(11 Oct 2024) And what
is life without a reminder of my girlfriend on a distance Majorie
Taylor Greene? Yes sometimes I complain about our own Geert
Wilders but the poor Americans must keep up with stuff like:
Well yes I would love
that too; Control over hurricanes of Cat I and II...;) May be we
better go to the two items of today.
Item 1) A bit more on
that oil depot & more UA related stuff.
Item 2) Chemistry Nobel to two non academics?
Item
1) A bit more on that oil depot & more UA related stuff.
In the last update I
mentioned this oil depot thing, likely it is also a fuel storage
place. Anyway two days back it wasn't clear if it would burn a
long time but it seems to be going fine. Here is a satellite
image, if you click the picture you land at an article of Newsweek
where they have a Telegram video:
Article title: Crimea Satellite Photos Reveal Damage to Oil Terminal on Fire After Strike.
Link used: https://www.newsweek.com/crimea-satellite-oil-russia-
ukraine-war-latest-1966321
There was another ammo
dump successfully targeted but I don't know what was actually
there. Some video said it were 400 Shahed drones (that Iranian
stuff) but I didn't find much back in the regular press. Only this
other Newsweek article:
Ukraine Goes After Russia's North Korean Arms Stockpiles
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-north-korea-ammunition-
depot-karachev-bryansk-russia-1966210
All in all the last
weeks the news often has a more negative tone in it. It feels a
bit as if people get tired from news from Ukraine. So may be the
public opinion for support for Ukraine might be slowly turning. Or
may be it goes just a bit down and that's it. But the tone of a
lot of news reports and videos slowly becomes a bit more
negative.
Well it is what it is,
lets go to the next item.
Item
2) Chemistry Nobel to two non academics?
Just one week ago I
wrote that people like you and me can never get a Nobel prize no
matter what. And yes most of the time it goes to university people
only, the only counter example I knew of was some Japanese guy who
invented that blue LED light. To be honest I never checked in
detail if Noble prizes in physics only go to people with an
academic job.
But now we have
another two from more or less outside the official academia, I
believe both work at Google and they got the chemistry prize for
that protein folding thing from a few years
back.
It seems that the
theme of AI is used more or less by the Nobel prize committee
because both physics and chemistry share this. And like expected
the first complaints that this is not true physics are already
there. Well I don't care that much, yes AI development is not pure
physics and much more computer science. On the other hand this
committee is simply sovereign when it comes to what they want to
do. I don't know if soverneign is the correct word here because
that is mostly used in the context of countries, but you get the
point: They can do as they see fit.
May be you recognize
the guy on the left, that is Demis Hassabis who played a role in
that cracking of the game of go from a couple of years back. Click
on the picture for a Reuters report:
Reuters report: Google's Nobel prize winners stir debate over AI research.
Link used: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/
googles-nobel-prize-winners-stir-debate-over-ai-research-2024-10-10/
The other guy is
likely John Jumper who likely made some software some time ago and
if you put in some amino acid sequence it spits out the likely 3D
shape.
Well you can talk long
and short on the subject of using AI or computers into research. I
do it all the time, not AI but all kinds of computer programs
because it saves me an awful lot of work. For example I know
perfectly well how to find the eigenvalues of say a 5x5 matrix,
but that is a lot of work prone to error; any tiny mistake and the
whole answer is mostly gone.
But lets take for
example this protein folding problem or a similar thing: how does
biology only make one chiral kind of molecule? I suspect it has a
lot to do with what I think of electrons: that they are magnetic
monopoles. I can't prove it but it might very well be that in the
two chiral versions of a molecule the electrons in each electron
pair are swapped when it comes to their magnetic charge. Yet if
somebody as a (bio)chemical researcher wants to investigate the
monopole magnetic behavior of say electrons, all the existing AI
and or computer programs are likely of zero help or use.
I have no problem with
computer aided research, as it helps speeding up things it's fine.
I myself don't use stuff like Chat GPT, I tried it a few times and
yes it can spit out code even stuff like Latex code for writing my
math texts. But overall I didn't like it a lot and now I never use
it anymore.
Hey lets call it an
update and let me try to upload this to our common garbage can:
the internet. Thanks for your attention.
(09 Oct 2024) The USA
is preparing for a big bad thing named Milton. My notes say it's
an orkaan but likely the Americans name that a hurricane and I
wish them good luck if you're in the landing zone of that
thing.
Item 1) Niels Puck on
who's the best analyst & more UA stuff.
Item 2) A good not too long video on dynamical systems.
Item 1) Niels Puck on who's the best analyst & more UA stuff.
Niels Puck Anders had
a more or less funny video out on who from the specialists did
foresee the war in Ukraine correctly. And I have to say that Niels
lays the bar relatively high; he makes the point that you had to
foresee on say 19 Feb 2022 that 1) Russia would indeed attack
& invade and that 2) You already foresaw that Russia would not
be able to win. On the other hand he is talking about experts so
in that case this might be a reasonable criterium about who had
good analysis before the war and who not...
And that brought me
back to myself, not that I am an expert on these things but I
simply thought back in the time that Russia would not invade. I
was thinking "They might be stupid at the Kremlin but they
are not THAT stupid."
One day before the war I even bought a few stocks for in my
portfolio and if you think a significant geopolitical event would
soon occur, I wouldn't have done it but wait a few days or longer.
But there was some interview or some speech out from Putin and
finally the quarter fell in my head; he indeed had gone crazy. Or
may be better; after all those years it was unveiled what was
inside his head.
And I wrote the first
so called "Tuesday updates", before the war I mostly
updated only on Thursdays so just once a week. But on that Tuesday
I more or less panicked a little bit and therefore I decided to
make an extra update that week. And since that time I write two
updates a week, so now that is already about 125 extra updates. It
has been a pretty crazy ride I have to say. Anyway here is the
video from Niels, click on the picture:
Video title: Why did experts fail to predict Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T2MYXljL5o
In other news it was
reported an oil storage facility in Crimea or near Crimea was
attacked. It was burning but not the whole thing, so lets wait and
see.
And it seems that this
week a few of the Dutch F16's have arrived in Ukraine. So take it
easy, not to many missions and get first some routine under your
ass. But there likely is not enough time for that, I know I know.
Well my dear Ukrainians I can only wish you well with them.
Further reading:
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3913455-ukraine-
receives-f16-jets-from-the-netherlands.html
I hope you don't mind
I don't post the link to this article...
May be it is time to
go to the next item.
Item
2) A good not too long video on dynamical systems.
This is a good video
if you are not that good at complicated math calculations but
still are a tiny bit interested in for example what we name
dynamical systems. Today the guy with the interesting name Artem
Kirsonov did post his video on youtube so it is fresh from the
press.
Now in the video Artem
gives a standard example for these kind of things: The predator
prey model. Here it is done with foxes and rabbits. Although such
models might give some insight of how things could evolve in
nature in practice, you must also be aware that these models are
often over simplifications. For example once rabbits have learned
to avoid confrontations with foxes, that is not in the
model.
I remember that when I
learned this model myself the first time, one of the other
students remarked/asked the next: So if in the winter you shoot
some extra rabbits, that makes the rabbit population that summer
larger? And yes if those closed trajectories from the video are
true the answer is yes but again such models are very simple
compared to the complex behavior you find between lots of systems
in nature or in your own mind or even in your bowels.
The dot you see above
the x and y just means the rate of change with time, this dot
notation dates back to Newton. I too use it often but if you need
a lot of higher derivatives it is not a good notation and the
Leibniz stuff is better.
Video title: Differential Equations: The Language of Change.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTTlzmCRwU4
Before we split and go
our own ways again I want to make a small remark upon today's
Noble prize in physics. It was given to two of the founding
fathers of artificial intelligence, if I remember his name
correctly it's the Hinton guy that in the past worked for Google
and another guy I never hears of.
Now I did not mind
because with this choice I did not need to irritate myself with
looking to people talking about electron spin. No, it was an AI
choice so that's interesting. Most people would see computer
sciences as a different science from physics. Of course these two
sciences influence each other but most people likely think they
are separate fields of human knowledge.
Well I just didn't
care and it was not as hellbreaking bad as those "validation
of the Bell inequality" where one of the prize winners even
remarked that "This experiment is almost impossible to do
with spin half particles like electrons, that's why we don't use
them". (I never dived in the details but if memory serves the
original Bell inequality stuff was with electron spin...)
It is time to upload
this stuff to the internet, as always thanks for your
attention.
(04 Oct 2024) As so
often just two items in this update:
Item 1) Well Mark does
not let grow much grass over it.
Item 2) My candidate for the 2024 Noble prize in physics.
Item
1) Well Mark does not let grow much grass over it.
We're now at 04 Oct
and if I remember it clearly the Putin guy had ordered a few weeks
back that the Kursk region should be taken by 01 Oct... So after
more as 2.5 years of war Putin still has no clue whatsoever what
his army can do and what not. Ok ok, that was it from day 1 of
this SMO but it's still going on and it shows once more how good
he is at his stuff.
__________
I selected the next
news item because of the cute picture with a NATO & a
Ukrainian flag. Now I am not the one that gives false hope so I
just repeat that it will be a long long way before there is some
flag raising ceremoney like we had with Sweden and the
likes.
Anyway Mark Rutte is
just a few days the new (political) chief, isn't the official
title a Secretary General? Or is it without caps just secretary
general? A few days back he was given a strange piece of wood by
Jens Stoltenberg and I know now that this piece of wood is a
Viking gavel. What more do you want? Well I forgot to look up what
a gavel is, no idea may be a symbolic kind of hammer or something
you can actually use if you need to do a bit of chisel work on
some wood or so. You can read a small report from the Associated
Press if you click on the picture:
Title: New NATO chief Mark Rutte visits Ukraine in his first trip since taking office.
Link used: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-kharkiv-
glide-bombs-a4436a45d74456f0f199095442765957
You can't see it
clearly on the small picture, but Zelensky has an extra word after
the year 2024. So it could very well be they have at least two
different calendars over there so they need some extra information
for that.
There was a lot more
news, for example it seems that in China entire drones get ensembled
and shipped to Russia. I don't think that's a very good idea so
may be fresh trade tariffs of just 5000% on Chinese electric cars?
Who knows, but lets go to the next item.
Item
2) My candidate for the 2024 Noble prize in physics.
I think it was two
days back that Sabine Hossenfelder came out with a video on the
fresh impending Noble prize in physics. And she had a few
candidates or fields to offer for the impending stuff.
One of her choices was
David Deutch. David Deutch? Noah, I don't know. It has to be
remarked however that David has some unique qualities. For example
you want to get high on weed and you look in your shoebox where
you keep your stack of marihuana and you find it is EMPTY!
You begin to panic a little bit but years ago I have made a
solution to such problems: A spare shoebox with weed in it. But
hey shit, that one is also empty! What to do now? How to get high
and stoned as hell?
Very simple; just down a few beers and wait to you get a little
bit dizzy. After that you only have to view a few videos with
David Deutch in them and if after an hour or so you are still not
stoned you should see a doctor.
__________
Another proposal of
Sabine was someone out of quantum computing. Here again I don't
think that this is wise, for example all quantum computers based
on electron spin very likely will never ever work in a million
years. But all quantum computers are based on a principle of
quantum mechanics and this principle says that if unmeasured a
quantum system will always be in a superposition of quantum
states.
If this is just not the case, no form of quantum computing will
ever work at all. So if you award a Nobel prize for that, you run
the risk that in the future you look rather dumb.
__________
If I had the right to
bring forward a candidate I would choose that Fermilab experiment
under the name g-2. It seems that the physics people have been
working about half a century on such muon g-2 experiments.
It is fantastically stupid that those muons go round and round in
a ring steered by a vertical magnetic field and everybody thinks
that the muon spin stays horizontal.
Non of them even remarks we have a serious so called energy
problem here; why does the muon spin stay horizontal? That is so
much stupidity in just one group of physics people that this more
or less acts like a black hole of stupidity. And this black hole
of stupidity is very attractive to all those people that shout
"New physics! New physics!" after Fermilab released
their fantastic findings.
Just an old picture
without link to close this update:
Oh yes now I remember
it; this was a very complicated way to calculate the length of the
first column of this matrix M.
That it for this week,
as always thanks for your attention.
(02 Oct 2024) Well
yes, Iran attacking Israel. That's just what the world needs right
now I just guess. Lets go to today's two items:
Item 1) Former Gazprom
employee as UA fighter?
Item 2) Just some fooling around with the number alpha.
Item
1) Former Gazprom employee as UA fighter?
A pity we don't have
such a giant explosion from a Russian ammo dump this week. I don't
remember the name precise but there was a failed attack where the
fields around the dump were on fire but the ammo dump itself
survived another day. Someone joked that it was so weird that this
time the Russians not only said they shot down all drones but they
actually did it.
Anyway this evening I
came across a rather beautiful photo and I don't know if it's a
fake or a real. Furthermore 'beautiful' is of course rather
subjective, it that is your farm field you likely will have a very
different opinion on this. It was reported that in Yesk, Russia,
there was a more successful strike on a ammo dump.
If you click on the
picture you will land at ukrinform.net:
Article title: No
title given.
Link used:
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3910838-explosions-
occurred-near-military-airfield-in-yeysk-russia.html
As a bit of human
interest, the Sun had a small video about a Gazprom spokesperson
turned Ukrainian fighter. It sounds a bit strange but it has all
of it's own logic, the guy was born in Ukraine and likely had as
such a better understanding of what was going on. And with 'better
understanding' that is compared to the average Russian who got
most of their information from the lovely Russian state
television.
Here is a link:
Video title: Gazprom official turned Ukrainian fighter has message for Putin.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYzO9yOh5PU
As always a terrible
lot more did happen, for example our Mark Rutte had his first day
as the new NATO political chief. It was told he now lives in a
house with 20 bedrooms...
Item
2) Just some fooling around with the number alpha.
Over the years I have
written many times "Go look for the old post with seven
properties of the number alpha". And one or two years back I
tried to look up for myself that old post from 2014 or 2015.
And yes, in some
rudimentary form it was there but it was smeared out over the two
websites because at the time I had just opened the new website and
I was busy transitioning from here to there. So I wanted to do a
rewrite of that old stuff into a new piece for some time now. And
a couple of days back I actually started doing that.
If you would ask me
what is the more or less most surprising result from the study of
3D complex number, I would say it's all those properties the
number alpha has. For example it is the center of the complex
exponential in the space of 3D complex numbers, that alone makes
it an interesting 3D complex number. It is also it's own square, a
property it has in common with 0 and 1 who are also their own
square.
The post isn't
finished by far, but in the picture below you can see the
calculation that says alpha is it's own square. I multiplied it by
9 so I did not have to divide constantly by two factors of 3.
The number alpha is a
3D complex number X = x + jy + j^2z, because these
are 3D numbers the third power of the imaginary unit must cube to
minus one:
j^3
= -1.
The number alpha
itself is (1 - j + j^2)/3, so that's why you
see the 9 below.
Ok no electron rant
this week, next week the Nobel prizes of this year will come out.
May be the physics laureates will be more of those that think the
official version of bipolar electrons is actually true. That would
be a funny thing: You can be utterly stupid and still get a Nobel
prize...
And we shouldn't pity
these winners too much, ordinary people like you can me can't even
get a Nobel prize no matter what. It's more or less totally
exclusive for university people although I never looked into the
founding documentation to the Nobel prize to see if it's also
there.
That's it for this update, as always thanks for your
attention.
(27 Sept 2024) It's
late and I'm a bit tired so a small update today. Our Dutch
federal debt came in lately as 42.3% of GDP. So that's not bad,
ideally it could be even more less as say 30% of GDP but with a
debt quote like this we can absorb a relatively large shock like
COVID or something of similar damaging size... Two items for
today:
Item 1) Francis
Fukayama & new US aid package for Ukraine.
Item 2) New post on the SG-experiment on the other website.
Item
1) Francis Fukayama & new US aid package for Ukraine.
Today I didn't see
much news and I didn't have any meaningful to say so I thought to
myself: "Can I say something that is just as meaningless as
my own life is?"
And of course I can, I
want to say thanks for your support for Ukraine to the outgoing US
government in general and chief Joe Biden in particular. So that's
all I had planned for and include that with some interview with a
guy named Francis Fukayama.
But no way I could
find that video back, may be it was a bit older but I could not
find it. So I found another that can be used as a substitute and
after that I took some time for the news of today.
Ok, a new military aid
package from the USA to UA and not the expected maximum of 6
billion but 8 billion US$. So that's great and lets hope that it
helps.
Click on the picture
for the video:
Video title: Francis Fukuyama: 'Trump is on the Russian side' in Ukraine war | DW News.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MoOrpsMM-4
And a Reuters report
detailing a bit of the latest aid package is here:
Biden announces $8 billion in military aid for Ukraine
Link used: https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-announces-
8-billion-military-aid-ukraine-2024-09-26/
Luckily beside all
that polarized politics stuff in the USA there are still plenty of
normal people over there. Lets go to the next item.
Item
2) New post on the SG-experiment on the other website.
On youtube this week a
few days back a new video came out and this one was very good.
There are dozens and dozens of such Stern-Gerlach experiment
videos but most of them are just a rechewing of old stuff.
This video is great in
detail and has also lots of historical details that are, at least
for me, interesting. It's made by Dr. Jorge S. Diaz and although
his video is very good in it's class, of course he to stays away
from a land known as Crazyland. So he shows the expression for the
potential energy of a dipole magnet in a magnetic field. Now it is
easy to show that if electrons are indeed tiny bipolar magnets,
that leads to all kinds of problems that are so crazy that I
classify them as the stuff from Crazyland.
The most crazy
construction is of course the electron pair, that is the picture I
have been showing you all year 2024 long but I made another one of
those crazy things: The anti-alignment problem. Why the fuk should
an electron anti-align itself with an applied magnetic field? Well
the physics people never explain things like that, the only start
explaining when things sound logical. If you click on the picture
you will land on my other website where you can see the video. It
was about 25 minutes long and if you like stuff like that I would
recommend it because of the many details that are
interesting:
Title of the new post:
Video about the Stern Gerlach experiment, it’s good in the details.
Link used: https://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2024/09/25/video-
about-the-stern-gerlach-experiment-its-good-in-the-details/
I also started a new
math post that will be rather long, so that will likely easily be
two weeks from now before it is finished. That was it for this
week and as always thanks for your attention.
(25 Sept 2024) The two
items for this update:
Item 1) Falling debris
& the three ammo dumps that were.
Item 2) Alice in Crazyland and muon decay.
Item 1) Falling debris & the three ammo dumps that were.
This was another week
with just to much news so I only take a look at the three ammo
storage places that were under drone attack. What I found
interesting is the fact that apparently if one ammo bunker
explodes, that gives a chain reaction and it takes with it much
more bunkers.
After all if you see
the footage of all bunkers and buildings gone, it is hard to
believe that all were done by one or more drones. An operational
detail that is out in the open is the fact that the Ukrainians
collided those attacks with the arrival of trains loaded with new
ammo. Of course you must wait for some time after the arrival so
that the unloading of the ammo is widespread over the area, that
is an interesting operational detail.
I have two video's for
you, the first one is from Suchominus and once more he has a
boatload of satellite imagines with highly interesting
"before & after" comparisons. He also noted that the
tree pattern in a few of the images resembles the old Tunguska
event from the year 1908. So you understand the scale of the
explosions here a bit better. For his habit this is a relatively
long video, about 23 minutes or so. Click on the picture in case
you want to see it.
Video title: Five Trains Confirmed Destroyed, Plus Missile Stockpile at Toropets and Kranodar Ammo Depots.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDIqV4jk3i4
The next video is from
Artur Rehi, at first I did not want to post this video because it
contains such an elementary fault that I did not want to get
associated with that. See below; if you release 10 thousand shells
a week and you have 750 thousand shells, that is for two or three
months shells. Likely the fault is that it's 10 thousand Russian
shells a day and not a week... But anyway.
But later in the video
Artur comes with this cute picture below, I can't read that but he
claims it's debris in Ukrainian. I have no idea if this is fake or
real but that does not matter. And from the Russian side yes they
very often claim all drones are shot down but it's the falling
debris that did it...
At last I want to
remark that the range of say the Toropets region was beyond say a
missile like the Storm Shadow / Scalp range. The success of these
attacks is a big thumbs up for the Ukrainian weapons smiths and
designers and all the other things that go into making such a
flying bread named Palyanytsya. It is unknown how the attacks
unfolded in detail, so it could be that the new flying breads were
in it or not.
Click on the picture
for the video from Artur Rehi:
Video title: Ukrainians did it Again! Russian ammunition Blew Up!
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW5JqCjEXXs
And once more the
fires were visible from space. Ok I skipped as always a lot of
things and other important details but lets go to the next
item.
Item
2) Alice in Crazyland and muon decay.
By coincidence I came
across one of those AI generated videos, this one had the title
"Alice in Crazyland". For me that was amusing because I
always use the name of that land when I try to explain some of the
weird things going on with electron spin as a tiny magnet.
I always talk about
electrons as being magnetic monopoles and not binary pole things
but there are many more spin half particles out that can be
magnetic monopoles. But year in year out I keep it as simple as
possible yet some years ago I once pondered the question if may be
those tiny pesky neutrino's could be magnetic monopoles too.
But only now in the
last few weeks I am looking into that muon g-2 experiment from
Fermilab that I came across a detail that says it could be. So all
it says that if nuetrino's carry magnetic charge the next picture
is in line with that. If a muon decays into an electron (or a
positron as in the Fermilab experiment) it also generates two
neutrino's. In the picture below in the upper line it says there
is a muon-neutrino and an anti electron-neutrino. And I simply
trust the physics professionals to have it right in this detail
because after all it looks like something rather hard to validate
via experiment. It's not like validating the electron magnetic
monopole character via cheap experiments below say one thousand
€.
If you click on the
picture you will land at the video from Alice so one of those AI
generated things.
Video title: ALICE IN CRAZYLAND, More surreal than ever!
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBEJ0zatQ84
That's it for this
update, see you around and as always thanks for your
attention.
(20 Sept 2024) Here
the two items for this update:
Item 1) Toropets drone
attack & Russian oil refinery capacity down.
Item 2) An empty item, just a picture and some talk.
Item
1) Toropets drone attack & Russian oil refinery capacity down.
Well there was some
serious boom stuff going on inside Russia; a huge mushroom cloud
and geologists measured two peaks in earthquake activity; one 2.5
and the other 2.8 on the famous Richter scale.
It is rumored that up
to 30 thousand tons of explosives could be stored at that site in
Russia's Toropets. One person compared it to the nuke bomb on Hiroshima,
that one was equivalent to 15 thousand tons of TNT.
What I considered very
significant was that according to local authorities all drones
were shot down and it was some falling debris that caused the
fire. At the same time this location was built to withstand a
nuclear attack and I felt so happy for Russia that they did this.
If you think about it, an ammo dump that can withstand a nuclear
blast is very expensive; that must have been some very expensive
super yachts and plenty of expensive houses in foreign countries.
It is great that Russia is willing to fund all those super yachts
so there is more safety in say Toropets.
So it could very well
be that say a few bolts and nuts from some drone debris that only
weighted 28 gram caused the explosion that gave a nice 2.8 on the
Richter scale. Just imagine what would happen if a 28 kg piece of
metal fell on the ammo storage facility when it was NOT made
nuclear proof! Lets all thank Russia for their wise behavior and
the prudent investments in safety via the method of super
yachts.
The guy in the middle
was the one that said all drones were shot down. Now don't forget
it is Russia: It could very well be that is the information he
just had and he is not lying at all. Official information is
official information, if you say it's not true you run the risk of
prison time or free flying lessens from an open window.
I think most people
will have heard or read the news from Toropets because it was such
a giant explosion, if not you can click on the next picture for
some Business Insider article or look for news yourself:
Title: Ukraine says it wiped a key Russian missile and artillery arsenal ‘off the face of the earth’ in long-range strikes.
Link used: https://www.businessinsider.nl/ukraine-says-it-wiped-a-
key-russian-missile-and-artillery-arsenal-off-the-face-of-the-earth-
in-long-range-strikes/
It was said the ammo
site had about 200 employees and the explosions were so huge and
hot that a lot of them just vaporized. If correct and in the
future we find a bit more validation of this vaporization idea, in
that case this attack can be classified as a Special Barbeque
Operation or a SBO.
At last Suchominus had
an audio fragment with the sound of a jet engine in it, so it
could be that this attack is (one of the) first applications of
those new jet drones.
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At oilprice.com I
found a short tally of Russian oil refinery capacity lost in the
last few months. Luckily it once more draws the correct conclusion
that these attacks could lead to more crude sold by Russia and as
such these attacks by Ukraine help bring down international oil
prices.
Here is the article:
Russian Oil Refining Capacity Plummets 14.5%
Link used: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Russian-Oil-
Refining-Capacity-Plummets-145.html
So all in all this
week on this website alone we had three interesting things:
1) Russian Central Bank rate decision,
2) The Special Barbeque Operation or the SBO &
3) Global oil prices.
That is all very
interesting from the intellectual point of view, so the hopes of
the Kremlin that in the end people will get tired from all that
Ukrainian news are likely idle hopes. Lets go to the next
item.
Item 2) An empty item, just a picture and some talk.
I didn't came across
any interesting news or video when it comes to electron spin or
magnetism. So lets repeat the picture below one more time. After
all when I made it last year it was my plan to use it at least
once but preferable more times a month for the entire 2024.
And of course my plans didn't come out, may be I reposted it every
two months may be every six weeks.
What is difficult for me is understanding rather precise how dumb
guys like Dr. Don Lincoln actually are. (In case you missed the
video from Don scroll below to the previous update.)
Again I don't want to
insult Don Lincoln because after all he is a likeable guy, but if
you like him are a physicist and you can't see and you will not
see all those weird energy problems we have with the official
version of electron spin, you are a failed scientist.
But I understand there
are also all those social things that stabilize the official
version of electron spin aka the tiny magnet model. Suppose a
bunch of physics professionals are having a coffee break. A few
professors, a few phd's and a few students from the different
years. Well non of them can say that rather likely electrons are
not dipoles but monopoles. If a person does that either he or she
must be making a joke and if it's not a joke this is a crazy
person.
Every professional knows that magnetic monopoles don't exist... So
there are all kinds of weird social dimensions to and there is not
much I can do about that.
But I can ask you as a
reader, what do you think of the picture below? In an electron
pair the electron spins must be different because the Pauli
exclusion principle says it can't have the same quantum numbers.
And that leads to all kinds of very weird energy problems, how can
such a configuration like below be stable?
Nothing explains the
anti-alignment better as giving up the idea of the tiny magnet. If
you view electrons as magnetic monopoles you just don't have all
those weird energy problems that people like Dr. Don Lincoln
refuse to entertain anyway.
That was it for this
week, as always thanks for your attention.
(18 Sept 2024) We have
a very flat landscape over here, yet the idea of getting 300 to
400 mm rain in a couple of days clearly sounds as a disastrous
kind of thing. So all those living in mountainous area's or near
rivers in East Europe have it often much harder compared to that
amount of water in a country like mine. But we have plenty of
rivers here and they can overflow of course... Luckily there was
some preparation time otherwise the number of deaths would be much
higher as compared to the relative low numbers now reported. Lets
go to the two items of today:
Item 1) Russian
central bank raises to 19% like expected.
Item 2) Don Lincoln satisfies an equation & explains the muon
g-2 thing.
Item
1) Russian central bank raises to 19% like expected.
Russian central bank governor
Elvira Nabiullina came out with a rate hike from 18 to 19% because
there are persistent inflationary pressures that did not fade
away.
Well the Joe Blogs guy
lately showed some numbers about the Russian producers price
indices, they were so high that I did expect more rate hikes to be
there. And if producer prices have low double digit growth, of
course that's a persistent thing to consumer price inflation.
I got a Reuters report
for you and I found it a bit strange that in it it says a lot of
experts did not expect a Russian rate hike but I didn't have the
time to figure out what they have done wrong.
Today it emerged that
the Russian army will expand with another 170 thousand so that
alone will have some additional inflationary pressure: Less
workers in the economy and high salaries needed for them as
soldiers. So all in all in my view everything still points to more
and longer inflation. I have no idea where this will end but
future rate hikes till say 24% are not impossible I just guess.
Click on the picture for the Reuters report:
Title: Russia's central bank raises key rate to 19% amid inflationary pressure.
Link used:
https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/russias-central-bank-
raises-key-rate-19-amid-inflationary-pressure-2024-09-13/
So that part of the
war goes relatively like expected, again the importance of the
economical sanctions is huge. I also would like to remark I am
very satisfied with an opponent like Elvira because at least
there is some pair of brains at work and that can't be said very
often about the Kremlin leadership.
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Before we go to the
next item, the CVR (the Combat Veteran Reacts channel) had an
interesting list with all kind of Ukrainian and Russian land
changing hands. He claimed that all Russian gains from a long time
have a total area that is less compared to what Ukraine gained in
the last month in the Kursk region.
I completely mutilated
the table he showed because otherwise I would become so small that
it would be unreadable. But it's somewhere at 08.30 min into his
video. The video is a bit clickbaity but he has to live from this
so it's allowed.
Video title: Ukrainians Have Nearly Cut Off THOUSANDS of Russian Troops!
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaOZUmXqqSE
Let me wish the
Ukrainians all the luck they can get into this Kursk incursion
& let us go to the next item.
Item 2) Don Lincoln satisfies an equation & explains the muon
g-2 thing.
Now I don't want to
insult Don Lincoln because he is a likable guy, but in this speed
it will take anything from 5000 to 500.000 years before those
physics people will realize that if they claim that electrons and
muons are tiny magnets, you need to validate that via experiments.
When a couple of weeks
back I finally found out that they used vertical magnetic fields
in the muon g-2 experiment from Fermilab while those folks talk
about a horizontal direction of muon spin, it was clear we have a
fresh new so called energy problem.
In this case we can
wonder why the muon's spin if that is really a tiny magnet, stays
horizontal. After all if you ask a physics professional what
happens to an electron if you apply a magnetic field, almost all
of them will explain that the spin of the electron will align with
that magnetic field.
And they always skip to explain as why in say the Stern-Gerlach
experiment the electron spins anti align but they will emphasize
the probabilistic nature when you measure electron spin. Of course
there is no good experimental evidence for that but hey these
folks think they run a so called 'Five sigma' kind of science. And
if you have an enough arrogant attitude like that, you can easily
just ignore what I have to say on the matter of electron spin and
keep on talking out of your neck. And Mr. Lincoln is very good at
that as you can see in the more or less entertaining video.
The mu I use has
nothing to do with the muon from the experiment. The symbol mu is
also used in math as a measure. And I write it in this way because
years and years ago I arrived that the conclusion that a lot of
physics folks have this combination of arrogance and stupidity.
And I know that because I myself can be a very arrogant person
too, but I only have that attitude if I know what I am talking
about.
So if you want to see
the video, it will take about 15 minutes out of your life if you
look at the entire video. May be you better think about all the
crazy energy problems that come along with those ideas that
electrons and muons always must be tiny magnets.
Video title: What does the Muon g-2 experiment tell us?
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCCGr4BqElE
Now we are about 3
year further down the timeline compared when this video was made,
can we say that in 3 years time absolutely nothing has been heard?
Yes as far as I know reality, the g-2 experiment has told nothing
point nothing in three years of time.
That was it for this
update, as always thanks for your attention and try not to be too
arrogant but be humble and try to get more Russians killed.
(13 Sept 2024) The two
items for this update:
Item 1) Anders on
Russian provocations & Blinken + Lammy in Kyiv.
Item 2) Terrible bad explanation of the muon g-2 experiment.
Item
1) Anders on Russian provocations & Blinken + Lammy in Kyiv.
Anders Puck Nielsen
had a short video out with some thoughts as why European NATO
countries react so lukewarm on Russian provocations. And I agree
in a large part with the way Anders looks at it, if I speak for
myself I can't get highly emotional or agitated by Russian stuff.
Today I was thinking
this evening I must try and look up those weird details of the
burned down IKEA but I forgot to do that and now it's too late. Of
course I don't have any definitive proof that Russia was behind
that, but the details are so weird that it is hard to get
agitated. It is more like HOW FUCKING STUPID CAN THIS GET?
Of course there is
much more going on like all those drones that land in weird places
or fly through other nations skies. Even if it's done on purpose,
I don't get very agitated by it. So here's the video:
Video title: Why is NATO not responding to Russian provocations?
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66CDGzjLBtY
A horrible more did
happen and all that has to be skipped but I want to mention the
rare visit of USA's Blinken and the UK's Lammy. Now what I hoped
for myself was that may be there could be some kind of solution to
the glide bombs the Russian use. And it seems ATACMS are not the
answer to that, quote:
One of the key requests from Kyiv is to strike with U.S.-produced Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS. The Pentagon has noted they wouldn’t be the answer to the main threat Ukraine faces from long-range Russian fired glide bombs, which are being fired from more than 300 kilometers away, beyond the ATACMS reach, said Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Charlie Dietz.
Well I didn't ask for
a specific weapon system of course, only asked if it was possible
to do something against the threat of glide bombs. I don't know
much about glide bombs but likely they go on their gliding mission
from about the maximum range they can be fired from. If memory
serves the Russians use launching air planes that can climb
relatively high so that the distance can be covered.
Lets leave it with that, below is a France 24 article with more on
the stuff:
Article title:
Link used: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240911-
%F0%9F%94%B4-live-top-us-uk-diplomats-head-to-ukraine-
to-discuss-weapons-supply
In the above link from
France 24 there was a red dot in the link visible, that must be
the code %F0%9F%94%B4 in the link. I had never seen such a
thing before but on the other hand often you don't pay much
attentions at the links you click.
Lets go to the next
item.
Item
2) Terrible bad explanation of the muon g-2 experiment.
This is one of those
terrible bad video's on electron spin, in this case the muon g-2
experiment from 3 years back done at Fermilab. It was just a few
weeks ago that I dived a bit deeper into the details of that
experiment and now have the next magical result from Fermilab:
The muon goes round in
a circle with a diameter of 14 meters at almost the speed of
light. It's path is curved and that is done with a magnetic field
that must be vertical in nature to get the Lorentz effect (the
curving of the path the muon follows).
Anyway these Fermilab people claim that the spin of the muon stays
horizontal....
And that is once more
a result from Crazyland as I name that, you always get stuff from
that land if you view electrons and similar particles as tiny
bipolar magnets. Why the hell in this particular case do the
muon's never align with the applied vertical magnetic field?
But the professional
physics people never talk about it when there results are from
Crazyland, they only concentrate of stuff that looks or sounds
more or less logical.
The video is from
Parth G and very very likely I had already seen this video a few
years back and if so you can learn absolutely nothing from this
video. You only get the usual blah blah blah about physics being a
so called 'Five sigma' science meaning that a large significance
threshold is taken.
But if you leave all the trash out, no wonder you get some
pristine high sigma significance. Beside the stuff from Crazyland
there is nothing in this particular experiment that proofs that
indeed particle like electrons and muons are indeed bipolar tiny
magnets.
This is one of those experiments where they only measure a
frequency but that in itself does not prove in any meaningful way
that this is caused by tiny bipolar magnets...
To be honest the video
is a waste of your time so do not say I did not warn you! But
serious, this kind of behavior is what the physics people all do
and then you get that bullshit again like "Oh we want to find
new physics!".
The second half of the picture below is not from the video but it
shows the remarkable angle the muon's spin direction makes each
round: A sharp 12 degrees, a true miracle before our
eyes.
Video title: Have Scientists Really Discovered a New FORCE? Muon g-2 Experiment EXPLAINED by Parth G.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHEjh5fXuW4
Oh oh, these people
won't learn it in a thousand years: Want to find some so called
new physics? Well very simple, try to think about the electron as
a tiny magnet and find some of the crazy weird energy problems
that come with it.
Like the stability of the electron pair; two anti-aligned or anti
parallel tiny magnets just aren't in their lowest potential energy
state. Let me post the next picture one more time in this year
2024 because I made it not for nothing in the last year 2023, if
you click the link you will land at the category magnetism on the
other website:
Link used: https://3dcomplexnumbers.net/category/magnetism/
Ok lets try and get
this garbage uploaded to the internet and may be till next week or
some other update. Thanks for your attention.
(11 Sept 2024) Two
items for this update:
Item 1) Oil prices /
Weird influencers / Ramstein meeting / Thermite drone.
Item 2) New math post on the other website.
Item
1) Oil prices / Weird influencers / Ramstein meeting / Thermite
drone.
As an interesting joke
we can observe that those attacks on Russian oil refineries and
storage places are having their desired effect: It suppresses oil
prices...;) Today oil prices fell by 4% with some kind of Texas
oil going for just 65,75 $ / barrel while gas prices at the pump
are about 15% lower as one year ago. So winning the elections on
the back of that looks like a cakewalk.
__________
Weird influencers.
More people did bring this weird subject up of paid conservative influencers
that pushed Russian points like the terror attack on the Russian
Crocus hall was done by Ukraine. Anyway Jake Broe had an excellent
video about this madness about some guy getting one hundred
thousand $ a week for 'licensing' his podcast show to some firm
named Tenet.
It is just as crazy as
that story that an Ikea was set on fire by Russian agents. And the
idea was that for some strange reason that would lead to more
people being against Ukraine... Don't ask me for the logic, may be
ask Dimitri Peskov from the Kremlin.
As always click on the
picture to land at the video:
Video title: Russia Offers Asylum to YouTubers Paid by TENET Media to Promote Russia & Trump.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBKv17geSJY
I often wonder how
good such weird things actually work. Take that crazy Ikea example
from the past: Instead of the locals getting upset with Ukraine
for not understandable reasons, the locals can also think
"Hey lets do our best to get 25 thousand more Russians
killed".
__________
More serious was of
course the Ramstein meeting. I won't say much on it only remark
that I agree that deep strikes inside Russia are not the
Wunderwaffe that is now often thought. After all war is a
dynamical process and likely Russia will figure out how to
circumvent that. On the other hand I myself have the opinion that
Ukraine also has the right to defend itself against stuff like
those glide bombs and other long range ballistic
missiles.
Click on the picture
for a Reuters report:
Report title:
Link used: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-seeks-
allies-support-air-defence-long-range-strikes-ramstein-talks-2024-09-06/
__________
And the last of the
four subitems is without any link but it's about that horrible new
thermite drone. A local video blogger thought it was a drone that
poured liquid metal, will no this is much more worse. Thermite is
a wonderfull substance as long as you are far away from it, with
the present chemical knowledge it is relative good understandable
how the heat generating process works. So you don't need much
insight into the nature of electron spin.
Anyway I had the screenshots from a local channel named nu.nl but
it has terrible resolution. So to be sure what was what I placed
the text in the middle of the picture.
It's also called a
Game of Thrones drone. Normally I would frown upon usage of that
stuff directly against humans, but the Russians have used thermite
themselves so as far as I am concerned what comes around goes
around. Lets go to the next item.
Item
2) New math post on the other website.
I finally finished the
new math post and published it on the other website. I am not one
hundred percent satisfied with it because originally I was
planning to build it around the so called Möbius function. But
later I decided not to do that and all in all the post is already
10 pictures long.
The post itself is
about how many integer solutions there are on those ellipses that
come with the so called elliptic complex numbers. If you use the
fact that those interger points are also (ellitic) complex
numbers, you can make much more sense about how many integer
solutions there are found on some particular ellipse x^2 + xy +
y^2 = 7.
May be you have heard
of the Gaussian integers, there they always come in quadruples, in
sets of four. With the elliptic stuff it all comes in sixpacks or
if you want in sets of six. So in the list below you can see that
now 7 can be factored into two elliptic primes because there are
12 integer solutions.
Normally I don't dive
too deep into stuff that is clearly algebra but this time the
subject was beautiful enough to make an exception. So if you want
to know a bit more about those elliptic numbers, click on the
picture below and land on the new post on the other website:
Post title: On the number of integer solutions on the ellipse x^2 + xy + y^2 = N.
Link used: https://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2024/09/07/on-the-number-
of-integer-solutions-on-the-ellipse-x2-xy-y2-n/
That was it for this
update, thanks for not dropping dead and as always thanks for your
attention.
(06 Sept 2024) Only
one item for this update:
Item 1) Pm Schoof in
UA, our defense note & Oleksandr Syrskyi on Kursk.
Item
1) Pm Schoof in UA, our defense note & Oleksandr Syrskyi on
Kursk.
I think it was at the
beginning of this week that our new pm Dick Schoof was on a visit
to Ukraine. So despite our rather strange gone elections, this is
a clear signal to Ukraine. And now the German elections, they too
have a problem with that AfD stuff that is also for some strange
reason anti Ukraine. And of course the biggest election wildcard
is still the US prez elections from in about 2 months from
now.
We have a new so
called defensienota out for this year. And it sounds impressive,
more fregats against submarines, more F-35's more this and more
that. So after so many years of under investment that's a good
thing. In the past it has happened on occasions that during exercises
there just wasn't enough ammo to practice with. But that's over
now.
And those new frigates must be much more resilient against the new
sea drones as we see them in the Ukrainian conflict.
I bring this up
because now we seem to have that 2% rule that says 2% of the size
of the GDP should go to defense. And that's a simple to understand
rule and I don't want to make things more and more complicated
when there is no reason for this.
But for example those extra frigates are made here while the extra
F-35's costs a lot of money that goes to the USA. But those two
things are a hell of a lot different, with all stuff locally made
at least the money stays into the local economy and the know how
of how to make a modern frigate is kept alive and vital. While all
money on new planes will mostly go to the USA. As a long
term cost to the economy that is very different from each other.
The next link is in
Dutch, it's a news version of the defensienota 2024:
Link used:
https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/09/05/
defensienota-2024-sterk-slim-en-samen
__________
And just before I
wanted to start writing this update while scrolling through the US
news there was a CNN exclusive with Oleksandr Syrskyi. And he was
explaining the rationales behind the Kursk incursion or invasion
if you want.
Now there are dozens
and dozens media reports out where it is told this Kursk thing is
a blunder, a strategic failure and so on and so on. I always try
to avoid such shallow thinking, this Kursk thing is a complicated
thing of say a 1000 different ways to think about it. But if there
are possible a 1000 things going on and you spread your wisdom on
only 2 or 3 of them, that leads to such shallow talk as often
found in such reports.
It's more some opinion as it is a serious analysis.
Let me quote the
opening lines of the interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour:
Russia had been planning to launch a new attack on Ukraine from the Kursk region before Kyiv’s surprise cross-border incursion, Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi told CNN in an exclusive interview
Thursday.
And if by taking the
fight to enemy territory so more damage inside Ukraine is
prevented, that is all very logical I think. So I agree with
Oleksandr that in this way the Kursk stuff is a success while
everybody knows there are still many many problems that are
unsolved.
Stuff like those glide
bombs are still a giant problem. And may be may be if it is
allowed to use far reaching weapons against the launching vehicles
that are deep inside Russia, that can help a bit.
But that's not a so called Wunderwaffe, it is just one of the many
tools needed to win this war. And winning the war is still a
mountain of work...
Click on the picture to read the CNN exclusive:
Title: Ukraine army chief reveals the strategy behind Kursk incursion.
Link used: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/05/europe/ukraine-
army-chief-kursk-incursion-exclusive-intl/index.html
That was it for this
post, I didn't have much material for a second item and that's
also be I just started a new math post turning into the 7 or 8
pictures that it will become. So that's for next week and in the
meantime let me thank you for your interest.
(04 Sept 2024) The two
items for this update are:
Item 1) Another week
with too much news from Ukraine.
Item 2) New post on the other website + another crazy video.
Item
1) Another week with too much news from Ukraine.
Ok I prepared a bit
for this update yesterday so that's why the stuff with Pink is
still in. Likely if I would have started today I would have left
this out because of the large and rather weird strike against that
educational facility. See CNN if you don't know what
happened:
Article title: Dozens killed in Russian strike on military educational facility in central Ukraine.
Link used: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/03/europe/ukraine-
poltava-russia-attack-intl/index.html
So it looks like this
was not a war crime contrary to a lot of strikes from the last
days.
Last Sunday there was
a barrage of US drones attacking inside Russia, one of the targets
was an oil refinery that apparently is about 20 mile from the
Kremlin itself. But around Moscow there are about three rings of
air defense systems so it is very remarkable that so many come
through.
I don't know if the
next picture is from that refinery close to Moscow, it could be
but it was just some footage from a Dutch news video:
The guy known as prof
Gerdes joked that on this day two years back Putin ordered for the
entire oblast to be taken in two months. Of course that didn't
happen and that is just one more example that Putin is just to
fucking stupid to understand what his own military can do and
can't do.
If I would make such a
serious miscalculation I absolutely didn't want to be seen in
public for at least 6 months or even 10 months. A common
misconception amongst almost all autocrats is that they think they
are very important. It really is a kind of mental illness so even
as it is shown they are stupid to the bone they just go on and on
and on. And then some mentally retarded general gets sacked or
arrested and that's it and the shitshow goes on for another
cycle...
The German Torsten
guy, the one with a degree in military history, had a new video
out. I think it was from yesterday:
Video title: BIGGEST Strike by Ukraine so far; Prokovsk: Russians slowing
down.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fVVjHMFh5E
And for what it's
worth I looked up to that old video from Pink and guess what? The
original video wasn't in my pile of illegal copied videos! Shame
on me. So despite the mood is a bit down today, last Sunday's
attacks were a feast for the eye. And Russia should not complain,
they started attacking energy infrastructure themselves. But
likely on the Russian state television they complain about
barbarians that attack thermal power stations... Ooh, those
crybabies, they are so sensitive and so special.
So here's that old
Pink video again, it's said it is 14 years old:
Video title: P!nk - Get The Party Started (Official Video)
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW1dbiD_zDk
A lot more did happen
but it's now time to go to the other item.
Item 2) New post on the other website + another crazy video.
That video from
Fermilab about the muon g-2 experiment was so crazy that I decided
to pen a new post about it. Likely these people themselves are not
aware how crazy their result is:
Muons flying round in
a ring at almost the speed of light in a relatively strong
vertical magnetic field while the muon spin stays horizontal all
of the time.
And these weirdo's
even don't try to explain how it is even possible that the
electron spin stays horizontal. Once more: Where does the energy
come from? As always when electron or in this case muon magnetism
becomes a bit crazy, they just skip that and just don't talk about
it.
In quantum computing
the physics folks from TU Delft try to make qubits based on
electron spin. The video is five years old and of course at the
university of Delft they have nothing to show for. And next
academic year 2024/2025 will be just another stream of video's
from the QuTech Academy. Over there one more year no one will
remark that hey may be it's a good idea to check via experiment
that indeed electrons are tiny magnets. Or for that matter: is
electron spin really probabilistic in nature?
These are overpaid weirdo's, I myself do not view they as
scientists because what they use as 'knowledge' is often so
shallow and is not consistent.
In the video from
QuTech they claim they can flip the spin of an electron with just
a tiny microwave sized pulse. So at Fermilab the muons go round
with almost the speed of light and no spin flip while at QuTech
they only need a tiny amount of energy to make the miracle happen.
The video is rather
boring so if you have a normal life you can choose not to watch
it. Or if you want to see it anyway, don't forget that it is much
much more likely that electrons are magnetic monopoles. In that
case you don't have a wide freakshow of all kinds of crazy energy
problems like the Fermilab muons that stay horizontal.
Video title: NV center qubits | QuTech Academy.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2KQCOq1hRA
Large parts of
academic research into quantum computing and also nuclear fusion
will never be done correctly if these weirdo's keep on viewing the
electron as a tiny magnet. But likely next academic year
absolutely nothing will happen once more demonstrating how utterly
useless these people are.
With useless I mean
long term scientific progress, all in all they might be normal
people with healthy brains. Who knows?
Lets leave it with
that, as always thanks for your attention.
(30 August 2024) The
two items for this update:
Item 1) Just another
day in Ukraine.
Item 2) No, this is not an electron pair & short list of
elliptic primes.
Item
1) Just another day in Ukraine.
And as always just too
much did happen, for example Jake Sullivan on a visit to China but
I didn't even had the time to read it. So at random just a few of
the details of just another day in Ukraine.
Funny news was that
some Russian soldiers get a pay cut when they are redeployed to
the Kursk region. Salaries chopped down from 200 thousand ruble to
35 thousand...
__________
Sad was of course the
news that already the first F16 is down and of course sadder is
the loss of the pilot. So my condolences to those involved.
I never wrote it down but from day one I understood that in say a
bad case scenario there could be losses of 20 to 30% of all F16's
delivered to Ukraine. Details aren't out yet while I more or less
estimate it's not shot down by Russian fire. But we have to wait
for more details.
CNN reporting: Top Ukrainian pilot killed when US-made F-16 fighter jet crashed.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nZ9N3fVMgM
__________
Oil news: More attacks
on Russian oil depots, one of those is already burning for 10 days
and may be the one in the picture below is a barbeque party that's
only getting started. Wasn't that some old song from Pink? Get
this party started or something like that.
Anyway if you click on the picture below you don't land at the
Pink song but at a Reuters report:
Title Reuters report: Ukraine drones set oil depot ablaze in Russia's Rostov, attack distant Kirov region.
Link used: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-drones-
set-oil-depot-russias-rostov-ablaze-russian-telegram-
channels-2024-08-28/
__________
Then there was a bit
of vague news about the use of may be the Storm Shadow and Scalp a
bit deeper in Russia. It seems there are GPS problems, the
Americans have some kind of solution for that but they don't want
to bring that out.
Ok, now it becomes all a bit more rational and not that weird
stuff like a reset of US-Russian relations. May be I reacted a bit
to harsh in the previous update. Well lets hope for the best
because this week was a crazy week when it came to bombings
originating on Russian soil.
__________
Lets end this UA
update on a light tone: Putin has ordered for the Kursk region to
be liberated by 01 Oct. So in one month and one day we will see
again how good he is at understanding the capabilities of his own
military & other similar security stuff as they have over
there.
Furthermore, I hope I
have the Kremlin at the line, I finally have found a good use for
the new territories in Kursk. It is perfect for DRYING LAUNDRY. If
you think about it, it all makes sense. Every day in say a city
like Kyiv there are tons and tons of wet undried laundry. Now and
if you that to dry out in Russia's Kursk region, everybody will be
happy don't you think?
May be we should go to
the next item.
Item
2) No, this is not an electron pair & short list of elliptic
primes.
I only link to the
video because I used a small screen shot from it. Of course it's
not forbidden to see it anyway but for me there was nothing new in
it. The video is about electrons so that's why I did see it.
Often I have argued
that viewing electrons as tiny magnets leads to all kinds of
energy problems that if you think about it will make you doubt
that electrons are tiny bipolar magnets. Now the energy problems
are so weird that I name that crazyland, take for example the
electron pair.
When electrons are viewed as magnetic monopoles, a pair is just
formed with two opposite magnetic electrons. And that's just the
lowest (potential) energy state.
But the Pauli exclusion principle says the electrons in a pair
should have opposite spins and that is often said as having an
anti-parallel or anti-aligned spin configuration. The crazy part
is of course that it 'must be' anti-aligned but if you say
something about that likely they will tell you that "If
you think you understand QM, you don't understand QM".
You can judge for
yourself, is the picture below from Ali Yazdani really in the
highest (potential) energy state? No, not at all. Ok ok we see two
vectors or arrows pointing in opposite direction but you can
easily see the magnetic field lines going round and round. It
might now be the lowest energy state possible because then you
must have a north pole against a south pole but all in all it
should cost some energy to take apart this configuration of prof
Yazdani.
This serves a a
perfect example that physics professors never talk about crazyland
and always try to make it look as logical as possible. It's not a
conspiracy or so, they just can let go of the Gauss law for
magnetism.
The screen shot is a
bit fuzzy because it was a small part of the entire screen. Here
Ali depicts what they think of an electron pair when it comes to
super conductivity, that's why that phonon stuff is
included.
Video title: Peering into the Secret Life of Electrons with Ali Yazdani
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PsexYwCaN0
Lately I started
looking at those prime numbers in my cute 2D elliptic complex
numbers. And slowly I am getting to understand a bit more about
them. All in all it's has it's specific beauty. And that's more or
less always the same with a patch of math:
If you fully
understand it, it is always rather beautiful. I never came across
a math result and when I understood it, 30 seconds later I am
vomitting in my toilet pot. That just never happens, it's always
beautiful.
Anyway my new math
post for on the other website isn't finished anytime soon, may be
I'll hang in an additional post on magnetism with that video from
the Fermilab mu - 2 experiment.
The list below was
made by me only yesterday, in the left column you see the first 20
prime numbers from the standard day-to-day integers. In our
day-to-day integers the number 7 is a prime number because you
can't divide by any other integer. But inside that elliptic plane
you can find two prime factors, that's why the list says '12
solutions'. That means you basically have two prime numbers and
the 12 solutions fall apart in two groups of six each related to
one of the primes.
In case you are
interested, the numbers 2 + i and 3 - i are the two
factors. If you use the rule that i^2 = -1 + i for
the elliptic numbers it is not hard to check that:
(2 + i)(3
- i) = 6 + i - i^2 = 7.
You can use the list
to predict or calculate in advance how much integer solutions
there are on some ellipse. If you take the numbers 7, 13 and 19
and you multiply them together you get 7*13*19 = 1729.
Each number comes with
two primes and you can form 8 different product with three factors
each. And multiply that by 6 to get 48 integer solutions. If you
want check it out at Wolfram's website via the next link, you must
replace the 1 by 1729 of course:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x%5E2%2Bxy%2By%5E2%3D1
The link looks a bit
weird but it means x^2 + xy + y^2 = 1.
That was it for this
week, one very short and one long update. So if you made it to the
end I can say thank you for your attention and may be until next
week.
(28 August) I'm sorry
but I don't have much time and also have some trouble typing. So
just one short item for today:
Item 1) USA-Russia,
ready for a reset of relations? & The flying bread.
Item 1) USA-Russia, ready for a reset of relations? & The
flying bread.
Over the weekend some
weird news emerged about Ukraine not allowed to use long range
weapons because of a reset of relations? At first I wanted to
write a long piece about that because a government should not try
to achieve conflicting goals as a rule of thumb.
Let me just post the
link so in case you want to read it you can do so:
Politico: US resists lifting restrictions on long-range weapons amid Kursk success to not ruin relations “reset” with Moscow.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/08/24/politico-us-resists-
lifting-restrictions-on-long-range-weapons-amid-kursk-success-
to-not-ruin-relations-reset-with-moscow/
If this all is true,
it sounds like this is from the same source or group of people
that wanted to stop Ukraine attacking Russian oil refineries
because that would make oil prices jump. While in reality
attacking Russian oil refineries in the present oil market would
lead to more crude oil on the oil market because Russia can't
refine it.
If this reset crap is true it could be from the same level of
cognitive functioning.
Well I don't want to
be too negative because the USA has also done tons of good things
for Ukraine. But leadership can't talk "We will do whatever
it takes for as long as it takes" if behind the scenes all
kinds of conflicting policies are activated. Lets leave it with
that.
__________
Ok, now I am actually
typing it is all a lot less painful to what I expected so the next
update will likely be a normal update.
__________
One thing I would like
to mention is that the name of the new jet powered Ukrainian drone
is indeed terrible. Also in my language so I have to laugh about
that. But it looks good, it's a totally new thing; a jet powered
drone.
The CVR (that's the
Combat Veteran Reacts channel) has a short promo video and the
wheels and carrier stuff get uncoupled and the jet drone takes off
without any wheels and metal carrier parts. The Kyivpost
reporting:
Title: Russians Will Soon Learn to Pronounce ‘Palyanytsya’ – Ukraine’s New Jet-Propelled Drone.
Link used: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/37934
That was it for this
very short update but as always thanks for your attention.
(23 August 204) Two
items for this update:
Item 1) Did Germany
cut support for UA? I don't think so.
Item 2) And another weird energy problem, this time with muons.
Item 1) Did Germany cut support for UA? I don't think so.
Lately the German
military aid for Ukraine part in their federal budget was cut in
half. I observed a number of speakers concluding that German
support was therefore waning, I considered that a bit short
sighted but I didn't write about it.
But now even Ben
Hodges has come out saying that Germany let her ears hang towards
Russia and I thought it was about time for the Nonsensebremse.
Of course such policy
decisions often have more than one cause, but the way I see it is
that the so called Schuldenbremse is the main cause for this
financial decision.
You know, in Germany
they take government budgets serious and on all levels of the
German state it is forbidden to run deficits. I didn't look it up
but German debt levels are about 60% of their GDP.
As a comparison, in my country we have about 500 billion
government debt and that's just under 50% of our Dutch GDP. So our
two countries are not like say Italy where with borrowed money
households can get subsidies for house renovation. That's an
interesting way to stimulate the economy, but over here we don't
do that kind of weird stuff.
So it's a pity Germany
has less money to spend this year and yes it comes at a bad moment
but stuff like the Schuldenbremse always come at bad moments. All
in all it is good governance, more governments should think a bit
more on the long term and do such stuff for themselves.
In Germany the
Schuldenbremse is in their constitution so that detail alone shows
that it's serious stuff. All in all I expect no decline in German
support for Ukraine only a decline in the amount of money
available.
The picture is from
the Stern.
Some observers said
the move could also be related to the rise of the AfD in the
former DDR parts of the country. And the AfD are much more against
aid to Ukraine. It could be, I can't judge that because I don't
follow German news in such detail.
__________
On the incursion of
Kursk by Ukraine I can't still say a thing. What can you do with
about 1250 square km Russian territory along the border? I still
can't write any detail down because the Kremlin is a bunch of
weird dumbo's. Lets not bring them to any meaningful insight
whatsoever...
Beside that it is of
course to the Ukrainians to make up what they want and not me.
With that lets go to the next item.
Item 2) And another weird energy problem, this time with muons.
I found a very good
video from a female that really tries to explain how the so called
muon g-2 experiment was done at Fermilab. About 100% of the
physics community thinks that particles like electrons and muons
are always tiny magnets while I since 2015 more and more got
convinced that they are magnetic monopoles.
So electron and muon magnetism is just like their electric
properties: permanent and monopole. As such when a muon decays
into an electron, or a positron as in this experiment, it looks
reasonable that it will have the same kind of magnetic
charge.
Now there are all
kinds of weird to very weird energy problems related to such
particles being tiny magnets. The electron pair is one of the most
weird problems, the Pauli exclusion principle says it must have
opposite spins. But when electrons have opposite spins that is
like giving up that in magnetism only opposites attract.
Beside that, how can an electron pair be stable if the tiny
magnetic fields must oppose each other? That just plain fucking
weird but always as we enter crazyland, the professional physics
professors just don't talk about that.
Often it is said that
if you apply a magnetic field, the electrons or in this case the
muons align their magnetic monent in order to get to a lower state
of potential energy. And yes the official professors also believe
that electrons anti-align but lets skip that part of never
explained crazyland.
In the muon g-2
explanation for the experiment there is a brand new energy
problem: The Fermilab people use the Lorentz force so that the
muon beam will go round. As such they must apply a vertical
magnetic field or as you see in the picture below where it says 'B
pointing out of screen'.
But the muons when
going round always have a horizontal spin, a horizontal magnetic
moment in the official Fermilab explanation. Of course that is a
crazy thing and therefore they just skip any explanation at all
and just don't mention it. Why in this case don't the muons align
their tiny magnetic axis with the 1.5 Tesla strong magnetic field?
They only explain
stuff with tiny magnets if that sound logical, every time it is
just something from crazyland it gets skipped.
Video title: Measuring Muon g-2
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHgaapwwLN0
Why the phisics people
themselves don't see all the weird energy problems for themselves
is a question I have not made much progress with over the years.
Ok ok if you are part of a collective like here the class of
physics professors, ok you give up a tiny fraction of your
individuality and adhere to the norms that shape and form the
collective.
I can understand that,
but these energy problems are clear cut and very serious to the
extend that nature just can't work that way properly. Without
doubt the electrons in an electron pair will have opposite spins,
but that must be monopole magnetic charges otherwise we are in
crazyland...
That was it for this
week, I hope you didn't fall asleep with all that Schuldenbremse
and muon stuff. Thanks for your attention.
(21 August 2024) Two
items for this update:
Item 1) Again nothing
serious to say & funny HIMARS decoy.
Item 2) Ok ok, a slight improvement in the two elliptical primes.
Item
1) Again nothing serious to say & funny HIMARS decoy.
On the Kursk incursion
again I think it is better if I just keep my mouth shut. So no
serious stuff for this update although at the end of this item I
link to the old battle of Kursk from WWII.
It was from a video
from Suchominus that started with this funny news: Russian min. of
defense reported taking out one of those old HIMARS system, those
on caterpillars. That's an M270, sorry if I wrong on that name
because I was to lazy to look it up.
Anyway the US min. of
defense came out with a photo from likely the precise same
location showing a decoy. Likely one of those inflatables. I
didn't save the link so all there is is this screen shot:
Now in the past I
likely have read more as one hundred books on the second world
war, but that was about 40 years ago. So when I see present day
military analysts poking fun at the situation that there are
German tanks rolling again, my mind was a bit empty.
So I decided to look
it up and yes it was a big thing in the past during WWII. All in
all it was a victory for the Russians who with the help of British
intelligence could prepare in advance while there was massive
support from the USA for Russia with military hardware.
And yes that is a bit different from the situation we have today.
The only constant element is that Russia is ruled again by a not
so smart dictator kind of type. The wiki is very long because yes
it was a big thing during WWII. Clcik on the picture if you are
interested.
Wiki title: Battle of Kursk.
Link used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk
It's time to go to the next item.
Item 2) Ok ok, a slight improvement in the two elliptical primes.
First a small
correction on the previous post on the muon g-2 experiment from
Fermilab: I was a bit wrong with my thinking on muons that are
spin polarized. I thought they spin polarized the muons themselves
and after that tried to measure the magnetic dipole moment of the
muon.
That was what I
thought was funny: using the magnetic monopole properties of the
muons and after that measure the magnetic dipole stuff. But that
was not correct; it is nature that seems to do the spin
polarization. Those pions they have decay into muons with only one
kind of spin. Please remark that in their entire experiment those
muon spins never flip once more suggesting that electron &
muon magnetism is a magnetic monopole and not a magnetic dipole
and that the monopole magnetic charge is a permanent feature of
such elementary particles.
__________
I was able to make a
small improvement on my so called Figure 1 I showed you last week.
Instead of taking the two elliptic prime numbers p and q
as last week, I saw that you can also take the conjugate. And that
is where it becomes a bit more interesting; it seems those kind of
two dimensional prime numbers are either on their own or come in
conjugate pairs.
As far as I know math
professors only use conjugation as something that turns a + into a
- or vice versa. In the picture below you must take such a
conjugate a little bit different.
If we write a 2D
elliptic number as (x, y), in that case the conjugate is given as
(x + y, -y). Please remark if you repeat this you get (x, y) back,
just like two time flipping a + into a - sign.
For the rest I haven't
made much progress with the stuff, but slowly it looks more and
more interesting now these prime numbers have some structure in
them.
So here is a slightly
improved version of the prime elliptic 2D integers, I took the
ellipse with a determinant of 7 because 7 is the smallest number
that gives rise to my beloved conjugate pair p and q.
That was it for this
update, as always thanks for your attention and let me try to get
this stuff uploaded to our most beloved garbage can: the
internet.
(16 August 2024) And
another crazy large batch of news coming from the war between
Ukraine and Russia. Here just a tiny selection of it all.
Item 1) Just some war
related pictures and some text.
Item 2) Is physics really a five sigma
science?
Item
1) Just some war related pictures and some text.
Now of course I can
say some things that UA could do with the newly found Russian
territory but once I realized how stupid the Kremlin leadership
actually is, better keep my mouth shot.
Ukraine came out
stating they want a buffer zone between them and Russia and of
course the land of the new incursion will come in handy when it
comes to that detail. I am fully on board with this, along more or
less the entire Russian-Ukraine border there must be a demilitarized
zone where it is forbidden for the Russian military forces to be.
Equivalently Ukraine has the right until say 2050 to attack in
such a zone if in the future Russian military forces will be
there.
In that way a repeat of the Feb 2022 happenings is guaranteed.
So far for the serious
stuff, lets look at a few things that are more or less funny. I
heard that the Russian army chief with the difficult name 'was
aware' of the buildup of UA military forces prior to the
incursion. But he did nothing with it... I think that's why he
works for Putin, they are both more or less equally stupid.
I don't know how true
or exact it is but today it was rumored that now about 1200 square
km are under UA control up from Monday's 1000 square km. The
Russian state tv once more decided to hang out the comedian via
this type:
After more than two
years Ukraine decides enough is enough and does a little ramming
back. And now they are barbarians. As this war drags on and on I
more and more start understanding as why the fascists thought of
Russians as the famous Untermenschen. I am not a fascist myself
but yes there are some weird things in Russian culture.
In the next picture
you see an amazing amount of POW's, there were about 102 today and
that is a huge number. I think the photo below is beautiful, may
be you can call it war art. Likely if all these POW's knew they
would be part of such a beautiful piece of art they all are one
hundred % proud of themselves.
And I skipped a
thousand things but now it's time to go to the next item.
Item
2) Is physics really a five s
science?
Often people from
physics brag that they are a good science because of the five
sigma rule. An experimental result should have at least a
significance of five sigma before a particular hypothesis is
rejected and the alternative accepted.
That is often how they
sell their stuff to the public. The fact that there is all kinds
of experimental evidence just missing is never talked about. There
is no repeated Stern-Gerlach experiment done in 100 years of time,
there is zero evidence that electron spin is probabilistic in
nature and not permanent and on top of it all there is not
evidence whatsover that electrons are indeed tiny magnets...
A few years back there
was a lot of talk in the physics community of so called new
physics related to what is known as the muon g-2 experiment. It
was only this week that I decided to take a look at some of the
details and it was as funny as could be.
Muons are a cousin of
the electron and I expect muons just like electrons to be magnetic
monopoles. So when muons decay into electrons it is expected that
they will have the same spin aka the same monopole magnetic
charge.
So what is the funny
thing? Well they start the experiment with a bunch of so called
polarized muons. They didn't say it explicitly but that can only
mean spin polarized muons. In my understanding of magnetism you
can only easily split electrons and muons in the two magnetic
classes because they are magnetic monopoles.
If muons and electrons really are tiny magnets, they would behave
rather neutral under application of magnetic fields. But you can
easily split the particles in their two classes with a magnetic
field once more strongly suggesting they carry monopole magnetic
charge.
Ok, the idiots at
Fermilab separated the muons and used only one type of muon and
what do they do? Well they try to measure the muon magnetic dipole
moment...
The only problem is
that for a dipole moment you need two poles so I hope you
understand why I think this is funny. They use the monopole
properties to get the muons for their experiment and after that
these muons must be tiny magnets.
And they always
measure some frequency, let me be totally honest that I do not
understand why these frequencies occur but all that's measured is
some frequency.
May be if I would work in such an experimental environment myself
for a couple of months or even a few years, I would develop some
insight in why such frequencies are generated. But that is not the
case so I just don't know.
What I do know however
is the fact that because electrons and muons are magnetic
monopoles they behave very different under application of magnetic
fields. So at Fermilab if they would use non polarized muons they
would get a mess from the get go. So that's why they need that
spin selection in the first place.
There's plenty of
internet resources out there but never forget these people always
think of electrons and muons as tiny bipolar magnets. So yes you
can learn something from it but not all what is told can be
correct. For myself speaking I do not understand why physics
people don't understand the energy problems there are with their
version of physical reality...
Anyway here is one of
the advertisement video's for finding 'new physics' and as always
click on the picture to see this video:
Video title: How Fermilab made the particle beam for Muon g-2.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2ttUtZlGcY
That was it for this
week, lets hope more countries will see the nonsense of trying to
keep the war inside the borders of Ukraine. Ukraine has the right
to self defense and as such there is no reason whatsoever that
Russia is spared from that very fate.
As always thanks for your attention and let me try to upload this
to our common garbage can: the internet.
(14 August 2024) The
items for this update:
Item 1) But then
Stalin overcame his submission to Darth Vader and...
Item 2) Ok ok here are two elliptical primes.
Item 1) But then Stalin overcame his submission to Darth Vader
and...
Yes the talk of
the town is of course the incursion into Kurks and Belgorod, but
am I supposed to comment of the stuff the Kremlin says? Sometimes
I am very willing to go and sit on my heels so that we can have
eye contact while speaking, but the present Kremlin talk is so
stupid that is just light years below me. No I am not going to
comment on it at all.
Of course the Kursk
situation is very interesting to follow and it makes we wonder
that in case wants to liberate those parts of their country again
will they use the same (artillery) tactics as they do inside
Ukraine? First level every building there is and after that send
in the meatwaves?
Today I want you to
see a video that is about Russian propaganda that is indeed very
very weird. It's a series of 2500+ state sponsored books and you
can get them in a lot of book shops.
It is weird beyond
recognition. In my entire life I have never ever seen such weird
stuff in my own country. Only once back in the 80-ties of a long
lost century I had a small booklet that 'explained' how the KGB
worked and that was clearly some translated piece of propaganda.
In itself it was very interesting because KGB agents went from
village to village in order to rape children. But that's only one
weird book in my entire life. In Russia it is all from another
dimension and I am glad to see they do like Unkel Adolf just like
they love Stalin.
It's kinda weird that
the two men who are likely responsible for the most Russian deaths
in the entire history of Russia play such an important role in the
present day Russian state sponsored books propaganda. But the last
two decades a lot of new statues of Stalin are erected, may that
indicate the Russian population loves another cleanup of their
entire society? Who knows, well you can now enjoy a few of the
screen shots of book covers I made:
I don't know what to
think of it. Of course it is fiction and as such more or less
anything should be allowed to go, but this seems to be state
sponsored stuff. Why the hell should a state do such weird things?
Anyway, if you want to
see the video or a part of it you can click on the next picture:
Video title: The Most Insane Russian Propaganda.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCI6es9G0oo
Before we close just
one remark about that fire at the UA nuclear plant. The Russians
claim that this was caused by shelling done by Ukraine. So that is
another "They fire on their own nuclear power plants".
As it looks as a society you can view this as a mentally ill
society.
Lets go to the next
item.
Item
2) Ok ok here are two elliptical primes.
Last week I showed you
that very good video about the Eisenstein prime numbers. And that
made me think about my own 2D elliptical complex numbers and do
they have prime numbers too?
And once I looked at
my own version of a complex plane and wondered what integer
numbers are prime and what are composite numbers made of more than
one prime, all of a sudden I understood a bit more about the
number of integer solutions on all those ellipses.
In the picture below I
show you the ellipse that has all numbers with a determinant of 7.
There are 12 of those integer points and as such we have two
groups of 6 integer points that each represent an elliptic prime.
It's a bit confusing
may be, but my prime numbers come in groups of six. That's a bit
like on the real numbers you have 5 as a prime number but then you
know that -5 is also a prime number. In case you haven't seen the
video scroll to down below and watch it first.
Now what is the
problem I could solve?
Well there are two
prime numbers with a determinant of 7, lets name them p and q. How
much integer points are there with a determinant of
49?
That is now easy to
answer, p^2, q^2 and pq are all integer
points with a determinant of 7^2 = 49. I forgot to make a screen
shot of the Wolfram website that indeed says it has 18 solutions.
I think that if I
write a new math post it's about this small but very cute math
detail.
That was it for this
post, as always thanks for your attention and see you in a future
update. Updated on 16 Aug: Screenshots and a link to the
Wolfram website if you are interested in that.
Link used: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=x%5E2%2Bxy%2By%5E2%3D49
As you see, the two
primes form 12 solutions and their three possible products give
together 18 solutions. End of this extra update.
(09 Aug 2024) Lately
there were some disturbances on the financial markets for a large
part related to a stock market crash in Japan. That was caused by
the Japanese central bank raising from 0.1% to 0.35%...
Of course the only reason they would raise if they have inflation.
Well a few years back
I once remarked that you must never ever behave like the central
bank of Japan has done for decades now. I remarked they basically
can't raise rates and as such not use that as a weapon or a tool
to counter inflation.
Today someone from the
Japanese central bank came out stating that they wouldn't do it
again given all that turmoil in the markets. And that basically
means that if they have inflation related problems, that must be
solved in other ways... Lets go to the two items for today:
Item 1) Ukraine
attacks Russia in the Kursk region.
Item 2) The Eisenstein primes, a very good video on that detail.
Item
1) Ukraine attacks Russia in the Kursk region.
When I wrote the last
update two days ago this large attack was already underway but I
was totally unaware of it. Anyway there is not that much news out
but it seems the Ukrainians are about 15 km deep inside Russia and
try to spread out.
So compared to the
gains made by Russia inside Ukraine this is big. A local newspaper
joked more or less that since Napoleon and Hitler this is the
third army that crosses Russian borders. And if you look at it
that way it is indeed a significant thing.
But let me not comment
on things that are all unknown, after all even the UA government
is tight lipped on this but the US White House has asked for some clarification
but further let us also in the dark.
Now in the last update
I said military aid to Ukraine should be a bit more based on the
fact that Ukraine has a right to defend itself. And yes I
understand a lot of people want to contain the war to Ukraine and
yes I too agree we should avoid spreading the war to other
European nations. But I see little logic in containing it to
Ukraine itself, if Russia stages attacks from her territory why
should there not be war?
Well I have two
video's for you on this significant detail, in the picture below
you see that Ukrainians also have that extra coverage against
drone attacks so it's not only the Russians that do that. And in
the video from the Centre for Eastern Studies you can see also a
few air planes are involved...
Video title: Ukrainian troops attack INSIDE Russia. What's going on in the Kursk region?
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kTKL5n0IeQ
The second video is
from Anders Puck Nielsen who just came back from a holiday and
more or less planned a video on his opinion on social media??? I
didn't know you were into blah blah stuff like that Anders.
Anyway Anders just like me can't say a lot until more is known but
one thing is clear: the Kremlin is getting a cookie from her own
dough.
Ukraine's attack into the Kursk region / Anders Puck
Nielsen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4mg1ZUb-7s
Lets leave Ukraine
with that for this week and go to the next item.
Item
2) The Eisenstein primes, a very good video on that detail.
These Eisenstein
integers and prime numbers lie in that standard complex plane.
They are very closely related to those elliptic complex numbers I
looked at last year and this year. To be honest I did not look at
what integer numbers inside my own elliptic complex numbers are
prime numbers and what are composite numbers.
The video is very good
and as the title says it is a visual introduction to these kind of
numbers. So even if you are rather bad at math calculations, this
video is much more visual. It is one of those video series that go
under the name SoME and that means Summer of Math Exhibitions or
something like that. I think that SoME stuff is a project from the
3BlueOneBrown guy and he must have plenty of help from others
because it's a relatively large project every year. The video's
are often very good so if you like math I definitely advice you to
look up a few of them every year.
The omega you see
below is the so called third power of unity in the complex plane,
that means omega to the third power gives one. I would have taken
omega to be the sixth root of unity because after all you get six
of those 'units' anyway but I don't want to criticize the choice
of the video maker in any way shape or form.
As always click on the
image to see the video on Youtube:
Video title: Eisenstein Primes Visually #SoMEpi
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s15ut3iDyAQ
That was it for this
week, thanks for your attention and let Russia burn for the rest
of this century because they just don't stop their aggression. And
don't forget the right to self defense is a better way to help
Ukraine and not all that micro managing stuff like this weapon can
be used here but not there and that other weapon can't be used
here but there it's allowed...
(07 Aug 2024) The
items for today are:
Item 1) The Telegraph
on how Ukraine can win the war.
Item 2) Google AI dominates the math Olympia.
Item
1) The Telegraph on how Ukraine can win the war.
At "Defense in
depth" at the Telegraph they had a video out with about five
ways stuff must go different in the war of Russia and Ukraine.
Well you can say a lot about that because now it is a patch
blanket of what is allowed and what not.
Some countries let a
particular weapon system be used inside Russia while other
countries won't allow for that with the same kind of weapon
system. For example my country and Belgium when it comes to the
use of F16 stuff.
For myself speaking I
often use the principle that Ukraine has the right to defend
itself. Take those glide bombs, they have no heat footprint
because they just glide and as such are hard to detect. Missiles
and rockets always emit a lot of heat but glide bombs don't. Well
because Russia attacks Ukraine constantly with this stuff, Ukraine
has the right of self defense and as such can shoot down the
Russian air craft if it is inside Ukraine or not.
Don't forget war is
always a dynamical thing and as such the Russian will always try
to exploit the situation. And if they won't get attacked if they
launch from their own territory, that only rewards and enforces
such behavior. So if I as a democratic person could vote on it, I
would vote for UA having the right to get weaponry that takes out
those Russian air planes that do the launching of those glide
bombs...
Here is the video, as
always click on the picture for the video:
Video title: Ukraine is surviving - here's what it needs to win | Defence in Depth.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acXu77vcF0Q
It's more or less a
goal that at the end of this year there will be about 20 F-16's in
Ukraine, problem is of course the number of trained pilots. Since
the COVID stuff there seems to be a backlog and yes pilots from
other nations need their training too...
But we now have a tiny
baby start of a possible UA air force so may be one day they will
have a fleet of 120+ F-16's.
What I don't
understand is that Russia is saying they will shoot them down, why
would you do such a nasty thing? They are beautiful to see and why
would you shoot such a thing down? Only crazy persons would do
such weird things...
Ok, I have two more
links for you:
Ukraine finally deploying US-made F-16 fighter jets, Zelenskiy says
Link used: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-finally-
deploying-f-16-fighter-jets-says-zelenskiy-2024-08-04/
And a tiny bit more
technical was found on Forbes:
Ukraine’s F-16s Have Arrived—With Some Of The Latest Defenses Against Russian Missiles.
Link used: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/08/04/
ukraines-f-16s-have-arrived-with-some-of-the-latest-defenses-
against-russian-missiles/
And yes, that is
important too: Using fixed wing air power as a supplemental air
defense but again I say something must be done about those glide
bombs...
Lets go to the next
item.
Item
2) Google AI dominates the math Olympia.
The International Math
Olympia is famous for it's rather tough questions you must answer
in a limited amount of time. My estimation is that a lot of the participating
students are actually smarter as me when it comes to math. But
they are still humans and as such will have a very strong tendency
to conform to the norms and behaviors of the group they will
belong to so although smarter, they will never find or study 3D
complex numbers.
And now in the year
2024 that Google AI has won a silver medal at this competition? On
the one hand I don't like that just like say the graphical artists
don't like it if their works get copied by text to image
generative AI.
But hey I use
computers all the time for studying math, from diagonalizing
matrices to integrals solved by that Wolfram math stuff to all
kinds of graphical programs and applets. And some of that Wolfram
integral finding stuff is rather super human too, but stuff like
that can never be used to find the answer to just one Olympia
question.
The video channel Mind
Your Decisions has a short video out on the stuff. He remarks that
Google AI has some advantage by getting more time and also a human
is doing the translation from the IMO question to something the
Google AI can solve.
All in all it is
remarkable that you can use machine learning for solving a
complicated geometry problem like below in the picture. Now
geometry puzzles like this are century even millennia old, but
that AI can solve a lot of them is very interesting.
Here is the
video:
Video title: Google AI dominates the Math Olympiad. But there's a catch.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fLlJ73Elhk
That brings us to the
end of this update.
(02 Aug 2024) The
items for this update:
Item 1) Attacks in
Mali & Syria + A large prisoner swap with Russia.
Item 2) Anton on all the stuff humans made, it's a lot...
Item
1) Attacks in Mali & Syria + A large prisoner swap with
Russia.
Weirdly Ukrainian
operatives are supporting groups in Mali and now also Syria to
stage attacks against Russian. In Mali the Wagener group was
targeted and that resulted in huge losses. But Wagner can take
huge losses as we saw in earlier stages of the war. In Syria a
military base was attacked and of course that is a serious loss of
face for the Russians if they can't protect their overseas
military bases...
In an unexpected move
a lot of prisoners were exchanged and a whole lot of countries
took part in it. Turkey helped into being more or less a mediator,
so thanks Turkey for you support on this.
I found a Fox news
article and I decided why not? Mostly I avoid Fox news because it
is always so shallow one dimension stupid stuff. Only once I
linked to a video from Fox news but that was back during the
financial crises and I did that because the video was so horribly
bad that it became comical. It was some weird right winger talking
about the problems with the Euro at that time, now of course we
always have trouble with our common coin but what they can make of
that at Fox news is often not a reliable picture of what goes
on.
Anyway it looks like a
lot of diplomacy that finally gave some fruit in the form of this
prisoner exchange. Click on the picture for the Fox thing:
Title: WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich asked for Putin interview upon release from Russian prison.
Link used: https://www.foxnews.com/world/wsj-reporter-
evan-gershkovich-asked-putin-interview-release-russian-prison
If Evan Gershkovich
did actually ask this (remark it is still a Fox news article),
that says something about the guy. It also says he's likely not
broken mentally so that is a good thing if correct.
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At last the first
batch of F-16's have arrived, it's only six or so but it's a
start. Well lets hope for the best and I only want to repeat that
I hope Ukraine will get the weaponry for taking out the Russian
planes that push those glide bombs on their lethal path.
Please no weak knees again this time, Russia won't splinter into
warring war lords that are nuclear armed from just a few less
Russian air planes...
An article from
France24:
Title: Ukraine receives first batch of US-built F-16 fighter jets, officials say.
Link used: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240801-ukraine-
receives-first-batch-of-us-built-f-16-fighter-jets-officials-say
Lets go to the next
item.
Item
2) Anton on all the stuff humans made, it's a lot...
Anton Preskov found an
interesting website where the total biomass of living things like
plants, animals and fungi are visualized as cubes. On my computer
this website did not work while as far as I know everything is up
to date over here. So likely the website was down for some reason,
you can try for yourself if you want: https://biocubes.net/
It is all not much of
deep science but the way it is all visualized is very pleasant. Of
course these are all estimates and I have no clue if for example
the number of tons of say virus on earth is actually this or that
tonnage.
Anyway the point of
the website and video is comparing all biomass to the stuff humans
made. And in our history we have made for example an amzaing
amount of bricks. And an amazing amount of concrete and
asphalt.
It's amazing so it's a
tiny bit frustrating that I can't open the website. So there is
only the video from Anton, here it is:
Video title: As of Now, Humans Built More Stuff Than Total Mass of Biosphere Combined.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkeukmdf65U
Just one giga ton is a
lot, that's a billion ton or a million times a million kilo's. And
the estimation says there is 900 Gt of plant material on earth.
And we animal file need all that plant stuff in order just to be
alive. For oxygen, for food and of course building material like
wood.
Ok let me end this
update and as always thanks for your attention and may be see you
next week or so.
(31 July 2024) The two
items for this update:
Item 1) Russian rate
hike, will it work & 8 finance ministers tell...
Item 2) New math post on a simple to understand open problem.
Item
1) Russian rate hike, will it work & 8 finance ministers
tell...
On Friday 26 July the
Russian central bank hiked their (lowest) interest levels by 200
basis points from 16 to 18%. As an educated guess it is very
likely this won't be the last hike. Will it work?
Well that depends on
how much of the Russian economy is influenced by this rate hike.
At present there is still a growing part that turns into a war
economy and they just get paid by the government in order to
produce stuff that is needed in the war. Likely this part of the
economy gets it's money upfront and they don't have to worry about
finding loans.
As an example it was
lately rumored that new recruits from the Moscow region get up to
22 thousand $ large enlistment bonuses, as such the war effort in
itself is highly inflatory.
And lately Joe Blogs
reported on the ongoing Yuanization of the Russian economy, if
Russians can get loans in Yuan against Chinese interest rates,
they won't give a shit about what the Russian central bank
does.
I think that governor Elvira Nabiullina
is fighting an uphill battle for as long as this war will last and
may be even longer. Click on the picture for a Reuters report on
the Russian rate hike:
Title: Russian central bank sharply hikes rates to 18%, promises further tightening.
Link used: https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/
russian-central-bank-hikes-rates-by-200-bps-18-highest-more-than-two-
years-2024-07-26/
__________
Sometimes people think
that the economical sanctions don't work because the Russian GDP
grows faster as say that of Germany or my own country. It's a bit
like explaining to a flatlander that the earth is a globe. People
who only look at such a number as the GDP don't understand much of
all the in's and out's of an entire economy.
If your central bank
has already raised rates to 16% that is a clear sign of an
emergency, whatever the fucking GDP number is. The high GDP is
mostly a reflection of all that money the Russian government
throws at it, it has nothing to do with a healthy economy...
Last week a group of 8
EU finance ministers came out stating the obvious that the
sanctions are working. And as far as I know reality they are right
of course it works. But also of course Russia will always try to
evade and mitigate the effects of sanctions.
Just like all that dark oil tanker stuff, of course it mitigates a
bit for damage done by the oil price cap but it's a lot of work
and also sucks up capital because somebody has to buy these old
oil tankers.
These economical
sanctions will always be a work in progress, may be you can better
say a sanctions regime is always dynamical in nature. It is not
you write a simple rule down like "Russian economy, can you
please drop dead on the spot?" Well don't be surprised if
that won't happen.
But we still need more
sanctions according to the 8 fin ministers and with that I agree
too. The Guardian had an article about this detail of the 8
finmin's:
Title: Russia is lying about its economic strength: sanctions are working – and we need more.
Eight European finance ministers.
Link used: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/
jul/24/russia-economic-growth-western-sanctions-vladimir-putin-moscow
Let's move on to the
next item.
Item
2) New math post on a simple to understand open problem.
Last week I finished a
new post on a relatively easy to understand problem: What is the
maximum value is you add a bunch of sine functions?
If you just add two
sine functions with different periods you can end with stuff that
makes you wonder what the maximum is. That's example 1 in the new
post.
Example 2 is about a
sine function and 10 equally placed time lags or if you want
translations. Now the summing of sines becomes periodic with
respect to the number of sines you sum up. But here at least it is
clear there is some maximum value although I was to lazy to
actually hunt it down and find it.
In example 3 there is
the real beef of the problem I could not solve 3 or 4 weeks ago. I
decided to formulate it as a sum of sine functions but you can
frame similar questions on the unit circle in the complex plane we
all know and love.
As far as I know this
is a completely useless problem to solve, in case you succeed in
cracking it likely there is not other branch of math or no other
math problem that also waited hundreds of years for solvation.
Likely it is not as cracking the 3D complex numbers and that leads
the way to all of those beautiful p-dimensional complex numbers.
It looks like this problem is a stand alone but on the other hand
I could not solve it and may be if I would have been able to solve
it, it would also say something about other branches of math. I
can't exclude that because I just don't fucking know how to solve
this infinite sum of sine's...
Anyway click on the
picture below in case you want to take a look at this easy to
understand but hard to solve math problem:
Title new math
post: An open question related to the sum of a bunch of sines.
Link used: https://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2024/07/27/an-open-
question-related-to-the-sum-of-a-bunch-of-sines/
That was it for this
update, thanks for your attention.
(26 July 2024) Two
items for this update:
Item 1) The illicit
trade in computer chips towards Russia.
Item 2) Ten interesting people and their TOE's.
Item
1) The illicit trade in computer chips towards Russia.
It seems there are
still a lot of computer chips going to Russia via China. Well that
is not surprising since these two countries are neighbors and
share a long border, but a few pounds less my dear China would be
nice.
After all those chips
are also used in the production of all kinds of weaponry used to
kill Ukrainians. It seems the White House is considering more and
or fine tuning of sanctions, in particular at Chinese banks and of
course the chip makers and traders.
Reuters had a rather
technical report on this detail with a focus on Hong Kong. Click
on the picture to read the Reuters report.
Report title: Exclusive: Illicit chip flows to Russia seen slowing, but China, Hong Kong remain transshipment hubs.
Link used: https://www.reuters.com/technology/illicit-chip-flows-
russia-seen-slowing-china-hong-kong-remain-transshipment-
hubs-2024-07-21/
__________
In another interesting
development today the Russian central bank will make a new rate
decision. Interesting to see if they raise from their what is it,
16 or 17% to even higher.
In that regard on this financial detail, lately I mentioned the so
called Yuanization of the Russian economy and if that is indeed a
significant thing, the rate setting central bank policies will
work less and less.
To put it simple: If
people can borrow in Yuan instead of Ruble, it does not matter
much what the Ruble rate is...
Lets go to the next
item.
Item 2) Ten interesting people and their TOE's.
No electron rant today
but 10 so called Theories Of Everything today or 10 TOE's as it is
abbreviated. It is about physics of course because where else
would they do such weird stuff?
Now if you want to
take the present theories in physics and you want to expand that
into a much much wider framework known as a TOE, there is always a
giant risk into such an endeavor. If in the original theory just a
small detail was wrong, in that case the entire new TOE will be
wrong also. And of course in physics what is wrong is the idea
that magnetic monopoles do not exist in general and in particular
that electrons must be tiny magnets.
Well I think that
electrons are magnetic monopoles and it is a pity that nobody does
any kind of experiment to confirm what the official version is
versus the monopole variant. Such an experiment could be as simple
as separating liquid molecular oxygen into it's two spin states,
try to get something in a balloon and check if the balloon behaves
as having a magnetic charge.
After that try to flip the electron spin states and you're ready.
But only problem is of course to get the results published, it
will be very very hard to crack the peer review barrier. Anyway I
am not going to try such a thing because likely this peer review
barrier will be too high.
But this is not
supposed to be an electron rant, in the video you see 10 very
different theories of everything. Often these are some complicated
math models like Stephen Wolfram with his graphs. The one theory
is crazier as the other while the composer of the video thinks
these are all very smart people. String theory is on the list also
but as far as I know they always model the electron as a tiny
bipolar magnet so beside all the other weird things going on with
string theory like the many dimensions it needs, the electron
detail too makes this a very wrong theory.
People from string
theory often think they are the only game in town and that is
correct: It is more a game as say a piece of science. It's a
completely piece of shit theory because there is no experimental
proof to be found now or in a thousand years.
Among the ten people
with their TOE's there are also more charming and less arrogant
ones like that surf guy who discovered a piece of math known as E8
and thinks there are elementary particles in that math group. Well
I have said before that the human brain is very bad at doing math,
I know that because I am a human also.
The video is about
half an hour long and the order of the the theories is of course
done by they guy that made the video, it has nothing to do with
what I consider the most weird, stupid or brilliant theory. So
click on the picture for the video:
Video title: Ranking the 10 Best Metaphysical Theories
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaql9BQWN_c
So you just saw 10
"very smart" people each having their own version of a
theory of everything while all those years they were just to
fucking stupid to see all the energy problems we have with say
electrons as tiny magnets.
If they can't see such
simple things that could easily be verified in a not to expensive
lab, why should the rest of their theory bear any value at
all?
The official version
of the electron pair is that is has to have opposite spin and if
the electrons are tiny magnets that should look at the next
pictures. And all those 10 weirdo's work their entire life in
physics never realizing that there is an energy problem
here...
Last year I made this
picture for repeated use in this year so here it is once more in
all of it's glory: The Pauli exclusion principle says the electron
spin numbers must be different...
That was it for this
update, as always thanks for your attention.
(24 July 2024) The two
items for this update:
Item 1) More action
against that Russian dark oil tanker fleet.
Item 2) Searching for 4D complex numbers.
Item
1) More action against that Russian dark oil tanker fleet.
There was just much to
much news like Joe Biden's withdrawal from the US presidential
elections, a diplomatic visit to China by the UA, drone attacks,
oil attacks and so on and so on. So let's just restrict it to that
dark or shadow Russian tanker fleet trying to evade and avoid the
sanctions there are on Russian oil.
On 05 June I wrote for
the first time about that detail of all those old oil
tankers that are now in use so that Russia can sell oil above the
price cap. And now only three weeks later there seems to be a
coalition of 45 nations forming to tackle this particular problem.
So that's swift and fast, something we can't say about university
professors...
Now I am the first one
to admit I don't have any insight at all how this all legally
works. A few principles are clear to me like the fact all nations
have right to access the oceans of this world. But of course
nations bordering the seas and oceans also have rights, for
example if there could be an impending emergency like a large oil
spill from an ill or uninsured tanker, they likely have the right
to do something about that.
Now at the UK they
just have a new government and guess what? The new UK pm Keir
Starmer is a lawyer...;). Anyway the UK will try to lead this
coalition so that's a good thing.
I have two links to
articles for you, the first one is from the FT:
UK targets more Russian-linked oil tankers with
sanctions.
https://www.ft.com/content/9016682b-ef2c-4b54-b8f5-d330703abfb1
And one from Lloyds,
no not the US SecDef but likely it is that insurance
company.
UK leads 45-country coalition crackdown on ‘Russia’s shadow fleet’.
https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1149955/UK-leads-45-country-
coalition-crackdown-on-Russias-shadow-fleet
And a quote as found
in both sources:
Announcing the UK sanctions against the further 11 tankers, Keir Starmer, UK prime minister, said: “We will not allow Russia’s shadow fleet, and the dirty
money it generates, to flow freely through European waters and put our security at risk.”
Well I am glad people
are working on this because the last thing we need is another
broken oil tanker. With that lets go to the next item.
Item
2) Searching for 4D complex numbers.
At most once a year I
check if the internet search engines still act properly when
searching for 3D or 4D complex numbers. So on duckduckgo I
searched for 4D complex numbers and just as in the past in the
image section the results are always impressive.
That must be a bit
like how Julius Cesar must have felt when later he spoke the
famous "Veni vidi vici" words. I still have destroyed
all competition yes even the images about quaternions that can
also be viewed as 4D complex numbers.
Suppose there are 100
thousand math professors worldwide and you would ask each and
every one of the what are 4D complex numbers? Likely you will get
the quaternion answer a 100 thousand times.
But internet search
engines don't lie: Somehow more popular or more relevant things
keep float on top of the results of such searches. And since the
pages of the other website started ranking high when people search
for 3D or 4D complex numbers, it has stayed that
way.
A few months back I
saw an interview with Roger Penrose and out of the blue he started
to tell that the quaternions were not that fantastic extension of
the complex numbers. He didn't elaborate beyond that but likely
Roger has found out that you can't do any form of complex analysis
on these quaternions from Sir Hamilton.
Now the 4D complex numbers as I crafted them do allow for all the
complex analysis you can ever dream of. I wrote most of the stuff
in the year 2018 so that's now back about 6 years. And guess what,
as far as I know nothing has happened in the brain of just one of
those hypothetical 100 thousand math professors...
That internet search
result stuff is indeed interesting, sometimes it goes ok like with
the 3D and 4D complex numbers. But when it comes to electron spin
and the logical detail that likely electrons carry monopole
magnetic charge and are not tiny magnets, the search results are
still a total mess. No veni vidi vici there observed at all...
So the electron
thingeling still does not resonate at all with a wider audience
and that's just one of the things in life when you only can say
"It is what it is".
For those who want to
take a look at those 4D complex numbers, on my other website it is
a category on it's own but if you check that category it is of
course the latest post is seen first. So for an introduction to
the stuff you must find the older posts on 4D complex numbers.
Click on the picture
below to land at the category of 4D complex numbers on the website
3Dcomplexnumbers.net. In the picture you see a screen shot of such
an internet search combined with some robot stuff:
That was it for this
update. Thanks for your attention and let me try to upload this
stuff to our beloved garbage bin: the internet.
For the time being I think I keep the next
picture as a 'closing logo' indicating you are at the end of this
homepage. It was to cute to throw away, the math is utterly simple
and I hope a tiny bit surprising.
Click on the picture to go to part 22 of the
archive:
End of this update, ChatGPT can you tell me
how to keep the number of killed Russians above one thousand a day
for the foreseeable future?
Till updates.
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For older updates see the archives at index18.htm
or go to the oversight
of the archive pages.
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