(19 Aug 2022) The situation around the Ukrainian nuclear power plant is still a mess. And I don't understand what the Russians want with this. Ok there might be some dumb ass African nations that support Russia but more normal countries frown a bit on this kind of behavior I just guess.

A few countries have imposed limits on holiday visa's for Russians. Ok, countries are sovereign so they can do what they see fit. For myself speaking I think I side more with the German line of thinking; we must not end in a situation where for example dissident Russians can't leave Russia. And what's next: also ban students?
As far as I see it, the goal is to cripple the military power of Russia to the extend that they can't repeat the Ukrainian adventure in another country. The goal not to cripple the entire Russian society.
So if there are no security concerns with Russians traveling in and out of Europe, I am relatively relaxed on this travel detail.   

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Two items in this update:

 Item 1) Wow, that is some hard GDP growth!
 Item 2) Another weirdo that can't find magnetic monopoles... 

 Item 1) Wow, that is some hard GDP growth!

The latest Dutch gross domestic product growth surprised to the upside: It was 2.6% quarter on quarter and the economy was 5.4% bigger compared to a year ago. 

For the time being we can say that COVID-19 was just a dip and now we are back on track. Ok, it was expensive but the extra debt our government had to take on is also already declining fast. So it's more or less like it is expected to be. 

Why inflation does not hurt more I don't know. Ok ok in almost all labor contracts here there are automatic provisions for inflation. So you don't see central bankers here shouting hard that wages must not grow in order to prevent a price-wage inflation spiral...;) 

All in all I like the way we have our economy, if wealth is more evenly spread it is much easier to eat up all that inflation. But the inflation cycle isn't over by far so may be I will regret my words in say 12 months of time... 

A positive by-effect is that both the inflation and the extra economical growth contribute to the tax revenues of the Dutch state.

Source (in Dutch): Economie groeit in 2e kwartaal 2022 met 2,6 procent.
Link used: https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2022/33/economie-groeit-in-2e-kwartaal-
2022-met-2-6-procent

Item 2) Another weirdo that can't find magnetic monopoles...  

Another video where some weirdo explains that they can't find magnetic monopoles. And you get the usual explanation that even the electrons are tiny magnets with two magnetic poles. The rubbish refuses to die.

In the picture below you see David Tong explaining that two magnets attract each other if their magnetic fields are aligned. This audience was rather dumb but suppose someone would ask David as why in an electron pair the electrons must be anti-aligned in order to be able to make chemical bonds or stuff like that...  

Video title: David Tong: The Allure of the Magnetic Monopole.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma4NgH8abKU 

Well in that case the weirdo's always come up with the Pauli exclusion principle and they mumble some stuff about 'quantum numbers'. That is not an explanation, at best that is a mystification and the person who asked the question is supposed to feel dumb because he or she does not understand 'quantum number'. 

It's all a big bag of bullshit my dear reader: There are only electron pairs in nature because very likely electrons are the magnetic monopoles and every electron pair is made from the two magnetic charges there are...

That makes much more logic than that weird 'spin up' versus 'spin down' that the weirdo's from physics use. You know stuff like 'spin up' makes only sense when there is some applied magnetic field. So what happens if there is no magnetic field? And what happens to 'spin up' when the magnetic field is changing or vibrating?

The official version of electron spin is still a bag filled with bullshit.

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Fun detail: Yesterday on the preprint archive I made a few searches on 'spin flip' and 'electron spin flip'. Well you don't get articles from people in a physics laboratory showing how they 'flip the electron spins'.

No, you get a lot of articles where people do all kinds of calculations in those Ising models. And of course in those Ising models they use the spin of electrons as tiny magnets... And that my dear reader is where they spend your tax money on.

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I am waiting for about 7 years, if people like David Tong claim that electrons are tiny magnets, what fucking experimental evidence you have for that David? 

There is no experimental evidence for that claim. And people like David Tong never ever think that is a problem. They just blah blah on year in year out.

That was it for this update my dear reader. You must not think I am angry at the physics professors. You must more see it as a better understanding of how stupid they are. Thanks for your attention and see you in the next update.  

(17 Aug 2022) In a few months it will be winter and in the meantime the EU countries can work on the gas problem. Well lets hope for the best. Yesterday I got my monthly energy oversight, I have uses minus 13 € in electricity and plus 30 € for gas. On top of that my prices are fixed till the end of 2025... 

So for the time being for me it is not much of a problem. 

Two items for today: 

Item 1) Another Crimean ammo dump says BOOM...;)
Item 2) Advertisement latest math post.

  Item 1) Another Crimean ammo dump says BOOM...;)

It seems that there were two strikes in the Crimean peninsula and on top of that the HQ of the Wagner groups came under attack. Some pro-Kremlin but relatively stupid journalist gave away where it was via posting of the next picture:  

I had to shrink the picture to 450 pixels but on the left upper corner is the street name or so. So that could cost one or more HIMARS rocktes. It is rumored but not confirmed that the guy known as "Putin's chef" was also among those that live no longer.

Picture source was a BBC article:
Ukraine hits Russian Wagner mercenary HQ in east
Link used: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62547403 

And in a place named Mayskoye another ammo depot went bust. There were 3000 evacuees so that is a good development; can they feel a little bit what Ukrainians are feeling for six months now... 

For the time being those Russian air defense systems like the S-300 and S-400 don't make much of a difference. It was said that Russia will deliver S-500, I don't know how much better that is, so lets wait and see.

 Item 2) Advertisement latest math post.

Last Friday I uploaded my latest post on the Pythagoras stuff. By accident it became a bit sloppy because after I started writing it all of a sudden I realized that my new found calculation scheme of turning a non-square matrix into a square matrix COULD GO WRONG! That was no reason for panic because you can always work around that problem but I had to address it of course.

So I consider it a bit sloppy but after over 200 math posts that is allowed I guess.

Anyway I have once more some lousy excuse to show the most simple manner of making one column into a square matrix. I don't know if there is an official name for these kind of matrices, I name them perpendicular matrices because every column is perpendicular to the other columns in the matrix. (Click on the picture for the new math post.) 

It goes wrong if you start with to many zero's like in a = b = 0 and say c is a non zero real number. In this case the next two columns will be zero columns. Anyway it is not a hard problem to dodge.

Yesterday I solved an old outstanding problem: how to calculate the determinant of a 4x4 matrix using a lot of 2x2 determinants. In the past I once tried that but I failed. But now with a tiny bit more math knowledge like the matrix version of the Pythagorean theorem, all of a sudden this is far more easy to do.

So all in all while the body is aging faster and faster, it's still a good math year.

Title of the new post: On the degree of expansion columns & can the expansion go wrong? (Pythagoras, matrix version.)

With that I would like to leave you alone. Have good cognition in your brain, have peace in your heart and a lot of bullets in the bodies of Russian soldiers... 

(12 Aug 2022) Correction: In the previous post I wrote "200 km inside Crimea" where that should have been "200 km from the frontline". That was a bit stupid of me but at first I wrote "200 km from the border" and I was like no that is too insulting for the Ukrainians so I changed it to what I correct now. 

The situation around the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia is still crazy as hell. It makes you wonder how the decision making process goes over there on the side of the Russians... 

Two items for today: 

Item 1) Happy holiday in Crimea?
Item 2) Do anti-particles travel back in time? (NOPE!)

 Item 1) Happy holiday in Crimea?

Not much news about the destroyed air field in Crimea. There were good satellite images out, cute before & after pictures. And yes there are some craters but is that from incoming missiles? One person remarked that it was just in reach of those Harpoon rockets, others think it was done by a team of partizans.  

And I, I have no clue. May be it happened because somebody snapped his fingers and somehow the sound got multiplied and blew up the first ammo. And after the first ammo ignited, the rest followed. 

This is how it looked from the beach: 

I didn't copy the satellite photo's but if you haven't seen them look them up. All these air craft have their own 'rabbit hole' where they are parked. With rabbit hole I mean large mud walls likely for preventing damage if somewhere else something explodes. 

So that didn't help much, a lot of lost air craft for the Russians. 

 Item 2) Do anti-particles travel back in time? (NOPE!)

A bit more on that nonsense of anti-particles that supposedly travel back in time. I found a relatively good video from Parth G where that mumbo jumbo is explained. It has a bit to do with Feynman diagrams and if you rotate such a diagram you van view that as going back in time. But a bit of fancy math does not make anti matter travel back in time; just like other matter it will go only forward I just guess...

Anyway in this video and also in one of the others from the previous update there is talk about electrons and positrons that annihilate each other. If my view on electron spin is correct, so all electrons are magnetic monopoles, in about 50% of the collisions between an electron and it's anti particle the positron will not lead to annihilation. 

But people never talk about that. They only talk about stuff they understand or stuff they think they understand. And indeed if all electrons are exactly the same, it is not understandable as why such a pair of particles refuses to annihilate... 

It should be rather simple to build an experiment where you have a beam of electrons, a beam of positrons. With a magnetic field you can always split those beams in the two magnetic states, you now have four combinations of letting them collide. In two of such combinations there should be much more annihilation compared to the other two cases where electrons and positrons of equal magnetic charge are collided.  

Video title: Do Antiparticles Move BACKWARDS in Time?
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cccd8YWmqzA 

Here is that wiki:  

Electron–positron annihilation, link used:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%E2%80%93positron_annihilation 

It is very interesting that after seven years I still can't find the tiniest detail that says electrons are not magnetic monopoles. For example only in the last year I found the above detail that there is also elastic scattering between electrons and positrons. 

So for my brain this makes the world a little bit more understandable. And for people with sloppy brains who think it is pretty normal that anti particles travel back in time based on some fucking stupid rotation of some calculating scheme, if you think such weird stuff why try to get a better understanding? 

But after seven years it is still a deep deep mystery to my mind that 100% of the physics people think that electrons are magnetic dipoles and that they just can't find magnetic monopoles. Without any experimental evidence they keep on doing their weird logic...  

Why God why did you create humans this way? Or is it evolution and I must ask:
Why Evolution why did you evolve humans this way?

May be it is time to split, see you around. 

(10 Aug 2022) The entire war I mostly post two updates a week and now this homepage is getting too long again. So it's time to throw a lot into the archive pages.

Two items for today: 

Item 1) It said BOOM 200 km inside Crimea.
Item 2) 3 Video’s to kill the time & Unzicker’s horror on the quaternions…

 Item 1) It said BOOM 200 km inside Crimea.

That was a very interesting development: Explosions on an airbase 200 km inside Crimea. That is interesting because as far as I know there are no deliveries of rockets that can do such a distance. 

One of the possibilities is that it was a rocket made inside Crimea. That is very well possible, after all that flagship the Moskva was also built there. Of course it could also have other causes for the explosions but likely tomorrow the Ruzzians will come with another package of bullshit to explain it all. 

It is definitely a good thing that all of a sudden even 200 km inside Crimea the people can't feel safe. Why should the Ukrainians always have the burden of always come under attack from some long range rocket? 

If it is frustrating for me that we can't deliver weaponry for striking inside Russia, imagine how the average Ukrainian feels about this. On the other hand there are all kinds of reasons to let this stupid and crazy war not spill over into other territories.

Anyway, it's war so it is what it is and there is no value in complaining about it.

From a video from a guy named "The Russian dude" I have the next two screen shots.
The first one is from Donetsk (that is the capital of the occupied region in the east), an apartment was hit from the east. Of course Russians drunk and stupid as they are told it was done by Ukraine. 

If it wasn't always so violent it would be perfect comedy: Rockets coming in from the east and the Ruzzians blaming the people in Ukraine to the west.   

A few items of the latest USA military aid package: 

I don't know what Claymore anti-personnel munitions are, it sounds like mines against individuals but let's not loose ourselves into details like that. And lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) 3 Video’s to kill the time & Unzicker’s horror on the quaternions…

I already wrote a new math post for the other website but I have the previous post to share with you. These are three video's upon physics, no this time it is not me hammering upon the detail that electrons cannot be 'tiny magnets' but that a magnetic monopole model for the electron is far more logical.

This time I let the idiots finish themselves. If for example people are too stupid to figure out for themselves that differentiation on the quaternions is a fucking nightmare that never will work, wby should we take them seriously?

If you are to stupid for that, likely the rest of your thinking is also shallow and not very relevant when it comes for example to electron spin.

In the third video you even see a guy claiming that positrons are moving back in time. That is the idea that electrons move forward in time and if you reverse the direction of time you get a positron.

You know, physics is supposed to be a science and should not resemble the average working or content of a psychiatric hospital.

Of course it is not forbidden to think of stuff moving back in time. Just like it is not forbidden to say that inside an electron there could be many universes that are all seven dimensional. I just make up some retarded crap, that is not forbidden.

But using taxpayer money for crap like that is a bridge too far in my opinion.  

Here is the link to the latest post with three boring video's:

3 Video’s to kill the time & Unzicker’s horror on the quaternions… 

Ok, that was it for this update. Live well and think well.

(05 Aug 2022) I don't have much to say today so lets go directly to this day's item: 

Item 1) A mixed bag of weird stuff (don't have much to say).

 Item 1) A mixed bag of weird stuff (don't have much to say).

In my country too it is far too dry. Where I live it is still more or less ok but there are now pictures in the news that are very un-Dutch so to say. We were supposed to be a waterland and our problems were always just too much water. And now this... 

This evening (it's now just past midnight) I took 10 minutes to alter the Ruzzian Z a little bit. After all I explained a few times to the Russians that one of the main problems is a logo that makes other people vomit. 

If they would just have a better logo, like the beautiful NATO logo, they would not have all these economical sanctions. And everyone would give them the love and respect they deserve. Really true. 

Anyway I took a picture from a wiki explaining the 'Z' that is in use right now.
Here it is: 

I am a good guy and I always like to help whenever I can. So I changed it a bit until we have the next: 

That is already a lot better! And that in just 10 at most 12 minutes of work my dear Russians. Now if you start using this logo likely all over Europe there will be demonstrations demanding an end to the unjust and unprovoked economical sanctions... 

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In Germany the former pm Gerhard Schröder is proposing to open Nord Stream 2 because via Nord Stream 1 not enough gas is coming in. Of course Germany is a sovereign country so they can always decide for themselves but I wonder if that is a good idea. Last week Siemens came out telling that there are no problems with turbines as Gazprom has claimed. And likely they know, after all the sold that stuff to Russia. 

Anyway on DW news I found the next totally bizarre picture. It is from Gerhard Schröder's wife doing a prayer for peace with in the background the Kremlin. It was made at the end of February DW said.

Well that is a mindset very different from mine. I think more in terms of BOOM stuff, filled coffins and all those niceties that come with armed conflict.

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At last there seem to be some technical problems with the howitzers that my country together with Germany delivered to Ukraine. It seems to be so worse that in Poland a special repair place is made for repairs.

In the first place, sorry & excuses. But in the second place stuff like this can always be expected. During peacetime like we have over here for over half a century you just cannot fire howitzers day in day out until they break.

So the way they break down is important information while it also has to be remarked that German officers say they are used just too much. May be it is better if the Ukrainians shoot say 20% less every day.  

And may be Ukraine could get a bit more howitzers? I don't know, our arsenals aren't that big. Anyway lets hope these technical problems can be overcome.

End of this hap-snap update. See you next week! 

(03 Aug 2022) I don't have much time so lets go direct to today's Ukraine item: 

Item 1) First grain ship arrived in Turkey & that weird prison attack.

 Item 1) First grain ship arrived in Turkey & that weird prison attack.

Finally a bit of good news: the first ship is actually in Turkey. From now on according to Turkey one ship a day can come over from Ukraine. If I remember it correctly, this ship is about 26 thousand ton. That is 26 million kilo's of grain so yes that is some food for some people but the backlog in grain transport is gigantic of course. 

Well lets hope for the best and a big thumbs up for Turkey! 

In that weird prison attack a lot is still a mystery. I observed some video from a guy claiming the prison was very near to the frontline. But I looked it up in the Deep State map from Ukraine and it was over 25 km from the frontline. I don't think in itself that amounts to a war crime. (Prisoners of war should be imprisoned away from the battlefield.) 

Another claim from Tv Poland said that the Maxar satellite images showed that about two days before the attack about 50 new graves were dug. But I could not find a good photo on that detail. Of course if it's true, the whole thing is a serious war crime. 

The claims of Russia that it was a HIMARS attack look to be crumbling day in day out. If the satellite image is correct only one building was damaged and these HIMARS have a pay load of about 90 kg of explosives. But the building where the attack happened is still standing. I don't know about the house where you live but if in the neighborhood of my house 200 pounds of high explosive say the BOOM thing, likely my house is flattened for good. 

From the psychological point of view it is very interesting that the Ruzzians constantly come up with the HIMARS stuff. Just a tiny bit of modern Western weaponry is a good pain in the ass for them.

Of course at any point in time, with the snap of two fingers, the HIMARS ammo can be uplifted to not only the short range rockets but say median range too. If memory serves medium range is about 150 km. For the time being I don't think that's a good idea but if it turns out that likely the Ruzzians themselves killed all these POW's you can also argue "Why not?" 

Ok, that was it for this small update.  

(29 July 2022) Two items for today: 

Item 1) Congrats with the Antonivka bridge Ukrainians!
Item 2) Added old posts to the new Pythagoras category.

 Item 1) Congrats with the Antonivka bridge Ukrainians!

After a lot of trying finally this bridge is damaged far enough so it can't be used in a meaningful way by the Russian occupiers. What I considered a bit strange was all those small holes in the bridge. A dumb person like me expected much bigger holes, after all there is a serious payload on those HIMARS rockets. 

But likely if you ask an explosives expert it all becomes more logical. 

Anyway: CONGRATULATIONS! 

Another thing that brings a good deal of relief to my mind is that now only about 30 Ukrainians die in combat every day. By prewar standards this is still a very huge number but it is no longer that horrific 150-200 range of daily deaths... 

Item 2) Added old posts to the new Pythagoras category. 

That video from the Fields medal ceremony has disappeared completely! That is kinda weird but may be it needs more editing or so. Anyway if memory serves it was the pm of the host country that made a remark that more or less goes like this:

Mathematics is the only science that is never revolutionary. It only expands on itself. 

I would like to add that yes this is true. But if you would leave this expansion to all those hundreds of math professors in the room, you can only observe such expansion on a geological timescale...;) 

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Anyway some time ago I posted my first stuff on Pythagoras, the matrix version to be precise. And about one week later I did an internet search on that DuckDuckGo engine in order to see what other people wrote about this version of the Pythagoras theorem. So I searched for something like "Pythagoras theorem matrix version".  

To my surprise my own post from just say seven days ago popped up as one of the first results. That was just really fast. I still don't understand why the math often goes fast but all things magnetism just not.

Last year I discontinued my pages on magnetism on this website and I more or less concluded that the physics professors were equally stupid as the math professors. I think that it is time to revise that: physics professors are far more stupid as math professors.

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Over on the other website (3dcomplexnumbers.net) I made a new category of published posts for the Pythagoras stuff. But I forgot to add all stuff from before 2022. So today I expanded the new category with the old posts upon more general versions of the Pythagoras theorem.

As you see on inspection in the next picture, my posts are on position 2 and 4 on the DuckDuckGo search engine while the other two links are not that relevant. 

The content of the new category can be found here:

Category Archives: Pythagoras stuff.
Link used: http://3dcomplexnumbers.net/category/pythagoras-stuff/   

Now via my simple internet searches an old post popped up. It was something with inverse Pythagoras or Pythagoras with reciprocals. And I damn well knew I had written that post but I could not remember what the content was.
I decided not to look but simply wait until it popped up in my brain again. And oh yes, after a good night sleep during coffee I remembered it again.

So an old math jewel from the past, from the year 2018 to be precise:
What is the inverse Pythagoras theorem?
http://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2018/03/20/what-is-the-inverse-pythagoras-theorem/

Originally I planned to show you a few pictures from the hundreds of math professors that attended the Fields medal ceremony. And confront them with the fact there is amazingly little Pythagoras stuff out there written & crafted by them.

All these overpaid weirdo's like math & physics professors, sometimes they are very good at the stuff they do. For example:

Q: What are math professors very good at?
A: They are very good at telling that they could not find the 3D complex numbers.

Q: What are physics professors very good at?
A: They are very good at explaining they could not find magnetic monopoles.

That was it for this update. Live well, think well and always ensure we have this constant stream of dead Russian soldiers. If not I get depressed and I don't want to be in that sorrow state of mind.  
  

(27 July 2022) Is an economical recession coming? Today in the USA the stock price of Walmart fell by about 10% on disappointing results. So higher prices in the USA lead to a significant different consumer behavior. Here in Europe it was reported that Unilever was able to pass on the higher prices. So, for the time being, higher prices don't make the EU consumers balk.  

Now there is often a hassle about when a recession starts. In a lot of countries it is simple two quarters of shrinking GDP. But in the USA there is a committee that looks at a wide range of statistics and declares if there is a serious decline in economical output yes or no. These are just different methods so all that hassle stuff is not needed at all. Thursday the US GDP figures come out so we will see...
Two items for today:

Item 1) Russia leaving the Space Station after 2024?
Item 2) Another Fields medal finalist.  

 Item 1) Russia leaving the Space Station after 2024?

AP reports that may be Russia will leave the ISS. That can have all kinds of weird consequences. Some parts or modules were built by Russia back in the time, likely they have ownership of those modules. So they can do more or less what they want with it. 

I haven't heard of any kind of withdrawing from the ITER fusion project. Likely they are still in although I expect the ITER project to fail because of electron instabilities. 

Anyway here is the AP writing on this detail: 

Russia to drop out of International Space Station after 2024, link used: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-science-
241e789005f6375eeac3189acbdbc140

Remark this link is relative weird, why put in putin in that link? Likely for archiving purposes I guess. 

 Item 2) Another Fields medal finalist.  

It seems that a few weeks ago some math congress was hold in Finland or so. Anyway the prime minister has the honor to open it and he has a good joke for the hundreds of math professors in the audience: 

There are three kinds of finance ministers: In the first place there are those who can count. In the second place there are those who can't count. 

For some strange reason Youtube says play it yourself so I can't show you it. But it was a boring four hour video anyway, who is going to look at a giant room filled with math professors? 

One of the fresh Field medallists also does stuff with magnetism. It is not a secret that I think electrons are not tiny magnets but magnetic monopoles. That is why they form electron pairs in chemical bonding with a shared electron pair.  

All these years I could never find anything that points to electrons being tiny magnets. Only overpaid physics professors say that but if you look at any experiment out there, often it is far better explained by the magnetic monopole model for the electron.

The math professor that got a medal from other math professors is Hugo Duminil-Copin. He is just an ordinary guy, he is not different from all other university people that think electrons are tiny magnets. In itself Hugo is not stupid, but the collective of physics professors is truly stupid.

They claim electrons are tiny magnets but they don't have a tiny shred of experimental proof for that. And they just don't care about it; that is why I don't consider them to be scientists but people from blah blah land. 

There are also short videos out about the individual winners, the next screen shot if from the Hugo video: 

The 'tiny magnet' model is already nonsense. How can electrons form a chemical bond with opposite spins? That is anti-aligned and how can that work? It is one hundred percent bullshit.

So the 'tiny magnet' model is already a weird model and what does Hugo Duminil-Copin do with it?

He uses the so called Ising model to study this further. On top of that he even gets a price for that. This world is a weird weird place.

The last two or three decades there was only one achievement made on using the magnetic properties of electrons. That is the so called Giant Magneto Resistance effect. You can check for yourself; does it work based on all electrons being the same or are there two kinds of electrons?

The GMR effect in itself is very interesting; if you make a material with alternating layers of magnetism, see below, there is much more electrical resistance. Based on that IBM could make those big hard disks for your computer very cheap.
The next picture does not depict the GMR effect but the fact that electrons scatter differently depending on their spin. But if electrons carry a permanent monopole magnetic charge, at least for my own brain it becomes a bit more logical:  

And the whole thing of classifying the spin states as 'spin up' versus 'spin down' points to electrons being magnetic monopoles.

But I have given up on the physics professors; logic does not work just like all their spintronics just never work. So lets try to find that button 'upload website'.

Wiki: Giant magnetoresistance. Link used:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_magnetoresistance

That was it for this small update.  

(22 July 2022) The grain & other food export problems don't seem to evolve very much. May be it is better to resume to trying to shoot down all Russian war ships, may be that is not better. I don't know, time is running out and there is not much happening... 

One of the African presidents came out complaining that now most Russian banks are thrown from the SWIFT messaging system they can't even pay for Russian grain. I would like to remark that SWIFT is only a messaging system, when it was invented it was likely secure telex and may that is what they still do today. Anyway payments could still be done if you have an email address or a telephone number. The problem is of course when such payments need to go through a chain of banks and banks simply refusing to transfer money into the direction of Russia. The problem is that you try to buy stuff from a criminal while all of the time complaining about colonialism this and colonialism that. You know we are a tiny country but we are number two after the USA when it comes to food exports. Why is non of the African nations doing stuff like that? Oh yes I hear it already: COLONIALISM! 

In another development the European Central Bank raised rates by 50 basis points. That was about time. For example last year in my country house prices rose about 15%. That is far too much and mostly caused by the ultra low even negative interest rates from the ECB. And, with unanimity, they also crafted some emergency instrument in case one of the participating country gets under weird market pressure. So it is not meant for countries with high interest rates on their government bonds because of too large deficits or so, but an emergency thing.
Ok, may be that is a good idea. 

Two items today: 

Item 1) Is worn out Russian artillery a root cause for all that weird stuff?
Item 2) May be a BIG WIN for the MATH PROFESSORS! 

 Item 1) Is worn out Russian artillery a root cause for all that weird stuff?

I didn't save the links to the relevant videos but it was reported that Canada already is sending replacement barrels for their howitzers (may be it is for other artillery but you get the point). I have never thought about that: how fast does artillery degenerate? 

After all a standard 155 mm NATO round has a mass of 50 kg, with a big explosion it flies dozens of kilometers. So of course this must wear down the barrel one way or the other.

On top of that we are in day 140+ of what supposedly would be a 3 day war. And given the likely detail that the Russian military was kept out of the loop for planning this war, we can wonder if Russia is capable at all for just standard maintenance of their artillery. Likely the answer is a big NO, likely there is not much maintenance going on over there.

May be that could be a reason for such weird pictures like the next screen shot:  

This is a crazy amount of rounds just doing nothing. This is crazy behavior but could it in part be caused by the lack of maintenance?

By all standards this is the weirdest military operation I ever observed... 

 Item 2) May be a BIG WIN for the MATH PROFESSORS! 

I finally took some time to look at the history of that complicated matrix version of the theorem of Pythagoras. All in all it look likely that in the 20-th century there was only that thing with a matrix A multiplied against it's transpose. 

Now my method is very different, I found a way to calculate the volume of the higher dimensional parallelogram directly by making your starting non-square matrix A into a square matrix M.  

That is a little win for me because I gained some insight into how to tackle such a problem. And if I was the first human to do this, you can say it is a big win for me.

Under the assumption I was the first human to pull of this simple trick of squaring a non-square matrix, is it also a big win for the professional math professors? It could be because I know for sure what professional professors like:

That always like to NOT TALK about me. You can argue that is a bit strange because they only have their complex plane, some quaternions and basically that's it. They have no complex numbers above dimension 2 and for them that's ok.

So with a bit of luck they will NOT TALK about my cute matrix for say at least three centuries! Three centuries of total silence! That would be a bi big win for the math professors because they always love to NOT TALK about me and now they can do that for 300 years or longer!

You see me and the professional math professors are now in a so called 'win win' situation: Each of the participants has a big benefit: I have found my cute method and the math professors are glad they can keep their mouths closed like forever...  

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Ok, almost the  end of this update. I found a funny way to take the sine of a minor matrix against it's parent matrix. So if you are into that mathy stuff you can find the short post on the other website:

On the sine of a matrix minor against it parent matrix. Link used:
http://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2022/07/18/on-the-sine-
of-a-matrix-minor-against-it-parent-matrix/ 

It's high time to upload this stuff so I can do other things. Thanks for your attention.

UPDATE: Well well a deal seems to be reached! Unbelievable given the special love between Ukraine and Russia. So my estimation from 24 hours ago was not correct, I think I have to apologize (for the second time already in this war).
Interesting details are that every body is signing treaties with the UN and as such it is avoided that Russia and Ukraine had to sign a mutual agreement.

I would like to thank everyone, in particular the Turks. Turkey might be in huge economical troubles at the moment so it is good to see they don't give up. Well done every body! 

Ok, now you are once more at the end of an update.  

(20 July 2022) Oh bah, the heat wave is here for the very first day. I don't like it but it is by far not as bad as for example in Italy where entire rivers seem to be running dry or the UK where there were plenty of fires today.
Of course one heat wave is not climate change, climate change is that year in year out it gets a bit warmer on average. And that is happening; a lot of years are record years when it comes to the average temperature, the maximum temperature or the summer average. 

Two items for today: 

Item 1) Shit man, Ruzzia has destroyed all four HIMARS trucks! Really true!
Item 2) The Stern-Gerlach experiment one hundred years old.

 Item 1) Shit man, Ruzzia has destroyed all four HIMARS trucks! Really true!

Russia constantly claims to have destroyed one or more of the HIMARS trucks. So we can safely conclude that they are a good pain in the ass...;) But of course the Russians can use such 'information' for their lovely state television. 

I didn't know the Bulgarian military could be this funny, but they are. 
Title: Russia: Ukraine’s four HIMARS were destroyed, we used PrSMs.
Link used: https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2022/07/18/russia-ukraines-
four-himars-were-destroyed-we-used-prsms/

Someone emailed me and wrote that the HIMARS often feel lonely now they are in Ukraine. No not when they are at work shooting their boom stuff. It is when they are alone they miss their family. 

Luckily their little brothers are on their way, they are not as fast on the road as their HIMARS sisters but man they can do boom stuff big time! 

Ok, all that is still missing now are these more advanced anti-air defense systems. It would be great if at least the largest cities get some good air cover against cruse missiles and stuff. 

And, by the way, why don't we hear nothing about those USA drones? Is that where Russia has some success into jamming them? The Russian anti-air stuff can't deal with the rockets from the HIMARS, that is a lucky shot for Ukraine. 

 Item 2) The Stern-Gerlach experiment one hundred years old.

I often ask for say the Ukrainians to tell the truth as it is. Bad news must not be suppressed because otherwise people like me but also the Ukrainians themselves don't have a good picture over what is going on.  

In practice a lot of news is already riddled with faults, often they are tiny and not that significant. That is just unavoidable but you must always try to stay close to the truth. (Unless it is clear you are joking or so.)

Today I came across an article from the Scientific American that was both good and bad. It was good because it came with a picture I had never seen before, it is the original Stern-Gerlach apparatus (see below). And bad because important details like the use of a inhomogeneous magnetic field is used, these details miss.

Another detail that is missing is the fact they used vaporized silver back in the year 1922. But silver only vaporizes at say 2000 degrees Celcius and as such all of your silver atoms are likely not atoms but ions. How they dealt with that I don't know but it must have been an extra hurdle in this one hundred year old experiment.   

Click on the picture for a wider version: 

Until about seven years ago I just never heard of this experiment. I tried to understand it but it was hard. How could just one unpaired electron steer an entire silver atom into a particular direction? After all this lonely electron it's mass only about 1/1830 of the mass of a single proton or neutron. And a silver atom has many protons and neutrons.

So what was going on there?

After about two days I arrived at the conclusion that if electrons were magnetic monopoles, that might be a possible explanation. But wasn't that a weird solution? These physics people always say that they can't find magnetic monopoles.

Later I studied the official explanation for this exiting experiment, the overpaid weirdo's think that electrons are tiny magnets that either align with the applied external magnetic field or anti-align with it.

That is far more crazy as my own idea that electrons are magnetic monopoles. After all why should a tiny magnet anti-align itself against a powerful bit external magnetic field? That is one of the detail they never talk about.

Anyway I have given up convincing these physics weirdo's that must be wrong and I have accepted failure on that detail.

In case you have never heard of the Stern-Gerlach experiment but have some interest into the science of physics, you must take a bit of time to understand why this experiment was so important although the people that did the experiment had no clue about what they found. 

Mr. Stern from the Stern-Gerlach experiment became the first assistant to a fresh physics professor named Einstein. So Einstein must have known from the experimental setup of this experiment, but he never jumped to the conclusion that from now on it is nonsense to view electrons as tiny magnets...

100 Years Ago, a Quantum Experiment Explained Why We Don’t Fall through Our Chairs. Link used:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/100-years-ago-a-quantum-
experiment-explained-why-we-dont-fall-through-our-chairs/

Ok, that was it for this update. Thanks for your attention and try to stay cool in this fucking heat. Till updates.    

(15 July 2022) There seems to be a bit of progress on the possibility that Ukraine will start exporting grain like wheat and other food again. So lets hope this will not fall apart. For this all to be successful at least in important parts of the Black Sea all military activity must fade away. 

Another complicating factor is that there seem to be laid out about 500 sea mines. If they are all well anchored it is possible to make safe lanes through them without first removing all of them. But if these things go drifting that can give some serious problems... Anyway I am not much of a marine expert, I don't know in detail how good the present day anti-mine capabilities are... 

So lets see how things evolve and hope for the best. 

Two short items for today: 

Item 1) Denys Davydov has an interesting heat map.
Item 2) A fields medal for the Ukrainian Maryna Viazovska.

 Item 1) Denys Davydov has an interesting heat map.

Look in the picture below, likely those maps are made on a 24 hour basis and as such you can more or less see how much boom stuff has gone off. It looks like a significant reduction and of course it is hoped that this stays so. 

Hard to say if all those exploded ammo depots already play a role in this. Ok very likely it is but you must never jump to conclusions too fast. But if it stays this way or less that is mighty good news...;) 

 Item 2) A fields medal for the Ukrainian Maryna Viazovska.

I totally missed the news but there are more Field medals out. Field medals are a relatively high prize in the science of math, it is an encouraging prize for youngsters under 40.

It works a bit like the Nobel prizes: University people give medals and money prizes to other university people. I think it has happened only once that the physics Noble prize went to a person that was not working at a university.  

I don't want to sound negative, but there are strong 'ivory tower' elements in both prizes. That does not take away it is always interesting in what the present day prize winners have done to pass the time.

Maryna is a bit famous because she discovered the most ideal packing for a bunch of spheres in 8 dimensions. How to pack a bunch of 8D spheres in such a way it takes the least amount of volume? You don't have to think very long about this problem in order to understand that likely this is hard to crack. 

In order to understand we get all kinds of weird stuff in higher dimensions, we first take a simple example: the square meter.
Now half the sides of this square meter, so now the sides are half a meter. How many of the small stuff do you need to cover the original square meter? That is four pieces of course. 

Well in 8 dimensions, if you cut all sides of a unit cube in half, you need 256 of those smaller cubes to cover the original 8 dimensional cube. Of course putting a sphere in each of those 256 smaller cubes gives some kind of packing, but likely you can improve on that. Well that is the problem that Maryna solved...
I never tried it but likely it is fucking hard.

For those interested her citation pdf is here and a Youtube video is as next:
Fields Medals 2022 Maryna Viazovska
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAyuipqM5uQ 

Wow man, old math problems still standing open? I just wonder what would happen if somebody would find for example the long sought three dimensional complex numbers? Would that not be great news? 

That depends, if the math geek that finds it is an easy exploitable person for the university marketing departments, the universities will have a field day so to say.

And if the math geek is not a member of that university cult, sorry but there is no fame for you. On the other side I am really not waiting for a bunch of journalists asking stupid questions about 3D complex numbers...;) So life isn't that bad over here!

End of this small update. 

(13 July 2022) Today I feel like skipping the war stuff a bit; only a detail on the eventually price capping of exported Russian oil. Without doubt lowering the price that Russia can get for it's oil is for sure one of the longer term instruments in crippling her military capabilities and capacities.
A decade of lower oil revenues will do miracles. 

As I understood it, as a first try it will be done via the insurance...
Well that is highly creative, most shipping insurance is done by EU and USA companies, likely the UK is also busy on this kind of insurance. 

I think it is best if the Russian oil will be sold at market prices so there is no disturbing of the oil markets and there is also no unreasonable extra demand for cheap Russian oil. May be it is best to set every year a quotum for the volume and a price for that year. The proceeds should be used for a fund for rebuilding Ukraine, in that was Russia will pay in part for that. 

In order to get countries like China, India and say Indonesia on board; they should get a discount according to a simple procedure. Suppose a country has a GDP of 10,000 € / citizen. That is about one fifth of the GDP per capita of my home country. In such a case I think it is reasonable they get a discount of say 50%.  

Example: In the year 2025 Russia will get 60 US$ per allowed barrel sold, say the market price is 110 US$. The difference of 50 US$ will get a 50% discount for such a country, so they pay 60 + 25 = 85 US$. 

Of course in practice countries like China and India already have a discount on Russian oil but there is only limited oil tanker capacity and Russia can be seriously hindered in exporting with oil tankers via the mechanism of insurance.

I have to say it is all rather complicated but it has been done in the past like in the "oil for food" program for Iraq many years ago. In order for the Russian state television they could explain it to their public by naming it a "oil for Vodka" program. In that case the Russian citizens understand we only want to help them and prevent a shortage of Vodka...;) 

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After having said that, I have a short update on that beautiful picture that came from the James Webb Space Telescope. 

Item 1) The first JWST images & a bit of Pythagoras stuff. 

 Item 1) The first JWST images & a bit of Pythagoras stuff. 

It was a long wait but it is what it is and like promised the first pictures came out today. There is a whole lot of mind boggling stuff in it; the picture below covers a tiny part of the sky, only the size of a grain if you hold that on an arms length from your eyes. 

The exposure time was something like 12.5 hours, but likely more instruments were used, I don't know. 

What important is to understand all colors are added artificial because it is made from wavelengths of light we just can't see. If you haven't seen this one, shame on you...;)
Click on the picture for a larger version. 

This is very old light, it is one of those 'deep field' images where they take a 'photo' of an empty part of the sky. I believe the circular things you see are named Einstein rings or may be Einstein arcs. Anyway it is the idea that gravity can bend light. 

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Pythagoras stuff: Yesterday I posted the second part of a detailed sketch of my newly found proof for that matrix version of the theorem of Pythagoras. My goal was not to give a precise and highly technical and unreadable proof, but to make it as understandable as possible.

For those people that miss the hardcore part, they can always do that themselves.

Anyway I think it is better to explain the key idea as why this all works to a broader audience and the hardcore calculations with all matrix minors is left to the nerds...

Also yesterday I found a good pdf from the year 2001 (in math that is relatively fresh) and the guy that wrote it also found my way of crafting a vector perpendicular to a given set of vectors. So he made, just like me, a good generalization of the 3D so called cross product of two vectors that always spits out a perpendicular vector. He also found the same proof as I found back in the nineties with those simplex kind of things.

But he did not find my new method of making a non-square matrix square.
I will not brag about it, but I feel a tiny amount of pride.  

The | M |  things you see in the above calculating scheme are always minor matrices to the left of that column. For example in the third columns you see the upper (2) things; that says you are taking 2x2 minor matrices to the left and guess what: that third column is just the centuries old cross product.

But it's getting late, so let me stop writing all this blah blah blah and see if we can upload this update. Till the next update. (Updated on 14 July:)

Yesterday I didn't have the time anymore to post the next links. If you have never seen more advanced versions of the good old theorem of Pythagoras I have two pdf's and a link to my own work on that detail.

The first pdf is from 2001, written by Melvin Fitting. Melvin seems to have found a way to add one more perpendicular column to a matrix but that is only a special case. Just like I had it a few weeks ago. His pdf also included the stuff with generalized triangle, the simplexes. All in all Melvin is a good writer, his stuff is readable and that can not be said by a lot of other people... Title: Pythagoras. Link used:
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/fitting/bookspapers/pythagoras/pythagoras.pdf 

The second pdf is the one from Charles Frohman. It is of interest because until a few weeks ago I was even unaware of the version of Pythagoras for a parallelogram hanging somehow in three dimensional space. Shame on me! It has to be remarked that I didn't even tried to find a proof for more general versions, I just did the same as Melvin did until I realized you not only add one perpendicular column but you can always make such a non-square matrix square. Charles names this the 'full' theorem of Pythagoras. I would not have chosen such a wording, after it is only about the higher dimensional version of a parallelogram, the parallelepiped as the name goes.
Title: The Full Pythagorean Theorem. Link used:
https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~frohman/pyth2.pdf

At last one of my latest posts on the Pythagoras stuff from over at the other website:
A detailed sketch of the full theorem of Pythagoras (that matrix version).Part 1 of 2.

End of this 14 July update from the 13 July update.  

(08 July 2022) Two items for today's update: 

Item 1) Boris Johnson resigns as UK pm.
Item 2) Slowly but surely the artillery situation is improving in Ukraine.

 Item 1) Boris Johnson resigns as UK pm.

Well it finally happened; the UK government has fallen. After a long series of crazy scandals it's finally over. I don't expect much difference for the Ukrainian equation: Support for Ukraine is not a partisan thing in the UK. 

Now I want to insult nobody, but since the war broke out the UK has been much less annoying. It looks like some old war reflexes have sunk in some realities like for example that Europe is often a good place to live in.  

If memory serves it was the UK that delivered about 6000 anti tank boom stuff to Ukraine. In the beginning this must have helped a lot. So for the record: thanks! It must have been one of the many reasons the Ukrainian resistance was able to grow so fast. 

For somebody from the Dutch landscape looking at the politics in the UK, often it is funny. For me the BoJO was a funny character. But he always had a problem with the truth so you could never trust him on a wide range of details. Often he was like some kind of salesman who exaggerated the quality of his products in order to convince people from what he was saying. Those lies were more over-enthusiasm and not raw evil at work. 

So we'll see how things will evolve in the UK. 

 Item 2) Slowly but surely the artillery situation is improving in Ukraine.

Are there only four HIMARS artillery systems at work in Ukraine? On the other hand the combined fire power of four such things is huge due to the good precision they have. It is often said the standard deviation is five meters. Under the assumption that the difference between target coordinates and point of impact follows a normal distribution, just a few percent will fall further than 2 standard deviation from the target.  

Anyway a huge Russian ammo storage facility was hit by a HIMARS rocket. That's what the video claims so lets suppose it is true. Those HIMARS rockets might be expensive but if you see the explosion of the Russian ammo; that are a whole lot of houses not destroyed by the ammo in that storage facility. 

Video title:  HIMARS are changing the game big time.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j515FBawWvI

Ok, that was it more or less for this update. Only in the last update I forgot to place a link, actually I didn't have time enough. But it describes the laboratory experimental setup for what is known as electron spin resonance.

Well since I think that electrons are magnetic monopoles, that is why you can make them vibrate with an oscillating magnetic field, I think they only resonate because they are magnetic monopoles. Here is the link:  

Electron Spin Resonance
https://wanda.fiu.edu/boeglinw/courses/Modern_lab_manual3/ESR.html  

End of this update, work well and live well.  

(06 July 2022) Well as usual a lot has happened, let me name just a few details:

1) The Dutch ministry of defense offered to demine the Ukrainian ports if asked so. I do not know how much capacity we have but we are a seafaring nation for centuries so I guess there are minesweepers enough. And if not, the UK, France or Italy also have them without doubt. I don't think the mines that the Ukrainians placed are a problem, likely they have taken good records. But one way or the other the sea lanes must cleared from that nasty stuff.
And what happens if the Russians attack one or more of our boats? Will that go down as an attack on a NATO member? I have no idea... 
Netherlands offers minesweepers to protect Ukraine's Black Sea grain exports
Link used: https://nltimes.nl/2022/06/30/netherlands-offers-minesweepers-
protect-ukraines-black-sea-grain-exports

2) There seems to be Russian legislation in the making that turns the Russian economy into a war economy. In that case factories can be ordered to make military equipment. This validates what already was known: The Russian army lost a staggering amount of hardware.  

Two items in this update: 

Item 1) More on the Ruzzian default in the international bond markets.
Item 2) A rather crazy Google search result, I don't know what to think of it.

 Item 1) More on the Ruzzian default in the international bond markets.

The Ruzzians are claiming that this is all a fake because they had the money but were not allowed to transfer the money. So I was thinking: How can you tell that on Ruzzian state television? 

I think they must tell it more or less like this: 

The Default was sailing on the Atlantic ocean just minding her own business. Or may be the Default was sailing in the Sahara, anyway just tell the truth and victory will be there.
Another option is starting the news story on state television with remarking that the Default was just sailing around in a bottle of Vodka. In that case the Ruzzian television watchers will instantly understand it was just a tiny non-significant default. 

Anyway a bad thing happened: A FIRE BROKE OUT!!!!! And the fire reached the Harry Potter Kremlin Chamber of Secrets, the whole thing exploded and while sailing on the Atlantic / Sahara / bottle of Vodka, it sank. 

Now why did the sprinkler system not work properly? Well a few weeks back the maintenance guy had removed the sprinkler system for repairs and maintenance. But that guy got COVID 12.5 and the Spanish flu at the same time! So he was a day late and when he got to the port with the sprinkler system, the ship was already gone...  

It is important that NAVY ships and all other ships have good sprinkler systems to fight a fire. Take for example the Moskva: That warship is just unsinkable because of the high quality sprinkler systems it has.
After telling this info to her audience, it is advised that the wise anchors of Ruzzian state television go on a rant against Jewish homosexual fascists, Jewish fascist homosexuals, homosexual Jewish fascists, homosexual fascist Jews, fascist Jewish homosexuals and fascist homosexual Jews that run the EU and the USA!  

I hope that Ruzzian state television can use my small contribution to tell the truth about the Default... 

 Item 2) A rather crazy Google search result, I don't know what to think of it.

Last year I discontinued my series of reasons why electrons cannot be magnetic dipoles. To put it simple: electrons are not tiny magnets but magnetic monopoles. 

My main reason for giving this up after so many years was also simple: You could find nothing back if I did internet searches on the magnetic stuff. If you search for 3D complex numbers it instantly rains results that I wrote in the past, with the magnetic stuff it just was not there.
At best there was one remark I once made on the other website but nothing from this website. So I closed it and stopped updating on it.

Well last week because I made an upload error, my previous post was not updated while I had finished writing. (It later turned out I had just forgotten to save my changes). So I just tried a Google search on my own website and to my surprise the next thing popped up:  

I was like what is happening here? But on other search engines too, like Duckduckgo also returns pages where I talk about the electron stuff. No idea why after all these years this is happening. But I am not going to change the policy: closed stays closed & no more updates on why it is impossible that electrons are tiny magnets. 

A strong clue as why this Google search result might not be that significant, although it is an improvement over one year ago, is that my recipes land on place two.
And believe me: the feastmeal recipes are horrible...;) 

Ok, that was it for this update. Live well and work well my dear reader.  

(01 July 2022) Outside it is raining softly so that is a good thing. And did you know that Russians can make so called 'good will gestures'? Yes they can, they abandoned Snake Island in the Black Sea as a good will gesture! So applause for Russia. Ok ok may be the Russians came to their decision because the Ukrainians succeeded into firing a bit of ammo to Snake Island. Someone emailed me that it was done with an air powered rifle and I was like "Wow that is some military prowess!" 

Anyway here is one of those Maxar photo's from space: 

A Reuters file: Russia abandons Snake Island. Link used:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-steps-up-attacks-
ukraine-after-landmark-nato-summit-2022-06-30/ 

With some luck finally the food can start flowing from the Ukrainian ports. But there are still plenty of hurdles of course. If Ukraine demines the sea mines they planted, is there some guarantee that Russia will not attack those ports? And what about mines not placed by Ukraine, did the Russians leave behind sea mines and now give a big mouth about Ukraine is not doing her thing? 

And what about the crews of the grain boats? It must be safe for them too because after all there is not much fun if you sink with your vessel loaded with grain...
Well lets see how this all evolves. 

Today's item is my latest math post from yesterday. 

Item 1) A lovely but also crazy proof of a general version of the Pythagoras theorem.

 Item 1) A lovely but also crazy proof of a general version of the Pythagoras theorem.

To my own surprise I found this way of a proof for that matrix version of the theorem of Pythagoras. For myself speaking I do not think it is very relevant, no the more interesting part of the proof is that I was able to make a non-square matrix square by adding extra columns until the matrix is square.  

All these extra columns must be perpendicular to all other columns in the matrix. In the picture below you see the case for a 3D vector in the first column. With standard widely know math you can easily find two more columns perpendicular to all others.

The second column represents some kind of multiplication by the complex number i and the third column is simply the so called cross product in 3D space.  

The key idea is utterly simple: If you normalize all those extra columns to length one, in that case you get the 'volume' of the thing you started with.  

You get the 'volume' by calculating a so called determinant. In the above most simple example possible this 'volume' is just the length of the first column.

I have to admit this looks like a very complicated way to calculate the length of a vector in three dimensions. But it works for all dimensions and all those starting matrices.

All in all this proof is just an application of what you can do with this process of 'squaring the matrix'. My guestimate is that you can do much more with that.

Here is a link: A detailed sketch of the full theorem of Pythagoras (that matrix version). Ok, that was it for this update. Live well my dear reader.

(29 June 2022) A massive amount of news came along: 

1) G-7 meeting with a funny detail: Ruzzia can no longer export gold to the G-7 nations! It seems to go about 19 billion US$ but it is hard to say how much damage this gives because non G-7 nations like China and India likely keep buying gold. And if they can get it at a big discount, they likely buy some extra. But it's an interesting detail.  

2) NATO meeting. I think I have to say thanks to Turkey! I have no idea how but the political and as such diplomatic problems seem to be over. So this looks like a positive development and hello Sweden & Finland! 

3) Kremenchuk shopping centre attack. Once more the Russian military hardware doesn't work properly and you get some crazy weird reaction from the Russians. The BBC wrote a good fact checking article about it.

The crazy Russian explanation is that a nearby military storage site was hit and the damage you see above is just a secondary fire that broke out because of that. You see that Sergei Levrov isn't the only mental person over there... 

Ukraine war: Kremenchuk shopping centre attack claims fact-checked
https://www.bbc.com/news/61967480

The first item of today is about the default of Russian debt. That always goes under the funny name of a 'credit event' and when stuff is officially declared such an event the insurance payments on that debt must pay out. The second item is about the 100% lack of progress in a part of physics known as spintronics. 

Item 1) Funny default on Russian debt, oversight article from Reuters.
Item 2) Why are there still no spintronic devices?

 Item 1) Funny default on Russian debt, oversight article from Reuters.

The Ukrainians are always complaining that they need more weaponry. Well I agree with that most of the time but behind the scenes over the last four months a huge amount of work has been done. 

From throwing Russian banks out of the SWIFT messaging system to the freezing of the Russian overseas central bank reserves. If you all read it, it is rather impressive: 

The 'Big Package': How Russia was driven to default (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/big-package-how-russia-
was-driven-default-2022-06-27/

 Item 2) Why are there still no spintronic devices?

The worldwide semi-conductor industry is large. Everybody needs computers, phones and a lot of chips for our day to day lives. But all electronics is based guess what? Electrical currents driven by electric potential differences.

The magnetic properties of the electron are not used at all so why is that? In my view the root cause is that if you use the 'tiny magnet' model for the electron, it will often not work because electrons don't have two magnetic poles. They likely are magnetic monopoles just like they are electric monopoles.

There is however a 'spintronic' thing that actually worked. If I remember it correctly it was found by IBM and it is based on the gigantic magneto effect. With this it was possible to increase the size of hard disks big time. That is why you can buy an old spinning hard drive of size one or two tera bytes for a moderate amount of money.

Of course the physics professors are stupid year in year out and if there are two kinds of magnetic monopole electrons, that is a good explanation of why IBM was able to pull that money machine out in the first place. I have never found a good explanation for why this effect actually works, you only get that nonsense that it is 'based on the magnetic properties of the electron' and blah blah blah.

Anyway to make a long story short: The lack of any significant semiconductor electronics is just one more clue that physics people are just fucking wrong when it comes of electron spin: Where is your fucking experimental proof for your wild claims that electrons have two magnetic poles? 

I did a simple search on Duckduckgo on the term 'spintronics'. As you see it is not a very dynamic field of research. On the left you see some sleepy Japanese guy doing some blah blah blah stuff and nine years later gives some stupid video of what it is and why it is useful.

So despite the countless billions in profits from good patents that materialize in usefull consumer products, there is nothing year in year out. I have done my best the last seven years in explaining it is not logical that an electron 'must be' a 'tiny magnet'.

But if the university people really want to hang out the overpaid perfumed professor with the giant ego that comes along with it: We will only have more decades of stalled progress on that quantum mechanical detail.

Ok, that was it. Thanks for your attention. 

(24 June 2022) Sorry I don't have much time so only a small item with some correction of (small) errors I made lately. If time enough I will add a small item upon electron spin flip that, in my view anyway, is likely not possible at all.
So lets go:

Item 1) For the record a few corrections.
Item 2) But is this spin flip? I think nope. 

 Item 1) For the record a few corrections. 

I made a tiny error last Tuesday when I named the Russian enclave Kalinigrad, it must be Kaliningrad. I hope I have it right this time because now just as last Tuesday I am not online. 

One week ago last Thursday I made a more stupid error. I thought that only Mario, Manuel and Olaf visited Kyiv and therefore I named them the three musketeers. It seems that the Rumanian president was also with them bit I did not know who he was so instead of figuring out who that person was I just neglected him. 

So we can safely conclude I would likely be a horrible journalist...;) 

Anyway the guy on the right is Klaus Lohannis if I write it correctly, so sorry to Romania for leaving them out. I didn't do that on purpose or so. 

And again in the last update from Tuesday I joked about Harpoonaise or Harpoon rockets but it could also be that the UK Brimstone things were used. I would also remark that the UK is suddenly doing fine after all that Brexit nonsense. As far as I can see they have indeed delivered a lot of military hardware. For example their anti tank boom stuff was significantly depleted. 

As a comparison our howitzers are only about 10% of that type artillery we have. So it took a war like this for the UK to realize that there are bigger evils than the EU? That still remains to be seen, but anyway.

I found no info on Sweden & Finland when it comes to NATO membership. I am not very positive on it given the nature and character of the political leadership in a country that starts with T.  

 Item 2) But is this spin flip? I think nope.

A short intro for those who know nothing about electron spin: The official version of electron spin is that they are tiny magnets so they have a north pole and a south pole. That is the 'tiny magnet'  model. 

I think for a number of years, seven years or so, that electrons are magnetic monopoles as as such are not 'tiny magnets'. I also think that this magnetic charge is permanent and cannot be changed over the lifetime of the electron.  

The official version of electron spin is that when you apply an external magnetic field, by sheer coincidence half of the electrons will jump into the quantum state known as 'spin up' and the other half as 'spin down'.

Now if you hold your hand beside a magnet, do half of the electron pairs in your chemical bonds fall apart because that electron pair ends up in a state where the spins are equal? No, that is why I think the monopole magnetic charge of the electron is permanent and not some property that can jump from electron to electron.

What amazes me to this very day is that the physics professors themselves do not remark that the 'tiny magnet' model has so many faults and problems with it. Why are physics professors year in year out so fucking stupid? 

Anyway from a pdf on the preprint archive I found the next graphic that according to the authors of the pdf shows a flip of the electron spin. It looks convincing but is it? It is about the picture (b) and (c). The magnetic domains indeed flip color but the shape of the magnetic domains does not change... 

In my view on electron spin, magnetic domains have a surplus of either north magnetic charge electrons or the other kind. The domain walls are structures that actively keep these electrons separated this way.

From a wiki on magnetic domains you see what happens to magnetic domains if you apply an external magnetic field: the domains change shape a lot and it is not as in the picture above where the domains stay perfectly the same...

Title of the pdf: Direct visualization of surface spin-flip transition
Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.04582.pdf 

For me it was funny to include the Einstein guy in the picture: The physics professors will never say that Einstein did not understand electron spin at all, but I can... 

This world is a weird place: If for a full century humans are not able to figure out that the 'tiny model' for the magnetic properties of electrons is likely a total bogus fault, why are the physics professors so fucking weird?

Till updates my dear reader. Take care of yourself & till updates. 

(22 June 2022) Once more boatloads of news, it seems that the Harpoons are working because a relatively small tug boat went blup blup blup while a few gas drilling platforms in the Black Sea were attacked. The gas drilling platforms were confiscated in 2014 by Russia so actually the Ukrainians shot their own platforms down and out of production. It looks like there is nothing illegal about that, after all I do not know of any payment made by Russia to cover the losses from the 2014 confiscation.

In another development the Russian enclave Kalinigrad ran into trouble because the economical sanctions now dictate all stuff to and from Russia must now go over sea. And no more over land. And this all while in the winter parts of the sea route are frozen, so is this a problem? 

No, just a short time ago I heard Putin saying that the sanctions don't work so after my humble opinion the people in the Russian enclave are just plain wrong.

Just like the other day when the CEO of that Sberbank or whatever it's name is came out and said that the Russian economy will get a setback of 10 years. I say nope nope nope & listen to your leader: The sanctions don't work. 

Look my dear Russians it is all very simple, the sanctions are a so called 'win win' diplomatic situation. The Russians perfectly understand the economical and financial sanctions don't work so that's a win for the Russians. The EU political leaders on the other hand think that the sanctions work so they are 'winning' too! 

So Ruzzians must stop asking for an end to the sanctions because in that case we would no longer be in a 'win win' situation but in a 'loose loose' situation. That would be horrible for everybody so we can't do that... 

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Today's item is about the corruption in Ukraine. That might look as a strange subject as if the Ukrainians have nothing else going on. Until now I never looked into it but the economy of Ukraine looks a lot like my professional career. I finished university in 1992 while Ukraine became independent in 1991 or so.

It is funny to see how bad the Ukrainian economy was and how it perfectly matches my own economical development.  

Item 1) Why I am in favor for a possible Ukrainian EU membership.

 Item 1) Why I am in favor for a possible Ukrainian EU membership.

It is not much of a secret that I am a so called conservative person when it comes to government spending; I dislike deficit government spending and I think that governments should always try to pay off the mountain of debt most of them have.

After all, mathematically speaking paying off debt is the same as saving money so governments that do almost never try to lower deficits are governments that do not 'save' for a rainy day.

So for me it is a strange thing to even consider Ukraine to become a member if indeed all those weird stories from the past are true. But I also think it is important we give the Ukrainians a perspective on a better future, so why am I relatively light weight on the corruption thing?  

One important thing is the speed of the organization of the military resistance. Of course from day one I hoped for the best and indeed it panned out good. It even surprised me! And if a nation you can do that, why shouldn't you not be able to get rid of all that weird corruptive stuff and behavior? 

As a detail I would like to highlight the sinking of the Moskva. If it is all true it was done with two of those Neptune rockets, for me they have passed the test of anti corruption. After all those Neptune things were developed and or modified by the Ukrainians themselves. Of course there was some money wasted here and there but in the end those rockets worked and as such there was a small but strategic victory.

Now if Ukraine really was a corruption riddled nest on all possible levels, likely those rockets would not have worked because all the money needed would be siphoned off.   

Well facts are that likely this did not happen. So that is why I support a potential EU membership for Ukraine.  

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But I wanted to show you some video from an economics channel that I consider to be relatively good. Not much ideology but plain down to earth economical reasoning combined a bit with how humans behave. After all an economy is made by humans and as such it is prone to all kinds of human emotional things. 

Above you see a graph of the Ukrainian FDI and how it abruptly stopped when the Putin annexed the Crimea. So that is why I joke the Ukrainian economy looks a lot like my own professional career: there is not much to brag about...;).

Video title: The Economy of Ukraine: Before and After
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCt-jsnUnXo

Ok that was it for this post, it is already far to late in the night so let me update this stuff & thanks for your attention.

(17 June 2022) There was all kinds of news about Ukraine like the three musketeers Mario, Manuel and Olaf today visiting Kyiv. May be Ukraine can get a somehow faster track to becoming a potential EU member. I think I am in favor of this.    

Also finally the howitzer training in Germany is finished so next week the German and likely the Dutch howitzers will go on their destination in Ukraine where they are supposed to kill an awful lot of Russians. Now ok, the goal is not to kill as much Ruzzians as possible but to take out enemy artillery. 

But there happened just to much and I would like to take a look at my old friend Brexit again because TLDR news had a relatively good video out on the detail of economical contraction due to Brexit. Also this week the UK government seems to act on legislation that will scrap the North-Ireland protocol and of course that will mean trouble with the EU. We can't have it that all of a sudden there is a part of our border that is open and as such has the potential for all kinds of weird stuff like smuggling.  

Item 1) UK economy falling behind G7, is Brexit to blame? Of course you idiot!

  Item 1) UK economy falling behind G7, is Brexit to blame? Of course you idiot!

It was long waiting because just one year of economical data is not enough of course in order to show that Brexit isn't working as expected by the ideological Brexit diehards. Over the years inside the UK there was this culture of blaming the EU of just everything while never realizing that what they complain about has not much to do with the EU. All ideological nonsense, nothing fact based but only silly beliefs like materialized in that Jacob Rees Mogg guy. Jacob is a person who too complained a lot about the EU and all the benefits it would bring to be outside, but he never comes with some law or so that indeed improves the situation in the UK that would not be possible with the UK inside the EU.

It has to be remarked that on the scale of things inside Russia the stuff is even much weirder. A lot of them buy into that fascism that supposedly rules the Ukrainians. Last update I showed you a video with those intercepted phone calls. Well I also heard some Russian soldier phoning his mommy and at one point in time he tells his mother that a fellow Russian soldier had raped a 15 year old Ukrainian girl. And the mother instantly ask her son: THE FASCISTS? Not often you hear so sharp the idea that 'we are the good' and 'we fight evil'.   

But back to Brexit. In their parliament they play all kinds of games. It is much more lively compared to say our own Dutch parliament, that is true. But it is also a lot of 100% pure bullshit like in the next BoJo reaction: 

Here the BoJo is explaining that the UK had the highest economical growth after the pandemic. That is one of the misleading projections Brexiteers often do: Take one detail that looks good and magnify that without the relevant context mentioned. The relevant context is of course that the UK also fell the hardest with her economy during 2020. It's always one sided bullshit. 

For example in a lot of EU airports there are problems due to lack of staff that were laid off during the pandemic. So if the UK has airport problems they only point to the EU stating the EU has problems too and therefore "It can't be Brexit". That is a stupid line of reasoning, it is all the more stupid if the person in question doesn't even know how much EU workers were working at UK airports. The arguments of Brexiteers are often cheap and very light-weight when it comes to cognitive content.

At last I want to remark that the (small) economy of North-Ireland is more or less in a perfect sweet spot. Companies over there have access to both the UK and EU markets. Inside Europe there is no other place that can do business with both the UK and EU in that way. And yes, there is more bureaucracy involved because after all there is a EU border there.

One more example of Brexiteers once more having a strange view on reality: The next graph shows, in my view anyway, that the NI-protocol is working. But these Brexit parasites keep on whining and blaming weird stuff on the EU. It just never ends... 

Picture source: Video from TLDR news. 
Video title: Britain's Economy is Falling Behind the G7... why? - TLDR News
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szq1FwhQPBU 

That was it for this update. Thanks for your attention. 

(15 June 2022) Oh oh those poor Ukrainians; at some places along the frontline it seems that they are outnumbered in artillery by 10 to 1 or even worse. But all in all they are holding up fine although the destruction of the country is going on and on and on and on... Even if you look at pictures from inside those area's that Russia is said to be liberating, all of the shit is broken and shot down. That is some fucking liberation. Hey now you are liberated! Yes but where's my city gone? 

But it's already late at night so lets go fast to today's two items.

Item 1) Those weird intercepted phone calls from Russians inside Ukraine.
Item 2) Advertisement for the latest math post on the other website.

 Item 1) Those weird intercepted phone calls from Russians inside Ukraine.

Of course a selection of intercepted phone calls is not a statistical sample, by definition it will be made of phone calls with relative weird content. But if you have never listened to a few of them, just look them up on Youtube.  

I selected one from a source that was totally funded by the Ukrainian government so I did not run the risk into presenting some weird troll video. After all I don't even know those languages over there so if you put some English translation under it, I can absolutely not verify if that is correct or not.

Video title: Intercepted! russian troops' lowers low. They start raping russian civilians even in russia. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbZqgZffMkw 

These vids are really weird, from the fact that some Russian soldiers ate a dog to all kinds of weird stuff. All in all it serves as a strong clue about how stupid the preparation of this war was.  

 Item 2) Advertisement for the latest math post on the other website.

Yesterday I published my latest post on the Pythagoras stuff over on the other website. And I was still thinking that my newfound method with those so called normal vectors could only prove more general versions of the old & famous Pythagorean theorem in special cases.  

Special cases like a parallelepiped of 3 dimension inside a four dimensional space. But for a 3D parallelepiped in say a five dimensional space it would already fail. But I take a good look at the stuff and within five minutes I had a proof for that entire so called full Pythagorean theorem.   

Not often did so much cute math fall into place inside my small human brain in such a short time. And I even did not try at all to find a so called general proof because I thought that will be much to technical to explain it in good detail.

Yet the main idea is so called fucking simple because all I do is construct a few normal vectors to our beloved parallelepiped until I have some square matrix, take the determinant of that square matrix and I am done. The basic idea is a simple as the mind of a Ruzzian conscript living on a beautiful salary of 30 € a month...

Anyway if you have ever done the noble task of inverting a square matrix and you more or less understand the calculating scheme involved, you can easily understand how to make such a normal vector like in the next picture:  

In mathematics there is a thing known as the outer product of two vectors in three dimensional space. If you take the outer product of two vectors say A x B the result is a vector that is perpendicular to both A and B.

Weirdly enough a lot of math professionals think that it is not possible to generalize the outer product to higher dimensions. Well my dear math professionals, in the above picture you can see how you do such a thing in our beloved four dimensional space...

I also made a larger version of the picture above, here it is.

Link to the latest post: A visualization of the so called ‘full’ theorem of Pythagoras + a worked example in 4D space. 

End of this update.  

(10 June 2022) Today the European Central Bank held a meeting in Amsterdam. I didn't watch the video of the explanation and/or press conference because years ago I stopped looking at stuff like that. I self would be a very different central banker, I would more or less always go for a zero inflation strategy. Ok ok there are some benefits to having a 2% inflation target rate, but now we have a serious bout of inflation it is harder to fight it this way.  

Anyway we have a Dutch website that tracks all thing related to the stock market and I only looked at it at the end of the trading day and it was funny:
At 08.20 hours they complain 'The ECB does nothing'.
At 13.45 hours they bring the news 'May be not one but two quarters in Sept!'
After trading hours: Sell-off and for once you can blame the ECB for EVERYTHING! 

Anyway the good news is they will finally stop buying all that weird stuff like Italian government bonds. All these years I never heard news from Italy that they had seen the light and raised taxes and cut spending and that they had a budged surplus... If there is only action from the ECB and the political leadership in Italy just never does a thing, buying Italian government debt does not help much. On the contrary it only sank Italy deeper into debt because it was artificially cheap.  

Let's go to our Ukrainian item for this update: 

Item 1) Fresh artillery at the scene & 2 RuZZian generals dead in one day!

 Item 1) Fresh artillery at the scene & 2 RuZZian generals dead in one day!

It seems that a lot of Ukrainian military folks have enough learned in just five days of training. The normal training process takes longer but I do not know how much. Anyway this speed is one of the military details in this war that is highly interesting: Despite the lack of weaponry, ammo and a lot of other things, because the Ukrainians are much more motivated they are eager to learn how to defeat the Russian enemy forces.  

I don't know if our (Dutch) howitzers are already at the scene, ok it is only five or six of them but that is already about 10% of our entire arsenal of those kind of artillery. Despite the front being so large and long, over one hundred howitzers should give a good cover of a lot of that front. It could always be better, I know but it is what it is. 

It could very well be the actual photo above is from some practice place and not on the frontline. CNN was given access to this place: 

Video title: New video shows Ukraine destroy Russian rocket launcher with US-provided weapon Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUsJ3rLNF34 

In a lot of news it was reported that Russia would choose new targets inside Ukraine because of the new weaponry. I doubt if that is true, I observed the Vladimir saying if long range rockets were delivered new targets would be chosen. As far as I know reality, only short range rockets are delivered that is in the range of 70 or 80 km. Long range is about 450 km and stuff like that is just not there. I am not sure if there is no medium range rocket stuff, so for myself speaking it is only short range rocket stuff.

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In another development the Russian army shows once more how far they will go into fighting fascism; two fresh RuZZian generals dead on one day! The number of dead colonels now stands at about 50 so that is significant too.

But will the killing of all those generals and other officers contribute to a so called 'brain drain' of the Russian army? Of course not, they are all corrupted weirdo's to begin with. So there will be almost no difference with those weirdo's dead or alive. The Russian army is very good at holding parades because that is important to them. They are not very good at protecting mother Russia because that is not a way of making some extra money, so protecting the motherland is not important to them...  

In the past I have complained about the quality of the 'Z' logo; it makes a lot of people outside RuZZia vomit. But I have to say the above looks rather beautiful. You instantly understand these two Russian generals are now dead meat... 

Video from the above screenshot: TWO GENERALS KILLED IN ONE DAY!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRRBYbjg_yA 

Ok, that was it for today. Think well and I wish you a 'fight well' for my Ukrainina readers.  

 (08 June 2022) Just a short update: 

1) I still didn't see any news related to Sweden, Finland & Turkey. So likely this is going to end just as the inflation party inside Turkey. Right now consumer price index over 70%, but and that is important, producer price index is about double! So the inflation in Turkey is not over by far. 

Lets leave Turkey with that, I don't feel like getting angry because there is some lets say 'exceptionally gifted' political leadership around there. 

2) I didn't make any screenshots of it but in some video it was claimed there were two Dutch tanks riding in the Ukrainian landscape. Of course on a frontline of about one thousand kilometer it is a drop in the ocean. So lets hope it is a good drop...

3) It seems that in Belarus they are advertising for military jobs. A job as a driver lands you a fantastic 360 or 380 Euro's a month. Why are countries with weird leaders often so economically retarded? May be ask Turkey in a few years? 

Today's item is about the deplorable state of those conscripts inside the Russian army that are drafted from the occupied Russian speaking parts. Often they are reservists that only could get a job if in the past they 'volunteered' as reservists.   

Item 1) Deplorable soldiers & a beautiful house for a hard working man.

 Item 1) Deplorable soldiers & a beautiful house for a hard working man.

It was observed a few times already but now it was rather clear it was all true there were soldiers without any significant body gear and or armor. No helmets or expensive stuff like that.

If this war was not so tragically, it would all be rather funny if you look at that total chaos the Russians make of it.  

Below you see two POW's and one Ukrainian military guy. Those POW's have just nothing, it makes me wonder what kind of guns they have. Also nothing? That would make them 100% cannon fodder... 

Screenshot source: Russia has LOST almost all their Trained Infantry
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVDJyC0yvwY 

Isn't it great that those soldiers want to fight for Russia without any equipment? They must love mother Russia a lot!  

It is often talked that Russia is so corrupt and that is often confirmed. And because militaries are often rather secretive, if corruption enters the military spending process it often goes undetected longer.

It is easy to find via an internet search the house of Sergei Shoigu, that is the Ruzzian minister of defense. I don't know if it is true but it is from a story on Radio Liberty. Of course Radio Liberty is a pure propaganda channel dating back to the cold war. But it has always had that tendency to stick to that weird thing known as 'truth'.
It is not like that Ruzzian television where you have those weirdo's asking for other nations to get nuked. In that regard, even if Putin is replaced I don't think it will make much of a difference. After Putin we will look only at the next weirdo from over there.

But back to Sergei his house, suppose this is indeed his house: 

It is estimated the plot included the house costs about 18 million US$ while Sergei his yearly salary is in the order of 100 thousand US$. So is this a clear cut case of military spending gone wrong?

Of course not. The house was bought by Sergei his daughter on the day she turned 18, so likely this has nothing to do with corruption. It is very plausible that this daughter had some good paying holiday jobs or may be she won the lottery and the first thing she does is buy a house for her loving parents...

Ok, that was it for this update. Thanks for your attention.

(03 June 2022) No update on war stuff because I have only a tiny amount of time and on top of that a few days ago I finally found out why an interesting atmospheric phenomenon goes under the name 'Fair weather condition'.  

So lets jump directly to our item: 

Item 1) Why does the earth have a net electric charge?

 Item 1) Why does the earth have a net electric charge?

Usually we refer to the earth as having not potential or zero potential. This is not correct but since for electrical currents only the difference in electric potential is relevant, it does not matter if it's zero or any other number. 

But the earth has a strong electric field, here is a bit of how it looks. There is a Voltage of about 100 Volts per meter but if you are two meters high you don't get electrocuted because you are a relatively good conductor and there is hardly any electrical current. 

About seven years ago I found out that the standard view on electrons as tiny magnets is a bag filled with bullshit. It is one of the failures of my life that I have not succeeded into talking a bit of sense into the heads of physics professors.  

Anyway these years I am far beyond polite, the only thing physics professors can get from me is the middle finger. If you keep on being stupid seven years on a row, may be it is better to avoid contact with those incompetents.

But lets not get emotional, they are not worth it. With the 'tiny magnet' model of an electron come all kinds of problems. For example why do the electrons that cause the aurora borealis have so much energy that they can ionize the atmosphere? After all these electrons come from the sun and there is also something as the law of conservation of linear momentum. If electrons are tiny magnets the weak magnetic field is never ever be able to accelerate or deflect them like we see in practice. On top of that there is no experimental proof whatsoever that proves that electrons are tiny magnets and the physics professors are so fucking stupid that in a century of time nobody thinks this is a problem. 

Yet the electrons get accelerated because they are magnetic monopoles and that makes them energetic enough to do the beautiful ionization like in a picture like next:

It looks reasonable that the aurora borealis and the australian version are responsibe for the fact that the earth always has a negative electric charge. There is always a net negative charge for the earth as a whole. 

This negative global charge cause positive ions in the atmosphere to go down and that gives a tiny current of about 10^-12 Ampere per square meter. It is estimated that for the earth as a whole this is a current of abut 1800 Ampere. Please remark this is not an electrical current because of the flow of electrons but of the flow of positive charged ions where the loose protons seem to go the fastest. 

It is this stream of positive ions that need the so called 'fair weather condition'. Of course it is hard to define what precisely fair weather is but it is logical that if the atmosphere is turbulent or there is too much wind, this descending  of positive ions down to earth does not take place. 

So that is what I learned this week; you must have fair weather... 

The picture from above with the Voltage curves in it is from an old text from Richard Feynman. So it's an old text but only the first few pages are relevant:

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_09.html.

It is often said that Richard was such a brilliant physicist. Ok he was not a dumb guy, but Richard Feynman too never ever thought that if you claim the electron is a tiny magnet, you must have some experimental proof to back such a claim up.

Anyway it is time to split. 

That's it for this update & lets say a little prayer for military logistics so that the Ukrainians can bomb the hell out of those shitty Russians... 

(01 June 2022) A lot has happened in the last days. But today I could not find any significant news about the negotiations between Turkey, Sweden and Finland. So lets wait and hope for the best. 

1) The sixth round of EU sanctions against Russia was there. It is very ambitious in downgrading energy supplies from Russia to the EU. Ok, that is a good thing but a lot of people expect wonders from this and sorry that won't happen. Russia has it's own currency and if the state has not enough income from selling oil and gas the only choice is print more rubles. Of course that debases the currency and gives rise to more inflation but that can take years.  

2) The Russians made some gains in the usual manner: First shoot all and everything down and turn the city or village into rubble. After that it is apparently liberated and or free from fascism. Now I live on the other side of Europe but it is still very frustrating to see. Imagine how it is if you have lived there and have actually been to those places. 

3) Another thing that is frustrating is of course the long delivery times of the promised artillery. But it is what it is. And from the beginning it was clear that it would take some time before it was in Ukraine.  

4) There also seems to be confusion about the delivery of multiple rocket launch systems. But the USA said it clearly: no long range stuff. So nothing in the say 400 km range but only short range say 70 km. (I don't know the exact specs but you get the idea). Of course countries are always free to decide how they want to contribute. 

5) In a light touch of reality one of the larger or largest gas buyer and seller in my country decided no longer to buy Russian gas because they don't want to pay in rubles. So that made me smile. And the 'ruble payment' stuff keeps being weird: If we pay € to some Russian bank to buy ruble and after that hand it to Gazprom bank, or if we pay € to Gazprom bank, what is the fucking difference? From that you can see there are a whole lot of loose screws in the Kremlin. 

6) The French & German prime ministers did have a phone call with Putin of about 80 minutes. The result was that Russia unconditionally helps in getting the food supply from Ukraine running again. Well seeing is believing but count me a pessimist on that one. I think it is better to 100% destroy all Russian warships over there.
At last I want to remark that Olaf & Emanuel are worth their relatively high salaries. Why? Well they talked about 80 minutes with Putin and now days later they are still not found inside a mental institution...;) 

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Ok, it's getting late so let's go to the item of today.

Item 1) Operator Starsky here: Russian tank exposition in Kyiv. 

 Item 1) Operator Starsky here: Russian tank exposition in Kyiv. 

This was funny to see: A collection of destroyed Russian military equipment on some square in Kyiv and people come and watch and take selfies or so. As a matter of fact if such an event was organized in my own city here in the Dutch landscape, I think I would come and watch if I had the time.

Of course in the present day there is plenty of hd pictures found on the internet, but seeing the stuff for yourself is always a bit better. 

Those destroyed tanks they often look beautiful and that is why I have mixed feelings about it. The beauty of those destroyed tanks and other equipment is paid for say for example how Mariupol now looks. 

Anyway Operator Starsky has a Youtuve channel and the screenshots came from the next video: Video title: The orcish tanks in Kyiv.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lbWFQQ7A1o

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For those readers that like math for some kind of 'mental thing' reason, yesterday I posted a very simple theorem about polynomials on the space of 3D complex numbers on the other website.

That post contains a so called 'crazy calculation' that I hope baffles the human mind.
If you click on the picture you will land at the latest post on 3D complex numbers. You don't have to understand all the details, but this number alpha you see below has a very interesting property: alpha is it's own square. The only numbers you know that are their own square are zero and one. 

But in the space of 3D complex numbers this number alpha actually exists and you can do a ton of other crazy stuff with it. But this update wants to get uploaded to the internet so I better stop typing all that nonsense known as 'words'.

It's time to split, till updates my dear reader. 

(27 May 2022) To be honest I don't have much to say today and on top of that I don't have much time right now. So my item for today will be short.

Now today or may be it was yesterday I heard that the Russians are willing to open the ports from Ukraine so trade can start flowing again. Ok the whole stuff has to be demined, I don't know hom much work that is. But for Ruzzia to do this the sanctions must be lifted...

Once more I don't understand it, only last week the Putin told that the sanctions weren't working. And if they are not working, in that case they are useless, they have zero value. So the Ruzzians want to trade a thing with value (opening of Ukrainian ports) against something without value and that does not work (economical sanctions). 

This goes too far, I respect the Ruzzians a lot and I designed a very special number that is infinitely large and if you multiply that by nothing, so by 0, you get 50 kopeken! So that is half a ruble and that is infinitely times as much as the value of the economical sanctions.

I do this out of respect for the Ruzzians, I am even willing to pay this ruble in rubles. The only problem is I have no rubles and when I go to the bank and ask for half a ruble they say go fuck yourself and then I said I am not a Ruzzian warship.  

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 Ok, lets go to our item for today:

Item 1) A video channel from Denys Davydov from Ukraine. 

Item 1) A video channel from Denys Davydov from Ukraine.  

Of course there are more Youtube channels about the war in Ukraine like operator Starsky but the videos from Denys (speak out like Denis or as we would write it Dennis) are relatively good. 

He was a pilot and as such is not out of work and as such produces more videos. Of course he is biased but all of the time he tries to stay factual. So that is good, the war can only be won by trying to get as close to the truth as possible.

On Denys his channel I observed that 'z' joke like writing Ruzzians instead of Russians. I don't know if he was the inventor of this joke but I like it a lot. And if you write it as RuZZia all of a sudden you get that pleasant SS feeling in the air.

He often works with a map that you can change in time. So you see the frontline moving from day to day. 

Denys Davydov
https://www.youtube.com/c/RoadHomeMotorcycleVlogs

As you see at the title of his vlog, it was opened in better times from before the war.  

Ok, that was it already for this update. See you around and thanks for your attention. 

(25 May 2022) A lot has happened, the Russians are making small gains but it is hard to tell how significant this all is. After all they are burning personnel and hardware in a fast rate. The wholesale destruction just goes on and on. The food situation could become very worse so these are all not happy developments.

On the other side a country like Denmark is willing to deliver Harpoon missiles and a launcher to Ukraine. It might be other also more advanced weapon systems are on there way but of course a lot of that flies under the radar of the press.  

Two items for today's update: 

 Item 1) Harpoonaise, can you eat that with a fish meal?
 Item 2) Ruzzia must know the truth about the Howitzer range! It's all LIES!!!!!

  Item 1) Harpoonaise, can you eat that with a fish meal?

It would be a great thing if the food from Ukrainian ports would start flowing again. But the Russian warships block that. Today I saw a video of a Russian cargo vessel loading up on grain, but it is hard to say of that gets stolen or if it is paid for in the appropriate manner.

Anyway, it is hard to image that Russia thinks it is a good idea if Ukraine can export agriculture products again. So elementary logic says that the remaining Russian warships all have to go blup blup blup.

That is easier said than done so it is a good thing things like Harpoon missiles get delivered to Ukraine. But it all will take a lot of time and effort while in the meantime for the poor in the world that live on a few dollars a day the food fast becomes too expensive and hunger will be there...

So lets bomb the shit out of the Russian warships in order to fight inflation!

Like the name suggests, Harpoons are designed for launch from a ship. That's why a launcher must be included. Well lets hope for the best and we have to wait until more blup blup blup news arrives... 

 Item 2) Ruzzia must know the truth about the Howitzer range! It's all LIES!!!!!

I am disturbed by all those reports that the western Howitzers have ranges like 25 or 30 km while this is just another lie from the decadent western homosexuals. Ruzzia must not think it is unfair if the other cannons shoot much further because it is all a big lie. It is just fucking stupid NATO propaganda, really true!

In the science of artillery it is a fundamental law that if two cannons are similar, that is they have the same design, the same explosives but only the ammo differs in diameter, in that case the range is proportional to the diameter.

To put it simple: If the diameter is twice, that cannon will fire twice as far. 

So there is no problem at all for the Ruzzians, they use 152 mm ammo and those Howitzers we lend and lease to Ukraine have a 155 mm barrel. 

I am proud that my own home nation also delivers a few of those Howitzers, below you see an example of what we deliver in a few months time. It takes some time to train the crews but after a few months of training we sure have some FIREPOWER! 

I hope the Ruzzians realize this is more or less the same: 16.5 kilometer versus 16.8 kilometer. Furthermore I hope that the Russian state television where you can see all these wonderful characters will hug this simple calculation and explain to their audience that it is not true that RuZZian cannons can't shoot that far. 

May be this is a good time to split, see you around my dear reader. 

(20 May 2022) Ok ok I understand a bit more now about why Turkey was complaining about support for what they name a terrorist organization. By the way, a lot of the trouble for Turkey started when I was a soldier myself back in the 1980-ties.

Anyway I would like to apologize for my somehow over the top reaction. So I am sorry. To my excuse I can say I was only thinking "We are not going to organize NATO as Turkey does with inflation". So ok, these complaints from Turkey had more merit than I thought. 

But now I understand the history of the problem a bit better, I have no clue how to solve this. This is clearly a political problem and as such it should also be solved by politicians. At last I want to remark that during this Ukrainian crises and given the economical situation Turkey is presently in, all in all Turkey is doing a very good job. For myself speaking I liked the application of that old treaty that gave Turkey the right to closes the route to the Black sea the most. I absolutely did not know that this was possible. 

In general we can say that if a country like mine or Sweden or Finland gives some aid to groups in other countries, this is almost always humanitarian aid. Stuff like medical aid, food or whatever what. As a rule of thumb it is never supposed to be for killing other groups. Of course it is always possible some of the aid falls into the wrong hands, but that is not a valid reason to stop the humanitarian aid. Just like in the present situation where often the Ukrainians catch military equipment from the Russians but sometimes our own military deliveries gets lost to the Russians. There will always be some leakage.

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At last I want to remark we must find a way to get the ports of Ukraine open so the ships can go in and out. But already today I read the news the USA wants to deliver about 24 anti-ship missiles to Ukraine. That should more or less deter the remaining Russian war fleet. 

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Well enough about the war for today, I have one totally bizarre magnetic item for you: possibly a black hole that reverses its magnetic orientation. So that is our item for today.

Item 1) Anton Petrov on black hole magnetic flip.  

 Item 1) Anton Petrov on black hole magnetic flip.  

May be you have seen one of those videos from the sun where a bulp of plasma comes streaming out and follows an arc shaped curve. All of a sudden this plasma along the circular arc stops and reverses direction.

That too is magnetic flip but I never heard any astrophysicist talk about that.

Anyway if you work from the assumption that the electrons are magnetic monopoles, that is they carry magnetic charge, all of a sudden this behavior of the sun comes much more understandable.  

Think for example at a cylindrical shape of plasma that initially is electrical neutral, for every electron there is also on average a proton and so on. Suppose this plasma in some cylindrical shape or in some tornado like structure spins around, the smallest deviation from electrical neutral will create magnetic fields. But if electrons are magnetic monopoles they will start following magnetic field lines in two directions. As such a lot of electrons will fly out because the magnetic field is much larger as the cylinder of spinning plasma is. Therefore the plasma will get very positive when it comes to electric charge and the magnetic field gets much stronger.  

But if the magnetic field becomes much stronger, even more electrons will get spit out and the plasma becomes even more positively charged. The magnetic field now becomes so strong that the kinetic energy in the spinning plasma does the work that goes into the creation of the strong magnetic field.  

I estimate this is how those solar eruption occur: the stuff becomes so positive that there is a fast transfer of kinetic energy into a magnetic field and with that magnetic field the plasma gets violently spat out. 

Did you know that physics professors have zero experimental proof that electrons are tiny magnets, so called magnetic dipoles, as they claim? The only problem is that electrons just do not behave as if they have two magnetic poles. For example if electrons have two magnetic poles, in that case they can't be accelerated by magnetic fields.

If on the other hand electrons carry magnetic charge, a lot of things in the universe become much more understandable. For example the electron pair in chemical bindings, that is not some weird combination of two 'anti-aligned' tiny magnets but two electrons with opposite magnetic charge.

But after seven years of trying to convince other people, last year I gave up on that. The physics professors got classified as some form of math professor life. As such that kind of life you must avoid if you want to keep your mental sanity.  

Ok, that 'mental sanity' is a joke of curse. But why physics people don't see all the shortcomings with electrons as 'tiny magnets' is still unknown to me. May be the human mind refuses to think about what they don't understand. 

Ok, now why does the magnetic field flip?

One possibility is that the spinning plasma that gets very positive electrically charged suddenly gets a big cloud of electrons injected into it... So much electrons that the positive charge becomes negative and as such the magnetic field flips.

This would perfectly explain the behavior of the sun when plasma along an arc all of a sudden stops and retreats along the arc later. 

Anyway, in the video from Anton you will find all kinds of other explanations, for example the magnetic orientation could also flip if the accretion disk of a black hole all of a sudden will spin in the other way. May be that is possible, but it takes an awful lot of kinetic energy to achieve such a noble thing while the electron cloud smashing in is possible a far more subtle solution to the stuff actually observed.

Here is the video:
Video title: First Ever Magnetic Field Reversal In a Massive Black Hole.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NpiQAJoNfo  

For the diehards, on the preprint archive you can find the article where Anton Petrov based his video upon:

A radio, optical, UV and X-ray view of the enigmatic changing look Active Galactic Nucleus 1ES~1927+654 from its pre- to post-flare states.
Link used: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.07446    

Ok, that was it for today. Please Turkey don't forget to always find new ways to fight that awful thing known as inflation. Right now if we can sink all Russian warships in the Black Sea, that helps bringing down food prices...;)

Till updates my dear reader.  

(18 May 2022) Just as it more or less looks like it's going fine with the application of Sweden and Finland, comes Turkey screaming round the corner: There are too many terrorist organizations over there. That was 100% new to me; terrorist organizations in Finland? Later I found out it has something to do with the Kurds so may be the Turks had found say five books in a Finnish libraby that are in the Kurdisch language or so and this library is funded with taxpayer money? 

Anyway, my guess is that you cannot accuse Finland or Sweden from supporting terrorism. That is the same level of craziness as say fighting fascism inside Ukraine. 

But I don't have much time today so lets go fast to our item. 

Item 1) Four photo's that also shows toilets are military targets.

 Item 1) Four photo's that also shows toilets are military targets.

Lets start with that border post or border pole picture. Of course you can make a video like this everywhere but the Ukrainian army has not a habit of making stuff up. And that is a good thing, all that disinformation is often not helpful. 

Anyway it looked genuine so here is the first picture:  

The above is a perfect example as why you should never fake such photo's. It might give a short morale boost to the population but if it comes out it's all a fake that is bad for morale... Anyway, congratulations!

Another big thing lately was that botched attempt to cross a river, the Donets or so. I have never heard of it but I am not a walking encyclopedia on the rivers of the world. It is safe to conclude that at least partially the better artillery is at work here. Of course the Ukrainian army did not specify in detail how it was done but all in all this looks good.

There were all kinds of crazy stories going round like the Russians lost a thousand soldiers but that looks a bit over the top. If a thousand were killed even in the aerial footage you must see bodies everywhere and that is not the case. But it must have been a devastating experience for the Russians.   

Click on the picture for a wider (1920x1080 px) screenshot: 

Now we arrive at the mysterious case of the stolen toilet. In my country we name that a toilet pot, it is the stone or porcelain part of a toilet. Anyway it was reported the toilet was found inside an abandoned Russian position and it was stolen from a neighboring house.

I found this interesting because why should you steal a toilet pot? You only do that if you don't have one at home and secondly you must think you can transport that thing back to the motherland...   

From that same video we observe another example of looting: a missing kitchen sink. It is hard to imagine how these people live back home in the motherland Russia. But if the Russian economical output is about 10 thousand € per capita citizen, in that case a yearly salary of say 5000 € (in rubles of course) should be common. But that is only about 500  € per month at that is not very much...

The screenshots are from the next videos:

From Warthog, video title:
MILITARY DISASTER ON THE DONETS PIERCES A PRO-RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA BUBBLE. 
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZgwMLJchfA 

From UA courage: 
Video title: Abandoned RUSSIAN bases. What’s inside?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h0qP0oRNTg 

Ok, it is getting late so lets see if we can get this uploaded.
Thanks for your attention and see you around.

(13 May 2022) If I have time enough I will try to update two items, but it's already late so we will see. Lets start with the first item: 

Item 1) Mama Socks rules Finland? Ruzzia must learn the truth about Mama Socks.
Item 2) Magnets and their minimum energy state.

  Item 1) Mama Socks rules Finland? Ruzzia must learn the truth about Mama Socks.

It seems that Finland and Sweden want to join NATO so I was curious what this all was about. So I did send a few emails to the Finnish embassy and even placed a few phone calls and it was all very surprising information to me.

A spokesperson for the embassy told me that Ruzzia must not be afraid or angry because the deep cultural ties between Finland and Ruzzia will always be there until the end of time.

For example their prime minister is lovingly named Mama Socks because in her large family always when somebody gets a hole in a sock, she likes to repair it. The sock must be clean of course but no matter how bad the condition of the sock is, Mama Socks will do her best.

Inside Ruzzia they have millions of Mama Socks too, often they are wealthy families that for centuries always repair the holes in socks and always invest that saved money wisely so after a lot of sock repairs those families are very rich. 

So the spokesperson told me that would not change, Mama Socks will keep on repairing socks no matter what.

I asked like "Are the Finnish people now placing a nuke every five meters along the entire border with Ruzzia?" No no no, not at all but the Finnish people have decided that if it is needed they would like to have maximum help in case the situation with the Trolls runs out of hand. Everybody knows that Trolls are a big problem in countries like that for centuries. So it has nothing to do with Ruzzia.

Another thing about the local culture in Finland that I did not know was that over there the art of graphic design is a highly male thing. These are really rough guys, most of them are also commando's in the local army. Anyway the Finnish pm but also the Swedish pm are both into graphical art themselves, because of that it is also very easy to relate to all those rough warriors in the Finnish and Swedish army. Those soldiers love it that their female commanders in chief are into graphical art themselves. They can relate to that.  

The deeper problem with Ruzzia is that their logo is so stupid, if you grab some wall paint and write the letter Z on your tanks and other army vehicles, that makes a lot of people outside RusZZia totally vomit about that lousy logo design. In both countries both the society as the military prefers to join NATO solely because of the logo design. 
That Z logo was may be not a good idea my dear Ruzzia... 

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But serious Russia, every country has the right to self defense. Other European nations are not a threat to Finland or Sweden but you are. It is obvious that your commander in chief Putin has some serious mental issues although I do not know what it is exactly but he is no longer a so called 'rational actor'.

Take for example the behavior on the battlefield, of course in every war it is hard to avoid all war crimes. After all humans are humans and the pressure often is intense when every day you see your fellow soldiers die. But in the next short video from the BBC you see perfectly why we do not want Russian soldiers in any European country whatsover.  

Just as easy they shoot a civilian in the back, just as easy.  

Video title: Russian soldiers caught on camera killing Ukrainian civilians - BBC News Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GUrNPPTSWM 

We just don't want that kind of shit here, so we will invest more in military hardware, expand our military powers while diminishing those of RuZZia. 

You can complain all you want, I won't listen to it. End of this item.

 Item 2) Magnets and their minimum energy state.

Suppose you have two bar magnets or two ball shaped magnets and you hold them together. Now every body knows the magnets will repel or attract but what is the lowest energy state?

Very simple: It is in the lowest energy state if it takes the most energy to separate them again. This only happens in a non-quantum macroscopic magnet if they are aligned. That means north pole attaches to south pole and so on.

So why for example in chemistry does the electron pair only form bonds when the electrons are so called 'anti aligned'? The chemistry and physics professors do only blah blah blah like the Pauli exclusion principle. As if that explains something...

It is just not logical that two 'tiny magnets' like the official version of electron spin is that they would 'anti align' to form an electron pair.

In my view, the only thing that is logical to the human brain is that electrons are not 'tiny magnets' with two magnetic poles. The only thing that is logical is that electrons themselves carry magnetic charge, it is logical that they are magnetic monopoles. 

Lets leave it with that my dear reader, thanks for your attention and see you in the next update.  

(11 May 2022) A short update; I want to skip that rambling speech from Putin from Monday when Russia celebrated victory day. I only repeat an observation from some Ukrainian that Russia has killed more in Mairupol now compared to what happened there during world war II.  

It looks like the first pieces of long distance artillery have arrived at the battlefield so it looks like a job well done by the military logistics people. Military logistics are an interesting specialty in itself. Inside Ukraine those long distance artillery is something the crews must be trained upon but I guess this is not a big problem.

Anyway this brings some perspective to the Ukrainians because it brings some hope of taking the initiative much more by the Ukrainians. As such the Russians might walk into more and more trouble. 

It was rumored that inside Ukrainian mortuaries there are about 7000 dead Russian soldiers but Russia doesn't want them back. Also funny was the news that all dead sailors from the flagship the Moskva will not receive any compensation because the ship did not sink due to armed conflict. That brought a soft smile on my face. 

I want to use this short update for a small advertisement for my latest math post over on the other website. So lets go: 

Item 1) 3D Pythagoras: the inner product proof. The most simple proof ever?

  Item 1) 3D Pythagoras: the inner product proof. The most simple proof ever?

To focus the mind let me give you an example what this stuff is about: 

Take a (flat) triangle and hold it somewhere in three dimensional space. Project the triangle on the three coordinate planes, that is the xy-, the yz- and the xz-plane.
The three projected triangles have areas say B, C and D. 

If the original triangle has a surface area of say A, this slightly generalized Pythagoras thing now says that:

A^2 = B^2 + C^2 + D^2. 

I managed to find a proof that is utterly simple on the one hand while on the other hand it proves this 3D version of Pythagoras for all shapes at the same time and it easily generalizes to any desired higher dimension. 

The proof is so simple it can easily be taught at high school students in their last years but most of the time those lessons are already overcrowded because those students have only a few hours of math per week.

Anyway, the result is that it only depends on how a plane that contains your flat shape like a triangle is oriented in space. The three angles with the coordinate planes are easily to calculate if you know a normal vector of that plane containing your shape.

That is what the three angles are in the picture below, the (a, b, c) form the normal vector, it is all ultra basic while it proofs the stuff for all shapes at the same time. If you click on the picture you get a 1000 pixel wide version of the same thing:

The screenshots are from The Sun, a UK based news outlet, they have plenty of videos out upon military action in Ukraine.  

Video title: Ukrainian forces take out Russian targets with Howitzer units
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qmyl0Ifnpo 

Here is another picture I made yesterday. It symbolizes perfectly what the state of the Russian army is... 

At last the link to my own post about this utterly simple proof of the Pythagoras thing in 3D space:

Post title: Is this the most simple proof for a more general version 
of the theorem of Pythagoras? The inner product proof.
Link used: http://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2022/05/06/is-this-the-most-
simple-proof-for-a-more-general-version-of-the-theorem-
of-pythagoras-the-inner-product-proof/

Ok, that was it for this update. Live well, think well and for those who are engaged in combat, fight well. Till updates.  

(06 May 2022) Wow a lot has happened; new economical sanctions, that big Russian bank also out of the SWIFT system. Now it is impossible to comment on all that news so I selected two video's about Ukraine that are interesting in my view. And a perfect math video about the historical (slow) discovery of the logarithm and exponential functions. 

I also heard a lot of people complain that the economical sanctions don't work because the war is still going on. But that is much too fast, only a rational actor in the Kremlin would back down for that. The more we learn about this war the crazier it gets, for example I don't know if it is all true but even Lavrov knew only a few hours before the war it would go on. And most of the army was also kept out of the loop???
Well lets not jump to conclusions too fast, but it is an interesting shit show so to say.

Two items for this update: 

Item 1) Why did the Moskva sink & similar items.
Item 2) Historical development of the logarithm and exp functions.

 Item 1) Why did the Moskva sink & similar items.

Lets start with the more slow and thought through video. It is made by Anders Puck Nielsen about the sinking of the Moskva. Why don't all those air defenses not work? We see it again and again; a surface to air battery destroyed by a drone and stuff like that.   

Anders has an interesting hypothesis; the relative old equipment on the Moskva is just not good for staring at hours on a time. This could be one of the sources or causes for this to happen. Of course it is just a hypothesis but everyone who has been in the army knows how boring and long lasting stuff can be. For example if you must guard a building or an entrance often it is extremely boring.  

Also interesting, in the picture below you see the Russian navy uses all kinds of modern techniques to find the course for their boat. No use of clay tablets or so but real flat paper and a pencil and even a ruler for drawing straight lines and measuring distances. I was like WOW! 

Video title: Bad design can kill: Missile defense and user fatigue
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaiVjJWOUWE 

The next video is more on the funny side of life. Not that the war as a whole is a funny thing, it is all a tragedy of course. But it is funny to see tanks explode, Russian soldiers running one way and a grenade later come running back. 

Also two boats gone blup blup this week. Ukraine claims they were taken out by those Turkish drones those Bayraktars. Or is it a Baryaktar? I don't know why but for some strange reason I just can't remember that name again and again. Anyway at present day everybody knows what a Turkish drone is...;)  

With the Moskva the Kremlin fast told the truth and the truth was it was some fire that lead to the explosion of some ammo and accidentally this all sank to the bottom because of stormy weather.

Now I have done some thinking for myself and I have found another possible explanation for those exploding boats: the sailors try to fire up a barbeque but for some reason it runs out of hand and before you know it the fire reaches the ammo and the whole thing goes BOOM.

You might wonder WHY? But that is explained by the officers on those Russian ships. The officers often have fatherly feelings for those young recruits and therefore they encourage them to make a barbeque fire themselves. So the intention is good, the only problem is that the boats explode...

In another development the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov did once more prove that the human mind can wonder in strange directions. The claim was that Hitler was part Jewish and that Jews were often anti-Semites and as such fascists themselves.    

Or words of similar crazy lines demonstrating this guy is ready for a mental hospital. At first I wanted to neglect that idiot one 100%, why waste my time on that? But it is also in the second video and Israel was outraged and that was funny so therefore I made this picture of the guy ripe for a mental institution: 

In itself it is an interesting question: Why did Hitler hate Jews so much? The only hypothesis I still remember today is that he got syphilis from a Jewish whore. That would also explain the later illnesses he had but it is all speculation as all prove is long gone.

Just like the sinking of the Moskva, it is hard to say what the details are but it could very well be that the whole Russian army is very bad in defending itself from small aircraft like drones...  

Lets go to the next item. 

  Item 2) Historical development of the logarithm and exp functions.

Of course I like the logarithm big time. Only because I was able to calculate the logarithm for so called imaginary units in higher dimensions I was able to find the math treasure trove of my life: The exponential circles & curves.

Of course I knew a bit about the historical development of it all but the next video is all in all very broad in how this all evolved so slow but also steadily over the decades and centuries. By the way, this slow onset is also a proof that in general human brains are not very at doing math.

Anyway if you click on the picture of the new Russian tank, destroyed of course, you can learn about the history of log & exp!  

Video title: How people came up with the natural logarithm and 
the exponential function
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B6FymMv8b4

Ok, that was it for this update.  

(29 April 2022) The wort is finished boiling and can now cool overnight so tomorrow it can go into the fermentation bottles. I brew this beer recipe now almost one hundred times, that is a staggering 4000 liter of beer...;)   

Military spending is on the rise across Europe. My home nation had military spending of about 1.4% of the economy. That amounts to 800 € per Dutch citizen. Russian military spending was about 5% of their economical output or about 500 € per Russian citizen. Now the whole stuff goes to 2% and of course that is a good thing because for years I have advocated for that. 

All I want to say is that is it not the goal of reaching 2% of GDP but to gain military strength. We must not end in a situation over a couple of years where there is more spending but hardly any gain in military power.  

For the rest I did not have the proper time to make a new item from the news so today we do a tiny bit of math. It's about the theorem of Pythagoras and some possible generalizations. So lets go:

Item 1) Just some screenshots of stuff I consider mathematically beautiful.

 Item 1) Just some screenshots of stuff I consider mathematically beautiful.

Yesterday I finished my text that commented on a very good pdf from Charles Frohman that has a rather provocative title: The Full Pythagorean Theorem. All I needed at the end was one more small screen shot from a text that I had written about a decade back but the computer said no. I searched for about one hour but without success. 

Yet today on another computer I found it! It goes under the name main2012.pdf and that is not very helpful if you look for a file with the name Pythagoras in it... 

In a few days time I will post it on the other website, there are many interesting facets on generalizations of the Pythagorean theorem. 

The upper half of the picture below is from Charles, the lower half is from me. After all those years normal vectors like that are still the most beautiful I ever found.  

In another development I found a simple way using the GIMP image manipulation program for placing this math text over pictures. Below you a very famous math professor (Megan Rain is her name and she is famous for the curly Volt theorem). 

In GIMP all you have to do is use the multiply option to combine 2 layers, that makes all white go away leaving only the black math text visible over the underlying picture of math professor Megan Rain who is famous for her curly Volt theorem.

Informally said the curly Volt theorem explains that when the Volts in your electricity are too curly, they no longer can pass through your electricity wire. So you get a build up of electrical energy because the curly Volts have nowhere to go.
After some time of energy build up this all snaps and the energy released can vaporize all matter within a fifty mile radius.

May be it is a good time to split and for you to worry upon the dangers hidden in curly Volts...;) Till updates.  

 (27 April 2022) Ok I cleaned up this homepage that once more had grown far to long. The old stuff that is deleted here is now placed in the archive at a page with the exiting title index16.htm. 

Today finally an update on the Russian ruble, why is it that strong and are the sanctions not working or so? Luckily I found a good video that explains it relatively good and the guy from that video has a good chart to back up what he says. Basically there is not much trading volume in the ruble what means the economical and financial sanctions work despite the present high value of the ruble. 

But first Sun Tzu. The works of the Chinese Sun Tzu have been influential for centuries and centuries and guess what? More centuries. If you are interested in military stuff and you have never heard of the guy, look it up on the internet. 

One of the many famous quotes from Sun Tzu is:

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat upon. 

A few weeks back the ruble hit about 150 against the US$ and €, in that week I was just trolling the Kremlin a little bit with stating it will fall to one thousand against the US$ and the €. I also said I would keep an eye on it but to be honest I never did that. My usual quote provider on currency pairs like €/ruble simply stopped quoting the price anyway. And I did not take the time to find more actual stuff.

Anyway after I trolled the Kremlin just a tiny bit, the ruble began to strengthen until it had the same value as before the war or the so called special operation. 

That ruble strength is the 'golden bridge' for Russia and they can retreat over that bridge back to the land with normal economical relations.

I did not build the bridge myself, I am not crazy, the Russians did it themselves with buying rubles in a thin market. After all I am not a hard working Chinese laborer but a lazy and decadent Western person. So the Russians must build and maintain their golden bridge themselves, they must guard the value of the Russian ruble!

It is well known that Vladimir Puting likes donald trump a lot. That could be because they both have similar emotional eruptions, I don't know. But I definitely know that when I heard from the news that the ruble was gaining strength, I decided to let the Russians PAY FOR IT THEMSELVES.  

All these weeks I just neglected the ruble stuff, only today I pick it up again... 

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Let's go to the item of today: 

Item 1) Joe blogs on the adventures of the Russian ruble.

 Item 1) Joe blogs on the adventures of the Russian ruble.

Currency values are also driven by supply and demand. Although in our fiat money systems it is often a bit vague what supply actually is, the demand is more easy to understand.

Under normal economical situations, a lot of individuals and companies must constantly swap rubles for other currencies in order to de trade and stuff with Russia.

If those economical actions stop because a lot of companies are vomiting from what they see in the Ukrainian war, those currency swaps just ain't there.

So it is a thin market, that means that at present time it is relatively cheap for the Russians to keep the ruble in the prewar range. To be honest: I have no idea about the daily average costs in doing so. I heard an estimate of the costs being about one billion a day so that would be 5 billion for a 7 day week.
But I also doubt that source because they said that Russia had been preparing for this by ensuring for 8 years that supply chains will be much more inside Russia.
I doubt claims like that because until now all downed drones in Ukraine are all made of imported electronics and the camera is something like a 750 € commercial camera. Ok, it works at some level but it is all not military grade so to say... 

All in all I estimate that it must cost a lot of foreign money in order to maintain the value of the ruble in the short and medium term.

Anyway it is late at night and I need to wind this update down.
Click on the next picture for a larger version so you can see how volume & price of the ruble has been evolving since the start of the war: 

Here is a link to the video from Joe blogs: 

Video title: RUSSIAN RUBLE - Why Did Value REBOUND so Quickly? Full Explanation & Reasons for Currency Recovery
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDDrLaH2h7o 

Ok, that was it for this update.  

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