Sunday, September 30, 2007

All We Are Is Information in the Quantum Soup

In answer to "What is mass," Einstein said mass is energy.

This energy potentiality (mass) is not sitting on top of the fabric of space-time, it is embedded within the fabric, one with the fabric. Interestingly, this energy is one with every point of the universe at the same time and all the points are one with it (non-locality/Bell's Theorem).

What does all this mean for a quantum information transmission view of the universe? Maybe it means that energy (mass) is to transmit some information to it's surrounding quantum soup. Maybe this energy's information changes the quantum soup/fabric.

I'm very taken with the notion that we don't "move" through space. Our energy potentiality exists such that the universe transmits our information in the quantum soup and that seems to us like movement through time.

The 4th dimension expands relative to our 3...

"Why does time's arrow point in the direction it points in? The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions.

Hence every photon naturally expands in a spherically symmetric manner. Hence every electron, or piece of matter that interacts with photons, is naturally carried outward from a central point in a spherically symmetric manner. Hence the particles in a drop of dye in a swimming pool dissipate in a spherically symmetric manner, and are never reunited. Hence time's arrow and entropy."

Hi! I've been into "Moving Dimensions Theory" lately and this snippet on time is from someone in another physics forum. I think this theory explains more things better than most b/c the underlying physical reality does bear out that the 4th dimension expands relative to (our) 3 spatial dimensions. I haven't heard Dr. Kaku talk about this theory, but I wish he would.

Cheers!

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Mind the money

Published in the St. Pete Times 9.26.2007:

Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., warned, "They're going to spend half a trillion this time" in regard to Republican attacks on Hillary Clinton's new health care plan. I would say that spending to fix America's health care tragedy is better than spending to start wars in other countries, to give tax breaks to contractors in the military-industrial racket, and to offer incentives to lobbyists' firms.

Legislators need to stop giving the American dream away to these robber barons and return dignity to the common man through improved living wages, health care and education. Now, how about spending half a trillion on education?

Thursday, September 20, 2007

The 10 Commandments (of the Ethical Atheist)

We thought this was pretty good...

The Ten Commandments (of the Ethical Atheist): http://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/ten_commandments.html

Fundamentalist Ignorance and Hypocrisy

Although the purpose of the religious right gathering in Brandon is to reverse the moral decline in America, ironically the religious right itself does a lot to contribute to America's decline, moral and otherwise. Christian fundamentalists are ignorant of scientific facts and are hypocritically judgmental.

Christian fundamentalists of the religious right are so literal in their interpretation of the bible that they want huge catastrophic events to happen, like the world to blow up, so that Jesus will come and bodily transport them to paradise while the rest of us burn in hell. Religious right fundamentalists believe that dinosaurs and Adam and Eve walked the earth at the same time when God made it about 6,000 years ago (...). Religious right fundamentalists don’t accept the most successful scientific theory of all time…evolution.

Religious right fundamentalists judge and condemn homosexuals, equal rights for women, and people who have had abortions. These religious people claim that the bible condemns them. However, in the bible, Lot is the angel’s hero for offering his daughters over to be gang-raped by an angry mob. Lot later impregnates his own daughters. Therefore, by their own fundamentalist logic (if you can call it that), good religious right fundamentalists should offer their daughters up to be raped and support incest. Also, if you are a real Christian fundamentalist, you will stone your rebellious children until they die because the bible tells you so. Perhaps these Christians should be less hypocritically judgmental and more like the actual Christ.

America may very well be in decline. Most Americans, as opposed to other industrialized nations, do not believe in evolution. 70% of American adults do not understand the scientific method. Americans are at a disadvantage for completing in a global economy: Since Bush’s preemptive, and some consider immoral, war, the majority of people in a majority of countries around the world view the U.S. unfavorably.

If regular people don’t speak up and say that religious right fundamentalists do not use basic rational thought, then our country will surely be lost in another dark age of superstition. These people stop at nothing to push their literal interpretation of the bible onto the rest of us. They do not even stop at the Constitution, which clearly stands upon a foundation of the separation of church and state and the separation of powers. It is time to stop being polite about religious fanatics and start teaching the scientific method. It is the only way for America to remain a viable player on the world field.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

End the Iraq War...Now

The time to end this war is now.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/iraqplan

Junky Chinese Products

Letter to Senator Nelson (FL)

Subject: Thanks for going to bat against junky Chinese products


Dear Senator Nelson,

Thanks so much for going to bat for us regarding junky Chinese products. I really appreciate you standing up for us and our children.

If we really care about this issue, we will hold the FTC's and FDA's feet to the fire because they did not do their jobs in protecting Americans from these dangerous products. Of course Mattel of the free market is going to seek short-term gain over the welfare of the people. That's why we have government agencies.

But if these agencies (FTC, FDA, etc.) don't do what they are supposed to, it is Congress' job to hold those agencies accountable and even pass legislation to strengthen protections. However, there are interesting incentives that can be passed as law in this area of consumer protection.

We could reward American companies for using American vendors/suppliers. We could reward American companies for Fair Trade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade) practices. We could reward compaines that are SweatFree (http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/sweatfree/). We could reward American companies that show their own products are safe.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Open letter to the UN

I’m writing today because, I, like many other Americans, am sad at my country having to go around the world warring all the time. I’m embarrassed that my beautiful, vibrant country is the bully of the world.

I was hoping the UN would stop the rapes by the Congolese army, Darfur’s genocide of its people, child sexual trafficking in Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Cambodia, and contain terrorism. It’s a shame the UN Peacekeepers do not actually stop these things, leaving a vacuum, that it seems the US military is all too ready to step in.

I’m tired of financing all this war, when the other countries of the world do not do their share to stand up for what’s right. Why should America alone have to foot the defense of the free world’s bill? Western European countries brag because their health care and universities are better and more accessible to any citizen. But they are able to subsidize these agencies because they do not have to subsidize a real military force.

I’m tired of the world community not stopping genocide, of the UN Peacekeepers not stopping genocide, and then the world community gets to point their fingers at brutish America, going to war again.

Why should our young people be the only ones to really fight and die to stop horrendous oppression? That is not an acceptable role anymore for just one country. We are one world and the whole world needs a defense against inevitable evil.

Please consider giving UN Peacekeepers some teeth. Americans would finally take the UN seriously then.

Friday, September 07, 2007

Global Dimming

Global dimming mediates (dampens) the relationship between CO2 and global warming...

Hi. I was watching PBS and thought you’d like to know some of these thoughts…

This is very inconvenient. We like warring for oil and paying Islamic Princes. These activities drive our economic engine on the blood of our young poor. Sure, give another no-bid contract to Halliburton, its good for the economy, after all! Conservatives like to create a “wedge” or a “controversy” in issues where there is no controversy. They tried to do create a false controversy about evolution and they try to create a false controversy about global warming. Watch out: germ theory is next! After all, it’s just a “theory.”

Yet, many people will die due to global warming. All of Florida will be underwater in the next century. Our poor great grand-children!

However, global dimming mediates (dampens) the relationship between CO2 and global warming. So if we put tons of sulfur into the upper atmosphere, we’ll save Florida and the last of the ice caps, but we’ll create more draught over Africa due to global dimming’s effect on evaporation (much less evaporation).

It is the photons that due the evaporating, so if we dim out a lot of photons, it will get very humid but not rain. Icky-stick. Global dimming has increased pretty dramatically since the 50’s.
Now if you don’t think a degree or three rise in temps in 100 years is bad, you should see what effect that really has on land, people, drought, fires, and famine. Scientists predict that continued global warming on the order of 2.5°-10.4°F over the next 100 years (as projected in the IPCC's Third Assessment Report) is likely to result in a rise in sea level between 3.5 and 34.6 in. (9-88 cm), leading to more coastal erosion and flooding; severe stress on forests, alpine regions, and natural ecosystems; greater threats to human health as mosquitoes and other disease-carrying insects and rodents spread diseases over larger geographical regions; and the disruption of agriculture resulting in famine.

See PBS.org on global dimming.

Anyone for wind, solar, and ethanol at pump (made from Florida sugarcane, of course)?