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.

The Ogallala Aquifer

Saturated thickness of the Ogallala Aquifer in 1997 after several decades of intensive withdrawals.
 The breadth and depth of the aquifer generally decrease from north to south.

The Ogallala Aquifer (oh-gə-LAH-lə) is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay, and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the United States.

As one of the world's largest aquifers, it underlies an area of approximately 174,000 sq mi (450,000 km2) in portions of eight states (South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas).[1] It was named in 1898 by geologist N. H. Darton from its type locality near the town of Ogallala, Nebraska. The aquifer is part of the High Plains Aquifer System, and resides in the Ogallala Formation, which is the principal geologic unit underlying 80% of the High Plains.[2][3]

Large-scale extraction for agricultural purposes started after World War II due partially to center pivot irrigation and to the adaptation of automotive engines to power groundwater wells.[4] Today about 27% of the irrigated land in the entire United States lies over the aquifer, which yields about 30% of the ground water used for irrigation in the United States.[5] The aquifer is at risk of over-extraction and pollution. Since 1950, agricultural irrigation has reduced the saturated volume of the aquifer by an estimated 9%. Once depleted, the aquifer will take over 6,000 years to replenish naturally through rainfall.[6]

The aquifer system supplies drinking water to 82% of the 2.3 million people (1990 census) who live within the boundaries of the High Plains study area.[7]

Why the long segue? Because the tech bros want to build data centers on top of the OA
because of the water. What could possibly go wrong?

Eating the world applies ...

Note: This map shows publicly announced, major AI-focused and hyperscale data centers running AI workloads.
Each marker's popup includes its source citation. Many smaller or unannounced facilities are not listed. 

 "Community Reported" pins show data submitted by concerned residents across the US about AI data centers. Note that locations might be approximate, covering reported zip codes or nearby areas.

A guilty pleasure

Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Yuri Gripas / Abaca / Bloomberg / Getty.

A guilty pleasure ... seeing the very stable genius screwing up something yet again, a something not needing to be American blue but rather needing a tune up to have it work in concert with the Potomac and it's environment because the Reflecting Pool sits on top of mud so flexing is part of the equation along with the need of using two sources of water to naturally fend off the "killer" algae instead of using nanobubbles and hydrogen peroxide at 12% concentration, a solution used for paint stripping because when used in water, it kills frogs and ducks that happen to get in it's way while Trump continues to flail away in a vain attempt to make the Reflecting Pool truly American Blue. :)

So long, metaphor. We had a good run. Goodbye, “All the world’s a stage.” Farewell, “She’s a brick house.” See you later, the swamp (drained or undrained). Now we have a symbolic black hole in the middle of Washington, D.C., that is pulling all other symbols into its orbit and devouring them, one by one.

I am, of course, talking about the Reflecting Pool. That is what everyone is talking about, even and especially the president. Nothing is ever going to top it except, of course, the thin green coat of algae that Greenwater Solutions—seems nominally determinative, in a bad way—is trying to spritz with nanobubbles. (“It’s magic!” the man operating the hose assured me yesterday when I walked by.)

The Reflecting Pool is a metaphor so perfect, it feels almost valedictory, as though symbolism as a whole gave up and decided to sign off. On its way out, it killed a duck.

Read the entire Atlantic piece as BRT's waxes "poetic" on why Trump and company's excellent move on the Reflecting Pool makes the 3 Stooges look like Einstein in comparison. :)

Advertising trade card picturing the Three Stooges-Larry Fine, Curly Howard and Moe Howard.
The card was given to children at theaters where a Three Stooges film was playing. The bearer of the card had a chance to win a Three Stooges movie viewer at the theater. The card also promoted a giveaway from Pillsbury Farina. The grocer would give a movie viewer to anyone buying two packages of Pillsbury Farina.

Amorality is a given ...

Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb and the chief design officer of the National Design Studio,
at the unveiling of the TrumpRx drug discount site on 5 February 2026.
Photograph: Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Tech. science and government are amoral, it's the people running said appliance
that determine the morality of the agency in question.

To whit

‘It’s dangerous and it’s going to erode trust’: redesign of US government websites 

stokes surveillance fears

The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking

software on vital federal websites

An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government’s most sensitive websites – for passport applications, voter registration, prescription-drug pricing and children’s savings – in ways critics say appear to violate federal law.

The National Design Studio (NDS) was established by a Donald Trump executive order last August, and is led by Trump-aligned Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia and staffed by Doge veterans.

A Guardian investigation has found the office has apparently been developing or redeveloping sensitive federal websites, including those connecting Americans with prescription drugs, children’s savings accounts, passports and voter registration. The investigation corroborates and advances earlier reporting by the Drey Dossier, a YouTube investigative outlet.

The NDS built and now operates four public federal websites: ndstudio.gov, trumprx.gov, realfood.gov and trumpaccounts.gov. All four ran commercial visitor-tracking software, configured to evade the privacy tools many web users install, and none carry the public filings federal privacy law requires under laws including the Privacy Act of 1974 and the E-Government Act of 2002.

Separately, none of the NDS’s spending or its arrangements with outside vendors appears in USAspending, the federal contracting database, raising questions about how it is funded and overseen.

PostHog's not the problem, it's who's using it.

A glimmer of hope :)

 

An artist’s conception shows the Blue Moon Mark 2 lander on the lunar surface.

(Blue Origin Illustration)

Maybe NASA might survive after all as NASA's offering a helping hand to companies
wanting to explore space at deep level. 

NASA has selected proposals from 37 companies, including several with Seattle-area connections, to further its plans to establish a long-term presence on the moon and enable human exploration of Mars.

The companies applied to partner with NASA under the terms of an Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity, or ACO. The selected proposals aim to develop technologies for space transportation, planetary surface operations and lunar surface infrastructure.

“We are empowering American industry to become active partners in NASA’s missions to the moon, Mars and beyond,” Greg Stover, director of the Advanced Research and Technology Division in NASA’s Research and Technology Mission Directorate, said today in a news release. “By tapping into commercial industry, NASA can rapidly develop key capabilities to support its most ambitious missions while fostering the nation’s robust space economy.”

While the ACO agreements do not involve an exchange of funds, the selected companies can leverage NASA’s specialized facilities, software, hardware and subject-matter experts to mature their technologies for commercial and government use. The performance periods will be negotiated individually, with an expected duration of 12 to 24 months.

Five Seattle-area companies made NASA’s list:

• Aerojet Rocketdyne: The L3Harris-owned operation in Redmond focuses on producing thrusters for spacecraft propulsion systems.
• Blue Origin: The Kent-based space venture founded by Jeff Bezos is developing crewed and uncrewed lunar landers for NASA’s Artemis moon program, as well as technology to produce solar cells and other components from lunar resources.
• Starcloud: This Redmond-based startup aims to launch thousands of satellites to build orbital, in-space data center constellations.
• Stoke Space: This Kent-based venture, founded by veterans of Blue Origin, is building a fully reusable medium-lift rocket.
• Zeno Power Systems: Operating out of offices in Seattle and Washington, D.C., Zeno is developing a new type of nuclear battery for applications in space as well as on Earth.

The other 32 companies are Advanced Cooling Technologies, Advanced Space, Apech Labs, Astrobotic Technology, Axiom Space, Busek, Canopy Aerospace, Chase Supply, Dcubed USA, Elementum 3D, Enduralock, General Galactic Technologies, Hebi Robotics, Hyperion Transport Systems, Kall Morris, Lockheed Martin, Lunar Outpost, Made in Space, Max Space, Mission Space U.S., Moonprint Solutions, Motiv Space Systems, Opterus Research and Development, Orbital Composites, Psionic, Quadrus Corp., Rogue Space Systems, Starpath Robotics, Teledyne Energy Systems, Ten One Aerospace, Varda Space Industries and Venturi Astrolab.

Researchers used the NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map specific chemical contents of comet 3I/ATLAS as it moved away from the Sun. 

Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Martin Cordiner (CUA, NASA-GSFC); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

Creativity is ...

 

RM//Magnific/NanaBana2

A meander for the mind applies. Maybe Albert E. said this after all but nobody really knows. :)

Time to pull the plug

Time to pull the plug

GENEVA – Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the West Bank, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new report today.

 Any questions?