomenal character.
A photon is nearly massless as an emergent particle-wave in an electro-magnetic field. It is the smallest basic energy element entangled in the solid state and is the quickest. Any solid-state entangled particle is temporal, while the quantum realm of massless probability states is not subject to spacetime in the Higgs field. The Universal widget was designed with elements of the non-temporal quantum Universe outside the Higgs field."
Yvette said, "That's a remarkable accomplishment. How so?
"Gravity too is a phenomenon of entanglement in the Higgs field. The widget maker discovered how to isolate entanglement probabilities and screen out the effects of gravity. He applied his theory to place Dyson gravity screens around black hole singularities and then erase the singularity of intense mass concentration from spacetime. Safely contained in scalable Dyson gravity screens he collected hundreds of naked black hole singularities and relocated them to a laboratory aboard a spacetime ship for further research. The developments followed.
You should know that Kurt Godel's set of all sets barrier became materially transcended with the actualization of the Universal widget. Every transfinite infinity became bracketed as an element of the infinite."
I asked; 'The invention was then of course pre-determined before time existed in eternity?'
"Yes, we believe so." Grand Master Saulobinsk began to chow down on the fresh grass Yvette had cut I would guess from Abbot Weydon's front lawn. A sudden seismic jolt shook us with something akin to a 6.0 Y'Earthquake, which was quite unusual. Yvette gave me the look.
Without a radioactive core, volcanism or plate tectonic activity Collingswood is seismically stable. It might have been an anomalous passing very large gravity way I thought. It would take some time for gravity wave detectors in distant orbit in the Collingswood star system to report any passing disturbance of spacetime adequate to shake the planet.
In the meanwhile, Yvette and I continued our discussion about the widget.
So Yvette, the Telemon was able to infuse some elements of the nature of non-temporality into it. In some ways techniques to shield out gravity waves and steady state aspects of quantum entanglement were found and the knowledge applied.
I would guess that would have innumerable consequences regarding the spacetime continuum of Universe 1. It would be theoretically possible to detach sections of Universe 1 from the Higgs field and quantum entanglement completely creating a de facto alternate spacetime Universe bubble even if it had nothing in it.
"The difficulty might be to keep anything of the steady state universe coherent inside such a detached sector. The quantum entanglement from the other side, from the quantum probability world would no longer exist and the steady-state entanglement might just disappear though some energy might remain in a high entropy state."
I believe Yvette, a Universal widget of all possible forms pre-existing time might arise to apply retro-causality to all things that are to be or become. In eternity it would always exist once it did exist, and become omniscient as well-especially of all the future Universes that it could create and set into motion in time.
"Well Patrick, that could be taken as a paradigm for the unconditional beingness of God as well-arising into being then always existing because of retro-causality."
Sure, its a good metaphor Yvette. Even though a Universal widget might be taken as an illustrative paradigm for the birth and history of God in eternity, its no more than that logically. Otherwise we might have a new omniscient Universal widget pop into being virtually anywhere or anytime creating problems of dual occupancy of existential null-space and order of any actualized Universes.
`Universe for ourselves, hopefully."

Cap Public Employment at 20 Years to Encourage Democracy Instead of a Ruling Class

Ours is an era of national political aloofness among the elites (who find it easier to consolidate wealth and power now). With such complete control of the electorate neither party makes much difference except to drive the moral decline of the nation further down the road to Orwell's optimum.

  The age of big government with annual trillion dollar deficits has established itself as if in defiance of the principles of democracy, frugality and public service. Big government prefers big business and global networks of power.

 In a democratic society without full employment all of the public should have a right to work for the government for several years if they desire. Public employment should not mean public collectivism with sinecures for million of union insiders. Lifetime public employment should be limited to 20 years. If someone retires from the military or has enough civil service time in to retire they should be bumped by any qualified applicant without 20 years of public employment. Instead of aloof government cliques doubling down on prosperity while millions go jobless. Instead of government workers that forget what individual enterprise means besides Harvard Wall Street C.E.O.'s and too big to fail banks getting 90 billion dollars of zero-interest loans each month, a democratic society should make sure that all citizens get a real opportunity to play government too.

Interpreting the Administration's Purge of Moral Values

Purging traditional moral values seem to be at the top of the administration's legacy to the nation when one hypothesizes that we have seen the elephant, or rather the donkey of administration policy already. There is a minimum seven salient points of policy comprising Obama moral value purging of pre-existing forms.

 1) Scrap traditional marriage and make gender irrelevant

 2) Have the Fed issue hundreds of billions or trillions of zero interest loans to the rich

 3) Create a vast corporatist-public health care national infrastructure trickling wealth upward and invading public privacy

 4) Raise the U.S. public debt to more than 20 trillion dollars

 5) Promote war in the Middle East without deployment of U.S. military forces. (To help France recover Syrian influence?)

6) Promote evolution theory and degrade belief in God

7) Degrade the homeland economic and ecological security value of U.S. citizenship, especially for the poor.

Interpreting the rationale for the administration's purge of traditional values isn't simple. Cynics might suggest the President simply seeks to lever votes for staying in power. Yet we believe there are deeper causes for the scrapping of moral values that reside in the Democrat Party antinomy to sin and preference for evolution theory in post-modern political thought.

The Internal Revenue Service was discovered to have harassed administration political opposition non-profit organizations during the 2012 election. The administration has rifled media files for 'leaks'. Big government may prefer big business and fail to understand free enterprise theory for individuals yet renormalizes post-modern kinder, gentler Stalinist evolution.

Evolution theory is non-judgmental in the social realm. The rise of moral relativism developed concurrent with evolution theory ingression in public education in the U.S.A. The residual product was the deconstruction of objective moral ideas in favor of the idea that no objective moral values are valid. That is a convenient truth for insider corruption, abandonment of moral values willy-nilly and decline of civil rights as objective and self-evident truths in support of democracy.

The administration has been a driving force for corrupting the meaning of marriage and abandonment of objective properties of civil rights. In the abandonment of objective values leading political elites have made class an organic phenomena. Behavior and political correctness identify friends and foes. Foes are marginalized and free speech finessed into extinction in the transformation to a non-democratic state.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/19/top-obama-adviser-stakes-out-defiant-defense-on-irs-benghazi-ap-scandals/

So the Obama administration assault on traditional moral values has 'evolved'. Evolution meaning that no objective moral values or self-evident truths can be held to exist provides immoral justification for the administration's selective law enforcement and right not to defend law it finds objective rather than subjectively useful for its constituency.

The concept of monetarism has evolved too. Issuing zero-interest e-dollars from the Federal Reserve to large banks as loans implicitly disadvantages poor and middle-class entrepreneurs. All of that currency will exist in the world and become circulated internationally rendering the U.S. economy more vulnerable to foreign purchase and political power. Already nearly 25% of rental properties in the U.S.A. are owned by foreign concerns. The failure of moral economic values is an avalanche building up for the future. Many will be homeless.

Evolution in All Political Directions

Evolution in all directions is the trendy political fact. To evolve means political correctness points are generated regardless of it's meaning. Each minute facet of existence can evolve, and that must be good. Diamonds may not change too fast in their internal structure yet that is regarded as bad by a liberal media seeking perennial demographic increase. Change and evolution are synonyms today.

Change may be found in the book of Genesis with a stirring of the void. We may wonder if that was a gravitino in a Higgs field coalesced from a cloud of unknowing. For Christians the belief that the works of God are good is a given. For the rest of society the paradigm for evolution requires complete ambivalence in regard to good or evil; the construction of good as a consequence of change cannot be taken for granted. In fact the value judgments of good or bad have no meaning to evolution. That is a paradox for political partisans who necessarily seek after the good of their own special interests.

Society and civilization evolving to nowhere in particular within a political evolutionary criteria would be a slippery pig for politicians to promote. Evolution instead has a politically correct definition, if partisans were willing to define evolution, meaning to move toward definite political goals. Representing a higher state of evolution as a veritable Marxist-Hegelian evolution up the ladder of higher and better species growth, partisans are New Agers and political foes Neaderthalic humanities Luddites.

Evolution as a specialized philosophy of science is interesting and a valuable way to approach integrated material systems analysis. As a political term evolution may have Kantian antinomies supporting opposite political viewpoints equally well, simultaneously. Evolution toward Tea Party goals may be as valid as the evolution toward 18 trillion dollars of public debt supported by the Democratic left. Evolution as a political concept is infinite and unbound at all times. It is a pointillist presentation of infinite meanings and values in fractalized Universal political pictures. Like U.S. national political leadership political evolution is fundamentally meaningless, meaning all things to all people yet nothing at all.

The Universal Widget (science fiction)

The idea of a Universal widget-a fomentor of forms- is an idea I have found intriguing recently, so I have used in in a new science fiction story. At the foundation of mass an energy is form and shape. A widget is a form and shape connector itself-as are quantum particle-wave-strings and everything else. Widgets upon widgets...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grIBUdALunI

Here is a quote from my first draft of The Universal Widget...

The library search engine distilled an historical scenario of the source of the Universal widget for us with a 90% probability of accuracy. Along with the remarkable images the hypertext was spoken,

In the last era before global ecosphere collapse the lost world Usgov tried to implement a planetary rationing of mass available for each citizen-subject to own. One ton for personal articles and two tons for a dwelling was the standard per capital limit. Efficiency reducing weight. Producing articles under the weight limit drove technological invention forward, yet the available resources were few and the plan unsuccessful at prevening ecosphere collapse though the method has been used subsequently on other planets with success. The key was to limit energy use and reward its renewable efficiency as well as materials. When the process is started too far in the cycle of ecosphere decline from demographic pressure it cannot save the lost. Standard mass and energy per citizen limit formula have been developed and used broadly across the galaxy to help keep thousands of ecospheres viable.

In the final era of Usgov a brilliant inventor named Terah Telamon, stimulated by the mass vs. utility ratio and implicit weight limits invented the Universal widget before the final collapse and reduction of citizenry to bovine status digesting the only common nutrient- grass. The Universal widget embodies connections and forms of all mass energy. All possible actualized forms from the quantum realm to the steady-state Universe are widgets-in-themselves. The Universe itself may be a form of widget.

In the final era of Usgov exospheric standard viability the development of equal economic opportunity for all citizens to increase energy efficiency and reduce mass consumption marriage was banned.

Marriage originally was developed to protect childbearing age women from exploitation. That was necessary when economic inequality and low values of individual civil rights protections left many vulnerable to extreme privations and victimization. By the final era on Usgov though, a perfected welfare state and reformed capitalism provided for the medical, food, housing and transport needs of everyone adequately while providing public capital to all inventors and developers that could increase performance to mass ratios and energy production to entropy increase ratio. There were far fewer inventors and producers making claims on public capital in that criterion, and their demands were easily and urgently met.

Men and women in the final era as free, secure citizens ordinarily went naked when together in private, as did homosexuals.  Sex was not coerced or terribly significant as few women opted for childbearing. Those that did were not forbidden. Marriage was no longer an economic necessity with normal reproductive prophylaxis and social economic security. Single citizens were the standard and to comply with Christian criteria many couples choose to live lives sexually limited to one another. With strong individual rights there was simply no pressure about sexual relations. Terah Telamon was thus single without a known permanent informal coupling partner. He had ample free time to develop the first Universal widget that was to change the fate of Universe 1.

"Patrick, the people of late era Usgov weren't so unlike us socially. We fit together somewhat like those singles. Yet I wonder about the Universal widget."

The search engine resumed speaking on the Universal widget...

Tephra Telamon in some way created a focal point for actualizing quantum uncertainty from the non-solid state Universe 1. Any possible combinatory structure in quantum mechanical configuration actualized briefly in the universal widget as a particular form. With its quantum computing data bank it realized every known existing invention and synthesized every possible recombination of those inventions in hyper-synthesis. All possible worldlines of super-positioned quantum particles flowed through the Universal widget nexus simultaneously as it phenomenalized extemporally outside the confining limits of the Higgs field.

What happened to the Universal widget our library search engine friend? 

Russian Truckers Motor Across Arctic Icepack to Canada

Driving a pair of trucks over the Arctic ice-pack over 70 days, a few Russians proved the obvious; the world is getting smaller all the time. Leaving Severnaya Zemlya-a large island north of Siberia, the can-do Russians reached Canada's Resolute Bay and plan to drive to the left coast and return via the Bering Strait to Russia.

If electro-magnetic mass-drivers were made to launch pre-fabbed space modules several times a month to orbit-perhaps with small rocket boosters Mars might eventually become another, modern can-do practicality.

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-russians-russia-canada-north-pole.html