Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Capitalists freak out when one of their own dares to host Economics Professor Richard Wolff,

 Richard Wolff (Better Understanding Of Marxism And The SMALL GOVERNMENT Socialist Movement)

Hard to believe this guy's parents fled socialist tyranny in Germany to the US, which embraced them & allowed them to raise their family in safety such that he could have a better life. He gets sent to the most prestigious schools (how does that happen? often it takes greased palms...or being a marxist whilst they are seeking to fill the system with marxists - look at his dad's friends...) & has become one of the most affluent in the world, due to the country in which he was born, which allowed his fleeing parents safe haven. How does he repay the constitutional republic which gave him all that he has outside of the gifts from God? He takes up the political ideology of our subversive enemy. He should go teach in Venezuela Edit: Also, his life is a complete waste of effort. All he has done is sit around & pontificate on marx - reminds me of bernie getting kicked out of the hippie commune for not pulling his weight & sitting around talking about socialism... More power to you for being able to interview this guy. Stiff. Drink. Time.
I stayed at a family in Venezuela where the father had gone to Columbia University in NYC and then he returned to lead Venezuela's OPEC board - Senor Lopez. Venezuela historically has been dominated and controlled by the US. Just check out the most venerated Marine US soldier - Smedley Butler - he said he was actually a Mercenary for Big Business Elites enforcing US profits made in Venezuela and countries around the world. Have you been to Venezuela?
@Voidisyinyang Voidisyinyang I have not. They were doing quite well, up until socialist dictators took power. Currently, it is not somewhere anyone would like to be, as is the case for every one of these experiments given enough time. This next one that they are pushing for now, is the western world. Regarding the other point that you brought up. I agree, there has been a great deal of perverse behavior undertaken by the kleptocracy that took root in the US, which had been present for quite some time in europe & other regions. Do you really think that the crooks that you speak of differ from those whom facilitated the east india tea company or other corrupt big money interests? We have a common enemy with this group.
@Mitch Kuchenburg I moved into a house with fellow University students and I became friends with a student from Venezuela. She took me there in 1998. I met bare-footed peasants living in a hut in the Andes. They had never voted in their life but they told me they were going to vote for Hugo Chavez. So I don't agree that "They were doing quite well, up until socialist dictators took power." The US tried to stage a military coup in Venezuela just as the US has done all around the world. https://williamblum.org/chapters/.../us-coup-against-hugo-chavez-of-venezuela-2002
@Voidisyinyang Voidisyinyang You completely ignore my agreement with you on corrupt interests, why was this? Are you a socialist?
@Mitch Kuchenburg So you refuse to acknowledge that I disagree with your first claim? I just provided evidence that disproved your first claim. I'll keep waiting for your response. You made a claim with no evidence. I provided evidence that disproved your claim. Until you respond to that then it's case closed.
@Voidisyinyang Voidisyinyang So, you completely change the topic & then make some demands gtfoh You are a socialist, hence why you didnt answer & also why you changed the topic + ignored my agreement that some bad stuff has happened that has to change. You brought that crap up & obfuscated - typical 'debate' tactic of the left Edit: & to answer your question, i was looking up actual evidence, not 'i met a dude once with no shoes'. Look at small truck sales - this is private enterprise growing. Ask those peasants how are they doing now, oh wait, they're likely dead from violence or starvation. Thanks socialism. I bet they are happy they made that genius decision.
@Voidisyinyang Voidisyinyang "By 1982, Venezuela was still the richest major economy in Latin America. The country used its vast oil wealth to pay for social programs, including health care, education, transport, and food subsidies. Workers in Venezuela were among the highest paid in the region." https://www.businessinsider.com/charts-venezuelas-economic-tragedy-2017-9 Quick source for a youtube reply - you have Google So, mismanagement by government by expanding social programs leading into an oil price drop... Lookie there Even before Chavez, the gov was redistributing wealth & causing havoc Did the person in the hut with no shoes bring this up while you were discussing politics with your college buddies on that trip that one time?
@Mitch Kuchenburg "The truth of the matter was well articulated by a US banker in Venezuela under the murderous Pérez Jiménez dictatorship: "You have the freedom here to do what you want to do with your money, and to me, that is worth all the political freedom in the world." That about sums it up. Venezuelan oil under the Gómez dictatorship,..American-style capitalism" urges upon countries it deems "worth exploitation." ...
 
Perhaps it would be better to try Venezuela, even more favorable terrain with its extraordinary resources, including the richest petroleum reserves outside the Middle East. We might, then, have a look at that success story. In a major scholarly study of US-Venezuelan relations, Stephen Rabe writes that after World War II, the US "actively supported the vicious and venal regime of Juan Vicente Gómez," who opened the country wide to foreign exploitation. The State Department shelved the "Open Door" policy in the usual way, recognizing the possibility of "U.S. economic hegemony in Venezuela," hence pressuring its government to bar British concessions (while continuing to demand -- and secure -- US oil rights in the Middle East, where the British and French were in the lead). "By 1928, Venezuela had become the world's leading oil exporter, with US companies in charge. During World War II, the US agreed to a Venezuelan demand for 50-50 profit-sharing. The effect, as predicted, was a vast expansion of oil production and "substantial profits for the [US] oil industry," which took control over the country's economy and "major economic decisions" in all areas. 
 
  "During the 1949-1958 dictatorship of the murderous thug Pérez Jiménez, "U.S. relations with Venezuela were harmonious and economically beneficial to U.S. businessmen"; torture, terror, and general repression passed without notice on the usual Cold War pretexts. In 1954, the dictator was awarded the Legion of Merit by President Eisenhower. The citation noted that "his wholesome policy in economic and financial matters has facilitated the expansion of foreign investment, his Administration thus contributing to the greater well-being of the country and the rapid development of its immense natural resources" -- and, incidentally, huge profits for the US corporations that ran the country, including by then steel companies and others. About half of Standard Oil of New Jersey's profits came from its Venezuelan subsidiary, to cite just one example. . ..
 
".only 57 percent of Venezuelans could afford more than one meal a day in this country of enormous wealth. Other flaws in the miracle had been revealed in the report of an August 1991 Presidential Commission for the Rights of Children, not previously noticed, which found that "critical poverty, defined as the inability to meet at least one half of basic nutritional requirements," had tripled from 11 percent of the population in 1984 to 33 percent in 1991; and that real per capita income fell 55 percent from 1988 to 1991, falling at double the rate of 1980-1988.1
 
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Chavez, The 2002 Coup

 yes I've worked in cooperatives - actually I lived in a housing cooperative of 35 people that was part of a 10 house cooperative. So we did have some people choose to not attend the "management" meetings. But there were no "Managers" in a real cooperative. So that is his point. Each individual represents themselves as a self-employer. There's no hierarchy. So for example the facilitation of the meetings would rotate so there was never a "president" or even a "secretary." Each job role would rotate to balance out the learning and education. 

So I think even in a small business people are aware of undemocratic ownership - if a worker is making the product and doing most of the physical labor but then he or she does not get hardly any of the profit - then this is unfair especially if the worker also has no role in how the business is run. And then the worker does not usually have the choice to just quit their job and find something else - and so such a person is basically a "wage-slave" as the Republican Party used to term such conditions.  

So it's not just an individual choice when wages have gone down compared to inflation for 40% of workers in the U.S. due to globalization and automation, etc. That is just a basic fact - that most women now who are married also have to work a job even if they also are mothers to children, etc. So that's a structural change in the U.S. - not an individual decision. Kind of like Supply Side economics - you put in the InterState Highway system to make sure people can evacuate nuclear plant meltdowns, etc. You have monopolies that conduct criminal conspiracies to wipe out the street car systems in cities so that people are forced to buy individual cars, etc. - those are structural decisions, not the decisions of individuals. Most individuals are not even aware of what is going on at a structural level.  

So cooperatives don't have the same kind of fiscal support by the government as with private corporations - for example corporations are considered legal persons protected by the bill of rights - and so are protected by the World Trade Organization and usually get lots of market subsidies (tax incentives and even tax subsidies). So that is why the distribution of milk for example is controlled by Land 'O Lakes that calls itself a "cooperative" but in fact it no longer maintains democratic control of the workplace - Land O' Lakes is actually "Land 'O Fakes" - a fake cooperative. So just because a business calls itself a cooperative does not mean it's a real cooperative.

 you mean how the original Republican party was against "wage-slaves"? Yes during early capitalism people could be self-employed more easily as there was less mass labor industrialization. So businesses were more independent crafts. So the Republicans were against people having to rent out their own bodies as wage-slaves. Pretty cool ideal actually. Glad you follow it!

 That's hilarious. After Reagan then corporations get 100% tax deduction to control research at Universities. For example at University of Minnesota, when I checked, there were over 300 corporations controlling the research - getting tax subsidized free researchers, free research equipment and facilities, and patent control, etc. A good book on this is "Leasing the Ivory Tower" by Lawrence Soley. He got fired for having that book published.

 Not compared to the Capitalist Economics Professors ! They all sit on board of directors of Wall St. Firms and get paid "consulting" and "lecture" fees and board of director fees and get paid to write big lies promoting big bank lies. Wolff is poor compared to most of the Capitalist Economic Professor Brown-No$er sell outs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbWTl82ZL_k&ab_channel=ElevatumSequentia this doc gives the details on how Capitalist Economic Professors are way too rich for being Brown-No$er sell outs

 I'm not an adjective nor a noun. When I am in deep dreamless sleep then my "I" is gone and yet who am I then? Be honest now? Do you know who you are when you're in deep dreamless sleep? Or is your brain just a "biological machine" that turns on when you wake up? Let's not stoop to semantics to define ourselves. Why limit yourself?

 @Rich Colo people die in labor industrial "accidents" all the time or in the military. Are they assassinated? Well no but maybe murdered. It's a legalistic term. Yes I agree with you that to say someone "died" when they were assassinated is a sleight of hand. I'm just saying that the U.S revolution was to maintain a slave imperial system since the British were stopping their slave state. Similarly Rhodesians were against the black Africans having their revolution in Zimbabwe. 

So the issue here is are people in general being assassinated by Westernization of the planet Earth - be it Marxism or Platonic ideology, Capitalism, etc. http://arctic-news.blogspot.com the Arctic has not been ice-free in three million years but it's about to go ice-free and unleash a huge methane bomb of giga-tons, doubling abrupt global warming and making it too hot for life on Earth.  

Our problems are way worse than mass murderers. The Koch Brothers Dad got rich from Communism - it's Industrialization. Anthony Sutton documented that Wall St. supported and created the Soviet Union just as much as anyone else. Same with Nazism. It's all just Western industrialization - same in China and Japan as well. Now India. It's too late. Western science itself is a religion as Professor David F. Noble exposed in his many books.  

Yes Trotsky was assassinated just as JFK was assassinated but structurally that did not change the US imperial system. JFK was a "Cold warrior" - and so just having a workers revolution isn't going to change the problem of Western industrialization based on the philosophy of Plato. Marx is based on the wrong math from Plato - and it goes back to the "symbolic revolution" around 10,000 years ago as archaeologist Jacques Cauvin called it. Humans have been around for 100,000 years. 

Science is our current religion but science is not going to save us. Mother Nature is in charge. We all rely on science as our mythology - our religion that we can't escape. But biologically we existed for a long time without science. All human cultures use music as the Octave, Perfect Fifth and Perfect Fourth as 1:2:3:4. The truth is very simple yet very radical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ShI7kTnyFc&ab_channel=ArturRehi This Estonia youtube says he thinks Trotsky got his head smashed in by a hammer. He gives a good review on the Russian Revolution but at the same time he is too simplistic about thinking capitalism is much better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes#cite_note-Jahanbegloo_Singh_motive_2014-76 

 Jahanbegloo 2014, pp. 120-121: "Singh makes a principled argument: that Marx saw the use of violence, even when it is avoidable, as required insofar as that it has a purging quality, believing that only by using violence can all elements of the previous regime be eradicated. Moreover, Singh (ibid., p. 14) considers Marx's references to the use of bourgeoisie democratic institutions to bring about social change only as 'hinting to the possibility of the working class coming into power, in England, through universal suffrage'. Furthermore, he quotes Engels in a letter addressed to the Communist Committee in Brussels in October 1846. In this letter, Engels states that there cannot be any means of carrying out the communist agenda 'other than a democratic revolution by force' (ibid. p. 10). Singh, however, does acknowledge the desire in Marx to avoid a bloody revolution. Singh (ibid. p. 11) notes that most Marxist writing that alluded to the possibility of this transition being carried out peacefully took place before the events of 1844-48, which 'showed that a peaceful change was not even remotely possible'. After 1848, Singh notes a return to advocating a violent revolution due to what Singh identifies as the 'practical considerations' of being unable to overcome the existing obstacles to a peaceful transition. Singh (ibid. p. 13) writes that, in 1848, Marx published an article titled The Victory of Counter-Revolution in Vienna, where he states 'there is only one means by which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated - and that is by revolutionary terror'."

 

The Mind Must Be Erased Out of Existence

 Josh Trenge

  My awareness of myself does not preclude my existence... :-)

"For instance, does a man say always "I am a man"? He does not. On the other hand, if a thought arises that he is a cow or a buffalo, he has to remind himself that he is not a cow, but "I am a man". This would never happen. It is the same with one's own existence and realisation...The mind does not exist apart from the Self, that is, is has no independent existence. The Self exists without the mind, never the mind without the Self. ..For you cannot deny your own existence. That existence is consciousness, the Self...The mind must be erased out of existence. See who the thinker is, who the seeker is. Then abide as the thinker, the seeker, and all thoughts will then disappear. That ego is pure ego purged of thoughts. It is the same as the Self."
 
 
 

Phenomology of Noncommutative reality - Ph.D. thesis

 https://s3.cern.ch/inspire-prod-files-b/bc80b4bd4415d59a02eebf451e7237e3

 Phenomenological Aspects of Noncommutative Standard Model 

 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY 

 by Selvaganapathy J

 May - 2018

 Thus one can expect that there could
be a violation of Pauli exclusion principle in the fermionic sector. There are few nuclear and atomic
experiments has made searches on Pauli forbidden transitions. As a result, the lifetime of the particular
non-Pauli transitions are quite higher than the age of the universe.

 The effect of earth’s rotation in the non-commutative space-time has
explained in appendix 3.6 and [255].

 Because of earth’s rotation the angle
ζ (see Fig.3.13) increases with time and the detector comes to its original position after a cycle of one
complete day,

The unthinkable consequences of global warming by Andrew Glikson: "Pirate Booty" in the Doomosphere - jumps to censor me

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-unthinkable-consequences-of-global-warming.html

Amazon rainforest tragedy repeats itself as Brazil rainforest goes up in smoke

https://news.yahoo.com/amazon-condemned-destruction-fires-proliferate-091505295.html 

Indigenous women in Amazon Forest as protectors against Western destruction - podcast 

 Hey you want to have a conversation about conservation? I did a 1992 School for Field Studies semester in Costa Rica and so I went out alone to interview the campesinos living adjacent to our supposed "protected preserve." They openly shared that they hunted in the park for food (this was about an hour outside San Jose). So I gave my presentation and argued that the locals living next to parks should be PAID to protect the parks. My conservation biology professor Dr. Pia Paaby http://www.leydenconsultinggroup.com/CV_PiaPaabyHansen_inglesJun11.pdf then got such a law passed in Costa Rica so that the locals were paid. So instead of your self-righteous defensive trope care to share some solid details? As for Derrick Jensen, I'm sorry he got raped by his dad, but when I was asked if I read his books, by a local bookstore, then I quickly paged through one and realized it was a waste of time. That was about over 15 years ago. I've still never read one.

 actually the males were hunting all the meat so the females told the males to stop hunting the meat. Instead the women started a sustainable Cocoa wild harvest farm to sell to Swanky Westerners. So if the males are turned into Soy Boys then they're not gonna crank out so many children. Traditionally males in the Amazon rainforest ate a couple pounds of meat a day. "In 2014, we began working with the Kichwa indigenous community of Zancudo Cocha (an area that spans over 172,000 ha), to improve their cocoa production and marketing methodologies. Within this community, 21 families produce high-quality cocoa, whilst incorporating sustainable cocoa production methods within their traditional farming practices." Since 2018, the project has expanded to support 3 nearby indigenous communities within the Cuyabeno Reserve. Currently, we are working for improvement of the complete value chain with 21 families of the indigenous Cofanes of Zábalo; 36 indigenous Shuar families from Taikiwua and Charap communities.

 The Liberal Imperial Twin Cities "StarTribune" newspaper promoted CARGILL's illegal soybean elevator storage destruction in the Pantanal wetland next to the Amazon rainforest - way back 15 years ago - said Minnesota farmers should MOVE to Brazil to "compete" since soybeans are now a currency as good as gold there. Cargill said grow as much as you want and we'll buy it!! Of course all part of their elite global empire part of US food imperialism.

 https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/stop-cargills-destruction-amazon/

wait so you didn't like me reminding you of your "Pirate Booty" business so that Gringos could pay lower property taxes as a capital flight scheme? You believe in the Green Elite is it? Why would you think I'd want to be on your show? haha. Hilarious. Yes I did environmental activism for 25 plus years since high school and I even got a master's degree in "activism." haha. But you feel the need to "ejaculate" me from your comment section? Why? Because you define infinity in a closed materialistic Western sense while I advocate an open Ecofeminist definition of reality? haha. Why not just check out my youtube uploads or read my research? I have dozens of articles and books online - all FREE research! I don't waste my time with needing some "publishers" to try to censor me as you already are wanting to do. As for my activist history - just as Noam Chomsky states - my public record speaks for itself. As for the future - I'm part of the five year club. I assume we have five years left. I knew we were DOOMED since 1996. So logically I trained to find out what is past death and so I personally know that ghosts are REAL!! haha. I finished my master's degree by training with a Daoist spiritual master who has a healing business http://springforestqigong.com and then I read one scholarly book a day for ten years (while I dumpster dived for food and rode an old bicycle around). And so I discovered that noncommutative phase math logic corroborates what I realized on an individual level. Do you know what noncommutative phase math is? haha. Good luck doing some remedial reading and then try doing intensive meditation? You can always get a phone healing to feel what the energy is - instead of just having lower emotional reactions from people posting comments that you don't like. I was even investigated as a top ecoterrorist - one of 12 - because I dared to practice my constitutional rights in the U.S. Hilarious.


Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Nega-Particles and Quantum Oblivion: Quantum Teleportation without any particles (in this world)! Lev Vaidman lecture

 Time Reversal as bidirectional teleportation without any particles - video lecture

 We can transfer a message without particles being present in the transmission channel.

It's feasible. It has been done.

Still Amazing thing! Quantum Teleportation without anything!

Lev Vaidman quote

about 18 minutes into the lecture

 In classical mechanics, only the initial state of the system is needed to determine its time evolution. Additional information on the final state is either redundant or inconsistent. In quantum mechanics, however, the initial state does not convey all measurements’ outcomes. Only when augmented with a final quantum state, which can be understood as propagating backwards in time, a richer, more complete picture of quantum reality is portrayed. This time-symmetric view leads to a subtle kind of a local hidden-variables theory, where true collapse never occurs, yet can be effectively observed. Moreover, the Born rule and the borderline between classical and quantum systems can be derived from, respectively, the requirements of stability and “macroscopic robustness under time-reversal.’’ The significant role of macroscopic systems in amplifying and recording quantum outcomes then directly follows. Some possible cosmological consequences of this construction are discussed, especially those related to the breakdown of the “Pigeonhole principle” and on-going work on the concept of “Quantum Holism”.

Eli Cohen: A Final Boundary to the Universe vid 

 

https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.91.032116

Taichi in action (science style)

He works with Yakir Aharonov on Nega-Particles using weak measurements (entangled photons)

Some Notes on Counterfactuals in Quantum Mechanics  

 Forward—and backward—evolving wavefunctions are granted equal causal efficacy. Consequently, effects proceed not only forward in time but may also zigzag back and forth. Hence, what appears to be nonlocal in space becomes local in spacetime. This account is therefore fully physical, i.e., compatible with all predictions of quantum mechanics and all experiments performed until now, independent of philosophical preferences.

So the Weak Measurement is the OVERLAP of the forward and backward "selections"

 Returning to quantum oblivion, our question becomes sharper. Not only does the electron remain unchanged after the interaction that changed the positron’s momentum, but there are also the two remote detectors which took part in this non-reciprocal interaction—just by remaining silent. If no photon has ever been emitted from the electron–positron pair towards these detectors, located arbitrarily far away, how can their mere non-clicking affect the positron back?

 


  The overlap between the pre- and post-selected states gives rise to an odd trajectory (purple) which harbors a short-lived particle in the middle of the “empty” path.

 So if you set up "two shutters" it changes the clicking path....

the “empty” path of the large MZI, where apparently no particle has passed, was traversed by a pair of mirage particles, one with positive and the other with a negative mass. The smaller MZI briefly split them, before they reunited to form the apparent “nothing” again [50].

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nil-communication-how-to-send-a-message-without-sending-anything-at-all/ 


 

 We can alter the pattern on the screen by inserting a pane of glass in one beam’s path. Glass slows the light, so the peaks and valleys of its waves no longer match those from the other beam. A certain thickness of glass slows one beam just enough so its peaks arrive with the valleys of the other. Different areas of the screen now turn dark, where the light in the two beams interfere with each other destructively. If we were to place a photon detector at such a spot, no light would register.

In 1993, Avshalom Elitzur and Vaidman pushed interferometers past the surreal and into the absurd, with a thought experiment that others would make real. Instead of a fluorescent screen, imagine a second beam-splitter where the paths reunite (Figure 2a). Now place a detector in line with each possible path after the splitter. The photons are equally likely to proceed to either detector. Alter one of the original paths again by adding a pane of glass, so there is destructive interference at one detector but not the other—a photon always registers in the second detector, but never in the first. We can actually observe this.

Now place an obstacle in one of the paths after the original split. Half the photons are absorbed and the other half travel the unimpeded path. These unimpeded photons should proceed as before, to the second detector. They do not. Half register in the first detector, which did not click when there were two paths (Figure 2b). The interference disappears because the other path is no longer possible. The photons definitely travel the path without the obstruction, but somehow they know what happens to the other path and change their behavior accordingly. In fact, a photon appearing in the forbidden detector—just once—is enough to intuit the presence of the obstruction.

 That's so weird!!

During the 1970s, two physicists at The University of Texas at Austin, Baidyanath Misra and E. C. George Sudarshan, studied the weird capacity for repeated measurements to prolong quantum effects. They called it Zeno’s paradox for quantum mechanics. The Greek philosopher had argued that measuring the position of an arrow repeatedly, as it progresses half the distance to its mark, implies the arrow never lands. Half a distance always remains.

 After analyzing the experiment for several months, Vaidman explained that “the photon did not enter the interferometer, the photon never left the interferometer, but it was there.” The particle had to be where it could not, if information was derived from the absence of an object. Kwiat wrote that Vaidman’s interpretation is “nonsense.”

 


 I blogged on it before but it is well worth studying further.


Louis Kauffman on the controversary re: Einstein's relativity theory via noncommutative geometry as Penrose Spin Networks

discussion at 1 hour 14 minutes 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWPi5WC_IV0

Well you know we teach it to ourselves at least, when we teach it to ourselves at least, we make it as clear as possible, what assumptions we're making. And we're making a lot of assumptions. I'm just taking about ordinary special relativity...that three dimensional space is local and Euclidean. And that the light is traveling IN it, but that the light satisfies Einstein's postulates. Then you get to use the Pythagorean Theorem if you want to. And you get to use those things, and you make the conclusions that you do, given Einstein's postulates. And it's logical and it's also very unintuitive in the end,

....Then you have to ask yourself am I really going to stay there or am I going to go into a deeper set of assumptions? ...in Einstein's time, tried to investigate lots of other assumptions about the background space and this goes on. And so this goes on and so there's this continual investigation about the modeling about the background space. Or perhaps the saying that there should be no background space.

Instead of assuming and you can't anymore assume, that there is just some unknown liquid luminiferous aether. You can't do that. You can't just say there's something rather that behaves like a fluid, that's elastic...You've got to make the model more explicit in these times. And so people try and they're still trying to make background space models of different kinds. An example of a nice extreme one is Roger Penrose's attempt by Spin Networks, to create a background process model, for spacetime itself. And this kind of thing continues, so this is an ongoing investigation.

And Einstein's original words are not written in stone.

End of Rant....

As a student it seems really strange, and you have to understand the background, which is that the speed of light is calculated out of electromagnetic theory, and therefore independent of the inertial frame. And Einstein is setting up a theory which shows what the consequences of that are... Of course you're assuming all your classical ideas except one, and seeing what happens when you do that derivation.

I mean, I wouldn't know what convinces you. Some geometric thought experiment is one that convinced me ,... where you have the moving training And you look at the photon and on the train it's going back and forth between two mirrors in a vertical tube. But from the observer's point of view it's going up the hypotenuse of a right triangle. And then you compare using the Pythagorean Theorem and out come the relativistic transformations. So the derivation at the mathematical level is crystal clear. But, then, of course when you first learning it you resist this thing. It doesn't seem right.
And you're probably right that it doesn't seem right. That you'd like to understand it in a deeper way than that.

..... 

But this is like finding...but you see the problem is how do you understand, shows it to you. But you could ask, how do I understand it? In mathematics there's situations where we do an understanding...They found non-Euclidean Geometries but they didn't have Models. Then we found models, curved surfaces, Gauss and so on. And we began to understand what we understand with non-Euclidean geometry. Something might be possible with relativity but I haven't seen it yet.
The question is when will your intuition rest. But that is not a mistake of the person who made the discovery...

..... 

yeah there's a problem in the background here, I want to articulate; and that goes all the way back to Maxwell. You remember Maxwell wanted to make a mechanical model for electromagnetism and he gave it a good try and it didn't work. And nobody since could do it either: that's the old hidden variables problem if you think in modern terms. He wanted to do it, he wanted to get that theory of electromagnetic waves to be palpable as the way waves work in water and he could not do it. And so the theory became abstract. And the ether disappeared at that point. THAT's when the ether disappeared. It disappeared at the failure of that model.
Ah yeah [that model was quaternionic] haha.

Yeah but the difference is between how you understand how waves in water because you have a substrate and you think of the molecules moving in their patterns and the waves coming out. You have a substrate in which you understand where the waves come from and what they do. And you don't have that and the aether was supposed to do that. That's what the aether was supposed to do.

I'm not talking about words! I'm talking about the non-existence of a hidden variables model for the electromagnetism. It doesn't exist. The aether doesn't exist in that sense. You could want one but it doesn't exist. So we moderns make the mistake: Well the aether is just the manifold, it's just the background model of what we produce. But that isn't what people had in mind for the aether.

 

 






 

Farming yellow Mealworms as human food? Mealworm Burgers?

  And mealworms for people to eat are still mostly a novelty market.

https://entomologytoday.org/2019/03/07/maximizing-mealworms-research-aims-to-improve-rearing-methods/ 


 Yummy?

I think I used them as fish bait...

Pretty sure.

Figuring out how to raise a better mealworm on an industrial scale—not just for anglers but also, on a larger scale, as animal feed and even human food—is the subject of a research project, covering eight years, described in a new study published today in the open-access Journal of Insect Science.

After eight years, mealworms produced in the study were three-quarters larger than the stock from which they originated. Already a $55-million market, the industry banks on mealworms—larvae of darkling beetles—as a potential protein source for animal feed and, beyond that, for humans in an ever-hungry world.

After eight years, mealworms produced in the study were three-quarters larger than the stock from which they originated. Already a $55-million market, the industry banks on mealworms—larvae of darkling beetles—as a potential protein source for animal feed and, beyond that, for humans in an ever-hungry world.

 Sounds like my mushroom forest farm! Might be worth trying to grow mealworms as a nice supplement to shrooms.

worldwide, 2 billion people regularly eat insects of one type or another. Mealworms have many features that could make them stand out on the menu. Research suggests they are healthier than beef, chicken, and pork. Moreover, they are an environmentally sound product. Farming mealworms takes up much less space and uses less water than livestock and produces a much smaller amount of greenhouse gasses.

 Also I'm guessing a good source of B12 vitamin!!

So how do I do it?

Technically it would not be livestock ( I don't have enough acres for livestock) and I would not have to worry about noise or the coyotes eating them!!

Of course the birds might try eat them.

https://www.thehappychickencoop.com/make-your-own-mealworm-farm/

 ok next is mealworm recipes!!

Will Yellow Mealworm Become a Source of Safe Proteins for Europe? 

 In view of climate change and the limited availability of food resources, edible insects offer a highly nutritional alternative for feed and food production [1,4,5]. The kingdom Insecta is one of the largest taxonomic classes containing more than 1 million of known [6] but underexploited species [7].

 Optimal growth is achieved when mealworm diets are abundant in yeasts (5–10%), carbohydrates (80–85%) and B-complex vitamins [35].

 exactly!!

I suppose just fry them up!

Or boil them down?

Better yet:

RAW.

Like in Papua New Guinea!

I've eaten raw earth worms....

But I don't want to compete with the Robins, and Veery, etc.

Mealworm larvae are able to synthesise fat even if they are fed low-fat diets.

Yummy Fat!!

Mealworm larvae contain mostly unsaturated fatty acids that deliver health benefits for humans.

 blanched mealworms marinated in red wine and soy sauce can influence microbial load. They demonstrated that marination can extend the shelf life of blanched mealworms for at least 7 days.

mouth-watering recipe!

insects, crickets and mealworms in different form (baked, boiled, crushed, flavoured with a pinch of vanilla or paprika, or dunked in chocolate). The respondents had the greatest preference for crispy mealworms with chocolate and paprika and for naturally baked mealworms. A similar study was conducted by Caparros Megido et al. [220] who investigated consumer attitudes towards insect-based burgers. The taste of mealworm burgers was rated between that of fully meat and fully vegetable burgers.

 oh yeah - no more fast food burgers...

Slow Mealworm Burgers!

$15 for 500 meal worms - in the mail from Minnesota

Wow - this could get started real easily.

 Giant mealworms are simply common mealworms that have been treated with an insect growth hormone to discourage them from morphing into beetles, thus they grow significantly larger. Some will morph into beetles, however they are sterile.

 Oops.

Dang. Now what?

 so people have bred them but it's kind of difficult

 OK here is a Pet Supply shop that sells for breeding.

https://www.exoticnutrition.com/Departments/Mealworms/Live-Mealworms.aspx

 


So now I would have a sustainable source of B12 and fat - as long as I can grow wheat also. I have grown wheat grass before. So should be able to grow wheat as well....

https://www.exoticnutrition.com/Products/Mealworm-Breeder-Kit__96693.aspx

links to youtube vids of course.

He says it is simple as long as it is warm.... I don't know. Keeping it warm can be very difficult.

 https://www.rainbowmealworms.net/