There are some theories in physics that make me feel uncomfortable. I tend to be a contrarian, always looking for alternative explanations. Underdogs appeal to me. Sometimes I think about putting all of physics into a symbolic math package so that I can change assumptions or make other modifications and run the implications throughout the…
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Conflict Minerals and Human Population
I’m a tech geek. I love computers. I have since my first encounter with them, in the early 1970s. The reason is similar to why I like books so much: the intrinsic value is dense – they have a lot of information in a small volume. I admit that I have too many computers. They…
A Utopian Manifesto
Here in the USA, we pretend that the Stock Market reflects how well the nation is. That’s the message pushed by mainstream media and capitalists. It doesn’t. There are many people in America who are suffering without work, without livable wages, without health care, without safe food and water, without good living conditions. In the…
Crazy ass thoughts while awake after getting up at 2:30am to see Geminid meteor shower
2018-12-14 3:52 am I’ve been thinking about spacetime and the idea of a warp drive. If you replace the Sun with a one solar mass black hole, then the orbits of the planets do not change. The gravitational field is the same, right? No big deal. Doesn’t help with propulsion across the Galaxy. Even the…
WWN: Like the Animals
In this edition of What We Need I want to address what all life needs. We humans have that in common with other animal life. Naturalists describe that as: food, water, space, shelter. It’s telling how we’ve abstracted this. The need for food used to be satisfied with hunting and gathering. Then agriculture was developed,…