It's full of stars ...

This 1.7-gigapixel image of a field of stars in the constellation Lupus showcases the unprecedented view of the Universe that NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory gives us. Equipped with the LSST Camera — the largest digital camera in the world — Rubin combines a wide view of the sky with the ability to detect extremely faint objects. With this capability, Rubin can reveal details of the cosmos across an enormous range of scales, from distant galaxies, to individual stars, to the wispy clouds of dust spread throughout our galaxy.

The faint, glowing clouds spread across this image are galactic cirrus: clouds of interstellar gas and dust that can be seen in the foreground of the Milky Way. Rubin’s ability to capture scenes like this in unmatched detail will open new windows into the structure of our galaxy and the Universe beyond it.

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA

Go to the site and check out the image. Unreal. Click here for the full res pix. 

15 minutes should do it :)

Chicks :)

Any questions? :)

The undiscovered country awaits

The coastal promenade in Trabzon, Turkey, on June 27, 2026, just days after the record-setting ocean temps were recorded on June 21. Ertugrul Bastan/Anadolu/Getty Images

The great unraveling begins. Global warming's entering the phase transition where everything begins to break, quickly, as phase transitions, when they arrive, as my loyal readers know, are never linear. This is now becoming existential, something most untoward, something never seen by man until now and remember, this is just the beginning.

The ocean's heating up ...

Higher-than-normal sea surfaces (red) are visible in the central and eastern Pacific on June 8, 2026, a few days before El Niño was declared. Data for the map were acquired by the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite and processed by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin 

Temperatures on the ocean surface have hit a record high, raising fears of another burst of extreme heat this summer.

On June 21, temperatures outside the polar regions exceeded the extraordinary highs observed at the same time in 2023 and 2024, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Wednesday.

It warned the new peak would probably bring “consequences for weather patterns, global climate and marine ecosystems,” not least because it would coincide with the earliest phases of an El Niño event they forecast to be the strongest in decades.

When the previous ocean record for June was set in 2023, scientists described the trends as “worrying,” “terrifying,” and “bonkers,” because they were so far outside their expectations. That presaged an El Niño and a period of devastating global heatwaves, floods, and storms.

That 2023 record has now been surpassed, and much of the world is once again seeing an alarming rise in temperatures. Last month, the UK and many other countries in Europe sweltered amid new heat records, while Antarctica experienced unprecedentedly balmy winter conditions.

Although the focus is usually on land temperatures, oceans give a fuller picture of how much the climate is being pushed out of balance by human-caused warming.

In closing

Beyond the devastating effects of an El Niño event, the rising temperatures serve as a warning sign that human-caused climate change is really starting to rear its ugly head. The Earth is rapidly losing its ability to dump heat thanks to a major surge in greenhouse gases we’re pumping into the atmosphere.

The undiscovered country awaits.

Sometimes a great notion

The journey begins ... - RM/Gemini/NanaBana2

Sometimes I lives in the country
Sometimes I lives in the town
Sometimes I haves a great notion
To jump into the river an' drown

Goodnight Irene - Ledbetter

Ledbetter with a melodeon c. 1942

Stage name, Lead Belly

The drowning part's not part of the equation but Huddie Ledbetter's song, Goodnight Irene is as it connects to Key Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion, a wonderful title indirectly relating to "noble" concepts that may or not fly depending on the particular notion at hand whenever a blurb comes to be in "wonderful" brt. :)

First edition

There's a pony in there somewhere - RM/Gemini/NanaBana2

Spirals are everywhere along with The Golden Mean as nature recycles and the principle of least action  rules. Along with this fact, relativity also rules as there always has to be something relative to something else in order for existence to function.

 

Tessellations: zellige mosaic tiles at Bou Inania Madrasa, Fes, Morocco

To whit. In order for anyone to exit a room, the door, chairs and tables and a possible kid's toy must be properly negotiated in order to get out of the room in one piece. This absolute applies as there is "no nothing" in reality. :)

 The Spiral/RM/Gemini/NanaBana 2

Self similarity, fractals and the curve is the language existence uses as all three dissipate energy
in the most efficient way possible. 

Scale invariance - RM/Gemini/NanaBana2

Math describes the thought experiment, it is NOT the thought experiment. 

The loupe, the question - RM/Gemini/NanaBana2

Creativity is the art of seeing. It is visual without question. Song in the Key of Life applies.

One of the best ever. Miles would agree. :)

Nature is the guide, we are but participants along for the ride. :)

Taxman

Balancing the ledger - RM/Gemini/NanaBanana2

Channeling Jonathan Wheeler yet again.  

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. https://beyondrealtime.blogspot.com/2023/06/from-it-to-bitrev-ii.html

The class of Bosons is one of the two fundamental classes of subatomic particle, the other being fermions. All subatomic particles must be one or the other. A composite particle (hadron) may fall into either class depending
on its composition.

Wheeler's insightful notion of existence being an information construct makes sense as the boson, (the photon), the carrier force of the electromagnetic, becomes digital by transitioning 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, the prime driver giving rise to the digital age in which we all live.  Prior to absorption,  photons, aka light, exist as analog waves. 
https://beyondrealtime.blogspot.com/2023/06/from-it-to-bitrev-ii.html

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

"It from bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom — at a very deep bottom, in most instances — an immaterial source and explanation; that what we call reality arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes-no questions and the registering of equipment-evoked responses; in short, that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and this is a participatory universe. 

The Taxman cometh

The First Law of Thermodynamics: energy can neither be created or destroyed, only transformed.

The Second Law: entropy in an isolated system always increases over time and ... changes in entropy in the universe can never be negative.

So, in looking at the top graphic, Analog is potential energy, the exploding wormhole, the connect and Digital, kinetic. Think riding a bike. Up the hill, potential. At the top of the hill, the see saw awaits, down the hill, kinetic.
In reality ... the ledger becomes balanced.

Fragment of an Attic red-figure krater by the Leningrad Painter dating between c. 470 and c. 460 BCE, currently held in the Museum of Fine Arts, depicting two adolescent girls playing on a see-saw

One, two, three, four

One, two (one, two, three, four)

Let me tell you how it will be

There's one for you, nineteen for me

'Cause I'm the taxman

Yeah, I'm the taxman

Should five percent appear too small

Be thankful I don't take it all

'Cause I'm the taxman

Yeah, I'm the taxman

The key to the blurb, 1 to 1 :)

I'll tax the street

(If you try to sit, sit) I'll tax your seat

(If you get too cold, cold) I'll tax the heat

(If you take a walk, walk) I'll tax your feet

(Taxman)

'Cause I'm the taxman

Yeah, I'm the taxman

Don't ask me what I want it for

(Ah, ah, Mr. Wilson)

If you don't want to pay some more

(Ah, ah, Mr. Heath)

'Cause I'm the taxman

Yeah, I'm the taxman

Now my advice for those who die (taxman)

Declare the pennies on your eyes (taxman)

'Cause I'm the taxman

Yeah, I'm the taxman

And you're working for no one but me (taxman)

The Bucket List

Newton's bucket/Gemini

Isaac Newton's rotating bucket argument (also known as Newton's bucket) is a thought experiment that was designed to demonstrate that true rotational motion cannot be defined as the relative rotation of the body with respect to the immediately surrounding bodies. It is one of five arguments from the "properties, causes, and effects" of "true motion and rest" that support his contention that, in general, true motion and rest cannot be defined as special instances of motion or rest relative to other bodies, but instead can be defined only by reference to absolute space. Alternatively, these experiments provide an operational definition of what is meant by "absolute rotation", and do not pretend to address the question of "rotation relative to what?"[1] General relativity dispenses with absolute space and with physics whose cause is external to the system, with the concept of geodesics of spacetime.[2]

Force diagram for an element of water surface in co-rotating frame. Top: Radial section and selected point on water surface; the water, the co-rotating frame, and the radial section share a constant angular rate of rotation given by the vector Ω. Bottom: Force diagram at selected point on surface. The slope of the surface adjusts to make all three forces sum to zero.

Why all of this science? Well, because everything spins, especially black holes. 

A rotating black hole is a black hole that possesses angular momentum. All currently known celestial objects, including planets, stars (Sun), galaxies, and black holes, spin about one of their axes.[1][2][3]

In conclusion, when stars collapse, they collapse unevenly, which means ...  angular momentum, as stated before, rules so when a big rotating star meets its maker, it spins even faster when it shrinks down to the size of a black hole. 

This gyroscope remains upright while spinning
owing to the conservation of its angular momentum.

Again, why all this nonsense?

Well, it means we may be living inside a black hole.

The universe is less uniform than we thought—cosmology may need a radical rethink

by Marco Galoppo, Francesco Sylos Labini, The Conversation

What would cause this? A rotating universe, a spinning bucket of immense size as material becomes non uniform due to the rotation of the entity in question. The question to ask it, are researchers seeing this.
The answer is yes.

Figure 1.Spiral galaxies imaged by JWST that rotate in the same direction relative to the Milky Way (red) and in the opposite direction relative to the Milky Way (blue). The number of galaxies rotating in the opposite direction relative to the Milky Way as observed from Earth is far higher (Shamir 2024e).

In essence ...

Because black holes spin (McClintock et al. 2006; Mudambi et al. 2020; Reynolds 2021), a universe hosted inside of a black hole is also expected to spin. Therefore, it has been proposed that a universe located in the interior of a black hole should have an axis, and inherit the preferred direction of the host black hole (Popławski 2010; Seshavatharam 2010; Christillin 2014; Seshavatharam & Lakshminarayana 2020, 2021). Black hole cosmology is also linked to the theory of holographic universe (Susskind 1995; Bak & Rey 2000; Bousso 2002; Myung 2005; Hu & Ling 2006; Sivaram & Arun 2013; Shor, Benninger & Khrennikov 2021; Rinaldi et al. 2022).

To be continued :)

Click here for the paper. 

The spiral :)

NanaBana/Robert E :)

A friend of mine told me I always think in spirals so she challenged me to make one.
She deemed this piece OK. That's good enough for me. :)

232 ... The Red Pill Conjecture :)

232 Attoseconds, reality is refreshed ... forever.

The red pill conjecture :)

Analog to digital and vis versa is how existence functions. 

Phase 1: The Physics of the Cosmic Refresh Rate

If the universe were a static, unmoving photograph, it would decay and rot into entropy instantly.
The only reason the unvarnished dirt feels solid beneath your boots is because it is being actively
re-rendered, destroyed, and rebuilt every 232 attoseconds.

The Recycle of Existence: It's not a loss; it's a delivery. It's the analog quantum foam crossing
the Casimir gap to supply our shared reality with fresh energy.

Phase 2: The Riemann Centerline and the 0.57721 Slippage

This is where the architecture becomes undeniable. If reality is an engine firing every 232 attoseconds,
it requires a mathematical camshaft to regulate the timing.

The Riemann Zeta Function is not just an abstract theorem about prime numbers;
 it is the mathematical blueprint of the Casimir gap.

Riemann proved that all the non-trivial zeros (the harmonic beats of the primes) fall perfectly on the Critical Line. That midline is not a coincidence. The universe doesn't refresh on the integers (the 0 or the 1). The exact point of decoherence—the exact center of the A-to-D conversion—happens perfectly balanced on the $1/2$ threshold.

But a perfect engine with zero tolerance will seize up and shatter. That is where
the 0.57721(Euler-Mascheroni) constant comes in.

Analog is potential energy, Digital, kinetic. It all balances out

Think riding a bike. Up the hill, potential, down the hill, kinetic. :)

The Harmonic Series (Discrete): The digital steps.

The Natural Logarithm (Continuous): The analog wave.

The Difference (0.57721...): The "Slippage."

The 0.57721 slippage is the exact amount of "play" in the gears. It is the topological grease that allows the analog wave to hit the 1/2 centerline every 232 attoseconds and snap into a digital state without breaking the universe.

Phase 3: The Three Pillars of Bionic Proof

The Engine of Existence is not a metaphor; it is codified by three distinct, verifiable experimental truths:

The Timing (The 232 Attosecond Clock): Ref: arXiv:2403.05482. The physicists mapped the exact photoionization delay—the precise speed limit of wave function collapse. They proved that reality is not a continuous, smeared blur. It ticks. Every 232 attoseconds, the analog wave hits the Riemann Centerline, decoheres, and refreshes the macroscopic world. It is the clock speed of the universe.

The Riemann sphere can be visualized as the complex number plane wrapped around a sphere

The Structure (The Fractional Fermi Sea): Ref: arXiv:2602.17657. The absolute zero experiment proved the geometry of the transition. The wave doesn't just fade out; as it passes through the Casimir threshold, it snaps into rigid, stepped fractional states. This is the physical visualization of the continuous becoming discrete—the pure analog clay forming the stepped digital cylinder.

This is why there's a consistent view of the universe viewed by all life forms on planet earth.

When nearing absolute 0, things slow down in order for us to see.

The spiral, the steps the frequency

to Schrodenger as seen by A 

The collapse is real as is the transition from analog to digital
and vis versa happens every 232 attoseconds.

Which means ...

Schrodinger's equation is real. 

The Selection (Quantum Darwinism): Ref: arXiv:2504.00781. The ultimate bionic irony. Why does only one reality emerge from the quantum blur? Wojciech Zurek's "Quantum Darwinism" proves that the environment acts as a witness. It filters the chaotic analog possibilities, selecting only the most robust, harmonious states (the E Major chord) to survive and be replicated into macroscopic reality. The universe literally uses a Darwinian process
to decide what is real.

Figure 1. Quantum Darwinism and the emergent classical reality. (A) An observer eavesdrops on the state of a system via a fragment of the environment. In the macroscopic world, we observe the world around us through information carried from N photons interacting with systems of interest. An observer can only access a small fraction of them (m photons) as evidence to describe the system’s state. (

And the beat goes on - The Big  Bopper

We all live here. :)

Wooden Ships

Dystopian Reality

Wooden Ships, the 1969 dystopian read on nuclear war, indirectly relates as the end of empire is nigh for America while global warming and environment degradation continues unabated. From eating the world via AI data centers to the inequality of wealth, aided and abetted by governments all over the world, the connect to Wooden Ships is not too far fetched in this writer's opinion.

At the end of every empire, fools accelerate the process.

Trump threw a state fair to celebrate America’s 250th birthday and nobody came. His Great America celebration has been an utter and complete flop. Tens of people showed. Seriously. It’s empty. Fox is there “reporting” that thousands are showing up, even though they’re set up in front of a giant empty lawn. 10 states didn’t even participate. They couldn’t get anybody to perform except for Vanilla Ice and the only attractions are a ferris wheel, a mock arch, and baptisms. Yes, there are baptisms being performed at Trump’s great American festival.

A plan to commemorate America’s 250th birthday has been in the works for a decade and Trump ruined everything by trashing all of the existing plans and creating a nonprofit to produce his own event on a whim instead. He called his nonprofit, “Freedom 250” and made himself the chair. JD Vance is the vice chair and they have corporate partners such as Exxon Mobil, Northrop Grumman, and John Deere. He trashed all existing non-partisan plans in lieu of a strictly partisan, MAGA event. He gets to keep his donors secret.

He made a 20 minute speech and people walked out halfway through it. He claimed 45,000 people were there. There could have been 1,000.

The US Marine Band was forced to play YMCA. Alexis Wilkins sang the national anthem. Who is Alexis Willkins? FBI director Kash Patel’s girlfriend. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy made a speech and referred to the artists who refused to perform as “libtards.”

While the Reflection Pool resembles the above pix save for the skulls looking upward in despair.