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Having grown weary of mainstream theoretical physics blogs either claiming nothing is wrong, or admitting something is wrong and suggesting some new idea is needed (but gods forbid it comes from some unsanctioned source), I figured I’d try to settle some of mud from these murky depths. What can go wrong?
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Une Mort de Paris
Saw a youtube video one morning about Porto Cervo, a town of sorts on the northeast coast of Sardinia. This is a place concocted by the ultra wealthy, accessible primarily by yacht, and in this – and other ways – protected from intrusions from the outside world, those great masses of unwashed and yachtless. …
Strap yourselves in; here comes the juice
Float to the top or sink to the bottom. Everything in the middle is the Churn. I wrote a paper, and, when requested, I published it (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00006-018-0820-8). It’s a very pretty paper, extending the notion of 8-d Bott periodicity in Clifford algebras to a 24-d periodicity. This mirrors the exceptionality of the dimensions 2, 8, …
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Bread and Circuses
How to control masses Do a google search with that phrase. Interesting. Not a new idea. Juvenal and Cicero said similar things – involving bread and circuses – almost 2 millennia before Huxley. But Huxley says it, in my opinion, more strongly, and probably because he was English. I have always been intrigued by how …
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