(27 June 2025) So I finally once more cleaned up this very homepage, if for some strange reason you need to read older stuff you can go to the archive at the end of this long page. Just scroll down.

Item 1) The NATO top & Ukraine has now a kit for their own glide bombs.
Item 2) Nice Vera Rubin picture & more on entangled photons.

  Item 1) The NATO top & Ukraine has now a kit for their own glide bombs.

The NATO top was a success because of the new commitment to a whopping 5% of GDP and to defense and security outlays. Well I was against it because of a lot of reasons and too much money isn't good for all kinds of efficiencies and the likes. 

Lets look at another detail; those new weight loss medicine there is lately. The USA has a notorious inefficient health care system and such a medicine can cost a 1000 $ a month over there. And in Europe such kind of medicine sets you only back 150 € a month. Now I don't want a future EU military and production of military hardware to be such terrible inefficient. Of course there must be plenty of funding after so many years of underfunding but I think 5% is too much... A Reuters report on this stuff: 

Report title: Europe placates Trump with NATO pledges it can ill afford.
Link used: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense
/europe-placates-trump-with-nato-pledges-it-can-ill-afford-2025-06-25/

A very different detail is the new glide bomb kit the Ukrainians have made, I think it is still in development or may be they have a product that only need to be scaled up in production. I don't know.

Anyway they were a pain in the ass for Ukraine a long time so it is good they can do a little bit back of the same. It seems that the Ukrainians have plenty of FAB 500 bombs from the Sovjet era. As the name suggests, it contains 500 kg of explosives so must have very very good health insurance in case you are to close to the explosion...

Suchominus as always working hard to get nice video's out has also a video on these glide bombs. They sure look cool although I would not like the sight of it in our own skies.   

Video title: First Use of Ukraine's New UMPK Glidebomb Kit on FAB 500. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVsy1W2NTLw

All in all this week could have gone much more worse so therefore I am positive about all stuff related to military things. So spend all that money wisely and lets now go to the next item.

 Item 2) Nice Vera Rubin picture & more on entangled photons.

Stunning, they look absolutely stunning these images from the new Vera Rubin telescope. Now a guy named Scott Manley said that the thing can see six colors, the usual red, green and blue and also light the human eye can't see. So likely infrared and may be also UV radiation.
Likely already a few of those outside the human color spectrum colors are used because those images look a bit different to say all older stuff.  

This telescope has crazy specs; it has the largest camera ever and it can scan the entire southern hemisphere in 3 nights of observation. So this looks like a game changer for astronomy just like the Hubble telescope was back in the time.  

In a very different area I looked a bit more at the down conversion stuff where one photon gets split in two. In the last update we looked at Marissa Giustine who spoke about horizontal and vertical polarization of the two photons. But I also came across a video of a commercial product where the photon pairs produced were of the same linear polarization. So there are all kinds of different so called non-linear crystals out there. May be I was a bit premature with saying that may be the incoming high energy photon ejects and entire electron pair into a higher orbital. Because if another crystal splits a photon in two and those photons are identical, that would undermine my idea of an electron pair jumping.

May be there are more mechanisms that lead to this photon splitting because there is also a lot of photon splitting in two photons with unequal energy further dismanteling electron pair jump as a possible explanation source.  

All those years since I heard from these very strange experiments that violate the so called Bell inequality I always assumed that any photon pair will do. Simply because one higher energy photon becomes two, that is why physics people think they are entangled. But in the video it is claimed it is much more complicated, only when that signal photon and idler photon are in the two little square boxes in the picture below, they are entangled.

And why? Well there you can't know if they have a horizontal or a vertical polarization... I don't know what to think of that, it sounds a lot like all that stuff that (human) consciousness has influence on quantum processes. After smoking enough weed that might look reasonable but I think it is wooly wooly talk. Human consciousness has nothing to do with it.   

Anyway it is getting late so all that is left for you to click on the picture if you want to see that video that only makes me confused.  

Video title: Lecture: Entangled Photon Pair Production with SPDC
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqKkwTA3Xms

Ok that was it for this week, again it could have been much worse so let us rejoice in the fact it didn't happen. 

(25 June 2025) Lets go directly to the two items of this update because looking at say the Iranian situation takes to much time. Lets go:

Item 1) Why this weird 5% norm & Yummy, Russians eating Russians.
Item 2) Nice news from Marissa Giustine on photon behavior. 

 Item 1) Why this weird 5% norm & Yummy, Russians eating Russians.

It never came to it to discuss this 5% norm that now for some reason gets serious implementation or so? Yes it was 2%, that is what countries more or less had to abide to but for a long time did not do. Two percent of GDP to defense. Ok ok after at least one but often at least two decades of underspending on defense, some countries can decide of course what they want to do. After all they are sovereign in that matter.  

But going to five percent is far to much, that only encourages inefficiencies on a giant scale. New and more weapon systems should have it's own military logic, for example it should multiply existing stuff. Not some arbitrary political threshold of say 5%.
Today the next picture emerged, it's not all for defense but also that more vague security whatever that may mean. The TLDR folks had a video on the matter and they made the correct observation that there exists no other form of government spending that has a percentage of GDP as target.
Click on the picture for their video:   

Video title: The Big Problem With NATO's New 5% Target
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udxtglKVrAc

The second video is very different and to be honest it did not go very much upon the likely gory details of Russian soldiers eating other soldier corpses. But it's from someone that lives in Ukraine, I don't know if he is a Ukrainian because his last name is Robertson and not something like Robertsonsky. Here is his video:

Video title: Russian soldiers are now eating each other.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr0w5690-5I

And as always I had to skip an awful lot of stuff but my clock says go to the next item so I will obey the clock for this time. 

  Item 2) Nice news from Marissa Giustine on photon behavior. 

It was last week or the week before that I brought up that crystal that physicist use to create what they call entangled pairs of photons. That is the process of parametric down conversion where one photon of light splits into two photons with the same energy.

For a number of years I explained this as may be the absorption of the higher energy photon causes an electron pair to jump up and fall down again and as such it will produce two photons.

And if my idea's about electrons as being magnetic monopoles, these two photons would have opposite circular polarization. And now this lady, Marissa Giustine comes along and she has worked five years on a realization of the Bell experiment and she had the next to say:  

The two photons have different linear polarization, one is vertical and the other is horizontal polarized.  

And again I know nothing about how circular polarized photons act through a linear polarizer but of course it is an important observation that at least the linear polarization is different. So it can't be excluded that indeed an electron pair is jumping up and down.

Back in the year 2015 when I started to look into the question if indeed electrons were tiny magnets as the official version is versus my intuition that likely they are magnetic monopoles, year in year out I ran into dozens of things. And all of those things said that it is not excluded that the magnetic properties of electrons are just as their electric properties: permanent & monopole. 

And if my version of jumping electron pairs is correct, likely that explains the high correlation you find in those Bell experiments. This is just what they name a "loophole" or along Einstein there are "hidden variables that we don't know of".

Now I would not name it a hidden variable but more a hidden constant; it is the permanent monopole character of electron spin that causes the high correlations found... But try to explain that to Marissa...

Those Bell experiments are often hard to grasp in one go what is going on. So if you have never heard of them, it is not uncommon it takes a few days before you have a good oversight over all the stuff involved. As always click on the picture for the video: 

Video title: Marissa Giustina: Significant loophole-free test of Bell’s theorem with entangled photons. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgoWM4Jcl-s

At last I want to remark that Marissa is an experimentalist and as such I hold those people more reliable. Anyway much more reliable compared to shallow thinking theoreticals that have ingrained all that weird stuff like "And look now the electron anti-aligns itself and that's why it is moving in that direction". All that crap and all caused by the silly belief that magnetic monopoles do not exist.

That was it for this post, if you made it till here thanks for your attention. 

(20 June 2025) A guy named Jesse Dollomore came out with some hilarious story: The new Trump phone, the T1, is made in China. Jesse also observed that miracle miracle smart phones have no tariffs on them. Likely Donald did not want to pay tariff stuff himself, who knows.

So I was wrong by often stating it is all so chaotic because those phone tariffs lifted was something from April or so. And in the present day and age that is almost an infinite long time ago so from that point of view you can even say that Donald is a strategic player, someone that only goes for important long term goals... Click on the picture for Jesse's video: 

Video title: 
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il6BkhpjV_E

On top of that you can get this phone for 169 dollar at Amazon. If it's all true in that case we can claim that only if every detail is fake, it's an authentic Donald Trump. Lets go to the items of today:  

Item 1) When will the Russians have ran out of tanks?
Item 2) New post finely published; 3 experiments compared. 

 Item 1) When will the Russians have ran out of tanks?

May be it was all a bit coincidental but a few times this last week there were such so low numbers of Russian tanks destroyed. Only one or two on at least three days if memory serves. You might think that slowly those old stockpiles must have run dry while of course the Russians likely have gotten better at repairing the most rusty old damaged tank. Who knows. 

But there wasn't that much news, ok this year Ukraine's National Guard claims to have taken out almost 600 Russian tanks. Article: 

Ukraine’s National Guard destroys nearly 600 Russian tanks in 2025 – Commander. Link used: https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/
4005528-ukraines-national-guard-destroys-nearly-600-russian-
tanks-in-2025-commander.html

From just a couple of months back an article with a much more somber approach and ok one article is not a statistic of course but I would like to hear the news that less and less tanks are deployed by Russia. 

Russia Is a Tank Superpower, Even After Losing 3,000 in Ukraine.
Link used: https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025/02/russia-
is-a-tank-superpower-even-after-losing-3000-in-ukraine/ 

Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) New post finely published; 3 experiments compared. 

It took a bit more time as estimated but that's no problem because after all it is just a hobby so I don't have any deadlines to make. It really doesn't matter if I post it a week later yes or no.  

For myself speaking I found it funny to compare these three physics experiments because even such a simple sample of physics experiments already have a ton of weird stuff in them.

You have all those philosophy of quantum mechanics academics talking about the fundamental character of quantum mechanics in general and measuring electron spin in particular. Well in the two experiments, the Einstein-de Haas effect and Fermilab's g-2 experiment, regardless of the magnetic field all electrons do the same.
Nothing probabilistic over there and I have experienced that always when something get a bit weird to outright crazy, the physics people always just ignore that.

That for example the anti-alignment of an electron, that is very very strange if you think about it. Or do physics professors not think about their own science?  

I forgot to make a picture for this update so I use an old picture from below where you can see that despite the vertical magnetic field that makes the muons go round in circles anyway, the direction of the spin does not change. In itself this is also an energy problem; how can the spin stay horizontal if it is true that it is a tiny magnet? 

So now there is no torque on the muons and we just don't explain it. Can we have more funding  so we can do more physics like we just finished, we are so good at working at the boundary of science...   

Click on the picture for the latest post on 3dcomplexnumbers.net: 

New post title: Three physics experiments compared on 2 spin criteria.
Link used: https://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2025/06/18/three-physics-
experiments-compared-on-2-spin-criteria/

That was it for this week, we will get a few very hot days so let me wish you much coolness. Until another update.  

(18 June 2025) It looks like the world needs more and more war and as such the Israelis decided to wage war on Iran. And all this political shit emerging since say 2022 only keeps normal humans away from the long term problems we have like the climate thing. Well it is what it is, lets go to the two items of today.  

Item 1) The WSJ on the F-35, attack on Kyiv & chemical ammo.
Item 2) A terrible wiki to read for yourself.

 Item 1) The WSJ on the F-35, attack on Kyiv & chemical ammo.

The Wall Street Journal had a short video (about 5 min) on why European countries are all of a sudden much more hesitant to transfer to the F-35. I am in favor of much more EU warplanes and as little as possible dependence on the USA for advanced weapon systems like a F-35.
Of course I am well aware that piece by piece the F-35 might be better but there is no reason EU planes will not improve over time and may be we need a bit more quantity and a little less quality.
Beside that the role of drones is still evolving the way war's will be fought in the future, may be in a year or five you can do much more with a big drone swarm compared to say an F-35. Click on the picture for the  short WSJ video: 

Video title: Can Europe Replace America’s F-35 Fighter Jet? | WSJ
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFFP24_UH1U

Russia staged a large attack on Kyiv resulting in at least 10 confirmed dead and many wounded. It's the present main article on the Kyiv Post: 

Article title: ‘It Was Pure Hell’: Russian Strikes Kill at Least 10 in Kyiv, Target Multiple Ukrainian Cities in Overnight Barrage. Link used:
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/54627

The second video is from Suchominus and for some weird reason again I have a Dutch title and the translation is as bad as possible. It is a Russian GRAD, that's an MLRS artillery system, and that gets translated to "College graduate" but then in Dutch: "Afgestudeerde". So despite all that talk about ai and how it will replace our jobs and stuff, there is still room for improvement of translation of elementary things like the titles of video's... 

The video itself if a more serious subject that is very irritating for a long time and that is the use of forbidden chemicals by Russia. Ok it is not mustard gas or more serious stuff but still it is a not allowed substance. 

The video is about the taking of such a GRAD BM-21: 

Video title: BM-21-afgestudeerde naar verluidt met chemische munitie vernietigd in Loehansk. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTDVO5MpqRA

It is already late so lets go to  the next item.

 Item 2) A terrible wiki to read for yourself.

I more or less finished the latest post on the other website where I compare three experiments that all use a vertical magnetic field. And then I look if in the explanation of such an experiment there are what I call weird energy problems.
For example the most simple of such weird problems is when an electron does the anti-alignment thing with an applied magnetic field. A more complicated energy problem is the electron pair where the Pauli exclusion principle says that the electrons must have opposite spins. That is they must have different quantum numbers and as such the logical consequence is that the magentic fields of the electrons in an electron pair much be anti aligned.
These kind of energy problems are of course crazy stuff and they all disappear if you take the electron as having a monopole magnetic charge. Just like it's electric charge: permanent and monopole.   

Anyway for the post I needed some pictures from the diverse experiments I was looking at and as such I looked into a wiki of the Stern-Gerlach experiment. That is something I would generally not do these years because for me there is nothing new to learn in such behavior. But now I had to because I needed a graphic of the setup of the S-G experiment.

And there it was again, in all it's shining glory: Repeated Stern-Gerlach experiments and how electrons ought to behave according to the high priest of theoretical physics: Probabilistic.

So I was curious because my estimation is that  these experiments have never been conducted or if they have they all failed and as such nothing got published. After 10 years of looking for it, I still haven't found anybody who has done such repeated S-G experiments...

And now, if you want anyway, you can look for it yourself in the next wiki: 

I remember in the first years that I was very intimidated by all that stuff and that bragging that physics is a so called "Five sigma science". And if indeed electrons have a permanent magnetic state, so the spin can't be flipped by definition, no quantum computer based on electron spin will ever function.  

Anyway in one or two days the new post will be published on the other website about 3D complex numbers. That was it for this update, thanks for your attention and have a nice summer.  

(13 June 2025) Roughly speaking the US federal budget is about 7 trillion while tax revenue is about 5 trillion so about a deficit of 2 trillion. (If memory serves deficit was a bit less like a 1850 billion number.) Anyway about 2/7-th of the federal budget is borrowed or about 28% of the budget.

That also goes for the interest paid on the outstanding debt, so about 28% of the coupons that investors receive is borrowed money. Now the US sec of the treasury Scott Bessent constantly says: 

With the tax cuts will come more economical growth and that brings in more revenue and the federal deficit will fall back to 3% or to the growth rate of the economy. 

So will that happen? No of course not, right now already 28% is not taxed but borrowed so why does that money not do it's magical economical growth? Do you get my point: Why should the future tax cuts do their magical promise while present borrowed money already does not deliver such weird fantasies?
Lets go to today's items: 

Item 1) A symbolic milestone: one million Russian casualties.
Item 2) A weird video channel named Dimensional Algebra.

 Item 1) A symbolic milestone: one million Russian casualties.

Of course in practice this is a meaningless number, it's derives a bit symbolic value because one million is a very rounded number so to say in our 10 digit number system.  

Now I already wanted to post a video from a guy named Jason Smart a few times but every time I wanted to do that something else came up. Jason also has a lot of video's covering the economical situation in Russia so if your interested in stuff like that I highly recommend him in case you have never seen Jason.  

Video title: De Russische bevolkingscrash: de stille crisis waar niemand over praat. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GIvYMsxgCc

Weirdly enough youtube instantly gives me the video's with already Dutch titles, well that's unhandy but it's about the slow Russian population crash that is still going on in the background.

Well I skipped a whole lot of news, it could be that the new US defense budget has no money for military aid to Ukraine in it while it was also reported that 25 thousand anti drone ammo were withdrawn or withheld from Ukraine so it could go to the middle east... We all know this present US government just can't be trusted with just everything.
Lets go to the next item.  

  Item 2) A weird video channel named Dimensional Algebra.

I watched a few video's from this channel and all of a sudden I saw a video with those elliptic complex numbers I found a few years ago. Yes indeed that funny 2D math stuff where we now had i^3 = -1 instead of i^2 = -1.

And the ai voice of the video also had a conjugate that looked alright so it all became a bit magical because in 35 years of time I never ever saw somebody doing that right in case it was more difficult as replacing a + with a minus sign.

On top of that he also had an expression for the complex exponential on that plane of elliptical complex numbers and I did not check it but it looked alright.

So that was all a bit of a true miracle, had I finally found my master in math to serve as a humble slave? Well not so fast, in a video on what is called virtual numbers the ai voice defines and imaginary unit j in the following way:

j := ln(-1).   

And after that he arrives at the conclusion that 2j = 0 because:

ln(-1) + ln(-1) = ln(1) = 0. 

Oops, long before the complex logarithm on the complex plane was understood, some people thought this to be true but such stuff is a relation that only holds on the real line of positive numbers. In higher dimensional complex spaces such a simple rule does not work all the time, often it is more complicated but it is always beautiful.

My guess is that the human owner of that youtube channel Dimensional Algebra has borrowed a bit of math from my other website. That's a bit naughty of course but I don't mind. At least he, if it's a he, tries to find and craft higher dimensional number systems. So he is excused as far as I am concerned. Here is a link to his channel page: 

Video channel title: Dimensional Algebra
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/@D-Algebra

As an example I have another video from this channel and now he does not calculate j + j but now he claims that j^2 = 0 zero without any revelation as why this is the case. So all in all it is an interesting channel but not all details in all video's are thought through enough.

Lets leave it with that for this week and thanks for your attention.  

(11 June 2025) Normally the text on  the homepage should be at most 500 pixels wide but last time I checked it was much wider. I have no idea what causes this, most often this is a hyperlink that causes problems in the width because a hyperlink does not contain any spaces and as such it is just one very wide word to the computer. So I don't know what causes it and I don't know how to solve it but it is not a very deadly problem. It is more an annoying thing, a thing say like Russians or so. Lets go to the two items for today:

Item 1) What is a SAR radar & F16 downs SU34, but how.
Item 2) Fermilab strikes again with a miracle energy problem.

  Item 1) What is a SAR radar & F16 downs SU34, but how.

The Americans have not always been a reliable partner for Ukraine when it comes to intel they need and use. Now they seem to get a feed from a Japanese satellite radar system that also can see through clouds and at night because ha ha ha, it's a radar... I never heard from that stuff, it is called a SAR radar or something like that and a guy named Wes O'Donell had a video about it. Now I don't know much about such systems but it looks useful for Ukraine to me, the resolution of the stuff is not bad so who knows where it can help. So a little THANKS to Japan! 

Video title: What Japan's SECRET Radar Deal Means for Ukraine.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uoaRMM5Q1M

For a couple of days it is rumored that a Russian SU34 was shot down by a Ukrainian F16. The details are interesting because likely in a similar way lately in the Pakistan-India conflict a few Mirage planes were also taken out.

Now back in the time when I too pushed hard for deliveries of our old F16's to Ukraine I did not know that later they would get a Swedish version of an AWACS. But now they them, they are made by SAAB by the way and it seems the F16 can fire a missile while the Swedish AWACS has a data line to that missile and told it where to go. So both the F16 and the fired missile do not use any radar signals at all and as such the SU 35 never saw it coming... Anyway that is how the story goes and it sounds very plausible. Here is how that Swedish AWACS looks, you see it looks very  different from the 'standard' AWACS because such planes always have a huge radar with them. The video is from a guy with the nickname AfterBurner and I don't know if that's a good idea... Anyway I use my ass for other things and not use it as an after burner...;)
As always click on the picture for the video:  

Video title: Ukraine's F-16 Stuns Russia’s Su-35 in Historic Air Battle!
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuCDudTrmDc

As always we have skipped a thousand things but it is time to go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Fermilab strikes again with a miracle energy problem.

Last week Fermilab came out once more with fresh runs of their so called muon g-2 experiment and as such I decided to write a new post for the other website about three experiments that all involve a vertical magnetic field and electrons or, as in the case of fermilab muons, and look at the explanations given. The three experiments are:

1) The good ol Stern-Gerlach experiment from 1922,
2) The Einstein-de Haas effect and
3) The new Fermilab result from 2025. 

And then look at the three experiments asking two questions: 

1) Are there weird energy problems like anti-alignment of electrons?
2) Does probability play a role in the outcome of the experiment?

The hilarious or funny situation is that if you accept one of the official explanations for one of the experiments, that invalidates the other explanations.

For example in the Stern-Gerlach experiment we find weird energy problems because in order for the silver atoms to gete moved by just one unpaired bipolar electron, half of them must anti align with the vertical magnetic field. Therefore this experiment is often used as an example of the fundamental probabilistic character of the outcome of quantum measurements. That is important in quantum computing so can we get a bit more funding please?
But if in the Einsteid-de Haas effect you would have this probabilistic 50/50 behavior of spin up / spin down, there would be no effect by definition. Therefore in all explanations of the Einstein-de Haas effect the probabilistic side of stuff is simply neglected and now it is logical that 100% of the unpaired electrons behave the same because the magnetic field applies a torque on them...

Welcome in the world of advanced talking out of your neck: The world of explanations of the magnetic properties of electrons.  

The Fermilab is also pretty crazy: The muons, close cousins of the electrons, go around pretty fast almost the speed of light. And a strong vertical magnetic field is applied to make them go around by something known as the Lorentz force but now weirdly enough the magnetic spins of the muons stay horizontal... On top of that they know, without any meaningful explanation or so, that every round the muon spin increases by 12 degrees as shown in a schematic version of the experiment. Also completely unexplained is why the muons don't feel the torque. 

It took me some time to find that crazy picture back but I remembered it well: the spin stays horizontal and that was not explained once more. Here is a link to that picture:

How do subatomic muons “wobble” in a magnetic field? Comparing precision measurements with theoretical calculations provides a stringent test of the Standard Model of particle physics.
Link used: https://www.bnl.gov/science/g-2/index.php

In general when professional physics people try to explain something with electron spin in it, they only use stuff that sounds logical while skipping all the stuff that is crazy batshit.

That's all I had today so let me thank you for your attention while I with the smart people from Fermilab a good even longer lasting sleep as where they are now in.    

(06 June 2025) There was talk about a possible new tax in the USA on foreign investors. Not the usual dividend withholding tax but also a capital gains tax of say 20% or so. It had the weird name 'revenge tax' and it could be applied to foreigners if the Trump administration decides that your government is doing weird tax stuff themselves...
Well that will help enormously with creating trust so that foreigners will buy stuff like US securities and bonds. I think I'll pass or as they say: "Thanks, but no thanks".  Lets go to the items of this update:

Item 1) More Spiderweb footage & A report on Russian progress.
Item 2) Video on the John Bell theorem (about 45 mins).

  Item 1) More Spiderweb footage & A report on Russian progress.

Day by day more footage is released and Suchominus had a few new video's but lots of other channels have it too of course. Also in my own country the generals are pondering if their precious row of F35's is as safe as supposed to be.

As a weird side effect someone remarked that the USA demanded from Ukraine some drone fighting stuff back because they might need it at home now it is in the open that these kind of attacks like operation Spiderweb can be staged. Click on the picture for the video from Suchominus: 

Video title: NEW Operation Spider Web Footage! TWO A-50 AWACS Hit, Eleven Tu-22M3 Hit, Seven Tu-95 & a IL-78
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbHSQuGgXqM

In another development I decided to listen to what Putin had to say on the recent developments and I do not like that because to me he is a dumb and very arrogant guy. And I am not interested in opinions from people like that.

After having said that, Putin still thinks that Russia can win the war because: "We are taking ground along the entire frontline".

This is astonishingly stupid, yes the Russians make gains but likely it is too difficult for Russians to estimate how fast this all goes if, for example, they want have all those four oblasts. I have said it multiple times a year; this Putin guy is just to dumb to be an efficient leader of a country like Russia. It is like a person with a bank savings account and everyday the earned interest is 10 cent. And this person thinks that if you wait long enough you will be rich in the end. Is it that level of stupidity over there at the Kremlin? It looks like it.

Anyway the channel Combat Veteran Reacts made me aware of an interesting report where the present military confrontation is compared to a lot of conflicts from the entire 20-th century. And yes it goes amazingly slow, as the CVR remarks: Slower as WWI. And that my dear reader is indeed very slow...  

Video: Report: Russian Advances SLOWER Than WW1!!!
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfuJOHHM3Kk

And the report from CSIS: Russia’s Battlefield Woes in Ukraine
Link used: https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-battlefield-woes-ukraine

Lets go to the next item while of course remarking a whole lot more did happen like the phone call between Putin and Trump... 

  Item 2) Video on the John Bell theorem (about 45 mins).

Bells theorem is the weird idea as believed by the physics community that if you measure the spin of one of two entangled electrons, the spin of the  other will instantly be determined. Even if that electron is in another galaxy or at the other side of the moon or wherever.   

As far as I know, this theorem is only validated by experiment using photons. And how do they produce entangled photons? Via a special kind of crystal that sometimes chops an incoming photon in two photons have the same frequency.

Now I think that electrons are permanent magnetic monopoles so measuring it's "spin" is not something that depends on probability. Only if beforehand you don't know with what kind of electron you are dealing with, the outcome can differ. But the spin measurement itself is not a probabilistic thing.  

What I think that might be happening here in such a crystal is that very seldom an incoming photon manages to lift up an entire electron pair and in my version of electron spin these two electrons have opposite magnetic charges. Therefore if the electrons produce photons they will have opposite circular polarization and that my dear reader should explain the high correlations they find in experiments like this. 

But, as far as I know, they only try to measure photon polarization with linear polarizers. And I have never worked with that kind of stuff, I have no clue what linear polarizers do with circular photons. So I can't make it ironclad and logical beside the fact it is rather hard to prove that actually an entire electron pair gets lifted in energy and falls back into it's ground state.  

The video is the official version of the stuff: All measurements are probabilistic by definition and as such that should prove the theorem of John Bell who, by the way, never understood all those weird energy problems there are with the tiny magnet model of electron spin.

At last I want to remark that likely the video is made by a religious person. There is nothing wrong with that, if a religious person can think logical it should be fine. But that is likely where at the end of the video some strange example comes from when two people on different places start praying at the same time... 

Video title: Shining Light on Quantum Mechanics |3| The Bell Test
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn9_aHESDbw

In all the Bell stuff they want to exclude so called "hidden variables" that could explain the high correlations found. In my humble opinion if it really is true that an electron pair makes the two photons, that should serve as a sufficient form of "hidden variables".

Ok, that is what I had to say this week.

(04 June 2025) Last week a reporter asked Trump what he thought of the TACO stuff going round where of course TACO stands for Trump Always Chickens Out. For some strange reason Trump didn't like it, I don't understand why because isn't it great to be the biggest and best taco? That will teach those rapist Mexicans a lessen don't you think? But no, he did not like it.   

In the meantime because there is just never enough chaos, the tariffs on steel (and likely aluminum) were doubled to 50%. The problem now of course is that Trump will hold on to this 50% number in order to prove he will not and has not ever chickened out. So that's US politics today, likely within a few days more chaos will be there because there is just never enough of that stuff...

The upside is that I found a new form of Taylor Swift, it's all AI but I think she looks good and not that dumb worn out like a real human being or so. It's just a fun song:  

Video title: AI Taylor Swift Sings "TACO MAN" (Parody - NOT Taylor Swift). Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9w4cVeXPYE

The two items for this update are: 

Item 1) But where is Putin?
Item 2) Non locality or: Do particles like electrons have 'memories'?

 Item 1) But where is Putin?

In a time span of just 3 days we observed 2 very interesting high quality military operations by the Ukrainians. Something named operation Spiderweb and what I know thus far, two submarine drones that attacked pillars of the Kerch bridge.

Some observed remarked that the success of these two operations will ensure more support for Ukraine. Well, just for myself speaking, I will support Ukraine through thick and thin as we say here. Only if there would be widespread incompetence or all kinds of weird political ideas, may be I would reconsider in such a scenario. But that is all not the case, in my view anyway the Ukrainians have done a rather good job all these years. Of course many mistakes have been made, that's pretty normal because that is just climbing the learning curve.

Anyway about a third of the Russian long range aviation capabilities gone, that is a thundering success. In itself much larger as say the sinking of that flagship the Moskva a long time ago.

The Kyiv Post had a article from one or two days back, please remark the 7 billion number is a bit unrealistic. It is not realistic because if you would try to sell those planes on the second hand market for long range nuclear bombers you would get much less. While Russia seems not to be able to build new ones and if that is true that is fantastic news. 

A quote worth saving is the next from the Kyiv Post article:

“This is a turning point,” one SBU source said. “Our drones are now  reaching far into the enemy’s rear, where the planes that drop bombs on  our civilians take off. Their impunity is over.” 

Click on the next picture to read the Kyiv Post article on the Spiderweb stuff:  

Article title: ‘Spiderweb’ Strikes Cripple 34% of Russian Bomber Fleet in $7 Billion Blow, SBU Confirms. Link used: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/53749

There is all kinds of speculation going on as how operation Spiderweb was executed. For example people stating that the drones used must be of the optic fiber ones, but I wondered if that was what really has happened. The next video tells a lot of details that might be true or not, I did not have time to check it all out. But we can safely assume that the Russians had electronic warfare systems in place on those airfields, how could the FPV drones not loose contact with their operators? The video suggests that more drones were used for that, so called relay drones. I think that is true and it's a brilliant solution because the signals from EW systems are only that strong so when transmitter and receiver are not that far apart such EW measures are just not strong enough and communication is still possible.

So I don't know if all the stuff mentioned in the video is actually correct but all in all it can serve as a general understanding of how the attack was organized and executed.

Video title: How Ukraine FPV drones Truck Attack Happened?
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrFshcqeea8

And if that was not enough, the Kerch bridge came under sophisticated attack. I did not save a link to the video and I am not a water structure engineer but my gut feeling says that 1100 kg of those modern high explosives likely have made some form of toast of that large bridge pillar. But it can take a long time before it collapses, I have not much insight into that. So this bridge attack is very likely also a success, the only downside if you want to name it as such is that the bridge already lost a large part of it's logistic value. May be now it has lost 100% of it's logistic value or may be some trains can go, I don't know. Tomorrow a fresh day and we will see more on that Kerch detail.

As such with so much news to comment his wisdoms upon: Where is Putin? It's late so lets go to the next item. 

  Item 2) Non locality or: Do particles like electrons have 'memories'?

A few years back Nobel prizes in physics were handed out for what was told was experimental evidence for the non locality of quantum mechanics. That goes back to a guy named John Bell who thought that you could make all kinds of weird quantum stuff (super positions of quantum states like electron spin) with pairs of electrons.

One of the Nobel recipients remarked that it is extremely difficult to do the experiment with real spin half particles like electrons. So all experiments done to validate the Bell inequality are done with photons. And because no such experiment is done with electrons, of course it is easy to find video's of physics professionals claiming it is done with electrons. Physics is the kind of science where the more you talk out of your neck, the bigger applause you get.   

Since I think that electrons are magnetic monopoles just like they are electric monopoles, I have a very different view on all those experiments done compared to the main stream in physics. But it is now to late to go into more detail so lets do that Thursday or so.

The reason I brought this subject up were a few video's, I really do not advice to look at the entirety of the next video. But in the beginning he lets two students stand with their backs to each other and on command they had to raise one arm. As you might expect about half the time the students will raise the same are while the other half they will raise different arms. I understand where this teacher is going but we will look into that another time. Here is the very bad video, do not watch it I warned you clearly!    

Video title: Quantum nonlocality - Lecture 1
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcl8BGL-uMA

Lets leave it with that because I feel the desire to pop up a home brewed beer so I have to leave you alone. Thanx for your attention. 

(30 May 2025) Today it emerged that the Federal Trade Court more or less blocked the so called reciprocal tariffs from 02 April. And yes I agree with that, there is no 'emergency' at all because the USA runs deficits in goods for say half a century. And they have a big surplus in services so what's the big deal anyway? 

Our own (small) stock market didn't react at all at this court filing news, it looks like the stock markets become mumble to all that weird stuff. But don't forget that of course these tariffs can do a lot of economical harm and that at a time where the US federal debt is approaching the 37 trillion threshold. So another crazy week came and went, wow what chaotic stuff will we have next week. I just can't wait for the crap to emerge!
Lets go to the item of today. 

Item 1) Zelnsky visits Merz and slowly US airpower grows bit by bit.

  Item 1) Zelensky visits Merz and slowly US airpower grows bit by bit.

The Ukrainian prez went to Germany last Wednesday. Germany is of course a very important supporter of Ukraine and that is a very valuable thing. Let me quote a bit from the article that I want to show you: 

Germany's defence ministry said in a statement that Berlin would finance the production of long-range weapons systems in Ukraine and that the "first of these systems could be deployed in the Ukrainian armed forces in just a few weeks". The Kremlin has warned that any decision to end range restrictions on the missiles that Ukraine can use would be a quite dangerous change in policy that would harm efforts to reach a political deal.

However, Merz has since emphasised that a decision on lifting range restrictions was taken by Western allies months ago. 

Comment: So it is now more validated that it went like this; a few months ago the range of allied weaponry was lifted but it became news only a few days ago.
Very interesting is of course that plans to finance long range weapon production inside Ukraine and is it really true that the first of such long range weapons could be used within a few weeks? I am laughing a bit because might it be that the Germans have worked some time at this already? And that now it becomes news? Within a few weeks the first stuff ready?  

I had the quote from an BBC article, click on the picture for the link:

German chancellor promises to help Ukraine produce long-range weapons. Link used: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpw7vllepx7o 

A very different thing is the F-16's in Ukraine. Of course for me that is still an interesting thing to follow and read news about because my home country together with Denmark has done some work on that. And the Ukrainians seem to use them in the Kursk region, so that's inside Russia. I don't know if they actually fly around inside Russia or stay within UA borders and shoot from there.  

Suchominus had one of his usual short video's out: 

Video title: Multiple F-16 Airstrikes in Kursk (Four in the Same Area & Same Time!). Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTjvVRhf9hk

A lot more did happen of course but I don't have time for that all so I wish you good luck with thinking about creative ways to kill lots of fucking Russians & as always thanks for your attention. 

(28 May 2025) Beside the USA in more countries the yields on government debts are rising, Japan is an example of such a country. It seems that one of their bond auctions also failed and as such yields rise and all bond investors get some losses because bond prices decline. Well, interesting...

But today I have a more light touch to all that tariff madness going round, it is a video about consumer good prices in the USA. I have no idea how serious this video is or better: it is a good reflection of what actually is going on? Likely it is not hard to find places in Europe where there are also all kinds of crazy prices going on. But it's a fun video because an awful amount of inflation is coming to the US consumers who's tariff taxes are partially used to pay for the tax cuts. It's all rather crazy... 

Video title: Stores Raised Prices And Americans Are FURIOUS And RECORDING IT Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06dRTOWV9FY

The two items of today are: 

Item 1) Range restriction military aid for Ukraine lifted?
Item 2) What is the most simple proof of the Pythagorean theorem?

 Item 1) Range restriction military aid for Ukraine lifted? 

It sounded as news or a shift in policy: Germany and all other major nations giving weaponry to Ukraine have lifted the range restrictions that were in place. But is it news? Or was it already going on?

The new German Kansler Metz was not that explicit about it. It sounded a bit like those range restrictions made some sense months ago but have now faded into insignificance. He also said he wants to be a bit more restrictive so that the Russians don't have to watch the 8 o'clock news to figure out what the German government is doing to help Ukraine.

Well yes I agree on that, for example such a lift in range restrictions does not have to be made public in advance. Just let the Russians feel it and if they complain tell them they are good boys. That will make them feel proud I just guess...

On the other hand it could be the huge Russian drone attack from just a few days ago that caused this to be news. Clcik on the picture for the article in the Guardian:

Germany and Ukraine’s other allies scrap range limits on arms sent to Kyiv. Link used: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/26/
germany-and-ukraines-other-allies-scrap-range-limits-
on-arms-sent-to-kyiv  

Let me finish with a dumb remark from the Kremlin who by all standards are a bunch of hypocrites when it comes to talking about the desire for peace:

In response, the Kremlin described the decision as “dangerous”, saying it would be detrimental to reaching any sort of peace agreement.  

So just a few days after the largest drone attack done by Russia this clown comes up with a statement like this? 
Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) What is the most simple proof of the Pythagorean theorem?

The video channel Wrath of Math had a video out on this question. And it's a bit misleading but if you restrict the Pythagorean theorem with the triangle thing it is alright.

There are much more forms of the theorem of Pythagoras, take for example a beam of wood with perfect 90 degrees angles. Take a saw and cut one of the corners from this wooden beam. You now have something pyramid shaped in your hand although the bottom is now a triangle and not a square like in an Egyptian pyramid.

If you square the three area's that meet in the perpendicular point, the sum of the area's of these three small triangles now equals the square of the area of the large triangle. But not many people try to find the 'most easy proof' for cases like this.

My own favorite version is the one depicted at the bottom of the image below; if you take the difference of the two squares in it the theorem of Pythagoras comes rolling out.

The Wrath of Math guy works out the example of using similar triangles and I have to say that is also a very elegant proof. But a long long time ago long before they invented the stone age I already decided I like the proof with the difference of the two squares the most.   

Video title: Why Didn't They Teach this Proof in School? (Pythagorean Theorem) Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO6n92S46ec

The ancients Greeks looked a bit different to math compared to what we do today. For them a (real) number, say a, was always the length of a line segment where a square, say a^2, was just a square in the geometrical sense.  

That why at present day we still use the word 'square' when a number is multiplied with itself like in a^2. 

That's it for this update & as always thanx for your attention. 

(23 May 2025) It seems more or less official policy from the White House to cut taxes and that will grow the economy and outgrow the size of the federal debt. I even heard Scott Bessent say words like this on two occasions. So is that possible? 

On 30 Sept 1981 US debt stood at almost one trillion, on 30 Sept 2023 it stood at 33.1 trillion. So in 42 years time it became 33.1 times as big leaving aside stuff like inflation. On average that is a yearly growth of 8.7% using the above data that I got from: 

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/historical-debt-outstanding/
historical-debt-outstanding

So in four decades of time, has the US economy ever grown over 8.7% a year and that year in year out? No never, the only thing that will happen is fast exploding deficits and of course more total outstanding debt. 

Lets go to the two items of today. 

Item 1) CNN on that phone call & an old fashioned war story.
Item 2) Are quantum states like magnetic spin states fragile? Nope.

 Item 1) CNN on that phone call & an old fashioned war story.

Well like expected that was indeed a useless phone call between the Vlad and the Donald. I don't feel like writing down what I think of it, that's a waste of time... But in case you missed it, here is a CNN article:

Peace in Ukraine looks further away after Trump’s call with Putin
Linkk used: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/20/politics/trump-putin-
russia-ukraine-ceasefire-talks

A very different piece of news more or less smelling a bit after old stories in now dusty books about thrilling war operation from say WWII. Of course such stories are a bit romantized because it was often very hard and dangerous work, such clandestine operations... 

The Kyiv Post came with a perfect title: "Commando Group Deploys in Dense Woods, Swampland Deep Inside Russia". Click on the picture if you want to read it:

Article title: Commando Group Deploys in Dense Woods, Swampland Deep Inside Russia. Link used: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/53182 

Lets go to the next item.

 Item 2) Are quantum states like magnetic spin states fragile? Nope.

If it is true that electrons are tiny magnets where the direction of that tiny magnetic field is the spin or spin direction, in that case every tiny external magnetic field will change that direction of spin.

I view electrons as magnetic monopoles and their magnetic charge is permanent is what I thought of it after a few years on digesting this subject. It's a permanent feature and as such there are two kinds of electrons and that explains why the physics folks in experiments always find just two possible outcomes they describe as spin up or spin down.

It is well known that sometimes the earth magnetic field flips, you can find it back in the geological record and a beautiful example is the growth of the mid Atlantic rift. The magnetic direction of the earth magnetic field as it was in the past is stored in many sediments and likely in a beautiful way by the slowly cooling magma that emerges from the center of the rift.

Such weak magnetism is preserved over hundreds of thousands of years so it can be doubted that the official version of permanent magnetism "All electron spins align themselves and it becomes one magnet" is true at all. Geological stuff like this was one of the reasons for me to finally flip to the conclusion that electron flip is more a feature of the human brain and not something done in nature.

I had found a cute video from a youtube channel Geo Girl, she has good video's, but I could not find it back. Likely it was a part of a longer video and not explicit about this Atlantic rift. So all I have is a boring picture but likely you have an internet connection anyway so if you want to know a bit more on this you can always look it up yourself.   

I like this process because it resembles a possible way of making permanent magnets. That is: Heating up a piece iron to above the Curie temperature. Apply and external magnetic field and let it all cool down slowly, very slowly.  

What happens is that the hot iron atoms are so hot they are stripped from their unpaired electrons that hided in some inner orbitals. The external magnetic field steers electrons through the piece of iron each of their place and when the whole thing cools down those inner orbitals of the iron atoms will get filled. And as such a permanent magnet emerges.

Ok that was it for this week.   

(21 May 2025) Last week the last rating agency downgrades US federal debt to below AAA rating. That would be about time but that's my opinion. Their treasury sec Scott Bessent said that it made no difference because such news is always behind the facts. And yes I agree with that, look for example the total of interest that must be paid this year. You can argue that a significant fraction of the interest paid is borrowed money. 

Lets go to the two items of today: 

Item 1) Gerdes on the two hour phonecall between Trump & Putin.
Item 2) Anton on galactic filaments; finally explained! But are they?

 Item 1) Gerdes on the two hour phone call between Trump & Putin. 

I didn't even had the time to view this video so it is a bit strange to link to it but I will watch it later anyway. To be honest I did not have huge expectations from this phone call anyway but some folks are infuriated and likely that's for a reason.  

So if you want to know a bit more on that click on the picture for the video. 

Video title: Trump-Putin Call: Russians ECSTATIC, Europe FURIOUS!
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU2d8R8kUx8

Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Anton on galactic filaments; finally explained! But are they?

I don't remember to have seen these magnetic filaments from the video from Anton before. But a whole lot of stuff in our galaxy has to do with magnetism and so that is how I always look at the stuff like moving streams of electrons: They are magnetic monopoles and as such also get accelerated by magnetic fields in a similar manner as electric fields do.

If you look at say a video of solar plasma with all it's activity, that is also where magnetic monopoles make much more sense. It should also, at least partially, explain stuff like the temperature of the solar corona that is so much hotter as the solar 'surface' itself.   

But inside our milky way also things like atomic hydrogen should be magnetic because after all atomic hydrogen has only one electron. As such also molecules or atoms like atomic hydrogen and even molecular oxygen should get accelerated by magnetic fields in our milky way. Well that's just how I view it, electrons are just permanent magnetic monopoles the same as their electric properties.

All in all I think Anton is a bit premature by claiming that 'now it is understood'. It is more like a more precise description is given like the shape and length of those filaments and is it mostly magnetically driven or is there much more going on?  

The longest of such filaments (until now) found is about 300 light years long. Stuff like this is news that I am following for a few years now because I think that say the famous 21 cm hydrogen spectral line is not electron flip but a stream of atomic hydrogen colliding with a stream of electrons.

The official version of the cause of the 21 cm radio line is mostly the flip of electron spin in atomic hydrogen while in older literature you can also find other explanations. But all I ever saw from the last decades always favors the electron spin flip version.  

As always click on the video if you want to see this subject that I always find fascinating because galaxies are such complicated things.  

Video title: Strange 300 Light Year Long Filament In the Milky Way Finally Explained. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmTIqprrlQM

Oh oh Anton; there is so much not explained at all. For example why in molecular hydrogen must the electrons have opposite spin? Why must their spins be anti-aligned? If you view electrons as tiny magnets this is a rather crazy way of looking at nature. Whatever the physics professors keep on talking out of their necks on electron spin; the monopole interpretation just makes much more sense and brings a bit of logic at an otherwise crazy scene.

Let me try to upload this to our common giant garbage can: the internet. As always thanks for your attention.

(16 May 2025) Tariff news: Walmart is announcing that they will raise prices in a short period of time because of the tariffs. Of course Walmart is a high volume low margins kind of shop and as such they have little wiggle room to absorb the costs related to the tariffs in imported goods.

I selected the next CNN video because there you can see the nutjob US secretary of commerce once more saying that it is nonsense the consumers pay for these tariffs. It looks like in many ways the present US government is in large part a collection of nutjobs and of course they hire only more nutjobs. Well it is what it is...  

Video title: Walmart warns it will raise prices due to tariffs.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoNbbK0bYw4

The items for today: 

Item 1) No Putin in Istanbul & new EU sanctions on the shadow fleet.
Item 2) A new way of matrix multiplication & weird monopole physics.

 Item 1) No Putin in Istanbul & new EU sanctions on the shadow fleet.

The Russians seem to have collected a very low level of people for their delegation going to Istanbul for talks with Ukraine. So like expected the Kremlin does not want peace. That might not look very rational but don't forget they became irrational before this war started.

But there could be all kinds of other reasons as why the Russian leadership wants to go on with the war. For example there seem to be a solid synchronization going on with the railroads in Belarus. We all know the Russians need a lot of railroad for there military transports. So it could be they are prepping for an attack against Poland or something like that and for that they need the war economy to go on much longer. It's all speculation but we better try to avoid weird military surprises.
And like I wrote years back; It is important to destroy large parts of the Russian railroad system in the first few days of some future engagement with them in case they attack us for say homosexual fascists that in a decadent manner run our societies.
I don't expect much from the talks in Istanbul but lets wait and see.    __________ 

I think it is the 17-th round of sanctions and this time a bit more concentrated on all those ships that make up the so called shadow fleet for Russian oil. Only for environmental reasons we should already do this but of course it is hard to identify exactly all ships that belong to that shadow fleet.  

Video title: Will the new EU sanctions on Russia be more effective than previous rounds? | DW News. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUruZ4eAmZI

Estimates around the Russian economy still vary a lot. From "those sanctions do not work at all" till "the Russian government has almost run out of money". I am more in the camp that thinks that their economy is damaged a lot but the problem with successful evading sanctions is that you often don't see it. And in a case of this shadow fleet you see it vague and opaque while it is clear what is going on with them; trying to avoid the oil price cap.  

Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) A new way of matrix multiplication & weird monopole physics.

Google had some news out regarding new math found with one of their large language models. For myself speaking I found it more interesting you can do stuff like this at all with llm's but it is hard to see how they actually got those results.
Matt Parker, who apparently has broken an arm, is showing the results from a beach from where he is having a holiday with his family. The matrix result is the only I found significant, the rest is more some form of math puzzles that are nice to see but what value does it have?  

Video title: New maths discoveries! All announced at once!
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGCmu7YKgPA

The matrix result is very interesting, I heard from it the first time in 1990 or something like that. When you multiply a nxn with another n by n matrix, for every entry you need n multiplications and as such for the whole matrix you will always need n to the third power multiplications.

And that my dear reader seems not to be true, a result that more or less flies directly into the human intuition in case there is such a thing in math: human intuition...
__________

A very different subject: Magnetic monopoles (the official version). 

Ok, it's no secret I think that electrons carry a monopole magnetic charge just like their electric charge is: permanent and monopole. It's also no secret that physics professionals think that electrons are bipolar magnets and as such the electrons are not magnetic monopoles. 

Well the professionals are still looking for experimental evidence their crap is found back in nature. For example at CERN there are still experiments going on with say hanging sheets of plastic or plastic foils and they think their pathetic version of magnetic monopoles are highly ionizing and as such will leave a trace behind in those plastic foils hanging around. 

If I remember it correctly, at CERN the make a very strong magnetic field and they hope and pray that in that strong field a magnetic monopole (and likely it's anti particle version) will be created. A lot is based on the work of Paul Dirac and I have never read it because it is so weird. 

I found a recent pdf from just a couple of weeks back and it starts like this: 

Pdf title: The next frontiers for magnetic monopole searches.
Link used: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.04552

I try to be open minded, may be I am missing a subtle thing or so. But it here clearly says that the magnetic charge equals 68.5 times the electric charge of the proton... (Don't forget the alpha number is just a number, it is about 1/137 but that's not relevant here.)

Or does the Dirac magnetic monopole have beside a magnetic charge also an electric charge? Or is that g number is some kind of coupling constant because that is often written with a g too? It is all unclear and in my view a pile of crap where tax payer money is wasted big time.

And those folks work with that crap for decades and decades because it was a long long time ago since Paul Dirac did his stuff. Not that Paul only made crap, I like those 4x4 matrices of him that are an extension of the Pauli matrices. But Paul Dirac likely also viewed electrons as some from of tiny magnets so all in all his insights are not very meaningful to me. 

That's it for this week, as always thank you for not falling asleep and have a nice weekend or so.  

(14 May 2025) I didn't have much time to follow the news this day and last day so let me keep it short. No significant news from the tariff front, only that China tariff stuff is down from ultra crazy levels but still at say a century high. Lets go to the two items of this update. 

Item 1) Will Putin go to Istanbul for peace negotiations this week?
Item 2) A pdf on magnetic monopoles, why do people write that stuff?

 Item 1) Will Putin go to Istanbul for peace negotiations this week?

There are some rumors that even Trump will go to Istanbul on Thursday but I don't know how serious that is. My guesstimate is that Putin will not go to Istanbul this week but likely their fm Lavrov.  

Ukraine's Zelensky challenged Putin to come over to Turkey but why should Putin go if he wants to go on with the war? Likely we will get some blah blah blah story from Lavrov or other Russian mouthpieces.
The Times had a short video out:  

Video title: Zelensky Challenges Putin To Meet For Peace Talks In Turkey
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feHg_Swj4pw

Lets go to the next item. 

  Item 2) A pdf on magnetic monopoles, why do people write that stuff?

The professional physics professors keep on searching for the elusive magnetic monopoles. And their ways are just like God's ways: Not groundable for the human mind... 

But serious, if I can explain to say my son that there are serious and weird problems with say an electron pair, how come physics professionals don't care at all about such problems? I think it is very much a cultural thing, anyway it clearly is not scientific behavior so you must look much more for cultural or social reasons. 

So for stating that magnetic monopoles do not exist is not something deeply rooted in any kind of experimental result, it is just the extension of a piece of math found by Gauss long before electrons were discovered. By repeating this the person that claims monopoles don't exist shows that he or she belongs to the (social class) of physics professionals and also that they are loyal to the common main streams of thinking inside the profession. 

Stating that magnetic monopoles do not exist is just as dumb as stating that electric monopoles like electrons and protons do not exist with the following line of reasoning: 

If I take a piece of  wood, it is electrically neutral. Now if I saw it into two pieces both pieces are still electrically neutral. So every time you cut a neutral thing in two, both parts will be neutral again. Hence electric monopoles do not exist.

And why people write such stuff instead of looking into all the crazy weird energy problems there are with their bipolar electrons is unknown to me. Ok there is that cultural and social side to it, comparable to say the math professors when they talk about the existence of 3D complex numbers.  

The pdf is a bit long so it is more for the die hards. Very much in the beginning you can find the Maxwell equations without monopole charges, that alone should be a feast to read if you have never done that.  

Here the pdf: 

Introduction to Magnetic Monopoles
Link used: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.3077 

And for no reason at all I post a nice ai generated video that looks amazingly good. If you are good at playing a guitar you likely get curly toes from looking at ai like this, just like I get curly toes from reading pdf's on magnetic monopoles. But details like that aside, every year it still keeps getting better and better. Click on the picture for the short video from youtube: 

Video title: Lord of the Rings but it's Heavy Metal.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3XIkiSsHUM

Ok that's it, as always thanx for your attention. 

(09 May 2025) I took a small look at if it was true that the USA had to finance & refi 9.2 trillion $ debt this year and yep it's true. It is mostly talked about on websites on crypto coins or on goldbug websites but it's true. Now I don't feel like linking to an unknown crypto website but I found a very good LinkedIn article from Jan this year.
It has for sure a hilarious title, very likely the author was unaware of what later in this year would happen when the US political leadership decided to liberate itself from all that abusive international trade.

Article title: 2025: Refinancing $9 trillion of debt under the scenario of tariff-induced inflation. Link used: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/2025-refinancing-
9-trillion-debt-under-scenario-axel-funhoff-yoqpe 

It has to be remarked however that last year the USA had a similar problem but then it was only 6 or 7 trillion in new and refi debt. Last year a lot of the refi was done via Treasury bills that have a very short maturity time and as such a lower interest rate. That's why it's 9.2 trillion this year and now you understand why the FED chief Powell is such a stupid person to not lower the interest rates... 

In another development; the present US deficit for this fiscal year is about 1.85 trillion US$. If you take a population size of 330 million citizens the average USA citizen sinks 15 dollars a day deeper into their federal debt.
Lets go to the two items of this update.

Item 1) Of course once more Russia violates it's own 'ceasefire'.
Item 2) Finally published the new post: The Sledgehammer Theorem.

 Item 1) Of course once more Russia violates it's own 'ceasefire'.

It is now 00.10 on the nine-th of May so today we have that Russian military parade day with some international dignitaries like Chin'a Xi in the main role. 

It would be an interesting historical experiment to bomb them all into smithereens and see if the future historical developments will be as estimated beforehand.

Or may be that's not a good idea although the parade itself is an allowed military target since after all it is still a military parade... 

To be honest I have no idea what will happen tomorrow, if a drone would land say three yard before the feet of Xi yes that would be funny of course. Since so much air defense is now in Moscow, in a lot of parts of the rest of Russia it is now much easier for Ukraine to stage drone attacks.  

I have an AP article for you about the speed of how Russia violates her own so called ceasefire and by coincidence the minerals deal is just ratified by the Ukrainian parliament. That why I choose the next relative boring picture while we must remark of course that it is a good thing if photo's of parliaments at work are always boring so that's a good thing.
And if you see decapitated heads flying around, so it's not boring, that is often not good for the functioning of a democratic parliament.
Click on the picture for the AP article. 

Article title: Ukraine accuses Russia of violating its own truce over 700 times as Kyiv ratifies US minerals deal. Link used: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-ceasefire-
89aa0cf9123ca8a55eec9dd8713a4e7b

Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Finally published the new post: The Sledgehammer Theorem.

With a delay of a few days, yesterday I posted the stuff of the new math post. It's all rather basic and yes even I have to admit that because it is mostly about matrix representations it is also a bit boring. This is the very first hybrid number system that I actually write into existance.

Here I mix the complex numbers from the complex plane in with the 3D circular number by replacing all reals by those 2D complex numbers. As such the result is a six dimensional number space where all numbers commute. That is AB = BA.

Due to my shoulder pain I could not type for a few days and likely that caused I did forget to cut & paste some of the original text. So later I had to repair that because all other pictures were already finished. So it looks a bit weird on the other website but I don't think it is problematic for the math die hards that actually will read it. 

Above you the the matrix associated with the famous imaginary unit i from the complex plane. And if you square the matrix you get indeed minus one or more precise: minus the 6x6 identity matrix.

New article title: The Sledgehammer Theorem, most simple example.
Link used: https://3dcomplexnumbers.net/2025/05/08/the-sledgehammer-
theorem-most-simple-example/

That was it for what I had to say this week, to my amazement suddenly all that movie tariff talk was dissipated. I don't know why but I know that at the end I have to thank you for your attention so that's what I just did...
Till next week my dear reader.

(07 May 2025) India just attacked Pakistan, they say no military targets but only the terrorist ones. Well it does not have to escalate per se but the situation is far from cool.  

Donald Trump proposed a 100% tariff on movies? A movie is not a good you must ship around and you can slam a tariff on it where the point of entry like a harbor is. It's more a service/IP kind of thing, does a 100% tariff mean a price hike on the selling price to consumers? 

Will the trade war spill over into services? After all the USA seems to have a huge surplus when it comes to services so in the words of the Donald himself: "The USA is raping the rest of the world with the services. In particular Disney movies are just pedophile rapist things." 

But serious: Can the EU demand that a company like say Google can only show you an advertisement if it is already paid for? So that they can no longer show you an infinite row of advertisements where they only make money if you are that stupid to click on one of them. Only already paid for advertisements can be shown EU wide...
In that case we would have Europe wide say on Youtube a normal amount of advertisements and not the floods we have to endure for the unpaid service... Lets go to our two items of today:   

Item 1) The 1956 Sidewinder AIM-9 strikes again & The White House What?
Item 2) Two problems with the explanation of the aurora's.

Item 1) The 1956 Sidewinder AIM-9 strikes again & The White House What?

For the first time in military history Ukraine succeeded into the downing of two SU 30 Russian fighter jets with air to air missiles from drones...  

It's a beautiful story of about 20 sea drones going on a journey around the Crimea. I observed also some Russian footage where they destroyed a few water drones with air drones. Because the sea drones are small targets that forces the Russian fighter jets to fly low, likely that is why this was such a weird success.  

Anyway I did not know what a Sidewinder was so I looked it up in the wiki and the thing dates back to 1956 when it entered service and already earlier when under development. It is "infra-red guided" and that means of course it is a heat seeking flying boom thing.
I did not know that in 1956 they already had such stuff, after all that was still the era of the vacuum tube so that's an amazing detail.  

Ukraine's spy boss tells the story of this attack, click on the picture: 

Article title: Ukraine's spy boss details how naval drones took down two Su-30 jets. Link used: https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/ukraine-s-
spy-boss-details-how-naval-drones-1746349227.html

The Sidewinder has a long history of course and without doubt it's upgraded many times since the 1950-ties, in case you are interested in such boring stuff here's the wiki: 

Wiki article: AIM-9 Sidewinder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-9_Sidewinder

In a very different development Donald Trump was asked in an interview stuff about Ukraine and to my surprise he said that Russia had to withdraw from the entire Ukraine. And that included the Crimean area as far as I understood it. That's an amazing policy shift so lets hope it will last longer as 24 hours... 

Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Two problems with the explanation of the aurora's.

Ok my dear reader you can try to find some logic where you can compare two idea's about the magnetism of electrons. There are more particles in the solar wind but the electrons cause the two aurora's on the North & South pole. The two idea's are:

1) Electrons are tiny magnets and magnetic monopoles do not exist, this is the official version of electron magnetism. As a simple consequence an electron must be neutral in a constant homogeneous magnetic field. Not that there is any experimental evidence for that but hey blah blah blah is an integral part of the science of physics.
This is the official version according to the standard model of particle physics.    

2) Electrons are magnetic monopoles and as such there are two kinds of them: some have a North pole like magnetic charge and the other half will have a south magnetic charge.
That is my version of electron spin and it does not have all the weird problems like energy problems that the official version has.  

Ok, below in the picture you can see in a schematic fashion that the earth magnetic field acts as a shield against the solar wind. There are two problems I want to point out here:

Problem 1) You see the stream of solar wind plasma gets split, half goes up and half goes down. According to the official version there are electrons that align themselves with the magnetic field and other do the anti align thing. And anti align simply means that electron north pole will point to the earth north pole and vice versa for the earth south pole.
But that is a state of higher energy, where does the electron get the energy from to turn it's spin in this anti-aligned fashion?

Problem 2) If it is true that electrons are not magnetic monopoles, the official theory is that they only get accelerated by inhomogeneous magnetic field. In particular their acceleration is proportional to the gradient of the magnetic field. Well that is a very interesting kind of blah blah blah because say for yourself: In space the earth magnetic field is already very weak and as such it will have not much of a gradient at all.
In physics the law of conservation of linear momentum is an important one and guess what? It has tons of experimental evidence! But here electrons that moved sideways now enter the air above the North & South pole in a vertical way more or less perpendicular of how they went from the sun to the earth. So what happens to the linear momentum of the solar wind electrons? 

Ok, I also had a video for you in case you didn't see it last week, it has nothing to do with the two problems but it is a nice video anyway: 

Video title: There’s Something Weird Going On With the Northern Lights
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnATQJJIsK4

In my view the magnetic monopole model for the magnetism of electrons has no energy problems. The electrons that have a south pole charge will fly up and end at the North pole all the time lowering their potential energy. And vice versa to the South pole for the electrons with a monopole north pole like magnetic charge. All electrons now lower their potential energy all of the time and we do not have all the weird stuff like in the standard model there is.  

Also because the electrons have a magnetic charge, they get accelerated by the earth magnetic field and that explains why they have enough energy to ionize the oxygen and nitrogen of the earth's atmosphere.  

Since Feb 2015 I have been writing on this relative important detail but given the present state of how science is organized at the universities there is not much happening. And in a sense they are right of course; another round of worshiping the Dirac equation gives of course much more "research money" while saying that magnetic monopoles is likely the end of their precious academic careers...

But I am not bitter or so, may be the more stupid they are the longer it takes for logic to set in.

That was it for this update, my shoulder pain is gone so I could finally post this update that was originally planned for last week.  

(02 May 2025) I am grumpy the last two days because of a shoulder pain. It feels like a tendon sheath inflammation (in Dutch that is peesschede ontsteking). So I can't type much...

Tariff news: Amazon denies in all tones they were planning to make the tariff part of the selling price on items visible to her customers. Trump had this to say: "Jeff Bezos is very nice," Trump told reporters. "He solved the problem very quickly. He did the right thing." 

That's the new reality in the USA: Even if it is in itself neutral information, telling the tariff part is now "Hostile and political"...
In my view only naive companies will set up shop in the USA, that is not a wise strategic decision right now. A Reuters report:

Amazon in White House crosshairs over report of displaying tariff costs
Link used: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/white-
house-amazon-tariff-price-announcement-is-hostile-2025-04-29/ 

The items for today: 

Item 1) The UA/USA mineral deal was signed.
Item 2) A few things wrong with the explanation the Northern Lights.

 Item 1) The UA/USA mineral deal was signed.

Well I can't type that much so only a link in case you missed it:

Ukraine and the US have finally signed a minerals deal. What does it include?
Link used:https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-us-rare-earth-minerals-
deal-8566241ea0e121a30437d845357055d8  

Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) A few things wrong with the explanation the Northern Lights.

There arm many weird problems just not explained by the way the earth magnetic field interacts with the incoming solar wind. But again I can't type properly so lets skip that till next week. Here is a nice video to pass the time:

Video title: There’s Something Weird Going On With the Northern Lights
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnATQJJIsK4

I typed this post with just one arm or one hand and wow that goes rather slow. Anyway may be till next week or sometime later. 

 (30 April 2025) Funny tariff news of the day: Amazon is planning to show customers the tariff on a particular item, so the price and the tariff. The White House was not amused because now people can see who is actually paying the tariffs: It's themselves and that is of course not a thing the White House wants. 

I found an interesting video from David Roche, I had never seen him before, and he is making some estimates on future dollar weakness and some plausible scenario's like unloading more US debt and equities. Of course I too think the dollar will weaken further because of the craziness of the present US government but will that alone be the end of the US reserve status? My estimate is a no, in the past we had times where one pound was two dollars. But once trust is gone it can go hard and fast.
Just for myself speaking on say US government debt; I would never buy long term debt, that's just throwing your money in a giant garbage can...

Video title: David Roche: U.S. dollar is likely to drop another 15-20%, causing a sell-off of treasuries. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzfo340pwaU 
Lets go to the items of today.

Item 1) Soldiers per square km and The Rapid Destroyer from the UK.
Item 2) Oh look how cute: They commute!

  Item 1) Soldiers per square km and The Rapid Destroyer from the UK.

On UkrInform I came across some estimates for the Russians in case they want to do another offensive like a Summer offensive this year. Let me quote and amazing detail:

Oleksandr Kovalenko cites staggering figures: while in 2024, Russian forces suffered an average of 128 dead and wounded casualties per each square kilometer of Ukrainian land captured, this rate had grown to 158-159 per-square-kilometer casualties by the beginning of 2025, and is currently approaching 190-192 casualties per square kilometer seized. "This proportion - the number of casualties per square kilometer of territory captured – tends to grow, and, according to our estimates, it will grow further in May and June. The reason is simple: the Russians are throwing foot soldiers into battles in ever increasing numbers, thus compensating for the lack of equipment, ammunition and organization," the expert explains. 

Almost 200 Russians for every square km, that is about 50 square meter for every dead Russian soldier. This war is indeed totally crazy. Click on the link for the article in UkrInform: 

Article title: Does Russia have enough capabilities to launch fresh, full-scale offensive in 2025? Experts figuring it out.
Link used: https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3986716-does-russia-
have-enough-capabilities-to-launch-fresh-fullscale-offensive-in-2025-
experts-figuring-it-out.html
__________

The UK has performed a test on a new kind of energy weapon: It uses radio frequency and so it is not a laser thing or so. The thing is made to destroy entire swarms of incoming drones. The importance of such a frequency range is utterly clear: Laser does now work if there are clouds, smoke or fog and so on. So that's a very interesting development, of course this was just a successful test and the first one but it sounds good. But doesn't that thing destroy also radio's in the neighborhood? Likely not but all kinds of technical details are missing. Click on the picture for the article from the British government: 

Article title: British soldiers take down drone swarm in groundbreaking use of radio wave weapon. Link used: https://www.gov.uk/government/
news/british-soldiers-take-down-drone-swarm-in-groundbreaking-
use-of-radio-wave-weapon

That was it for this update, it could be that those Swedish AWACS have arrived in Ukraine but I did not have time to look into that. May be next update. Lets go to the next item.

 Item 2) Oh look how cute: They commute!

The new post is almost finished so in a week time or so it should be hanging over at the other website. All in all it is not a very hard post to read, it's more or less basic matrix stuff.
But I had never done it this was, I mean making matrices with complex numbers in them as the entries. It is still about the so called Sledge Hammer theorem or the Scalar Replacement Theorem as I named it in the past. You can replace the real scalars you use in say complex numbers z from the complex plane and replace those by say 3D complex numbers. Or the 3D circular numbers as I did in this post. If you do that you get all kinds of interesting six dimensional structures that still have all kinds of pretty math properties. So it's not like that usual garbage from the quaternions that the math professors always use as their bright and shining example of human intellect...

No links today, only two six by six matrices where I use only real numbers. If you use internet apps for validating your insights into higher dimensional numbers systems, you must always use real numbers. There are some applets that allow you to use the simple 2D complex numbers from the plane but that is a seldom thing...

Anyway if you want you can check yourself that the two matrices below commute. And they are the matrix representations from the i from the complex plane and the imaginary unit j from the 3D circular numbers. 

That was it for this update, as always thanks for your attention and if you haven't done matrix multiplications in say three decades I wish you luck with your calculations...;)

(25 April 2025) Yesterday I talked shortly to someone about the tariff stuff and I remarked that within one month the USA will feel it. After all if most stuff sold by Walmart is made in China, cute import tariffs of over 100% is of course a little bit disruptive.
Anyway today it emerged that hot shot retail CEO's already came out stating that within two weeks there will be empty shelves... 

So that was funny to observed. All this chaotic tariff stuff is so weird it makes you wonder what's behind it. Lets go to the two items of today. 

 Item 1) UA peace talks, Suchominus vid on GRAU and so on.
 Item 2) Two matrices created 11 years apart.

 Item 1) UA peace talks, Suchominus vid on GRAU and so on.

The peace talks under leadership of the present US political leadership are as good as say all that mad tariff stuff. This is a piece of crap that will not bring any longlasting peace to Ukraine and or Europe. All this crap of formally recognizing Crimea as Russia and lifting sanctions is of course facilitating future weird military adventures by the Russians.
If I were an Ukrainian citizen and I could vote in a referendum or so on this shitty deal, I would vote against it.  

In a very different development Suchominus had a very grainy video out showing the aftermath of that ammo dump explosion near Moscow. Multiple sources said that about one hundred thousand ton, that's a 100 million or 0.1 billion kilo explosives. The official version from the Russian side is that it was a fire that caused the explosion and it all was a breach of safety standards. It was interesting to observe even a lot of Western media outlets just reported the official version. Anyway there is also not much proof for an actual successful UA attack or an undercover operation and so on.
Suchominus observed that likely at the time of the explosion a train with ammo was unloading and hey haven't we heard that story before? All in all my estimation is that it is more likely that is was a successful attack versus the fire caused these little crackers to go boom boom boom...
The video is so strange looking because there is constantly a cloud cover and or smoke so this is some radar video and is not from light. As always click on the video if you want to see it now: 

Video title: First Satellite Imagery of Russia's 51st GRAU Moscow (Not Very Clear, But Many Heat Spots Visible)
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ibsY86cZpM

Before we go to the next item, I found a bit more on that weird motor attack and yes the video says all 300 soldiers on the 150 motor bikes dead. And it also explains the usage of motors by stating the motors can go over anti tank mines without making them go boom and they can pass the concrete teeth that is problematic for tanks and similar vehicles. So all in all this one example does not say clearly the shortage of tanks on the Russian side is becoming critical.
On the other hand more and more civilian cars are reported as destroyed and that points to less and less armored stuff like the famous Russian tanks.
Lets go to the next item.  

 Item 2) Two matrices created 11 years apart.

This week I more or less finished a math post on what I name the Sledgehammer Theorem and that is a very misleading name because it has nothing to do with sledge hammers. In some old texts of mine I came across the name 'Scalar replacement theorem' and likely that was the name back in the time.  

I remember I had done stuff like this before, I mean those 6x6 matrices. And yes, today I found I did that back in the year 2014. So that was just two years after I started picking up this cute hobby of 3D complex numbers. Now I am reading this back I was a bit surprised how far I already had come in two years of time. In my memory it took longer but facts are facts and human memory inherently unreliable. Human memory is not like computer memory, our memories evolve all of the time.  

Anyway the post isn't published yet, that will take easily another week or so but it's in the pipeline. Here are the two matrices, the upper is easy going math from the new post. It is just a matrix representation of the 3D circular numbers that just got SLEDGEHAMMERED and therefore now are 6D numbers in a beautiful hybrid number space.

At the bottom of the image you see the matrix from the year 2014, it was the number tau for the imaginary unit j that has a determinant of minus one. You can compare that to the log of the number -1 in the complex plane, that is i times pi. So the matrix below is a very more complicated higher dimension "i times pi".

It is best to read these matrices as 9 small 2x2 matrices, each of the small matrices is a complex number from the standard plane in matrix form.  

At the time it was a thundering finding but a decade back there were strangely enough much more free internet apps for taking a matrix logarithm compared to the present day. That's a pity but it is what it is.

The old matrix can be found on this very website because at the time I did not have the 3Dcomplexnumber.net thing. Here is a link in case you want to know a bit more:

https://kinkytshirts.nl/rootdirectory/just_some_math/
3d_complex_stuff02.htm#18Jan2014 

May I thank you for your attention if you have made it this far. See you in some future update. 

(23 April 2025) A funny podcast from Bloomberg is about the restructuring of US debt the famous treasuries. And they remark an interesting historical debt defaults while they also observe that in case the present US debt changes, there is nothing that forbids that.

So at least in theory the maturity date could be 50 or 100 years into the future while also the coupon you receive is say cut in half. I didn't know that, isn't US debt the safest in the world? 

Well a few months back I calculated for you that on average since the total US debt levels passed the one trillion mark back in the 1980-ties year on year growth was about 8.9%.
In theory this debt must be paid for with tax payer dollars but the underlying US economy has grown of course much much less as 8.9% a year. So from the mathematical point of view you won't get your money back or, if you get it back it will have much less value. In my view the only thing that keeps the debt piles up is that there is not a real alternative for US debt. If you look at the fundamentals, I consider that garbage.
Here is the Bloomberg podcast: Mitu Gulati on Whether Trump Could Restructure US Debt | Odd Lots. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nayidVQKvPE

Lets go to the items of today. 

Item 1) German loitering drones equipped with ai.
Item 2) Another very good / very bad video on the SG experiment.

 Item 1) German loitering drones equipped with ai.

Somewhere there was an attack done by Russia in Ukraine using 150 motor cycles and 300 (likely infantry) soldiers. All dead now but serious; Is Russia running out of tanks and other forms of armored vehicles?  

In another development it was reported that some German drones equipped with ai have taken out a few anti-air systems from Russia. That's interesting because such systems like the BUK's and similar ones have of course a lot of jamming protection like the jamming of GPS signals for navigation and jamming of the possible control frequencies of drone operators. But with some workable ai it should no longer be a fatal problem if the connection is lost and the drone can more or less find the target on it's own.  

The German company Helsing is making 6000 of these drones for Ukraine, in the picture below they look rather impressive if the ai and the rest is as good as we are told. What I found interesting is that the body is made from wood, I like that a lot because I have made wood stuff for years. And because it's wood and not radar reflective metals, the radar footprint is also rather small. Go wood go! 

The Defense Post had a small article about it: 

Title: German Firm to Make 6,000 More AI-Enabled Drones for Ukraine.
Link used: https://thedefensepost.com/2025/02/13/german-firm-
drones-ukraine/

Now of course here in Europe we must make much much more of our own defense hardware ourselves because the USA has become an unreliable partner. A lot of people will say that it's only because of Donald Trump but for the same buck you can turn that argument around by remarking there is nothing that prevents an ever weirder person to become US president. 

And it's all a bit hard to predict what the outcome will be; how will the USA evolve without say a department of education? May be it is time to go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Another very good / very bad video on the SG experiment.

This is part two and some time ago I showed you part one. Again this is a very well made video with lots of historical content around the famous Stern Gerlach experiment from the year 1922.

The video is also very bad because it shows the combined results of repeated SG experiments where with 'repeated' I mean the whole experiment was imitated. I have seen a few of those repeater video's myself, if memory serves that one from the USA from 1967 was a video I had seen already. 

For me it is very frustrating that they only copy what originally was done by Stern and Gerlach back in the year 1922. For example in the explanation the role of an inhomogeneous magnetic field plays a vital role to the extend that this field explains the forces on the unpaired electrons that steer the silver atoms into two groups.

But non of those SG imitators make a magnetic field that can flip between homogeneous and inhomogeneous in order to demonstrate that indeed electrons are tiny magnets.  

These people do not have much creativity but it is what it is and there is not much that can be done about the lack of creativity in say the science of physics.

Beside that, the video is very good so enjoy: 

Video title: Discovery of spin... but missed (Stern-Gerlach experiment, part 2). Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0zX8tL-Rak

That was it for this post, originally I wanted to spice up the above picture with a very cute 6x6 matrix but I forgot to do that. So may be next update in two days, that was it for this update and as always thanks for your attention.  

(18 April 2025) When it comes to the tariffs may be I finally grasp a bit more as what is meant when say people from the white house say "Tariffs hurt foreigners more as us" or words of similar phrasing.

Lets take something like a Mercedes car. The idea is that by applying a tariff Mercedes is forced to lower their price at which they sell and as such that eats hefty into their profits...
I don't know if that actually works, the average profits of Mercedes are something like 8% so there is not much room for neutralizing say a 20 or 25% tariff.  

All in all the situation is still rather crazy; why should you want to do this? Ok with things that have a strategic importance or are strongly tied to security consideration, it might make some sense. But tariffs on socks or tshirts or dildo's is crazy beyond belief. Beside that there is no policy at all to make an industry policy, those white housers think this return of manufacturing will go automatically or so. It's all fucking stupid and always chaotic to the bone. Lets go to the two items for this update: 

Item 1) Another F-16 lost and Gasprom into washing machines.
Item 2) A tree that thrives on lightning & more DSM found.

 Item 1) Another F-16 lost and Gasprom into washing machines.

A few days back the second F16 was lost but I only read it today. The pilot lost his life so that is a setback because there are already so little pilots. Anyway my condolences. Article:

Ukraine Loses Its Second F-16 Fighting Falcon: Zelensky
Link used: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/ukraine-loses-its-
second-f-16-fighting-falcon-zelensky

In a more funny development it was reported that after multi billion losses the Russian gas giant Gazprom goes into making washing machines and stuff like refrigerators. They seem to have a plant from Bosch who likely had to 'sell' it with a giant loss. But Gazprom has lost a ton of business and it won't return anytime soon and combined with the present oil prices it starts looking a bit bleak for the Kremlin. This is how Kyiv Post it reported: 

Russia’s Gazprom to Start Making Fridges Amid Historic Losses
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/50909 

And what likely is a bit more Russia-friendly kind of website reports the stuff as follows: 

Gazprom subsidiary prepares to restart Bosch plants
Link used: https://www.oreanda-news.com/en/tek/gazprom-
subsidiary-prepares-to-restart-bosch-plants/article1554666/ 

I didn't have time enough to look into it but a few reports were there saying the Russians don't resupply their tanks... If true that would be great, they also seem to be borrowing tanks for the yearly parade on the Red Square. If all correct that is of course a significant change in favor of Ukraine. But old and nasty as I am I always avoid giving false hope, may be there are other reasons old stockpiles of tanks don't reach the front although I would not know what kind of reasons that would be. 

Lets go to the last item. 

  Item 2) A tree that thrives on lightning & more DSM found.

Both video's of today have to do with electrons but not my usual rant that it is logical they are magnetic monopoles. No, lightning and more DSM found far far away in a solar system far far away.  

Anton Petrov found a crazy results of a bunch of researchers that studied in detail how a forest reacts on lightning. And weirdly enough they found a species of tree that thrives on lightning. I forgot the name of the tree but on average they get struck by lightning about five times over their lifespan and yes that is a magnificent thing to survive... 

Most trees have severe damage like the one on this image below, that species does not thrive on strikes by lightning. Clcik on the image for the video: 

Video title: Bizarre Tree That Evolved to Use Lightning for Survival
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcqFVToVc1k

Today it came out that a researcher (or may be a group) has found more traces of a chemical named DSM was found. Here on earth it is a so called biomarker, something that can only be made by life. It was found via looking at spectral features when a planet passes in front it's host star and that alone is a miracle that it can be done. 

Not all science is total crap like the idea's around electron spin. Anyway the University of Cambridge came out with a video on this interesting subject. For myself speaking I think that life is plentiful when conditions are met for it to emerge, but multicellar life I just don't know. Here on earth it took ridiculously long before living cells started to work together and as far as I know that could be blazingly fast. So we don't know and just have to keep on looking for life I just guess.

Video title: Strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPRr4DgMTxI

That was it for this week, see you may be in the next week.

(16 April 2025) Tariffs on, tariffs off, tariffs in another bucket and so on and so on, the chaos continues. Well I am not the CEO of an international but I would not try to expand factories inside the USA. 

Lately I saw an interview with that Navarro guy and he clearly stated that: "Right now we collect 2 billion a day in tariffs while the trade deficit is 4 billion a day". It sounded like he really believes that 'foreigners' pay the tariffs... This is all crazy beyond belief.  

Anyway using that now famous math I decided to calculate the tariff my own country must have because we do no run a trade surplus with the USA but a deficit. Yes you read this right: The USA runs a trade surplus with my country. Here's the pic again:

The latest figures I could find in just a few minutes were from 2022 and 2023 so does not win the beauty contest for statistics but the calculation is very simple: 

(51.2 - 78.4)/51.2 = -53%. 

Minus 53%? Yes that means the for every 100$ we sell to the USA the External Revenue Agency will pay us 53$ because of math. Ok there was also something of halving that so that would be say -26%... 

Oh oh lets go to our items while looking at angry penguins. 

Item 1) A tiny bit of news from UA.
Item 2) The Sledgehammer Theorem.

 Item 1) A tiny bit of news from UA.

All that crazy economical news suppresses the news from Ukraine, now a huge part of my video feeds are stupid video's of people talking about stocks. It seems that Ukraine has stricken back at the Russian basis where the dreadful attacks from a few days back came from. But I don't know what the results were, here is a link from the Kyiv Post:

Ukrainians Strikes Back at Russian Unit Responsible for Palm Sunday Attack – Military. Link used: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/50839 

The cease fire talks still are going nowhere, that was more or less to be expected. The USA envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellog caused a bit of a stir by comparing a possible future scenario for Ukraine to the situation in post war Germany. That pissed off a number of people because Germany was divided in parts because they were the aggressor and contrary to remarks made by Donald Trump, Ukraine did not start this war.  

So Mr. Kellog came out declaring he did NOT propose such a carving up of Ukraine. The Kyiv Independent:

Kellogg clarifies comments after seemingly suggesting Ukraine can be split like postwar Germany after peace deal. Link used:
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-can-be-split-like-
postwar-germany-after-peace-deal-kellogg-suggests/ 

And somewhere I read that Russia would have a 42% tariff if the famous White House math formula was applied to them, but of course Donald gave the Russians a waiver...  

  Item 2) The Sledgehammer Theorem.

A few days back I started working on a new post upon a theorem I have never proved in detail but in the post I am going to give what I consider to be the most simple example.  

A long time ago when I found this cute theorem, on that day the new song of Miley Cyrus was released and that song had the title of Wrecking Ball. So I could enjoy Miley's ass on a wrecking ball and no sane male would complain about that. Anyway that is why I named the theorem after the sledge hammer thing. 

This theorem is easy to explain: Say you have a set of complex numbers like the two dimensional numbers from the complex plane. Now often these numbers are denoted as z = x + iy where x and y are real numbers. Now you can replace those two real numbers by numbers from other numbers systems like for example the 3D complex numbers.
And if you have done that you have a 5D space where you can still integrate and differentiate just like in the complex plane.   

But I just started writing it so only at most one quarter is done so it's gonna take some time as usual because math is math and it is not talking out of you neck but you must think a little bit all the time. 

It was a long time ago since I looked for the last time at stuff like this so lets hope my old old memory does not fail me too much... 

With that let us split and may I thank you for your attention? 

(11 April 2025) The latest in the crazy tariff saga is that all tariffs are now down to 10% (except the 25% on Canada and Mexico I believe). But China now stands at an interesting 145%. I observed Donald Trump literally saying that 'They will make China pay for it' and in another video clip I saw hum bragging that the tariffs are already bringing in 2 billion a day...  

It is a bit mind boggling but could it be that he believes that indeed foreigners or foreign governments actually pay those tariffs at the External Revenue Agency? If so, this is crazy beyond belief. And this guy, this Donald, is already since the year 1987 busy with 'thinking' about tariffs??? We can conclude these are all very fresh economical policies.

The rationale given for the lowering of the tariffs (temporary), so away from the strange math we saw in the previous update, is the behavior of the bond markets. Together with the stock markets they declined and as such the so called yields rose making new debt more expensive.
There are crazy estimates out there that say 7 to 9.2 trillion US$ has to be sold this year, mostly refi stuff. But today's auction of, what was it, 92 billion or so went ok it was reported. So what can possibly go wrong on the US Federal debt markets?  

The above image is from a local website named iex.nl, so likely they have the copy rights. Anyway lets go to the two items of today. 

Item 1) A shorty on Ukraine, gasmasks and stuff like that.
Item 2) Action lab with a perfect video on the goldfoil experiment.

 Item 1) A shorty on Ukraine, gasmasks and stuff like that.

Lets not do difficult; for Russia it is pretty common to do what they want and as such neglect standard conventions on war like the Geneva convention. I can't remember to have written about it but all the time the war is going on Russia is dumping canisters of ultra strong tear gas into the Ukrainian trenches. So it not those horrible deadly gasses but this form of tear gas is simply forbidden for usage in a war situation. 

The UK is donating a bunch of gas masks to Ukraine. Weirdly enough at the frontline often this kind of gear is simply missing. That is strange because it is not horribly expensive. When I was a soldier they were about 400 or 500 Dutch guilders, say now may be 500 €. Anyway here is a BBC article on this detail.

Thousands of UK gas masks being sent to Ukraine
Link used: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crldnw5lly6o 

A very different story is from the Kyiv Post, video evidence of the execution of four Ukrainian soldiers. Click on the picture if you want to read the article. 

Article title: Video Evidence as Russian Troops Execute More Ukrainian POWs in Zaporizhzhia. Link used: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/50566

It is a bit hard to see in the above image because I had to shrink it so much, but here are four soldiers lying on the ground executed... 

Lets go to the next item. 

  Item 2) Action lab with a perfect video on the goldfoil experiment.

Ok ok the last time I mentioned the Action Lab it was because the guy that runs the video channel explained that so called Einstein de Haas effect as experimental evidence that electrons have intrinsic angular momentum.

The problem with that explanation is that it only works if all electrons align their spins into the direction of the applied magnetic field. And that is not a so called 'probabilistic explanation' that is always celebrated as a very important feature of quantum mechanics. In the Stern-Gerlach experiment it is alway 50/50 percent probability for spin up or spin down. But in stuff like the Einstein de Haas effect or the Magnetic caloric effect it is never probabilistic but just 100% of the electrons always align. And these experiments are all very similar: You apply a vertical magnetic field...

That's one of the reasons that for many years I say that the physics professors often talk out of their neck when it comes to electron magnetism or electron spin if you want. 

So that was a bit of a minus point for the Action Lab while on the other hand the guy simply believes the official explanation and that's it. There is no conspiracy going on so.

The next video if very different, it is a small repeat of the famous goldfoil experiment from what was it, Rutherford or so. That was physics as it is supposed to be and at the time it showed that atoms had a nucleus. So that was a very important result.

Normally you must click on the picture to see the video but this time I did it a bit different because I got the 4K video from youtube and as such if you click on the picture you get a large version of the small version below. The guy made a simple but very effective cloud chamber for visualizing the path of particles. That's what you see in the image. 

So the Action Lab is coming back strong with a more or less perfect video like this one. So no nagging that electrons are in fact magnetic monopoles this time, I can't stay mad all the time. Here is the video & the link:

Video title: This Is What It Looks Like When Atoms Collide.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcrVhHg6VSY

That was it for this week, take care of your portfolio if you have one and as always thanks for your attention. 

(09 April 2025) I missed the 'math' behind the trade tariffs from the USA on other nations, only a day later I found that out. Well it is very horrible as it is far too simple for such a complicated thing as finding a reasonable level of tariffs. The math itself has nothing to do with say the tariffs that the trading partner of the USA has, it is just the trade deficit divided by the exports to the USA.

The epsilon and phy are stuff like the price elasticity and 'political considerations' but miracle mirror on the wall the product is one. So m_i is the export to the USA and x_i xi is the trade deficit that country has. Nowhere existing tariffs are taken into consideration.  

My own country imports more from the USA as they import from us, so there is no trade deficit but a surplus in favor of the USA. Anyway the benefit of this all is now anyone can see how smart they actually are over there in the USA White House...
Lets go to the two items for today. 

Item 1) Ural price fun & impending Russian spring offensive in the UA?
Item 2) Video: All kinds of numerical QM problems, it does not work.

  Item 1) Ural price fun & impending Russian spring offensive in the UA?

With all the trade tariff chaos and even talk of a possible recession, oil prices have come down significantly in the last days. Russian Ural was quoted at 52$ while the Kremlin as an accountancy thing needs 70$ a barrel in order for their budget to be balanced. So that's an interesting development. An editorial from oilprice dot com:

Oil Price Plunge Could Severely Impact Russia's Economy.
Link used: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Oil-Price-
Plunge-Could-Severely-Impact-Russias-Economy.html

It looks like the cease fire leads to nothing because Russia doesn't want to stop fighting. Ok US president said he would put secondary sanctions on Russian oil sales but for some strange reason I think this will never happen. 

At DW news they ponder the question if a new Russian spring offensive is in the making. Here is the video: 

Video title: Is Russia preparing a new spring offensive in Ukraine? | DW News. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhjE-Fe6GNQ

Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) Video: All kinds of numerical QM problems, it does not work.

Ok, since 2015 I began suspecting that electrons are not tiny magnets but in fact magnetic monopoles. If indeed electrons are such in that case the electron pair is much more logical compared to the chaos of the present official version.

The official version says that magnetic monopoles do not exist (that's the Gauss law for magnetism, it's a math law not an experimental one) and that in an electron pair it is the Pauli exclusion principle that says the electrons must have opposite spins.

Opposite spins, what does that mean? Well if true that electrons are tiny magnets, in that case they must anti align in order to form an electron pair. That simply means they must bind via north pole to north pole or south pole to south pole. So that violates that in magnetism only opposites attract, that is the official version although it is never told so explicitly. More often you observe that wooly wooly talk of "There is that wonderful principle that is named the Pauli exclusion principle that says not quantum numbers can be the same".       

As always they skip the part where this line of reasoning becomes crazy: the electron pair.

So if you are a programmer and you want to do numerical simulations of say a hydrogen atom, how the hell can you make two hydrogen atoms bind if you must use the anti-alignment of the electron spins? Because in that case the electrons must repel because of their electric charges and also their repelling magnetic forces. 

But physicist would not be physicist if they would not talk out of their neck and just as easily as all the madness get just neglected one more time, their explanation of the electron pair is that in this way all magnetism cancels out. Yes they are just so good in talking out of their necks when it comes to electron spin.

The video is not about electron spin but more on method like the Bohr Oppenheim rule of calculating with fixed nuclei because that strongly simplyfies the calculations. May be also that Hartree-Fock stuff, anyway the guy from the See The Pattern channel nicely points out there are already problems with simple molecular hydrogen. And that is what I strongly expected all the time... 

Video title: The Hidden Crisis in Quantum Mechanics: Structure Needs Help. Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okEHd-I7VZ0

So now in the year 2025 when you use the wave equation of Schrödinger you even get stuff right like the typical and specific angles there are in molecules. Interesting, but how those people doing computer simulations get molecular hydrogen to bond is a total mystery to me. There are hardly video's out there on this detail suggesting there are indeed all kinds of deep problems.

That was it for this update, as always thanks for your attention.  

(04 April 2025) Stock markets around the world crash and burn a little bit. Hard to say how much long term damage there will be because there is no legislation and only those presidential executive orders or so. Time is running out so lets go to the two items of today:

Item 1) Paul Warburg on possible development of US arms production.
Item 2) I won't comment much on the trade tariffs.

 Item 1) Paul Warburg on possible development of US arms production.

Lately a lot of Europeans included myself ponder how wise it is to invest in USA military hardware especially the more advanced stuff. Right now there is a clear and present problem; can you use those weapon systems when you need them yes or no? 

The present political leadership in the USA is such that they constantly seek ways to control other countries, as such for them it is logical to simply forbid the use of advanced weaponry if they can gain a foothold over that on that particular country and military.

A clear example of that is of course the UA minerals deal, stuff like that emerges from a set of moral values that is very different from say the average person.   

Anyway in my view we must develop such more advanced weapon systems much more ourselves. And yes that makes it much more expensive and or less quality and this and that but at least it will be sovereign military gear. And as such out reach by weirdo's from other political constellations. 

Paul Warburg made a video on possible future evolution of US military hardware because as the present day model goes: It is awfully expensive to design a new system from scratch but the cost per unit stay in check because the USA exports a lot of them driving down the average costs. 

And yes, likely that will go away if other nations refrain more and more at binding their fate on what can be described as a weird political constellation like now in the USA. 

So click on the video if you want to see it, remark how beautiful the landscape is over there. May be we should simply confiscate the whole of the USA because that is in the interest of inter-stellar security...  

Video title: The Collapse of America’s Arms Industry Has Already Begun.
Link used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgtdDEV0pfA

Lets go to the next item. 

 Item 2) I won't comment much on the trade tariffs.

Well it was an interesting day where a whole lot of economical diarrhea were splashed out over the international media. Most of it is such stupid reasoning that I just don't comment on it, it's too fucking stupid.  

And also very faulty, the White House weirdo's estimated the EU tariffs to be about 39% and that includes our local VAT. Well VAT is slammed on just everything so that is not something that 'punishes' the USA or so. Like I said these people are just fucking stupid, the most elementary economical principles are totally not understood. 

I found another weirdo that thinks that tariffs are not a tax hike but a tax cut. Peter Navarro is his name and a few days back he gave an interview to CNN where he consistently claimed tariffs are not a tax hike. So beside the White house press lady the Leavitt chick this is the second weirdo to state this. This trade war is like a Brexit on steroids and during the Brexit years it also did not help much to point out all the flaws of reasoning in say the words of people like Jacob Rees Mogg. People like that are basically an oversized speech center on two legs and it keeps on talking and it never has any form of deep thought.

And if it wasn't enough that this tariff presentation was full with economical diarrhea and basic wrong numbers, it also included a list of countries and territories where nobody lives. Like some island apperently belonging to Australia but so far away it takes two weeks to get there by boat... On one of those islands was a volcano, lots of snow and ice, zero people and colonies of penguins that were unaware of what exports actually are let alone the tariffs they now have to face.  

So that what the picture below is from: tariffed penquis! But if you click on it you get the CNN article from a few days back: 

Article title: Trump aide says tariffs will raise $6 trillion, which would be largest tax hike in US history.
Link used: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/31/economy/
tariffs-largest-tax-hike/index.html

The 6 trillion is over 10 years so about 600 billion US$ tariffs a year. All in all it is staggering how stupid they are at the US White House but I also wonder year in year out why the physics professors are that stupid to think that electrons are tiny magnets. And stuff like that has gone on for over 100 years now so weird knowledge like how tariffs act as a tax or electron magnetism, if you have enough weirdo's in your organization you will never get rid of those untruths.

That is what I had to say on the crazy developments from today, we can safely conclude that it is amateur hour at the White House just 24/7. So thanks for your attention. 

For the time being I think I keep the next picture as a 'closing logo' indicating you are at the end of this homepage. It was to cute to throw away, the math is utterly simple and I hope a tiny bit surprising.  

Click on the picture to go to part 23 of the archive: 

End of this update, ChatGPT can you tell me how to keep the number of killed Russians above one thousand a day for the foreseeable future? 

Till updates. 

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