MY WRITING JOURNAL

Sunday, February 23

Quantum Mechanics 100 Years Old

A century ago, science went quantum. To celebrate, physicists are throwing a global, year-long party.

In 1925, quantum mechanics, the scientific theory that describes the unintuitive rules of physics on very small scales, began to crystallize in the minds of physicists.

Beginning in that year, a series of monumental papers laid out the theory’s framework.

Quantum physics has since permeated a wide range of scientific disciplines — explaining the periodic table, the lives and deaths of stars and more — and enabled technologies from the laser to the smartphone. READ MORE...

Guns and Roses - Sweet Child of Mine

Saturday, February 22

Reality

For Seniors

Democratic party complaining about Trump's cabinet picks, but Biden put person in charge of nuclear waste.

Police Called Over Sign at Target | First Amendment | MIDWEST AUDIT

What Happens When You Start Eating Healthy?

Dan Bongino

11 HEALTHIEST Foods With No Carbs & No Sugar [UNBELIEVABLE]

Oussama Diab Artist

Oussama Diab applies a conceptual approach to painting by exploiting the stylistic variants of the medium as emotive prompts in order to explore how form can articulate the urgency of sociopolitical issues.

Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, since 2015, Syrian-Palestinian artist Oussama Diab has made a name for himself through several collective exhibitions in the Emirates, in Egypt and in Canada. His dynamic, expressive work seeks to engage in humanity’s progress, which is why he focuses on perpetuating predecessors, who he admits have influenced him.

As such, one may notice a touch of Picasso, but also Basquiat and Munch. “Why, he says, doesn’t history repeat itself?”. In this artistic spiral, Oussama Diab, who was born living and breathing art, establishes a link here, presenting, for example, this piece, which is both complex and highly realistic, and which he christened “Kings, Masks and Other Things”.

¿Qué pasa?

Quick Clips

In The NEWS

Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Amazon MGM Studios gains creative control over James Bond film franchise (More) | Netflix to invest $1B in Mexico's cinema and television industry over next four years (More)

> San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama to miss rest of regular season due to blood clot in his shoulder (More) | MLB to experiment with automated ball-strike challenge system during spring training (More)

> Canada tops Team USA 3-2 in overtime to win 4 Nations Face-Off title (More) | PGA Tour leaders, including Tiger Woods, meet with White House officials to discuss possible merger with Saudi-backed LIV Golf (More)

Science & Technology
> Rare genetic disorder known as spinal muscular atrophy treated in the womb for the first time; patient, now 2 years old, shows no signs of the progressive neurodegenerative disorder (More)

> Researchers outline method to measure consciousness in animals; approach combines anatomical features with behaviors to compare with what is known about humans (More) | See longer essay on topic (More)

> Inhalable gene therapy to treat cystic fibrosis begins trials in Europe; treatment delivers healthy copies of the gene responsible for mucus buildup in the respiratory and digestive tracts (More)

Business & Markets
> US stock markets close down (S&P 500 -0.4%, Dow -1.0%, Nasdaq -0.5%) as investors question economic outlook amid looming tariffs (More)

> Amazon surpasses Walmart in revenue for the first time, bringing in $187B in Q4 (More) | Walmart shares close down over 6% after retailer says profits will slow for current fiscal year despite earnings and revenue rising for the quarter (More)

> OpenAI tops 400 million weekly active users, up 33% in less than three months, with paid business users crossing 2 million; user growth comes amid competition from China's DeepSeek model (More)

Politics & World Affairs
> IRS begins laying off roughly 6,700 employees, or over 6% of the agency's workforce; those who have worked for less than one or two years are primarily affected (More) | Federal judge rules Trump administration can proceed with mass government layoffs (More)

> New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) decides against removing New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) from office amid corruption case fallout, instead seeks increased oversight of City Hall (More)

> Hamas returns bodies of four people, including two child hostages who were the youngest abducted in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack; Israel says one of the bodies does not belong to a known hostage (More)

SOURCE: 1440 NEWS

Thinking for Ourselves

How many of us, think for ourselves these days, or rely on video games, or social media forums to do our thinking for us?

How many of our opinions are formulated by listening/reading both sides of the story before making our own decisions?

I visit two social media sites on a regular basis:

Truth Social for conservative views
Bluesky for liberal views

What I find is that neither site has the slightest inclination to consider what the other side is suggesting.

What does that tell me or anyone who does the same thing as I do?

It tells me that each side does not give a rat's ass as to what the other side is thinking.

That also means that each side is not thinking for themselves but allowing others to do the thinking for them.

From 1966 to 1974, I was a liberal student attending college. The dates suggest that I took a break and that is correct - a 4-year break. But, while I was in college as a liberal student, I DEMANDED that I know the conservative viewpoint so I could make up my own mind.

It does not seem like that is happening in 2016, 2020, or 2024, must less 2025.

Somewhat Political

Hidden Quantum World Inside the Proton

During a deeply inelastic collision with a proton, a relativistic electron (highlighted in blue) can emit a high-energy photon (purple here) that penetrates interior of the proton, where it ‘sees’ only a fraction of the entangled quarks, gluons, and virtual particles. The excited proton later decays in cascades of secondary particles. Credit: IFJ PAN, jch

Protons are far from simple particles — they are swirling cauldrons of quarks, gluons, and quantum entanglement. Scientists have used this entanglement to develop a universal model explaining how particles emerge from high-energy collisions.

Their predictions align with past experimental data, and future colliders will put their theory to the ultimate test, possibly reshaping our understanding of nuclear physics.

Peering Inside the Proton
The inside of a proton is one of the most dynamic yet elusive realms in physics. Within this tiny particle, quarks and gluons interact in a constantly shifting sea of virtual particles.

Now, using quantum information theory and the concept of quantum entanglement, scientists have developed a new framework to describe these interactions with unprecedented clarity.

For the first time, this approach successfully explains data from all available experiments involving the scattering of secondary particles in deep inelastic collisions between electrons and protons. READ MORE...