No...it's to cheapen the goal so that the most incompetent idiots can create art, like piss in a jar, create a play, so stupid no one gets it, except other dumb idiots, or establish a philosophy that makes no sense, doesn't work and has no connection to reality.

They completely dismantle the hierarchy of competence and blame old white men and create an equality of stupidity and incompetence.

Sorry! Missed: GOAL ...

From what I see, we do not do even remotely what we could to promote and encourage excellence. In fact, the main goal is equality. If you stick up, you will be punished. THE IS TO HELP EVERYBODY THE BE THE BEST THAT THEY CAN BE!! Isn't it?

Shame...solar will not survive the future...first serious CME, EMP from the sun will destroy it...never mind a micro nova, (have posted 19 parts as of today just an hour ago) nor what we think the consequences are from a pole reversal...we just might be in for a 1. 2, punch with in the next 20/30 years...it doesn't look pretty.

A colleague named Albin Czernichowski was born in Poland and labored behind the Iron Curtain for many years before tasting freedom in his 50's; he was the heart of the company and a real John Galt. We could put any hydrocarbon into his plasma arc reactor and get syngas (CO and hydrogen) as an intermediate. My job was to prepurify the feed and design a process to convert the syngas into either fuel, energy, or preferably chemicals. We sold the business when it became clear that our guilt-ridden customers were going to solar (following Obama) to absolve their consciences from their guilt rather than biofuels.

Very interesting work...especially the alternative energy stuff...would be nice if you shared that experience at some convenient point in a post.

Perhaps. I haven't completed the invention yet. The parallels between my life and that of Quentin Daniels are remarkable. We both work at institutes of technology. My institute is an upstart that has achieved a lot in its short existence, but I constantly feel like I am patching holes with drywall in order to keep the doors open for business. I worked for a long time in the alternate energy business, some as a researcher and some as an entrepreneur ... before my customers got wooed into Obama and Solyndra, at which time I shrugged until better days came. Now those better days are here, and I am moving well toward an automated tissue engineering test bed business. I plan in terms of decades (a reference to Galt's speech), but realize that I may never see the full fruits of my work.

One of my former professors at The University of Michigan named Mark Burns pioneered a musical lock for triggering valves on lab-on-a-chip devices; I use that idea from Galt's lab and from Willy Wonka's inventing room as well.

Post Modern thoughtlessness ruined Art, theater and philosophy...I have the same dream...to take all the values we inherited from these greats and take it to the next level.
However, no one today could even come close to what they gave us...shame, it didn't have to be that way.

Now that is Admirable...John Galt would be proud.

I dream of humans that can choose to be at different times a new Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Verdi, Heisenberg, Rand or Aristoteles.

Glad you laughed.

Laughing...My thought on human evolution are along the lines of what we have seen already. First bicameral, one blood type, then 2 the 3 then a fourth...and then, the biggest change of all...awareness of one's own awareness, self introspection.
So, what might we evolve next...more use of the mind? smarter? or at least along those lines.

We are nearing the dawn of a new age with regard to being able to print in 3D that which we are able to conceptualize. I am going to capitalize on that opportunity as much as I can without compromising my values.

Arguably, physics is just as important to a philosopher as philosophy is to a practitioner of physics.

Hello, ouC,

It seems to me pretty obvious that the underlying principles of life are survival, adaptation and procreation. Look at anything living and, I think, you can see it.

Humans are definitely changing the environment they live in and thus creating new needs for different adaptations and survival. I am not thinking of "human caused" climate change!

Instead, I wonder what will the evolution produce after homo sapiens? Will whatever that is be capable of transplanting themselves before the demise of our solar system? Thinking of survival!

I think that it will still be one male one female who will mix their genes to procreate. Parthenogenesis is, in my opinion, a quick path to degeneration and extinction.


Best wishes.
Sincerely,
Maritimus


P.S. It is Carl that matters. Many of us old and ugly!

Mass also is involved in the necessity of resistance from slowing down without an acting force. Mass is kind of like a resistance to both accelerating and decelerating, I.e., inertia. Inertia has sometimes been described as an interaction of the total locally felt gravitational field of the whole observable Universe while the local gravitaion to local bodies is the mainly measured forces. The gravitation from the rest of the Universe would act like that inside of a massive shell with the gravitation everywhere cancelling out. But, that does not mean that there is no gravitational stuff to interact with a massive body inside the shell as inertia.

I am reading a fiction book right now, Split Second, by Douglas E Richards. It covers a lot of physics by Einstein and it is mind boggling! Block universes, space time, etc. It is fascinating reading and I have an immense appreciation of Einstein's mind! (I have never had any experience with physics before).

To me the most important part of the letter was:

"Hume writes: 'The chief objection against all abstract reasoning is derived from the ideas of Space and Time. Ideas in everyday life may appear clear and intelligible, but when they pass through the scrutiny of the profound Sciences... they seem full of absurdity and contradiction.'"

Which would be in accord with Hume. I will paraphrase Einstein for his belief that empiricism is the means to gain knowledge of objective reality (yes Einstein even used that term in the EPR paper). He said something like, it is time to bring the ideas of space and time down from the 'a priori' .

Now that is of high value to humanity.

I envision for the future, mankind being able to print what ever one needs; food, cloths, shelter, independently but hopefully with the choice to enjoy human and nature made also.

You may be interested in this: https://resonance.is/super-fast-3d-pr...
My impression is that this is only a step away from what I envision. (above)

To me it seems that Einstein was not opposed to quantum mechanics, which he considered valid, but rather the interpretation of it as in the Copenhagen Interpretation which made it look 'spooky' with non-locality, for instance. Due to the difficulty of knowing positions and motions of very small objects, the use of a probabilistic methods are needed.

I am putting together a tissue engineering test bed and the world's most precise 3d printer and bioprinter.

Would you share with us how that nanotechnology is intended to be used and your thoughts on that subject.

Technology going forward and it's relationship to humanity must be judged on the basis of: at what point will we yearn for things human made, at what point will we come to understand how humans might naturally evolve in the future and at what point will our technological meddling negate that natural evolution but also at what point will we cease to be human at all.

We as a species, as a culture and as a community must have this discussion and decided what is valuable with humanity, what is valuable in our interactions with each other. Do you want to be served by a robot or by a live person, do you want to be physically in command of your car, your life, your every thought.
Flawed as we might be, sometimes the highest value of living itself is based in our interactions with others and simply being human.
Technology is valuable and makes our lives easier and more productive, but applied to the body, the brain and to knowledge and thought...I get the nagging impression that should we become perfect with technology...we may not be very happy, productive or appreciative of life at all.

Now that the Higgs field has been proven to create mass by slowing down Quarks causing resistance to acceleration and giving energy to the gluons that flit back and forth at the Sub atomic level.

Maybe bending of time-space that we perceive as gravity can now be integrated with the Higgs field and how it crates mass. Should one of you do this please give credit for your inspiration coming from my writings. :)

I get to teach the practical application of quantum mechanics - imaging using scanning tunneling microscopes.

Almost everyone who is ahead of his/her time is rejected.