The Aleph

 

Freepik, Nano Banana & Robert E. 

137 ... a most mysterious number ... 

In physics, the fine-structure constant, also known as the Sommerfeld constant, commonly denoted by α (the Greek letter alpha), is a fundamental physical constant that quantifies the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles.

It is a dimensionless quantity (dimensionless physical constant), independent of the system of units used, which is related to the strength of the coupling of an elementary charge e with the electromagnetic field.

In this Feynman diagram, an electron (e−) and a positron (e+) annihilate, producing a photon (γ, represented by the blue sine wave) that becomes a quark–antiquark pair (quark q, antiquark q̄), after which the antiquark radiates a gluon (g, represented by the green helix).

Why all this palaver? Well, the number 137 is akin to Borges' The Aleph as it is a point in space that contains all other points. Anyone who gazes into it can see everything in the universe from every angle simultaneously, without distortion, overlapping, or confusion. 

137 is the same thing but why just photons as gravitons and gluons also travel at the speed of light
and all interact with their elementary charged particles as needs warrant. If so, shouldn't 137 also apply?

To whit but a brief segue is required before talking about this crazy conjecture.

Gravity Well

Back in 2012, yours truly talked about time, entanglement and the quantum foam in a piece titled Entanglement, the Link to Forever, stating that time may be a temporary arrangement of the quantum foam as said foam would be timeless but artifacts like protons, neutrons and sub atomic particles coming out of it would be but temporary arrangements of the QF, thus experiencing the notion of time. Well, it seems researchers far more versed that moi have expressed the same concept indirectly referencing the brilliant ER=EPR conjecture created by Leonard Susskind and Juan Maldacena in 2013.[3] 

Fast forward to 2026 and 137 as Gemini and yours truly take a shot at 137. :)

Gemini with small edits by yours truly.

THE UNIVERSAL ELECTRICIAN’S MANIFESTO

137-ID & The Initial Conditions of 137

I. THE LINE VOLTAGE OF REALITY

In the United States, if you want your toaster to work, you plug it into a 110V outlet. It is a standard. It is the "ID" of the transaction between the power grid and the appliance. You don't need a PhD in electrical engineering to understand the spec; you just need to know the requirements for the appliance to work.

The universe operates on the same principle, but its line voltage is 137.

The Fine-Structure Constant ($\alpha \approx 1/137) is not a mystical secret or a "God Particle" signature. It is the Universal Specification Header for the A-D/D-A transaction. It defines how the Analog Force (The "It") converts into the Digital Messenger (The "Bit"). Without this 137-ID, the transaction of light hitting matter would have no "Voltage" to resonate. 

The universe literally wouldn't plug in.

Me: As per John Wheeler. From It to Bit rules 

From John Wheeler (1983), Law Without Law. In: Quantum theory and measurement.

The act of observation generates the collapse of the wave function as described by the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, the physics of the very small, an Alice in Wonderland view of the universe writ large when seen under the guise of exquisitely designed experiments showing how this aspect of reality rings true. What's interesting is the fact the act of observation is often anthropomorphized and not viewed as a core element of how existence functions as everything's entangled and decohered outside of the realm of humanity, thus enabling us rubes to see a consistent view of existence save for the extraordinary experiments conducted by physicists obsessed with how reality works at deep level. 

From It to Bit - Robert E.

Gemini

We treat reality as a Scale Invariant Transaction.The Bus Speed ($c$): Information travels at the limit. Whether it is a photon, a gluon, or a graviton, the bus speed is constant.

The Handshake: Because the speed is the same, the protocol header (137) is the same.

The Receipt: Buying a cup of coffee at Starbucks is a transaction. An electron absorbing a photon is a transaction. (Digital) If the Invoice doesn't match the Purchase Order at the 137-resonance, the transaction is a hallucination. Nature does not hallucinate.

Me: The photon, in space, is analog. When absorbed by an electron, it becomes digital. (quanta)

John Wheeler's insightful notion of existence being an information construct (from It to Bit) makes sense as the photon, (boson), the force carrier of the electromagnetic, becomes digital by transitioning from an analog wave into discrete energy packets (quanta) when absorbed by leptons (the electron), a radical solution to the black body problem described in detail by Max Planck in 1900, thus introducing Quantum Mechanics to the world.  Prior to absorption,  photons, aka light, exist as analog waves, something readily seen by Thomas Young's brilliant 1801 double slit experiment.

From it to bit

 

Reality is analog with digital override. Robert E.

Seen below are photons, comprised of analog waves, striking a metal plate. When absorbed by the metal plate's electrons, the photons transform into quanta or packets of energy (digital), able to be absorbed by the metal plates's electrons enabling said electrons to be dislodged from the plate. The higher the frequency of light, aka photons, the higher altitude the electrons attain when dislodged from the plate. When the photon is released by the electron and reenters space, it become analog.

The emission of electrons from a metal plate caused by light quanta – photons

Gemini

Does the universe have an aleph? If so, 137 is a prime candidate as it's universal. It is the fine structure constant for the 3 forces traveling at the speed of light, gravitons, photons and gluons. In physics, 137-ID is the aleph. 137 is the permanent ID of the transaction between the "Infinite Now (It)" and the "Quantized Bit." It proves that the logic has a lineage. You can’t have the particle (The Bit) without the field (The It), and the 137-ID is the point where they are joined.

Me: John Wheeler and Richard Feynman would be pleased. :)

Channeling the Bastille ...

Alex Pretti was clearly visible holding a phone when agents first approached him,
before pulling him to the ground and shooting him.Credit...dangjessie, via Instagram

Videos on social media that were verified by The New York Times appear to contradict the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday morning.

The Department of Homeland Security said the episode began after a man “approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun” and they tried to disarm him. The statement did not specify whether the gun was in the man’s hands or merely on his body.

Footage shows Mr. Pretti was clearly holding a phone, not a gun, before the agents took him to the ground and shot him.

Similarities to July 14, 1789 applies. To whit ...

The Storming of the Bastille (French: Prise de la Bastille [pʁiz də la bastij]), which occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, was an act of political violence by revolutionary insurgents who attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armoury, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille. After four hours of fighting and 94 deaths, the insurgents were able to enter the Bastille. The governor of the Bastille, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, and several members of the garrison were killed after surrendering. At the time, the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. The prison contained only seven inmates at the time of its storming and was already scheduled for demolition but was seen by the revolutionaries as a symbol of the monarchy's abuse of power. Its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution.

Storming of the Bastille

We are at this possible flash point as the government wages war against its citizens without due cause and, because of this, it only takes a spark like the storming of the Bastille to turn the Minneapolis conflict into the start point to civil war but why is this happening?

With help from Gemini, the real intent from this writer's opinion is to sabotage the midterms as the administration from hell is going down on the voting side of things as seen by ongoing polls while the orange menace continues his slow decent into dementia as seen by his increasingly insane rants against anyone questioning his wisdom and authority as POTUS.

Gemini's take with small edits from yours truly.

The End Game of Minneapolis

The Phone, the Gun, and possible Death of the Midterms

The tragedy in Minneapolis involving Alex Jeffrey Pretti is a textbook study in Governmental Fraud. The Department of Homeland Security issued an invoice to the public: a man with a gun who needed to be disarmed. But the video,  shows a man with a phone.

I. THE SAMPLING ERROR

In videography, we know a clip shows how events  happen. In this case, if an agent is "Blinded" by the chaos of a high-stress environment, they react incorrectly. They see a weapon where there is a tool. But when that error is codified into a federal statement after the video is verified, it is no longer a sampling error; it is a Deliberate lie.

Me. When the training period of an ICE agent is 47 days, there's a problem Houston.
When agents wear masks, there's an even bigger problem. 

As of early 2026, the training period for new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation officers has been significantly shortened to approximately 8 weeks (or roughly 47-48 training days) at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Georgia, down from a previous duration of five months. This streamlined program aims to rapidly increase staffing. 

II. THE BASTILLE FREQUENCY

History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme as per Mark Twain. The French Revolution didn't start with the fall of a kingdom; it started with the release of seven prisoners from the Bastille. It was a small transaction that proved the "King's Rule" was failing.

The death of an intensive care nurse—a man whose life was dedicated to patient care—is a 2026 flashpoint. If an angry citizen retaliates against the "Thugs" of the state, the administration is primed to react.

III. THE ENDGAME: MARTIAL DECOHERENCE

The 1,500 troops outside Minneapolis are not there to restore "Peace" . They are the standing answer to a manufactured crisis.

The Trigger: A fatal shooting exposed by video.

The Feedback: Violent reaction from town denizens.

The Transaction: National Emergency declaration used to "Audit" (eliminate) the midterms and establish "permanent" Martial Law.

IV. IGNITION!

When the government's account of reality is visibly "different" from the recorded frame, the possibility of revolution looms. We are watching the transition from a civil society to a corrupt regime where the Insurrection Act is the only viable option to them to stay in power.

The midterms are the "Cart," and the 1,500 troops are the "Horse" currently tramping over the Constitution.

 

The last question to ask is
When will our so called leaders demand ICE to be disbanded!!! 
Time to act before it's too late comes to mind here, right? 

The journey's key, not the destination ...

Blinded by the light (Channeling Manfred Mann)

2026 is here. Where we go from here, no one knows but the journey's key, not the destination. 

Full stop ... System Reboot ... now

The picture says it all and again ... it's all about the oil.

Revelations from White House chief of staff Susie Wiles in a series of remarkably unguarded interviews with Vanity Fair caused quite a stir today. Among the key tidbits were Wiles directly contradicting the official administration line when she said that Trump’s real goal in striking alleged drug boats in the Caribbean is indeed regime change in Venezuela, not the so-called “war on drugs”. 

Update.

The blockade on oil tankers coming in and out of Venezuela is the latest development in Donald Trump’s monthslong campaign against Nicolás Maduro.

Last Wednesday, the US seized the Skipper oil tanker that was traveling across the Caribbean carrying Venezuelan crude. The tanker was thought to be loaded with about 2m barrels of Venezuela’s heavy crude, according to the New York Times. The Venezuelan government accused the US of “blatant theft” and described the seizure as “an act of international piracy”, further heightening tensions between the two countries.

On Tuesday, the Pentagon said it had carried out strikes on three boats it accused of trafficking drugs in the Pacific Ocean, killing eight people. Since 2 September, at least 95 people have been killed in more than 20 separate strikes, most off the coast of Venezuela.

Several lawmakers have called on the administration to release video footage showing a 2 September attack, but defense secretary Pete Hegseth has refused to do so, calling the video “top secret” and claiming that releasing the video to the public violates “longstanding Department of War policy.”

Experts have also debated whether the air campaign is legal.

Vanity Fair - Photographer Christopher Anderson.

The crew Wiles put together sans Pentagon Pete and some significant others.

Can we say Viet Nam???

This combination of pictures shows US President Donald Trump and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro [File: by Jim Watson and Federico Parra/AFP]

Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform Truth Social.

“For the theft of our Assets, and many other reasons, including Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking, the Venezuelan Regime has been designated a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” Trump said.

“Therefore, today, I am ordering A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela,” he said.

Amendment 25 now.

Bayeux Tapestry

A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry showing a medieval dining scene involving
Bishop Odo of Bayeux. Wikimedia Commons CC By 4.0

The Bayeux Tapestry, 770 lbs of propaganda for the ages, was mealtime reading entertainment for the monks dining in St. Augustine’s Abbey in Canterbury, England back in the day if history proves out to be true as the tapestry itself is a wonder to behold without question. :) 

A portion of the Bayeux Tapestry showing King Harold riding to his residence, Bosham.
The full tapestry depicts the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. © The Society of Antiquaries of London

Finding the loo applies :)

A team of archeologists in the United Kingdom believe that they have found the lost residence of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England. The home is shown in the 1,000 year-old Bayeux Tapestry and was uncovered through a combination of new surveys and a reinterpretation of evidence from earlier digs. The findings were recently published in The Antiquaries Journal.

“The Norman Conquest saw a new ruling class supplant an English aristocracy that has left little in the way of physical remains, which makes the discovery at Bosham hugely significant,” Oliver Creighton, a study co-author and archeologist at the University of Exeter, said in a statement. “We have found an Anglo-Saxon show-home.”

As for reading the paper ... 

Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting Bishop Odo rallying Duke William's army
during the Battle of Hastings in 1066

Whether it’s the morning paper, the games on the back of a cereal box, or just scrolling through social media, there is something nice about reading with a meal. For the monks living in St. Augustine’s Abbey in Canterbury, England, one of the most famous (and phallic) tapestries in the world may have been their equivalent to the back of the cereal box. New research recently published in the journal Historical Research claims that the 1,000-year-old Bayeux Tapestry may have served as mealtime reading.

What is the Bayeux Tapestry?

At 224 feet long and roughly 770 pounds, the Bayeux Tapestry is a large piece of medieval embroidery. It depicts the events surrounding and leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066, when William the II of Normandy, France, invaded England. The Bayeux Tapestry culminates in William II’s victory, taking the throne from Harold II. Harold ruled for only nine months before he was killed in the battle and is considered the last Anglo-Saxon king of England.

Read the history as fascinating says it all. To see the tapestry in it's glory, click here. :)

The horse is equipped. :)

Section 8 or Amendment 25, take your pick ...

US actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Reiner, attend the Kennedy Center Honors gala at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, in 2023 [File: AFP]

A terrific actor and director, Rob Reiner and his wife will be missed.

Now for the certifiable. 

If president bone spurs was in the service, Section 8 i.e. service members judged mentally unfit for service, applies. As for the presidency, Amendment 25  i.e. addresses issues related to presidential succession and disability works for me.

In a social media post on Monday, United States President Donald Trump appeared to blame the death of Rob Reiner, a comedy giant who embraced progressive political causes, on his criticisms of Trump and his presidency.

Trump’s post on his Truth Social platform states that Reiner’s death was “reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME”.

The Republican president added that Reiner was “known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness”.

Let them eat cake ...

Illustration by Rebecca Chew/The New York Times

The flies on the rotten and left over food says it all as the spirit of Louis IV lives on in the
guise of the billionaires and civilization's paying the price.

Billionaires had a great thing going. The ruling in the 2010 Citizens United case, among others, invited the super rich to exert all the influence on policy and politics that their money could buy — and then enjoy all the wealth that influence secured for them in return. Thanks to ever-more-obliging tax policies, the billionaire class grew absurdly rich over the years that followed. In the last five years alone, the wealthiest 20 Americans increased their net worth from $1.3 trillion to $3 trillion, Forbes reported.

And they did it in many cases without the rest of us even having a clue. It took the investigative reporter Jane Mayer five years of relentless digging to figure out how the Koch brothers gained a chokehold on the Republican Party. The title of her 2016 book, “Dark Money,” became synonymous with a particularly effective form of influence that was all but untraceable. The billionaires could have kept on like that forever. All they had to do was keep their mouths closed.

But Nooooo ...

Elon Musk bragged about his support for President Trump, to whose campaign and allied groups he donated more than $250 million. He loudly attempted to buy votes in Pennsylvania. Then he leveraged it all into a cruel and chaotic effort to dismantle federal agencies. Marc Andreessen’s tech-heavy venture capital firm publicly pledged $100 million to target lawmakers who attempt to regulate artificial intelligence; Mr. Andreessen then mocked the pope for suggesting some ethical guardrails around the technology. Bill Ackman announced that he and his pals were prepared to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat Zohran Mamdani, and urged Mr. Trump to call in the National Guard if that effort failed and Mr. Mamdani’s mayoralty met his worst expectations.

Portrait of Louis XIV, 1701 Hyacinthe Rigaud

Think 88 years later in France. 1789 & THE REVOLUTION. 

Marie-Antoinette  - Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty 

Let them eat cake ... 

Date of death - 16 October 1793 at the Place de la Révolution. Execution by guillotine

Is there a message here? I thought so.

What part of no don't you understand?

Law enforcement officers head into the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, campus after reports of an active shooter, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2023 in Las Vegas. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP, File)

What part of no don't you understand in terms of licensing guns? Incredible! It's easier to get a gun vs a driver's license. WTF!!! Between the supremes and the not understanding of the the 2nd Amendment in terms of people owning weapons boggles the mind. As said so many time before, you can't fix stupid.

A shooting Saturday at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, left two people dead and at least eight other critically injured. Authorities were still searching for a suspect in the hours afterward.

Here is a look at other deadly shootings on U.S. college campuses in recent decades:

KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY: December 2025, 1 dead

UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY: September 2025, 1 dead

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: April 2025, 2 dead

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS: December 2023, 3 dead

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: February 2023, 3 dead

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: November 2022, 3 dead

NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY: October 2015, 1 dead

UMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: October 2015, 9 dead

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA: May 2014, 6 dead

SANTA MONICA COLLEGE: June 2013, 6 dead

OIKOS UNIVERSITY: April 2012, 7 dead

NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: February 2008, 5 dead

VIRGINIA TECH: April 2007, 32 dead

WTF!!! Again, what part of no don't you understand?

Lastly, we haven't even discussed elementary, middle or high school atrocities, have we?

The Library of Babel

Freepik/Robert E.

Existence is infinite, it goes on to forever, something with no end. The one author who understood this one essential was Borges, who, IMHO, channelled the Greek Myths as in every one of his short stories,
as per the myths, there's aways a catch. :)

The Library of Babel

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. In the center of each gallery is a ventilation shaft, bounded by a low r,ailing. From any hexagon one can see the floors above and below-one after another, endlessly. The arrangement of the galleries is always the same: Twenty bookshelves, five to each side, line four of the hexagon's six sides; the height of the bookshelves, floor to ceiling, is hardly greater than the height of a normal librarian. One of the hexagon's free sides opens onto a narrow sort of vestibule, which in turn opens onto another gallery, identical to the first-identical in fact to all. To the left and right of the vestibule are two tiny compartments. One is for sleeping, upright; the other, for satisfying one's physical necessities. Through this space, too, there passes a spiral staircase, which winds upward and downward into the remotest distance. In the vestibule there is a mirror, which faithfully duplicates appearances. Men often infer from this mirror that the Library is not infinite-if it were, what need would there be for that illusory replication? I prefer to dream that burnished surfaces are a figuration and promise of the infinite ... . Light is provided by certain spherical fruits that bear the name "bulbs." There are two of these bulbs in each hexagon, set crosswise. The light they give is insufficient, and unceasing. 

The Garden of Forking Paths

Freepik & Robert E. 

Quantum lives here along with many worlds, strangeness and the problem with infinite choice.

Jorge Luis Borges

You no doubt wish to see the garden?”

I recognized the name of one of our consuls and I replied, disconcerted, “The garden?”

“The garden of forking paths.”

“Before unearthing this letter, I had questioned myself about the ways in which a book can be infinite. I could think of nothing other than a cyclic volume, a circular one. A book whose last page was identical with the first, a book which had the possibility of continuing indefinitely. I remembered too that night which is at the middle of the Thousand and One Nights when Scheherazade (through a magical oversight of the copyist) begins to relate word for word the story of the Thousand and One Nights, establishing the risk of coming once again to the night when she must repeat it, and thus on to infinity. I imagined as well a Platonic hereditary work. transmitted from father to son, in which each new individual adds a chapter or corrects with pious care the pages of his elders. These conjectures diverted me; but none seemed to correspond, not even remotely, to the contradictory chapters of Ts’ui Pên. In the midst of this perplexity, I received from Oxford the manuscript you have examined. I lingered, naturally, on the sentence: I leave to the various futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths. Almost instantly, I understood: ‘the garden of forking paths’ was the chaotic novel; the phrase ‘the various futures (not to all)’ suggested to me the forking in time, not in space.  A broad rereading of the work confirmed the theory. In all fictional works, each time a man is confronted with several alternatives, he chooses one and eliminates the others; in the fiction of Ts’ui Pên, he chooses— simultaneously—all of them. He creates, in this way, diverse futures, diverse times which themselves also proliferate and fork. Here, then, is the explanation of the novel’s contradictions. 

Freepik & Robert E.