Tuesday, October 28
Wonderings 25
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- Mixtures
- Homogeneous
- Heterogeneous
- Pure Substances
- Compounds
- Elements
- Molecules
- Atoms
- Sub Atomic Particles
- Electron
- Proton
- Quarks
- Leptons
- Bosons
- Neutron
- Quarks
- Leptons
- Bosons
- STRINGS
STRINGS
Some physicists believe that Quarks, Leptons, and Bosons are not subatomic particles but are strings... vibrating filaments of pure energy. Because they move in a chaotic random pattern, their movements cannot be fixed, so theoretically they can be in two different locations at the same time.
It is also believed by some of these physicists that because of strings, we have more than just three dimensions (excluding time) and because of these extra dimensions there is also the possibility that we have multiple universes.
None of these theories and/or speculations have been proven.
Clearly...
the question is, if string theory is true, why do we have strings?
What is their purpose?
If their movements cannot be predicted, then what is the point of having them around except to insure that our concept of physics as fluid.
In other words, no fixed LAWS OF PHYSICS like:
MATTER CAN NEITHER BE CREATED NOR DESTROYED BUT IT CAN BE CHANGED FROM ONE FORM TO ANOTHER...
QUESTION: If this law is true, at least so far, how was our universe created, if matter to make our universe cannot be created?
Headlines
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Hurricane Melissa approaches Jamaica as a dangerous storm. The hurricane strengthened into a Category 5 storm yesterday, picking up strength as it traveled over unusually warm waters in the Caribbean Sea. It’s expected to make landfall in Jamaica this morning and to bring destructive flooding, storm surge, and winds. People were ordered to evacuate coastal areas yesterday in preparation for the slow-moving storm, which is likely to cause severe damage to the nation’s infrastructure. It’s expected to be the most powerful storm to hit Jamaica since it began keeping records in 1851, and the island’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness said, “I have been on my knees in prayer.”
Amazon plans mass corporate layoffs. The e-commerce giant will cut up to 30,000 corporate jobs across departments, Reuters reported yesterday. That would make the terminations, set to start today, the largest corporate layoff in the company’s history, per CNBC, trumping the 27,000 it let go in 2022. Amazon employs 1.5+ million people overall, but only about 350,000 on the corporate side. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has been looking to cut costs and simplify the company’s corporate organization, and he also predicted that AI would likely lead to a reduction in its corporate headcount.
NBA reviewing its policies after gambling arrests. The league told its teams yesterday that it had commenced a review of how it reports player injuries to the public, as well as prop bets and how it might use AI and other tools to identify gamblers with insider information. The review follows the arrest of Miami guard Terry Rozier and Portland coach Chauncey Billups, who were accused of participating in illegal gambling schemes. The league called it “an opportune time to carefully reassess how sports betting should be regulated and how sports leagues can best protect themselves, their players, and their fans.”—AR
Robert Reich
Is he a net positive for humanity or a net negative?
Friends,
Tesla’s profit fell 37 percent in the third quarter. Yet Elon Musk is demanding a pay package of $1 trillion.
A trillion dollars is hard to envision. It’s a thousand billion. It’s a million million. It’s almost the entire GDP of Indonesia, a country of 284 million people. It’s the annual output of North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Arkansas, Mississippi, and West Virginia put together. It’s close to Tesla’s entire current market value.
Elon is demanding $1 trillion even as the legal battle continues over his 2018 pay package, then valued at a relatively paltry $56 billion. (He’s now seeking a package that’s roughly 18 times the size of that contested plan.)
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In The NEWS
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> June Lockhart, actress known for roles in "Lassie," "Lost in Space," dies at age 100 (More) | Former New York Jets center Nick Mangold dies at age 41 from complications due to kidney disease (More)
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Business & Markets
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Politics & World Affairs
> Hurricane Melissa strengthens into a Category 4 storm, threatening to bring flash flooding to Jamaica, southern Haiti, and the Dominican Republic (More)
> Sudanese rebel group Rapid Support Forces announces it has captured the Sudanese army's headquarters in el-Fasher; if confirmed, it would mean all five Darfur state capitals are under RSF control (More)
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Retired
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This has been my mode of operation since 2015, and I have not grown tired of it yet.
My wife and I go on vacation whenever we want to go on vacation... that is to say, as long as our vacation plans do not interfere with doctor appointment and/or previously scheduled treatments.
My wife and I basically live off our Social Security alone; however, we did spend the last two decades of our working careers saving as much as we could for our retirement, since we both were well aware that we could not live totally off Social Security.
- Not having any debt for twenty years helped
- Not having an expensive lifestyle helped
- Not wanting a large home or yard helped
China unveils ‘world’s cheapest’ humanoid robot standing 3.1 feet tall
The development, first reported by TechNode and Global Times, is a significant milestone in making humanoid robots accessible beyond research labs and corporate settings, targeting consumers, students, and educators instead.
Monday, October 27
Wonderings 24
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Do you believe in them?
Yes___ No___
There used to be a television series called Ancient Aliens and I suppose that it is still on and that some outlet is showing reruns.
The show focused on structures here on earth mostly outside the USA that were hard to believe were made by human beings because they did not have access to any of the technology that we have today. And yet, the structures were built anyway, like the Giza Pyramids in Egypt.
Channels were cut into rock surfaces making it difficult for ancient people to know what they were carving unless someone was up in the air above them, guiding their movements... like in a helicopter.
These structures were constructed or build in different areas of the same continent or on different continents altogether and were very similar... yet, neither of these two areas had the ability to communicate with each other. So, the thinking is that the same ancient aliens went to both locations and guided their actions.
But, for me, the most curious aspect of these ancient aliens is that fact that many notable scientists have stated that the human race evolved faster than it should have given the number of years the universe has been in existence. Their conclusion is that ancient aliens tampered with our DNA to ACCELERATE ITS EVOLTION.
Imagine the implications of that...
Might this explain why we have the early genius of DaVinci and others?
Are you aware of the quatrains by Nostradamus?
Why are there not more geniuses?
