Thursday, October 15, 2026

Finally more details on my Irish ancestor: Rody Hanley

 

 So my mom went to Canada with her grandmother, Alvina Switzer, daugther of Emma Hanley and Henry Switzer....

But Rody Hanley converted (probably from Irish Anglican) to Methodism when he was in his twenties...and hence him being a leader in the Temperance movement since ....he was Methodist...

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

No more drip maker ball check valve plastic aluminum coffee!! Bialetti stainless steel Venus Moka maker

 

Drip check valve water pump Thing is too complicated of design! Was taking like 20 minutes or half hour to get a pot of coffee. Got the stainless steel Venus Bialetti - no moving parts. No check valves from balls getting stuck and relying on weird bubbles of water to pump up the water. hahaha. Just a clean cup of coffee to clear out the bowels in the morning. hahahahaha.
Moka coffee pot was first designed the year my dad was born: 1933... 
 https://www.bialetti.com/it_en/venus.html
The Bialetti Venus is a sleek, modern stovetop moka pot made from high-grade 18/10 stainless steel. [1, 2]
I found half a dozen yt vids reviewing this product.... and it's a much better improved taste with a faster brew time but basically a large cup of strong coffee = six ounces size. The Italian cup is only 1 ounce since they mix in milk, etc.  
Key Features & Specifications
  • Material: 18/10 stainless steel body with a 20% thicker boiler wall on newer models for extra durability, paired with a heat-resistant thermoplastic handle. [1, 2]
  • Stove Compatibility: Works on gas, electric, and induction hobs 
  • we got the six cup version which is half the price of the 10 cup version. Basically makes one very strong rich cup of coffee - smooth taste. The coffee fanatic community has analyzed this Venus Moka pot in great scrutiny - and determined if you use a not so fine grind then you get a better brew. 
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Tuesday, October 13, 2026

modern San Bushmen humans expanded throughout Africa before the modern dispersal out of Africa

  We found that the human niche began to expand
substantially from 70 ka and that this expansion was driven by humans increasing
their use of diverse habitat types, from forests to arid deserts. Thus, humans dispersing
out of Africa after 50 ka were equipped with a distinctive ecological flexibility among
hominins as they encountered climatically challenging habitats, providing a key
mechanism for their adaptive success.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09154-0.pdf 

 Our results show that the human niche progressively expanded to
include more habitat types beginning around 70 ka and that this expan-
sion peaked at about 50 ka, coinciding with successful dispersals out of
Africa. A second expansion was observed starting approximately 29 ka;

 The expansion of
the human niche beginning around 70 ka in Africa is driven by a gradual
increase in human preference for forest and desert biomes, allowing
them to expand into regions that were previously rarely populated:
(1) forests of West Africa, (2) forests of Central Africa and, eventu-
ally, (3) arid Saharan regions and semi-arid Sahelian regions of North
Africa. This increased ability to adapt to new habitats, ranging from
the extremes of equatorial forests to arid deserts, would have allowed............

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24779-1.pdf 

 However, archaeological findings in Saudi Arabia
dated to at least 85k years ago5, in Israel to at least 100k years
ago6 and possibly as old as 194k years ago7 (challenged8 and
defended9), and in Greece to 210k years ago10 hint at previous
excursions from Africa, which might have reached China at least
80k, possibly 120k years ago11 (challenged12 and defended13).
These, or other previous waves, might have also left a small
genetic contribution (~1%) found in modern inhabitants of
Papua New Guinea14. Further evidence for a possibly earlier exit
comes from traces of geneflow from Homo sapiens into Nean-
derthal, genetically dated to before 130k years ago15,16, and which
could be as old as 250k years ago17. While more work is needed to
confirm hints of Middle Pleistocene humans in Eurasia, current
evidence strongly suggests that Homo sapiens had repeated per-
iods when they were able to leave Africa, although the number,
timings, routes, and fates of such early waves is unclear.

...............

 

Sunday, October 11, 2026

B.G. Sidharth: Noncommutative photons explain dark energy acceleration of Universe

 

 https://archive.org/details/thermodynamicuni0000sidh/page/140/mode/1up

 

 

 so a nonlocal magnetic field is generated from noncommutative spacetime...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

noncommutative time-frequency with matrices: Maurice de Gosson & BG Sidharth on Noncommutative quantum mechanics

 

 

 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022123624001824

 The methods used in this approach were developed by the authors in [2], [3], [12], [13], [17] in the context of a deformation of ordinary quantum mechanics known as noncommutative quantum mechanics.

 

 

 

 https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/apxr.202500099

 the emergence of the deBroglie wavelength. This fol- lows from the noncommutative geometry of space time, rather than the physical Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

 B.G. Sidharth

r a spacetime that is discretized or is noncom- mutative. This immediately leads to corrections to the Special Theory of Relativity, more specifically to Lorentz Symmetry....we have deduced from two apparently different view points
namely a noncommutative geometry and a photon mass, are actually the
same.
 

 Because of the noncommutative
geometry in (10) space becomes multiply connected, in the sense that
a closed circuit cannot be shrunk to a point within the interval. 

  we started with the Dirac equation and deduced the underlying Noncommutative geometry of spacetime.

 in the usual Quantum Field Theory we encounter divergences which require renormalization. The motivation for the extension of
particles, or the Non commutative structure (4) has been to circumvent these
divergences. In this sense the Non commutative geometry represents ”renormalised” coordinates.

 the generation of mass is due to the noncommutative space-time

 the non-commutative nature of spacetime which manifests itself at ultra
high energies, prohibits a runaway Lorentz Factor

 the space and momentum coordinates become complex indicative of a noncommutative
geometry

 This non commutativity is at the root of the emergence of electromagnetism and spin

 

 Indeed non commutativity arises if there is a minimum space time length as
shown a long time ago by Snyder[11]. What we will argue below is that once
the underlying non commutative nature of the geometry is recognized then
it is possible to reconcile electromagnetism and gravitation.

 https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0110040

  It must be observed that the non commutative relations are self evident, in the sense that xy or yx is each of the order of l[squared], and so is their difference because of the non commu-
tativity.
The non commutative or in Witten’s words, Fermionic feature is symptomatic
of the breakdown of the concept of the spacetime points and point particles
at small scales or high energies. As has been noted by Snyder, Witten, and
several other scholars, the divergences encountered in Quantum Field Theory
are symptomatic of precisely such an extrapolation to spacetime points and
which necessitates devices like renormalization. As Witten points out[12],
”in developing relativity, Einstein assumed that the space time coordinates
were Bosonic; Fermions had not yet been discovered!... The structure of
space time is enriched by Fermionic as well as Bosonic coordinates.”
Interestingly it has been shown that the commutative relations (1) lead di-
rectly to the Dirac equation, on the one hand[13]. On the other hand, it
is interesting that a differential calculus over a non commutative algebra
uniquely determines a gravitational field in the commutative limit 

 The effect of the non commutative geometry is therefore to introduce a departure from flat space time,

 non commutativity in momentum components leads to an effect that can be identified with electromagnetism 

 is similar to the torsional formulation of General Relativity[21]. However in this latter case, there is no contribution to the differential interval from the torsional (that is non-commutative) effects. The non-commutative contribution is given by (1) and herein comes
the extended, rather than point like particle.

 BG Sidharth video talk on noncommutative spacetime quantum universe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alain Connes confirmed Basil J. Hiley debunking Renormalization

 

From: Basil Hiley
Date: Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 6:06 AM
Subject: Re: squaring zero is noncommutative for the Dirac Operator?



Thank you for the Kauffman and Connes references.  Just looked at Connes talk, very interesting!  It shows how the non-commutative geometry produces  discrete energy level structure.  One day we will be able to obtain the rest mass spectrum of the ‘elementary’ particles using these ideas?

Always interested in Lou Kauffman’s work.  I have been studying section 17 of his book “Knots and Physics”.   He writes “With this interpretation of covariant derivative and parallel transport via Wilson loop, we can recover the gauge theoretical analog of curvature via parallel transport round a small loop”.  That arises from the twist in the path which I have shown corresponds to the Coriolis energy hidden in Feynman paths!  I haven’t yet been able to link it to gravitational entropy. 
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thanks Professor Basil J. Hiley!!

Finland is ranked happiest country for 9th yr in a row and Finland drinks most coffee per person

 Per-Capita Leader (Finland): Finns consume roughly 12 kilograms (about 26 to 29 pounds) of coffee per person each year, averaging around 3.7 to 4+ cups per day. 

 Yes, Finland is officially ranked as the happiest country in the world for the ninth consecutive year, according to the United Nations-backed World Happiness Report